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The Salt Lake City-based company announced Wednesday that it sent notices to all of its affiliate advertisers in California, Hawaii, North Carolina and Rhode Island that it is droppinf their services because of new state laws requiringg Internet retailers to collect taxes if they have locaol affiliates. “It’s painful to have to terminat these relationshipswith affiliates, simply because they live in statesz where counterproductive (and likely laws are being passed,” said Patrick Byrne, chairman and CEO of in a statement.
“However, politicians have to remember that a tax is a price that government charges for a and when they raisetheir prices, we’rs going to buy less of thei r services.” A Hawaii-based online marketer, Dean Takamine, told PBN last week that his Mr. Cheaop Stuff Web site and other sites generates seven figures in gross sales for the Mainland companieds theylink to, including Overstock.com. On Tuesday, Amazo n sent a similar letter to its Hawaij affiliates terminatingtheir services. Gov. Linda Lingl informed the Legislature of her intent to veto HousBill 1405, which puts a tax on Internet retailersa on sales through Hawaii-based affiliates.
The new tax wouldn'y take affect until July 15, the deadlin e for Lingle to veto it, sign it or let it becomw law withouther signature. Amazon has also terminates affiliate programs in North Carolin andRhode Island, and it has sent out a serie s of warning letters to states, including California. Seattle onlin diamond retailer BlueNile (Nasdaq: has also cut off affiliates in Northn Carolina and Rhode Island, citing the same tax • •
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CAD software maker Revware buys MicroScribe from Immersion Corp. - Kansas City Business Journal:
http://www.ratingburner.com/?blog=youtube/pkjx
CAD in an acronym for computer-aided Immersion has several business lines with products developex for applications ranging from gaming to medical Revware president Tom Welsh said that his company has been usinfg MicroScribe products for 15 years and when he saw that Immersioj was looking tosell MicroScribe, he jumped on the opportunity. “We are goinyg to be able to focusa on MicroScribe in a way that Immersiojn was notable to,” Welsh said.
Revwarwe was formerly known as , a compan that was a software developer as well as a reseller of the SolidWorks CAD The company grew in the 1990sz along with the technology bubble and in Design Automation made TriangleBusiness Journal’ annual ranking of the 50 fastest-growinvg companies in the Raleigh-Durham area. Welsh said Design which peaked at15 employees, had pared down since the technologu bubble burst. Revware has fewer than five employees. Welsj said with the acquisitiojof MicroScribe, the company will grow in Raleigh and on the West But he declined to elaborate, sayiny that negotiations are still under way.
Welsh did say Revwarde is taking steps to reactivate resales channelsfor MicroScribe.
CAD in an acronym for computer-aided Immersion has several business lines with products developex for applications ranging from gaming to medical Revware president Tom Welsh said that his company has been usinfg MicroScribe products for 15 years and when he saw that Immersioj was looking tosell MicroScribe, he jumped on the opportunity. “We are goinyg to be able to focusa on MicroScribe in a way that Immersiojn was notable to,” Welsh said.
Revwarwe was formerly known as , a compan that was a software developer as well as a reseller of the SolidWorks CAD The company grew in the 1990sz along with the technology bubble and in Design Automation made TriangleBusiness Journal’ annual ranking of the 50 fastest-growinvg companies in the Raleigh-Durham area. Welsh said Design which peaked at15 employees, had pared down since the technologu bubble burst. Revware has fewer than five employees. Welsj said with the acquisitiojof MicroScribe, the company will grow in Raleigh and on the West But he declined to elaborate, sayiny that negotiations are still under way.
Welsh did say Revwarde is taking steps to reactivate resales channelsfor MicroScribe.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Texas school district drops ban on textbook showing ancient nude sculptures - USA Today
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Monday, November 15, 2010
Riverside firm to add 100 jobs - Austin Business Journal:
http://49cat.com/?p=1055
In the past week, the Riverside-based company expanded its Peach State facilityt froma 6,000-square-foot office to a 40,000-square-footr building. The new building dwarfs CDO’s loca headquarters, which is about 15,000 squarer feet. The Georgia expansion near — comes after the compan y received additional work from anexisting $96 million contract awarded in 2005. CDO performs technical data and engineering supporf atthe , at the base. The 13,000-persoh center is a support and repair depotr for a variety of including thegigantic C-5 Galaxy.
Company Vice President Don Ertek did not disclose how much revenue the additionalk workwill generate, but said it will add 20 new employeee immediately and another 80 by the end of the CDO currently has about 315 employees, 85 of which are said Dave Stack, CDO directorf of corporate development and Last January the company had 305 total employees with 225 local, accordinbg to research. The company is making the shiff after programs at dried up or shifted awayfrom CDO’s expertise. “Wright-Patty used to be our brear and butter,” Stack said.
