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The 10 Most Expensive Halloween Costumes of 2010

Expensive Halloween costumes are recession-proof. How else could certain hedge fund managers and health insurance company CEOs wow…

Drea Knufken · October 26, 2010
Business

Sony Stops Manufacturing the Walkman

Image: Esa Sorjonen/Wikimedia About a decade later than you’d think they would have, Sony finally stopped manufacturing the…

Drea Knufken · October 25, 2010
Business

Fairfield Interview #4: Diana Bourgeois of Networking in High Heels

This is the fourth interview in our Fairfield Small Business Challenge series. Diana Bourgeois helps women connect. Through…

Drea Knufken · October 21, 2010
Business

A New Answer to an Old Interview Question

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Drea Knufken · October 21, 2010
Business

An Honest Closure Sign

Drea Knufken · October 19, 2010
Business

Facebook Apps Secretly Share User Info

Image: CNET’s Surveillance State Another Facebook privacy gaffe has hit the fan, thanks to a Wall Street Journal…

Drea Knufken · October 18, 2010
Business

This Week’s Weird Jobs

You have to be pretty desperate to pursue some of the jobs on this list, mostly because they…

Drea Knufken · October 15, 2010
Business

Interview With Mark Fields, Ford’s President of the Americas

Interview and report by Drea Knufken. In an economy filled with zombies and sinking ships, the Ford Motor…

Drea Knufken · October 13, 2010
Business

Boss’s Day 2010 is Saturday, Oct. 16

If you want to honor your boss for Boss’s Day 2010, Friday might be your day. The Hallmark…

Drea Knufken · October 13, 2010
Business

15 Religious Swindles That Shame the Holy Name

What crime combines billions in annual earnings, sneaky accounting, a lack of media coverage, and the good Lord…

Drea Knufken · October 12, 2010
Business

Chinese National Offshore Oil Corp. Buys Major Texas Shale Stake

Chinese National Offshore Oil Corp., or CNOOC, is buying a $1.08 billion (or 33%) stake in Chesapeake Energy…

Drea Knufken · October 11, 2010
Business

Abbott Labs Recalls Obesity Drug Meridia

Abbott Labs has recalled the obesity drug Meridia in the US for causing an increased risk of stroke…

Drea Knufken · October 11, 2010
Business

Gap Harnesses Hatred of New Gap Logo

Gap’s redesigned logo, featured above in its full glory, is so detested that someone created a Twitter vent…

Drea Knufken · October 7, 2010
Business

25 Tycoons Who Run the World

“Elephant bumping.” That’s how Warren Buffett refers to meeting other tycoons in Alice Schroeder’s biography of him. Who…

Drea Knufken · October 6, 2010
Business

Lawyers, Politicians Feed on Foreclosure Freeze

Image: Brendel Almost two weeks ago, a GMAC mortgage processor shared that he had approved hundreds of thousands…

Drea Knufken · October 5, 2010
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