- The Fed continues its stimulus and companies from Apple to Verizon Communications are saving about $700 billion in interest payments.
- The Congressional Budget Office says that deficits are falling now but warns of trouble ahead.
- The United States added 16,160 franchise jobs in August, according to a new report.
- Conditions strengthened in the latest Architecture Billings Index, and builders started work in August on the most single-family homes in six months.
- FedEx reported a 7 percent rise in quarterly profits.
- Chief executives were less optimistic about the economy in the third quarter.
- A panel in Denver concluded that better gender balance is good for business, citing a study of more than 20,000 venture-backed companies that found that successful start-ups have twice as many women in senior positions as unsuccessful companies.
- Here are business lessons from everyone’s favorite meth cook, Walter White.
- Only 69 percent of small-business owners accept credit- and debit-card payments on their Web sites, according to a survey of business owners’ attitudes toward technology.
Marketing
- Thousands enter a contest to have their product sold at Walmart.
- An Intuit contest could inadvertently lead to the Super Bowl’s first marijuana commercial.
- Here are the 31 start-ups Twitter has acquired.
- A once heralded social discovery start-up is now dead, and the company’s chief executive shares a painful post-mortem.
- Sander Biehn says AT&T made $47 million from his business-to-business blog: “The reaction to our authentically helpful content and engagement was palpable. I began getting questions — and then requests to bid for projects — that mirrored the information we were providing. The ultimate proof of the power of social media marketing was that when these precious bids came to us, we were no longer outsiders.”
- Constant Contact and Staples announce a series of free in-store, small-business marketing workshops.
- A Chicago-area entrepreneur uses a highway billboard to find love.
- The productivity gap between Britain and other G-7 nations has widened to the largest in 20 years.
- Online sales tax legislation that the House of Representatives expects to take up will follow seven major principles, including keeping the system simple for small businesses and ensuring it will not lead to new taxes.
- Google plans to set up a new company to develop technologies to tackle health issues related to aging.
- Maryland reveals prices for small-business plans on its new health insurance exchange.
- Walgreen moves its employees to a private exchange.
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