If meal preparation and delivery service Munchery gets its way, it will be the new default dinner option for Americans alongside home cooking and takeout.
Business
May 28, 2015
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The National Science Foundation has frozen more than $2 million in grants to the University of Connecticut after a foundation investigation found two professors used grant money to buy products from their own company, Connecticut ...
Other
May 1, 2015
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In the age of the smart phone, how smart are the mobile shoppers who use these almost ubiquitous devices? A study from South Korea published in the International Journal of Mobile Communications hopes to answer that question.
Business
Apr 24, 2015
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Online crafts retailer Etsy says it expects to raise as much as $267 million from an initial public offering values the company at up to $1.78 billion.
Business
Mar 31, 2015
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Printer maker Lexmark International will buy software developer Kofax Ltd. for about $1 billion.
Business
Mar 24, 2015
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Russian retailers are being hit by consumers' loss of purchasing power, but Ulmart, the country's version of Amazon, expects to strengthen its position as people begin to count every kopeck.
Business
Mar 4, 2015
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Historically, Englewood and Garfield Park are two of the poorest neighborhoods in Chicago. Yet, between 2002 and 2005, these neighborhoods experienced remarkable growth in terms of home purchases, but it wasn't because these ...
Economics & Business
Feb 18, 2015
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Competition for online takeout orders is heating up with Yelp's purchase of Eat24.
Business
Feb 10, 2015
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15
In this week's issue of the journal Science, MIT researchers report that just four fairly vague pieces of information—the dates and locations of four purchases—are enough to identify 90 percent of the people in a data ...
Security
Jan 29, 2015
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Consumers usually look for the lowest price when shopping for a product. But can prices sometimes just feel right? According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, consumers are drawn to prices with rounded numbers ...
Social Sciences
Jan 21, 2015
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