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Will Black Friday and Cyber Monday provide the gust that lifts the retailing...
Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the entire year, in the biggest shopping season of the year, comprising nearly 20% of annual retail sales. With many people waiting outside stores for hours...
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Why You Should Stay at Home Today
In 1966 the Philadelphia Police Department coined the term Black Friday to describe the traffic jams and crowding of downtown stores, a description which is still accurate today). This day, although a...
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Black Friday Weekend: A Great Success
Sales are up from last year’s Black Friday weekend, 13% up to be exact. While not as large an increase as last year’s 16% growth over 2010, it is a strong start to the shopping season. Even though...
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Consumer Confidence at Five-Year High
Despite the looming “fiscal cliff,” consumer confidence is at a five-year high. This is good news for retailers going into the shopping season, but there are slight signs of wear and tear. The final...
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Mobilization of the Internet
Is your webpage ready for the smartphone revolution? With about half of all cell phone subscribers now owning smartphones, and two thirds of new phone purchases being smartphones, the internet is...
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Incentives for Scientific Research Are Changing
The research community has historically shown a strong bias toward work that would ultimately create a profitable product or solution. As a result, many solvable problems without a ready and lucrative...
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High School Graduation Rate Highest Since 1976
A study of the 2010 school year by the Education Department shows that the nation’s four-year high school graduation rate is the highest it has been since 1976. The national dropout rate has also...
View ArticleSlow Down When You Eat: Technology Invades The Dinner Table
Eating too quickly has been proven to be bad for health, causing heartburn, digestive problems, and even weight gain. The old method to curb this bad habit was having a mother or a spouse remind us to...
View ArticleCity of Tampa to Seek Damages from BP for 2010 Oil Spill
The city of Tampa, Florida is seeking $50 million in compensation from BP for the 2010 Deep Water Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Although they were not directly affected by the oil...
View ArticleGlobal Unemployment is Expected to Break the All-time Record, And Then Get Worse
The global all-time high of unemployed workers was 199 million people in 2009. In 2012, the amount of jobless topped 197 million, with the International Labour Organization (ILO), an agency of the...
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