Archive for September, 2007
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
The Fortune 500 Company that was considering several Montana cities, including Great Falls, for a financial operations center is indeed General Electric ? and Billings is its choice.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
A company?s request for a property-tax abatement at its proposed Petoskey manufacturing site will get the city council?s consideration Monday, Oct. 1.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Annapolis - Bio-defense research company PharmAthene Inc., announced last week it had been selected for a $13.9 million federal contract to develop therapies against bacterial diseases.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
SAN DIEGO ( Map , News ) - Defense contractor Brent Wilkes hosted fancy dinner parties and chartered jets for powerful members of Congress as his company racked up more than $100 million in government contracts.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Radiohead publicist debunks countdown … Rodriguez accused of violating parole … ABC cutting ties to ‘Rocketboom’ star … AT&T Park enjoys a bit of operatic class … News from United Press International.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
3Com Corp, an unprofitable computer networking company, said on Friday that it had agreed to be acquired by Bain Capital Partners for US$2.2 billion in cash in an arrangement that also gives Chinese company Huawei Technologies Co (????) a minority stake in the firm.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
A Somerset health care company is planning to lay off 80 workers and move its manufacturing to China, a move the company says is necessary to remain competitive here.
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Eds: Moving on general news and financial services. By TOM HESTER Jr.
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Corporate News transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. ————————————
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
STANFORD, Calif.—-The Stanford Merged Pool generated a 23.0 percent investment return for the 12 months ended June 30, 2007, according to the Stanford Management Company .
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Gap Inc. has bad news this afternoon for 800,000 job applicants whose personal information was stored on a notebook computer that was stolen from one of its contractors. The company says the data includes some of the people who applied…
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
An international company will bring a new facility and 1,000 new jobs to Clermont County, News 5 has learned.
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
News) over PR Newswire, we are advised by a representative of the company that the first paragraph, first sentence, should read “successful flight test conducted Sept. 28″ rather than “Sept.
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
China on Saturday launched its long-awaited state investment company which is intended to manage around 200 billion dollars of its massive foreign exchange reserves.
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
China launched Saturday a long-anticipated state-owned investment company that is intended to manage around 200 billion dollars, or nearly one sixth of the nation’s massive foreign exchange reserves.
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
Corporate News transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. ————————————
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc. (TSX: PAE), an integrated global entertainment company creating critically acclaimed television, film and DVD content for worldwide distribution, has announced that Company President John Flock will discuss recent Peace Arch initiatives and achievements in a live interview today with leading online microcap investor news broadcaster MN1.com, at 3 p.m.
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
Lockheed Martin Corp. opened near its 52-week high on Wall Street today as defense stocks in general hit new highs on news of billions of additional funds for the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan.
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
Bloomberg L.P., the news and financial services company, was accused by the federal government Thursday of discriminating against women who became pregnant and took maternity leave.
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
The Chinese news and broadcast company Xinhua Finance Media Ltd. added two big names in American media to its board, appointed two other new directors and named a new internal auditor Thursday.
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
Pina Bausch, artistic director and choreographer of the noted German Tanztheater Wuppertal company, attends a news conference in Taipei Wednesday to announce that she will lead the company’s modern dance troupe in staging four performances of “Masurca Fogo” at the National Theater beginning Sept. 27.
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
There is new information about the company at the center of the FBI’s investigation at Dallas City Hall. CBS 11 News has learned Southwest Housing is in the process of selling its affordable housing complexes. Sources also report that the city claims the company owes the city hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
BRUNSWICK (NEWS CENTER) — A local business has made it to the final five in a contest that could mean $100,000 for its bottom line.
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
Corporate News transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. ————————————
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
SAN JOSE, Calif. ( Map , News ) - True to its warning, Apple Inc. issued a software update Thursday that the company said would create problems for iPhones that have been modified to use a cellular carrier other than AT&T Inc.
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
NEW YORK, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Dow Jones&Company ( Nachrichten ) today announced the launch of a Dow Jones News Analytics Developer’s Kit, an application programming interface (API) that seamlessly integrates Dow Jones News Analytics’ enriched data directly into a customer’s proprietary trading platform.
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ) today announced the launch of a Dow Jones News Analytics Developer’s Kit, an application programming interface (API) …
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Store surveillance video showed a Florida pet store employee get bit while cleaning a western diamondback rattlesnake’s cage Wednesday. SLIDESHOW: Images From Surveillance Of Snake Attack RAW VIDEO: Rattlesnake Bites Reptile Company Employee ANIMAL NEWS: More Stories Of Animals In The News
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Wall Street News Alert’s “stocks to watch” this morning are: Planet Nutrition Holdings, Inc., Cognos (NASDAQ: COGN), Christopher & Banks Corporation and McCormick & Company, Incorporated.
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
This week’s business news from the Middle East: Abu Dhabi buys Canada’s PrimeWest for $5 billion; Delta Two enters discussions with Sainsbury’s pension trustees; Dubai World extends its cash tender offer for MGM Mirage’s stock.
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