Yelp to open Chicago office, hire 300
Yelp, the San Francisco-based business-review company, said it will hire 300 people in Chicago over the next year or so, mostly to work in sales, as it moves in January...
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Former Dominick’s distribution center sold
A former Dominick's distribution center along with the 55-acre business park it sits on in Northlake have been purchased by a Chicago-based development group. Almost 300 distribution center workers lost...
Chicago health tech hub accepting applications, names leaders
Matter, a not-for-profit health tech hub in downtown Chicago slated to open in early 2015, on Tuesday named a chief executive and said it's taking applications for new tenants. "What's...
Gogo reports 2Q loss on international expansion costs
Internet company Gogo Inc. on Monday reported a second-quarter loss in part due to increased fees and regulatory approval costs from expanding its service internationally. It also said it expects...
What is corporate tax inversion?
You might have heard the word "inversion" recently. Deerfield-based Walgreen considered it, but decided against it. North Chicago-based AbbVie is planning one. Even President Barack Obama has weighed in on...
A box of mini Oreos for some of America’s smallest towns
On Monday, tiny packages will be shipped to the Village of Palmer, Ill., population 229, to celebrate its small-town status. As one of the most petite places to live in...
Mortgage rates rise slightly, but still near year low
Mortgage rates rose slightly higher this week, but still remaining near a year low. The rate on a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.14 percent, compared with 4.12 percent last week....
Groupon shares tumble on 2Q loss, forecast cut
Shares of Groupon tumbled 18 percent in early trading Wednesday as investors reacted to the company's widened second-quarter loss and reduced full-year earnings forecast. Groupon's wider loss was due to...
Motorola Solutions, Zebra Technologies report 2nd-qtr earnings
Lincolnshire-based Zebra Technologies' and Schaumburg-based Motorola Solutions' stocks fell after they both posted second-quarter earnings declines and Motorola reported a drop in sales for a unit Zebra is set to...
Lego drops the pink, sells out laboratory set for girls
A 7-year-old girl wrote a letter to Lego in January urging the toy company to make play sets featuring female figures with jobs instead of only girls hanging at the...