eyeglasses News Archive

14-Mar-2008

 

  • Five ways to reduce the growing burden of retiree health costs (Market Watch)
    No one ever said health-care costs in retirement would be cheap. But such expenses are starting to seem overwhelming, if not impossible to cover.


  • Of spiky hair and future tech (rediff.com)
    Geek-talk about what technology may have in store for us next.


  • Italy: Eyeglass Maker?s Profit Falls (New York Times)
    The Luxottica Group , one of the world?s biggest makers of eyeglasses, posted its first profit decline in nine quarters on the costs of combining the sports-eyewear maker Oakley with the company?s other divisions.


  • N.J. woman seeks brother who vanished (The Star-Ledger)
    He was outside his house, sit ting in his car. And then he was gone. A New Jersey woman is asking for help in trying to find her 54-year-old brother, who disap peared from his home in Winona Lakes, Pa., more than two weeks ago.


  • CoastalContacts.com sets its sights on selling eyeglasses with free trials (InternetRetailer.com)
    When web-only CoastalContacts.com decided to move beyond lenses and start selling prescription eyewear, president and CEO Roger Hardy knew how he wanted to do it. ?We wanted to be the Zappos of eyeglasses,? Hardy says.


  • Survey Finds Many Americans Clueless About Eye Disease (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
    THURSDAY, March 13 (HealthDay News) -- Many Americans are unaware of the warning signs of eye diseases that could blind them if not detected and treated soon enough, a new survey shows.


  • Luxottica Fourth-Quarter Profit Falls on Oakley Deal (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)
    March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Luxottica Group SpA , the world's biggest maker of eyeglasses, posted its first profit decline in nine quarters on costs to combine sports-eyewear maker Oakley Inc. with the company's other divisions.


  • Who killed Tamara Greene? (Detroit News)
    DETROIT -- Her real name was Tamara Greene, an arresting, thick-bodied stripper known as Strawberry. By now her death is the stuff of Detroit legend, a whodunit of sex and politics and power.


    Back to Presbyopia

    Back to eyeglasses News Archive