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After a year of rapid-fire expansion, Space150 keeps reaching for the digital leading edge in advertising.
China has begun to take intellectual property rights seriously—and create a significant portfolio of its own.
The specialized world of intellectual property insurance.
Effective employee orientation, or “onboarding,” reduces early-stage turnover and boosts day-one productivity.
3M Company has sued United Kingdom-based private equity firm Porton Capital and its CEO Harvey Boulter over claims that they tried to extort $30 million from 3M to settle a pending lawsuit.
Seven Minnesota companies and one New York company have been chosen to take part in Project Skyway's inaugural program, which starts later this summer.
Best Buy's online platform, which reportedly has been available in the United Kingdom for about a year, is launching in the United States under the name Music Cloud.
The retail giant has agreed to change its personnel policies and procedures, pay the plaintiffs $200,000, and cover attorney costs and fees of up to about $10 million to settle a discrimination lawsuit that was filed in 2005.
Independent, for-profit businesses along the Central Corridor light-rail line that have less than $2 million in annual sales and a focus on retail services are eligible to apply for up to $20,000 in interest-free, forgivable loans.
Of the 20 semifinalists chosen from the Cleantech Open's 10-state North-Central region, five are based in Minnesota.
The St. Paul-based car-sharing program will receive a $20,000 award and compete against five other yet-to-be-named division winners for a $25,000 grand prize.
Federal prosecutors have accused Roger Bill Hanks-about whom very little information is available-of collecting $600,000 in kickbacks in connection with a $20 million mortgage fraud scheme that involved 57 Minnesota properties.
Ryan Daryl Krutzig of Maple Grove and Jesse Scott Hoffman of St. Cloud allegedly obtained mortgage loan proceeds through fraudulent means and concealed payments made to themselves.
Workers at Target Corporation's Valley Stream, New York, store voted Friday and reportedly decided not to join the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.
Roughly one week after Christopher Pettengill was charged for his alleged role in a fraudulent foreign currency program, he pleaded guilty to the crime.