American Airlines parent company AMR Corporation and US Airways have announced a merger to create the world’s largest airline, exceeding United Airlines and Delta Air Lines with 6,700 daily flights. …
The popular subscription-based online learning site lynda.com has acquired video2brain, a video training company located in Graz, Austria. Lynda.com produces instructional videos for business and technology professionals. Founded in 1995, …
The United States Commerce Department announced growth in U.S. retail sales, and even though the growth was modest – just 0.1 percent in January 2013 over the previous month – …
President Obama signed an executive order on Feb. 12 to build up cybersecurity infrastructure. He issued the order right before his State of the Union address to emphasize the importance …
The Treasury Department reported a budget surplus for the United States government in the month of January, in part because of new revenues from a payroll tax cut that expired …
A new study by Gallup found that Americans today believe a college education is very important, and they strongly support the current redesigning of higher education to make it more …
A recent survey by the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at UCLA revealed that the top consideration in college decision making is a school’s academic reputation. Coming in second was …
A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau has found that the number of advanced degree holders in the United States has increased rapidly in the last 10 years. The …
It’s a new type of tour of duty – for IT professionals. The government is issuing a call to arms for IT pros to work on federal IT projects for …
The manufacturing sector in the United States expanded in January for the second month in a row, according to a report by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). Out of …