ShortFormBlog: Japanese electronics giant Olympus Corp to lay off thousands

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  • 2,500 jobs cut to offset recent financial setbacks source

» The layoffs follow a recent settlement between Olympus and former-CEO Michael Woodford, who sued the company for unfair-dismissal following his firing in October 2011. Woodford is responsible for unearthing massive…

ShortFormBlog: All hands on deck: Police chief deployed ten officers to find son's iPhone

Perhaps the true reason why our economy is STILL down is because most people don’t understand that everyone has to be on a budget nowadays…

..and why criminals still run free.

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  • cause In January, a freshman at a California high school found that his iPhone, which had Apple’s Find My iPhone software installed, was missing from his locker. He informed his father, who happens to be the Berkeley police chief.
  • reaction Chief Michael Meehan put ten officers on the case,…

Some Ideas of What You Should Do to Make Yourself Financially Happier

This article does a really good job in giving you some endorsed (very likely) but still useful tips as to what banking accounts or savings you should be using if you’re a college student, at home parent, or a no credit/undercredit person.  For me, I believe all three scenarios are impactful since there is me and my mom (who has been a homemaker for a while) that can relate to the article.

Have fun saving! :)

China’s Wanda Buys AMC

5.20.2012

By Diamond

Wanda Group Chariman Wang Jianlin

We hear about China’s positive GDP every year and Chinese company’s continue to buy out foreign companies worldwide. For those of us that live in the US, the AMC brand that we all know will soon be owned by a Chinese company. Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group Corp. will be acquiring AMC Entertainment Holdings in a deal worth about $2.6 billion, the two companies stated this Monday.

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