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The Friday Exit: Finances, expansions and awards at 1871

May 20, 2019 at 10:30 p.m.

The Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center hosted its Momentum Awards on Thursday, honoring fast-growing companies and notable entrepreneurs while raising money for 1871 at a dinner event that was bathed in blue....

The Friday Exit: Not much to joke about at Groupon

May 20, 2019 at 10:18 p.m.

Call it a less-global Groupon. The Chicago e-commerce company that made its name selling local deals announced it would pull back on operations in some markets and lay off 1,100...

The Friday Exit: Makers rise up to support clock-making Ahmed Mohamed

May 20, 2019 at 10:16 p.m.

A lesson for Texas: Don't mess with tinkerers, because they have Twitter handles and they're not afraid to use them. #IStandWithAhmed became a roiling rebuke to the arrest of a...

The Friday Exit: Set a workplace tone that attracts great talent

May 20, 2019 at 10:14 p.m.

How do you find, cultivate and keep the best talent? We're exploring that issue all month long at Blue Sky with stories and videos on Talent & Culture. Kate MacArthur...

Holmes was creating the platform when actress Angelina Jolie Pitt <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-05-14/health/ct-met-angelina-jolie-mastectomy-20130515_1_breast-cancer-brca1-mastectomy">revealed</a> that she had a preventative double mastectomy.

The Friday Exit: A tech-world Tweet that struck a nerve on Syria

May 20, 2019 at 10:12 p.m.

A day after an image of a drowned Syrian toddler was shared around the world, a Tweet coming from a slightly different angle stopped a lot of people in their...

DoorStat CEO Cole Harper said the program is a perfect fit for his company, which uses propriety software to collect anonymous demographic data from customers. Harper said the program is a perfect fit for his company, which uses propriety software to collect anonymous demographic data from customers.

The Friday Exit: What major-league baseball teams want from startups

May 20, 2019 at 10:10 p.m.

Chicago-based customer-analytics startup DoorStat got a big-league opportunity this week: It was named to the first class of Dodgers Accelerator, run by the Los Angeles baseball organization. What kinds of...

Employees gather to work on a project in one of the testing labs at Motorola Mobility's new headquarters.

The Friday Exit: Are you smart enough to decide whether you need an MBA?

May 20, 2019 at 10:06 p.m.

Chewing on the idea of pursuing an MBA? Hear tales from the trenches — of both earning it and paying for it — in the stories and videos of our...

Hired wants to use its Web platform to get you a new job along with a $2,000 signing bonus and a bottle of Dom Perignon to celebrate.

The Friday Exit: Silicon Valley moves in on Motorola Solutions

May 20, 2019 at 10:04 p.m.

Can a Silicon Valley investor pour some fuel on Motorola Solutions? Silver Lake Partners thinks so, making a $1 billion investment in the Schaumburg company that makes two-way radios and...

Ashley Madison, a website that bills itself as a place to arrange extramarital affairs, was hacked in July 2015.

The Friday Exit: Tech drives revolutions in logistics, trucking

May 20, 2019 at 10:00 p.m.

Chicago could be eyeing a $1.8 billion exit in Coyote Logistics, according to the biggest may-become-news of the week. Bloomberg reported that UPS was in talks to buy the company...

The FDA released new warnings about the risk of heart attack and stroke related to certain OTC painkillers. And there are widely documented accidental acetaminophen-related overdoses.

The Friday Exit: Order some food. It’s your duty to Chicago business

May 20, 2019 at 9:58 p.m.

Groupon swam further into the not-so-blue-ocean space of food delivery occupied by GrubHub and others with the acquisition of OrderUp this week. It had already quietly launched Groupon To Go,...

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