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		<title>Sweet! The Smooth Rise of Non-Bitter Not-Quite-Beer Beverages</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Tuttle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2014 15:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all heard about how quickly America&#8217;s craft beer market is growing. Two traditional beer alternatives—hard ciders and fruity malt alcoholic beverages like Bud Light Lime Straw-Ber-Rita—are expanding even more impressively, and unlike beer, which skews heavily male, these brews are enjoyed evenly by men and women. Toward the end of 2011, America&#8217;s brewers were all but forced to pay attention to the rising hard cider market. For the 12-month period ending in October 2011, cider sales were up 25%. Sounds pretty good, but at that point cider hadn&#8217;t even come close to hitting its stride. Citing data from the market research firm IRI, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch noted last spring that for the &#8220;52-week period ending April 21, sales of the 10 largest cider brands in the U.S. surged 101 percent compared to a year ago, growing to $127.8 million.&#8221; A more recent story at AdAge showed that the segment&#8217;s growth has continued to soar, with cider sales growing nearly 100% for the 52-week period ending on January 26, reaching $220.7 million total. Understandably, the world&#8217;s biggest brewers are jumping on the cider trend, if for no other reason than out of fear of losing sales to the competition. The articles mentioned above focused on how Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors, respectively, are adding new cider brands and ramping up marketing efforts to win over potential customers. Meanwhile, the Boston Globe reported last fall that the fastest-growing brand owned by the Boston Beer Company, maker of Samuel Adams, isn&#8217;t a beer but a cider: Angry Orchard. (MORE: The Competition for Craft Beer Drinkers Takes a Bitter Turn) At this point, cider constitutes just 1% of the beer market. But given the way it&#8217;s been embraced by consumers, and given how big of a push there is behind cider among big brewers and mom-and-pop outfits alike, cider won&#8217;t be stuck at the 1% mark for long. &#8220;I could see it growing to 2 or 3 percent market share in a few years,&#8221; Harry Schuhmacher, editor and publisher of Beer Business Daily,]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">101538</post-id><primary_category>Food and Beverage Industry</primary_category><primary_category_link>https://business.time.com/category/companies-industries/food-and-beverage-industry/</primary_category_link>	</item>
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		<title>Brand You Never Heard of Is Begging You Not to Stop Eating It</title>
		<link>https://business.time.com/2014/03/05/brand-you-never-heard-of-is-begging-you-not-to-stop-eating-it/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Stampler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[pretzel crisps]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 the snack. A BuzzFeed editor was implored to not give it up. (He wasn&#8217;t going to … he has no idea what Pretzel Crisps are …) As did a writer for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon: @TheDweck We actually like holidays that let us give. Direct message your office address and we&#39;ll deliver a snack pack! &#8212; Pretzel Crisps® (@PretzelCrisps) March 5, 2014 Social media marketing can be tricky. And although this isn&#8217;t the worst Twitter gimmick we&#8217;ve seen, Pretzel Crisps&#8217; random piggybacking onto a religious holiday (with relatively impersonal messaging) seems a little off. Ash Wednesday isn&#8217;t typically a notable day on marketers&#8217; calendars, but in a social media-centric world, it&#8217;s not entirely surprising for a company to try to tie itself to any event: We&#039;re giving up overpriced vintage for #lent&#8230;join us and visit one of our #affordable vintage fairs this Spring http://t.co/39RlzrVpmx &#8212; Judy&#039;s Vintage (@JudyVintageFair) March 5, 2014]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">101534</post-id><primary_category>Advertising</primary_category><primary_category_link>https://business.time.com/category/companies-industries/advertising-companies-industries/</primary_category_link><featured_image>https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/11/failwhale.gif?w=240</featured_image><post_thumbnail><img   src="https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/11/failwhale.gif?w=360&amp;h=240&amp;crop=1" class="full-width" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /></post_thumbnail>	</item>
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		<title>Most Shocking Second a Day Ad Is Exactly That</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Victor Luckerson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 19:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 from Save the Children aims to remind people that the violence happening in Syria is very real. The commercial is modeled in the popular “one second per day” video format, in which people chronicle a year of their lives through quick one-second clips. It starts with a British girl celebrating her birthday with friends and family. She’s initially oblivious to reports of an escalating conflict that can be heard from TV screens in the background, but that conflict comes to affect her directly. The girl is forced to leave her home, dodges bombs on chaotic streets and eventually ends up at a refugee camp. The ad ends with the sentence, “Just because it isn’t happening here doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.” The spot is the latest in a series of ads from charities attempting to reframe the Syrian conflict in a Western context. The Norwegian nonprofit SOS Children’s Villages recently staged a candid-camera ad featuring a freezing boy at a bus stop. Passerby that encountered the boy generally offered him their coats and scarves, proving that people were willing to help a suffering child in need. The ad ends with a plea to send aid to Syrian children. The war in Syria has killed more than 11,000 children, according to the Oxford Research Group, and created more than 1.2 million child refugees, according to UNICEF.]