By Julianne Pepitone @CNNMoneyTech January 30, 2012: 2:03 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A long list of tech IPOs captured attention in 2011, but no company has been drooled over like Facebook. And finally, its debut looks to be imminent. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Facebook may file for an initial public offering as early as this Wednesday. It’s still not certain if Facebook will actually file this week. But that hasn’t stopped people from speculating about how much Facebook might be worth. Some experts have suggested that the social network could be worth anywhere between $75  [ Read More ]

Workplace accidents are common and often result in serious or traumatic injury. While some accidents may be unavoidable, others are the unfortunate result of employer negligence or poor occupational safety standards, practices or policies. Injuries, illnesses and deaths caused as a result of inadequate safety measures in and around the workplace can be grounds for a personal injury lawsuit. It is your right by law to work in a safe, secure and healthy working environment. Employment law specialists and workplace safety lawyers help ensure that companies are in compliance with the standards set forth by the Occupational Safety & Health  [ Read More ]

By: APP.com | Jan 25th, 2012 J.C. Penney is permanently marking down all of its merchandise by at least 40 percent so shoppers no longer have to wait for sales to get bargains. Penney said Wednesday that it is getting rid of the hundreds of sales it offers each year in favor of a simpler approach to pricing. Starting on Feb. 1, the retailer is rolling out an “Every Day” pricing strategy with much fewer sales throughout the year. The plan, the first major move by Apple executive Ron Johnson since he became Penney’s CEO in November, is different from  [ Read More ]

By: Nolo Law For All If you are employed at will, your employer does not need good cause to fire you. Job applicants and new employees are often perplexed to read–in a job application, employment contract, or employee handbook–that they will be employed “at will.” They are even more troubled when they find out exactly what this language means: An at-will employee can be fired at any time, for any reason (except for a few illegal reasons, spelled out below). If the employer decides to let you go, that’s the end of your job–and you have very limited legal rights  [ Read More ]

By: APP.com | Opinion In the seemingly endless struggle to make ends meet, New Jerseyans may well find themselves falling even further behind in 2012. As staff writer Jean Mikle pointed out in the Sunday Press, there are at least “8 Things That Will Cost You More This Year.” That might be tolerable if wages were keeping pace with rising prices. But they aren’t. It’s hard to argue, as Gov. Chris Christie has repeatedly tried to do, that New Jersey has staged a “comeback” when most residents are being nickled and dimed to death, and have no assurances that regular  [ Read More ]

by Stan Schroeder | Mashable Twitter has released the official stats showing the activity of its users during President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, providing an interesting insight in how the Twittersphere reacted to various parts of the speech. During the event, Twitter promoted five official hashtags: #jobs, #manufacturing, #energy, #education and #fairness. Unsurprisingly, those were among the hottest topics of the day, with #education being number one with 35,972 tweets. The highlights of the event, in terms of Twitter traffic, were Obama’s mention of Steve Jobs, the part about energy and the President’s “Spilled Milk” line,  [ Read More ]

This post is from Bob & Liz, who own the “Sound Station” record store business in Westfield, NJ. Sadly, their business burned to the ground yesterday. As if it’s not tough enough running a Ma & Pa retail business in today’s economy, now they have been devastated by this huge loss. Here’s Bob’s FB post about it: Our store is gone. Since 1988 I’ve been behind the counter just trying to get through to people about everything I love in life. It’s all gone now & I dont know how to deal. I feel like life is lost. Nothing inside  [ Read More ]

A whistleblower case against Boeing for fraudulent maintenance on Chinook helicopters, a military helicopter, was settled by the payment by Boeing for $4.392M. This type of corporate fraud, had it been publicly known, would have adversely effected the price of Boeing’s shares. The settlement discussed in this link did not address share holder damages for the inflated stock price inherent in Boeing’s fraudulent conduct. The case merely recovered Government funds for the fraudulent maintenance services the Government was unjustifiably charged for. To report corporate securities fraud of this type, or any other please contact our office today for a secure  [ Read More ]

Posted by CNN Political Reporter Peter Hamby CNN) –Texas Gov. Rick Perry suspended his struggling presidential campaign Thursday and threw his support to Newt Gingrich, a development that could alter the dynamics of the Republican race just two days before the tightening South Carolina primary. “I believe Newt is a conservative visionary who can transform our country. We’ve had our differences, which campaigns will inevitably have, and Newt is not perfect, but who among us is?” Perry said at a press conference in Charleston, South Carolina. Tune in Thursday at 8 p.m. ET for the CNN/Southern Republican Presidential Debate hosted  [ Read More ]

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! – fightforthefuture.org/pipa PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites– they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.” The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to  [ Read More ]

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By Judd Legum on Jan 15, 2012 at 5:15 pm | Think Progress Justice A Georgia Republican who wants all welfare reciepients subject to drug tests failed one himself after he ran a red light on Friday morning. The Atlanta Journal Constiution has the story on State Rep. Kip Smith (R): Smith, whose given name is John Andrew Smith, first told the officer he had not consumed any alcoholic beverages. “I asked him again, and he stated he had consumed a single beer at Hal’s. I noticed also that Mr. Smith’s eyes were watery, and I asked him to exit  [ Read More ]

By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK | Thu Jan 12, 2012 12:09am EST (Reuters) – A New York pediatrician is facing federal charges of sexually abusing his young female patients by photographing and filming them naked in the privacy of his clinic and then filing fraudulent insurance claims in their name, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Evidence in the case against Dr. Rakesh Punn, 53, includes a “how-to” guide on molestation he was writing on his computer which incorporated passages from the Kama Sutra, the ancient Indian sex treatise, prosecutors said. Punn was originally arrested in July 2010 at his home in  [ Read More ]

ATLANTA — Home improvement retailer Home Depot Inc. said Thursday that it will hire 70,000 seasonal workers for the spring season, its biggest season. The number is about the same as last year, company spokesman Stephen Holmes said. Spring is the biggest season for home improvement projects as homeowners work on projects for their homes, gardens and lawns. Last year, about half of the seasonal workers were hired permanently as cashiers, sales, lot and garden staffers. Home Depot employs about 300,000 workers overall. Home-goods sellers are facing cautious consumer spending and a prolonged weak housing market. They’ve had to adjust  [ Read More ]

By Ivan Oransky NEW YORK | Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:50pm EST (Reuters Health) – A University of Connecticut researcher who studied the link between aging and a substance found in red wine has committed more than 100 acts of data fabrication and falsification, the university said on Wednesday, throwing much of his work into doubt. Dipak K. Das, who directed the university’s Cardiovascular Research Center, studied resveratrol, touted by a number of scientists and companies as a way to slow aging or remain healthy as people get older. Among his findings, according to a work promoted by the University  [ Read More ]