Top business news (about 4 alerts per day) – MSNBC
NEW YORK – Goldman Sachs Group Inc. provides some of its biggest clients stock tips that come out of regular meetings held by analysts and traders at the investment bank, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Some of the analysts views, which

Ridley positioned for consolidation – ninemsn
Feedstock maker and salt producer Ridley Corporation Ltd says it is uniquely positioned to take advantage of consolidation opportunities in the animal feed sector, despite posting an annual net loss of $39.53 million. The 2008/09 result was pulled

Business news in brief – Arkansas Online
QUOTE OF THE DAY What Dubai thought they d done was create this everlasting growth market. The world was booming.Whatever crazy idea you came up with, people said Yeah, I ll buy it. David Camp, director at ERA Aecom, a consulting

Business News – Am770chqr.com
HONG KONG – World stocks dropped Tuesday, with China’s main index sinking 2.6 per cent, as investors tread cautiously after a series of gains and looked for more signs of economic recovery. The selling came after Asia advanced for three straight days

Business News – Am770chqr.com
HONG KONG – Asian stocks fell sharply Monday as signs of weak U.S. consumer confidence aggravated doubts in the recovery’s strength, overshadowing news that Japan’s economy climbed out of its recession last quarter. Markets in Tokyo, Shanghai and

Business news in brief – Mercury
Networking the topic of ‘What’s the SCORE?’ on Aug. 28 POTTSTOWN Networking will be the topic on the “What’s the SCORE?” radio show on WPAZ 1370 AM on Friday, Aug. 28 at 1 p.m. Host Dick Powell will discuss this topic with guests Terri Lampe and

New Jersey Business News – Newark Star-Ledger
Julia Scott offers tips and advice at BargainBabe.com. There’s a new way to make money online. Buy clothes, shoes, whatever you want using the new search engine Bing (Microsoft’s answer to search engine giant Google) and you earn cash rebates

Names in business news – Aug. 16 – Canton Repository
Gina Bannevich has been named director of marketing at Mount Union College. The Dennison native earned a bachelor of arts degree in communication from Mount Union in 1996 and received certification in sales-focused marketing from the Office of

LOCAL SCENE – Columbus Dispatch
Lawrence A. Adeleye Send notices of your new hires and promotions to The Columbus Dispatch, Business News, 34 S. 3rd St., Columbus, OH 43215; or businessnews@dispatch.com . BBC&M Engineering Inc. has promoted Tami Hayes to marketing coordinator

SEC may make second revision to media policy – Alexandria Daily Town Talk
BATON ROUGE — Southeastern Conference officials say they are considering revising a new credentials policy that places restrictions on how media organizations can use materials produced by journalists covering games. The policy already has been

Gang member faces federal charges – Post-Tribune
HAMMOND — A Spanish Vice Lord gang member is facing charges of attempting to kill a man he accused of being an informant. Felipe Deleon of Hammond has been indicted in the U.S. District Court Northern District of Indiana on the charge of using a

Hastings finds few dollars available to cut for community events – Grand Rapids Press
HASTINGS — With near certainty that state-shared revenue will be cut, officials want to know what it costs the city to assist at community events, such as parades and Summerfest. City Council member Brenda McNabb-Stange raised the issue in recent

Kazakhstan ranked 1st in int’l education development index – Times of Central Asia
ASTANA, Aug. 22 (KazInform) – Kazakhstan Ministry of Education and Science is carrying through an active work on integration of the national education into the World Educational Community; Representative of the Ministry Serik Irsaliyev has said

New Reports of Harsh C.I.A. Tactics – New York Times Blogs
Several news organizations reported Friday night that a Central Intelligence Agency report due to be made public next week details extreme tactics employed by agency interrogators, including what was described as a mock execution. Those news

Shipbuilder Austal suffers profit fall – ninemsn
Shipbuilder Austal Ltd expects to eclipse its previous record order book by 50 per cent within the next 12 months despite a disappointing 2008/09 net profit due to writedowns. Austal’s profit for the 12 months to June 30 was $9.17 million, down

Business News – Am770chqr.com
BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel has offered renewed backing for a bid for General Motors Co.’s Opel unit from auto parts maker Magna, saying in an interview published Friday that it is “the better concept.” Canada’s Magna International Inc

Business news in brief – Philadelphia Inquirer
Pennsylvania’s employers slashed fewer than 10,000 jobs in July for the second straight month since October. The state Department of Labor and Industry estimated yesterday that Pennsylvania employers shed 4,800 nonfarm jobs in July. Payrolls shrank 8

Business news briefs – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Former AIG officials to pay $115 million in fraud case Former American International Group Inc. CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg and others have agreed to pay $115 million to settle fraud claims in a lawsuit filed on behalf of three Ohio state pension

SEC may revise media policy – The Daily Advertiser
BATON ROUGE The attorneys who wrote the original version of the new Southeastern Conference media policy, and then recently revised it, are facing a possible third try after a firestorm of complaints from the largest journalist organizations in

D.C.’s astroturf home field – Politico.com
The summer of Astroturf and of accusations of Astroturf hasn t been limited to health care. In the single most egregious incident, the Bonner Group, a lobbying firm, forged the signatures of local ethnic and senior citizens organizations

Gang battle gets funding boost – Calgary Sun
Calgary’s fight against gang violence is getting cash support from Ottawa for four years, the federal public safety minister announced yesterday. Minister Peter Van Loan said the city’s three gang initiatives will receive more than $3.1 million of

Facebook Introduces Twitter Publishing – Softpedia
Facebook is slowly becoming more open, by its standards anyway, encouraging its users to post more public information and launching a new search thus making it easier to find content rather than profiles. All of these changes came rather reluctantly

Smart Choice logos may not be so “smart” – Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
You’ll soon see food packages labeled with Smart Choices logos. These are supposed to guide you to “smarter” food selections. The program has a philosophical basis: A junk food with a little less sugar, salt, saturated fat or other nutritional evil

Media groups protest SEC credential policy – Baton Rouge Advocate
The Southeastern Conference office has issued a credential policy for sporting events that has media outlets throughout the region and beyond playing the kind of defense usually reserved for Saturdays in the fall. On Wednesday, the Associated