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3 Simple Steps To Take Your Startup From $0 To $10 Million
Thursday, August 21, 2014 - 3:45pm | 798Read More...There’s no shortage of startups in the windy city. Built in Chicago, a community group focused on growing young technology companies lists more than 2,500 startups in the area -- and that’s just in the tech space. So how does one company that started with two employees go from...
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Bitcoin's Mainstream Readiness To Be Tested At Workshop
Wednesday, July 9, 2014 - 2:12pm | 368Read More...Bitcoin usage has been the domain of tech savvy individuals. Just like the internet in the early 1990s may have been too complex and unpolished for many to use, some think bitcoin isn't ready for most people. Others disagree. Can those who have never touched bitcoin be converted into...
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Tax Day Freebies To Lighten The Load
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 12:52pm | 692Read More...It used to be, back when everyone filed their taxes by snail mail, that post offices nationwide made it a habit of staying open until midnight, many handing out free donuts and coffee to last-minute filers. Those days are gone, thanks in part to the cost of all that overtime for postal...
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Congress Steps In To Investigate General Motors And NHTSA
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 11:57am | 701Read More...Seeing the words “Congressional investigation” paired with the name of your company is never a good thing. Such was the case for General Motors (NYSE: GM) late Monday, when the company found itself the target of a government committee poised to investigate GM admissions it knew in 2004 about a...
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Bloomberg Markets Magazine Names Glenview Capital Top 2013 Hedge Fund
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 8:18am | 614Read More...Bloomberg Markets Magazine February edition reported that only 16 large hedge funds – those with more than $1 billion in assets – surpassed the Standard & Poor’s 500 index for the first 10 months of 2013. The S&P gained 25.3 percent, with dividends reinvested. Of the 16 hedge funds that...
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Additional AOL Patch Local News Sites Lose Staff
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 2:31pm | 581Read More...AOL (NYSE: AOL) owned hyper-local news website, Patch, which had 1000 writers working in 900 national locations in December 2012, is now down to 14 designated market areas (DMAs). New Patch CEO Bud Rosenthal outlined the move in a memo Wednesday morning reported on Poynter. Rosenthal said the...
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Nokia Announces HERE Connected Car System (NOK)
Friday, August 30, 2013 - 11:05am | 577Read More...With an eye on the future of automobile transportation, Finnish mobile communications company, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced Friday the creation of an embedded infotainment and navigation system called Here Connected Driving. Described as “the only end-to-end driving solution on the market today...
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Time Warner Brings Out New Weapon In Dispute With CBS (TWC, CBS)
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - 12:15pm | 588Read More...In another all-too-common television programming contract dispute – this time between CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Time Warner Cable(NYSE: TWC) – a new player has emerged, according to The New York Times. It’s Aereo, the upstart startup that figured out a way to bypass the retransmission fees companies...
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Caterpillar, Discover Financial and Other Illinois Primary Stock Picks
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 6:42am | 1149Read More...Today, Illinois holds its Republican Primary, as the candidates hope to add to their delegate counts. Polls show a close race between frontrunners Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. While the focus is on Illinois, let's have a look at the stocks of some of the many corporations headquartered in the...
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Tighter Budgets, Looser Rules? Chicago May Decriminalize Marijuana
Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 11:03pm | 1227Read More...Breitbart is reporting that several Chicago councilmen have recently said that "they plan to introduce a local law that would decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana in order to cut costs and free up police to handle more serious crimes". The article suggests that the intent of the...
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Five Chicago Stocks to Watch When Rahm Emanuel Becomes Mayor (BA, CME, EXC, NTRS, UAL)
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 4:14pm | 744Read More...On May 16, Rahm Emanuel will take up the reins of the city of Chicago, ending the six-term administration of Mayor Richard M. Daley. Emanuel , a former White House chief of staff and Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives, is well known for his blunt, take-no-prisoners style. But...
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Four Route 66 Stocks (CME, BUD, DVN, ATVI)
Sunday, May 1, 2011 - 12:04pm | 591Read More...It's May, and summer is almost here. Time to think about throwing a packed bag in the car, putting the top down and heading out on the open road, right? But wait: with oil well over $100 a barrel and the price of gasoline creeping toward $5 a gallon in some places, the traditional summertime road...
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The Fall of Lehman Brothers - Interview with Heather McRae, Options Trader and Former Account Executive at Lehman Bros
Monday, October 4, 2010 - 11:12am | 1066Read More...Hello and welcome to Zing Talk, where Benzinga brings you the biggest names and brightest minds from Silicon Valley to New York City. Direct Download Subscribe in iTunes Today our guest is Heather McRae, full times options trader and former real estate executive for Lehman Brothers. How ya...
