It’s funny how things work sometimes. During a recent conversation, I made the comment that the newspaper most at risk from the launch of Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily (Newscorp’s very well-executed daily newspaper released specifically for the iPad) was USA Today. Low and behold, a MinnPost article today is reporting that Gannett is exploring the [...]
The talk all week about the Superbowl commercials leads me to wonder what percentage of the record audience actually tuned in to watch the game itself. It was, in case people might have overlooked it, a great football game and I hate to admit, as a Minnesotan, that I was cheering hard for the Packers [...]
As a follow-up to yesterday’s jobs report for January from LinkUp, I wanted to highlight a little further what is happening on a state by state basis in terms of the growth in new job listings on company websites. Not only did new job postings on corporate websites rise 16% in January, from 433,000 in [...]
After a disappointing jobs report in December, pressure is mounting for a positive report this Friday when the Department of Labor releases their jobs numbers for January. All indicators are pointing to a positive report for the month. ADP estimates that the U.S. gained 187,000 jobs, Intuit is reporting that small businesses added 70,000 jobs, [...]