Unfunded liabilities for public pension plans have been growing quickly over the years. Today, a number of states have public pension debts of hundreds of billions of dollars and they are not pulling in enough money to pay those debts in the time frames promised. A recently conducted study found that the state and local […]
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc launched a new marketing effort to get back their fans. This initiative will mostly outline the depth to which the company has improved its food safety guidelines. This, of course, is important since consumers are still wary of the chain’s food safety after the very recent foodborne illness outbreak. Describing the […]
Panera Bread Co is stepping up its bacon game. And they are doing it as a part of the restaurant industry’s new effort to purify its ingredients overall; and Panera wants to be the first national chain to serve what they are calling “clean” bacon. Bacon, of course, is not necessarily known as the “cleanest” […]
This week, the United States Department of Justice proposed that Deutsche Bank AG to pay $14 billion as a settlement for a handful of high-profile mortgage-securities probes that befell the institution as a result of the recent financial crisis. This payout amount, would compare, then, with the largest penalties that other banks would have had […]
Exxon Mobile Corp is currently under scrutiny from a probe by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. One major aspect of this probe is to discern why the company did not write down the value of oil and gas reserves they had during a global collapse in energy prices. The main idea behind the inquiry […]
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The mobile phone industry is highly competitive, but that is probably not news to you. What could be considered news, however, is that Amazon has found a way to use its properties to get a leg up on the competition. Indeed, this week, Amazon has announced they are slashing prices on Android phones for members […]
Today’s video game consoles are far more complex than in generations past, but while the realm of HD gaming is certainly impressive, it is all the other things that consoles can do, today, that have truly changed the game, so to speak. Video game consoles—and the Playstation systems, in particular—are now aimed at being the […]
If you have an Android phone there is a very good chance that you have long been a fan, preferring Google’s proprietary mobile operating system over Apple’s iOS. And if you have long been a fan then you probably also have one or two favorite features. Maybe you simply like having access to all of […]
Android has recently announced its newest mobile software platform update, releasing the fourth preview version of the operating system on Wednesday. While it still does not have an official name, they are calling it Android N so you can speculate over which “N-named” sweet or candy they might be naming it after. Right now, though, […]