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New Credit Card Rules Even More Transparent

New Credit Card Rules Even More Transparent

Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure; credit card act has set new credit card rules. New credit card rules are applicable from Monday. New credit cards rules are the most dramatic change in the interest rates, fees, terms and conditions in last many years.

February 22 2010 | Posted in Business News | Read More »

Humana

Humana

Humana, the insurer has announced on Wednesday that it will cut around 2500 position to adjust itself to a smaller enrollment.
Humana’s Medicare enrollment showed a decrease of 24% during the previous year that left it with 3.4 million people and its commercial enrollment also fell by 6%.
Humana is a Louisville based company that added [...]

February 17 2010 | Posted in Business News | Read More »

Duane Reade

Duane Reade

Duane Reade Holdings are going to be bought by Walgreen, the national pharmacy chain that has its drugstores at almost every corner of New York City. Walgreen announced on Wednesday that it had given its consent to buy Duane Reade for $ 1.1 billion in cash.
Walgreen has agreed to buy the store chain of 257 [...]

February 17 2010 | Posted in Business News | Read More »

Corolla Recall

Corolla Recall

Toyota is considering Corolla recall due to problems in power steering.
Toyota, the Japanese car maker which is already battling with quality issues in several other cars, is now considering to recall Corolla – the best-selling car of the world! Toyota says that no decision is yet made but the company is looking into the complaints [...]

February 17 2010 | Posted in Business News | Read More »

Hotmail Service Unavailable

Hotmail Service Unavailable

Yesterday, a lot of email account holders of hotmail reported that the hotmail service unavailable. The problem stopped the users to reach their email boxes and the message was Hotmail service unavailable. The good news for the hotmail

February 17 2010 | Posted in Business News | Read More »

Skillsoft

Skillsoft

Skillsoft, the E-learning software maker (SKIL.O) has announced that it has agreed its acquisition by a group of private equity firms for almost $ 1.1 billion.
The buyer consortium consists of Berkshire

February 12 2010 | Posted in Business News | Read More »

Sidney Torres

Sidney Torres

The trash mogul from New Orleans, Sidney Torres and his company SDT Waste and Debris Services would be the focus of pilot “Trashmen” that is going to be premiered on Thursday at TLC Network.

February 12 2010 | Posted in Business News | Read More »

First Energy

First Energy

The Ohio based First Energy Inc. is agreed for a take over of Pennsylvania based Mid-Atlantic utility Allegheny Energy Inc. for $ 4.7 billion. The deal would make First Energy one of the largest electricity providers in the United States.

February 11 2010 | Posted in Business News | Read More »

1920 depression

1920 depression

The current global recession has been often compared to the great depression of late 1920’s. On both the occasions there an immediate fear had crept in that a wide scale economical collapse was on the cards and the only short

February 11 2010 | Posted in Business News | Read More »

Running of the Brides

Running of the Brides

Running of the Brides is an annual event held at Filene’s Basement at Union Square. This year’s event kicked off today and brides to be are there in an effort to save hundreds and even thousands of dollars while purchasing designers wedding gowns. The sale will last till 10 p.m. tonight if the dresses lasted [...]

February 5 2010 | Posted in Business News | Read More »

Akio Toyoda

Akio Toyoda

Akio Toyoda, the President for Toyota has sought apology for recalling millions of Toyota cars and he has added to formulate a new quality control committee to avoid such recalls. Akio Toyoda has admitted that Toyota is facing a moment of crisis at present.

February 5 2010 | Posted in Business News | Read More »

Vermont Brownie Company

Vermont Brownie Company

Vermont Brownie Company got its share of short span of fame when Bobby flay featured the company in Throwdown on Tuesday night at Food Network.
Shawna Lidsky and Katherine Hayward invited

February 4 2010 | Posted in Business News | Read More »

Peter Cooper Village

Peter Cooper Village

Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town will be handed over to the creditors as Tishman Speyer and Black Rock Reality were unable to fulfill their financial commitments.
The spokesperson for the two giants said that handing over the control is the only possible solution to avoid bankruptcy. The partnership was unable to pay a loan installment [...]

January 25 2010 | Posted in Business News | Read More »

Ccgg

Ccgg

Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG) is a body that promotes good governance practices in the companies. The members of CCGG include investors of pension funds, institutional investors, third party money managers and mutual funds.

January 23 2010 | Posted in Business News | Read More »

Chrysler Recall

Chrysler Recall

Vehicle recall is becoming a fashion for the Vehicle manufacturing companies and Chrysler recall is yet another vehicle recall due to technical fault. It’s not becoming a fashion to recall the vehicles in fact; it’s a fashion to built vehicles without removing faults. Chrysler recall is also a result of a faulty part of the [...]

January 19 2010 | Posted in Business News | Read More »