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Aloha wear manufacturer Hawaiian Moon will close both its stores at Ward Warehouse and Waikiki Beachwalk in Honolulu by the end of the month.
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Sandia National Laboratories said Thursday it will break ground early next week its Combustion Research Computation and Visualization building.
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IronPlanet Inc., an online seller of used heavy equipment, on Thursday filed for a $92 million initial public offering, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. (MANU)
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TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. improved its first-quarter guidance Thursday, saying revenue will jump 47 percent to $175 million. (TQNT)
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Gov. Ted Kulongoski on Thursday signed House Bill 3680, which reforms the Business Energy Tax Credit (BETC) program.
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ICOP Digital Inc. saw a larger fourth-quarter loss on higher operating expenses and a one-time impairment charge.
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Eclipse Aerospace Inc. has selected SimCom Training Centers to provide pilot training for owners and operators of the Eclipse 500 very light jet.
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Palm Inc. trimmed its losses in a third quarter in which it beat Wall Street projections for revenue and earnings. (PALM)
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Sales of Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet computers are reportedly on a pace that could beat the debut sales of the iPhone. (AAPL)
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Apple Inc. said Thursday that long-time member of its board Jerry York has died at age 71.
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Google Inc. said in court documents unsealed on Thursday that Viacom Inc. was secretly uploading videos to YouTube at the same time it was complaining about copyright infringement. (GOOG)
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Aveo Pharmaceuticals Inc. has completed its initial public offering of common stock.
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Starting Monday, customers using credit cards to purchase Sacramento County services such as building permits will be charged a fee of 2.5 percent of the total transaction cost. Typical services include encroachment permits, impact fees, maintenance fees, vehicle damage reimbursements and building permits. Credit cards can be used when purchasing simple permits online or in person.
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Internal emails show that YouTube's founders knowingly ignored copyright violations in order to drive up traffic and sell the company quickly, Viacom alleged in court documents unsealed Thursday.
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Cincinnati Bell CEO Jack Cassidy saw his overall compensation drop to $3.35 million in 2009 from $3.9 million the year before. (CBB) (CBB)
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Medical device maker Rhythmia Medical Inc. has raised $2.7 million in equity financing, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Dell Inc. stalled for the third time plans to close its Winston-Salem assembly plant, and it will now stay open until at least October 29, according to a company spokesman.
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Novelos Therapeutics Inc. has spiked an effort to develop a lung-cancer drug to augment traditional chemotherapy treatments. The move comes roughly a month after the the company said a recent phase-3 trial for the drug candidate failed to show any benefits relative to traditional treatments.
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Federal regulators have approved a fully implantable hearing restoration device developed by White Bear Township-based Envoy Medical Corp.
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The healthcare systems segment of Vocollect Inc. named former Akustica Inc. CEO Jim Rock president this week after the departure of its previous head Jim Quasey.
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A judge has approved Spheris Inc.?s request to implement an amended contract with its largest customer and investor Community Health Systems Inc., extending the companies? agreement by seven years and freeing up about $9 million that Spheris needs to operate during bankruptcy.
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Fwix, a local news service, signed a content deal with the New York Times Co. (NYT)
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Sprint Nextel Corp. is hiring almost 200 people to fill positions at a customer call center in Rio Rancho, N.M. (S)
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En Vogue, the 1990s rhythm and blues vocal group that has sold more than 20 million albums, will perform at this year?s Kroger Fest-a-Ville on the Waterfront.
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Vuance Ltd., a a publicly traded provider of radio frequency security systems with U.S. headquarters in Oak Creek, is shifting its focus and management team in an effort to become profitable, according to a news release issued Thursday.
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Dell Inc. now intends to keep its Winston-Salem assembly plant in operation through October 29, according to a company spokesman.
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ICOP Digital Inc. has won a contract with a Texas state agency that ICOP says could increase sales of its products in Texas and beyond.
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Private equity investor Riverside Partners has taken majority ownership stake in Thinklogical LLC, a Milford, Conn.-based designer and manufacturer of high-bandwidth switches and equipment for video networks.
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Springfield-based Versar Inc. has acquired Advent Environmental Inc. for an undisclosed sum. (VSR)
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Sprint Nextel Corp. is rolling out prepaid wireless data services for its wholesale partners. (S)
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Harris Corp. has received a $44 million order to supply its Falcon tactical radio systems to an unidentified customer in Asia. (HRS)
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ScentAir Technologies Inc. has hired a former Newell Rubbermaid Inc. executive as chief marketing officer. (NWL)
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Taiwanese cell phone maker HTC Corp. said in a statement Thursday that it will aggressively defend itself against an iPhone patent lawsuit filed by Apple Inc. (AAPL) (GOOG)
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McAfee Inc. warned Facebook Inc.'s 400 million users Wednesday that a new type of virus is trying to steal their bank passwords and other secret information about them.
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Data-storage products company Imation Corp. said Thursday that CEO Frank Russomanno will retire in May and will be replaced by Mark Lucas, the company?s president and chief operating officer. (MMM) (IMN)
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Velos Inc. named Kamar Aulakh as its chief operating officer on Thursday.
