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View ArticleWhere should you keep your retirement money?
How would you like to get the cost of managing your money — particularly your retirement assets — down to less than one-tenth of 1 percent?It can be done. But it won’t happen unless you are careful...
View ArticleConsumer Electronics Show highlights smartphones’ role as command center
LAS VEGAS: The smartphone is evolving from a communications and computing device to a command center and control panel for a wide range of other devices.At the recent Consumer Electronics Show, various...
View ArticleNintendo’s TVii tops button-laden remotes
Nintendo’s TV-watching tool for the new Wii U game console beats my regular remote control hands down.Called TVii, the service transforms how you watch television in three key ways. It turns the...
View ArticleFracking for natural gas being powered by it, too
HARRISBURG, PA.: Advances in hydraulic fracturing technology have powered the American natural gas boom. And now hydraulic fracturing could be increasingly powered by the very fuel it has been so...
View ArticleBusiness news briefs — Jan. 21
LOCAL BUSINESSLarger role for bank leaderThe leader of Charter One Bank in Ohio will add Michigan to his responsibilities.RBS Citizens Financial Group Inc. named Ken Marblestone as president, Charter...
View ArticleA total of 23 companies including No. 1 Chesapeake are active on Ohio’s Utica...
A total of 23 drilling companies are in pursuit of Ohio’s Utica shale, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management.That total was as of Jan. 12...
View ArticleNational Lampoon paid for Tim Durham’s defense, Fair Finance trustee says
Money from Animal House comedy movie maker National Lampoon paid for the criminal defense of convicted Fair Finance Co. schemer Timothy Durham, a bankruptcy court document alleges.Durham, the...
View ArticleDiebold’s new non-executive chairman of board brings global experience
Diebold Inc.’s new non-executive board chairman has plenty of familiarity with the cars and trucks that drive up to the bank ATMs the Green company makes.That’s because new Chairman Henry D.G. Wallace,...
View ArticleWhat to watch for as earnings news rolls in
With fourth-quarter earnings season under way, investors are returning to the familiar comfort of cold, hard numbers — news releases, conference calls and spreadsheets that provide a real view of...
View ArticleChildren’s recognized for electronic medical record use
Akron Children’s Hospital is seeing results from its multimillion dollar investment in information technology.The pediatric hospital recently was ranked among the top hospitals nationwide for...
View ArticleOhio gas prices continue to tick up
COLUMBUS: Ohio gas prices are still creeping up.The average price for a gallon of regular gas in Ohio was $3.29 in Tuesday’s survey from auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright...
View ArticleSummit County, Akron unemployment rates inch upward
Summit County’s jobless rate inched upward in December, but was down from a year ago, state figures released on Tuesday showed.The county’s unemployment rate was 6.2 percent last month, compared with 6...
View ArticleDish Network to close 300 Blockbuster stores in U.S.
DENVER: Dish Network Corp. says it plans to close about 300 Blockbuster stores across the country, losing about 3,000 employees.Company spokesman John Hall told the Denver Post on Monday that the...
View ArticleAT&T to buy Alltel operations for about $780M
DALLAS: AT&T Inc. said Tuesday that it has reached a deal to buy remnants of the Alltel wireless network for about $780 million to boost its spectrum holdings in rural areas.The Dallas-based phone...
View ArticleBusiness news briefs — Jan. 22
LOCAL BUSINESSAssuraMed makes acquisitionAssuraMed of Twinsburg has purchased the Invacare Supply Group medical supplies business from Invacare Corp. of Elyria for $150.8 million in cash, Invacare...
View ArticleFair Finance bankruptcy judge seeks to read criminal trial transcripts
Former Fair Finance Co. owner Don Fair gets to wait a while longer before he writes a big check.The judge overseeing the bankruptcy proceedings for Fair Finance Co., the Akron company that bears Fair’s...
View ArticleFirstMerit earnings for quarter, year are up
Akron-based FirstMerit Corp. on Tuesday reported increases in both its fourth quarter and 2012 year-end results.For the fourth quarter, the bank said its earnings rose 25.2 percent to $38.2 million, or...
View ArticleOmnova has profitable fourth quarter
Fairlawn polymer company Omnova Solutions Inc. showed a profit in the fourth quarter and for its full fiscal year.Omnova on Tuesday reported net income of $700,000, or 1 cent per share, on revenue of...
View ArticleStocks rise as tech, industrial earnings come in
NEW YORK: Strong earnings reports from big U.S. companies helped push the Dow Jones industrial average to its eighth gain in nine sessions Tuesday.DuPont, Verizon and Travelers Cos., three of the 30...
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