Features
If you keep abreast of the news on a regular basis, it's rare to go even one day without hearing about the spread of artificial intelligence. From customer service to cybersecurity to inventory Read More...
Category: Features
Author: Terri Williams
As a young girl growing up in Valley Stream, New York, Lori Thomson dreamed of someday opening her own business. "I always wanted to build something for myself," she says. "Although at the time I Read More...
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Author: Nancy Collamer
Like millions of Americans, Steve Powell was a caregiver for his aging parents. "My mother and father both had a chronic falling problem," the former tech worker said in a phone interview. "It got to Read More...
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Author: Erin Jay
Jon Polonsky (in photo above) is CEO of Plaid Pantry, a chain of gas station/convenience stores in the Pacific Northwest. My wife and I bought our first fully electric vehicle, a used, Read More...
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Author: John Wasik
Companies that went cashless in the past few years, whether to increase the speed of transactions or reduce the theft of cash, are experiencing some whiplash. Take salad chain Sweetgreen, which Read More...
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Author: Hanna Horvath
Across the whole of America they come: the lawyers and financiers, marketers and architects, librarians (of course) and writers and teachers. In a second — or even third — career, they are Read More...
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Author: Ellen Ryan
Rick Bulan was watching television in 1994 when he saw something he wanted: A 1,000-pound, 12.5-foot-long piece of deteriorating handrail removed from the iconic Golden Gate Bridge a year earlier. "I Read More...
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Author: Patricia Corrigan
Courtney Burton has spent most of her career in the retail industry. She was a merchant for several major companies, including Target, CVS, Albertson's and Lane Bryant. For the last 11 years of her Read More...
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Author: Chris Farrell
Maureen and Jim Elitzak are known around Scottsdale, Arizona, for their exquisite bonbons, bars, brownies and caramels, which can be found at Zak's Chocolate , the shiny shop where they make Read More...
Category: Features
Author: Ellen Ryan
Many older Americans dream about working for themselves. Yet new business owners often find entrepreneurship stressful, especially during the lean start-up years. Fortunately, experts say that while Read More...
Category: Features
Author: Nancy Collamer