Business Columns
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The cheap iPhone that wasn’tSep 14, 2013 7:32 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — For the last six years, Apple has had a simple, increasingly risky plan for selling the iPhone. Every year, the company makes only one new model, a p...
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Gibby’s Wine Den gives back with Think Pink bags tourneySep 09, 2013 1:51 pm - Gibby’s Wine Den along Randall Road in Geneva is helping to host a breast cancer fundraiser this month. Gibby’s, along with Batavia Enterprises and the American Cancer S...
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Mundelein sausage maker brings Ukrainian flavor to AmericansSep 09, 2013 5:30 am - When Alec Mikhaylov emigrated from Ukraine to the United States in 1992, he settled in Chicago and then later Arlington Heights and then Vernon Hills to be near family m...
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Planning your exit from the business requires actual planningSep 09, 2013 5:30 am - Talk exit planning with Peter Christman, and he’ll throw a bunch of statistics at you. The numbers can be grim. Here are two to consider: Ÿ The typical business owner, ...
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Work Advice: Bunking with the boss; paycheck privacySep 08, 2013 7:19 am - Q: I have a job and a boss that I really like. Unfortunately, our company wants to save a buck by having my boss and me, forty-something females, share a hotel room on b...
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Microsoft-Nokia: A good deal that came too lateSep 07, 2013 6:14 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — Windows is dead. Let’s all salute it — pour out a glass for it, burn a CD for it, reboot your PC one last time. Windows had a good run. For a time, i...
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Predictions on what newest iPhone will do for youSep 05, 2013 5:15 am - The next-generation iPhone is expected to be formally announced next week, but fans have long been tracking every possible rumor online about what it will include. Just ...
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Christian singer finds calling with Rolling Meadows firmSep 02, 2013 5:30 am - After years of singing Christian songs and performing throughout the country, Kristen Berryhill also has found a calling as a co-owner of a business with her husband, Da...
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Face-to-face networking remains key to new businessSep 02, 2013 5:13 am - LinkedIn. Facebook. Twitter. All the social media sites. Who needs old-fashioned face-to-face networking? Maybe a lot of us, according to two highly successful entrepren...
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Career Coach: Beware the power-hungry bossSep 01, 2013 7:01 am - “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.” — Lao Tzu - - - Have you ever observe...