Amazon To Hire 80,000 Holiday Workers
An increase in customer demand is prompting Amazon to add 14 percent more temporary workers this holiday season than it hired last year at this time.
Economy
Turmoil Continues In Financial Markets As Dow Plunges
Stocks took a beating on Wednesday, with the Dow and the S&P 500 falling more than 2 percent before bouncing back slightly. Money flowed into safe haven investments such as U.S. Treasuries.
New Alliance Formed To Market The Piedmont
Economic development officials in High Point and elsewhere in the Triad are banding together in a new initiative. The idea is to spotlight the diversity of the region's economy.
The Holidays Bring A New Season For Credit Card Breaches
Shoppers are heading into the heavy-spending season with no new credit safeguards in place. Experts say it'll be at least another year before the U.S. system moves beyond technology from the 1970s.
How College Students Battled Textbook Publishers To A Draw, In 3 Graphs
The price of new textbooks has gone through the roof. But what students spend on books has barely budged.
How Millennials Are Reshaping Charity And Online Giving
The generation now coming of age is spending — and giving — differently. New York-based Charity: Water gets it, and it's been a boon to its cause.
School Facilities Strained By Boom In Petroleum Engineering
Students want to cash in on that growing job market. Those high paying jobs are also attracting petroleum engineering professors. So there are fewer professors to teach ballooning classes.
Economics Nobel Awarded For Work On Regulating Big Businesses
French economist Jean Tirole studies oligopolies — markets that are controlled by a handful of powerful, interdependent companies.
French Economist Wins Nobel For Work On Regulating Big Business
The Nobel committee said Jean Tirole has helped to reshape regulators' policies with his idea that the same rules have different effects — good and bad — in different industries.
High Point Considers A "Street Diet" To Grow Commerce
The city of High Point may slim a five-lane road down to three to promote more pedestrian traffic and, hopefully, business growth.