Analysis: Healthcare sees emerging future in frugal innovation
LONDON - When Argentinian car mechanic Jorge Odon was joking around with friends about how to get a cork out of an empty wine bottle using only a plastic bag, his thoughts were a long way from problem of maternal mortality.
Savile Row tailors open doors into exclusive world
LONDON - Michael Skinner and a tiny coterie of colleagues are intimately familiar with the physical details of rock stars, royalty and some of Britain's most famous historical figures.
Challenge the budget status quo
BOSTON - Using the previous year's numbers as you attempt to frame the next budget is the easiest thing to do but might not yield the best results, says Harvard Business Review.
Sad summer in the city seen for U.S. job-hunting teens
- Job-hunting teenagers in cities across the United States face the third bleak summer in a row. They must compete for scarce slots in scaled-back government work programs and against adults forced into low-paying positions by the unemployment crisis.
"Brutal" Chinese market pushes startups to U.S.
For many small business owners, oversea expansion usually comes after domestic success and sustained growth. But a group of Chinese tech entrepreneurs have taken the opposite approach-to avoid copycats at home, they had to go to the U.S. to build and launch, in order to succeed in China.
Small commodities traders scramble for new lenders
GENEVA - Small and mid-sized commodity traders are scrambling to find new lenders, including Asian and African banks, as dollar funding dries up from the big European banks that have been among their traditional creditors.
At the crossroads of the vintage guitar market
CHICAGO - Collectors and guitar fans have been whipsawed by the Elvis-pelvis gyrations of the vintage guitar market. Now they're at a crossroads - is it time to pick up that choice instrument?
Aluminum car doors, frames: Industry's "next frontier": Alcoa
NEW YORK - The global push to improve fuel efficiency in vehicle fleets will more than double the demand for aluminum in the auto market by 2025, Alcoa's director of automotive marketing said Wednesday.
Almost all U.S. states add private-sector jobs: group
- The private sector has added jobs in almost every U.S. state over the last year, reaping the bounties of commodity booms and growth in technology and manufacturing, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said on Wednesday.
Weak oil, food prices dampen U.S. imported inflation
WASHINGTON - U.S. import prices recorded their largest decline in nearly two years in May as energy and food costs fell, pointing to muted inflation pressures amid slowing global demand.
Startups are big in Boulder, but where are the tech billionaires?
There's a lot at stake for Boulder right now. Despite actually being the site of the inaugural Techstars incubator program, which has since spread all over the country, there's not yet a "Boulder" identifiable billion dollar startup just yet.
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