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You may not look at your local airline ticket agent, hospital employee, or scammer who pretends Alka Seltzer is acid again. Alright, ixnay on the latter, but the point is that everyday people can be sneaky criminals. Here are five real-life stories of how they’ve done it.
Image: JDanvers/Flickr If you think that athletes are athletes and executives are executives, and never the twain shall meet, think again. There are quite a few CEOs and high-powered corporate types who have gone on to become super successful…. Read more
Travel through 26 states. 15,089 Twitter followers. 9,726 Facebook fans. Dozens of major business goals knocked off. That’s what the 10 finalists in the Fairfield Small Business Road to Success Challenge accomplished during the three months of… Read more
This interesting infographic by Fixr compares two of the world’s richest men and best-known entrepreneurs, Steve Jobs and Ingvar Kamprad (click to enlarge):… Read more
Kenneth Cole just made it into the PR hall of shame with this tweet: @KennethCole: Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is now available online at http://www.bit.ly/KCairo -KC Econsultancy has… Read more
Chinese Mothers Are Superior. The title alone was enough to generate controversy. Amy Chua’s recent Wall Street Journal article on parenting ignited a firestorm of criticism and debate. In her piece, Chua criticizes Western parenting models… Read more
Patrick Lo, CEO of Netgear, let loose on Steve Jobs and Microsoft at a lunch in Sydney earlier today. He said Apple’s business model, currently dependent on proprietary products and technology, would be defeated by Android and other open… Read more
“The only way you hurt your body is not using it.” This quote is one of many legacies left by Jack LaLanne, who passed away yesterday at 96. The “godfather of fitness” invented the the leg extension machine in 1936, the gym chain that eventually… Read more
The Plain Dealer has an enlightening infographic on how traffic jams… Read more
Image: SolarNavigator Corporate raider Carl Icahn used to chair Imclone, act as a director of Blockbuster, and meddle in Yahoo. The man is no stranger to contentious companies, so perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Enron-embroiled… Read more
Image: Daniel Schwen Tim Davlin, the mayor of Illinois’ capital city of Springfield, was found shot dead in his home this morning in an apparent suicide. Davlin was supposed to show up for a probate hearing discussing a cousin’s estate this… Read more
Howard Stern has had an exclusive contract with Sirius XM Radio since 2006, when he landed a $100 million annual budget, dedicated staff and studio, $218 million in stock, and perhaps even more moola that we’re not aware of. Stern’s five-year… Read more
This is the tenth interview in our Fairfield Small Business Challenge series. One man’s junk is another man’s treasure. This adage fits well into the world of recycling. The cans you throw away could be part of a recycling collector’s daily… Read more
Bike sharing programs have proliferated in recent years. Renting a bike at one location, riding it around, and dropping it off somewhere else is, it turns out, just what many city dwellers need. When a city or organization wants to set up a… Read more
This is a guest post by Guide to Career Education’s Joseph Gustav. Amongst all the materialism and shallowness often associated with Hollywood, amidst all the tales of stars behaving badly, there are some celebrities who are using their money to… Read more
Why Netflix increased its prices.
NPR takes a look at the money, promotion and risks behind Charlie Sheen's antics.
Bing wants to share daily deals, too--and just launched an aggregator to do it.
Forbes offers a solution to the Wisconsin standoff.
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