By BRIAN X. CHEN The United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Va., recently unveiled an exhibit of 30 giant iPhone-like models honoring the inventions of the late Steve Jobs. Each iPhone model displays…
BY EVELYN M. RUSLI Unable to break a three-day slide, shares of Groupon tumbled again on Wednesday, as more investors dumped shares. For the first time since it went public earlier this month, Groupon broke…
By SONIA KOLESNIKOV-JESSOP As stock markets continue on their roller-coaster ride, even investors who profess to be buy-and-hold types have become eager users of mobile technology that allows them to track their portfolios almost on…
BY MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED Microsoft is officially kicking the tires at Yahoo again, three years after it failed to buy control of the company. The software giant has signed a confidentiality agreement with Yahoo,…
Foreclosure Oviedo Florida FORECLOSURE OVIEDO FLORIDA, PREFORECLOSURES, FORECLOSURE AUCTIONS AND REAL ESTATE SHORT SALES. Here are all Oviedo, Florida foreclosure listings available. Foreclosed homes for sale in Oviedo can save you up to 50 percent or…
Avoiding Foreclosure in Oviedo Florida The Obama Administration has implemented a number of programs to assist homeowners who are at risk of foreclosure and otherwise struggling with their monthly mortgage payments. The majority of these…
Foreclosure is the legal process by which a mortgage lender (mortgagee), or other lien holder, obtains a termination of a mortgage borrower (mortgagor)’s equitable right of redemption, either by court order or by operation of…
Steven Paul Jobs, 56, died earlier today at his home with his family. The co-founder and, until last August, the CEO of Apple, Inc., was the most celebrated person in technology and business on the…
By WILLIAM NEUMAN As the death toll rose this week in a devastating listeria outbreak linked to cantaloupes, a national food retailer said that cantaloupe farmers and shippers must confront a history of food safety problems and…
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER SAN FRANCISCO — Michael Arrington, whose influentialTechCrunch blog covers Silicon Valley, has started a venture capitalfund to invest in start-ups, including some that he and his staff write about. The $20 million CrunchFund is…
By JENNA WORTHAM Over the past few years, Tumblr, a microblogging service, has steadily built a community of fans and users who like the site’s combination of social networking features and simple blogging tools that…
By NICK BILTON It finally makes sense to me. On Friday evening I was in Los Angeles visiting my sister. We were at a restaurant, chatting away about life, when my sister ebulliently announced that she wanted to “Tweet about…
By ANN CARRNS Starting Saturday, big banks must comply with a new regulation that caps the fees they can charge merchants for processing debit card purchases. But some consumers are already seeing the impact of the…
By BROOKS BARNES and BRIAN STELTER LOS ANGELES — DreamWorks Animation, the company behind successful movie franchises like “Madagascar” and “Shrek,” said it had completed a deal to pump its films and television specials through Netflix, replacing a less…
By BENEDICT CAREY However grumpy people are when they wake up, and whether they stumble to their feet in Madrid, Mexico City or Minnetonka, Minn., they tend to brighten by breakfast time and feel their moods…
By JENNA WORTHAM and DAVID STREITFELD With a glossy 7-inch color touch screen and a dual-core processor, the Kindle Fire, a new mobile device introduced by Amazon on Wednesday, sure looks like a tablet, and one not so…
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Can exercise make the brain more fit? That absorbing question inspired a new study at the University of South Carolina during which scientists assembled mice and assigned half to run for an hour…
By: Eric Franklin The tablet market is like that kid in school who, at first, no one really noticed. Then, a year later he starts the school year a foot taller, with a new wardrobe,…
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Remember Google Buzz? What about Orkut, or Google Wave? Google has tried several times, without much success, to take on Facebook and master social networking. Now it is making its biggest…
By ANAHAD O’CONNOR THE FACTS For migraine sufferers, summer can be a perilous time of year. Oppressive heat and spikes in temperature have long been thought to precipitate attacks in people prone to chronic headaches….
By KIRK JOHNSON GREELEY, Colo. — The idea of making school lunches better and healthier has gathered steam in many parts of the nation in recent years, but not equally for every child. Schools with…
Buffalo Grove is asking the operator of a proposed trampoline club to address safety concerns as it weighs whether to approve the park owner’s application for a special-use permit, officials said. Xtreme Trampolines, which already…
Last week, we wondered how long Eminem’s Recovery could hold on to the pole position on the Billboard 200, predicting that it might run the board until Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream drops on August 24….
