Whether you run your own legal practice or are a partner or associate, you know how easily you can become bogged down keeping track of clients, projects, and billable vs. non-billable hours. And for many attorneys, time management is a daily struggle. How can you possibly make phone calls, respond to emails, log your expenses, [...]
Disney to Acquire Marvel for $4 Billion
Disney is looking to aquire the comic book powerhouse Marvel Entertainment in an attempt to strengthen its appeal to the young male audience. Marvel’s CEO Ike Perlmutter is planning to work directly with Disney to build and integrate Marvel’s properties into the powerhouse. “The Walt Disney Co. today announced that it had agreed to acquire [...]
Hunger is Hitting Detroits Middle Class
In Detroit, a city without a major supermarket, food has long been an issue. The demand for food has now reached an all time high and Detroits middle class is now feeling the pressure that has previously only affected the city’s poorest families. “Families are forced to buy food from corner stores with less healthy [...]
Twitter Sued for Patent Infringement
TechRadium, based out of Sugar Land, Texas, filed a patent infringement complaint this Tuesday against Twitter, Inc., the company that owns the insanely popular micro-blogging/social networking site that allows users to relay short bursts of information, aka “Tweets”, in 140 characters or less. “In its complaint against Twitter, TechRadium alleges Twitter infringes upon those patents [...]
Bank of America to Pay $33 Million Fine Over Bonuses
The Securities Exchange Commission decided that Bank of America is going to have to pay $33 million for failing to alert shareholders about bonus payments made to Merrill Lynch. The SEC filed charges against BofA this morning for misleading its’ investors about paying billions of dollars in bonuses to top executives at Merrill Lynch, the [...]
Microsoft and Yahoo Strike Deal For Search Engine
Microsoft and Yahoo have ended years of back and forth negotiations and reached a deal for an Internet search engine partnership. The agreement gives Microsoft access to the Internets second-largest search engine audience, adding a powerful tool to use in its online campaign to de-throne the kings of the search, Google. “Yahoo is teaming with [...]
New Home Sales Rise by 11 Percent in June
I posted about existing home sales rising for the past three months on Friday, well now, we have more good news from the real estate sector… New home sales rose by 11 percent in June, which is the largest amount of growth in nearly nine years. Experts are hoping these signs show that a near-dead [...]
Wal-Mart to Pay $35 Million Over Employees’ Breaks
The retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has agreed to pay up to $35 Million to settle a class action lawsuit over its’ employees lunch and rest breaks. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of 88,000 workers in Washington state stores who were forced to skip lunch and rest breaks and forced to work off the [...]
Existing Home Sales Up for the Third Straight Month
In a upward swing, existing home sales have rose for the third straight month according to the the National Association of Realtors. “Existing home sales rose by 3.6% in June, slightly more than expectations, with the inventory of unsold homes dropping considerably. “According to the industry group, the number of homes sold in June came [...]
Is Your Computer Repair Shop Hacking Your Computer?
Passwords, Financial Documents, log-in details for social sites, vacation and private photographs, contracts…. we all have them on our computers. Well, what happens when your computer crashes and you continue to have problems? If you are not a computer technician, you take them in to get fixed. Right? Well you might have second thoughts after [...]
