James Avery to open his 54 store in San Antonio area this June. The store will be his eight in San Antonio area. “We are excited to open this new location and hope that it resonates with the residents of South San Antonio,” said company vice president Paul Avery. “We’ve had a presence in San Antonio for many years and ... Read More »
McDonald’s Shrek glass recall
McDonald’s is recalling 12 million “Shrek” glass cups because the paint on them contains cadmium, a toxic metal. If you bought any (they were sold for $2 apiece, according to this report), they should be returned to McDonald’s for a refund. In the meantime, the story says, please keep them away from your children. You can find the original report ... Read More »
Hewlett-Packard to cut 9K jobs in services unit
Hewlett Packard popularly known as HP has decided to cut 9000 employees that provides technology services to other businesses as the company is looking to consolidate its commercial data center. HP said the job cuts will result from productivity gains and automation in the data centers, which are clusters of computers that HP’s business customers tap into to store data, ... Read More »
Rave Motion Pictures Now 5th Largest Theater Circuit
Rave Motion Pictures has been buying a lot of theaters across the US. Now is set to further expand by buying upto 39 cinemas nationwide. This will boost it and make it the 5th largest Theater Circuit in the US based on the number of screens. Rave Motion Pictures is a Dallas-based company. Rave and its managers together with a ... Read More »
Google loses the Canadian Groovle case
Been a sad 2009 year for google. Not only it faced advertisers downfall and rivals uprising but also the imitation of its own domain name. A Canadian small business company named 207 media, has open a domain in the name of Groovle.com for serving the goal of search engine purpose. Well, if your thinking that its a new search engine, ... Read More »
Google sued by Chinese author Mian Mian
The Big G has been sued by a Chinese author Mian Mian. Mian Mian sued Google in October after Google scanned one of her books, Acid House, and added it to Google’s Library. Google said it had removed the book as soon as it learned of the lawsuit, but had no further comment on the case. She is seeking damages ... Read More »
Google Trying to Buy Yelp
Looks like Google is looking forward to close the deal by the end of this year. In case you are wondering what Yelp is. Yelp is a local search that also reviews all kinds of businesses from restaurants to spas, pretty much everything. Google is reportedly brokering a deal to buy local search and review property Yelp for $500 million.The ... Read More »