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• Greenberg Traurig Announces Opening of Third Texas Office in Austin

  - 2008-08-01

  Firm Welcomes New Shareholders Demetrius G. McDaniel, Thomas J. Bond and Barry Senterfitt AUSTIN, Texas -- The international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP announced today the opening of a new office in Austin, TX, its third office in that state and 27th in the United States. The firm has...

  Tags: Austin, FINANCE, Insurance, Investment, Texas, University of Texas

• Platina Energy Group, Inc. Acquires Enhanced Oil Recovery, Inc. from UTEK Corporation

  - 2008-04-04

  TAMPA, Fla., CHEYENNE, Wyo. & AUSTIN, Texas -- UTEK Corporation (AMEX:UTK) (LSE-AIM:UTK), a leading Open Innovation services company, and Platina Energy Group, Inc. (OTCBB:PLGT) (FWB:O5Y), an exploration and production strategic reserve company, are pleased to announce that Platina has acquired Enhanced Oil Recovery, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of UTEK,...

  Tags: Austin, Company, FINANCE, INTERNET, Investment, recovery, University of Texas

• Fulbright Partner Elected President of Texas Exes

  - 2007-05-29

  AUSTIN, Texas -- Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Partner Darrell Windham soon will lead one of the largest alumni associations in the nation - the Texas Exes of the University of Texas at Austin. Like many Longhorn alumni, Windham holds his alma mater dear to his heart. He will take...

  Tags: Austin, FINANCE, Investment, SOFTWARE, University of Texas

• Active Learning for Decision-Making

  BNET - 2005-09-15

  This paper addresses focused information acquisition for predictive data mining. As businesses strive to cater to the preferences of individual consumers, they often employ predictive models to customize marketing efforts. This paper develops a new approach for active information acquisition that targets decision-making specifically. The method the author introduces departs...

  Tags: Austin, Decision-making, University Of Texas, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations

• Seismic Testing of Autoclaved Aerated Concrete Shearwalls: A Comprehensive Review

  - 2005-05-01

  A comprehensive research program has recently been carried out to propose design provisions for autoclaved aerated concrete AAC and to develop the technical basis for those provisions. The first phase of that research program addressed extensive testing on AAC shearwalls, which are the fundamental lateral force-resisting elements of AAC structural...

  Tags: Austin, bond, FINANCE, Investment, reinforcement, rupture, University of Texas

• Team Marketing First Network Card for Gamers Wins $100,000 in Texas Moot Corp Contest.

  - 2005-02-14

  Byline: McCombs School of Business, UT Austin AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 14 AScribe Newswire -- Bigfoot Networks Inc., a team of MBAs who plan to be the first company to market a network card designed specifically for online gamers, beat out three teams to win the...

  Tags: Austin, investment, network, NETWORKING, team, Texas, University of Texas

• Plan for Early Cancer Detection Wins Global Moot Corp Business Plan Competition.

  - 2004-05-11

  Byline: McCombs School of Business, UT Austin AUSTIN, Texas, May 11 AScribe Newswire -- With a promise to make "early cancer detection a reality for millions," EANeedle of Carnegie Mellon University won the 21st annual Moot Corp international business plan competition at The University...

  Tags: Austin, Carnegie-Mellon University, Entrepreneurship, investment, MBA, team, University of Texas

• Agent Bond: A Strategy for TAC Supply Chain Management

  BNET - 2004-02-11

  Students in the Agent-Based Electronic Commerce class competed in an internal Trading Agent Competition in the Supply Chain Management TAC SCM domain. This paper describes the strategy employed by one competitor, Agent Bond, which includes three task modules, which handle: customer order bidding; supply management; and production and delivery. Experimental...

  Tags: Strategy, Bond, Agent, Austin, University Of Texas, Real Estate, Investment, Business Operations, Finance

• Building the Venture Capital Industry in Mexico

  BNET - 2004-02-01

  Venture Capital investing has grown in industrialized countries from a small investment pool in the early 1970s to a mainstream asset class that is a viable and significant part of the institutional and corporate investment portfolio. In many developing countries, VC investing remains a nascent industry. However, this article investment...

  Tags: Austin, University Of Texas, Mexico, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups

• The Non-Neutrality of Debt in Investment Timing: A New NPV Rule

  BNET - 2003-12-26

  Limited liability debt financing of irreversible investments can affect investment timing through an entrepreneur's option value. This non- neutrality of debt arises from an entrepreneur's unique investment option, and it can be formally seen in a standard model of irreversible investment that is enhanced in this paper to include the...

  Tags: Austin, Entrepreneur, University Of Texas, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Management, Finance