Local retailers hoping for a busy ‘Black Friday’ (Melrose Free Press)
One of the busiest, if not the busiest, shopping days of the year is approaching next week and Melrose business owners are anxiously awaiting eager customers and profitable sales, just as retail sales reportedly notched their biggest drop on record last month.
How to Plan a Profitable Small Business Christmas (The Prairie Advocate)
It's that time of year again. Time to get ready for a great holiday season. How do I know it will be great? Because I, not the consumer, or the economy or the media, determine the kind of Christmas sales figures I want to achieve.
eMusic cracks 250m song mark (MacNN)
Veteran online music store eMusic today said it has registered its 250 millionth download since its subscription service began in 2003. The company is one of the few outside of Apple to reach the milestone and is owed partly to eMusic's business model, which offers unprotected MP3s compatible with Apple and Microsoft players but uses a subscription model which guarantees a certain number of ...
Business brief (Chicago Sun-Times)
Sara Lee to cut kosher hot dog plant, 185 jobs
Juniper Networks Extends Edge Routing Leadership with the Intelligent Services Edge (Thaipr.net)
Comprehensive Enhancements Will Extend JUNOS to Broad Range of New Applications, Enabling Fast and Flexible Service Deployments and Improved Operational Efficiency. Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JN
The Sunday Interview: Richard Owen, President and chief executive officer, Satmetrix (San Jose Mercury News)
Richard Owen doesn't have the title "consumer advocate" on his business cards. But as chief executive of Satmetrix, a San Mateo company that measures customer feedback, Owen says he helps clients build their businesses by making customers happy.