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Business for Sale: Would You Pay $2.5 Million?

Business for Sale: Would You Pay $2.5 Million?
Are you getting the most out of your business? In my posts, I occasionally take a look at businesses for sale, which can offer interesting lessons in both how to market a business and how to buy one. For this post, we ll look at a distributor

Gambling queen Pansy Ho primes business empire for a new Macau
Born into a family that developed a flourishing gambling culture in the southern Chinese territory more than 50 years ago, Ho is now a key player spearheading a move to diversify Macau into an arts, culture and entertainment hub, and away from

What Contract Research Organizations Are Doing To Keep Employees

What Contract Research Organizations Are Doing To Keep Employees
Here is an expense to track if you run a contract research organization or invest in one of the publicly held operations salaries. As CROs continue to fine tune the menu of services offered to drugmakers, their employee turnover remains high

Local Organizations Partner to Support Manna Food Center
The Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce (GGCC) partnered with the Corporate Volunteer Council of Montgomery County (CVC-MC) to support Manna Food Center s Smart Sacks Program. Over 70 attendees arrived at the event sponsor location

Websites of Major Media Organizations Riddled with Vulnerabilities, Expert Warns
The websites of several major media organizations have been targeted by hackers over the past period. However, experts say the companies haven t learned from past incidents and have failed to secure their websites. Ilia Kolochenko, CEO of High-Tech

Pantherpalooza represents organizations at Eastern
So far, a little more than 100 organizations have registered for the fair with more being added until the start of the fair. Because of the amount of clubs, teams and societies joining the fair late, student government members make sure they

Wolff: Music icon enters the streaming business

Wolff: Music icon enters the streaming business
Music makes the mobile device. This was one more notable Steve Jobs intuition: From iPod to iPhone, just keep the music coming. The fact that a BlackBerry seems so atonal, that its emphasis is on typing instead of sound, is one of the things

Business Rx: All entrepreneurship is global entrepreneurship
This summer, the Smith School of Business and Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship welcomed MBA students from Peking University, our partner school in China. Their enthusiasm for everything American our universities, our financial markets, our TV shows

Small Business Optimism Improves to Highest Levels since Great Recession, but Recovery is Slow
Small business optimism is the highest it has been since third quarter 2008, according to the latest Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index conducted July 22-26. The Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index improved 9 points since second quarter

Property sales on track to nearly double

Property sales on track to nearly double
Led by foreign buyers and real estate investment trusts, sales of office buildings in Manhattan hit $3.7 billion in the first three quarters of the year, compared with $1.9 billion for all of last year, according to a report released this week by Colliers

Aspirants emerge for High Court job
THE field of candidates for the next High Court judge is already narrowing, with early support firming for Sydney silk Bret Walker SC, NSW Court of Appeal president James Allsop and Commonwealth Solicitor-General Stephen Gageler SC. With nominations from

Global growth to slow says Economist Intelligence Unit; Eritrea to be 2011 growth leader
2011: country by country, just published by the Economist Intelligence Unit, predicts that growth trends in the New Year will diverge between the rich and developing world. Global growth will slow as fiscal stimulus is withdrawn and emerging markets will

Home flipping frenzy returns to Southland real estate market
Like most real estate agents, Tarek El Moussa saw much of his livelihood evaporate in the housing bust. But with prices beaten down, El Moussa also started seeing bargains everywhere. He bought a Santa Ana condo for $115,000 in 2010, made modest

Sharia widespread in local community
A LAWYER has revealed he has prepared more than 1000 wills for Australian Muslims using Islamic law, while other lawyers and Muslim leaders say sharia is used informally by most of the Islamic community. The revelation that the use of sharia law is