DIVINE LEAD BUYER OF CARVED-UP MARCHFIRST
Divine Inc. emerged as the lead buyer in MarchFirst Inc.'s fire sale Thursday with a deal valued at up to $125 million that would carve out a big chunk of...
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CHRONICALLY HOPEFUL BRAVE TECH WRECK
Silicon Valley's Guy Kawasaki and his Garage.com team flew into town this week to promote their venture-capital matchmaking service and offer advice to high-tech entrepreneurs. They couldn't have picked a...
STREET’S ROCKS FELL ONCE-BRIGHT BLUEMETEOR
Pat O'Brien watched Tuesday's stock market sell-off on a computer at BlueMeteor Inc.'s trendy River North loft offices. Wall Street's noisy dive seemed as powerful and relentless as a force...
`HUMAN NEED TO BE FIRST’ DOES IN BERNARD
The new decade is already littered with financial disasters. Hundreds of billions of dollars have disappeared as the tech world imploded. Yet even amid the wreckage, the merger that created...
E-EDUCATION TREND WELL-TIMED FOR ENTREPRENEUR
Some people have a knack for timing. They land in the sweetest spots at the best possible moments. Daniel Hamburger's timing is better than most. The 37-year-old was in the...
GETTING LOCAL CASH HARD VENTURE FOR STATE’S START-UPS
Money and art mingle as naturally as fans and stars on Oscar night. That's why it seemed fitting when artist Ed Paschke stepped to the podium as the celebrity speaker...
`KILLER’ KANE’S GRANDSON FIRES UP START-UPS’ GRILL
Benny "Killer" Kane knows how to handle a pigskin and how to serve up a slab of barbecued ribs (the reference to Benny Kane as published has been corrected in...
HEAVEN KNOWS WHETHER NEW STRATEGY IS DIVINE
You don't have to be a cynic to be skeptical about Andrew "Flip" Filipowski's latest plan to revive Divine Interventures. After all, how many CEOs managed to vaporize a few...
JOBLESS FACE TIGHTER MARKET
Daniel Grossheider, an unemployed Tinley Park pipefitter, has learned a hard truth about today's economy: It's tough to hold a manufacturing job and even more difficult to find one. Grossheider,...
A HARDIER BREED LAPS AT HIGH-TECH MONEY POOL
Now we can admit it. We felt a bit smug when dot-comers got their comeuppance last year. All those fresh-faced twentysomethings. That moussed hair. Those laptops loaded with PowerPoint presentations....