Consumer Goods Industries

Payvia buys mobile marketing firm Mogreet

2013-05-21 00:00:00

Mobile payments company Payvia Inc. has acquired Mogreet, a Venice mobile marketing start-up. The companies declined to disclose the financial terms of the deal. The Mogreet team will join Los Angeles company Payvia, and Mogreet founder and Chief...

Mobile payments company Payvia buys L.A. marketing firm Mogreet

2013-05-20 15:29:00

Mobile payments company Payvia announced Monday that it had acquired Mogreet, a Venice mobile marketing start-up. Payvia, based in L.A., said the deal would create a simplified all-in-one platform that enables companies to target consumers and provide...

Going gluten-free more common, but not necessarily easier

2013-05-18 00:00:00

For more than 20 years, Kristine Kidd tasted what came her way as the food editor at Bon Appetit magazine. But she never felt great. "I had digestive issues my whole life," she says, but 21/2 years ago, the aching joints, bloating, fatigue and digestive...

Bangladesh and its workers

2013-05-17 00:00:00

Another tragedy at a Bangladesh clothing factory, another announcement by Wal-Mart about additional steps it will take to beef up worker safety, this time by inspecting all of its suppliers' facilities itself. Not that the retailing giant hasn't made real...

J.J. Abrams on ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’: ‘Spectacle is irrelevant’

2013-05-17 08:02:16

Smart TV: The industry push to keep getting smarter

2013-05-17 08:00:00

For decades we've been watching TV. Now a new generation of televisions is beginning to watch us. Technological advances are giving the old clunky "boob tube" an I.Q. injection. Some of the new breed of smart TVs comes equipped with facial recognition...

Workout clothes that work outside the gym too

2013-05-19 00:00:00

Tracy Anderson Given all the buzz last month around the opening of fitness guru Tracy Anderson's flagship super-studio in Brentwood — a partnership with Gwyneth Paltrow, who is Exhibit A for Anderson's handiwork — it comes as no surprise...

Razor-sharp ad ideas

2013-05-17 19:20:00

This story starts at a point in time that most observers predicted it would end. The year was 2002. The Internet party was long over. Pets.com and other high-flying digital darlings were defunct. It was the dark days for the few survivors of the dot-com...

Bangladesh to end search for building collapse victims

2013-05-13 04:57:00

Bangladesh's military is ending its search for bodies in the wreckage of an eight-story garment factory building that collapsed last month because no more victims are expected to be found, officials said Monday. Also Monday, the government agreed to...

In Bangladesh, search for bodies from factory collapse ends

2013-05-13 11:44:00

NEW DELHI, India — The Bangladesh army announced Monday it would end its search for bodies in the rubble of a garment factory complex that collapsed nearly three weeks ago in a suburb of the capital, Dhaka. Saying they believe they have found...

Bangladesh survivor of building collapse rescued

2013-05-10 16:20:00

NEW DELHI — In a development described as miraculous, a woman trapped in rubble for 17 days emerged alive Friday from the remains of a building that pancaked just outside Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Speaking from her hospital bed, the...

Lawmakers test Brown's no-tax resolve with calls to hike levies

2013-05-15 16:45:00

SACRAMENTO — Releasing his latest budget plan this week, Gov. Jerry Brown repeated his assurance that the tax hikes voters agreed to last fall were enough, that he won't ask them to dig deeper into their pockets any time soon. "We just got a...

Sequestration could shut down a large portion of the U.S. meat industry for two weeks, the White House warns.

2013-02-15 10:51:49

A hamburger made from ground beef containing what is derisively referred to as "pink slime," or what the meat industry calls "lean, finely textured beef."

2012-12-12 13:04:00

Donald E. Bingham has joined KL Gates LLP as a partner in the firm's finance practice. Bingham joins KL Gates from Sidley Austin LLP. He focuses his practice in the areas of commercial lending, intellectual property finance, capital markets, and structured finance transactions.

2012-10-09 12:30:00