Serial marketer takes up healthy skin-care line Contessa Knows

Motorola plans $200 million more in cuts

Motorola officials said Thursday they will make $200 million in additional spending cuts even as they confidently predicted that their new smart phones will make a splash for the Christmas holiday.

Motorola to make Microsoft challenger to iPhone?
Sandra Guy: Motorola reports first-quarter earnings results this morning amid signs that it might weather the economic downturn with spending cuts and a possible deal to make a new Microsoft touchscreen cell phone, according to analysts and forecasters. The Microsoft "Pink," the reported code name for Microsoft's planned multimedia cell phone aimed at challenging the popular Apple iPhone, could be manufactured by Samsung, HTC or even Motorola, according to a report issued Wednesday by the Motley Fool money advice column.

TechGYRLS told: 'Dream big, and you'll get there'
Dorothy Johnson, 12, a sixth-grader at Francis W. Parker Community Academy, wants to be a doctor. Kendron Stoklosa, 11, a fifth-grader at Robert A. Black Magnet School, has her eye on forensic science. And Symphony Foster, an 11-year-old at McDade Classical School, is determined to be a fashion designer.

Filene's Basement bought by Buxbaum Group
Filene’s Basement has been bought by a new unit of Buxbaum Group, according to a report in this morning's Women's Wear Daily trade magazine. Filene’s parent, Retail Ventures Inc., won’t receive any proceeds from the disposition to Buxbaum’s FB II Acquisition Corp., according to the report.

Uwant savings up to 80%? Ugot'em
What do you get when you combine thrill-seeking discount shoppers with do-it-yourself home decor nuts -- kind of like a mixture of Martha Stewart and Bob Vila? The answer: a River Grove-based Web retailer, UWantSavings.com. UWantSavings' partnership with a 49-year-old wholesaler of overstock goods has resulted in an online shopping and social networking Web site that offers discounts as high as 80 percent.

Family finds a silver lining
An Evanston company started 50 years ago by a Russian Jewish family who serviced oil tanks inside people's homes is thriving as a specialty coatings business with the younger generation's leadership. Chicago Tank Lining Sales Inc. traces its history to Raymond Brand, 79, who moved with two of his four brothers to Chicago from Brooklyn in a Quixotian quest to service oil tanks in a city that mostly used natural gas for heating. The family started as a franchise to apply a specialty epoxy to seal the leaks that would develop in the 275-gallon, 5-foot-tall tanks.