A new global study out today from Nokia and The Future Laboratory has found that by 2012 one quarter of entertainment will be generated "within peer communities" rather than by media companies. Nokia calls the phenomenon "circular entertainment." Tom Savigar, Trends Director at The Future Laboratory, comments: "Consumers are...
DETROIT, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The Detroit Economic Club DEC announced on September 22, 2008 that it will convene The National Summit on June 15-17, 2009 at Detroit's Ford Field. The Summit will engage prominent business, government, and academic leaders from across the nation in a debate and dialogue...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Cananea Consolidated Copper Company--one of the world's largest open pit copper mines, run by Grupo Mexico--forms a beautifully surreal landscape. Carefully sculpted red and gold curves of earth hug pools of brilliant turquoise. Before the vast expanse of the mine flies a huge Mexican flag,...
Three-Year Sales Topping 400 Percent Lead to Second Year of Inclusion WALTHAM, Mass., Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. magazine today ranked Syrinx Consulting Corporation, a software development and consulting firm with expertise in Microsoft .NET and SharePoint Server 2007 technologies, No.876 on its annual ranking of the...
PHOENIX, Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- As the global economy continues to rapidly change, the savviest investors realize that they have to approach their investments differently in order to have the best opportunity for success. It is no longer financially feasible -- in the face of a tenuous market --...
FORT SMITH, Ark., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ABF Freight System, Inc.R, is celebrating the 13th Annual National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, August 24-30, 2008, with a system-wide campaign called: "ABF Employees. Standing the Test of Time. 1923-2008." The campaign highlights the integral role played by transportation industry employees in...
SIR; Asda's concern that introducing an ombudsman to regulate the sector could push up food prices is unfounded ('Hard line shirked by government', The Grocer, 2 August, P5). The Competition Commission estimates the cost of an ombudsman at under 3m [pounds sterling] per year, a negligible amount...
LOS ANGELES -- Younan Properties, Inc., one of the nation's largest privately-held real estate investment and asset management companies, announced today that it has completed the disposition of 211 East Ontario in Chicago. The 172,000 square foot, Class A office building in downtown Chicago is located in the North Michigan...
OLDWICK, N.J. -- Insurance brokering activity is hardly mentioned among banks' primary sources of profitability, but in the currently distressed banking environment, it has gained the reputation of the ultimate diversifier, according to a story in BestWeek U.S./Canada. In recent weeks, several major bank holding companies have reported...
NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Nissan Altima Hybrid, which offers the efficiency and fuel economy of a hybrid drivetrain with the performance and excitement customers have come to expect from the Altima line-up, has been named one of the "Top 10 Green Cars" by the editors...
Byline: By HENRYK ZIENTEK Business Reporter BUSINESS is great! Huddersfield companies have a deserved reputation for producing high quality and innovative products and services for customers at home and overseas. Even in these straitened times, many of our companies are overcoming the obstacles to...
Tiburon Adds Security Strategy Expertise to Top Layer's Secure Circle Partnership Program WESTBORO, Mass. -- Top Layer Security, the leading global provider of Network Intrusion Prevention Systems IPS, today announced that it has partnered with Tiburon Enterprises, LLC, a global services company providing strategy, implementation, service and solutions...
Modern Healthcare's annual compensation issue reports healthy pay raises for top healthcare executives CHICAGO, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The healthcare industry's "recession proof" reputation remains intact as its top executives continue to be well-paid for their services, according to Modern Healthcare's annual compensation issue published today. ...
Outlook Gordon Brown may not yet have noticed the latest GDP figures. What with yesterday's crushing by-election defeat, he's got more immediate things to worry about, as in how much longer he'll keep his job. Yet for a politician who has staked his reputation on the...
As the second-oldest amateur golf tournament in Colorado beginning in 1948, the Pikes Peak Amateur has seen its fair share of changes but it has been able to hold onto one tradition that signifies what the game is all about. These days sports and corporate sponsorship...
GORDON Brown's celebrated economic prudence lost credibility today after reports that the Treasury was rewriting his fiscal rules to allow more Government borrowing. Opposition parties claimed the PM had "lost control" of the economy. Officials were drafting a looser framework, the Financial Times said, so that...
Metropolitan National Bank of New York, with more than $500 million in assets, has continued to grow despite the vagaries of the economy in part because of the reputation it has for being a dependable lender to the real estate industry, according to Mark R. DeFazio, the bank's president and...
ONCE people called him "the maestro." John McCain said that he was such a good Fed chairman that he should stay in his position even after his death. People held him responsible for the boom of the 1990s. The cult of Alan Greenspan was sufficiently developed that...
Gordon Brown was forced to defend his leadership yesterday as Labour finally launched its campaign in the Glasgow East by- election, the result of which could determine his fate. The Prime Minister insisted that he would not step down, declaring that he remained...
There has been much attention paid to theprecious metals industry of late, considering the soaring prices being paidfor gold. Recently, Cash4Gold President, Howard Mofshin was featured in"Selling Gold Jewelry By Mail," a piece on the prestigious consumerreporting show, Money Talks with Stacy Johnson. Mofshin claims that Cash4Gold,...
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