Casey Anthony’s Parents Want Private Meeting

But will they actually get what they want? Brad Conway is expected to request that George and Cindy Anthony be allowed to meet privately with their daughter Casey, who’s behind bars at the Orange County Jail. From ABC Action News: Visits with inmates by family and friends are typically videotaped and made public.  The Anthony’s [...]

Starbucks to Close 300 Stores, Cut Up To 6,700 Jobs

Starbucks gets hit again. The company today announced that they will be closing 300 stores and could eliminate up to 6,700 jobs. From the Seattle Post Intelligencer: Starbucks confirmed Wednesday that it would cut up to 6,700 jobs this year to downsize in accordance with falling consumer demand. Starbucks will reduce Seattle headquarters employees by [...]

Mixing Old and New With Your Business Cards

Interesting post by Chris Crum who suggests mixing old-school networking with the modern age by including social-networking information, such as your Twitter user name, or your Facebook address, on your business card. From SmallBusinessNewz: As you know, business cards are an important tool for business networking. You hand them out to people at events, leave [...]

Mail Delivery Days to Be Cut?

Massive deficits could force the post office to cut out one day of mail delivery, the postmaster general told Congress on Wednesday, in asking lawmakers to lift the requirement that the agency deliver mail six days a week. From the Associated Press: If the change happens, that doesn’t necessarily mean an end to Saturday mail [...]

TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington Taking Leave of Absence

Michael Arrington, founder of the influential technology blog TechCrunch, announced today that he is taking a leave of absence after suffering from several instances of physical and verbal abuse, including a death threat last summer. From TechCrunch: Yesterday as I was leaving the DLD Conference in Munich, Germany someone walked up to me and quite [...]

Target Announces Layoffs

It seems that no one is safe anymore as Target has announced that they will eliminate more than 1,000 jobs. From BizJournals.com: Target Corp. announced Tuesday that it will slash 1,000 jobs at its downtown Minneapolis headquarters, laying off 600 workers and eliminating 400 open positions. The cuts represent about 9 percent of its downtown [...]

Casey Anthony: People Magazine To Discuss Anthony Family Secrets

Why do I have the feeling that lots of people are going to rush out and buy this issue, even though most of us already know the information that will be in the publication. The issue will hit newsstands this Friday, January 30. It’s interesting. There are so many other stories that could be on [...]

Deadly Storm Hits Northeast

A winter storm that has left more than 600,000 customers without electricity is barreling into the Northeast today, leaving widespread damage throughout the region. From the Associated Press: The storm is delaying flights and turning the morning rush into the morning slush as communities brace for the worst. On Tuesday, the storm was blamed for [...]

Jessica Alba, Bill O’Reilly…The Latest Celebrity Feud

I love stories like this! Jessica Alba is setting the record straight: Sweden was neutral during World War II. From MSNBC: Alba and Fox TV show host Bill O’Reilly traded punches last week after the presidential inauguration. After Alba told a Fox reporter that O’Reilly was “kind of an a-hole;” he retaliated by calling her [...]

Toyota Issues Recall

Toyota announced this morning that it would recall more than 1.35 million Vitz and two other models globally to fix a defect in the seatbelt, a component in the exhaust system or both. From MSNBC: Subject to the recall in Japan are 525,898 Vitz, Belta and Ractis cars built from January 2005 to April 2008, [...]