Since 2004, Home Depot reports, yard (cough! cough!) art sales have increased by 217 percent since 2004. This year, the big orange hardware has bolstered its supply of giant snow globes, bloated vinyl elves and those creepy, slow-moving skeleton deer by 30 percent.

North Carolina, and the Triangle specifically, has experienced impressive business growth over the span of the recession.

This video talks about Augmented Reality, a tech concept, and now tool, that involves real time information being graphically displayed on a smart phone screen when its camera is focused on a particular street or location.

Retail is charging ahead in the Bull City, with a number of new eateries and shops recently hanging the open sign.