Business
WorkOutLoud is sold on customer collaboration
WorkOutLoud says it can help clients retain their relationships.
Business
Gadgets: New generation personal robot useful — but with limitations
A new generation of personal robots and devices is in the works. Among the more notable is Kuri, a robot developed by Redwood City, Calif., start-up Mayfield Robotics, which is controlled by Bosch.
Business
Kraft Heinz shares rise on spurned buyout offer for Unilever
Kraft Heinz shares rose 11 percent to $96.57 Friday after it confirmed that it made an offer to buy European consumer goods giant Unilever and had been rejected. Unilever's U.S.-listed shares jumped 14 percent, to $48.53 Friday.
Business
Diversity advocate: Boards 'not moving fast enough' to add women, minorities
Women and minorities are occupying more seats at corporate boardroom tables than they were four years ago and now hold 30.8 percent of board seats among 492 Fortune 500 companies studied by the Alliance for Board Diversity, a collaboration of four diversity organizations.
Business
Business bookshelf: A good bedside manner improves care, lowers costs
If you have switched physicians in search of someone more caring or left an exam feeling unseen and unheard, you will find much to appreciate in Danielle Ofri's perceptive book.
West Metro
Legionnaires' outbreak in Hopkins fuels effort to regulate cooling towers
Legionnaires' disease was linked to a tower, but it took an agency two weeks to find the specific one.
Business
U study finds companies inclined to wait too long to recall medical devices
The FDA requires "postmarket" surveillance for medical devices. But researchers and regulators say the system is deeply flawed, exposing patients and doctors to greater risks.
Minneapolis
Capitol fight over workplace rules raises prospect of local right-to-work laws
Republicans say progressive cities setting wage, sick-leave laws has patchwork effect.
Business
Apartment construction hits Twin Cities peak since the 1980s
Nearly all of it will be in upscale buildings in the suburbs, where there's been little new apartment construction since the 1980s. Only 1 in 10 will be for low-income renters.
Minneapolis
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak speaks at Augsburg
He spoke as part of Augsburg College's Scholarship Weekend.
Business
Soon, schoolkids will be able to gobble up better turkey in their lunches
Districts work with food companies to raise quality while maintaining affordability
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BuzzFeed will try to mix points of view with new feature
"Outside Your Bubble" will appear on shared articles.
Business
Schafer: Manufacturing job losses, yes, but gains for trained Minnesota workers
Here's one of the ironies in looking ahead at how the nature of work is going to change — manufacturing may actually be a bright spot.
Business
Kay Frandsen's consignment furniture store expands while others close
Selling furniture on consignment has been hit and miss for local retailers. Several have closed in the Twin Cities, but Wabi Sabi Shop is expanding.
Business
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