With 35% of IT services today delivered totally, or partially, by cloud, it should come as no surprise that cloud computing is a huge industry. However, few people realized exactly how much this market was worth until Amazon and Microsoft…
Telecommuting has a lot of benefits, and not just for employees. Nearly six out of 10 employers identify cost savings as a significant benefit to telecommuting. Aside from perks for both employees and employers, telecommuting offers several environmental benefits as…
A Plum Island, MA resident is perturbed over what he feels to be an excessive bill for the repair work done on his home’s sewage system, and is taking his plight to city hall. The Daily News of Newburyport reports that Mark…
Blue Bell Ice Cream announced last week that the company has extended an existing recall to include all of its products. The company issued a recall earlier this month after a health risk was discovered in half-gallon units of the…
It’s a simple mobile app with a simple name — Spring — but it’s something that that marketing experts are calling the first successful “cyber mall,” and it might just change the way consumers think about mobile shopping. The company…
New craft beers and keeping things weird are the norm in Portland, OR, but a new venture is combining both and taking weirdness to a whole new level. After months of waiting, a group of homebrewers has finally gotten the…
As technologies continue to advance, it’s becoming increasingly likely that even the forklift — a vehicle responsible for manual material movement at warehouses everywhere — will soon become integrated into the “Internet of Things.” According to a March 16 Forbes article, forklifts…
To say that the solar power industry in the United States is booming is truly an understatement. It’s estimated that a new solar photovoltaic (PV) system is installed every four minutes, a fact highlighted by Maryland’s rapidly expanding residential solar…
The Manhattan Federal Court will hear a class-action lawsuit against Lumber Liquidators, the largest hardwood flooring company in the United States, over an alleged carcinogen present in its laminate flooring. The New York Post reports that the suit accuses the company of…
Though commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) loans are still doing very well, some financial experts are concerned that there may be too many CMBS lenders in the market today. National Real Estate Investor reports that the number of lenders who provide…