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">101524</post-id><primary_category>Advertising</primary_category><primary_category_link>https://business.time.com/category/companies-industries/advertising-companies-industries/</primary_category_link><featured_image>https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/screen-shot-2014-03-05-at-2-27-38-pm1.png?w=240</featured_image><post_thumbnail><img   src="https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/screen-shot-2014-03-05-at-2-27-38-pm1.png?w=360&amp;h=240&amp;crop=1" class="full-width" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/screen-shot-2014-03-05-at-2-27-38-pm1.png?resize=100,66 100w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/screen-shot-2014-03-05-at-2-27-38-pm1.png?resize=150,100 150w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/screen-shot-2014-03-05-at-2-27-38-pm1.png?resize=200,133 200w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/screen-shot-2014-03-05-at-2-27-38-pm1.png?resize=250,167 250w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/screen-shot-2014-03-05-at-2-27-38-pm1.png?resize=360,240 360w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/screen-shot-2014-03-05-at-2-27-38-pm1.png?resize=480,320 480w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/screen-shot-2014-03-05-at-2-27-38-pm1.png?resize=600,400 600w" sizes="(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px" /></post_thumbnail>	</item>
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		<title>Travelers: It&#8217;s About Damn Time Airlines Toughened Up Baggage Policies</title>
		<link>https://business.time.com/2014/03/05/travelers-its-about-damn-time-airlines-toughened-up-baggage-policies/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Tuttle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 17:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 quickly spread about United Airlines&#8217; crackdown on passengers who attempt to bring oversized carry-ons onto planes. Airline staffers have begun zealously enforcing existing carry-on rules. They&#8217;re taking much closer looks at the bags being rolled and carried onto planes, and if a bag appears like it might exceed the official carry-on size limits&#8211;9 inches by 14 inches by 22 inches, including handles and wheels—it&#8217;ll be measured. If your bag is over the limit, you&#8217;ll be sent back to the ticket counter, where the bag must be checked and a $25 fee must be paid. As the Associated Press pointed out, &#8220;Some travelers suggest the crackdown is part of a larger attempt by United to collect more fees.&#8221; Surely, there&#8217;s some truth there. The root of the carry-on problem, after all, comes from the advent of airlines charging fees for checked bags. As soon as checked luggage fees became standard, passengers naturally started trying to circumvent the charge by traveling only with carry-ons—which, of course, have been stuffed to the brim and perhaps above the official size limit because these customers were skipping checked bags (and checked bag fees). So yeah, United&#8217;s crackdown is a direct way to stop customers from circumventing baggage fees. (MORE: Airport Confidential: Inside the Strange World of Airline Cancellations) United says the initiative isn&#8217;t at all a money grab, however. &#8220;The stepped-up enforcement is to address the customers who complained about having bags within the size limit and weren&#8217;t able to take them on the plane,&#8221; United spokesman Rahsaan Johnson said. &#8220;That is solely what this is about.&#8221; Cue legions of travelers rolling their eyes. The truth is that while consumers understand most baggage polices—United&#8217;s new enforcement initiative included—are about increasing revenues for airlines, something has changed in traveler attitudes over time. With the exception of a few carriers (JetBlue and Southwest, notably), checked baggage]]></description>
		
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		<title>Facebook To Restrict Gun Ads</title>
		<link>https://business.time.com/2014/03/05/facebook-to-restrict-gun-ads/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sam Frizell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 17:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;no background check required,&#8221; or to sell guns across state lines without a licensed firearms dealer. The company will delete posts from users selling illegal guns. The company also said that Instagram users who search for sales or promotions of firearms will receive &#8220;in-app education.&#8221; &#8220;We will not permit people to post offers to sell regulated items that indicate a willingness to evade or help others evade the law,&#8221; Monika Bickert, Facebook&#8217;s head of Global Policy Management, wrote in a blog post. &#8220;We believe these collective efforts represent the right approach in balancing people&#8217;s desire to express themselves while promoting a safe, responsible community.&#8221; Gun vendors use pages Facebook pages like &#8220;Guns For Sale&#8221; to distribute weapons through the social media network, a practice that gun control advocates have long protested. Facebook said it received advice from New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Moms Demand Action, Sandy Hook Promise, and other gun control groups in making changes to its advertising rues. &#8220;Responsible social media sites know that it is in no one&#8217;s interest for their sites to become the 21st century black market in dangerous and illegal goods that place our families and communities at risk,&#8221; Schneiderman said in a statement. &#8220;I congratulate Facebook and Instagram for taking these simple, common-sense steps to protect the safety and security of their users, and encourage other social media sites to follow their lead.”]]></description>
		
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		<title>3 Dead Simple Ways to Catch a Liar in the Act</title>
		<link>https://business.time.com/2014/03/05/3-dead-simple-ways-to-catch-a-liar-in-the-act/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Murphy Jr.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 17:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Careers & Workplace]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 people want to sell you something. One of them is lying. The first tells you calmly, &#8220;I promise you&#8217;re going to love this.&#8221; The second is much more animated. He exclaims: &#8220;You&#8217;re going to [bleeping] love this. It&#8217;s [bleeping] amazing, totally unbelievable, [bleeping] going to blow you away. Everybody loves it. You&#8217;re going to love it, too.&#8221; Which one is more likely to be telling the truth? According to researchers cited by Harvard Business School&#8217;s Working Knowledge, three verbal cues give bald-faced liars away. How did the researchers come to this conclusion? They saw what happened when they brought in 104 people to play something called &#8220;the ultimatum game.