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Market Basket: Summit Club offered an 'experience'
Kelly Toppen dined at the Summit Club after her brother died unexpectedly 11 years ago. Her mom wanted a good memory for her daughters. The family also celebrated her mom's retirement there. And the staff at Hamilton Traditional School, where Toppen...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, LivingSocial, Inc.
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FTD, Groupon get complaints, offer flower refunds
The online coupon site Groupon.com and flower company FTD Group Inc. are offering refunds after getting complaints that a Valentine's Day flower deal wasn't so sweet. Both companies said they didn't do anything wrong, but they responded to Internet...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Elections, Media Industry, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Super Bowl
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Groupon Super Bowl commercials raise ire
NEW YORK (AP) — Online coupon site Groupon Inc.'s first foray into Super Bowl advertising aimed for humor but is instead receiving widespread criticism across the Web and irked human rights groups. One ad shows Timothy Hutton making a case for the...Tags: Justice and Rights, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Twitter, Inc., Multi-Sport Events, Civil Rights
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Wall Street posts first weekly loss since mid-April on Fed angst
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 declined for a third day on Friday, with the three major stock indexes posting their first negative week since mid-April on lingering concern that the central bank may scale back its stimulus measures to support the...Tags: Nasdaq Composite, Instrument Engineering, Germany, Soups, Social Media
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Abe's Market branches out to eco-services
Tribune reporterOnline retail startup Abe's Market is launching a new feature in Chicago where it rewards customers for trying local, eco-friendly businesses. Abe's Market, which sells natural and organic products, said it picked a group of Chicago-area service...Tags: Marketing, New Products
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Chicago's GrubHub to merge with Seamless
One company was founded in Chicago by hungry software engineers, the other in New York by hungry lawyers. Both were looking to replace restaurants' paper takeout menus with Web-based technology. Now the two rivals are joining forces. GrubHub, one of...
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PRESS DIGEST - Wall Street Journal - May 16
ReutersMay 16 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. * A heated takeover battle has erupted around generic drug company Actavis Inc as industry...Tags: Bitcoin, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Ford Motor Co., Global Expansion, Automotive Equipment
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Hedge funds get in and out of grocery chain Supervalu
ReutersBy Sam Forgione and Aaron Pressman NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - Barry Rosentein's JANA Partners liked grocery chain Supervalu Inc in a big way in the first quarter, while Philippe Laffont's Coatue Management lost its stomach for the company's shares....Tags: Finance, Gaming Industry, Leveraged Buyouts, Zynga Inc., American Express Company
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Activist hedge fund reveals Groupon stake
ReutersJANA Partners, an activist hedge fund run by billionaire Barry Rosenstein, has revealed a stake in Groupon and Zynga, two of the most battered technology stocks. Shares of both companies jumped on the news. JANA, which oversees more than $4 billion in...Tags: Mutual Funds, Gaming Industry, Eric Lefkofsky, Computer Hardware, Zynga Inc.
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Young retail entrepreneurs at Hall & Madden go straight to the source for apparel
As Richard Hall and McGregor Madden traveled the country fitting clients with their high-end, custom-made suits, they noticed something strange — professional men yearning to look stylish nevertheless sported dress shirts with stains. Their young,...
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Ex-Groupon CEO Mason 'takin' care of business' with motivational album, plans for new company
AP Business WriterNEW YORK (AP) — Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason is diving into several new ventures, including indulging his inner rock star with an album of "motivational business music." Mason said Thursday on his blog that he recently spent a week in Los...Tags: Corporate Officers, Economy, Business and Finance, Entertainment, Music, Companies and Corporations
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Groupon co-founder Andrew Mason to start new company
Tribune reporterGroupon co-founder and former Chief Executive Andrew Mason is heading to San Francisco to work with entrepreneurs and launch a new company. The former CEO announced on his personal blog that he's "accumulated a backlog of ideas over the last several...Tags: Media Industry, Mark Zuckerberg, Foods and Beverages, Social Media, Soups
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