Business owner turns tables on alleged extortionist – Atlanta Journal Constitution

Business owner turns tables on alleged extortionist – Atlanta Journal Constitution
A 45-year-old Stone Mountain man was charged with extortion and impersonating a law enforcement officer for allegedly posing as a Homeland Security official and trying to bully a man into paying him cash, Channel 2 Action News reports. The would-be victim …

Business Process Management (BPM): A Global Strategic Business Report – new market research report – Transworld News
The global business process management market is projected to exceed $5.0 billion by the year 2017, led by organizational need to improve efficacy, efficiency and strategic value of critical business processes in various scenarios. Business Process …

Fox Business Ad Attacks CNBC’s Stock Crash Coverage – Huffingtonpost.com
Fox Business Network takes a shot at CNBC in a new commercial that targets its rival’s lacking coverage of breaking economic news this month. CNBC stayed on pre-taped programming when Standard & Poor’s downgraded the United States’ rating for the first …

Business owner catches man stealing catalytic converters – WNDU
Tuesday morning around 1:30, officers were called to Holle’s Wrecker Service in Syracuse for a possible burglary. The owner of the business, Jeff Holle, told police someone had been stealing catalytic converters from cars in his lot. So he had decided …

Business news: Boutique opens in OC Mart Mix – msnbc.com
Tustin resident Wendy Navarro, 42, has opened baby boutique Saige Nicole in the OC Mart Mix at 3313 Hyland Ave. in Costa Mesa. The store is about 200 square feet. Navarro opened the baby boutique online in 2006 and her family is involved in the business …

Business Breakdown: Why Google Wanted to Buy Motorola – I4U
A Google executive watches HTC’s CEO show off the company’s Google-powered phone. Will things be so friendly now that the company has bought Motorola, an HTC competitor? The big business news on Monday was Google s decision to spend $12.5 billion in cas

Road relief for University businesses as 13th Ave. construction wraps – msnbc.com
EUGENE , Ore. (KMTR) — It’s good news for dozens of businesses and hundreds of shoppers in the University District this weekend, as major road reconstruction work at 13 th and Alder Street, west of the University of Oregon is almost done and is open to …

Small businesses feel sting of wild stock market – CBS News
NEW YORK – A modern, half-million-dollar-a-year small business is run out of an 18th Century house in upstate New York. “Eighty percent of what we sell is pajamas,” Elizabeth Allen tells CBS News correspondent Elaine Quijano. Elizabeth Allen started her …

Small businesses to get $98 million – Palm Beach Post
Florida’s State Small Business Credit Initiative will funnel $97.7 million to credit programs for small businesses through loans or equity investments, with the intent of boosting the dollars tenfold, the U.S. Department of Treasury announced Tuesday.

Business news briefs – Aug. 15 – Akron Beacon Journal
Legal and accounting professionals have turned in expenses and requests for interim compensation of about $1.7 million for services in the Fair Finance Co. bankruptcy proceedings. The regular monthly status hearing on the Akron finance company s …