Jobless claims increased last week

By user | July 19, 2012 |

The number of people filing initial claims for unemployment insurance last week rose by 34,000 compared with a week earlier.

Economists for Bloomberg cited automakers’ annual retooling period, which temporarily shuts down factories, as a …

Read More

Capital One to pay $210 million for misleading customers

By user | July 18, 2012 |
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) took its first enforcement action today as the government’s watchdog agency, penalizing Capital One Financial Corp. for misleading customers to purchase “add-on products,” Reuters reported.   Capital One will pay…Read More

Disabilities coalition to boycott hotels

By user | July 18, 2012 |
A coalition of disability rights advocacy groups is organizing a protest of hotels belonging to two lobbying groups the coalition claims is trying to “whittle down” the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). 

The coalition – …

Read More

Nationwide to unveil new ad campaign

By user | July 18, 2012 |

During the Olympics this summer, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. will start a new ad campaign featuring Julia Roberts.

The ad campaign will be the biggest the company has ever done, according to Fox Business News, …

Read More

Branstad appoints two to the bench

By user | July 18, 2012 |

Gov. Terry Branstad has appointed two Drake University law school graduates to district court judge positions to replace two retiring judges, the governor’s office announced today.

Larry McLellan, a private practice attorney from West Des …

Read More

Ward Group names Top 50

By user | July 18, 2012 |

The Ward Group has named several Greater Des Moines-based insurance companies to its Top 50 Performers list.

Each company had to pass safety and consistency screens as well as a five-year performance review, according to …

Read More

New housing starts climb in June

By user | July 18, 2012 |
New housing starts exceeded economists’ expectations in June, rising at a rate of 6.9 percent from May and 23.6 percent from the same time last year. 

Economists surveyed by Bloomberg and Reuters predicted new housing …

Read More

Iowa sees results in stop-sale system

By user | July 18, 2012 |

The real-time, stop-sale system used by the state of Iowa in pharmaceutical sales has stopped the sale of 14,000 boxes of medicine that contain pseudoephedrine, an ingredient in the methamphetamine.

Stop-sale is used in 24 states across the country, …

Read More

Apple receives 25 patents

By user | July 18, 2012 |
Apple Inc. received 25 patents yesterday for technologies it developed for smartphones, which could mean trouble for Android phones. 

Apple has previously charged that the Google-owned Android operating system copied the interface and usability of …

Read More