New York Times Cutting 100 Newsroom Jobs (The New York Observer)
The New York Times is cutting 100 jobs by the end of the year, the Times editor Bill Keller just announced to the staff via email. "This is not a good day," said John Geddes, the papers managing editor to the assembled staff in the newsroo

Bringing tech jobs to Third World refugees (CNET)
A nonprofit is helping small American companies make more money by outsourcing small tasks to workers in Kenyan refugee camps. The pay can triple what the workers were making before.

Zacks Bull and Bear of the Day Highlights: RadioShack Corp., Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., Best Buy, Sears and ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CHICAGO----Zacks Equity Research highlights RadioShack Corp. as the Bull of the Day and Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. the Bear of the Day. In addition, Zacks Equity Research provides analysis on Best Buy , Sears and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. .

Siemens First-Quarter Profit Advances on Cost Cuts (Update1) (Bloomberg)
Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Siemens AG , Europeâ?™s largest engineering company, reported the highest quarterly profit in more than two years as the German company cut workers at its lighting unit and lowered administrative expenses.

Briggs: Gas storage facilities strengthen states economy (The Shreveport Times)
Natural gas consumption is also important to Louisianas economy. We are the No. 3 gas consuming state. With increased production and recent discoveries of groundbreaking shale gas reserves, many are asking important questions. In particular, where an