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Why does soda come in liters and milk in gallons?

by Annie Baxter
Oct 10, 2017
Pepsi's 2-liter bottle brought more soda into households while the nation flirted with the metric system.
Pepsi worked with DuPont to come up with a bottle that was 10 times bigger than the classic 6.5-ounce Coke.
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Rethinking tech funding could help solve the industry's problems

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Oct 10, 2017
Venture capitalist Tim O'Reilly says his very industry needs to do better.
Employees of startup companies work at the offices of a business incubator in Washington, D.C.
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Activist investor aims for a seat on P&G board

by Marielle Segarra
Oct 10, 2017
On Monday, General Electric gave a board seat to Ed Garden, co-founder of the $12.7 billion hedge fund Trian Partners. And this morning, when Procter & Gamble holds its yearly shareholder meeting, all eyes will be on another Trian partner, activist investor Nelson Peltz. Trian owns a 1.5 percent stake in the struggling Cincinnati-based consumer […]
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Let's do the numbers: Halloween edition

by Mark Salay
Oct 9, 2017
Halloween spending is expected to hit a record $9.1 billion this year.
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Amazon encroaches on UPS and Fedex territory with deliveries for third party sellers

by Aaron Schrank
Oct 6, 2017
Amazon announced this week a new service on the West Coast which could encroach on territory currently held by the likes of UPS and Fedex. The online retail giant said it’s going to be overseeing deliveries for third party sellers. It will still use UPS and Fedex, but it might also choose to use its […]
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Could Puerto Rico’s devastated power grid be rebuilt using solar energy instead?

by Adriene Hill
Oct 6, 2017
It’s been weeks now since Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, and still a vast majority of the island, nearly 90 percent, doesn’t have power. Elon Musk, on Twitter, suggested his solar power technology could be scaled up to rebuild the entire power grid, and the governor of the island, Ricardo Rossello, tweeted back “Let’s talk.”  […]
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Can any person (or robot) put an end to fake news?

by Amy Scott and Kristin Schwab
Oct 6, 2017
It's probably going to take more than algorithms.
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Diet soda sales fizzle as health-conscious consumers turn to other drinks

by Aaron Schrank
Oct 5, 2017
Today we want beverages with “ingredients you can pronounce.”
By the end of 1983, Diet Coke was the top diet drink in the country.
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The largest data breach in history was bigger than we thought

by Amy Scott and Kristin Schwab
Oct 5, 2017
All Yahoo accounts created before 2013 have been hacked.
The Yahoo logo is displayed in front of the Yahoo headquarters on July 2012 in Sunnyvale, California.
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How the world's largest hotel company adapts to a changing economy

by Kai Ryssdal and Robert Garrova
Oct 4, 2017
A conversation with Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson.
“We don't ever want to be the cheapest provider of lodging services,” says Arne Sorenson, president and CEO of Marriott International.
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