Sutor Forms Joint Venture with China Railway Materials Wuhan Company Ltd.
CHANGSHU, China, June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ — Sutor Technology Group Limited (the “Company” or “Sutor”) SUTR, a leading China-based non-state owned manufacturer and distributor of high-end fine finished steel products and welded

Bias suit for Oklahoma man names Nebraska company
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) A federal lawsuit alleges that a Nebraska-based company didn’t hire an Oklahoma man because of his religious beliefs. The Lincoln Journal Star says (http://bit.ly/KF2SaN) the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission filed the lawsuit

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Lexington Company Comes To America Waving Its Stars And Stripes
NEW YORK, June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Lexington Company, a Stockholm-based lifestyle brand with $80 million in annual sales, opens its first store in the U.S. today, at 73 Main Street in East Hampton, New York. Widely known in Europe for

Google dips toe into customer service business
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Google Inc is dipping its toe into the customer-service business as the world’s largest Internet search company steps up competition with e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. Google rolled out a new certification service called

The Morning Download: How Apple s Crusade Against Google Hurts Business
The Morning Download cues up the most important news in business technology every weekday morning. Send us your tips, compliments and complaints. Good morning. Apple s war with Google could have the effect of erasing many of the cost and

Using Your 401(k) to Buy a Small Business
It takes a creative and determined buyer to purchase a small business in today s lending environment. If there s any doubt that small-business lending has yet to recover in any meaningful way, look no further than Ami Kassar s new

Apple Maps Could Launch With More Business Listings Than Google
If the two companies self-reported numbers are accurate, and if nothing changes between now and then, Apple s new Maps product will launch later this year with more local business listings than Google. Meanwhile, when Google announced its new Google+

NFIB: Small-business owners lack confidence in economy
Small business owners weren t as confident in the economy in May as they were in April, according to a monthly survey conducted by the National Federation of Independent Business National Federation of Independent Business Latest from The

Exclusive: Business software IPOs hope to trump market woes
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Data analysis software company Tableau Software and developer tools maker Atlassian are among several small, business software firms preparing to go public in the next 12 months, hoping a growing market for cloud computing

City National Bank Appoints Bruce Ford as Regional Business Banking Manager
SAN DIEGO, June 11, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — City National Bank, California and Nevada’s Premier Private and Business Bank , today announced the appointment of Bruce Ford to regional business banking manager San Diego, California, and Nevada.

UPDATE: Discover Launches Mortgage Business in Continued Expansion
Discover Financial Services (DFS) will initially target existing customers as it prepares to ramp up its newly created mortgage business, the credit-card lender’s latest effort to broaden its consumer banking operations. Discover will market

BUSINESS SCHOOL LAUNCHES INTERNATIONAL MBA SCHOLARSHIP Entrepreneurship track added to boost student
Chennai, 12, June 2012: NEWCASTLE University Business School, UK has announced a unique MBA scholarship geared to the high-calibre international student market. The MBA scholarship has been developed to provide a financially viable opportunity

Small business owners’ sentiment unchanged in May
NEW YORK Small business owners remain fairly pessimistic about how business will fare in the coming months, according to a recent survey. The National Federation of Independent Business says its May index of owners’ optimism was little changed

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NEW YORK Verizon Wireless, the nation’s largest cellphone company, is dropping nearly all of its phone plans in favor of pricing schemes that encourage consumers to connect their tablets and PCs to Verizon’s network. The new plans will become available

Nokia: We’re basically the world’s largest maps company – CNET News
“We’re basically the world’s largest mapping company,” Hans Peter Brondmo, head of innovation for Nokia’s Location and Commerce business, told CNET. Brondmo added that Nokia’s maps platform enables 176 million devices in 196 countries and over 50 languages.

Local youth organizations merge
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative: a 25-year-old group that provides mentoring, college access and other services to students, mostly in Cincinnati Public Schools. www.cycyouth.org Jobs for Cincinnati Graduates: formed 30 years ago and provides a

Rally Protests Contraception Coverage Mandate for Religious Organizations
COURT HOUSE About two dozen local church members gathered on the sidewalk in front of the Superior Court Building here Fri., June 8 to protest a mandate by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) they claim violates their religious freedom.

Missoula car show benefits local non profit
More than 250 cars filled the parking lot of Karl Tyler Chevrolet to raise money for Montana Auto Technologies and a few other charity organizations including the Montana Food Bank Network. Some brief rain didn’t keep car fanatics away and some

Matching Funds and Coaching Help Nonprofit Media Organizations Adapt during Tumultuous Times
With their industry facing upheaval and suffering fallout from the recession, nonprofit media organizations have found a need to adapt more quickly than ever before. An innovative funder collaborative has helped address this challenge through a combination

Now that Freelance Settlement Must Be Renegotiated, Where are Voices of Authors’ Organizations?
At intervals in these pages, I have been discussing the six-year-long fight by objectors to block a settlement between freelance journalists and the periodical and electronic database industries a horrible sellout engineered by the Authors Guild, the