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My Way or the... Wi-Fi Way

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100

In July, Charles Fishman took a look at how transportation and logistics companies are using GPS technology to better manage their businesses. In Saturday's Chicago Tribune, Jeanette Borzo considers how long-haul trucking companies ...READ»

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Tribune's Troubles: Why Frat Boys Make Lousy Change Agents

BY William Taylor
Relevancy Score: 100

Every once in a while, I encounter the face of business at its worst, and see the damage done when remarkably untalented people make tough situations even worse and destroy value in the process.READ»

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Places, Trading

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 94

The Chicago Tribune published an impressively wide-ranging study of inside trading among top executives. Offering several examples of such trades, the heavily researched piece found that: Top executives and directors are active ...READ»

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Technology: Mobile Boarding Passes: Convenience, or Technology for Technology's Sake?

BY Robert Buckman
Relevancy Score: 91

When new software is introduced, such as whiz-bang applications for mobile devices, technology reviewers tend to focus whether it is the latest, greatest, or coolest thing to hit the market. Less often do you see reviewers take a step ...READ»

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No Gloom For Newspapers In The Developing World

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 91

Today, a fascinating front page story in the Wall Street Journal took a close look at the tensions between Arthur O. Sulzberger and Hassan Elmasry, a London-based portfolio manager at Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley, a large ...READ»

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Tool and Die, Live or Die

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 91

While in Chicago over the weekend, I picked a copy of the Chicago Tribune, one of the better daily newspapers in the country. The Sunday business section featured an interesting article about 17 tool-and-die makers in Michigan who've ...READ»

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Online "Will and Grace" Sell Apartments

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 90

Product placement in TV and movies has become common practice. The placement may be casual, as when a character drinks a diet Coke while bemoaning their lackluster sex life, or it may be blatant, as when an entire storyline revolves ...READ»

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It's Print. It's Online. Will It Sell Ads?

BY Stirling Kelso
Relevancy Score: 88

Can the newspaper business be saved?READ»

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Sex Swap

BY Danielle Sacks
Relevancy Score: 83

As if women need another thing to be blamed for in the workplace, metrosexuals are evidently now our doing too! (For those of you unfamiliar with the breed: the term was coined by marketers to describe the emerging group of men who ...READ»

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Why Mobile Advertising Has Not Reached Its Potential

BY Mark Jaffe
Relevancy Score: 81

Group M released some statistics in 2009 that projected mobile to comprise one half of 1% of total global advertising expenditures in 2009. It is projected to be about .8% in 2010. On the other hand, television advertising ...READ»

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The First Tweet-Up

BY DJ Francis
Relevancy Score: 68

I went to my first tweet-up on Thursday and had a blast. The Colonel from the Chicago Tribune hosted the event and it had a surprisingly large turn-out. I’d like to tell you about my experience and give yet another reason you ...READ»

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Chicks With Bricks: The World's Tallest Female-Designed Skyscraper

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 67

Chicago's 82-story Aqua Tower is also a milestone for architectural flamboyance that improves the bottom line.READ»

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The Bad Economy Might Allow for More Online Innovations

BY Jason Bland
Relevancy Score: 61

Companies to invest in cheaper online innovations rather than tangible technologies in 2009.READ»

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Most Innovative Companies - Media

BY Anya Kamenetz
Relevancy Score: 60

The Ethics Monitor

BY Jennifer Alsever
Relevancy Score: 49

The results of our first Ethics Survey. Plus: morally challenged folks from all over.READ»

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Top of the Market?

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 41

No offense to Arianna Huffington, who as far as I can tell is a very smart, decent and, needless to say, connected person. But the news of her new celebrity blog, The Huffington Post, strikes me as a sign that the blog phenomenon may ...READ»

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Sports: The Owners Club

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 41

An article in The Chicago Tribune earlier this week speculated that local businessman John A. Canning Jr. may be the leading candidate to purchase the Cubs when the season ends, even if he is not the highest bidder. His ...READ»

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Public Interest

BY Anya Kamenetz
Relevancy Score: 40

A modest proposal to save the newspaper trade.READ»

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An e-Circular Argument

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 39

Good news. Online newspaper readers will no longer miss out on local grocery store circulars. They can thank Gannett - along with a renewed appetite from traditional media for Internet firms. In June, Gannett bought media marketer ...READ»

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iFive: Apple's New iPhone and Chicago's Spire Are Rising and Google's Old Wonder Boy Is Falling in Today's Innovation News

BY David Lidsky
Relevancy Score: 39

While you slept, innovation brushed up his resume and begged Google CEO Eric Schmidt to let him come home. Here's today's top innovation news: Next-gen iPhone rumors abound. Video camera, faster Net, can act as a DVR remote. ...READ»

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Obamabilia: Royalty-free "Kind Eyes" Already Stimulating the Economy

BY Lynette Chiang
Relevancy Score: 38

YOU SHOW me yours, and I'll show mine. My Obamabilia, that is. I just watched a CNN story on the Mt McKinley-sized dune of opportunistic landfill featuring Obama's face, "with kind eyes," according to an ad for ornamental plates. I ...READ»

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Time Inc.'s Mine Magazine is a Printed RSS Feed

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 36

The news just keeps getting more personal. Hyper-specialized blogs, RSS feeds, and personalized Google homepages let us focus on what we care about and tune out the rest. Thus far, personalized news has been limited to the Internet, but Time Inc. is bringing it to the printed word with mine, a five-issue, 10-week, experimental magazine...READ»

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Old Media Wants Its Piece of the Pie

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 35

Traditional media companies, such as the Tribune Co., NBC Universal, and CBS told the FCC yesterday that its restrictions on who can own what media property where have to be eased if newspapers and broadcast outlets are to survive in ...READ»

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Contributors

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 35

Ryan Blitstein Translating academic research into real-world policy is no easy feat. That's one reason journalist Ryan Blitstein is drawn to stories of its success. This month, the Chicagoan traveled to Boston to visit the hub of a ...READ»

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Zaha Hadid Turns From Potato Chips to AC Vents for Inspiration

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 33

Hadid gets the construction go-ahead for an eccentric new museum.READ»

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