Mitsubishi Electric Cooling & Heating will break ground Friday on a division headquarters in Suwanee, Ga. The more than 500,000-square-foot facility at 1340 Satellite Blvd. will employ 198….more Tweet Share on Tumblr

Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S. Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business. Millions of Internet users [...]

*Microsoft is going to have to pull off some serious damage control to avoid the backlash from developing an ”Avoid Ghetto” patent for a new GPS app. According to CBS News, Gates’ company didn’t mean it that way.  They built the GPS ap to keep pedestrians from straying into the wrong area or THE GHETTO as the patent claim states. (more…) [...]

For those who haven’t heard, Jay Z decided to launch a line of t-shirts inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement, but the profits won’t go to the 99 percent who have been protesting across the country for over a month. “At this time, we have not made an official commitment to monetarily support the movement,” the Rocawear spokeswoman said [...]

*Luther Campbell is suing University of Miami booster Nevin Shapiro for allegedly slandering him in a Yahoo news report. The school sponsor claimed that the former 2 Live Crew member was giving improper benefits to U. of Miami players. Tweet Share on Tumblr

The U.S. Postal Service does not have the money to meet an obligation to a retiree health care trust fund coming due at the end of the month, but if there’s a default, officials promise no interruption in the mail, the payroll, or payments to suppliers. Privatizing USPS more Tweet Share on Tumblr

Dr. Dre has just signed a partnership deal with mobile device maker HTC to integrate his Beats by Dre Headphones with their products, available this fall. The partnership, announced on Thursday, will lead to a line of HTC devices integrated with Beats “sound innovations”, according to a statement from the company. The devices will be available this fall. Beats Electronics [...]

*The New Jersey Nets have been fined $50,000 for Nets minority owner Jay-Z’s presence in the Kentucky locker room after the Wildcats clinched a Final Four berth, reports ESPN.com, citing sources with knowledge of the penalty. Word circulated around the league Friday that an unnamed team — which sources confirmed to ESPN.com is the Nets — was fined for violating [...]

Nationwide (BlackNews.com) — Federal courts have found that, in some instances, exotic dancers should be treated as employees, not independent contractors or “tenants.” Thus, these workers should be paid, at least, minimum wage and in some cases, overtime. In a 1993 Texas case, the topless dancers received no compensation from the Crazy Horse Saloon (“Circle C”). Their compensation was derived [...]

Nationwide (BlackNews.com) — Federal courts have found that, in some instances, exotic dancers should be treated as employees, not independent contractors or “tenants.” Thus, these workers should be paid, at least, minimum wage and in some cases, overtime. In a 1993 Texas case, the topless dancers received no compensation from the Crazy Horse Saloon (“Circle C”). Their compensation was derived [...]

Baltimore, MD (BlackNews.com) — The world’s oldest intercollegiate fraternity founded by African American men has established its first chapter in South Africa. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. in 1906, chartered Rho Phi Lambda Chapter, in Johannesburg, on Feb. 3, 2011. The ceremony was held during the Kenneth Harlan Simmons Memorial Charity Dinner. Simmons, [...]

To a television audience in the millions, Obama addressed a Congress sobered by the assassination attempt against one if its own members, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Her seat sat empty, and many lawmakers of competing parties sat together in a show of support and civility. Yet differences were still evident, as when Democrats stood to applaud his comments on health care [...]

Last week 50 Cent made headlines when he suggested to his followers to invest in a company that he himself had already invested in. His tweets caused many of his followers to rush out and buy stock in the company, causing the penny stock to jump from 29 cents to 39 cents. Now the U.S. Security Exchange Commission will be [...]