Tag: business
VIDEO: Target announces partnerships to offer high-end boutique type merchandise
Target on Thursday rolled out a partnership with five, upscale boutique retailers, it's latest step into the world of high-fashion and high-tech, and a bid to better compete with rivals, like Walmart....
Detroit auto show showcases American car manufacturers on road to recovery
As car manufacturers gather in Detroit for the North American International Auto Show, the definite focus is on the remarkable recovery the American automakers have made in the past couple years....
U.S. aerospace and defense contractors set up shop across the border
Rather than ship business to China, more U.S. high tech companies are choosing to setup up factories just across the U.S. border in Mexico. Low-tech businesses have been doing it for decades, but the new arrivals are decidedly different....
As college sports get bigger, some want athletes to get more of the money
Next week, the NCAA will consider a proposal to allow colleges to give their student athletes larger stipends, coming closer to covering the actual cost of attendance. Many universities want nothing to do with it, but some outsiders say it doesn't even go far enough....
U.S. economy adds 200,000 jobs, sends unemployment lower
More positive economic news on Friday as the Department of Labor announced that unemployment had reached its lowest level in three years and the economy had added 200,000 jobs....
Fiat hoping Fiat 500 will be more successful in the U.S. than 80s Fiat Brava
Fiat, the majority owner of Chrysler, is hoping that its Fiat 500 will make a big splash in the United States and erase all memory of the Fiat Brava, a 1980s effort to break into the U.S. market that went down in flames....
Iowa towns turning to foreign investment to restart economies
In Fort Dodge, Iowa, a South Korean company is bringing a factory to town. Across the U.S. Midwest, communities are trying to lure foreign investment to get economies going again....
In Iowa, small towns struggling to reinvent themselves for a globalized economy
Newton, Iowa, used to be the washing machine capital of the world. Then Maytag shut its doors and now the community is trying to figure out how it will revive its economy and add jobs....
As Sears closes stores, looking at other brands that might not survive 2012
Over the summer, 24/7 Wall Street predicted 10 brands that wouldn't survive to 2013. One of them was Sears and as the company's earning suffer and it prepares to close stores, it's worth looking at how some of the others have fared....
Conservative Christians lining up support for EPA rule on Mercury
Catholic and evangelical Christians are taking their fierce opposition to abortion and casting it in an environmental direction. They're rallying support for a new EPA rule to limit pollution from mercury....
