Some job sectors holding back painfully slow recovery
By Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — In order to fix the sluggish job market, it’s important to first understand the nature of the problem. The high unemployment…
Devices map driving habits, can cut insurance premiums
By Becky Yerak, Chicago Tribune - CHICAGO — Audiovox Electronics Corp.’s new consumer product, Car Connection, claims it can tell parents, through online reports, when their teen has driven beyond…
On dot-xxx, company sells “clean space for dirty content”
By Jeff Ostrowski, Palm Beach Post - PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Stuart Lawley has made millions in his short stint as an Internet porn impresario, but the mild-mannered Brit…
Web Winners: Delaying retirement
By Reid Kanaley, The Philadelphia Inquirer - Everybody should plan for retirement, but if you are working, there are good reasons not to actually retire if your health allows —…
Digital data mining spurs efforts to curb use without permission
By Aisha Sultan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch - ST. LOUIS — Robert Cole helped a friend learn about his diabetes. Cole, of Ferguson, Mo., searched online, printed out some articles from…
Banks fail to repel cyber threat
By E. Scott Reckard, Andrew Tangel and Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times - LOS ANGELES — A shadowy but well-organized hacker group in the Middle East has disrupted the electronic banking…
Enterprise joins other rental car firms in promise to fix cars
By Rick Montgomery, The Kansas City Star - KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Car rental giant Enterprise Holdings has joined the rest of its industry in backing federal legislation to prohibit…
Click your way to a home repair
By Pete Carey, San Jose Mercury News - Furnace dead? Plumbing sprung a leak somewhere? Many homeowners know the dread of a repair they can’t fix, with nowhere to turn.…
CFTC Orders JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. to Pay $600,000 Civil Monetary Penalty for Violating Cotton Futures Speculative Position Limits
Washington, DC – The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. (JPMCB) agreed to pay a $600,000 civil monetary penalty to settle CFTC…
Risking trade war, US sides with Florida tomato growers in dispute with Mexico
By Rob Hotakainen, McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Rejecting warnings that it could ignite a trade war, the Obama administration on Thursday said it planned to change its tomato-trading rules…
Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Sign Memorandum of Understanding with Indian Competition Authorities
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) signed an antitrust memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Government of India Ministry of Corporate Affairs and the…
Estate-tax change would affect 12.3 million households, research finds
By Matthew Sturdevant, The Hartford Courant - HARTFORD, Conn. — An additional 12.3 million households in the U.S. would have a potential tax liability if the Bush-era estate tax rates expire…
Growing passenger fee revenue helps boost airline profits
By Hugo Martin, Los Angeles Times - LOS ANGELES — Profits for the nation’s largest airlines are on the rise thanks to lower fuel prices, steady demand and growing revenue…
Your Office Coach: Don’t rebel against performance warning
By Marie G. McIntyre, McClatchy-Tribune News Service - QUESTION: My manager recently gave me a performance warning for coming to work late. She has started monitoring me very closely, which makes…
Nuclear industry slowed by its own waste
By Kristi Swartz, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - ATLANTA — Just as the nuclear industry is starting to build reactors after a 30-year drought, it faces another dry spell. The industry…
Thousands of American Airlines workers opt for buyouts
By Andrea Ahles, Fort Worth Star-Telegram - FORT WORTH, Texas — Thousands of American Airlines workers have decided it’s time to hang up the tool belt and stop loading bags on…
Staples to close stores, cut costs, boost online presence
By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times - LOS ANGELES — Staples Inc. is speeding up store closures, shaking up management and boosting its online business as the office-supply chain implements a…
Home price index reaches highest level in almost 2 years
By Jim Puzzanghera and Alejandro Lazo, Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Home prices in the nation’s biggest cities have risen to their highest level in nearly two years, according to…
Consumer confidence up this month, Conference Board reports
By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Consumer confidence has risen this month as people said they are more optimistic about their situation and the short-term direction of the…
Struggling RIM aims for leading role in mobile industry
By Troy Wolverton, San Jose Mercury News - SAN JOSE, Calif. — Research In Motion Ltd. has been struggling lately, but the company’s new BlackBerry software gives it the chance to…
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