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The Austen BioInnovation Institute is doing its part to keep things green.The Institute is providing a vehicle charging station at its parking lot on Main Street in downtown Akron.It is used by...
View ArticleCompetition concerns spur FBI investigation into Pilot Flying J firm
NASHVILLE: When Pilot, the country’s largest truck stop chain, bought its nearest competitor Flying J out of bankruptcy in 2009, federal trade officials worried the combined entity owned by the...
View ArticleArea victims of ID theft could be part of large ring
Police in at least five Northeast Ohio communities are investigating clusters of identity theft victims who are neighbors and whose identities have been used to rack up charges across the country.The...
View ArticleToyota to build Lexus in Kentucky, add 750 jobs
GEORGETOWN, KY.: Toyota will start building the Lexus ES 350 at a factory in Georgetown, Ky., in 2015, producing a luxury brand vehicle for the first time in the United States.The Japanese company said...
View ArticleBusiness news briefs — April 20
local businessSmucker sets dividendJ.M. Smucker Co. (NYSE: SJM) of Orrville declared a dividend of 52 cents a share, payable June 3 to shareholders of record May 17.The company also announced that its...
View ArticleStocks recover slightly, ending tough week
NEW YORK: Strong earnings from two technology giants helped the stock market recover some of its losses Friday, a positive end to Wall Street’s worst week in five months.Microsoft and Google both beat...
View ArticleUAW seeks foothold in South with Tennessee Volkswagen plant
Labor unions, after years of dismal results across the South, could be headed for a breakthrough at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn.The United Auto Workers is lobbying the factory’s 3,100...
View ArticleAre you a savvy manager of your IRA?
When it comes to retirement planning, most of the focus is placed on 401(k)s. The reality is that individual retirement accounts represent the largest share of America’s savings.At the end of last...
View ArticleBurger King takes slow steps forward after long malaise
Chris Ondrula runs Burger King’s second-largest franchise operation, so he can’t ignore McDonald’s. It’s his largest competitor, and he drives by the chain’s global headquarters twice a day.Oak Brook,...
View ArticleHow to prepare for retirement in adverse times
No one can predict the future, but there are many reasons to believe that in the coming years, retirees will not be as well off as their predecessors.Corporations and state and local governments have...
View ArticleOhio’s March unchanged unemployment rate hides 20,400 job losses
Ohio’s unemployment rate was unchanged in March at 7.1 percent even as the number of people working in the state dropped by more than 20,000.Ohio’s jobless rate remained below the national average of...
View ArticleAkron telecommunications company calls for growth
Terence Clark of Akron is more than happy to be just one of 10,000.The owner of 15-employee ClarkTel Tele-Communications is participating in the intensive Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses...
View ArticleCoding boot camps promise to launch tech careers
SAN FRANCISCO: Looking for a career change, Ken Shimizu decided he wanted to be a software developer, but he didn’t want to go back to college to study computer science.Instead, he quit his job and...
View ArticleID Theft Resources
Tips for ID theft victims/prevention• The Identity Theft Resource Center is a non-profit agency in San Diego that offers free victim assistance at 888-400-5530 or www.idtheftcenter.org• The Ohio...
View ArticleGoodyear, Steelworkers to start working on new contract
The last time the United Steelworkers union negotiated contracts with the big three U.S. tire companies that employ thousands, the nation was still reeling from the Great Recession.That was in 2009....
View ArticleBusiness people — April 21
Fifth Third BankCharles R. Shaw was appointed senior vice president, wealth management executive. He is responsible for leading Fifth Third private bank and institutional wealth management activities...
View ArticleBusiness calendar — April 21
TuesdayToastmasters Akron 151 — 6:30 to 8 p.m., Summa St. Thomas Hospital, 444 N. Main St., Akron. Information: 330-733-7683.Northeast Ohio Business Alliance — 7:30 to 9 a.m., Real Estate Capital...
View ArticleBusiness news briefs — April 21
SOCIAL MEDIAGM returns to FacebookFacebook Inc. won back General Motors Co. as an advertising customer a year after the automaker said it would quit running marketing messages on the world’s largest...
View ArticleBusiness notebook — April 21
COMPANIESHitchcock Fleming & Associates Inc.The marketing and communications firm said it was recognized in BtoB magazine’s 2012 list of Top Agencies as the largest Northeast Ohio-based agency and...
View ArticleBetty Lin-Fisher: Extra credit-card payments cause confusion
A recent inquiry by a reader about whether her minimum and extra payments on her credit card were being applied correctly led to a flurry of emails, phone calls and a good education on new credit-card...
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