2008's top tech trends
McClatchy Newspapers
1/7/2009, by Troy Wolverton
San Jose Mercury News (MCT) - It would have been hard for even the most innovative product to stand out last year in such a lousy economy. But even had the economy been good, the tech industry wouldn't have earned many headlines. In short, there was nothing comparable to the debut of the iPhone or ...
Layoffs vs. buyouts
McClatchy Newspapers
12/30/2008, by Andrew McIntosh
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - With hundreds of public and private employers in the region downsizing, some, like Hewlett-Packard Co., are laying off workers, while others, like the city of Sacramento, are offering buyouts. Both moves help employers reduce head counts and cut wage and benefit ...
Don't expect 2009 to be a year of recovery or even shoring up
McClatchy Newspapers
12/22/2008, by Greg Burns
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - The job. The house. The investments. The foundations of America's financial well-being gave way in 2008, and they may have even further to fall in 2009. The promise of an eventual economic recovery keeps receding deeper into the coming year as the bad news mounts ...
It's getting to be hard work finding work
McClatchy Newspapers
12/4/2008, by H.J. Cummins
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - Paul Ries can't keep a job. His last one ended in early November when his employer, a Minneapolis medical device company, closed a factory. It was at least the sixth job since 2004 for Ries, including temp work at a local refinery _ twice _ and at another medical ...
Some recent retirees back at work; some just cut back
McClatchy Newspapers
10/27/2008, by Joel Dresang
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT) - Carolyn Lawrence figures she lost so much from her retirement fund in recent weeks that she'll need to work at least three years more just to cover the difference. Lawrence, who's 62, retired two years ago.
Concerns about the economy and the preservation of her ...
Economy leaving car dealers in the dust
McClatchy Newspapers
10/17/2008, by Maria Panaritis
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - All roads of economic turmoil have intersected these last few weeks at the feet of 63-year-old Tony Costello: Lifelong car salesman, workaholic, holder of an unexpectedly anorexic 401(k) and, now, soon to be unemployed. Costello's home for the last 38 years _ ...
Debit cards bring risk of wiped-out account
McClatchy Newspapers
10/13/2008, by Robert Rodriguez
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Out of cash? No checks? Not a problem for millions nationwide who rely on a debit card to pay for everything from appliances to trips to the zoo.
But as consumers _ and merchants, too _ enjoy the convenience of plastic cash, computer hackers and thieves increasingly ...
Fertilizer prices soar, but makers cite oversupply
McClatchy Newspapers
10/9/2008, by Chris Serres
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - Jim Nichols braced himself for a big number when he recently called his local grain elevator for a price on phosphate, a key ingredient of fertilizer. Even so, the Lake Benton, Minn., corn farmer and former state agriculture commissioner found himself laughing _ ...
Credit crunch arrives on Main Street
McClatchy Newspapers
10/7/2008, by Greg Burns
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - After four decades running his Chicago used-car dealership, Robert Glowa recently had to lay off his only employee: Robert Jr. The 62-year-old had hoped to pass the business on to his son, a mechanic, as his father had done for him. But hard economic times nixed that plan. ...
Most U.S. workers use Net while on the job
McClatchy Newspapers
9/30/2008, by Andrew D. Smith
The Dallas Morning News (MCT) - More than 70 percent of working Americans now use the Internet on the job _ and it has utterly changed how most of them operate. Researchers from the Pew Internet & American Life Project say it's hard to find workers who use the Internet occasionally. Most use it ...
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