By MICHAEL SOKOLOVE Nearly everything about the Foxwoods Resort Casino is improbable, beginning with its scale. It is the largest casino in the Western Hemisphere — a gigantic, labyrinthine wonderland set down in a cedar…
By JEREMY W. PETERS When presidential candidates have a message they want voters to hear far and wide, they have typically turned to that old campaign standby: the television ad. But as President Obama and…
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By JANE GROSS IT is two minutes before 9 at night. The Staples store I use, for tasks I once did in an office, closes at 9. After I press my face to the glass…
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT WASHINGTON — During the five-month period between October and February, there were 86 reported attacks on computer systems in the United States that control critical infrastructure, factories and databases, according to…
BY JESSE EISINGER Finally, the House passed a jobs bill last week. And what a bill it is! Officially called the Jump-Start Our Business Start-Ups Act, it calls for reopening our capital markets to exciting…
By JULIE BOSMAN After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print. Those coolly authoritative, gold-lettered reference books that were once sold door-to-door by a fleet of traveling salesmen and displayed as proud…
By NICK BILTON Clarified Mr. Shellen’s departure. On Friday, AOL notified more than 40 employees from its West Coast offices that they would be out of jobs by the end of the month. More cuts…
The South by Southwest (SXSW) music, film and interactive festival draws an affluent crowd of technology geeks and celebrities. The festival has been produced since 1987 by SXSW Inc., a private company based in Austin….
By Joanna Stern AUSTIN, Texas — The city of Austin is about to get a whole lot nerdier, at least for the next couple of days. The annual South by Southwest Interactive festival (don’t call…
Jessica Misener Sara Blakely, the founder of ubiquitous shapewear company Spanx, debuts on one of the covers of Forbes’ new Billionaires issue as the youngest self-made woman to earn the big “B” title at age…
By Dylan Reid Facebook’s recent filing has many commentators likening the social networking site, started in a Harvard dorm, to the search giant Google, founded by two Stanford PhDs less than a decade earlier. But…
By Rebecca Shapiro Media watchdogs have been paying close attention to the commercials aired during Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, as nearly 50 advertisers have pulled their content from the program in wake of the controversy…
by Margaret Wheeler Johnson HuffPost Women is at South By Southwest this weekend, and we’re thrilled to be hosting a panel on an issue we wanted to discuss with other women: anxiety about who you…
By STEPHANIE STROM Educators are giving YouTube — long dismissed as a storehouse of whimsical, time-wasting and occasionally distasteful videos — another look. As Google, YouTube’s parent company, fine-tunes a portal that lets schools limit…
By BEN SISARIO For a glimpse at the next phase in YouTube’s evolution, look no further than a stray crutch and a $20 birthday cake for Justin Bieber. Those were among the props at a…
A look at how a company went from start-up to Internet titan, and changed the way the world uses the Web in the process. Source: New York Times Video
By Alicia Eler Facebook is an accepted means of communication. It is a never-ending virtual social gathering filled with adopted puppies, cute LOL kitties, baby announcements, viral articles and videos, events, groups, organizations and fan…
BY GEOFF DUNCAN Google is unifying Android Market as well as its book, music, and movie services under the moniker Google Play. But is it clearer, or more confusing? Internet giant Google raised eyebrows yesterday…
Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with more than 800 million active users around the world, and roughly 200 million in the United States, or two-thirds of the population. Created in 2004 by Mark…
by Matthew Inman Facebook Personality Types: The Gamer – The invites and updates will never stop The Event Coordinator – They invite everyone to everything The Desperate Marketer – Their idea of marketing on Facebook…
It may be time to buy the iRumor and sell the iFact. With Apple Inc. set to unveil its latest blockbuster device Wednesday, the iPad3, a window isn’t only opening on one of the most-profitable…
By David Camoy Inevitably, whenever Apple releases a new product, there’s a little disappointment over what was missing. Here’s a look at some of the things Apple didn’t deliver in this iPad release. The dust…
By Poornima Gupta and Alexei Oreskovic (Reuters) – Apple Inc took the wraps off a faster 4G-equipped iPad on Wednesday, hoping the latest version of its tablet can safeguard its dominance as rivals from Amazon…
By Adam Satariano Apple Inc. (AAPL) introduced a new version of the iPad, beefing up its two-year-old mobile computer with a sharper screen and faster chip to widen its lead over Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), Microsoft…
