Showing posts with label Business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Business. Show all posts

November 23, 2012

Pueblo's Kohl's and Colorado Springs' Best Buy fill with Black Friday customers


While several stores still open early in the morning on Black Friday, some say Thanksgiving has been "Black Thursday."

Several stores like Walmart opened at eight last night and others at nine, but many chose to open at midnight, and we went to find out about the excitement.

November 09, 2012

Walmart's Black Friday 2012



  1. Black Friday sales have been starting earlier and earlier every year, and in recent years, a few brave retailers have broken the midnight threshold to open their doors late in the evening on Thanksgiving. On Thursday morning, Walmart (WMT) threw down a new gauntlet: It announced it would open its doors at 8 p.m. Thanksgiving evening.

October 28, 2012

Google’s big Nexus event cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy


It seems that Google has cancelled it’s big event in New York for Monday where it was supposed to launch the Nexus 4 smartphone and a new Nexus 10-inch tablet due to concerns over Hurricane Sandy.According to CNet, Google e-mailed reporters today saying that it was canceling the event because of concerns surrounding Hurricane Sandy.

October 26, 2012

Apple (AAPL):Earnings Lower Than Expected


Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), the world's most valuable company, reported lower than expected fourth-quarter earnings Thursday because its having trouble keeping up with demand for its market-leading products.Inventory issues have reportedly affected iPhone 5 sales, struggling to keep up with orders.
The company sold 26.9 million iPhones in the last three months, up 58 percent in the same period a year ago. The company sold 14 million iPads, up 26 percent, and 4.9 million Macs, a 1 percent unit increase. The company sold 5.3 million iPods, a 19 percent decline from a year ago

October 20, 2012

Google Inc.'s GOOG -1.90% quarterly earnings report hit Wall Street more than three hours early on Thursday due to a glitch. The bigger glitch was what the Internet giant's results actually showed.

Shares of Google plunged after the company's third-quarter results missed expectations of strong growth, and inadvertently were released well before the market's close.


Among the litany of issues, the Internet search giant's profits slid 20% from a year earlier to $2.18 billion, or $6.53 a share. Revenue rose 45% to $14.1 billion, thanks to the incorporation of Google's new Motorola hardware unit.

October 19, 2012

Tory Burch's $2 Billion Business Started In Her Kitchen God Knows Where The Female stops


Tory Burch's $2 Billion Tory Burch is one of the most successful fashion designers in the world. 
Her business is worth $2 billion in less than a decade.
But in an interview with Rock Center With Brian Williams, Burch revealed her humble beginnings.
She worked designing clothes, shoes and accessories in her kitchen until she had enough money to open a store in Manhattan.

October 18, 2012

Google's wide earnings miss, early earnings stun Street


Google Inc. inadvertently released its draft quarterly results hours ahead of schedule, significantly missing expectations on both revenue and earnings and wiping 9 percent off the market value of the Internet search and advertising leader.After being halted for more than two hours, trading in Google shares resumed at 2:20 p.m. CST with the stock down 10 percent. It rebounded to close at $695, down $60.49, or 8 percent.

Google isn't the first company to accidentally release earnings ahead of time


NEW YORK -Google (GOOG) became the latest company Thursday to release its financial results earlier than scheduled, after which its stock price dropped 9 percent before trading was suspended.
The search company blamed a contractor, R.R. Donnelley, for filing Google's quarterly earnings report with regulators more than three hours ahead of schedule. Donnelley said it was investigating.
In recent years, Microsoft, Disney and a host of other companies have made similar mistakes, typically by posting the report to part of a website they weren't expecting anyone to see.

October 16, 2012

How To Celebrate Boss's Day?



Boss's Day, also known as National Boss Day is a secular holiday that is very popular in Unites States and Canada. It is a day when the employees appreciate their employers. We all keep on discussing about our boss every now and then. Before sleeping, after getting up, all the time we talk about our boss! Be it a negative or a positive discussion, boss remains to be an integral part of an employee's life.

There are many employees who always try to win the heart of their bosses. They use their talent, active mind or simply try buttering to impress their boss. On the occasion of Boss Day, here are few tips that can help you celebrate the day and impress him/her easily.

It’s National Boss’s Day – Are You a Good Boss?


“Happy Boss’s Day,” one of my employees wrote to me in an email this morning. First I’d heard of it. I repeated it to my boss when I passed her in the hallway. Whew! Got that covered.

But then I got curious about what this “holiday” was all about. Hallmark Cards, which offers 75 varieties of greeting cards for National Boss Day (including one that plays “Takin’ Care of Business” by Bachman Turner Overdrive!) had this to say on their website:

Who's The Boss? Inspired Moms! boss day

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Today, the Huggies MomInspired Grant Program will officially announce 11 new grant recipients with the help of Tory Johnson at the All Baby & Child Kids Expo in Louisville, Ky. Each recipient will receive $15,000 to help fund their innovative business, product or service they created to help make life as a parent easier and more enjoyable.

October 15, 2012

Retail Sales Reinforce Position Of Apple's iPhone 5 As Key Driver For U.S. Economy


The current role of the iPhone 5 was succinctly highlighted today by retail data and the flurry of upward revisions to GDP estimates. Those figures, indeed, reflect a cold, indisputable fact. That the iPhone is today less a shiny gizmo than a driver of the U.S. economy.

Why Crowdfunding Will Explode In 2013


The world of entrepreneurial finance is changing rapidly; we are at a tipping point that will make what seems like a vibrant part of our global economy today seem small in one year’s hindsight.Whether you are a service provider, social entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist, or one of the millions of people ready to become a small-scale start up financier, it is time to pay attention