CUPERTINO, California - This spring Apple will introduce a woman onto its executive team. Indiana native Angela Ahrendts will join the tech company as Head of Retail and E-Commerce. Since 2006 Ahrendts has been the CEO of British Luxury Fashion Brand, Burberry, where reinvented the 150-year old brand and tripled revenues.

Alice Munro is the 13th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature since its inception in 1901 and the first fully Canadian to do so as well. Munro, 82, has been chosen for her mastery of the short story. The Swedish Academy has awarded her 8 million Swedish kroner (aprox. $1.2million) for this honor.

Update – Yellen Confirmed! On February 1st , 2014 Janet L. Yellen will take office, becoming the first woman to head the Federal Reserve. Her nomination was confirmed with a 56 to 26 vote in her favor. Yellen will be in charge of efforts to ensure the recovery of the US economy and despite the continuity expected from her alignment with Bernanke, she is expected to usher in a change in bank policy. original article published October 10th, 2013 Washington, D.C, - President Obama to announce his official nomination of Dr. Janet Yellen as the Chair of the Federal Reserve, Wednesday, October 9, 2013 at 3pm from the East Room of the White House. The Brooklyn, NY native would become the first Democrat to run the Fed since 1987 as well as the first woman in history to chair the Federal Reserve . Since 2010, Yellen, 67, has held the position of Vice-Chair of the Fed, and if confirmed would replace Ben Bernake. Prior to joining the Fed, Yellen was the CEO of Federal Reserve Bank of San Francis...

How can the government shutdown?! What is a furlough? Since the federal government entered a shutdown Tuesday, October 1st, 800,000 federal employees have been on unpaid leave, government offices closed and drug trials stopped. How does this affect you?

"We had to learn how to think like a big company without losing the essence of what's great about our small company." - Dana Knowles, co-founder of Taste of America