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Associated Press Invests in Mobile News Startup Verve Wireless
A rare strategic investment from Associated Press: it has invested in mobile news services start up Verve Wireless. The first round of $3 million included Associated Press, Iron Capital, and other investors in the Encinitas, CA-based company. Verve is headed by Art Howe, who received a Pulitzer prize while...
Associated Press Invests in Mobile News Startup Verve Wireless
img src="http://paidcontent.org/images/uploads/verveap.gif" alt="image" align="right" width="106" height="200" />A rare strategic investment from Associated Press: it has invested in mobile news services start up Verve Wireless. The first round of $3 million included Associated Press, Iron Capital, and other investors in the Encinitas, CA-based company. Verve is headed by Art Howe,...
Food Industry's Own Lobbying Now Costing it a Bundle
The U.S. government could now be requiring food companies to keep extensive records of shipments so that when an outbreak foodborne illness occurs, its source could be easily found. But the industry successfully lobbied the Bush Administration to limit the amount of paperwork it had to keep, saying it would...
"Fireman" CEOs Rake in Bucks
It's time for another CEO pay survey. This one, by the Associated Press, shows that "fireman CEOs" -- those hired from the outside to pull a big corporation through a crisis -- get a lot of money. The AP came to its conclusions after surveying documents from...
AP's%20Copyright%20Lawsuit:%20%20Legitimate%20or%20Frivolous?
AP's%20Copyright%20Lawsuit:%20%20Legitimate%20or%20Frivolous?AP's Copyright LawsuitIt seems the AP is using the same litigation strategy as the music industry employs against those who 'share' hundreds and thousands of songs using a common software program...but with no revenue changing hands. Steven Jobs and iTunes took advantage of the opportunity this dilemma created, and...
AP's Copyright Lawsuit: Legitimate or Frivolous?
Yesterday's news that the Associated Press is suing Moreover Technologies (a news aggregator service that was acquired by Verisign for $30 million in 2005) seems to have been met with general eye-rolling from the 'sphere. I particularly enjoyed Rich Ord's perspective in "AP Suing Moreover Like It's...
Check Security Features and Positive Pay are Still the Strongest Methods for Preventing Check Fraud in a Check 21 Truncated Environment
The article refers to the Electronic Banking & Transaction Processing. AP Technology's Transporter provides commercial bank clients with the ability to conduct unattended interaction with their bank's cash management website for purposes of sending and receiving files, data, and documents. It is a small program that resides on the client's...
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Court Order: July 31, 2008
He wore the familiar purple suit and green wig, but he was no joke to workers at a Three Rivers, Mich., theater. Police arrived at the theater early Sunday to find employees restraining Spencer Taylor, 20, disguised as Batman's nemesis, The Joker, in The Dark Night. ...
Delta retooling structure of its SkyMiles rewards
ATLANTA -- Delta Air Lines Inc. is giving frequent fliers a guaranteed ability to redeem miles for a reward ticket if a seat is available on a particular flight -- but it will cost you. The Atlanta-based airline said on its Web site Wednesday that a three-tier...
Will Delta merger hurt pensions?
ATLANTA -- Officials of unions that represent Northwest Airlines Corp. flight attendants, ramp workers and reservation agents told lawmakers Wednesday they are worried Delta Air Lines Inc.'s plan to combine the two carriers could lead to lost pension benefits for employees. During a hearing in Washington before...
House votes to ban lead from kids' products
WASHINGTON -- Alarmed by a year of recalls targeting millions of tainted toys, the House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to ban lead and other dangerous chemicals from items such as jewelry and rubber ducks that could end up in kids' mouths. The legislation also would toughen rules for...
Navy cites smoking as likely cause of fire on carrier
SAN DIEGO -- Smoking appears to have sparked a fire that caused $70 million in damage to the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington, Naval officials said Wednesday. The announcement by the Navy came as Adm. Robert F. Willard, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, relieved the...
House OKs bill to regulate tobacco
WASHINGTON --The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed legislation that for the first time would subject the tobacco industry to regulation by federal health authorities charged with promoting public well-being. Its backers call the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act "landmark" legislation. While the bill appears to...
Mexican farm linked to salmonella
WASHINGTON -- The salmonella strain linked to a nationwide outbreak has been found in irrigation water and in a sample from a batch of serrano peppers at a Mexican farm, federal health officials said Wednesday. Dr. David Acheson, the Food and Drug Administration's food safety chief, called...
Bush signs measure to rescue homeowners
President Bush signed a housing bill Wednesday intended to rescue about 15 percent of the cash-strapped homeowners nationwide who are in fear of foreclosure in the next year or so. In Utah, several economists and real-estate experts said the measure could help stabilize the local housing market...
Zimbabwe drops 10 zeros from its inflated currency
HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Zimbabwe announced Wednesday that it is knocking 10 zeros off its hyper-inflated currency -- a move that turns 10 billion dollars into one. President Robert Mugabe threatened a state of emergency if businesses profiteer from the country's economic crisis, a move that could give...
Bush approves new rules governing spy agencies
WASHINGTON -- President Bush approved an order Wednesday that rewrites the rules governing spying by U.S. intelligence agencies, both in the United States and abroad, and strengthens the authority of the national intelligence director, according to a U.S. official and government documents. Executive Order 12333, which lays...
Favre meets with Pack prez, not reinstated yet
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Green Bay Packers president Mark Murphy traveled to Mississippi to meet with quarterback Brett Favre and his agent James "Bus" Cook on Wednesday, in an apparent attempt to talk Favre out of reporting to camp later this week. Meanwhile, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell...
House panel votes to cite Rove
WASHINGTON -- A House panel voted Wednesday to cite Karl Rove, formerly President Bush's top aide, for contempt of Congress as its Senate counterpart explored punishment for alleged misdeeds by other administration officials. But it was not clear that the Democrats controlling a lame-duck Congress will push...
Former U.S. ambassador Anne Armstrong, 80, dies
McALLEN, Texas -- Anne Armstrong, a powerful Republican in the 1970s and '80s who advocated a greater role for women and served as U.S. ambassador to Britain in the Ford administration, died Wednesday. She was 80. Armstrong had battled cancer and had been in a Houston hospice...
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