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APPLE VALLEY With its plentiful sunshine and land, Apple Valley has started to attract a number of solar farm projects.

The world's leading search provider announced yesterday that the number of stores stocking Chromebook notebooks will triple this week.

The Walton Family Foundation said Tuesday that it had given a total of $1.3 million to two organizations working to improve Arkansas' K-12 schools.

Hiring has begun for 95 associates for the new Walmart Neighborhood Market store opening this summer on High Point Road in Greensboro.

The message remains the same: a still uncertain economy, a region that remains significantly overstored and greater food penetration from non-supermarket channels created another challenging year for many traditional grocers.

Those were some of the interesting nuggets that S&P Capital IQ's Tom Graves turned up this week in a look this week at the group's exchange-traded funds, which offer a variety of holdings and have delivered a diversity of returns.

Corporate America Loves Jason Furman by Stephen Lendman Key Obama officials comprise a virtual rogues gallery of scoundrels.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s third-party experts assigned to inspect the 279 garment factories the retailer uses in Bangladesh have completed the initial inspection on 16 facilities so far and found "no safety threats that would a require their closure during remediation," a Wal-Mart spokesman said Monday.

Innovate Arkansas client Movista was born in the MBA program at the University of Arkansas Walton Business College, but when it came time to put down permanent roots, co-founders April Seggebruch and Stan Zylowski chose a house just off the square in downtown Bentonville.

According to media reports, Walmex, the Mexican subsidiary of the giant retailer, Walmart Stores , is weighing its options on selling its restaurant chain in the country.

Workers sewed T-shirts at Los Angeles apparel firm Venley. Despite the higher production costs, the company's owner refuses to send work overseas and produces everything locally.

What would happen if business owners in developing countries who lacked access to commercial lending were offered a more generous helping hand - offering credit that exceeded the typical $5,000 microloan? The short answer, according to ANDE Executive Director Randall Kempner , is that millions of jobs could be created in emerging markets-and in ... (more)

Shares of weight loss company Nutrisystem Inc. shot up 7% on Friday with news of a new partnership with Wal-Mart .

Taking inspiration from small strikes and actions over the past few years, OUR Walmart activists struck a note of dissent at the corporation's annual party.

Exchange-traded funds have taken the market by storm, with more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management across more than 3,000 securities.

PriceSmart, Inc. is Latin America's smaller version of Costco Wholesale Corp. . This small, but rapidly growing warehouse store has been on a tear for quite while now.

Wayne Anderson of Columbia, Mo., looks over the "Wal-Art" mural Thursday off the square in Bentonville.

Time ran out last week for Exide Technologies, the 125-year-old battery maker once led by longtime auto industry executive Bob Lutz.

President Obama's health care reform is prompting employers to hire more part-time and temporary workers to escape paying benefits under a mandate that goes into effect next year, amplifying a trend toward transient employment that took hold during the recession, according to a growing number of economic indicators.

The board of Wal-Mart has a new lead director whose background is in the company's audit committee and the halls of Harvard.