This Week's National Business News Headlines

Friday 05.24.2013

• 3 selling techniques you must use in your job search
• Lyric Opera of Chicago mum for now about "Oklahoma!" ticket sales
• Duly Noted: Tattoo economics, schools and blight, Donald Trump
• United offering more premium perks from New York
• Illinois Medical District plans ambitious expansion
• Plan B taps Joe Popa as its first group creative director
• Icebreaker heats up Windy City
• Duly Noted: Google antitrust probe, fearing Jay-Z, NJ debt collector (Video)
• For $75 milllion, Penguin closes book on collusion accusations
• It''s a mixed (shopping) bag for three big retailers'' earnings
• • David Beckham can cash-in thanks to New York City F.C.
  • Jell-O social media campaign plays with profane hashtag
  • Tribune names de Castro WGN president and GM
  • Tremor Video files for initial public offering
  • What''s next: Earnings and business reports due May 27-29 (Video)
  • Judge asks: Who''s calling shots at CBS'' ''Brooklyn D.A.''?
  • Best Hotels in San Francisco for mixing business with pleasure
  • Prosecutors subpoena four more SAC Capital execs charges coming soon?
  • Time Warner Cable bids on Hulu
  • IRS employees off until Tuesday except for Lois Lerner
  • IRS employees off until Tuesday except for Lois Lerner
  • IRS employees off until Tuesday except for Lois Lerner
  • IRS employees off until Tuesday except for Lois Lerner
  • IRS employees off until Tuesday except for Lois Lerner
  • IRS employees off until Tuesday except for Lois Lerner
  • Motorola Mobility loses Xbox patent fight (Video)
  • Sears reports disappointing first quarter
  • United Airlines makes changes in Seattle
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Thursday 05.23.2013

• Look out: Above-average number of hurricanes likely this year
• Softball Senate offers penny for Pritzker''s thoughts
• WLS Channel 7 newscast flexes muscle in May ratings
• The hot spots where Chicagoans like to vacation
• Citibike gives Broadway building a win over street vendors
• Duly Noted: Civic hackathon, Wi-Fi desert, Goose Island
• DraftFCB and Kmart quickly debut a great sequel to ''Ship My Pants''
• Comcast offering free Xfinity Wi-Fi at 1,000 Chicago-area hotspots
• Cramer-Krasselt and Kraft Foods score big at the Effies
• President Clinton to bring his Global Initiative to Chicago
• • New York City F.C. hires first employee
  • FDA panel says Merck''s insomnia drug safe in lower doses
  • Duly Noted: MSG permit, cronut craze, Mets shirt mogul
  • Claire''s Stores posts larger loss despite sales growth
  • What a new report has to say about Illinois'' economic outlook
  • Chase Consumer Bank CEO leaves for Visa, Sommers promoted
  • CPS school closures: backlash could extend into coming months
  • Shazam''s new app turns your iPad into an insatiable eavesdropper
  • New navigation changes to our website
  • Come see the priceless original Bill of Rights under its $600k protective case
  • What''s next: Earnings and business reports due May 24-28 (Video)
  • Ralph Lauren boosts quarterly profits, but sales disappoint
  • Locals lament imminent destruction of 5Pointz, "graffiti mecca"
  • Borders rewards: Judge rules gift cards are useless
  • Inside Merck''s new crusade against cervical cancer in Africa
  • CBOE sued over improper fees
  • Fast and cheap for cops and nurses New York eats it up
  • Educate Me Elmo
  • Chicago-area April home sales up 31 percent
  • Palmer House Hilton hotel up for sale
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Wednesday 05.22.2013

• India might be America''s next big trade problem
• Le Cordon Bleu cooks up a new ad campaign
• Duly Noted: Elvis, Muhammad Ali, Doug Oberhelman, and mac ''n cheese (Video)
• Kellogg School debuts new CMO program
• Phoenix REIT pays nearly $100 million for Hillshire Brands building
• Clear Channel wins deals at O''Hare and Midway
• How job-seeking will change and how you must change with it
• Jay-Z lands another big New York sports name
• Sears Canada sinks to first-quarter loss
• Why the NFL might put Radio City Music Hall on waivers
• • Austin continues to lead the nation in economic strength
  • Duly Noted: Saks on the block, Cohen''s not so RICO suave, Walmart still searching (Video)
  • What''s ahead for retired football great Brian Urlacher?
  • Cancer Genetics forms joint venture with Mayo Clinic
  • Welcome to Wal-Mart, Dan Bartlett
  • Why Pfizer''s goodbye to Fido seems to be a good thing
  • Tribune Co. launches Digital Ventures company, hires former Yahoo! exec
  • Why Chicagoans won''t be flying so much this Memorial Day
  • State Senate votes to override Quinn''s smart grid veto; House vote next
  • Weiner enters mayoral race: ''I made some big mistakes'' (Video)
  • What''s next: Earnings and business reports due May 23-27
  • Mum''s the word from woman at center of IRS scandal
  • The secret benefits hiding in your frequent-flier points
  • Dimon kept dual CEO-chairman roles after intense lobbying effort
  • Chicago-area pensions'' funding gap widened 16.7 percent in 2011
  • Entrepreneurs rev your engines: Startup activity in U.S. at 13-year high
  • Yankees team with Man City for new MLS team; Queens stadium still no sure thing
  • Market seems ready for another injection of NPS Pharma
  • As ESPN downsizes, ''We''re hiring,'' says NYC''s SportsMedia 101
  • United is about to drop some serious coin in Newark
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Tuesday 05.21.2013

