Business warns Cameron against huge EU gamble
Cameron will deliver a speech in Amsterdam on Friday setting out his plans for Britain’s future in the European Union, which is expected to focus on wresting powers back from Brussels. Executives such as Martin Sorrell, who heads the world’s largest

Maduro slams business leaders over Venezuela economy comments
Chavez has not been seen in public nor heard from in five weeks since his latest operation in Cuba, and his heir apparent Nicolas Maduro has taken on an increasingly visible role as the face of the government. Accused by the opposition of presiding over a

St. Louis Business School Shooting: Police Respond To Stevens Institute of Business and Arts
Authorities responded to a shooting at Stevens Institute of Business and Arts in downtown St. Louis on Tuesday. The suspect, a currently enrolled student, allegedly shot one administrator before fleeing to a stairwell and turning the gun on himself

Business world not immune to elaborate hoaxes
Notre Dame football players are not the only people who can be part of massive, elaborate hoaxes. The business world has also seen its fair share of impossible-to-believe scams. What the biggest businesses hoaxes and the still-developing Manti Te o story

Business-for-sale activity slowly crawling upward
Buying a business in Tampa will set you back $175,000. That was the median asking price of businesses for sale in the Tampa Bay area in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to data released by BizBuySell.com. For the same period in 2011, the price was

Why Business Owners Should be Cheering for Alternative Lenders
From 2008 to 2011, business owners suffered. The economy crashed and bank lending to business owners came to a screeching halt. Most banks tightened their purse strings, while others got out of business lending altogether. According to the SBA Office of

Business Groups Propose Raising Age for Entitlement Benefits
The Business Roundtable, which represents chief executives of major U.S. companies, proposed shoring up Social Security and Medicare by raising the eligibility age without increasing taxes on income subject to the Social Security payroll tax. For Social Se

Walgreen approved for 3 Medicare accountable care organizations
Drugstore chain Walgreen Co. took another step Thursday in its transformation into a front-line health care provider when three so-called accountable care organizations it created were approved by the federal government. Physician groups in Texas, Florida

Organizations Can Apply for 2013 Baldrige Quality Award.
With the launch of the 2013 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) application process, the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is ready to help U.S. organizations usher in a quality New Year filled with innovation, improvement and visionary

A&M organizations host blood, book drive
Two Texas A&M University student organizations are sponsoring a blood and book drive next Tuesday. The Memorial Student Center organizations, MSC Hospitality and Freshmen In Service and Hosting, have organized the Half Blood Prints Drive. The blood drive

Pirate Organizations Like Anonymous Are Key to Capitalism: Jean-Philippe Vergne
Most Americans associate the term pirate with a peg-legged, eye-patched, bearded man from the seas of yore. Many picture these caricatured men as deniers of free trade and capitalism, out to take what they have not earned. Jean-Philippe Vergne doesn

Medical organizations invoke Newtown to request more funding from Obama
Fifty-two medical organizations including the American Medical Association, which contributed more than $16,000 to President Barack Obama s re-election campaign sent a letter to the White House on Tuesday invoking the Newtown, Conn. school