Dollar General opens in Poland

Dollar General opens in Poland

pOLAND

Dollar General opened a store at 3131 Center Road and is hosting a grand- opening celebration Saturday at 8 a.m.

The store employs approximately six to 10 people. Anyone interested in applying for a job at Dollar General will find more information and a job application at www.dollargeneral.com in the Career Center.

Ribbon-cutting for Cortland day care

CORTLAND

The Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber and owners Charlene Dougan and Jill Hinely are hosting a ribbon- cutting at 10 a.m. Friday for Creative Kidz Preschool LLC, at 2559 Niles-Cortland Road in Cortland.

Creative Kidz Preschool opened its first location in Howland as Creative Children Daycare. The move to Cortland resulted in a change from a day care to a preschool. Dougan and Hinely said they saw a need for a preschool in the area to help children age 3 to 5 be better prepared for kindergarten.

Hours of operation are 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Go online to www.Creativekidz1preschool.com for more information.

Google to cut 4,000 jobs at Motorola

NEW YORK

Google Inc. is making its largest round of layoffs ever as it announced plans to cut about 4,000 jobs at Motorola Mobility just three months after buying the struggling cellphone pioneer.

The move isn’t surprising given years of plummeting sales at Motorola, but it signals that Google doesn’t intend to drag Motorola along as a money-losing venture.

After the announcement, Google’s stock rose $18.01, or 2.8 percent, to close Monday at $660.01.

The reductions represent about 20 percent of Motorola Mobility’s 20,000 employees and 7 percent of Google’s overall work force. Google says two-thirds of the job cuts will take place outside the U.S.

Google, which has been growing for more than a decade, doesn’t have a history of mass layoffs. In previous rounds of layoffs, Google at most had cut a few hundred workers.

Motorola, however, cut thousands of jobs in recent years as its cellphone division saw sales plummet. Although it pioneered the U.S. cellphone industry in the 1980s, it hasn’t produced a mass-market hit since it introduced the Razr cellphone in 2004. Once the second-largest phone maker in the world, Motorola no longer ranks in the top five.

Credit-card debt up

LOS ANGELES

Americans are carrying more credit-card debt than a year ago, yet the late- payment rate for card holders remains near an 18-year low, an analysis of consumer-credit data shows.

The average credit-card debt per borrower in the U.S. grew about 6 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, credit reporting agency TransUnion said Tuesday.

At the same time, the rate of payments at least 90 days overdue inched higher to 0.63 percent from 0.60 percent in the same period last year.

Vindicator staff/wire reports