Count on Facebook to keep ‘Happy birthday!’ alive
"'Happy Birthday!' Is dead, and it's all Facebook's fault." — The Guardian, July 29, 2015 When it comes to the commemoration of birthdays, it seems that, like Caesar's Gaul, the...
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What would Honest Abe say about lottery pitch?
Years ago, when I was working downtown, I would sometimes avoid traffic jams on my way home by heading north to the Edens Expressway via Clybourn Avenue. The path always...
STICKY HUBS, TRAVELING PORTALS AND THE END OF PUSHINESS
Remember the hypothesis that an infinite number of monkeys, if set to typing, would eventually produce the works of Shakespeare just by banging away at their keyboards? With each day...
SEARS EXEC SEES BEGINNING, NOT JUST ENDINGS
Last September 54-year-old Arthur Martinez stepped into the chairmanship of the Merchandise Group of Sears, Roebuck and Co. Less than five months later he announced sweeping changes in the way...
BEHIND THE CENTEL DEAL
Centel Corp. agreed to a controversial merger with Sprint Corp. in May after failing to receive any bids that measured up in terms of shareholder value and certainty, according to...
IF CONTINENTAL`S CHIEF WERE EMPEROR, HE`D LET BIG BANKS FAIL
It was just over six years ago that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. stepped in to prevent the collapse of Continental Illinois. Today, the man who heads the bank says...
GRANDIOSE SCALE
It was the first quarter, the Bears were already losing to the 49ers, and there was virtually no traffic on the Tri-State Tollway when Pat Summerall got my attention. Game...