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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.
Effective employee orientation, or “onboarding,” reduces early-stage turnover and boosts day-one productivity.
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.
General Mills and Best Buy also made Advertising Age's list of the "100 Leading National Advertisers," ranking 35th and 56th, respectively; Target ranked 18th.
The University of Minnesota's Board of Regents approved a provisional budget that would take effect if the funding levels outlined in the higher education finance bill that was vetoed by Governor Dayton were enacted-a circumstance described by the school as the "worst-case scenario."
U.S. venture capital investments in water treatment technologies—still a small segment of VC overall—doubled
After operating under the radar, sports gear maker Shock Doctor is ready to do some shouting.
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