The acquisition makes UPS Europe's largest shipper.

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 19:25

It is generally stipulated among political experts and interested observers of the 2012 election cycle that the presidential contest will be heavily weighted toward the condition of the economy, especially unemployment. The unemployment metric most often cited by the media and politicians, called U-3, is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and was recently ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 19:25

What does life after Beats by Dr. Dre look like for Lee and his company? It begins with rolling out a slew of new headphones to compete with those of his onetime partner.

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 19:25

As we continue our fun in the Sunshine State, we trek to the west coast of Florida. Bring the family to St. Petersburg, a laid-back town with breathtaking, white-sand beaches and tons of fun in the sun. STAY: A palatial pink building, the??{1.} Loews Don CeSar,??3400 Gulf Boulevard,??is a luxurious oceanfront property with Mediterranean and ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 19:25

Zynga is holding a press conference at noon Pacific to announce ? well, something. A reasonable guess is that the company will actually announce a deal to buy OMGPOP, the makers of the popular game Draw Something. Earlier this week, TechCrunch had reported that Zynga was in talks to buy the company for $150 million ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 19:25

Forbes Travel Guide highlights the private cottages and sprawling gardens of Barnsley Gardens Resort in the Blue Ridge Mountain foothills outside Atlanta.

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 19:25

Michael Kors was one of 13 up-and-comers we recently predicted would soon become billionaires themselves. Now it may take a bit longer than we thought.?? His fashion design house filed paperwork on March 19 for a secondary offering that revealed Kors' plans to sell more stock in the firm. According to the filing, the underwriters ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 19:25

Tebow is a Jet.

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 19:24

Caterina Fake is one of the pioneers of Web 2.0, cofounding the early photo-sharing site Flickr. That service has languished since it was bought in 2005 by an even more languishing , but Fake hasn?t. After leaving Flickr, she cofounded??Hunch, which aimed to develop a ?taste graph? to personalize the Internet, but then she left ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 19:24

? Despite The Hunger Games' obvious potential for cross-promotional taglines ??? Restaurant X Will Feed Your Appetite For The Hunger Games ??? tie-in partners have largely stayed away from the highly-anticipated movie. There are no The Hunger Games kid's meal toys, Katniss-inspired Slurpee flavors, or limited-edition District 12 Kraft Lunchables packages. Harry Potter and Twilight ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 19:24

Thanks to those geeks in Cupertino, the night time ain't the right time any more.

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 19:24

It?s easy enough for people to shout at for getting everything manufactured by Foxconn in China. Easy enough to shout at ll sorts of people in fact, Nike, almost all of the other textiles manufacturers, all the other electronics manufacturers. However, the whole process is rather more fraught with difficulty than many seem to think. ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 19:24

A focus on the Biblical story of Noah will lead to an uninteresting movie.

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 19:24

Take my advice, please.

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 19:24

The Economist and Facebook have put together this interesting little graphic. It shows how the foreign connections that people put on their Facebook pages seem very heavily influenced by the colonies and empires of the past. However, I would submit that they?ve not quite thought through their explanation of this as yet: Here?s what they ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 19:24

Some quick early thoughts on Tebow heading east to the Big Apple: 1) For the most part the New York Jets already do quite well at the gate. For the Jets, expect a similar situation to the Manning effect in Denver. Tebow will not move the needle too much at the box office (although he ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 19:24

First came love, then came marriage, then came the decision to file??joint tax returns with the??Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Every good couple is supposed to file together, right? Wrong! A lot of couples don?t realize that filing separately may actually better their??financial situations. In some instances, love doesn?t have a place in your tax return. ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 19:23

In one 911 call after the shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, a former schoolteacher sobs, "He was saying help. Why didn't someone come out and help him?"

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 19:23

When I was in the fourth grade, I had a bad case of FOMO. I contracted it when I realized that all of my classmates (or so it seemed) had Nickelodeon, and I didn't. They talked about cartoons and television shows watched the night before ??? something about a game show where the losing contestant ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 19:21

San Precario non si aspettava molto dalla controriforma del mercato del lavoro. Non siamo sorpresi. I punti nevralgici erano già stati delineati e soprattutto viene confermato il metodo odioso dei due tempi, volto a favorire un’ulteriore precarizzazione del lavoro. E’ da trenta anni che è così: c’è il primo tempo che abbassa le tutele del [...]

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 19:14