Bottom Lines: Small Business Administration appoints new director for New Jersey – MENAFN
Apr 03, 2011 (The Press of Atlantic City – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) — Small businesses have a new friend this week. Alfred Titone took over Monday as the district director of the New Jersey office of the federal Small Business

Regional companies honored for top business plans – Post-Crescent
From athletic consulting to crafting, there was no shortage of ideas in the annual Northeast Wisconsin Business Plan competition. The contest is organized and sponsored by the Northeast Wisconsin Regional Economic Partnership. Its goal is to encourage the

2011 Business Person of the Year – HometownLife.com
Thomas Blaine is ready to buy, sell or trade. Owner of the Garden City Exchange, Blaine takes in items that the owner no longer wants and finds them a new owner. Looking around his store on Ford Road, everything, he said, is for sale. The biggest thing

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Business plan: 1. Take money 2. Run – Boston Globe
FROM FIDELITY Investments to Evergreen Solar , the message to Massachusetts taxpayers is pretty clear. See you later, suckers. It s nothing personal. It s just business. As the Beatles sang long ago, Money can t buy me love. This week on

Hagerstown chooses new downtown business retention and recruitment manager – Herald-Mail
Sign up for our Breaking News alerts today. He not only brings strong skills I share the city s vision of a vibrant city center and look forward to working with the dedicated business owners and the various professional organizations as a

Swansea 2nd in UK business growth in Royal Mail survey – BBC
Prof David Blackaby, of Swansea University School of Business and Economics, gave the findings a cautious welcome. With the economy on a knife-edge, these survey results could be good news if it means that there is a growing business sector End Quote

Business news: SIUE provost named to position in Maine – St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Paul W. Ferguson, who has been provost of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville since July 2006, was named the University of Maine’s 19th president. In a message, SIUE Chancellor Vaughn Vandegrift said Ferguson has brought a wealth of experience to

New law limits adult business billboards – Traverse City Record-Eagle
Billboards and signs visible from outside an adult business can only display words, numbers and trademarks under the law. Timothy Murphy, a lawyer for The Penthouse Club in northwest Detroit, told The Detroit News that he wasn’t aware of the law and no one

Health, Business pages debut – Calaveras Enterprise
The Enterprise is proud to introduce the first of new weekly Health and Business sections in today s newspaper. As always, we invite reader comments and suggestions for content you would like to see. Reporter Joel Metzger introduces Business with a

ChargeSmart Makes Real-Time Customer Payment Information Available to Billing Organizations – TMCnet
Mar 31, 2011 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) — ChargeSmart announced the availability of its new web-based tool that provides billing organizations with access to real-time information regarding customers’ payments made through ChargeSmart. Customer service

Organizations urge premier to safeguard Great Bear Rainforest – Globe and Mail
Environmental organizations from around the world are urging B.C. Premier Christy Clark to fully implement an existing agreement to protect the Great Bear Rainforest. In 2009, B.C. signed an agreement with first nations, environmental groups and logging

Lancaster arts organizations to launch campaign – Central Penn Business Journal
Seven of Lancaster’s arts organizations are banding together to launch a campaign promoting the Red Rose City as an arts destination. The initiative received a $430,000 grant from the Lancaster County Community Foundation , as well as $100,000 in

Most organizations can’t access critical security data – Help Net Security
Many enterprises feel that their security processes are failing to meet their potential due to a lack of coordination, benchmarking, and proactive improvement among the various silos of functionality, according to SenSage. The study, conducted at RSA

STOCKS NEWS EUROPE-Taylor Wimpey up; eyes core business – Reuters UK
Shares in Taylor Wimpey ( TW.L ) rise 2.7 percent as the British housebuilder says it has sold its North American business to TMM Holdings for $955 million, to cut its debt and pension deficit and focus on its core UK housing business. Share volumes are 55 …

A Wall Street Tabloid Business News Headlines and Financial Gossip – DEALBREAKER
Nasdaq OMX and ICE said Friday that they are proposing to buy NYSE Euronext for $42.50 in cash and stock per NYSE Euronext share, or about $11.3 billion, based on the respective Nasdaq OMX and ICE closing share prices on Thursday. Berkshire s Abel Advanc …

Buissy.com Business Software Directory Releases New Version v0.7 – Newswiretoday.com
NewswireToday – /newswire/ – Sliema, Malta, 04/01/2011 – After more success for the new Software Directory for Business Software, Buissy.com, v0.7 is now released with support for publishing of product news and releases. This means that Buissy.com is the …

BMO ETF Business Reaches $2 Billion in Assets in Under Two Years – Stockhouse
2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX News Network) — BMO Financial Group today announced its Exchange Traded Fund (ETF)(i) business has reached $2 billion in assets under management in fewer than two years – a milestone that surpassed the company’s expectations …

The Contemporary Critic: the Effects of the 24-Hour News Cycle & Web 2.0 – Examiner
Web 2.0 has also enabled anyone to “make the news.” Dan Gillmor discusses this in We the Media (free online edition). Grassroots movements according to Gillmor occur at the edges–away from traditional business architecture like the NYT. This means the …

Morning business news – April 1 – RTE Online
The future has now been prescribed by the stress tests and the Government decision for two pillar banks – AIB and Bank of Ireland. IL&P CAUGHT IN THE CROSS FIRE OF IRELAND INC – The future has now been prescribed by the stress tests and the Government …

Marketwire Introduces eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) Services – msnbc.com
webcasting and posting of news and related information to our clients’ websites.” A type of interactive language for business data based on electronic tagging, XBRL is seen by many regulators, financial and accounting professionals, and investors around …

Social Software for Business No Jive Talk – Wall Street Journal
Francis Specker/Bloomberg News New Jive board member David DeWalt … This mix of backgrounds reflects the increasing demand among business customers for software that not only connects to popular consumer services, but has many of the same characteristics …

Latest Ohio News, Sports, Business And Entertainment – WNCT
(Information in the following story is from: Dayton Daily News, http://www.daytondailynews.com ) COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) A bill that would ban texting for drivers in Ohio has cleared a state legislative panel. The Dayton Daily News reports an Ohio House …