Tag: business
Target employee creates petition to protest store's midnight opening on Black Friday
Target stores across the country will be opening early this year: at midnight. They're joining a trend of stores opening earlier and earlier, but one employee wants you to help him say no....
Congressmen seek changes to environmental protection law
In the wake of an investigation into a well-known Tennessee guitar manufacturer, Gibson Guitar, two Tennessee lawmakers are seeking to loosen the environmental regulations that enabled the federal government to raid the company....
One of first Tea Party organizers bullish about organization's future
Keli Carender in Seattle held one of the first protests to be considered part of the Tea Party Movement. Today, she remains committed to the group and is optimistic about its future....
Online, considerable anger over Stop Online Piracy Act
A growing chorus of tech companies and online engineers are criticizing two laws winding through Congress, SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act ,and the PROTECT IP Act, which they say will stifle free speech and undermine the Internet in general....
Thanksgiving dinner will cost you considerably more this year
If you're planning to eat a traditional Thanksgiving meal next week, it'll cost you a little more this year. Prices are about 13 percent — the biggest jump since 1990....
NBA players reject owners' offer, season in doubt
The NBA players, already locked out and with hundreds of games canceled, rejected what NBA owners said was their final, best offer. Commissioner David Stern said that puts the entire season in jeopardy and now players are disbanding the union and preparing to do battle in the courts....
Giant gold, copper deposits discovered in Alaska — digging them out the trouble
About 200 miles from Anchorage, in a remote corner of a remote state, there's hundreds of billions of dollars of minerals laying underground. Getting them out, however, could endanger an important natural ecosystem....
VIDEO: Former NBA, UCLA star shining while playing in Israel during NBA lockout
Jordan Farmar, who led the UCLA Bruins to a NCAA Final Four and who helped deliver a championship to the Los Angeles Lakers, has taken his talents to Israel, where he's playing for Maccabi Tel Avi while the NBA lockout continues....
VIDEO: Groupon IPO largest web offering since Google in 2004
The stock offering raised more than $700 million for the online company, which sells coupons for deeply discounted goods and services. Groupon was the first major success in that market, but competition is rapidly increasing....
As lockout drags on, more regular people finding their paychecks shrinking
Restaurants near NBA arenas are cutting hours, laying off employees and otherwise tried to cut expenses as they deal with the lack of NBA games to fill their buildings....
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