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Is Groupon successful? Depends on the accounting method

Times aren’t as good as originally thought for Groupon Inc., CNNMoney.com reported.

The daily deal website yesterday updated its initial public offering (IPO) filing to show that it incurred a $420 million operating loss for …

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Meredith to take iPad subscriptions for Better Homes and Gardens

Meredith Corp. announced today that iPad editions for Better Homes and Gardens, Parents, and Fitness magazines are available for sale on a subscription basis beginning with the September 2011 issues.

Annual and monthly subscriptions range …

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Alliant plans another wind farm

Alliant Energy Corp. announced that it will build 60 more wind turbines in Franklin County, the Mason City Globe Gazette reported.

The $235 million project will create 100 megawatts of electricity, or enough to power …

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Amy Brehm: Owner, Java Joe’s CoffeeHouse


Amy Brehm’s entrepreneurial aspirations began long before she purchased a popular coffeehouse in the Court Avenue Entertainment District.

Growing up in Dubuque, Brehm watched as her father operated a successful typesetting company, where she went …

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Levi Rosol: Co-founder, ScoreYard


Some people might view giving up a steady paycheck to launch a Web technology company as fairly risky. From Levi Rosol’s perspective, having been laid off twice – once from one of the world’s largest …

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Emma Peterson: CEO, Tikly Co.


What could possess a 21-year-old recent college graduate to leave the security of a full-time job to start her own company?

Well, when Dwolla Corp. founder Ben Milne is on your side, along with people …

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Drawn to Google+

Google Inc.’s new social networking service, Google+, reached about 25 million visitors in less than a month, outpacing Facebook Inc. and MySpace in their early days, according to Wedbush Securities, citing ComScore Inc. (SCOR) data, …

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Internet speeds getting close to advertised rates

Broadband speeds are now significantly closer to what Internet service providers advertise than they were in 2009, according to a study to be released today by U.S. communications regulators, Reuters reported. Cable, DSL and fiber-to-the-home …

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Tough nuts to hack

The National Security Agency (NSA) has a challenge for hackers who think they’re hot stuff: prove it by working on the “hardest problems on Earth.”

Computer hacker skills are in great demand in the U.S. …

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Frank Russell: Founder, Prositions Inc.

For Frank Russell, the earliest days of a start-up company are always the most exciting.

These are heady days for Russell – once again.

Not quite a year ago, the serial entrepreneur launched Prositions Inc., …