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Mother's Day Shopping A Big Boost For Small Retailers

The Huffington Post | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Fedex, FedEx Survey, Mother's Day, Mother's Day Spending, Small Business News and Trends, Mother's Day Gift Guide, Mother's Day Shopping, Mother's Day Gifts, Small Business News

The "shop small" trend has officially carried over from the holiday season, as two-thirds of U.S. shoppers will look to boutiques and small retailers ...

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Really?! You Call This Art?

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Frieze Art Fair 2012, Lazy Art, Fedex, Video, You Call This Art, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Sculpture, Marcel Duchamp, Bad Art, Contemporary Art, Mirrors, Slideexpand, Arts News

Almost a century after Marcel Duchamp submitted a porcelain urinal titled "Fountain" to the Society of Independent Artists, we are still seeing readym...

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Social Ethics: A Peek Into 2012

Linda Novick O'Keefe | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Walmart, Walmart Foundation, Ge, Julie Gehrki, DeShele Dorsey, Bob Corcoran, Corporate Philanthropy, Corporate Social Responsibility, Changing Our World, Fedex, Twitter, Red Cross, Dell, General Mills, Western Union, Facebook, Csr, Business Ethics, Business News

Business as usual is changing. Or at least the way business leaders think about philanthropy is changing.

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Workplace Discrimination Costs Businesses Staggering Amount

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Lgbt, Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Fedex, Transgender, Workplace Discrimination, Gender Inequality, Enda, Discrimination, Center for American Progress, Business News

Discriminating against your employees can cost you. Workplace discrimination against employees based on race, gender or sexual orientation costs b...

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FedEx To Pay $3 Million Over Hiring Discrimination Charges

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Fedex, U.S. Labor Department, Hilda Solis, Hiring Discrimination, Memphis, Labor Department, Federal Contracts, FedEx Corp, Jobs, Discrimination, Lawsuit, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Shipping giant FedEx has agreed to pay $3 million to settle federal charges that the company had a widespread pattern of discriminating ...

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Twitter: Where The !@#$ Is My New iPad?!?!

The Huffington Post | Jason Gilbert | Posted 03.16.2012

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The 49 people below, tweeting about how excruciating it is to wait for their new iPad to arrive, have lost control of their lives. They have descended...

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High-Tech Start-Up Focus: Flite's 'Agile Marketing Platform'

Bill_Robinson | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Charles Schwab, Marriott, Microsoft, Intel, Tostitos, Starcom, General Mills, Fedex, Adweek, Paramount Pictures, Toyota, Best Buy, Cnet, Cisco, Publicis, Yahoo, Sony, Coca-Cola, Hummer Winblad, Dell, General Catalyst Partners, Sequoia Capital, Mediavest, Digitas, Aetna, Sybase, Loreal, Ibm, Google, Flite, Small Business America, Small Business News

One of the most crucial elements of any high-tech start-up's survival -- much less evolution -- is the money backing the enterprise. Is it 'smart money?' Is it 'patient money?' Is it 'connected money?'

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Bomb Joke No Fun For FedEx Employee Charged With Threat Of Terrorism

AP | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Fedex, Utah Crime, Bomb Joke on Army Base, Threat of Terrorism, Video, Weird Utah, Bomb, Federal Express, Army Corps of Engineers Employee at Camp Williams, Kevin Coleman, Bomb Scare, Utah, Weird News News

SALT LAKE CITY — Prosecutors in Utah charged a FedEx driver with a threat of terrorism count over allegations he joked that a package he was del...

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WATCH: Postal Worker Caught With Truckloads Of Stolen Mail

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Fedex, Congress, Video, U.S. Postal Service, Tlc, Hoarding Buried Alive, Firefighters, Hoarding, Budget Cuts, Usps, Stamps, Myfoxhouston, Postal Worker, Business News

On top of a financial crisis of devastating proportions, it looks like the U.S. Postal Service has yet another problem on its hands: an employee that'...

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USPS Competes With FedEx In Package Tossing

The Huffington Post | John Stephens | Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: North Hollywood, Fedex, Video, Mail Man Throws Package, Usps, Postal Worker Tosses Package, Postal Worker, Los Angeles, Business News

Just one month after a FedEx worker tossed a computer monitor over a customer's fence, breaking it and igniting a firestorm of negative publicity for ...

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WATCH: More Shocking FedEx Delivery Footage

Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Viral-Video-Fedex-Delivery-Man, Fedex, Video, Urlesque, Conan, Fedex Hidden Camera Footage, Funny Videos, Conan O'Brien, Comedy News

Earlier this week, a hidden-camera video of a FedEx delivery man throwing a computer monitor over a YouTuber's fence went viral after getting passed a...

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WATCH: Letterman Makes Excuses For Bad FedEx Guy

Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Letterman, Holidays, Fedex, Letterman's Fedex Guy Excuses, Video, Fedex Delivery Guy, Top Ten Fedex Guy Excuses, Letterman Top Ten Fedex Guy Excuses, Letterman Fedex Guy, Fedex Guy Excuses, David Letterman, Comedy News

When a FedEx delivery guy was caught on tape throwing a computer over a fence, the video went viral and FedEx began the traditional holiday groveling....