&#8221; The rules are simple: One person is given a secret sum of money. He&#8217;s introduced to a second person, and he has to propose to split what he has been given with that second person. The second player, who has no way of knowing for sure how much the first person has been given, can either accept the division as proposed or reject it. If the receiving player rejects the offer, he gets a token sum, but the offering player gets nothing. Thus, the person with the money has incentives to make his offer seem reasonable, and also possibly to bluff. As the report further explained: [E]ach game included two minutes of videotaped conversation in which the receiver could grill the allocator with questions, prior to deciding whether to accept or reject the offer. This provided ample opportunity for the allocator to tell the truth about the money, lie, or try to avoid the subject altogether. &#8220;We wanted to create a situation where people could choose to lie or not lie, and it would happen naturally,&#8221; says the study&#8217;s lead author, Lyn M. Van Swol, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Watching how the players interacted, Van Swol and her colleagues at the University of Wisconsin]]></description>
		
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		<title>Icahn: eBay Has the Worst Corporate Governance—Ever</title>
		<link>https://business.time.com/2014/03/05/carl-icahn-ebay/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Victor Luckerson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 16:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology & Media]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Activist investor Carl Icahn says eBay is the worst-run company he’s ever seen. The billionaire who regularly clashes with tech&#8217;s biggest CEOs told CNBC’s Squawk Box that eBay’s corporate governance leaves a lot to be desired. “Corporate governance, with exceptions, is completely dysfunctional,” he said in a phone interview on the show. “Our companies are so badly run, in many cases, that all you have to do is get in there, get involved with these boards, change a lot of things going on, and you have a much better company.” Icahn’s conflict with eBay centers around the video chat service Skype. eBay sold a controlling stake of Skype to an investor group that included venture capitalist Marc Andreessen for $1.9 billion in 2007. Andreessen proceeded to sell Skype to Microsoft for $8.5 billion 18 months later. In one of several open letters to eBay shareholders, Icahn accused Andreessen of a conflict of interest and eBay of general incompetence for initially selling Skype for such a low figure. Andreessen defended himself in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, saying that he regularly recuses himself from board conversations where he might have a personal stake in a public company buying or selling a startup. eBay chairman and founder Pierre Omidyar said in a statement that Andreessen wasn’t involved in the Skype sale. On the Fox Business News show Opening Bell, eBay CEO John Donahoe responded to Icahn&#8217;s rant directly. He said the company was on &#8220;solid ground&#8221; when it comes to to corporate governance. &#8220;We know this is sort of the antics that Carl uses and that&#8217;s fine,&#8221; Donahoe said. &#8220;Our focus is doing what we want and what shareholders, the other large shareholders, want us to do, which is stay focused on innovating and executing in the market.&#8221; Icahn will likely keep the pressure on eBay in the leadup to the company’s annual shareholders meeting in April. In addition to demanding more information about the Skype deal, Icahn is pushing for eBay to spin off its online payments service PayPal. Story]]></description>
		
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		<title>H&#038;R Block Is Calling All Hipsters to Do Their Taxes</title>
		<link>https://business.time.com/2014/03/05/hr-block-hipster-tax-crisis/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Victor Luckerson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 15:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Those darn hipsters, with their artisanal toothpicks and thick glasses and ironic tax returns. Believe it or not, H&#38;R Block is trying to attach that last trait to the hipster stereotype. The tax preparation company has declared a Hipster Tax Crisis and launched a satirical website to help young people figure out how to file their taxes in &#8220;non-ironic&#8221; ways. The campaign aims to raise awareness of the company among Millennials during tax season through a mix of humor, charitable giving and, of course, a substantial social media push. “Most Millennials have already done their taxes,” says Jerrod Laughlin, H&#38;R Block’s vice president for interactive marketing and media. “This campaign is not about necessarily trying to sell them or get them to do their taxes now. It’s about engaging with them around taxes and trying to make the subject matter a little bit more fun than the downer that it is.” The website, www.hipstertaxcrisis.com, offers a variety of ways for people to embrace their inner hipster. ESPN personality Kenny Mayne stars in a series of videos where he offers “hipster group therapy” to a bunch of twentysomethings played by the Upright Citizens Brigade comedy troupe. A series mock e-cards offer advice for filing a proper return, such as, “Tax professionals recommend against Instagramming your 1099 forms.” People can also “hipsterize” their pictures by adding thick beards, curly mustaches and other Millennial mainstays with an online photo editor. The marketing campaign will culminate with an April event dubbed “The Irony Games” in Seattle, which fill feature awards like Best in Skinny Jeans and Hipster of the Year. While H&#38;R Block has a separate television campaign right now aimed at a broad audience, the hipster marketing is online only. Executives say that’s the the best place to target Millennials. “The younger generation is every bit as savvy at doing their taxes,” says Kevin Cobb, senior marketing manager for social media. “They’re just a little bit harder to reach and to talk to about them at times.” H&#38;R Block is adding a charitable component]]></description>
		
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		<title>After Two Frigid Months for Auto Sales, Dealerships Are Desperate for Buyers</title>
