Category: Business

Bookseller Barnes and Noble are contemplating the sale of its business after years of revenue declines and ailing stocks. On October 3, the company revealed that it might look to make a deal with potential buyers. Despite its reputation as America’s oldest and top bookseller, internet sales through Amazon and other buyers have resulted in the company’s steady decline since 2006. After their announcement, however, shares for the company rose by nearly 22%. The NASDAQ reports that this is a … Continue reading “Barnes And Noble Starts A New Chapter: Could A Sale Be In The Future?”

A newly published legal document reveals that FIFA spent over $11.7 million on private jets for a top official, including various luxury sight-seeing trips. In another instance of questionable behavior among FIFA officials, this legal document detailed the repeated use of private jets and inappropriate use of FIFA funds by Jerome Valcke. Valcke was formerly the FIFA secretary general until he was fired and banned from soccer in 2016 by the FIFA ethics committee. His appeal was rejected, and he … Continue reading “Private Jets, Favors Detailed In FIFA Official’s Case”

Young people are changing jobs. A lot. According to Dick Resch, a contributor to the News Herald, millennials are job hopping so often it’s costing the U.S. economy about $30 billion annually. Forbes points to a similar statistic, writing that 21% of millennials reported switching jobs in the last year, over double the percentage of job switches among Gen Xers and other generations. However, contributor Larry Alton urges readers to remember that a few decades ago, twenty-somethings in the Gen … Continue reading “Is Millennial Job Hopping Bad for the Economy?”

Luxury yacht maker, Hinckley, thinks so. The American boat brand unveiled the Hinckley 40C, which offers a luxurious ride comparable to the brand’s classic Picnic Boat, with the lightweight strength and speed aided by a carbon fiber design. The 40C utilizes a carbon fiber inner layer, providing the craft with the best in strength and weight. This enables the craft to reach a top speed of 63 miles per hour, around 20 mph faster than the Hinckley Picnic craft it’s … Continue reading “Carbon Fiber And Boats: The Perfect Match?”

According to a recent article by the Casper Star Tribune, two out of five cardholders in the United States have been victims of credit card scams. Though some people only lose a few bucks after dealing with credit card scams, others aren’t so lucky. In fact, people often end up losing thousands of dollars. Identity theft, and more specifically credit card fraud, is so frequent that total losses have accumulated to astonishing sums. In 2016 alone, 15.4 million people in … Continue reading “How to Protect Your Information from Credit Card Scams”

A condominium can be defined as a property that looks similar to a regular apartment, but is fully run by a homeowner’s association where tenants or owners have to follow certain mandatory rules. If you are considering condo rental and not ownership, you still have to follow the association rules or you will be kicked out. Most owners that rent, do have condos utilities included in the monthly rent. In some cases, the water is the only utility and tenants … Continue reading “Florida Real Estate: Statewide Condo Sales On the Rise”

At one point, there seemed to only be a handful of career paths someone could take in the United States. For centuries, even, there were only a finite number of jobs out there for people to pursue. Nowadays, however, there always seems to be a new job, career, or even industry that comes out of nowhere thanks to technology’s prevalence. Laborers were in abundance in the past, but times have certainly changed. Because of the fast-moving and innovative time we’re … Continue reading “Times Have Changed: Knowledge Workers Are Taking Over”