Declining Gas Demand, Lower Crude Prices, and a Struggling Economy
The Fed decided to maintain its holdings of securities to prevent money from being drained out of the financial system and to keep the slowing U.S. economy from relapsing into recession. The central bank said it will reinvest principal payments...
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Hold the Gluten Please
According to the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness, an estimated 3 million Americans suffer from celiac disease, although only 5 percent are diagnosed. Diagnosis occurs in the form of a blood test and, sometimes, a small-intestine biopsy for confirmation. Many...
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Dell Streak Carves New Niche
In a week of new releases, Dell, the Texas based company said orders for its touch-screen device will open for U.S. pre-sales on Thursday, with shipments to follow a day later. The Streak will be available for $299.99 with a...
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Mortgage Rates Contine to Fall
A stalled labor market has increased the potential for the Federal Reserve to take additional steps to energize the stalled economy. The Federal Reserve has already purchased $1.25 trillion in mortgage-backed bonds in order to sustain the market and to...
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Tebow Brand Running Strong
Prior to being drafted, The Davie-Brown Index, an independent marketing research tool, found Tebow to be more appealing and more of a trendsetter than New England’s Tom Brady, Minnesota’s Brett Favre and Dallas’ Tony Romo despite concerns over whether he...
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Non-Farm Payroll Dissapoints – Again
President Barack Obama on Friday noted that the economy has now added private-sector jobs for seven straight months. He hailed that as a good sign. But he said the progress “needs to come faster.” The 14.6 million people looking for...
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Another 1st for Sally Ride – Launches New Science Academy
Sally Ride (born 1951) is best known as the first American woman sent into outer space. She also served the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in an advisory capacity, being the only astronaut chosen for President Ronald Reagan’s Rogers...
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Bottoms Up: 2011 Party Schools Get Top Honors
For 19 years in a row Princeton Review has been handing out the most talked about award on campus, “top party school”. For most college coed’s that attend these institutions they talk about it like a badge of honor and...
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Copyright Office will allow consumers the freedom to have more choice of applications for their iPhones
Hackers have released software that enables Apple iPhone 4 users to circumvent the App Store and install third-party software of their own choice onto their device. The software, JailbreakMe, allows owners of all iPhone OS devices, including the iPhone 4...
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Netflix next move towards industry dominance leads to bigger paychecks for studios.
First Netflix tackled and roundly defeated the brick and mortar video businesses such as Blockbuster and the like. Having latched onto the long-tail profit model made possible by new distribution methods and aided by Walmart’s Blockbuster killing tendency to offer...
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