		<link>https://business.time.com/2014/03/05/after-two-frigid-months-for-auto-sales-dealerships-are-desperate-for-buyers/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Tuttle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 14:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Autos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Companies & Industries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saving & Spending]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[auto sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[car dealership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[car sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chrysler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discounts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[haggling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[incentives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jeep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mother Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Negotiations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polar vortex]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[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. Understandably, the abnormally snowy, bitterly cold weather that&#8217;s descended on much of the country for the past two months has been bad for auto sales. Buyers, it seems, tend to wait until the weather is not miserable to visit dealerships, kick tires, and seal deals. Thus far in 2014 it&#8217;s been easy for consumers to push off the chore of car-shopping because who wants to browse a dealership&#8217;s lot when its 5 below and there are 8 inches of fresh snow on the ground? Record-setting cold resulted in a 3% decline in sales in January compared to the same month in 2013. Initial reports of strong sales tallies over Presidents Day weekend gave hope to the idea that automakers and car dealerships could bounce back with impressive sales for the whole month of February. With few exceptions, however, February followed in the footsteps of January as a bummer for those in the business of selling cars. General Motors, BMW, Ford, Honda, Hyundai, Toyota, Volvo, and Volkswagen all reported that sales were down for the month, compared to February 2014. In many cases, automakers blamed bad weather for subpar sales results. Here&#8217;s one example, cited by The Detroit Bureau: “I don’t like to make excuses, but the awful weather we saw across the country really hurt traffic to our dealerships and ultimately kept our sales at a pace well below what we were expecting,” said Bob Pradzinski, vice president of sales, Hyundai Motor America. “They say ‘If you want to see the sunshine you have to weather the storm,’ so we’re all looking forward to some sunshine in March.” (MORE: Geneva: Automakers Cast Wary Eye Toward Russia) Well, the sun has already been shining, so to speak, on one segment of the auto market: Small SUVs and AWD vehicles—designed and marketed to drivers who want help coping with]]></description>
		
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		<title>How Much of Your Success Is Due to Dumb Luck?</title>
		<link>https://business.time.com/2014/03/05/how-much-of-your-success-is-due-to-dumb-luck/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Drucker Exchange]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 14:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Management & Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Drucker Difference]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[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, Justin Bieber? In a report last week on NPR’s Morning Edition, Alix Spiegel raised the question of whether our collective aesthetic judgments are due more to chance than we think. She reported that a Princeton professor named Matthew Salganik has run an experiment addressing precisely this issue. The test went as follows: Some 30,000 teenagers recruited online were separated into nine groups and exposed to a collection of 48 songs from emerging recording artists. They could download the ones they liked best for free. The findings? If they could see a history of what their peers in their group had already picked, the teens often joined the crowd, giving certain songs momentum. But the songs that emerged as leaders differed from group to group. A song that came in first in one group came in 40th in another. “There were differences in the beginnings, and then the process of social influence and cumulative advantage sort of magnified those small, random initial differences,” Salganik told Spiegel. The takeaway, in Salganik’s view, goes beyond music: “I think that if you believe that there’s a large role for chance in the outcomes that people have and the kinds of success that people have and also the kinds of failures that people have, it changes how you treat other people,” he said. In other words, we ought to be a bit humbler about our success and recognize the role of luck. As far as Peter Drucker was concerned, he maintained that some works of art have inherent qualities that elevate them into the realm of the sublime—regardless of audience differences. For instance, in the case of Dante’s Divina Commedia, it is the “multiplicity of levels on which this book can be read, from being a fairy tale to being a grand synthesis of metaphysics, that makes it the overpowering work of art that it is,” Drucker wrote in a 1969 essay on communication. But not even the greatest art can]]></description>
		
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		<title>Climate Change Could Mean No Guac For You &#8212; At Least At Chipotle</title>
		<link>https://business.time.com/2014/03/04/chipotle-guacamole-climate-change/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Winograd]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 22:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Food and Beverage Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[avocado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chipotle]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 change on higher prices.  “In the event of cost increases with respect to one or more of our raw ingredients we may choose to temporarily suspend serving menu items, such as guacamole or one or more of our salsas, rather than paying the increased cost for the ingredients.” The company acknowledged such a move would be a massive disappointment to some of its customers. But, as ThinkProgress points out, considering the company uses about 97,000 pounds of avocados each day, it might not be able to stomach a price increase that could be brought on by global warming. Chipotle spokesman Chris Arnold said there&#8217;s no cause for guacamole lovers to be alarmed. &#8220;We use fresh ingredients, and things like weather or climate can impact upon supply of those ingredients,&#8221; Arnold said. &#8220;We are required to disclose issues that could present risks to our business —like supply constraints or higher food costs—and we are very thorough in making those disclosures. With regard to avocados, we saw similar issues in 2011 and incurred higher prices for the avocados we used, but never stopped serving guacamole. &#8220;This is nothing more than routine &#8216;risk factor&#8217; disclosure,&#8221; Arnold added. &#8220;The sky is not falling.&#8221; This year has been no stranger to the specter of food shortages. Ahead of the Super Bowl, Velveeta warned that the U.S. might face a shortage of its favorite gooey cheese, although the company did not cite global warming as a contributing factor.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Beef: It&#8217;s What&#8217;s No Longer Affordable for Dinner</title>
