December 10, 2011
Unless you still make wooden toys for the kids, your gift-giving options are a bit more complex in the digital world. The kids and adults on your list are wound up about brand loyalty and obsessed with getting the latest Android or Apple anything released...
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November 6, 2011
People are shopping for iPhones this year. Now, iPhones are shopping for people.There’s an app for that.Companies that own some of this region’s largest centers are rolling out free smartphone apps to guide customers to stores, help them find...
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October 29, 2011
GREENSBORO — Guilford County’s unemployment rate dropped in September when compared with August, according to a new report from the state’s Employment Security Commission. The unemployment rate improved in 92 of the state’s 100 co...
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October 9, 2011
A staggering 10 percent of Triad workers are unemployed, and although that takes a huge toll on the region, the remaining 90 percent of workers have worries of their own. We depend on our employers, our customers and our leadership skills to survive in ha...
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The Top Workplaces 2011 survey was compiled by the News & Record in conjunction with Workplace Dynamics, a company that surveys employees across the country.
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May 11, 2011
Here’s a ranking for all of us to worry about: Three of North Carolina's communities, including the Piedmont Triad, are among the top-10 gas-guzzling regions in the U.S., according to a new Forbes survey.
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April 28, 2011
ASHEBORO — CommunityOne Bank was celebrating its rescue from the brink of failure when a dark cloud blew in.Hours after the financially troubled bank announced its merger with Bank of Granite, the U.S. Department of Justice said it had reached a def...
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April 8, 2011
GREENSBORO — For more than a year, air traffic controllers at Piedmont Triad International Airport have complained that they can’t see parts of the airport’s new runway and taxiways.
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April 6, 2011
GREENSBORO — A little good news for the state’s economy could be a crisis for about 37,000 people who draw unemployment checks every week. The state’s unemployment rate has dropped, and it no longer qualifies for extended unemploym...
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April 5, 2011
A little good news for the state’s economy could be a crisis for about 37,000 people who draw unemployment checks every week. The federal government said about a week ago that North Carolina’s unemployment rate has dropped and it no longer qu...
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April 4, 2011
A new iPad app could lighten the load of furniture sales representatives at the High Point Market this week. For decades, manufacturers’ representatives have carried thick stacks of catalogs, sometimes weighing more than 100 pounds, to show potentia...
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March 31, 2011
GREENSBORO — Moses Cone Health System will join three agencies to open a Regional Center for Infectious Diseases that will make it easier to treat such diseases as HIV, AIDS and other infectious diseases. Moses Cone will open the center Monday at 11...
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March 30, 2011
GREENSBORO — Shampoo, vitamins, a Beatles album.Forty years ago, you could pick up all that and your prescription at the neighborhood pharmacy: 1971’s version of sophisticated marketing.
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March 29, 2011
GREENSBORO – The first HondaJet that conforms to FAA regulations for testing has now been flown at its maximum speed of 489 mph at 30,000 feet, the company said Tuesday.Honda Aircraft Co. said the jet hit a slightly higher speed than the company had...
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March 23, 2011
ASHEBORO — CommunityOne Bank is scrambling to raise the money it needs to operate while rising losses and bad loans push it dangerously close to failure.
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March 21, 2011
HIGH POINT — The High Point Market Authority announced Monday that its president and CEO will leave his position effective April 30.Brian Casey, who has been in his position since 2006, joined the market at a time when attendance was dropping and La...
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March 14, 2011
GREENSBORO – Honda Aircraft Co. has canceled a media tour set for Tuesday of its new manufacturing plant in Greensboro out of respect for the earthquake-tsunami disaster in Japan.
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March 13, 2011
GREENSBORO — The Apple iPad 2 that went on sale March 11 marks a turning point for the tablet computer business and for Greensboro’s RF Micro Devices.
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March 9, 2011
GREENSBORO — Triad employment agencies say local businesses are hiring more temporary workers — which suggests companies are planning to grow.It may be only a few hundred or a few thousand workers among the dozens of temporary services compani...
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March 7, 2011
GREENSBORO — Deep Roots Market has raised about 75 percent of $1.25 million to build a relocated store north of downtown.The company said that it has raised the money through store savings, owner equity, commercial lenders and loans from its owners...
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March 3, 2011
In an economy when many banks are hardly able to maintain respectable balance sheets, a strong Triad bank is not only growing, it has donated two properties to a group that hopes to help troubled women and girls.
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March 1, 2011
HIGH POINT — A group of investors has agreed to buy the International Home Furnishings Center, the largest showroom at High Point Market. The 3.5 million-square-foot showroom will sell for about $275 million, according to a filing with the Securitie...
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Bell Partners, which owns or manages 206 apartment properties in 16 states, has increased its Greensboro portfolio to six properties. The company said Tuesday it has purchased and changed the name of Brassfield Park to Bell Brassfield. With 336 apartments...
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February 14, 2011
GREENSBORO — A new report by the real estate industry confirms what people who are trying to sell a house in Greensboro already know: They’re waiting longer to sell and accepting lower prices. “I wish I could tell you 2010 was a turnarou...
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February 10, 2011
Greensboro’s business and college communities don’t have a good history of joining together. But that is changing now that Action Greensboro is working with the city’s seven colleges and universities to promote jobs and business growth.
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