Small Business
Angry Birds maker hopes Bad Piggies will help it fly again
HELSINKI - Angry Birds-maker Rovio Entertainment will be hoping to prove it's no one-hit wonder when it launches Bad Piggies on Thursday, just as players seem to be tiring of the game they've been addicted to for the past three years. | Video
IBM aims for Amazon, Salesforce.com with midsize cloud plan: WSJ
- International Business Machines Corp will announce on Wednesday that it will ramp up efforts to sell cloud computing services to midsize businesses, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
Horses, rhinos come to air cargo's aid in recession
FRANKFURT - Milano de Flore, waiting dozily at Frankfurt airport for a flight to Buenos Aires after competing in the London Olympics, had no idea how important he is to the air freight business.
Restaurants oppose $7.2 billion credit-card fee settlement
NEW YORK - The National Restaurant Association said Tuesday it is joining the opposition to a proposed $7.2 billion settlement between some retailers and Visa Inc and MasterCard Inc over fees for credit card transactions.
Fund managers realize big gains from small bank stocks
BOSTON - Portfolio manager Bernard Horn can go anywhere in the world to find a stock for his global value fund. But some of Horn's best stock picks have been small banks gathering deposits and making loans right in his own back yard.
Biglari agrees to $850,000 fine on Cracker Barrel buy
WASHINGTON - Biglari Holdings Inc , run by activist investor Sardar Biglari, will pay a $850,000 penalty to settle charges it violated merger reporting rules when it bought shares of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc , the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.
Exclusive: Facebook to charge merchants to run offers
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook Inc said it will start charging businesses to run Offers on its social network, turning a previously free service into a potential revenue generator at a time when Wall Street is demanding new sources of growth and profit from the company.
Budget cuts threaten 1 million at small U.S. firms: report
WASHINGTON - Small businesses in the United States could lose nearly 1 million jobs in 2013 if federal lawmakers do not avert $1.2 trillion in across-the-board budget cuts due to begin taking effect in January, a new study showed.
Swiss railway weighs challenge to Apple over trademark clock
ZURICH - Swiss railway operator SBB and a Swiss watchmaker are considering challenging Apple over the striking similarity between the country's trademark station clocks and the clock on a new operating system for the iPad.
Stradivarius dealer admits embezzlement as trial begins
VIENNA - One of the world's top dealers in precious Stradivarius violins admitted he embezzled money made from the sale of instruments entrusted to him by his customers, but denied fraud charges as his trial got under way in Vienna on Wednesday.
Small businesses likely to benefit from patent law overhaul
When new patent legislation was passed a year ago Alex Frommeyer was one of the first entrepreneurs to take advantage.
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