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Three Tips From Basecamp for Launching and Running a Successful Podcast
The co-producers and co-hosts of a podcast offer some practical advice from the podcasting trenches. Keep these tips in mind when starting and producing your own podcast. → Read More
The Distance: A new generation brings change to Victory Auto Wreckers
It was 1985, and Kenneth Weisner didn’t want to shoot a new commercial for his auto salvage business. He was perfectly happy with the 30-second spot for Victory Auto Wreckers that had been running on Chicago’s WGN for the last four years. But the master tape had gone missing, and the only copy left was rapidly deteriorating. The station was going to take the ad off the air if the business didn’t… → Read More
Guardians of the gallery: Handling the art world's most precious objects
When Bruce MacGilpin was working toward his Master of Fine Arts degree nearly four decades ago, his final show was an installation of ziggurat-like structures sculpted from silica sand, a rich black substance that’s discarded from the industrial casting process. → Read More
Motorola Mobility teams with 3D printing firm on modular smartphone
Motorola Mobility has signed a “multi-year development agreement” with a South Carolina 3D printing company that will build a manufacturing system for the mobile device maker’s modular smartphone project. → Read More
Sittercity puts focus back on child care with $13M funding
Sittercity is returning to its roots as an online matchmaker between families and babysitters, and it's raised $13 million in new investment to do it. → Read More
YouTube co-founder and alum donates $1M to Illinois Math and Science Academy
YouTube co-founder Steve Chen has made a $1 million gift to his alma mater, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora, to help build a new $1.9 million "Innovation Hub" modeled partially after the 1871 startup collaborative workspace at the Merchandise Mart. → Read More
Tech notebook: Online furniture store launching in December
The entrepreneurs behind Chicago-based Interior Define want to appeal to a modern-day Goldilocks: the shopper looking for a chair that's just right. → Read More
Purdue launching executive MBA program in Chicago
Purdue University is launching an executive MBA program in Chicago aimed at professionals in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and math, the Indiana school and Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office announced Monday. → Read More
Groupon appoints co-founder Eric Lefkofsky as CEO
Groupon co-founder and interim chief executive Eric Lefkofsky has been named CEO of the Chicago-based daily deals company, moving from an interim executive position to a more permanent role. Lefkofsky and fellow board director Ted Leonsis had been serving as co-CEOs since founding CEO Andrew Mason was fired earlier this year. Lefkofsky headed the day-to-day operations while Leonsis led the… → Read More
Jellyvision Lab CEO has shaped a culture of fun and hard work
Sept. 21 is an important date at Jellyvision Lab. For starters, it's Chief Executive Amanda Lannert's birthday. It also happens to be Mustache Day, an annual tradition at the Chicago-based technology company. Employees who are able to grow facial hair start preparing a month in advance, while others don elaborate costumes. At lunchtime, the entire staff decamps to Brazilian steakhouse Fogo de… → Read More
U.S. Cellular exiting Chicago market
Note: Job cut numbers are updated to correct confusion over numbers supplied by U.S. Cellular. Chicago-based wireless carrier U.S. Cellular said Wednesday that it is selling its Chicago, St. Louis and central Illinois markets, along with three others in the Midwest, to subsidiaries of Sprint Nextel Corp. for $480 million. The deal, which requires regulatory approval and is expected to close in… → Read More
65 local startups move into 1871 in Mart
Nearly 140 people from 65 local startups moved into new digs Wednesday at 1871, a 50,000-square foot work space for digital entrepreneurs at the Merchandise Mart.The space on the 12th floor of the... → Read More
Groupon reveals lower revenue, admits internal controls 'weakness'
Groupon Inc. on Friday released revised financial results for the fourth quarter and 2011 fiscal year, showing a $14.3 million decrease in fourth-quarter revenue and a $0.04 reduction in earnings per share. The Chicago-based daily deals company said it had not set aside enough money for customer refunds. When this refund allowance was adjusted to account for the increase, Groupon posted a… → Read More
Motorola Solutions CEO seems to thrive on being underrated, beating odds
When Motorola Inc. first came courting Greg Brown, he wasn't interested. The year was 1998 and Brown, a division president at Ameritech in Chicago, was weighing an offer from Motorola against one from Micromuse, a publicly traded software company in San Francisco. Motorola was the larger and more well-known corporation, and one that Brown had admired for years, but the corporate vice president… → Read More
Executive profile: Greg Brown, CEO of Motorola Solutions
When Motorola Inc. first came courting Greg Brown, he wasn't interested. The year was 1998 and Brown, a division president at Ameritech in Chicago, was weighing an offer from Motorola against one from Micromuse, a publicly traded software company in San Francisco. Motorola was the larger and more well-known corporation, and one that Brown had admired for years, but the corporate vice president… → Read More