Entrepreneur Media, the Irvine, CA-based parent of Entrepreneur magazine, has been hitting last minute snags in its deal to be sold to Austin Ventures, NYP's Keith Kelly is reporting. Earlier last month, we reported that it was being bought by AV the majority and another private equity firm for...
Turning a dream into reality is not an easy job. The process calls for having all the ingredients of perseverance, teamwork, and effective communication in the right quantity. The aforesaid elements help in streamlining the process of management in corporate sector. However, management comes with time and cannot be achieved...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-13 July 2008-McCormick & Schmick's CEO Doug Schmick Gets an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2008 AwardC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants announced that Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Doug Schmick received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The...
The stock market is down. The cost of gasoline is up -- and up, and up. America's budget deficit is skyrocketing. Banks are hunkered down in a defensive stance. The media would have you believe that every other person is being foreclosed out of their homes. So...
INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-C1995-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD PlanetEye, an online travel planning service, has licensed technology from Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) to launch its new website at http://www.planeteye.com. Using Microsoft's World Wide Media eXchange WWMX technology, the site gives the user the ability to see pictures of the...
PlanetEye transforms how trips are researched, planned and booked. TORONTO and REDMOND, Wash., July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PlanetEye launched an innovative online travel planning service today powered by Microsoft Corp.'s groundbreaking technology World Wide Media eXchange WWMX. The new site, at http://www.planeteye.com/, provides travelers with the convenience...
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-10 July 2008-PlanetEye travel website launchedC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com PlanetEye, an online travel planning service, has licensed technology from Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) to launch its new website at http://www.planeteye.com. Using Microsoft's World Wide Media eXchange WWMX technology, the site gives the user the ability to...
TV show will grade business plans by eager 'Tycoons' ATLANTA, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The Next Tycoon is a new reality show that will give entrepreneurs from all ages and backgrounds a chance to present their business ideas to key decision makers and outstanding business and media...
Growing E&P Gas Company Adds Philip Behrman and A. Bray Cary PITTSBURGH, July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Equitable Resources, Inc. today announced the election of two board members who bring a diversity and breadth of national experience in both gas and oil exploration and entrepreneurial business development....
WHAT Precision Fitness, a fitness business model focused on affordable personaltraining, will be exhibiting at this year's IDEA World Fitness Convention.Founder and fitness entrepreneur Mike Salerno will be on-hand to helpvisitors look at business benefits of owning a personal fitness franchise,designed especially for trainers and fitness enthusiasts to build and...
Cast and Filmmakers to Ring in the Close of the Week's Exchange and the Release of Their Film NEW YORK, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- "August" cast and filmmakers will be ringing The Closing BellR at the NYSE on Friday, July 11th, 2008 at 4:00PM EDT. Josh...
MY WEEK IN MEDIA Last week I watched... I've been loving the BBC4 series, Jews (featuring the Faith shoes entrepreneur Jonathan Faith, right) I think the programmes have been absolutely compelling and I found some of it incredibly moving as well. What I found...
BEIJING, July 3 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Towona Media, the largest transport digital media group in China, announced today in Beijing that it has appointed Zhang Zhenzhong Gareth Chang, renowned international media and technology business leader and famous Chinese entrepreneur, as its chairman and CEO, and Mr. Yan Lihua, its founder and...
PALO ALTO, Calif. and LONDON, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The leading pan- European venture capital firm Wellington Partners has strengthened its presence in Silicon Valley with the appointment of Eric Ly as a Venture Partner. Eric, previously LinkedIn's co-founder and founding CTO, is currently founder and CEO of Presdo,...
NEW YORK -- Cellufun, "the world's mobile playground," has officially announced the addition of two senior mobile industry veterans to its team. Tom Burgess and Keith Katz have joined the Cellufun team as an advisory board member and VP of Marketing, respectively. Though new to Cellufun, both gentlemen are well-known...
Award Recognizes Entrepreneurial Excellence in E-Services Category NEW YORK -- NASDAQ: KNOT, a leading lifestage media company, today announced that David Liu, CEO received the Metro New York Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year([R]) 2008 Award in the E-Services category. According to Ernst & Young LLP, the...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] STRONG LEADERSHIP AND GOOD DEEDS SHOULD NEVER GO UNNOTICED. With this sentiment, Johnson Publishing Company President and CEO Linda Johnson Rice brought together 500 people to celebrate the achievements of 10 trailblazing Black women. At the ninth annual EBONY Outstanding Women in Marketing &...
WHAT Precision Fitness, a fitness business model focused on affordable personaltraining, will be exhibiting at this year's IDEA World Fitness Convention.Founder and fitness entrepreneur Mike Salerno will be on-hand to helpvisitors look at business benefits of owning a personal fitness franchise,designed especially for trainers and fitness enthusiasts to build and...
CHICAGO, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Chicago Tribune today announced the appointment of John Trainor as general manager of Hoy, the city's leading Spanish-language newspaper. Trainor, who starts his new role on July 14, succeeds Julian Posada, who left the position in May. Trainor was the co-founder and...
ON TODAY'S EVER-CHANGING BUSINESS battlefield, executives and entrepreneurs alike must be fully armed. There's one weapon that has always been effective for corporate warriors: the M.B.A. For more than 25 years, minorities especially have acquired master's in business administration degrees to gain a competitive edge in sectors ranging from finance...
