7 years ago044Harley-Davidson really knows how to make a splash in order to market its brand.
The company is taking over an entire town in North Dakota and ensuring that all eligible residents get their motorcycle driver's license.
The town is Ryder, North Dakota, and city officials have agreed to change its name to "Riders." The town only has...
7 years ago052Ongoing recent media coverage of massive hacking and cyber attacks is spurring the state of New Jersey to enhance its cyber security defenses.
Last year, the state spent $10 million to boost security of its infrastructure. Now, it is set to centralize all computer resources in its executive branch.
Governor Chris Christie signed...
7 years ago0120Addepar, a Silicon Valley-based startup that helps wealth management firms get a more comprehensive view of their clients' assets, has raised $140 million in a round led by Valor Equity Partners, 8VC and investment manager Harald McPike.
The company said on Thursday that it will use the funding on research and development initiatives...
7 years ago094Canadian commercial financing company ECN Capital Corp. is moving into the U.S. home-improvement financing market, with a $410-million acquisition deal announced on Thursday.
The Toronto-based company, which focuses on aviation, rail and Canadian commercial and vendor financing, is set to acquire Service Finance Holdings LLC by the...
7 years ago098John Stewart knew his company needed a hefty cash infusion to transition from a cloud services provider to a software provider. But without physical assets to borrow against, a bank loan was out of the question; venture capital wasn’t an option, either. “We were too late for angel funding and too early for growth funding,” says...
7 years ago048After coming to Dallas early in her banking career, Carla Brooks got a surprise at a private club atop a downtown skyscraper, where a man had invited her for a business lunch. “We had to go to a separate dining room where women were allowed,” the Midwest native says of that late 1970s episode. “The main dining room was part of the...
7 years ago064Slack’s head of global marketing came to her career in an unusual way. Unlike many marketers who hold business and marketing degrees, Kelly Watkins earned degrees in theology from Abilene Christian University.
When asked about her start in marketing, Watkins said she is fascinated by the ways people build systems that help them...
7 years ago063AccessPoint, a Farmington Hills-based professional service organization and human resource company, has acquired YourSource Management Group, AccessPoint CEO Greg Packer said.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Packer said AccessPoint also plans to purchase the 6,600-square-foot YMG headquarters building at 3342 Auburn Road in...
7 years ago058Amazon has killed off its generous unlimited cloud storage deal for Amazon Drive. Previously, customers could store as much data as they liked on Amazon’s servers for just $60 a year (or $12 a year for just unlimited photos).
Now, the company offers just two tiers: store up to 100GB for $11.99 a year, or up to 1TB for $60. It costs an...
7 years ago0106Yesterday Macy’s warned that its gross margins are likely to come under pressure in the balance of 2017, which in our view serves as a reminder of the more than challenging retail environment that is a direct fallout of our Connected Society and Cash-Strapped Consumer investing themes.
With many households living paycheck to...
7 years ago089Financial firms that have built critical IT systems on decades-old technology can shift to the cloud to avoid relying on expensive contractors to support aging systems.
Your bank may offer a slick mobile application for your smartphone, but a good chunk of its critical IT infrastructure might be built on technology from The...
7 years ago089American University has now joined the ranks of colleges and universities offering advanced degrees in HR analytics, but experts differ on their overall value.
Among the responsibilities performed by HR professionals, there's one critical task many can't accomplish.
Collecting, exporting and analyzing data from proprietary systems is...