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Barbie goes global: Mattel income up on worldwide sales
Matt Berger Oct 31, 2011
There are thousands of happy children around the world today, and one happy toy company.
Southern California based Mattel Inc. reported that wor...
Tan tax tanks. Feds fail to collect on salons
Paddy Hirsch Oct 31, 2011
One of the most widely-reported parts of "Obamacare" was the 10 percent tax on tanning salons that was added to the bill. The tax was intended to...
Harrisburg implodes -- what other municipalities are in danger?
Paddy Hirsch Nov 10, 2011
When I was a lad I decorated my room with a poster of a nuclear mushroom cloud, with "Harrisburg is Everywhere" written in big letters across the...
Dollar store sells for big bucks
Paddy Hirsch Nov 11, 2011
Discount and dollar stores have become so popular with shoppers that big-time investors -- who would have turned up their noses a few years ago -...
Netflix kills Qwikster
Marc Sanchez Oct 10, 2011
Well, that didn't last long. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced that this whole idea of a separate site with a separate, kind of weird name, just...
Scoop! Ben & Jerry's supports Occupy Wall Street
Paddy Hirsch Nov 11, 2011
Ben and Jerry's lent its impeccable liberal credentials to the Occupy Wall Street protests today. Or its cows did, at least. The ice cream compan...
How China's growth could help us
Paddy Hirsch Oct 31, 2011
If the jobs news today didn't inspire you, consider reading the latest report from the Boston Consulting Group....
Top banana -- Jobs bio hits No. 1 on Amazon
Paddy Hirsch Nov 11, 2011
How much did people love Steve Jobs?
Enough to push his biography to the top of the Amazon bestseller list -- even though the book hasn't even b...
Hiring up for the holidays
Paddy Hirsch Nov 1, 2011
The department store Kohl's is hiring 40,000 seasonal workers for the holidays. That's up five percent from last year. Macy's, JC Penney and Meij...
TV outside your pad, on your iPad
John Moe Oct 4, 2011
Tech pundit Robert Scoble has a rumor for this morning, serving it up on his Google+ account of all places....