The franchise agreement is the written contract between the franchisor and franchisee. It is the fundamental legal document upon which the franchisor-franchisee relationship is based. The franchise agreement details the conditions that both the franchisee…
For independent electric car companies, it’s so long, automobile row. Some electric vehicle manufacturers have jettisoned the old model of franchise auto dealerships in an effort to change not only how we drive, but also…
People like Tom Conophy are stirring anxiety — and action — in Microsoft’s executive offices these days. Mr. Conophy, the chief information officer of the InterContinental Hotels Group, decided earlier this year to begin moving…
Remember Google Buzz? What about Orkut, or Google Wave? Google has tried several times, without much success, to take on Facebook and master social networking. Now it is making its biggest effort yet. On Tuesday,…
As we put rubber to road on our Motorola Xoom review, it’s important to note that it was only a matter of time before the Android army delivered a proper iPad competitor. Moto’s partnership with…
WASHINGTON — New evidence uncovered from Usama bin Laden’s compound shows that the terror leader was focused on plotting attacks to coincide with symbolic dates, like the Fourth of July, but intelligence officials told Fox…
With the third Transformers film hitting theaters this week, it’s no surprise that Chevrolet would release a 2012 Transformers Special Edition Camaro Coupe to mark the release of Transformers: Dark Of The Moon. As astute…
With “Transformers,” the third time is apparently the charm. Not that there’s much that’s actually charming about “Transformers: Dark of the Moon.” It is the same sort of deafening mayhem celebration as its two absolutely…
The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the Moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets Director: Michael Bay Writer: Ehren Kruger Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley…
Franchises are embracing the possibilities of social media platforms like Facebook to extend their brands. Whoever said there’s no such thing as a free lunch obviously never visited the Facebook page of Einstein Bros. Bagels….
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG Published: January 20, 2011 WASHINGTON — Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest retailer, will announce a five-year plan on Thursday to make thousands of its packaged foods lower in unhealthy salts, fats and…
By BOB TEDESCHI Published: December 8, 2010 When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad and referred to it as a magical device, lots of people snickered. Silly people. Most iPad owners will tell you that it…
By BOB TEDESCHI BlackBerry owners aren’t voracious app users. They can’t be. With only about 15,000 (often uninspired) apps to choose from in BlackBerry’s App World, the selection simply isn’t deep or broad enough to…
By BOB TEDESCHI Published: December 1, 2010 A few weeks ago, I compiled a list of essential iPhone apps for people who are too busy to sift through the roughly 300,000 titles in the App…
By BOB TEDESCHI Published: November 10, 2010 I’m always surprised when I come across people who have yet to fill their iPhone with apps. The most often cited excuse? Not enough time to sift through…
By NICK BILTON The Mac App Store officially opened for business on Thursday, with Apple offering customers a new way to instantly purchase and download software for their Mac computers and laptops. Steven P. Jobs,…
By DAVID POGUE Published: January 12, 2011 The star of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show wasn’t even there. That might sound like an odd remark, but it’s true. Look, summing up the major trends of…
By ANNE EISENBERG Published: January 15, 2011 HEADSETS are staples for call-center workers, travel agents and many other people who have to talk frequently on the phone. With a headset to listen and speak through,…
By JOSHUA BRUSTEIN Published: January 15, 2011 Americans were liberated from AT&T last week. The news that Apple was ending its exclusive relationship with AT&T and would begin selling the iPhone 4 on Verizon’s network…
By JOE NOCERA January 14, 2011 With this week’s announcement that Verizon Wireless is going to begin selling the iPhone — something its customers have been panting for ever since AT&T got that first, exclusive…
On Wednesday, December 15th CNBC will air an hour long program, “Behind the Counter: The Untold Story of Franchising.” I can’t recall any television program devoting this much time to the franchise industry. The documentary…
The documentation that is provided by the franchisor to a potential franchisee prior to the completion of the sale is being replaced by a new document not only with a different name but also with…
Written by Garth Snider on October 22nd, 2010 There has been a lot of ink spilled recently about the plight of the small businessman in the recession. In particular, there has been a great deal of…
By SAM GROBART Published: December 29, 2010 Your gadgets and computers, your software and sites — they are not working as well as they should. You need to make some tweaks. But the tech industry…
December 2, 2010 Darren Rovell CNBC 900 Sylvan Avenue Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632 Dear Darren: Thank you for the time you have recently spent with members of my staff to discuss your upcoming CNBC…
By: Jessica Golden Laurie Valadez spent years in corporate finance but had always been a passionate dog owner and dreamed of starting her own dog business. For more than two years she researched various dog-oriented…
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS The holiday season brings many joys and, unfortunately, many countervailing dietary pitfalls. Even the fittest and most disciplined of us can succumb, indulging in more fat and calories than at any other time…
