Category: Business

Gretchen Schlosser, West Central Tribune, Willmar, Minn. – The plentiful rainfall in May and June built up the subsoil moisture profile and that has carried the crop so far into the growing…

By Brandon Bailey, San Jose Mercury News – SAN JOSE, Calif. — Facebook and Yahoo said Friday they have agreed to an expanded advertising partnership while settling a controversial patent lawsuit initiated…

By Laura Hautala, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The heart of Best Buy’s customer service model took a blow Friday when the company said it was laying off 600 of…

By Salvador Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — As many as 64,000 Americans’ computers may still be infected by malware that will cause them to lose Internet service Monday, so…

By E. Scott Reckard, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Nearly four years after Washington bailed out Wall Street, small banks have yet to repay $11 billion of taxpayer money. Uncle Sam…

By Tom Hudson, McClatchy Newspapers – Superstition holds Friday the 13th as an unlucky day. But it’s not triskaidekaphobia that threatens banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co. On Friday, JPMorgan is scheduled…

By Joe Taschler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – MILWAUKEE — Russ Darrow started in the car business with a single Chrysler dealership 47 years ago. Since then, his business has grown to 13…

By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — The nation’s job-creation engine is stuck in low gear, making businesses hesitant to hire enough workers to get the U.S. recovery on track…

Andrew Krammer, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. – Cates Construction stumbled upon a piece of downtown Stillwater’s history while renovating a liquor store. An old, painted wooden sign reading “Starkel’s Candies and Lunches”…

By Arlene Satchell, Sun Sentinel – FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — If you want to sit next to family or friends the next time you fly, better not leave it up to chance…

By Paul Brand, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – QUESTION: Recently on a road trip I was passed by a car on which one of its rear tires appeared to be bouncing up and…

DES MOINES – Assistance is available to industries and agricultural operations in complying with environmental regulations. “Our emphasis in the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has always been on compliance rather…

WASHINGTON — Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis issued the following statement on the June 2012 Employment Situation report released today: “Our nation’s labor market added 80,000 jobs in the month of June,…

By Shan Li and Dalina Castellanos, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Consumers anxious about the economy kept their wallets in check, raising worries of a possible slowdown in spending during…

By David Undercoffler, Los Angeles Times – You’re not going to see Lindsay Lohan crash a 2013 Nissan Altima into the back of a garbage truck. Your 10-year-old won’t be hanging a…

Salvador Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times – As many as 64,000 Americans could be knocked offline Monday as a result of malware unless they change their DNS server addresses, according to a report….

By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — The portion of consumers with payments overdue on credit cards, auto loans and other debt dropped in the first three months of the year…

By Jerry Hirsch, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — If consumer confidence is lagging, it’s not hurting enough to stop people from buying cars. Most of the major automakers posted healthy U.S….

By Nathan Bomey, Detroit Free Press – DETROIT — General Motors is discussing the prospect of reauthorizing paid Facebook advertising, the automaker confirmed Tuesday. GM abruptly abandoned Facebook ads this spring in a…

By James Walsh, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — Want to know if anybody else has had a problem with your model of artificial hip? Worried that a new defibrillator is not all…

By Phil Trexler, Akron Beacon Journal – AKRON, Ohio — A Ohio woman is hospitalized after her scalp was ripped from her head when her hair became caught in a machine during her…

By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — Regulators on Tuesday released shortened public versions of breakup plans known as “living wills” that the nine largest banks were required to submit so…

By Jamie Goldberg, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — A federal judge has struck down a key provision in an Obama administration regulation that would have penalized programs whose graduates end up with…

AMES, Iowa — The search for the next dean of the College of Engineering is under way. Executive Vice President and Provost Elizabeth Hoffman has identified a 20-member search committee to seek…

By Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Computer maker Dell Inc. announced Monday it is buying Quest Software Inc., ending a bidding war that has gone on for more…

By Zlati Meyer, Detroit Free Press – DETROIT — The Weather Channel has bought Weather Underground, a Web-based weather data company founded in Ann Arbor, Mich., the two companies announced Monday. The…

Diane Heldt, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – IOWA CITY — With the swipe of one card, many Iowa college students can eat dinner, buy snacks, wash a load of laundry, check…

By Chad Terhune, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The Supreme Court’s endorsement of the federal health care law last week could spur more employers across the nation to relinquish their…

By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — After being touted months ago as a main driver of the recovery, the U.S. manufacturing sector shrank for the first time in…

By Andrew Tangel and Janet Stobart, Los Angeles Times – NEW YORK — British authorities turned up the heat on Barclays as its chairman, Marcus Agius, became the first big casualty of…

By David Sell, The Philadelphia Inquirer – PHILADELPHIA — In the largest financial penalty of its kind in the United States, drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay…

By W.J. Hennigan, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — With a blast of red, white and blue confetti, officials from European aircraft maker Airbus announced plans to build a sprawling plane-making…

By Jessica Guynn, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Twitter got more information requests from governments and copyright holders to provide user information or block content in the first half of…

By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times – Unemployment in the 17-nation Eurozone climbed to another record high in May, reflecting deep public sector job cuts and a lack of employer confidence…

By David Pierson, Los Angeles Times – BEIJING — Apple Inc. has agreed to pay a Chinese company $60 million to settle a dispute over the name of the iPad tablet in…

By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times – SEOUL — China is inviting tens of thousands of North Korean guest workers into the country in a deal that will provide a cash infusion…

By Lisa Brown, St. Louis Post-Dispatch – ST. LOUIS — Mexico’s largest brewer, Grupo Modelo, which Anheuser-Busch Cos. once eyed as a possible savior in its failed attempt to thwart InBev’s takeover,…

By Don Lee, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — New jobless claims edged down last week, but the good news was tempered by another upward revision of data for the prior week….

By David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times – Julian Bermudez noticed something new on his latest Citibank credit card bill. Down at the bottom, right beside where he’s supposed to fill in the…