Ten States Where People Can’t Afford Food
ThinkstockThere are several states in which more than 20% of the population cannot always afford to feed themselves. Most of these also have among the highest poverty rates. A large number of the states…
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Why AT&T Rejects Netflix’s Video Streaming Plan
courtesy of NetflixNetflix Inc.’s (NASDAQ: NFLX) video streaming service consumes a huge amount of broadband. No wonder. Video data takes up more network capacity than text or voice. And Netflix has more than 20…
Walmart Offers Data on What Competitors Charge
courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Walmart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) must believe that it actually is the dominant force in everyday low prices. It means to prove that point by offering customers the prices that…
Car Companies Offer Aggressive March Discounts
courtesy of Fiat SpACar companies continue to have high levels of vehicles in inventory, particularly at their dealer locations. This, as well as worry that the economic recovery may have lost steam, have led…
Ten American Cities With the Highest Unemployment
squirrel83, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its data on unemployment by city for January. In general, the news was very good. Jobless rates were lower in 367 of the 372…
Ten Huge Companies Dodged State Taxes for Five Years
States, often burdened by budget deficits that grew during the recession, are not getting tax receipts from some of America's largest companies. Among them are Boeing and Merck, which did not pay taxes for…
LinkedIn Chief Is Highest Rated CEO
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner received the top grade in Glassdoor's new "Highest Rated CEOs 2014." The rating is based on employee answers to the question, "Do you approve of the way your CEO is…
Fitch Keeps U.S. Rating at AAA
ThinkstockFitch Ratings kept its AAA rating on U.S. debt and said the outlook for that rating is stable. The announcement stood in contrast to the change in its rating for Russia, which its reported…
Houston Tops Cities in Job Creation
ThinkstockHouston topped the 50 largest American cities in terms of job creation over the two years that ended December 31, 2013. The San Diego metropolitan statistical area (MSA) finished last. According to a new Gallup…
Unemployment Among Gulf War-Era II Veterans Drops to 9%
ThinkstockIn a headline that hardly sounds like good news, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced today that the unemployment rate for veterans who served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces at any…
States Where the Most People May Be Due Tax Refunds
ThinkstockSeveral hundred thousand Americans might do well to contact the IRS. The agency claims that nearly one million people who did not file tax returns in 2010 could be due money. All these people…
Time for Xerox Board to Fire CEO Burns
Xerox has not grown for several years. Xerox management, particularly long-serving CEO Ursula Burns, has run out of cost-cutting tricks. Very few who follow the company closely believe it can grow going forward.
Starbucks Targets $100 Billion Market Value
Howard Schultz, the ambitious founder and CEO of Starbucks, believes the coffee company can have a market value of $100 billion, about twice its current level. The goal is ambitious, but Schultz has good…
Most GM Recall Trouble Began Under Former CEO Wagoner
courtesy of General MotorsSomeone is always to blame when there is a big blunder, a huge mistake in business, or in politics or the military. The rule for blame is that, if it happened…
Will Ford Sell Cars for Tesla?
courtesy of Tesla MotorsTesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) will need to adopt some kind of a local dealership network in the United States if it is going to sell more than tens of thousands…
The 15 Highest-Paying Companies in America
ThinkstockMedian income for Americans was $34,750 in 2012. At some companies, however, the median is more than five times the national number. Based on figures provided by Glassdoor, 24/7 Wall St. examined the highest-paying…
GM Sales in Europe Jump Higher
After years of trouble in Europe, General Motors has finally gotten some relief as sales of its cars and light truck rose in the region during February. It is better than the reverses GM…
Manufacturers Have Recalled Almost 4 Million Cars in the Past Month!
General Motors announced new recalls of 1.5 million cars on Monday, including SUVs, vans and Cadillacs, for defective airbags, brake parts and other problems.That was dded to the 1.6 million small cars that GM…
Walmart Takes Video Game Trade-Ins
As the age of video games ages, so do the number of discarded and unused video games, probably. Walmart, the world's largest retailer, means to take advantage of that via a video game trade-in…
Ten States With the Lowest Unemployment
ThinkstockThe U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released data Monday on the unemployment rates in the 50 states and District of Columbia. The numbers changed very little in January, the period for the current…