Panera Bread Co is stepping up its bacon game. And they are doing it as a part of the restaurant industry’s new effort to purify its ingredients overall; and Panera wants to be the first national chain to serve what they are calling “clean” bacon. Bacon, of course, is not necessarily known as the “cleanest” […]
The International Monetary Fund has released the results of a new study to discuss the economic impact of present conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa. In fact, the study calls the impact “massive and persistent,” which has resulted in vastly escalating inflation and a dramatic hindrance of currency value to incite a major […]
In case you haven’t heard, Twitter has plans to stream NFL games and the first of 10 is set for Thursday night. The match between the New York Jets and the Buffalo Bills will actually stream exclusively on Twitter as part of a major initiative to improve video streaming of live events—and particularly sporting events—through […]
This week, the United States Department of Justice proposed that Deutsche Bank AG to pay $14 billion as a settlement for a handful of high-profile mortgage-securities probes that befell the institution as a result of the recent financial crisis. This payout amount, would compare, then, with the largest penalties that other banks would have had […]
Exxon Mobile Corp is currently under scrutiny from a probe by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. One major aspect of this probe is to discern why the company did not write down the value of oil and gas reserves they had during a global collapse in energy prices. The main idea behind the inquiry […]
Digital books, or e-readers, continue to grow in popularity but they may never fully overtake physical books. While there is something about the texture of paper and the weight of binding, readers are attracted to physical books because they tend to be easier to read than e-readers. Of course, technology continues to improve and many […]
Mobile phones are notoriously fragile. They fall and break, screens shatter, any exposure to water or moisture can short them out. It is the price to pay, of course, to have the latest and greatest smartphone that is also small enough to fit in your pocket. But the thing about the Samsung Galaxy S Active […]
Music streaming services have changed the music industry as a whole. Services like Pandora, iHeartRadio, Spotfiy, and (of course) iTunes have affected the music distribution model, encouraging healthy competition around the world in this emerging Android smartphone application market. For example, Deezer is a music streaming service in France that has been growing in popularity, […]
Motorola is a reliable brand but they still don’t get the kind of recognition that Samsung, LG, and HTC get; at least not in the mobile device market. Perhaps being the dark horse is a good thing, though, as it makes it possible to reach a certain level of success without having to worry about […]