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My Way or the... Wi-Fi Way

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»

Places, Trading

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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Tool and Die, Live or Die

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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No Gloom For Newspapers In The Developing World

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

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»

Online "Will and Grace" Sell Apartments

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»

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

Can the newspaper business be saved?READ»

Sex Swap

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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The First Tweet-Up

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

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

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

LEISURE   |  Comment

The Ethics Monitor

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

SPORTS   |  Comment

Sports: The Owners Club

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»

Top of the Market?

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»

Public Interest

A modest proposal to save the newspaper trade.READ»

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An e-Circular Argument

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

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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CUSTOMER   |  Comment

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

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

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

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

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»

Warning: This Could Ruin Your Appetite for Sushi

Maybe I've still got food on the brain following our first Food Issue, but I'm fascinated by a recent story in the Chicago Tribune about Sun Myung Moon's sushi empire. Yes, that Sun Myung Moon. Founder of the controversial ...READ»

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The Oprah Winfrey (and GM) Show

It was the ''product placement to end all product placements,'' the Washington Post declared. It epitomized "a marketing era that morphs advertising, public relations, event marketing and product placement into one confusing jumble ...READ»

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iFive: Netbooks Flirt with Android, Hello BlackBerry App World, and Steve Jobs to Give Away Macs? in Today's Innovation News

While you were sleeping, innovation resolved not to be fooled again. Here's today's innovation news:  1. The netbook market gets even hotter with a report that HP, Asus, Dell, and other PC makers are testing versions of the ...READ»

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Getting Political for Halloween

Let’s face it: the U.S. presidential election is dominating our lives and won’t stop until November 4. Might as well have some fun with it, right? Luckily, Halloween falls before Election Day, making it the opportune time to get ...READ»