With the holiday season fast approaching, retailers need to reinforce their workforce to handle the increased business that comes with the period. This year, Amazon has just annou...
In order to stop the growing trend of people exclusively using the internet for their holiday shopping needs (and hopefully draw some straying customers back in), Best Buy is plann...
Good news for impatient holiday shoppers: retail giant Walmart is in the middle of launching same-day delivery of thousands of products. Bad news: it's only a test going off in se...
Today begins the holy month of Ramadan, Islam's period of fasting, prayer, and charity. For the next 30 days, millions of Muslims around the word will participate in sawm, zakat &...
On behalf of math geeks, science lovers, and purveyors of questionable "holidays" everywhere, I'd like to wish everyone a Happy Pi Day.
Pi Day is celebrated once a year, on Ma...
For all of Mardi Gras' religious implications, it always winds up being one of the best parties of the year. And not just Fat Tuesday, of course - that's just when we stuff oursel...
Today the United States is celebrating Presidents Day, the holiday that celebrates our first president, George Washington, or George Washington & Abraham Lincoln, or all the leader...
Whether you're doing your Valentine's Day shopping online or off, it's going to cost you. If you're in the right business, it's a good time to profit from the love (or at least aff...
Ah, Twitter. The tool of revolutions.
Did you know it today was Squirrel Appreciation Day? If not, you must not be on Twitter. If you were, you'd surely have noticed some tweet...
CityPass.com has put together an interesting infographic looking at the history of New Year’s Even in Times Square, with a timeline dating back to 1900.
While it doesn’t includ...