		<link>https://business.time.com/2014/03/04/beef-its-whats-no-longer-affordable-for-dinner/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Tuttle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 21:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Companies & Industries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food and Beverage Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saving & Spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smart Spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barbecue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beef]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beef Prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brisket]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cattle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[groceries]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 California and Texas are largely being blamed for the declining herd figures, so it&#8217;s not like the numbers should come as much of a surprise. Neither should rising beef prices hitting consumers and restaurants (and restaurant customers, of course). Analysts have forecast that beef prices will increase this year and for years to come. Other factors, including rising costs for fuel and feed and increased demand for beef in developing countries, have also helped push beef prices higher and higher. &#8220;Really, the story’s pretty simple, and it begins back in 2007, 2008,&#8221; Ricky Volpe, research economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said in a Marketplace interview recently. &#8220;In both those years, we saw basically every macroeconomic factor that influences food prices start working in the same direction to start driving up food price inflation.&#8221; Regardless of the fact that rising beef prices make sense and shouldn&#8217;t really come as a surprise, shoppers and restaurant owners are being smacked with sticker shock lately when attempting to round up brisket, steaks, chuck, ground beef, and pretty much every other part of the cow. In the most recent Department of Agriculture report, the average retail price of fresh beef was measured at $5.04 per pound, up more than 50¢ over a two-year span and the highest price ever recorded. (MORE: Reality Check: There Is No Chicken Wing Shortage, and Prices Haven&#8217;t Really Soared Either) What&#8217;s especially alarming to consumers is that beef prices have continued on their upward trajectory through the early part of the year, a period that is traditionally a lull in the market in between two peak-demand times, the winter holidays and summer barbecue season. &#8220;Beef really didn&#8217;t drop much since the holidays,&#8221; the owner of one Milwaukee meat market told the Journal Sentinel. &#8220;Even the (beef) dog bones, those have gone up quite]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Creator of ‘Scroogled’ Gets a New Job at Microsoft</title>
		<link>https://business.time.com/2014/03/04/the-creator-of-scroogled-gets-a-new-job-at-microsoft/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Victor Luckerson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 18:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has been waging one of the most aggressive campaigns against another tech company in recent memory with its divisive &#8220;Scroogled&#8221; commercials in the last two years. Now, the man behind the attack ads against Google is taking on a new role at Microsoft that may give him even more influence. Mark Penn, who formerly helmed Microsoft’s advertising department, will now be its first chief strategy officer. As with his former position, Penn’s new role will place him as a senior adviser to Microsoft’s new CEO, Satya Nadella. It&#8217;s not clear whether Penn&#8217;s new role is a promotion, demotion or a lateral move, since he&#8217;ll no longer have direct control over the company&#8217;s ad planning. But Nadella at least is giving it a positive spin. “His focus on using data to quickly evaluate and evolve our campaigns has driven new insights and understanding,” the CEO said in an email to employees announcing the new position. “I am looking forward to applying Mark’s unique skill set across a broader set of challenges facing the company, from new product ideas to helping shape the overall areas of strategic investment.” Microsoft certainly wasn’t the first tech company to directly call out a competitor in an ad campaign. In fact, the company is often the butt of the joke in such commercials, like Apple’s confrontational-but-cute “Mac vs. PC” series in the mid-2000s. But the ‘Scroogled’ ads gained extra notoriety for their alarmist tone. One about Gmail shows a Google employee’s prying eyes reading people’s personal emails about their jobs, health issues and children. Another enlists the reality show kings from Pawn Stars to deem a Google Chromebook essentially worthless. If these ads seem like they have a level of vitriol usually reserved for political battles, that’s for good reason—Penn is a former adviser to both Bill and Hillary Clinton. During Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, he devised the much-discussed 3 a.m. ad, which questioned Barack Obama’s ability to lead the United States through a crisis. The Hillary ad clearly didn’t work quite as well]]></description>
		
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		<title>Facebook Reportedly Wants to Buy a Drone Company</title>
