YouTube Entering Paid Content Area
Could it soon be time to YouTube and chill? The world’s biggest online video platform will officially crack into the paid original content business next week when it premieres the first four titles produced for its new subscription service, YouTube Red, the company said last week. Included in the Feb. 10 launch: Dance Camp, a musical teen drama produced by digital network AwesomenessTV; Scare PewDiePie, a series that pairs YouTube...
Red Kite Candy Flying High
Bradford — The aroma rising from the bubbling copper kettle is the sweet smell of success. Elaine and Mike McCabe are whipping up another 40-pound batch of sea salt caramels in a mixing machine, scraping the sides of the kettle with a spatula as the agitator swirls 37 pounds of milk and cream, 15 pounds of organic brown rice syrup and more than three pounds of butter into a thickening mass. After two hours of cooking and evaporation...
Work Here: It’s Cool
When Jon Nicholas was looking for a job after college, his baseball pitching coach at Colby-Sawyer College — then a Red River Computer Co. employee — suggested he apply there. But in Nicholas’ 22-year-old eyes, the company, which provides information technology products and services mainly to the U.S government, had three strikes against it. Government? Boring. Sales? Bad connotations. The company also is “a middleman.” Yet during...
Costs Sink Family-Owned Ascutney Cafe
Ascutney — Life hasn’t been easy for the Savage family. A broken marriage of the parents, the loss of their home to foreclosure, repeated moves, the early death of one of the sons, have all challenged Bev Savage and her seven children. Where other families might despair and fall apart, however, the Savages pulled together, found hope, made friends and won loyal customers through their homemade pumpkin bread, bacon muffins with apple...
A Year Later, Red Lobster Says Its Independence Paying Dividends
Orlando, Fla. — When Red Lobster’s menu team flew to a seafood show in Boston this spring, fishermen were talking about big catches of sockeye salmon and bairdi crab coming from Alaska. This month, Red Lobster rolled out its Crabfest menu featuring salmon and crab, which company leaders say shows how far the Orlando-based seafood chain has come in the year since it was sold by Darden Restaurants. “In the past we just weren’t able to...
