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Axcient, which hopes to simplify data recovery for small businesses, has closed a $15.5 million funding round. Axcient, which is attempting to simplify data backup and disaster recovery for small businesses, announced it has closed a $15.5 round of Series C funding. The five-year-old start-up's aim is to make life easier for small businesses by being one-stop shopping for storage, backup and disaster-recovery as opposed to your needing to cobble together a solution from multiple providers

An Iowa convenience store employee took no-longer-saleable soup from the dumpster to feed to her dog--and was fired. The Iowa Court of Appeals upheld a decision to deny unemployment benefits to a convenience store employee who was fired for taking soup from the dumpster. The company, an Iowa-based chain of franchises called Casey's General Stores, has a policy that employees cannot remove any company property from the stores without paying for it—including out-of-date, no-longer-saleable items such as doughnuts and soup