		<link>https://business.time.com/2014/03/04/facebook-drones-titan-aerospace/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Victor Luckerson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 18:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 in talks to purchase Titan Aerospace, a manufacturer of solar-powered drones, according to TechCrunch. Titan’s drones, which they call “atmospheric satellites,” can be used as communications relays, delivering voice and data service for miles as they hover near Earth&#8217;s orbit. Facebook would presumably likely use the devices to provide Internet access in areas that are currently offline. The company has plans to start placing the drones in Africa and eventually build 11,000 of them, according to TechCrunch. The purchase would be the first significant development for Internet.org, an initiative launched by Facebook and several mobile tech companies to bring online access to the 5 billion people in the world who don’t currently have it. Titan’s drones could also nicely complement Facebook’s last big purchase, WhatsApp. The messaging service, which Facebook is paying $19 billion for, is already popular in developing markets and would likely get a big boost in more people in those countries had Internet access. Facebook is hardly the only tech giant experimenting with unmanned vehicles, though. Last summer Google launched Project Loon, a similar initiative that uses solar-powered balloons to provide Internet access in remote areas. And Amazon teased a much-hyped, if completely impractical, drone delivery service on 60 Minutes in December. Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Inflation? Hooey, but You Still Need Protection in Retirement</title>
		<link>https://business.time.com/2014/03/04/retirement-savings-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Kadlec]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 15:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[401(k) Savings]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 prices can have devastating impact on unprepared retirees. Consider that at just 2.5% inflation, prices would double (and your buying power would be cut in half) over a 28-year retirement. At 4%, prices would triple over that period and your buying power would fall by two-thirds. This is brutal math for any retiree in good health and living on a fixed income. Economists like Paul Krugman at the New York Times argue there is little to fear. He believes a wrongheaded inflation obsession, chiefly among policymakers, is holding back the economic recovery. Certainly, inflation has been tame; there hasn’t been an annual reading over 4% since 1991 and most readings have been below 3%. Last year came in at just 1.5%, sparking more worries about falling prices than about rising prices. But others argue that just as a generation of economists and bondholders accustomed to soaring inflation during the 1970s were caught off guard by 25 years of disinflation, today’s generation similarly will be caught off guard by a reversal—and the return of more rapidly rising prices. As the noted economist David Rosenberg at Gluskin Sheff recently wrote: “We have an entirely new crew of bond traders on the desks, the sons, daughters, nephews and nieces of the old guard, who have only known disinflation, deflation, lower (minuscule) bond yields and radical Fed easing cycles. That is all they have known for their entire professional lives. Their elders didn&#8217;t see the great deflation coming, and the offspring don&#8217;t see the remote prospect of a moderately higher inflation environment coming at any time on the forecasting horizon.” To be clear, almost no one is suggesting anything like the 1970s is in store for as far as the eye can see. But health care costs are rising a little faster, rents are going up, and labor may at last be]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">101299</post-id><primary_category>Retirement</primary_category><primary_category_link>https://business.time.com/category/retirement/</primary_category_link><featured_image>https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/11/a88167485.jpg?w=240</featured_image><post_thumbnail><img   src="https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/11/a88167485.jpg?w=360&amp;h=240&amp;crop=1" class="full-width" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/11/a88167485.jpg 600w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/11/a88167485.jpg?resize=240,160 240w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/11/a88167485.jpg?resize=360,240 360w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/11/a88167485.jpg?resize=100,66 100w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/11/a88167485.jpg?resize=150,100 150w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/11/a88167485.jpg?resize=200,133 200w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/11/a88167485.jpg?resize=198,132 198w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/11/a88167485.jpg?resize=248,165 248w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/11/a88167485.jpg?resize=297,198 297w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/11/a88167485.jpg?resize=347,231 347w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/11/a88167485.jpg?resize=396,264 396w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/11/a88167485.jpg?resize=446,297 446w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/11/a88167485.jpg?resize=495,330 495w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/11/a88167485.jpg?resize=545,363 545w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/11/a88167485.jpg?resize=594,396 594w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/11/a88167485.jpg?resize=250,167 250w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/11/a88167485.jpg?resize=480,320 480w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/11/a88167485.jpg?resize=165,110 165w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/11/a88167485.jpg?resize=460,307 460w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/11/a88167485.jpg?resize=260,173 260w" sizes="(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px" /></post_thumbnail>	</item>
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		<title>Markets Rebound as Putin Dials Down Heat in Ukraine</title>
		<link>https://business.time.com/2014/03/04/stock-market-wall-street-ukraine-putin/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Denver Nicks and David Winograd]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 15:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Wall Street & Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kiev]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 Average rose 228 points, or 1.41 percent, after sinking 250 points in intraday trading as investors became skittish over the standoff in Ukraine. The S&#38;P 500 climbed 28 points (1.53 percent) and the Nasdaq rose 75 points (1.75 percent), on the news of eased tensions. The rebound followed news that Russian President Vladimir Putin defended his decision Tuesday to send troops into Ukraine’s eastern Crimea region while insisting that military force would only be used when all other options had been exhausted. “As for bringing in forces: For not there is no such need but such a possibility exists,” he said. “What could serve as a reason to use military force? It would naturally be the last resort, absolutely the last.” This post was updated to include figures at market close.]