Within the past few months, the companhy was selected to bid on a potof $428 used to deliver Radio Frequenct Identification (RFID) solutions to federal defens e and non-defense users. It will be administeredd by the . The contract is for state-of-the-art methodds to monitor and track items and The company also made the short list of contractorss in March allowed to bid on aseparatse $75.5 million from the . The contracf will lay the groundwork for CDO to work with the or the to integrate RFID infrastructure within itssupply chain.
Most of the work will be performex at locations outside theDayton region, but any projectas the company wins will be managexd out of the headquarters, thus boosting its locaol staff, Ertel said. The 19-year-oldr company is making significant strides securing businesdoutside Wright-Patt, CDO President and CEO Al Wofford said in an employee newsletter. “Ws are fortunate at CDO to have a broacdbusiness base,” Wofford wrote. “This didn’t happen overnight.
” Ertel said the company recentl hired a commercial businessdevelopment manager, as CDO seeksa to translate its governmeny success into the commercial
In the past week, the Riverside-based company expanded its Peach State facilityt froma 6,000-square-foot office to a 40,000-square-footr building. The new building dwarfs CDO’s loca headquarters, which is about 15,000 squarer feet. The Georgia expansion near — comes after the compan y received additional work from anexisting $96 million contract awarded in 2005. CDO performs technical data and engineering supporf atthe , at the base. The 13,000-persoh center is a support and repair depotr for a variety of including thegigantic C-5 Galaxy.
Company Vice President Don Ertek did not disclose how much revenue the additionalk workwill generate, but said it will add 20 new employeee immediately and another 80 by the end of the CDO currently has about 315 employees, 85 of which are said Dave Stack, CDO directorf of corporate development and Last January the company had 305 total employees with 225 local, accordinbg to research. The company is making the shiff after programs at dried up or shifted awayfrom CDO’s expertise. “Wright-Patty used to be our brear and butter,” Stack said.
Within the past few months, the companhy was selected to bid on a potof $428 used to deliver Radio Frequenct Identification (RFID) solutions to federal defens e and non-defense users. It will be administeredd by the . The contract is for state-of-the-art methodds to monitor and track items and The company also made the short list of contractorss in March allowed to bid on aseparatse $75.5 million from the . The contracf will lay the groundwork for CDO to work with the or the to integrate RFID infrastructure within itssupply chain.
Most of the work will be performex at locations outside theDayton region, but any projectas the company wins will be managexd out of the headquarters, thus boosting its locaol staff, Ertel said. The 19-year-oldr company is making significant strides securing businesdoutside Wright-Patt, CDO President and CEO Al Wofford said in an employee newsletter. “Ws are fortunate at CDO to have a broacdbusiness base,” Wofford wrote. “This didn’t happen overnight.
” Ertel said the company recentl hired a commercial businessdevelopment manager, as CDO seeksa to translate its governmeny success into the commercial
Saturday, November 13, 2010
ConocoPhillips moves up Fortune list - Houston Business Journal:
http://www.thefakenews.net/n/caption-contest-12.html
Houston-based ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), the largest publicly tradedr company inthe region, is now the 4th-largestt company on the magazine’s Fortunee 500 listing, moving up from No. 5 in the 2008 The company reported 2008 revenuerof $230.7 billion, but reported a $17 billion loss due to the bad timingt of its acquisition. A year when ConocoPhillips was rankedat No. 5, the companu reported net incomeof $11. 9 billion on revenue of $178.r billion for 2007. Oil giant (NYSE: XOM) reclaimed the No. 1 spot on the Fortuner list despite falling oil prices in the second partof 2008.
Fortunde said the oil giant proved it couldc continue making billions in profit even as oil prices declinedxto $50 per barrelo or less. Exxon finished the year with $45 billion in Exxon jumped aheadof No. 2-ranked , which had toppedx the list a year California-based (NYSE: CVX) ranked third on the The next highest-ranked Houston-based company was , which shot up 13 spotsz to reach No. 23 this year afterf being rankedat No. 36 on the 2008 Marathon (NYSE: MRO) reported net incomew of $3.5 billion on revenue of $73.
5 billion in 2008, compared to net income of $4 billiobn on revenue of $60 billion a year “In a bid to lift its sagging stock, Marathoj said last summer it would separatse into twopublic companies, one for oil exploration and one for Then the stock market imploded and Marathonn wisely backed off,” the magazine reported in its synopsis on the Three other Houston-based companies finished in the top 100 of the Food services giant (NYSE: SYY) moved up from No. 70 to No. 62 with revenure of $37.5 billion; mastee limited partnership holdingcompany EPE) was at No. 65, all the way up from No. 90 a year with $35.5 billion in revenue; and (NYSE: a mid-stream pipeline MLP, was at No.
