Wall Street Ends Week at Record Highs
Hemera/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Stocks finishing out another record breaking week. The Dow, S&P and NASDAQ posting four straight weeks of gains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished the Friday session up 121 points to close the week at 15,…
‘Smart Rifle’ Begins Shipping to Gun Owners This Week
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(AUSTIN, Texas) — A Texas startup has developed a “smart rifle”that barely needs to be aimed.The maker of the gun, being shipped to stores this week, brags that “even a novice shooter can become an elite l…
Powerball Jackpot Soars to Record $600 Million
Scott Olson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The estimated jackpot for Saturday’s Powerball drawing has swelled to a record $600 million for the popular lottery game. The biggest lottery jackpot ever was $656 million for the Mega Millions drawing on March 30,…
Unemployment: How Does Your State Rank?
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Forty states showed a drop in unemployment in April.Louisiana, Tennessee and North Dakota showed an increase in the unemployment rate, while rates were unchanged in seven states, according to the Labor department.The…
Steak n’ Shake Waitress Scores $446 Tip on $6 Check
Medioimages/Photodisc(INDIANAPOLIS) — If service with a smile results in a good tip, then Steak n’ Shake waitress CeCe Bruce is smiling from ear to ear.Bruce, a waitress for the past two years at a Steak n’ Shake in Indianapolis, is $446 r…
Taco Bell Sued By Prisoner for ‘Stealing’ Doritos Locos Idea
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Where do wildly popular fast food ideas come from? According to Gary Cole: Prison.That is the contention of Cole, who claims that it was he who invented Taco Bell’s famous Doritos Locos tacos while doing time in maximum secu…
Consumer Confidence Rises to 6-Year High
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — American consumers are feeling better about the economy.Consumer confidence rose this month to 83.7 — better than expected and its highest level since July 2007, according to the University of Michigan’s Consu…
Microsoft Hides Job Posting in Web Code
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Looking for work? Well, just finding out this Microsoft job exists is work.Microsoft has posted a sort of secret job listing for a Bing software development engineer inside the code of their Bing.com search site, as found by…
Don’t Work Too Hard: Seven Secret Sins at Work
Ciaran Griffin/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — While some career killers are clear and follow common sense, the workplace can be rife with hidden dos and don’ts.”There are lots of different ways to get fired, and sometimes you’ll never know what you did wrong,…
Powerball, Mega Millions: Odds of Winning Both Jackpots?
Photodisc/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The Powerball jackpot has swelled to $550 million after no tickets matched all the winning numbers during Wednesday night’s drawing. And the top prize is continuing to grow ahead of the next drawing on Saturday n…
Bill Gates Is World’s Richest Person Once More
Sean Gallup/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — It’s good to be number one, especially when you’re topping the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.That honor belongs once more to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, whose worth is valued at $72.7 billion, up 15…
Google Glass Gets Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr Apps
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images(SAN FRANCISCO) — Google might have been mum on its much-buzzed-about glasses on day one of its big Google I/O Developer’s Conference, but on Thursday the company has announced a series of new Glass-based ap…
More than 200 Million Travelers Expected to Fly This Summer
Hemera/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Get ready for a busy summer in the air. Airlines for America (A4A), the trade group representing most domestic airlines, says 209 million passengers will take to the skies this summer. That one-percent increase fr…
Markets Snap Winning Streaks; Dow’s Worst Day in Weeks
Hemera/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished Thursday trading down 42 points at 15,233.22 , the first loss for the blue chips index in three days and its worst session in weeks.The Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 also close…
Markets Snap Winning Streaks; Dow’s Worst Day in Weeks
Hemera/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished Thursday trading down 42 points at 15,233.22 , the first loss for the blue chips index in three days and its worst session in weeks.The Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 also close…
Cigarette Smuggling Ring Busted, May Have Helped Fund Terrorism
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Authorities in New York say they have broken up a cigarette trafficking ring that may have helped fund terrorism.What authorities dubbed Operation Tobacco Road involved cigarettes bought in the South, where they’re less expensive,…
Google Plus Tackles Photos in Social Network Fight
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images(SAN FRANCISCO) — Google isn’t done trying to take on the behemoth social networks. That was the message from Google’s Senior Vice President of Engineering Vic Gundorta at the Google I/O conference this week…
Ohio Man Receives $10K for Downloading Apple’s 50 Billionth App
Apple(NEW YORK) — Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio, hit the app jackpot Tuesday afternoon when he pressed the download button on a word game app called Say the Same Thing and sent Apple over the 50 billion app download mark, winning the $10,000 prize…
College Class of 2013 Racks Up Debt of $35,200
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The brutal rise in college costs over the past decade is leading students to take on an unprecedented amount of debt. Indeed, the class of 2013 is graduating with debt that averages $35,200, according to a new …
Weekly Jobless Claims Jump to 360,000
Spencer Platt/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — After falling to a five-year low in the beginning of the month, jobless claims have shot back up, the Labor Department reported Thursday morning.For the week ending May 11, the number of people filing for benef…