Business moves — Oct. 21
Timken Co.John J. Law was appointed vice president of light vehicle systems. He will direct the light vehicle systems business unit and lead sales activities. Thomas W. Tecklenburg was appointed...
View ArticleGildan challenging Buffett’s Fruit of the Loom
Gildan Activewear Inc.’s drive to take market share from Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s Fruit of the Loom and Hanesbrands Inc. has made it the best performing North American underwear stock this...
View ArticleHonda’s plan to double sales could put it on risky path
In an ambitious and risky expansion, Honda will nearly double global car sales to 6 million a year by 2017, the company’s leader recently said in Japan. Honda will also increase motorcycle sales 67...
View ArticleAnalysts, PC industry cool on new Windows 8 program
While Microsoft is touting the upcoming launch of Windows 8 as the savior of the computer industry, PC makers and analysts are increasingly skeptical that the new operating system will lure consumers...
View ArticleFederal retirees should focus on keeping some liquid assets
Q: I retired a year ago last June from the federal government. With my Civil Service Retirement System retirement and my husband’s Social Security, we have enough money to live on. I also saved in the...
View ArticleBetty Lin-Fisher: Financial aid scams, free insurance guides, postal...
Here are a few important consumer issues that have come across my desk:Financial aid scamThe University of Akron this week issued a special alert to its students about a potential scam aimed at college...
View ArticleGIVING TO GOOD CAUSES
• One Percent Foundation: Aimed at young adults in their 20s and 30s, the San Francisco-based group pools donations — ideally, 1 percent of annual income — and members vote on where to donate, based on...
View ArticleFinancial planning for the average investor
Of all the challenges individual investors face, one of the toughest is finding a good financial planner.As a generation of do-it-yourself investors grows older and their financial lives get more...
View ArticleCharitable giving not just for the ultra-rich
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett started it. Now a small but growing group of far-less-wealthy people are joining in by taking a public pledge to leave money to charity after they’re gone.And it doesn’t...
View ArticleAkron area costume shop survives frightening times
Akron resident Kal Matar was on the hunt for one of this year’s hottest Halloween costumes — Big Bird. The 23-year-old University of Akron student found a Big Bird-style get-up — not at one of the...
View ArticleNeighbors rocked by cluster of 14 new injection, production wells planned in...
WINDHAM TWP.: In what should be the still of the night, Natalie Baker can feel her house shake.It is a strange, disconcerting and troubling sensation, Baker says of the vibrations caused by a drilling...
View ArticleSome thoughts about the political season
“Vote Brisketarian,” the T-shirt proclaims, flanked by images of two American flags. The T-shirt appeared last spring during the annual Dripping Springs (Texas) Cook Off. More than 100 brisket teams...
View ArticleA smaller iPad could push ’tweener’ tablets into mainstream
Just two years ago, Apple’s late co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs mocked small-screened tablets as “tweeners” that were too little to compete with the larger iPad but too big to compete with...
View ArticleMicrosoft becomes friend and foe to PC partners
With the launch of its Surface tablet computer, Microsoft is becoming a genuine “frenemy” — part friend, part enemy — to its longtime manufacturing partners.Since its founding 37 years ago, the...
View ArticleTechnology helps with fitness goals
Many of us know firsthand that losing weight and staying fit can be tough. Technology has helped me keep tabs on what I was eating and how many calories I was burning.I used MyFitnessPal, a free...
View ArticleLocal primary-care doctors embracing ‘patient-centered medical home’ concept
Some local primary-care doctors want to make their office your home.The “patient-centered medical home” concept is growing, especially as government programs and private insurers alike increasingly...
View ArticleOhio gas prices down considerably from last week
COLUMBUS: Ohio motorists are once again seeing lower gas prices compared with last week.The average price for a gallon of regular gas in the state was $3.37 in Monday’s survey from auto club AAA, the...
View ArticleShale well is planned near Pennsylvania nuclear plant
A natural gas well that will be hydraulically fractured, or fracked, is planned one mile from FirstEnergy Corp.’s Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station in western Pennsylvania.A spokeswoman from First-...
View ArticleFedEx predicts 13% holiday gain led by cheaper services
FedEx Corp. on Monday projected a 13 percent gain in shipments during the peak holiday season between Thanksgiving in the U.S. and Christmas, driven by less-expensive services that are popular with...
View ArticleBusiness news briefs — Oct. 22
LOCAL BUSINESSYoung professionals luncheonThe Greater Akron Chamber’s Young Professionals Network’s Leadership Luncheon Series will continue Thursday with a program called A YP’s Path to Leadership:...
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