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">101428</post-id><primary_category>Wall Street &amp; Markets</primary_category><primary_category_link>https://business.time.com/category/wall-street-markets/</primary_category_link><featured_image>https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/07/biz_putin_0703.jpg?w=240</featured_image><post_thumbnail><img   src="https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/07/biz_putin_0703.jpg?w=360&amp;h=240&amp;crop=1" class="full-width" alt="Russia&#039;s President Vladimir Putin attends the opening ceremony of the Russian Pilgrims&#039; House at the Jordanian side of the Jordan River, June 26, 2012." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/07/biz_putin_0703.jpg 600w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/07/biz_putin_0703.jpg?resize=240,160 240w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/07/biz_putin_0703.jpg?resize=360,240 360w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/07/biz_putin_0703.jpg?resize=100,66 100w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/07/biz_putin_0703.jpg?resize=150,100 150w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/07/biz_putin_0703.jpg?resize=200,133 200w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/07/biz_putin_0703.jpg?resize=198,132 198w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/07/biz_putin_0703.jpg?resize=248,165 248w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/07/biz_putin_0703.jpg?resize=297,198 297w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/07/biz_putin_0703.jpg?resize=347,231 347w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/07/biz_putin_0703.jpg?resize=396,264 396w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/07/biz_putin_0703.jpg?resize=446,297 446w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/07/biz_putin_0703.jpg?resize=495,330 495w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/07/biz_putin_0703.jpg?resize=545,363 545w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/07/biz_putin_0703.jpg?resize=594,396 594w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/07/biz_putin_0703.jpg?resize=250,167 250w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/07/biz_putin_0703.jpg?resize=480,320 480w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/07/biz_putin_0703.jpg?resize=165,110 165w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/07/biz_putin_0703.jpg?resize=460,307 460w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/07/biz_putin_0703.jpg?resize=260,173 260w" sizes="(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px" /></post_thumbnail>	</item>
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		<title>Olive Garden&#8217;s New Logo Probably Can&#8217;t Save Olive Garden</title>
		<link>https://business.time.com/2014/03/04/olive-gardens-new-logo-probably-cant-save-olive-garden/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Stampler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 15:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darden]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;brand Renaissance&#8221; with &#8220;flair and sophistication.&#8221; But with customer traffic down 13% in December and an expected sales drop of 5.4% for its third quarter, a new logo might not be enough to fix the ailing restaurant;s problems. Still Darden said out with the old: Darden And in with the new (that kind of looks like a font that would be found on a fourth grader&#8217;s social study report title page): AP Design firm Lippincott created the logo after &#8220;extensive testing.&#8221; Although the Twitterverse had mixed reactions: ilove it! &#8211; Olive Garden&#39;s New Logo and Nationwide Remodels Part of a &#39;Brand Renaissance&#39; http://t.co/leJBLO8aQb &#8212; Tim Meyers (@TimMeyers_MEK) March 4, 2014 that new olive garden logo look like it was drawn with a breadstick. &#8212; neil mccauley (@the_blueprint) March 3, 2014 Darden&#8217;s shares were down 5% the day of the announcement, which also touched on Olive Garden&#8217;s new menu and the restaurant chains imminent sale of Red Lobster.]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">101303</post-id><primary_category>Advertising</primary_category><primary_category_link>https://business.time.com/category/companies-industries/advertising-companies-industries/</primary_category_link><featured_image>https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/darden-outlook_stam.jpg?w=240</featured_image><post_thumbnail><img   src="https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/darden-outlook_stam.jpg?w=360&amp;h=240&amp;crop=1" class="full-width" alt="Darden Outlook" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/darden-outlook_stam.jpg?resize=100,66 100w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/darden-outlook_stam.jpg?resize=150,100 150w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/darden-outlook_stam.jpg?resize=200,133 200w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/darden-outlook_stam.jpg?resize=250,167 250w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/darden-outlook_stam.jpg?resize=360,240 360w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/darden-outlook_stam.jpg?resize=720,480 720w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/darden-outlook_stam.jpg?resize=480,320 480w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/darden-outlook_stam.jpg?resize=960,640 960w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/darden-outlook_stam.jpg?resize=600,400 600w" sizes="(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px" /></post_thumbnail>	</item>
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		<title>Uber Will Start Telling Customers When Rides Are Getting Cheaper</title>
