Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
California: More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners and casino operators can’t blame video games for your demise; San Diego based internet video game accessory maker Mad Catz laid off 37% of its employees due to crashing sales, claiming a net loss of $4.4-million USD in its 3rd quarter of 2015! […] Continue Reading…
10 February 2016 (01:12 UTC-07 Tango 01) / 21 Bahman 1394/01 Jumada al-Ula 1437/03 Geng Yin 4714
During the unofficial Cold War we knew of Kamov and Mil, major producers of combat helicopters for the Soviet Union. Those two companies merged and are now known as Russian Helicopters.
Neat looking ‘Alligators’ originally […] Continue Reading…
10 February 2016 (00:44 UTC-07 Tango 01) / 21 Bahman 1394/01 Jumada al-Ula 1437/03 Geng Yin 4714
Despite getting a contract to build 2-hundred new BMP-3 vehicles for the Russian army, KurganMashZavod (KMZ) might be involuntarily declared bankrupt in its home oblast of Kurgan.
BMP is an acronym for Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty (literally Infantry Combat Vehicle).
East […] Continue Reading…
Towards the end of January, Sears Canada announced it would ramp up store shutdowns. Great White North administrators said they’re so paranoid about reducing the number of stores that they’re considering “anything and everything”, admitting their motivation to do so is at “…a higher level….today than in the past few years.” Numbers and locations of […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
France based clothier Comptoir des Cotonniers shutting down all three(?) of its U.S. stores. Reports say the stores will be shutdown by the end of the month, and one store has already closed for good.
California: More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t blame the internet for your demise; after […] Continue Reading…
09 February 2016 (14:24 UTC-07 Tango 01) / 20 Bahman 1394/29 Rabi’a’-Thani 1437/02 Geng Yin 4714
Pocatello, Idaho, is home to Idaho State University (ISU) which readily admitted last year that the majority of their ‘international’ students come from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and Kuwait.
ISU also revealed that it suffered a net decline of […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
Alabama: What real estate market recovery? Birmingham continues to crash & burn as news reports say an additional 6-thousand 5-hundred square feet of retail space is now available for rent or sale. That’s because Cosi Restaurant and advertising agency Centigrade are refusing to renew their leases.
Arizona: In […] Continue Reading…
08 February 2016 (02:28 UTC-07 Tango 01) / 19 Bahman 1394/28 Rabi’a’-Thani 1437/01 Geng Yin 4714
“Greece will become an energy, economic and trade bridge between Iran and European Union.”-Alexis Tsipras, prime minister of Greece
After thousands of years the Iranian empire finally captures Greece!
In an historic visit to Iran, the prime minister of NATO and […] Continue Reading…
08 February 2016 (01:39 UTC-07 Tango 01) / 19 Bahman 1394/28 Rabi’a’-Thani 1437/01 Geng Yin 4714
Scientists at University of Tokyo have successfully completed development of an electronic skin that allows other people to use their smartphones to view what you’re doing as you wear it. Ominously the company that will make and sell the e-skin […] Continue Reading…
07 February 2016 (10:57 UTC-07 Tango 01) / 18 Bahman 1394/27 Rabi’a’-Thani 1437/29 Wu Yin 4713
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) claims an ‘estimated’ 68,023 migrants and/or refugees flooded into Europe in January. Some European news sources are claiming this to be an increase in migration, however, a German newspaper published a conflicting report.
Frankfurter […] Continue Reading…