Problem Solving Skills, Not Latest Technology, the Key to Successful Marketing

Which print, digital and mobile marketing techniques are still relevant in today’s fast-paced, ever-changing marketing world? Marketing professionals spend most of their time trying to find an answer to that question. But the Incite Summit, a conference held in Manhattan last week, encouraged attendees to think about marketing relevance in new ways.“The question you have […]

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Why Some Women Are Struggling to Prepare for Retirement, and It’s Exactly Why You Think

The past decades have been about empowering women in the workplace, ensuring that they get paid the same as men for equal work. That doesn’t always happen, so some have ventured into their entrepreneurship. Many local woman owned businesses are thriving, but in this tricky economy, even the bosses are finding it hard to retire. […]

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Oxford Dictionaries Names ‘Vape’ Its Word of the Year for 2014

Slang terms come and go, but when the linguaphiles at Oxford Dictionaries, run by Oxford University Press, name one as the “Word of the Year,” it could indicate some longevity rather than a trend. This year’s word, according to the Oxford Dictionaries blog, is “vape” — which refers to both the act of puffing on […]

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Durham Opens An Apartment Building For Homeless Veterans

One of the many challenges facing veterans in modern American society is finding safe and affordable housing. Because of this difficulty, combined with prevalent rates of mental, emotional and physical trauma, many returning servicemen and women have found themselves living on the streets or bouncing from shelter to shelter. Fortunately, a number of organizations in […]

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Spike TV Announces Newest Furniture Design Competition, Hosted by Hip-Hop Mogul Common

What happens when you take a popular hip-hop artist and a furniture designing competition, mix them together, and turn them into a reality TV show? You end up with Spike TV’s newest series, “Framework,” which premiers on January 6 and features Common, an artist and actor who is well known on the hip-hop scene. According […]

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U.S. Mobile Payment Market Forecast Looks Bright, According to Research Firm

Cash may no longer be king by the time 2019 rolls around. It was only a few years ago that the idea of paying for items at the checkout counter with your phones seemed like something straight out of a science fiction movie, or a technology pipe dream. However, according to point-of-sale industry experts, that […]

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Nickelodeon’s Miranda Cosgrove Files $2.5 Million Personal Injury Lawsuit

Actress, Miranda Cosgrove, best known as Nickelodeon’s iCarly, recently attended court accompanied by her mother in order to file a new $2.5 million lawsuit against the tour bus drivers involved in her August 2011 car crash accident. Cosgrove believes the 2011 accident may have permanently ruined her career. In legal documents submitted to the court, […]

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