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UPS, FedEx See Boost In Holiday Shipping, Indicating Pickup In Shopping

AP | By BRUCE SCHREINER | Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Fedex, Holiday Shopping, Ups, Louisville International Airport, Video, Ups Worldport, Christmas, Online Shopping, Shipping, Parcels, UPS Airlines, Business News

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Tiera Washington's workload doubled during the holiday rush at UPS' largest air hub, where seemingly endless streams of packages ar...

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WATCH: FedEx Delivery Man Hurls Package Over Customer's Gate

The Huffington Post | tara kelly | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Holidays, Fedex, Viral Video Fedex Delivery Man, Video, Fedex Fail, Fedex Delivery Fail Video, Fedex Delivery Man, Youtube Fedex Delivery, Fedex Delivery Youtube, Fedex Delivery Man Video, Fedex Delivery Man Fail, Business News

When FedEx crafted the slogan "we live to deliver," the image of a FedEx delivery man smashing a delicate package upon arrival probably wasn't what th...

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GRAPHIC: The Last Days To Ship In Time For Christmas

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Holidays, Fedex, Holiday Shopping, Ups, Holiday Season, Christmas, Holiday Shipping, Cyber Monday, Consumers, Online Shopping, Business News

The holiday season can be a stressful time, especially when it comes to making sure grandma's gift gets in the mail on time. And while Cyber Monda...

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Is Booze The Key To Saving The Postal Service?

Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Susan Collins, Scott Brown, Fedex, Video, Ups, Congress, U.S. Postal Service, Postal Service Alcohol, Alcohol, Joe Lieberman, Postal Service Wine, Mail, Tom Carper, 21st Century Postal Service Reform Act, Postal Service Beer, Politics News

The eagle is struggling to fly. Growing financial grief has placed the U.S. Postal Service in a difficult bind. As it plans to close hundreds of m...

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Business Headlines May Be Gloomy, But There Are Bright Spots

Judith Samuelson | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Advent Financial Services, walmart.com, Unilever, First Movers Fellowship, Social Innovation, Bbva, Aspen Institute, Business Impact, Fedex, Inter-American Development Bank, Business News

When I check out the morning headlines, I have a yearning for the problems of yore. I want to go back to 2002 and worry about Enron, rather than a global meltdown.

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At UPS Worldport, The World Comes Together

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Needham | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Fedex, Ups, Patch Road Trip, Ups Worldport, FedEx Corp, Louisville, Supply Chain, Kentucky, Ups Logistics, Toshiba, Logistics, Dhl, Business News

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Every night, hundreds of workers get on buses and are dropped off here at the UPS Worldport. They spend a few hours putting package...

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FedEx To Deliver Millions Of Packages On Holiday's Busiest Day

AP | SAMANTHA BOMKAMP | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Fedex, Holiday Shoppers, Video, Workers, Package Delivery, Great Recession, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Packages, Online Shopping, Shipments, E-Commerce, Business News

NEW YORK — FedEx Corp. said Monday it expects to ship more packages this holiday season than ever before. The volume jump will be driven by chea...

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Postal Service On Brink Of Default

The New York Times | Posted 11.04.2011

Read More: Post Office Default, Fedex, Ups, Postal Service, Postal Service Default, Post Office, Usps, Business News

The United States Postal Service has long lived on the financial edge, but it has never been as close to the precipice as it is today: the agency is s...

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Meth Shipped Inside Meow Mix: Cops

Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Fedex, Dumb Crime, Cat Food, Crystal Meth, Dumb Criminals, Drugs, Pet Food, Meth Bust, Robert Morris, Meow Mix Meth, Methamphetamine, Slidepollajax, Meow Mix, Weird News News

♫ Meth-meth-meth-meth, meth-meth-meth-meth. Meth-meth-meth-meth. Meth-meth-meth-meth! ♫ It might sound like a botched version of the Meow Mix j...

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Corporations Are Draining America's Vitality

Carl Gibson | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Fedex, Verizon, Budget Cuts, Corporations, Bank of America, Tax Dodgers, Tax Cheats, General Electric, Tax Havens, Business News

All that's needed to get our economy standing upright again and the wealth circulating throughout the economy is for Fortune 500 headliners to pay their fair share in taxes.

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A New Strategy for Business Success in the 21st Century

Steven Crandell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Holistic, Atlanta, Design, Fedex, Business, Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Ray Anderson, TEDx Atlanta, Arts, Coca-Cola, Communications, Ibm, Interfaceflor, Significance, Purpose, Nonprofit, Impact, Profit, Unboundary, Creativity, India Arie, Patagonia, Tod Martin, Green Tech, Green News, Business News

A small Atlanta design firm is attempting to redefine success for corporate America. Unboundary, which lists companies such as FedEx, Coca-Cola, AT&a...

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Green News Report: February 8, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Floods, Co2, Fedex, Natural Disasters, Green Jobs, Australia, Epa, Agriculture, Regulation, Innovation, Green News Report, Pollution, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Greenhouse Gases, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Usda, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Bp, Clean Energy Jobs, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, Environmentalism, Energy Efficiency, BRAD BLOG, Snow, Green News, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, China, Wind Power, Toys, Carbon Tax, Colorado, Coal, Climate Scientists, Drought, Electricity, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Tom Donohue, Natural Gas, Chemicals, Super Bowl, Biden, Barack Obama, Hyrdoelectric Power, Smart Grid, High Speed Rail, Wildfires, Water Crisis, Blackout, Chamber of Commerce, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Was the W...

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