• Mr. Cook goes to Washington: Apple bruised at Senate tax hearing
• Three important business lessons taught by pop songs
• Hunt Cos. taps William Little for new post
• Duly Noted: Metra cops'' pay, Hospira patent dispute, history of tornados in Chicago
• Tom Dick & Harry''s special tribute to the late Michael Herlehy
• Pfizer ends study of non-Hodgkin lymphoma drug
• FDA may be losing sleep over Merck drug
• Duly Noted: Carmageddon''s no-show, Steven Cohen''s decision, Urban Outfitter''s new ''belt''
• Saks shares soar on quarterly sales
• What''s next: Earnings and business reports due May 22-24
• • United Airlines throws a big party on the east coast
  • United Express getting more new Embraer jets
  • Chicago Sky lands broadcast TV deal with Weigel
  • Airbnb service ruled illegal in New York
  • Cramer-Krasselt stays with Porsche
  • Emanuel, Quinn snipe over regulating a Chicago casino
  • United Airlines steps out on the fashion runway
  • Yahoo! set to consolidate NYC workers in Midtown but not Tumblr
  • Three NYU researchers implicated in passing secrets to Chinese
  • DeVry chairman stepping down in November
  • ChooseChicago chooses Desiree Rogers — a vision in yellow
  • ChooseChicago chooses Desiree Rogers — a vision in yellow
  • ChooseChicago chooses Desiree Rogers — a vision in yellow
  • ChooseChicago chooses Desiree Rogers — a vision in yellow
  • Tellabs CFO resigns
  • A former Marine is the 2013 Star of the Bar
  • ChooseChicago chooses Desiree Rogers — a vision in yellow
  • ChooseChicago chooses Desiree Rogers — a vision in yellow
  • ChooseChicago chooses Desiree Rogers — a vision in yellow
  • NBC News reaches across The Pond for ceiling-shattering hire
  • Avon names former Tupperware exec North America president
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Monday 05.20.2013

• Accenture to buy Acquity Group for $316 million
• Cat and mouse game between Royalty Pharma and Elan suddenly a blur of motion
• ChooseChicago chooses Desiree Rogers — a vision in yellow
• ChooseChicago chooses Desiree Rogers — a vision in yellow
• Duly Noted: Tumblr and Yahoo!, pension anxiety, 3D printing at the library (Video)
• Duly Noted: Questions for Cooper, denial for PokerStars, startups for Brooklyn
• Where are vacationers headed this Memorial Day?
• Think federal agencies have too much power? The Supremes just gave them more
• NY regulator looking into insurers'' investments
• What''s next: Earnings and business reports due May 21-23 (Video)
• • Sprint extends special offer in attempt to keep US Cellular customers
  • GrubHub and Seamless to merge operations
  • Turning up the heat on SAC''s Cohen
  • Why Congress isn''t working
  • Reblog this: Yahoo! board signs off on $1.1B Tumblr buy
  • After train crash, Conn. commute likely a mess for foreseeable future
  • Medicinal marijuana passes state Senate, awaits Quinn''s signature
  • Allied Specialty to close Monaco RV factory in northern Indiana
  • Polaroid brings some ballast to pro wakeboarding
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Small Business News from bizjournals

• Ken Thomas says City National Bank deal good for local businesses
• The List: Which banks are lending to small businesses
• United offering more premium perks from New York
• Want to be like Apple? Here are a few tax tips
• Trading firm sues BP, Shell and Statoil in oil pricing probe
• Chile''s BCI to buy City National Bank
• WSDOT: Replace, don''t repair, the Skagit River bridge
• Ohio State Global Gateway program measuring worth before pitching Brazil office
• Best Hotels in San Francisco for mixing business with pleasure
• Company DePinho co-founded faces more setbacks