Fun Spot Action Park, just off International Drive in Orlando, is growing. The 13 year-old, 5 acre park has just purchased an adjacent 10 acres to triple its size. Plans are being developed for the…
By Chris Velazco Google’s Android Market has undergone some tremendous changes over the last year or so. What started as just a standalone app store has quickly grown to encompass e-books, music, videos, and now…
By Chenda Ngak (CBS News) Google launched Google Play Tuesday – an entertainment hub which will house movies, music, e-books, games and apps in one location. Full coverage of Google at Tech Talk “Starting today,…
By KARYN MONGET Three decades ago, Calvin Klein triggered debate — and a publicity bonanza — when 15-year-old Brooke Shields purred, “You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing.” These days,…
By Steve Tobak There’s hypocrisy in the corporate world that’s begging to be called out. Everybody thinks they’re a marketing expert. Your boss, the CEO, the IT guy – I bet half the people in your…
BY PAUL AND SARAH EDWARDS When you’re a homebased business owner, you have several options when it comes to the formal structure of your business: sole proprietorship, limited liability company (LLC) or corporation. If you’re…
BY TRACY STAPP “I really didn’t want a ‘real job.’ I wanted to work for myself,” Bill Buckley recalls. “And I loved working from home.” That was 1995, after Buckley had spent 25 years in…
Financial Plan: A comprehensive evaluation of an investor’s current and future financial state by using currently known variables to predict future cash flows, asset values and withdrawal plans. Most individuals work in conjunction with an…
By Jessica Guynn A New York man is not giving up his fight for half of Mark Zuckerberg’s multibillion-dollar stake in Facebook. Paul Ceglia has added new lawyers to his legal team, including Sanford Dumain,…
By Jon Busdeker Belinda Messer wore a leopard-print bra, purple underwear and brown boots at work last Friday. And nothing else. Messer is a barista at Java Girls on Lee Road in Orlando, a coffee…
Trongs are gripping and lifting tools which are made up of three limbs, or finger-channels, each with teeth on the end of them. They are generally made of polypropylene and are dishwasher safe. Trongs…
By NICK BILTON SAN FRANCISCO — The private photos on your phone may not be as private as you think. Developers of applications for Apple’s mobile devices, along with Apple itself, came under scrutiny this…
By NICK BILTON SAN FRANCISCO –I wouldn’t describe the car industry as fun. The airline industry isn’t fun either. Phone companies are far from fun. Yet these industries all started out fun. They began with…
Rochester, N.Y. — Some Bank of America customers received letters in the mail Saturday informing them of a possible security breach. The bank states, “We take your account security very seriously and have learned that…
By Yardena Schwartz July 19 (Source: By Yardena Schwartz, The Miami Herald) – When William Toro’s car stopped running a few years ago, he was short on cash and didn’t have easy access to credit….
World of Beer has arrived in Central Florida — with the openings of three franchise stores in Lake Mary, near UCF and in the Dr. Phillips area. And after stopping by the Lake Mary and…
by Melanie J. Martin Florida pawn shops must obtain a license from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Pawn shop owners must renew their license annually. In addition to obeying state laws, pawnbrokers…
By Roger Thorne The buying and selling of used or secondhand goods has been going on since the earliest days of history. In Florida, pawn shops and other secondhand goods dealers must comply with numerous…
All pawnshops are required to apply and obtain a license with the Department annually. Each pawnshop must maintain a net worth of at least $50,000 or file security in the form of a surety bond,…
By KEN BELSON Linsanity may have cooled a bit after the Knicks lost two games in recent days. But by one measure, the fervor for Jeremy Lin, the sensation also known as the Knicks’ point…
By Michelle Smith As of last week, the IRS had cut fewer checks and refunded less money than during the same period last year. USA Today reports that taxpayers, who are waiting longer than normal…
The U.S. Postal Service, which predicts an annual loss of $18.2 billion by 2015, plans to eliminate 5.4 percent of its workforce by closing almost half of its mail-processing facilities to cut costs. The service…
by Richard W. Caperton Continuing and expanding investments in clean energy is the smart choice to meet the next generation of energy challenges and produce a foundation of affordable, reliable, and clean energy alternatives. Budget…
by Jason Snell A year ago, nobody had an iPad. Then Apple sold 15 million of them in just nine months, creating a whole new category of technology product. The iPad may have become, in…
The iPad 2 is the best tablet available, but it brings its own share of frustrations. By Galen Gruman I really like the iPad 2. I use mine every day for work and personal purposes,…
