Class action lawsuits are in the news today as the Supreme Court ruled that a class-action gender discrimination lawsuit by female employees of Wal-Mart cannot proceed as a class-action suit. A class action lawsuit  is where one person sues a company as a representative for a large number of people who have cases with similar [...]

The North Carolina Department of Revenue is permitting victims of the weekend’s deadly tornadoes to file their state taxes late.  Here is the press release with the pertinent information:

Fast Company magazine just featured Raleigh-Durham as a meaningful entrepreneurial hub because of its collaborative community, infrastructure, university R&D, educated workforce, and quality of life. What do you think makes us special for startups and entrepreneurs?

The Piedmont Food & Agricultural Processing Center, a business incubator that will serve 22 counties, broke ground this week in Hillsborough.

I attended the opening of Tim Hinton’s Edward Jones office in Durham last week. It was an occasion. His wife, parents and inlaws were there. His son was taken out of school for the ribbon-cutting. The local Edward Jones advisors came out to support him, as did the Chick-Fil-A -cow , members of his BNI [...]

Amazon.com, the Seattle-based online retailer, recently filed a lawsuit against the North Carolina Department of Revenue, trying to fend off the state’s request for customer names, addresses and purchases.