		<link>https://business.time.com/2014/03/04/uber-will-start-telling-customers-when-rides-are-getting-cheaper/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Stampler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 13:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology & Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Android]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iOS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surge]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 people with surge pricing. Uber, which links users to town car drivers and shows drivers&#8217; locations in real time, scales its pricing based on demand for drivers—they busier it is, the more the customer will pay. During snow storms this winter, for example, Uber cars in New York City cost seven or eight times their normal price. Uber has adamantly defended surge pricing as a way to keep drivers on the road when conditions are bad. The new features will send users who opt in push notifications if surge prices drop at their location within 30 minutes. &#8220;Stick around or start saying your goodbyes; the choice is yours,&#8221; the company said. The new feature is already available on the iPhone app.]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">101404</post-id><primary_category>Technology &amp; Media</primary_category><primary_category_link>https://business.time.com/category/technology-media/</primary_category_link><featured_image>https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/uber-taxi.jpg?w=240</featured_image><post_thumbnail><img   src="https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/uber-taxi.jpg?w=360&amp;h=240&amp;crop=1" class="full-width" alt="Takeji &quot;Tak&quot; Shiohama, president of Uber Japan Co., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo, on March 3, 2014." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/uber-taxi.jpg?resize=100,66 100w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/uber-taxi.jpg?resize=150,100 150w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/uber-taxi.jpg?resize=200,133 200w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/uber-taxi.jpg?resize=250,167 250w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/uber-taxi.jpg?resize=360,240 360w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/uber-taxi.jpg?resize=720,480 720w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/uber-taxi.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/uber-taxi.jpg?resize=1500,1000 1500w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/uber-taxi.jpg?resize=480,320 480w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/uber-taxi.jpg?resize=960,640 960w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/uber-taxi.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/uber-taxi.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px" /></post_thumbnail>	</item>
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		<title>RadioShack to Close More Than 1,000 Stores</title>
		<link>https://business.time.com/2014/03/04/radioshack-to-close-more-than-1000-stores/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Denver Nicks]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 13:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013, which included the all-important holiday shopping season. The company blamed a decrease in foot traffic in the stores and sagging sales of mobile phones. The move will eliminate almost 20 percent of the company’s retail locations in the U.S. Shares in RadioShack plummeted more than 20 percent in pre-market trading on the news. RadioShack attempted to move beyond its retro image with a Super Bowl advertisement last month. http://youtu.be/oUwwZHdx6SU]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">101407</post-id><primary_category>Retail</primary_category><primary_category_link>https://business.time.com/category/companies-industries/retail-big-companies/</primary_category_link><featured_image>https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/476500743.jpg?w=240</featured_image><post_thumbnail><img   src="https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/476500743.jpg?w=360&amp;h=240&amp;crop=1" class="full-width" alt="A RadioShack Store Ahead Of Earnings Figures" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/476500743.jpg?resize=100,66 100w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/476500743.jpg?resize=150,100 150w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/476500743.jpg?resize=200,133 200w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/476500743.jpg?resize=250,167 250w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/476500743.jpg?resize=360,240 360w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/476500743.jpg?resize=720,480 720w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/476500743.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/476500743.jpg?resize=1500,1000 1500w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/476500743.jpg?resize=480,320 480w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/476500743.jpg?resize=960,640 960w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/476500743.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https://business.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/476500743.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px" /></post_thumbnail>	</item>
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		<title>Russia, the Ukraine, and the Markets: Broken BRICs</title>
		<link>https://business.time.com/2014/03/04/emerging-markets/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rana Foroohar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 13:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 over. Coming from someone who makes their money trading those markets, that’s quite a statement. But the last few days of market turmoil and today’s tanking of Russian stocks makes me think once again how right he is. Even before the crisis in the Ukraine, the Russian economy grew at only 1.5 percent last year, and it will be lucky to grow this year at even one percent, despite oil prices being over $100 a barrel. (Some 70 percent of Russia’s export revenues come from oil and gas.) That says a lot about how broken this particular petro state is. But it’s not the only emerging market in trouble. For the last couple of years, Russia, Brazil, South Africa and many other emerging markets have not only been growing more slowly, but they aren’t even doing as well as the U.S.  That is quite a reversal given that countries that are “emerging” are supposed to grow faster than those that have already arrived. A big part of the problem is that the underlying growth models of these nations are simply broken. As Sharma pointed out in an FT op-ed this week, when Vladimir Putin took power in Russia a decade ago, he was part of a “populist turned pragmatist” trio that included other emerging market leaders like Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brazil, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey. These guys were supposed to be reformers, and for a time, their economies seemed to prove that. Emerging market growth doubled to more than 8 percent by 2007. That era is over. The reformers have become strong men, many of their economies stalled, with capital moving out. Emerging markets will be lucky to grow half that rate this year, and countries including Turkey, Brazil, Thailand and even China are not only slowing sharply, but brewing up debt bubbles that]]></description>
		
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