Retail giant Wal-Mart announced its healthy food campaign, which will offer food items with less salt and sugar contents, and at lower prices. As part of the campaign, Wal-Mart said it will open an outlet in the District of Columbia that will offer thousands of packaged healthy food items at lower cost, establish more stores…
The tight job market has a growing number of people looking to become their own boss. In a September 2010 Citibank small business survey, 81 percent of small business owners still like or love what they do, and 75 percent said they would start their businesses again, even knowing about the challenges they would face.…
Britney Spears is set to release the highly-anticipated first single from her upcoming seventh studio album and it’ll be available on iTunes exclusively for a week. “Hold It Against Me,” produced by long-time collaborators Max Martin and Dr. Luke, will hit the iTunes store first on Tuesday, January 11th at 12am EST. Other MP3 retailers…
Macy’s on Tuesday announced it will strengthen its e-commerce business with the addition of 725 employees nationwide. The department store chain needs to increase support for its macys.com and bloomingdales.com websites to ensure continued growth. It reported a 29 percent increase in total online sales for the first 10 months of 2010. Merchandising and marketing…
With the holiday season upon us, your home is set to be fun central for the next few months. But, with merriment comes messes. Whether you’ve got family, friends or co-workers visiting, your holiday festivities are sure to involve cookie crumbs, spilled glitter and scattered tinsel along with tracked in snow and slush (in some…
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, is Time magazine’s 2010 “Person of the Year” for bringing millions of people to his social networking site. In choosing Zuckerberg over beleaguered WikiLeaks founder Mark Assange, Time said the 26-year-old billionaire had the most influence on events in 2010. With half of Americans having a Facebook account and…
Boeing has cancelled test flights of its 787 Dreamliner after one of the aircraft had to make an emergency landing in south Texas, a company spokesman said Wednesday. The company said it will not schedule any more test flights until they understand what went wrong. Boeing did not specify how many test flights were scheduled.…
Thousands of passengers on a damaged Carnival cruise ship being towed to Mexico have received supplies from a Navy aircraft carrier, including the military staple Spam. The Navy began delivering 35 pallets of supplies Tuesday to passengers from the USS Ronald Reagan, which suspended its training missions to escort the cruise ship towards shore. Tug…
U.S. third quarter home values fell for the 17th consecutive quarter. Home values are now on average 25 percent below their June 2006 peak. Rising from 22.5 percent in the second quarter, 23.2 percent of single-family homeowners with mortgages were underwater on their mortgage in the third quarter. In some markets, as many as four…
Five unemployed people are competing for every job opening in the country, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. At the beginning of the recession in December 2007, there were less than two people vying for each vacancy. With more candidates going head-to-head for jobs, organizations can be very selective in finding the ideal employee…