Walmart CEO's hourly wage equals one year salary of new employees. Chicago, Illinois Alderman Ed Smith presented figures at a recent city council meeting indicating a massive wage disparity between Walmart Executives and employees. Smith determined that Walmart CEO Michael Duke earns...
Apple CEO Steven Jobs has been given a medical leave of absence. The CEO will continue to perform all major decisions for the company during his absence but has enlisted Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook to handle Apple's daily operations. Jobs made the announcement of his leave via an email sent...
BP weighs Tony Hayward's job as CEO. In a board meeting scheduled for the evening of Monday, July 26, 2010, BP officials will determine "management changes" within the oil company responsible for the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. Speculation abounds that BP will offer Hayward a massive...
What was once considered a trend has become a way of life - and now the way we do business." Thus starts an infographic about The State of Social Media in 2012. For better or worse, we couldn't agree more. Everyone and their grandmothers (well, not quite;) are hooked to their gadgets, connected...
Trying to decide on a career path? Below, we've put together a sampling of the highest paying careers for 2012. To keep a balance, we've only included a maximum of two careers per field (health, business, science, engineering, etc.). A true list of the highest paying careers would be very skewed...
The Giving Pledge, created in June by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and investor Warren Buffett, has convinced over 57 billionares to give away at least half of their fortunes. Among the list of billionares who pledged to give away half of their wealth during their lifetime or after their death...
Atheism is generating quite a lot of attention these days. Prominent atheists are getting the word out about their views in increasing numbers and generating lots of public debate on the proper place of religion in governments and societies in the modern world. And now more than ever, atheists...
According to the Huffington Post President Obama plans to call on more regulatory oversight in a speech on the anniversary of the Lehman Brothers Collapse. Personally I've never seen that more regulation does good, but in this case I know the one big thing I'm really against is these huge bonuses,...
Greenway University, the first and only state approved medical marijuana education center, is opening a "pot" campus in Phoenix, Arizona. Founded by Gus Escamilla, the campus will "[provide] education while helping grow in a new American industry" per the industrious CEO. Greenway University...
Eastern Livestock, one of the biggest cattle brokers in the United States, is under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. Department of Agrilculture. The investigation stems from multiple cattle farmers' and banking institutions' complaints that Eastern allegedly issued $81...
