Wendy's Is Winning By Copying Chipotle's Strategy
Wendy's winning customers by taking a hint from Chipotle's playbook. The fast-food chain saw sales increase by 0.7% this year, compared with a 0.1% increase for Burger King and a 1.7% decline for...
View ArticleBMW Is Only Making 300 Of Its Most Powerful Car Ever
For the past three decades, BMW's M5 has been the benchmark for high performance sports sedans.To celebrate its 30-reign, the Bavarian automaker will build a batch of special edition 30 Jahre (German...
View ArticleHere's How Sheryl Sandberg Thinks Professional Women Should Be Portrayed In...
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, leader of the "Lean In" movement, has made it her mission to change the perception of professional women.She started Lean In circles to bring women together, partnered...
View ArticlePrivate Jet Company Will Fly Prospective College Students To 8 Campus Tours...
Private jet membership company Magellan will fly prospective college students to their campus tours for a mere $43,000.Magellan's $43,500 10 Hour Jet Card: College Tours flies students from school to...
View ArticleApple Reportedly In Negotiations To Buy Audio Company Beats Electronics For...
Apple is in negotiations to buy Beats Electronics in a $3.2 billion deal, according to The Financial Times. Reporters from Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other outlets have...
View ArticleOnly 2% Of People Can Actually Multitask — This Test Will Tell You If You Are...
Almost everyone is terrible at multitasking. The more people try and do, the worse they perform on every task.But there is a small fraction of the population that might be true multitaskers, or...
View ArticleThe Best Snack Food From Every State
New York is well on its way to making yogurt the official state snack. It turns out that several other states have already designated official snack foods: Jell-O was declared the official snack of...
View ArticleResearchers Are Chopping Up The Massive Blue Whale The Washed Up In A...
On Thursday, a team from the Royal Ontario Museum began the process of recovering one of the two blue whale carcasses that washed up on the coast of Newfoundland last month. The whales — one found in...
View Article12 Things Every College Student Should Do Before Graduation
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View ArticleIt Would Make No Sense For Apple To Buy Beats For $3.2 Billion (AAPL)
Apple is reportedly in late stage negotiations to pay $3.2 billion for Beats, the music company behind the giant headphones that are popular with the kids. Why is Apple buying Beats? We have no clue....
View ArticleBill Clinton Joked With Tim Geithner About Slashing Lloyd Blankfein's Throat
When former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner asked Bill Clinton for advice about opposition to the bank bailout, the ex-president encouraged him to imagine murdering Goldman Sachs Chairman Lloyd...
View ArticleOne Of The Music Industry's Smartest Insiders Made A Freakishly Accurate...
While most of us are totally shocked by the news that Apple is late stage talks to buy Beats audio for $3.2 billion, there's one person who saw it coming — music industry insider Bob Lefsetz. Sort of....
View ArticleReviewers Agree: Beats Headphones Are Overpriced And Not That Great
The Financial Times reported that Apple is closing a $3.2 billion deal to purchase Beats Electronics, a company that makes headphones and just launched its own streaming service. If true, the deal...
View ArticleMassive Ad Industry Merger Collapses
The $35 billion merger between Omnicom and Publicis Groupe SA has been called off, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources. The merger, first announced this past July, would have created the...
View ArticleMLB POWER RANKINGS: The Top Teams And Their Top Players After 6 Weeks Of Action
For the first time this season we have a new team at the top of the power rankings as the red-hot Detroit Tigers have won eight of their last nine to move ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers.The biggest...
View ArticleBello: The Post-Imperial Void
The United States' relationship with Latin America suffers from a policy vacuum.Fifteen years ago, if a soothsayer had said that the United States would find itself in a minority of three (with Canada...
View ArticleScience-Backed Tips To Making This Mother's Day The Best Ever
Parents are just as satisfied as nonparents, according to some recent research, but some things can help maximize happiness and reduce the stress that comes with taking care of kids.So for Mother's...
View ArticleHere's How Being Neurotic Can Make You More Successful
Neuroticism gets a bad rap, with its tendencies toward anxiety, depression, and mood swings. But being neurotic can sometimes be an asset.One of the Big 5 personality traits, neuroticism is on the...
View ArticleGoogle: This Oracle Lawsuit Could Damage The Whole Software Industry (ORCL,...
The courts just handed Oracle a surprising win in its years-long lawsuit against Google and Android. And Google, to say the least, is not pleased.Google sent Business Insider this statement:"We're...
View ArticleThe Fastest-Growing Boy's Baby Name In America Comes From Duck Dynasty
After looking at the most popular baby names of 2013 recently released by the Social Security Administration, we decided to take a look at the names whose popularity is growing the fastest.A couple of...
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