Toys "R" Us Inc., which somehow managed to sustain a crushing debt load for more than a decade after its 2005 buyout, finally succumbed last week to a "dangerous game of dominoes" that toppled the retailer in a matter of days.
Amazon.com Inc.'s splashy takeover of Whole Foods, complete with deep price cuts, did more than bring a surge of publicity to the chain: It boosted customer traffic by 25 percent.
Just before Stefan Seltz-Axmacher offers a job to an engineer at Starsky Robotics Inc., a driverless trucking startup in San Francisco, he gives them the talk.
Duette, Fla., a tiny farm town about 50 miles east of St. Petersburg, averages about 52 inches of annual rainfall. This year it's ahead of schedule, with 63 inches since June, when the rainy season began. For Gary Reeder and other tomato farmers, that's slowed down everything and threatened their ability to bring the harvest in on time.
Grid operators and traders thought they were totally prepped for the historic U.S. solar eclipse. There was just this one thing they didn't completely factor in: "irregular human-behavior patterns."
Entire industries, from textiles to toys, have become almost extinct in the U.S. as manufacturers moved abroad in search of lower costs or got swept away by a wave of imports.
