We’ve all heard about how quickly America’s craft beer market is growing. Two traditional beer alternatives—hard ciders and fruity malt alcoholic beverages like Bud Light Lime Straw-Ber-Rit...
https://business.time.com/2014/03/06/sweet-the-smooth-rise-of-non-bitter-not-quite-beer-beverages/
Pretzel Crisps is really, really worried that people are going to give it up for Lent. So as part of a strange social media marketing move, it took to Twitter to randomly beg people not to forego...
https://business.time.com/2014/03/05/brand-you-never-heard-of-is-begging-you-not-to-stop-eating-it/
As the conflict in Syria approaches its third anniversary this month, humanitarian agencies are dealing with a growing sense of donor fatigue from both nations and individuals. A new commercial f...
https://business.time.com/2014/03/05/most-shocking-second-a-day/
United is ratcheting up stricter carry-on baggage rule enforcement, and the result is that more passengers will be hit with fees. To which many travelers say: Wonderful! This week, word has quick...
Facebook is taking aim at gun advertisements. The social network said Wednesday that sellers of firearms in the United States will not be allowed to specify “no background check required,” or...
https://business.time.com/2014/03/05/facebook-to-restrict-gun-ads/
This post is in partnership with Inc., which offers useful advice, resources, and insights to entrepreneurs and business owners. The article below was originally published at Inc.com. Two peop...
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Activist investor Carl Icahn says eBay is the worst-run company he’s ever seen. The billionaire who regularly clashes with tech’s biggest CEOs told CNBC’s Squawk Box that eBay’s corporate...
Those darn hipsters, with their artisanal toothpicks and thick glasses and ironic tax returns. Believe it or not, H&R Block is trying to attach that last trait to the hipster stereotype. The tax...
https://business.time.com/2014/03/05/hr-block-hipster-tax-crisis/
Week after week of cold and misery has kept car buyers away from auto dealerships in 2014. The weather should also be indirectly helping them get better prices on new-car purchases this spring. U...
Would you like the Mona Lisa if others didn’t? Would you still think Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony was good? Would you still think the songs of the Beatles were superior to those of, say,...
https://business.time.com/2014/03/05/how-much-of-your-success-is-due-to-dumb-luck/
Bad news for burrito lovers: Chipotle warned in its latest annual report that climate change might lead it to leave guacamole out of its burritos and bowls. The chain blames the possible chang...
https://business.time.com/2014/03/04/chipotle-guacamole-climate-change/
To paraphrase a Paula Cole song, where have all the cows gone? At the start of 2014, U.S. ranchers had 87.99 million head of cattle, the lowest total since 1951. Long periods of drought in Califo...
https://business.time.com/2014/03/04/beef-its-whats-no-longer-affordable-for-dinner/
Microsoft has been waging one of the most aggressive campaigns against another tech company in recent memory with its divisive “Scroogled” commercials in the last two years. Now, the man behi...
https://business.time.com/2014/03/04/the-creator-of-scroogled-gets-a-new-job-at-microsoft/
Mark Zuckerberg’s long-stated goal for Facebook is to “connect the world.” Now it seems he may be considering using drones in order to achieve that. The world’s largest social network is ...
https://business.time.com/2014/03/04/facebook-drones-titan-aerospace/
Betting on the return of inflation has been a fool’s game for more than two decades. But that doesn’t mean inflation has been whipped forever, and even a moderate sustained rise in consumer p...
Updated at 4:25 p.m. on March 4, 2014 Stock markets around the world rallied Tuesday as fears of impending violence in the ongoing crisis in Ukraine cooled slightly. The Dow Jones Industrial Av...
https://business.time.com/2014/03/04/stock-market-wall-street-ukraine-putin/
In an attempt to bring the masses back to the casual dining Mecca that is Olive Garden, Darden Restaurants execs premiered a new logo Monday that it hopes to be a symbol of its “brand Renaissan...
https://business.time.com/2014/03/04/olive-gardens-new-logo-probably-cant-save-olive-garden/
Uber announced Monday that it will begin notifying users when surge pricing is dropping at their location, a move intended to assuage users who have complained the car-on-demand app is gouging p...
After flagging sales during the 2013 holiday season, the electronics retailer RadioShack said Tuesday that it will close up to 1,100 of its U.S. locations. RadioShack reported sales were down 19 ...
https://business.time.com/2014/03/04/radioshack-to-close-more-than-1000-stores/
For a couple of years now, one of my very smartest sources, Ruchir Sharma, head of emerging markets at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, has been saying that the emerging market story was ove...