Source: courtesy of McDonald'sSome people have objected to the fact that McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) will keep many of its locations open for Christmas. Apparently, this breaks with a...
Source: Courtesy Research in Motion Ltd.The penalty for being late — really late — to market is almost always more severe than a company wants to admit. Especially a company that had a firm grip...
In the ongoing battle of Bill Ackman versus Herbalife, it appears that Herbalife has struck a decisive blow.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shuttered more than 70 websites recently. Some were e-commerce operations. Others were set up to use filing sharing technology to transfer premium...
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will have too many retail stores at some point. It will face the “Starbucks problem” of over-building. Starbucks once boasted that it would eventually have 40,000 coffee shops...
The National Sleep Foundation has just released a research report that says:About one-fourth of train operators (26%) and pilots (23%) admit that sleepiness has affected their job performance at...
Economists have expected for some time that many Americans will need to delay their retirements and work well into their 70s. There are no longer sure sources of investment retirement funds because...
How many banks will fail in the US over the next year as the recession deepens? Answering that is like trying to guess whether a poker player will draw an ace on any given hand. Someone may have a...
Source: Amazon.com Inc.As usual, the public and investors have made a circus out of the release of a new Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) product. In this case, it is the iPad mini, which is supposed to...
From some of the comments folks write on social media sites, you might well believe that a lot of people care about whether or not a particular retailer is open on Thanksgiving Day. You would be...
Source: ThinkstockCalifornia’s water shortage might not be new, but the efforts to deal with such shortages have taken a new turn. The Governor of California, Edmund G. Brown Jr. — Jerry Brown to...
A recent survey about America’s financial literacy shows that people who don’t know the difference between a stock  and a bond realize that they need to save money.  The problem is many people...
Facebook parent Meta Platforms fired 13% of its staff last year. That was 11,000 people. The Wall Street Journal says this will happen again. How many can Meta fire before it cuts into its ability to...
Kroger (NYSE: KR), according to many people who follow the grocery business, faces an onslaught of competition, primarily from Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) which recently bought Whole Foods (NASDAQ: WFM)....