On Monday Japan announced that they will be injecting a 920 billion yen stimulus package into the Japanese economy to help safeguard a recovery that has been very fragile. “We decided on the basic plan comprising employment, investment, education,” said Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan. “We decided on the swift stimulus, using 920 billion yen [...]
Washington Nationals outfielder, Nyjer Morgan received a 7 game suspension from Major League Baseball for his actions during the Nationals game against the Phillies on August 21 at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. In the ninth inning of that game Morgan threw a baseball into the stands where it hit a fan. Morgan was also [...]
Claims for unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly on Thursday according to the Labor Department. The higher claims helped bring down shares on Wall Street and renewed concerns that the pace of the economic recovery might not be as quick as originally thought. Balancing out the fall of shares from the unemployment news was a report saying [...]
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) will reimburse guests up to $50 for checked bagged fees for U.S. customers that stay at their hotels between September 1, 2010 and December 30, 2010. IHG brand hotels include InterContinental, Hotel Indigo, Staybridge Suites, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Club Vacations, Holiday Inn Express, and Candlewood Suites. To qualify [...]
On Tuesday Brett Favre rejoined the Minnesota Vikings for his 20th and possibly last NFL season – or not. The Favre “will he or won’t he” retirement spectacle that has gone on the last few years has concluded for this season at least with his decision to try and lead the Vikings, one more time, [...]
Tuesday’s game between the Reds and Cardinals featured a bench clearing altercation that has resulted in the suspensions of Cincinnati’s pitcher Johnny Cueto and the managers of both teams, the Reds Dusty Baker and the Cardinals Tony La Russa. The interesting part about the suspensions is that the incident was started by Brandon Phillips and [...]
Simon Brand Ventures and shopkick today announced an alliance that will deliver shopkick’s location based shopping app to more than 100 large malls across the U.S. They expect the alliance to be completed in time for the upcoming holiday shopping season. The app works when a shopper that has the shopkick app downloaded to their [...]
Priceline.com announced today that they are launching a bounty-based price guarantee called Priceline Big Deal Guarantee. The guarantee will cover all of Priceline’s “Name Your Own Price” travel services which includes rental cars, hotel rooms and airline tickets as well as Priceline Vacation Packages. Basically, the way that the new guarantee works is that after [...]
Mark Papermaster, Apple’s vice-president of iPhone and iPod hardware engineering, has left the Cupertino, CA company after problems arose with the latest iPhone’s antenna. The antenna issues almost spoiled the device’s launch and also required a free fix for all the phones. Apple was forced to give a free case to solve the problem of [...]
In the first pre-season game of the year the Dallas Cowboys defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 16-7 in the annual Hall Of Fame Game in Canton, OH. The Hall Of Fame Game signals the beginning of the pre-season and featured Terrell Owens going up his former teammates from the Cowboys and Chad Ochocinco wearing gold shoes [...]
