Organization of Major Jewish Organizations: Name Calling Not Productive
Lest people were wondering where oh where is the conglomeration of major American Jewish organizations and is it going to weigh in on ChickenExcrementGate, you need wonder no longer. The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations

Organizations mobilize for midterm elections
With the 2014 midterm elections quickly approaching, political partisanship has made its way back to the forefront of the national stage. Though USC s campus community may seem more interested in football than politics at times, the political fervor hasn

City Controller Scott Stringer to audit four charter school organizations
The city Controller plans to audit the books of four charter school organizations. Controller Scott Stringer on Thursday announced audits of three schools and the Success Academy Charter group run by fiery former councilwoman Eva Moskowitz. My office is

IBM Teams Up With Twitter to Give Business a Gauge Powered by Social Media
IBM and Twitter might seem like unlikely partners. One is the classic button-down business technology company, while the other is the freewheeling hub of online communication in bursts of 140 characters or fewer. But their partnership, announced on

Chamber honors local business leaders
MUNCIE The Delaware County business community gathered Thursday evening to recognize this year’s best and brightest. Local leaders in business, education and public service were honored during the 120th annual meeting of the Muncie-Delaware County

Omega Healthcare to buy Aviv to boost long-term care business
Oct 31 (Reuters) – Omega Healthcare Investors Inc will buy Aviv REIT Inc for about $2 billion, to take advantage of rising demand for senior-care facilities from an aging U.S. population. Aviv shareholders will receive 0.90 Omega share for each held, the

Business Hall of Fame, Collier County
Business Hall of Fame, Collier County Junior Achievement President and CEO Anne Frazier, speaks to large crowd of past laureates, sponsors, students and local businesses about Lorenzo Walker Institute of Technology students Brandy Borges, left, Yerania

Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare and Government Organizations Select Courion Risk-Aware Identity and Access Management Solutions
WESTBOROUGH, MA, Oct 29, 2014 (Marketwired via COMTEX) — Courion , a leading provider of risk-aware identity and access management (IAM) solutions, today announced that organizations from a wide variety of industries, such as government, healthcare

Across Africa, relief organizations use texting to fight Ebola
Description While TERA and U-Report enable relief organizations to text people, IBM is working on an initiative in Sierra Leone that uses SMS to let people contact the government. IBM uses supercomputing and the cloud to parse and map out the content of

State Officials and Community Organizations to launch Safe Sleep Sarasota Initiative
SARASOTA, Fla — State officials and community organizations plan to launch Safe Sleep Sarasota Initiative on Thursday. Unsafe sleep is the leading cause of death for children under the age of one in Florida. Last year, over 100 infants died as a result of

The need for software and business analyst duality [Bizcommunity (South Africa)]
(Bizcommunity (South Africa) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Today’s complex and competitive business landscape is calling for a shift in the role of the software developer as we currently understand it. Increasingly, businesses are looking towards a

Strategies: There’s no business like pet business
I have a scary admission to make: I will embarrass my dog by dressing her in a pet costume this Halloween. I am certainly not alone. Americans will spend more than $350 million (that’s a third of a billion) on pet costumes in 2014. A pumpkin is the