How young people should rewire business
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:47:30 -0800

Purpose co-founder and CEO Jeremy Heimans speaks with The Post's Emi Kolawole about the types of businesses young people should seek to create. (/The Washington Post) Correction: Clarification: Super Fan badge holders consistently post smart, ...

Planned Obsolescence
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:30:58 -0800

The Komen Foundation, which funds work against breast cancer, is the latest casualty of a campaign to drive Planned Parenthood out of the abortion business . For years, pro-lifers have picketed Planned Parenthood clinics, pushed lawmakers to stop ...

Make My Day law for business advances in Colorado
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:15:21 -0800

(AP) denver colorado takes pride in its Western entrepreneurial spirit and that extends to the belief of some lawmakers that business owners should be able to use deadly force against anyone who tries to take what's theirs.

House bill requires studies of economic impacts of budgets on business ...
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:44:27 -0800

The bill would direct the Congressional Budget Office to draw up estimates of how major legislation would impact such economic factors as gross domestic product, business investment and employment. The analysis would be in addition to the CBO's ...

Egypt: unfinished business
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:00:24 -0800

One of the many features which made Egypt's deadliest night of football different from similar stadium disasters at Hillsborough or Heysel is the widespread belief that the violence was planned. There is circumstantial evidence for this view: from Port ...

Trade Groups Argue Right to Challenge Obama Appointments
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:59:19 -0800

The trade groups, including the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Right to Work Legal Defense and Education Foundation and the National Federation of Independent Business , last year sued to block a rule mandating that companies notify ...

Super Bowl Commercials Mean Big Business
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:15:51 -0800

2, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The hype surrounding Super Bowl commercials is big business for companies and has become a major attraction for viewers. Taking advantage of the growing trend, this year's ads are using a variety of tools that go far ...

Now Facebook Must Prove to Wall Street its Ads Really Work
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:53:27 -0800

Facebook has made a $3.1 billion business from a social advertising sector many, even it, concede is experimental and unproven. Now it must find that proof. But experimenting on Wall Street, as well as Madison Avenue, could prove challenging.

Now Facebook Must Prove to Wall Street its Ads Really Work
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:53:27 -0800

Facebook has made a $3.1 billion business from a social advertising sector many, even it, concede is experimental and unproven. Now it must find that proof. But experimenting on Wall Street, as well as Madison Avenue, could prove challenging.

Argentine thugs vow to attack a British business every week as 'pirate prince ...
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:28:25 -0800

Protestors say they will target a different British business every week in a chilling message set to heighten tensions between the two countries. More than 100 militants armed with wooden clubs threw paint bombs and sprayed 'English out of Malvinas' on ...

It's serious business for Parcells disciples Coughlin, Belichick
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:42:23 -0800

"He has a very strong opinion about how to go about the business of preparing a team, and there's not much variation or fluctuation. When you've got the right kind of guys, they respond to it. When you've got guys that are not the right kind of guys, ...

Volvo Sticks to 2012 Truck-Market Forecasts as Earnings Rise
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:39:01 -0800

1 after running Volvo's construction-equipment business for almost three years, is targeting operating margins at the top of the heavy-equipment industry, shifting focus to profitability from sales growth. Volvo is scaling back manufacturing at its ...

New York Sues 3 Big Banks Over Mortgage Database
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:28:05 -0800

Mr. Schneiderman also is seeking all profits obtained through fraudulent and deceptive practices and other damages, including $5000 for each violation of general business law. Patrick Linehan, a JPMorgan spokesman, and Rick Simon, a Bank of America ...

Hirai tasked with solving Sony's woes
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:32:25 -0800

s heavy reliance on its sluggish TV business has left deep scars on the company, leaving its new management with the difficult task of comprehensively rebuilding the group's business structure. Under departing Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer, ...

US January ISM Non-Manufacturing Report on Business (Text)
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:32:19 -0800

January 2012 Non-Manufacturing ISM Report On Business NMI at 56.8% This report reflects the US Department of Commerce's recently completed annual adjustments to the seasonal adjustment factors used to calculate the indexes. Business Activity Index at ...

Facebook board of directors lacks diversity
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:53:34 -0800

As Facebook prepares to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering, the composition of its board shows its business strategy is faulty, said Susan Stautberg, co-founder of New York-based Women Corporate Directors, which promotes female board ...

Investors, usually cautious, welcome mounting calls for political reform in Russia
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:55:31 -0800

Money men at Russia's top annual investment conference this week said that the reforms being pushed by the protest movement are long overdue and implementing them could make the country a better place to do business and create more wealth.

Business mogul mulls new bid for Philly newspapers
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:32:51 -0800

Ap philadelphia business mogul Raymond Perelman is mulling another bid for Philadelphia's two largest newspapers, more than a year after creditors outbid him at a bankruptcy auction. Perelman bid $129 million, mostly cash, for The Philadelphia ...

Morning business round-up: Eurozone services expand
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:35:12 -0800

What made the business news in Asia and Europe this morning? Here's our daily business round-up: The Markit eurozone services purchasing managers' index (PMI) was 50.4 in January, up from 48.8 in December. Any score under 50 represents a contraction.

N.Korean Business Zones to Be Included in FTA with China
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:21:50 -0800

The two zones mostly benefit from Chinese investment, whereas the Kaesong complex consists of South Korean businesses . Before announcing the goal of beginning FTA talks with China by the end of this year, South Korean trade officials apparently ...