The Euro Rises On Spanish Rescue, Stocks Next

Question: We operate our business as an LLC and want to make sure we're doing everything we can to take advantage of any tax saving opportunities for next year. What should we be doing now? Answer: June is a great time for mid-year tax planning.

Endorse, a mobile coupon service that gave shoppers discounts on certain purchases when they uploaded a photo of their receipt to an app, is shutting down, company founder and CEO Steven Carpenter wrote in a blog post. Endorse’s pitch to brands was that it was collecting opt-in purchase data from customers that could be used to target deals and gain competitive knowledge about other products they purchase.

Ideas can be the easy part of innovation.  If innovators define challenges rigorously, they face a reasonably straightforward task in creating exciting concepts.  Walls can get covered with provocative stickies, and a handful of winning notions may be simple to spot.  Time to high-five!

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Investors may be in for a Bernanke hangover Thursday. U. S. stock futures were weaker and world stock markets were deeply in the red.