Category: Business and Real Estate

Comments United States of Bank Failures from Lori Williams - Dec. 30th 2011 The banking industry was one of the biggest to collapse following the financial crisis. Bank failures skyrocketed, with fresh data showing failures peaked last year and have begun to fall, though clearly tough times are still ahead. The state of Georgia earns bragging rights for the most bank failures in the past couple of years, ... Category Business and Real Estate Read more...	Comments Black Friday. Now bigger than Thanksgiving. by Daniel Hom - Nov. 23rd 2011 The holidays have arrived, which means family, good food, and let's not deny it, shopping. Lots of shopping. So much so that sometimes it's easy to think that Black Friday--as its opening time creeps earlier and earlier to Thanksgiving itself--is the real holiday to be ... Category Business and Real Estate Read more...
Comments The Netflix Fall From the Top by Daniel Hom - Nov. 1st 2011 Within the past few months, Netflix has seemingly made a series of missteps. Raised prices, subscriber decline and a confusing attempt at spinning off its DVD business. What happened to its stock is quite stunning--and not in a good way. Netflix has lost more than 50% of its value from the beginning of ... Category Business and Real Estate Read more...	Comments Who actually has the fastest data network by Ross Perez - Sep. 16th 2011 Lately, the big four mobile service providers have been bending over backwards to outgun one other (or at least outmarket...) over mobile data speeds. But who actually has the fastest network? More importantly, who has the fastest network in your city? The viz ... Category Business and Real Estate Read more...
Comments Are Movie Sequels Profitable? from Daniel Hom - Aug. 18th 2011 Been to the movies lately? Notice how many choices have titles that end with the number 3? 4? How about 7--part 2? Hollywood has a strange fascination with movie sequels, not that they don't make sense. Audiences love to see their favorite characters back in action with bigger budgets, bigger stunts, and more entangled love ... Category Business and Real Estate Read more...	Comments Dow Drops Since 1940 by Ross Perez - Aug. 8th 2011 Today the stock markets reacted violently to S&P's downgrade of the United States. Luckily, this viz shows us things could have been much worse, and there is most likely a rebound on the way tomorrow. How do you think the markets will react tomorrow? Category Business and Real Estate Read more...