Coffee cups

Customers forced Keurig to backtrack

Keurig, the coffeemaker with the drop-in plastic cups, is everywhere. But when it redesigned its machines last year, it made a lot of customers angry.

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Startups create new apps

Apps for mobile devices that make travel easier and smarter are popping up almost every day. Startup companies are getting millions in funding from investors

Mother

The big dollars in Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is this Sunday (you still have time to buy a card). And, it’s become a big money holiday. According to the National Retail

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Would you buy stock in Fitbit?

Fitbit has become ubiquitous among people aiming to get healthy. It makes those wristband and clipon devices that monitor your fitness activity, either through calories

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Elon Musk, battery salesman

Would you buy a home battery from Tesla’s Elon Musk? Apparently, you would. On Wednesday, Musk declared that demand for Tesla’s new Powerwall home batteries

All about McDonald’s turnaround plan

All year, we’ve told you about the efforts by McDonald’s to fix the fast food company’s decline. First, it named a new CEO. Then, it

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Monetizing the Royal Baby

You probably heard the joyful news from London on Saturday. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, aka William and Kate, welcomed a bouncing baby girl.

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Delta snags design deal

One of fashion’s hottest stars, Zac Posen, is taking on a new runway. Posen will design a collection for Delta Air Lines that will debut

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Craft Beers’ place in the stadium

Having a beer while watching the big game is about as traditional as it gets for sports fans in the United States. But it’s another

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Travel and the sharing economy

In a post here, I wrote about how U.S. cities are adapting — or not — to the sharing economy. The so-called ‘sharing economy’ poses

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