By Dwight Brown NNPA Travel Writer MIAMI (NNPA) – The likely anecdote for winter melancholia is a trip to a warm climate. Miami comes to mind....
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Black unemployment rate fell slightly from 10.4 percent in December to 10.3 percent in...
NEW YORK (AP) — About $355 million distributed last week to investors cheated in Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme means over half of allowable claims have...
Christopher S. Rugaber, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The job market remains a frustrating place for America’s 9 million unemployed — perhaps more so as...
(CBS News) – Gas prices are starting to zoom higher, jumping more than 20 cents overnight in some parts of the country this week. Residents...
YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — College-educated and gainfully employed 36-year-old Eriko Sekiguchi should be a sought-after friend or date, planning nights on the...
CAROLYN THOMPSON, Associated Press ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — The Eastman Kodak Co. will continue to make motion picture film in the age of digital filmmaking after...
DETROIT (New York Times) — To cope with the gravest safety crisis in its history, General Motors has spent freely — almost $3 billion — to compensate accident...
(CBS News) – By most measures, we’re in the later innings of this economic cycle. Corporate profits are cooling. Commodity prices are collapsing. Fifteen central banks...
(Quartz) – GoPro continued its march toward its goal of becoming a media company on Feb. 5, with the announcement of its new channel on the streaming media player Roku,...
(Reuters) – Anielle Troyan, a call center worker in New York, shops at discount retailers such as Family Dollar for items like soap and detergent as...
CANDICE CHOI, AP Food Industry Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Coke is coming out with premium milk that has more protein and less sugar than regular....
(USA Today) – Office-supply chain Staples agreed to buy its sole remaining competitor, Office Depot, in a $6.3 billion-deal that would create one mega-office-supply chain....
(Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama’s proposal to tax the offshore profits of U.S. corporations could encourage all but the largest companies to follow their cash...
SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today) — When Apple sold $6.5 billion in bonds on Monday, the technology giant did something else behind the scenes: It tapped two minority...
(Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc., aiming to bolster its brick-and-mortar operations, has discussed acquiring some RadioShack Corp. locations after the electronics chain files for bankruptcy, two people...
(Reuters) – AT&T Inc is selling some data centers worth about $2 billion as it continues its streak of asset sales, people familiar with the matter said...
Tom Krisher, ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT (AP) — More than 1,100 claims were filed in the week before Saturday’s deadline to seek payments from the General...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist DETROIT – The seats in our 2015 Cadillac Escalade ESV were a little firm. But there was plenty of...
Jillian Berman, HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post)—When McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson officially steps down in March, there will be just four black CEOs in the Fortune...
Richard Nieva, CNET (CNET.com)—For the past few quarters, Google’s finances have been the story of same-old, same-old: Desktop search — its biggest business — is...
(Bloomberg) – McDonald’s practically invented the concept of fast food. It promised meals that were inexpensive and convenient, that could be eaten on the go...
TERRY TANG, Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — It is the game that must not be named — at least not without permission. For most people, the...
SETH BORENSTEIN, Associated Press JACK GILLUM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Credit card data isn’t quite as anonymous as promised, a new study says. Scientists showed...
STEVEN DUBOIS, Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Daimler Trucks North America agreed to pay $2.4 million to settle discrimination complaints filed by six minority workers...
