In a Confidentiality Agreement, also known as a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA), two parties agree in writing to keep certain information confidential between them. While it is advisable for small business owners to secure the services of an employment or intellectual property attorney, non-lawyers with business experience can draft said contracts independently if they keep [...]

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Disney is looking to aquire the comic book powerhouse Marvel Entertainment in an attempt to strengthen its appeal to the young male audience.
Marvel’s CEO Ike Perlmutter is planning to work directly with Disney to build and integrate Marvel’s properties into the powerhouse.
“The Walt Disney Co. today announced that it had agreed to acquire comic-book giant [...]

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In Detroit, a city without a major supermarket, food has long been an issue. The demand for food has now reached an all time high and Detroits middle class is now feeling the pressure that has previously only affected the city’s poorest families.
“Families are forced to buy food from corner stores with less healthy and [...]

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TechRadium, based out of Sugar Land, Texas, filed a patent infringement complaint this Tuesday against Twitter, Inc., the company that owns the insanely popular micro-blogging/social networking site that  allows users to relay short bursts of information, aka “Tweets”, in 140 characters or less.
“In its complaint against Twitter, TechRadium alleges Twitter infringes upon those patents by [...]

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The Securities Exchange Commission decided that Bank of America is going to have to pay $33 million for failing to alert shareholders about bonus payments made to Merrill Lynch.
The SEC filed charges against BofA this morning for misleading its’ investors about paying billions of dollars in bonuses to top executives at Merrill Lynch, the brokerage [...]

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Microsoft and Yahoo have ended years of back and forth negotiations and  reached a deal for an Internet search engine partnership.
The agreement gives Microsoft access to the Internets second-largest search engine audience, adding a powerful tool to use in its online campaign to de-throne the kings of the search, Google.
“Yahoo is teaming with Microsoft following [...]

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I posted about existing home sales rising for the past three months on Friday, well now, we have more good news from the real estate sector…
New home sales rose by 11 percent in June, which is the largest amount of growth in nearly nine years. Experts are hoping these signs show that a near-dead housing [...]

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The retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has agreed to pay up to $35 Million to settle a class action lawsuit over its’ employees lunch and rest breaks.
The lawsuit was brought on behalf of 88,000 workers in Washington state stores who were forced to skip lunch and rest breaks and forced to work off the clock.
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In a upward swing, existing home sales have rose for the third straight month according to the the National Association of Realtors.
“Existing home sales rose by 3.6% in June, slightly more than expectations, with the inventory of unsold homes dropping considerably.
“According to the industry group, the number of homes sold in June [...]

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Legal document provider RealDealDocs.com released a free contract clause library to the general public today.

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