I saw this fascinating graphic over on USA Today's website last week and had to post it here. Below, you'll see a color-coded map showing the year-over-year change in number of airline seats by state. This is using projected October 2008 schedules versus October 2007, so it's likely this will...
In what some analysts are calling the worst housing slump since the great depression, employers are paying more to get reluctant employees and new hires to sell their homes and relocate for work. Employees are more reluctant to move because they worry about their ability to sell their homes without...
Gone are the days when companies could move employees and new hires around like puppets on strings. Now, the sluggish housing market is creating hassles for employers and employees struggling to move and to sell homes in what have quickly turned into a buyer's market. Employers are sweetening incentive packages...
According to columnist Sandra Block, why do Americans need a new reality show called Extreme Financial Records Makeover? Why do some financial planners think people should keep tax records indefinitely? What other documents should rarely, if ever, be discarded? Is it necessary to hold on to credit card and bank...
Technology has cut costs and increased productivity in industry after industry. But health care, a $1.6 trillion beast that wallops business and consumer pocket books more and more, still largely runs on paper. Visits to new doctors require patients to fill out forms for the same old information. Getting test...
The article says that Employers cut jobs in August at the fastest pace since March, the government said in an unexpectedly downbeat report Friday showing that businesses are continuing to cut jobs even as some areas of the economy are recovering. The number of workers on U.S. payrolls outside the...
From the executive summary: ‘The bear market isn't the only thing dragging down the returns on the 401k plan. Fees for record keeping, managing the investments or optional plan services also weigh heavily on retirement savings. One cannot do anything about the stock market. But one can look for the...
Ryder System, Inc. (NYSE: R), a global leader intransportation and supply chain management solutions, today announced itwill host a conference call on Wednesday, July 23, 2008, following therelease of its second quarter 2008 results. The call is scheduled to beginat 11:00 a.m., Eastern Time, and will be webcast over...
First desktop tool to provide key storage tape diagnostic and tracking data in a single device VALHALLA, N.Y. -- FUJIFILM Recording Media U.S.A., Inc. today introduced the Fujifilm DC Analyser, the first data center tool of its kind that leverages the expertise of a leading data tape media...
WASHINGTON -- Republican John McCain's elite fundraisers have helped collect more than half of his presidential campaign money, while Democratic rival Barack Obama has relied on his top fundraisers for about one-sixth of his coffers, a USA TODAY analysis shows. More than 500 top McCain fundraisers brought in...
WASHINGTON -- The federal government today plans to require that the safety of thousands of airline jet fuel tanks be upgraded to prevent explosions such as the one that downed TWA Flight 800 in 1996, government and industry sources told USA TODAY. After more than a decade of...
PASADENA, Calif. -- DMI Music & Media Solutions today announced that veteran music industry marketer Paul Murphy has joined the company as vice president of strategic marketing and business development. Murphy joins DMI from The Recording Academy, where he was senior director, marketing and strategic alliances for the...
HSBC reports findings of inaugural survey of under-researched market segment, representing nearly $6 trillion in sales and employing 32 million * Two-thirds (67%) of senior executives say sales abroad to grow faster than U.S. * Nearly half (49%) intend to raise international sales targets ...
Weekly style tips,from our closet to yours Look like a star Holy high-end footwear! You won't be able to snag the one-of-a-kind Dries Van Noten gown that The Dark Knight's Maggie Gyllenhaal sported at Monday's premiere, but you can follow in her footsteps by...
Amy Gannon, hatchet in hand, sliced a slab of bark from a lodgepole pine tree near Wolf Creek, Mont., and quickly spotted a mountain pine beetle larva no bigger than her pinky fingernail. "This tree's done for," said Gannon, an entomologist with the Montana Department of Natural...
SKECHERS Says: "A Bear is not a Crocodile" MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. -- SKECHERS USA, Inc. (NYSE:SKX), a global leader in the lifestyle footwear industry, today announced that it denies all of the patent and trade dress infringement and unfair competition and trade practice claims asserted against the Company...
* Business leaders from Adobe, Autodesk, Best Buy, Borders, Caterpillar, EMC, FOX Interactive Media, InterContinental Hotels Group, Metacafe, Microsoft, NBA, NVIDIA, Sony Ericsson, Starz Entertainment, Sun Microsystems, Trend Micro, Turner Sports Network, USA Today, and many others, scheduled to present at Akamai's inaugural event August 18-20, 2008 *...
NavStar Technologies' (PINKSHEETS: NVST)product concept of combining hands-free calling with GPS navigationcapability, aligns the company's products with the trend of banning cellphone usage in vehicles that are not operated in a hands-free mode. TheCalifornia law that went into effect on July 1, 2008 represents a trendthat is growing in the...
Xirrus Partner SETS S.R.L. Deploys Wi-Fi Arrays Throughout Major Italian Hotels WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. -- Xirrus, Inc., the only Wi-Fi "Power-Play" that can replace Ethernet workgroup switches with Wi-Fi as the primary network connection, announced today that it has repeated its recent success at major USA hotel properties...