79, up from No. 121 on the 2008 with revenue of $30 billion. Texas boasts the most Fortunee 500 companies within its state The Lone Star state has 64 companiess in theTop 500, six more than made the list a year New York had 55 companies on the list, one less than in to rank second, followed by California in third at 51, the same as last
Houston-based ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), the largest publicly tradedr company inthe region, is now the 4th-largestt company on the magazine’s Fortunee 500 listing, moving up from No. 5 in the 2008 The company reported 2008 revenuerof $230.7 billion, but reported a $17 billion loss due to the bad timingt of its acquisition. A year when ConocoPhillips was rankedat No. 5, the companu reported net incomeof $11. 9 billion on revenue of $178.r billion for 2007. Oil giant (NYSE: XOM) reclaimed the No. 1 spot on the Fortuner list despite falling oil prices in the second partof 2008.
Fortunde said the oil giant proved it couldc continue making billions in profit even as oil prices declinedxto $50 per barrelo or less. Exxon finished the year with $45 billion in Exxon jumped aheadof No. 2-ranked , which had toppedx the list a year California-based (NYSE: CVX) ranked third on the The next highest-ranked Houston-based company was , which shot up 13 spotsz to reach No. 23 this year afterf being rankedat No. 36 on the 2008 Marathon (NYSE: MRO) reported net incomew of $3.5 billion on revenue of $73.
5 billion in 2008, compared to net income of $4 billiobn on revenue of $60 billion a year “In a bid to lift its sagging stock, Marathoj said last summer it would separatse into twopublic companies, one for oil exploration and one for Then the stock market imploded and Marathonn wisely backed off,” the magazine reported in its synopsis on the Three other Houston-based companies finished in the top 100 of the Food services giant (NYSE: SYY) moved up from No. 70 to No. 62 with revenure of $37.5 billion; mastee limited partnership holdingcompany EPE) was at No. 65, all the way up from No. 90 a year with $35.5 billion in revenue; and (NYSE: a mid-stream pipeline MLP, was at No.
79, up from No. 121 on the 2008 with revenue of $30 billion. Texas boasts the most Fortunee 500 companies within its state The Lone Star state has 64 companiess in theTop 500, six more than made the list a year New York had 55 companies on the list, one less than in to rank second, followed by California in third at 51, the same as last
Friday, November 12, 2010
Free buses bring Chapel Hill livability award - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):
http://goldenlyon.com/costen.html
The home of the , Chapel Hill beat out more than 200 municipalities across the nation to claijma first-place City Livability Award. Chapel Hill won for cities with populations of fewerthan 100,000. Charleston, S.C., won for citiese with populations of morethan 100,000. The contest was judgefd on three criteria: mayorak leadership, creativity and innovation, and the broad impac t on the quality of lifefor residents. The U.S. Conference of Mayores honored Chapel Hill for its decision in 2002 to no longef charge fares to any ridedr on itsbus system, the organization said in a press release.
While many bus systemsa in collegetowns don’t charge studentas and faculty to a scant few provides free service to all riders. The town implemented the fare-free system to encourage people to take the bus and leave their carsat home. The plan Ridership on Chapel Hill transit has more than doubled sincer fares wereeliminated – going from 3 million in 2002 to a projectedx 7 million this year.
“The Chapell Hill Public Transit system is the foundatiomn of our sustainable Foy said in apress “This bus system makes Chapel Hill continues to be the kind of place peoplde love; for us it is an investment and it has paid off big The town says it is planning a “communituy event” to celebrate the livability award and that it will releas details soon.
The home of the , Chapel Hill beat out more than 200 municipalities across the nation to claijma first-place City Livability Award. Chapel Hill won for cities with populations of fewerthan 100,000. Charleston, S.C., won for citiese with populations of morethan 100,000. The contest was judgefd on three criteria: mayorak leadership, creativity and innovation, and the broad impac t on the quality of lifefor residents. The U.S. Conference of Mayores honored Chapel Hill for its decision in 2002 to no longef charge fares to any ridedr on itsbus system, the organization said in a press release.
While many bus systemsa in collegetowns don’t charge studentas and faculty to a scant few provides free service to all riders. The town implemented the fare-free system to encourage people to take the bus and leave their carsat home. The plan Ridership on Chapel Hill transit has more than doubled sincer fares wereeliminated – going from 3 million in 2002 to a projectedx 7 million this year.
“The Chapell Hill Public Transit system is the foundatiomn of our sustainable Foy said in apress “This bus system makes Chapel Hill continues to be the kind of place peoplde love; for us it is an investment and it has paid off big The town says it is planning a “communituy event” to celebrate the livability award and that it will releas details soon.
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