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Yum! Brands Inc (NYSE:YUM) is making headlines for announcing that Kentucky Fried Chicken will soon be based in Texas. While the company has Kentucky in its name, its not the first brand to be headquartered in a different state. What Happened: Kentucky Fried Chicken, which was founded by Harland...

Retro tech is back, if it paradoxically ever went away. For example: Sales of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s iPod shot up 929 percent on Australia’s eBay Inc (NASDAQ: EBAY) in the week after the opening there of the movie “Baby Driver,” which featured the MP3 player prominently....

KFC is officially in the tech industry, sort of. The Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) subsidiary’s Chinese segment has partnered with Huawei, the world’s third-largest smartphone maker, to produce a KFC-branded phone. KFC operates in China under Yum China Holdings Inc (NYSE: YUMC), which...