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NCR Corp. named interim Chief Financial Officer Robert Fishman its official CFO. (NCR)
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Hewlett-Packard Inc. said Thursday that patent complaints it filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) against 11 ink cartridge suppliers have been resolved. (HPQ)
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Intevac Photonics, a subsidiary of Intevac Inc., said Thursday it won a a $3.5 million subcontract award from the U.S. Army for the development and evaluation of a digital night vision camera. (IVAC)
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Doubts are now being cast about the authenticity of a purported letter from Google Inc.'s partners in China about its possible exit from that country. (GOOG)
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Google Inc. is reportedly working with Intel Corp., Sony Corp. and Logitech International SA on Internet-enabled televisions and set top boxes. (INTC)
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Rocky Mountain Instrument Inc., a high-tech optics company, was charged Wednesday as a company with illegally exporting defense-related items to China, Russia and other nations without a license, the office of U.S. Attorney for Colorado David Gaouette announced.
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Oakmont-based start-up Metis Secure Solutions closed on a $1 million investment from Pittsburgh-based private equity fund The Elmhurst Group, the company said Wednesday evening.
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Colorado biotech company Arca BioPharma Inc. said Wednesday it has notified by the NASDAQ Stock Market that it has fallen short of equity requirements for continued listing. (ABIO)
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AT&T Inc. has laid off about 140 workers in Kansas City, a union official said, an action the company blamed on declining customers for its traditional wireline business. (T)
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FSI International Inc. stock shot up more than 13 percent Wednesday after the Chaska-based maker of electronic circuit manufacturing equipment reported an order.
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Bioject Medical Technologies Inc. increased revenue in the fourth quarter of 2009 and the full year, but still made no profit.
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losil Energy Corp. has closed on a $13.5 million round of financing.
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Second Porch announced Wednesday that it has closed a $1 million investment, led by the Oregon Angel Fund.
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The Dublin nonprofit that electronically connects library collections around the world is letting go of one of its divisions.
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Sprint Nextel Corp. said Wednesday that Google Inc.?s Nexus One smartphone soon will be available on Sprint?s wireless nextwork. (S)
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Medical research firm Spinal Restoration Inc. has completed a $20 million round of financing.
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Sprint Nextel Corp. has picked software company Axeda Corp. to help serve business clients looking to add embedded wireless chips to their products. (S)
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Cable channel Epix and studio Media Rights Capital say they are working on a satirical TV show about Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs.
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Asentinel LLC has opened an office in Amsterdam, the technology company?s second office in Europe.
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Amtech Systems Inc. has named Fokko Pentinga as the company?s president, moving him over from the company?s solar subsidiary.
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Computer and personal electronics business Apple Inc. will stop selling clear film covers for the screens of its iPhones and similar devices in its company stores, according to news reports. (AAPL)
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Pitney Bowes Inc. has cut jobs at its North Greenbush office?among other offices?as it reviews its staffing levels company wide, a company official said. (PBI)
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IBM Corp. has launched a business-plan competition in which the company will look to partner with five Boston-area technology companies with less than $1 million in revenue.
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Mace Security International Inc. said Wednesday it has sold a car wash in Lubbock, Texas, for $750,000, and netted $733,000 after closing costs. (MACE)
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University of Texas System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa honored three professors within the system ? including one in San Antonio ? with the 2010 Chancellor?s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Award.
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Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals Inc., an oncology-focused biopharmaceutical firm, has received a non-compliance delisting notice from the Nasdaq Stock Market.
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Drug developer Alkermes Inc. has launched an early stage trial for a potential treatment for side effects of opiod use for patients will chronic pain.
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News reports in Chinese and other media this week showed Google Inc. trying to sort out problems created by its possible withdrawal from China. (GOOG)
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Provider of data products and services nPario Inc. launched its business operations Wednesday. (YHOO)
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Yahoo Inc. said Wednesday it agreed to acquire Citizen Sports, which provides sports applications for social networking sites and mobile devices. (YHOO)
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Nashville?s Informatics Corporation of America plans to nearly double its staff this year to 86 as it works to meet demand for its technology, which makes hospital records more accessible.
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Lockheed Martin Corp. has opened a "security intelligence center" in Denver, the second of two such facilities nationwide that aim to protect against cyber attacks on computer networks, the company said Wednesday. (LMT)
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Growing software developer Bazaarvoice added yet another veteran executive to its management team this week.
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Handmark Inc. is ramping up to offer mobile applications for Apple Inc.?s new iPad, which debuts April 3.
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ICOP Digital Inc. has been awarded a patent for technology used in its live streaming application, ICOP Live.
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A Rhode Island-based wireless Internet provider plans to purchase the Nashville operations of Sparkplug Communications as part of a $1.6 million deal that also includes Sparkplug?s assets in Chicago.
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The Ohio House signed off Tuesday on a telecommunications reform bill aimed at leveling the regulatory playing field for Ohio telephone companies against their wireless, cable and Internet competitors.
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An Austin-based "data marketplace" start-up has signed an agreement with social networking site Myspace to sell its users' information.
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Victoria?s Secret?s Pink brand is covering more bases with its line of Major League Baseball-themed apparel. (LTD)
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Anika Therapeutics Inc., a developer of medical technologies to repair damaged tissue, said its fourth quarter net income and cash position slipped amid an uptick in expenditures related to the transition of the company?s manufacturing operations to Bedford, Mass.
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CrossLink Media has formed a strategic partnership with Cinema Solutions to develop mobile marketing plans uniquely tailored for the cinema industry.
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Ashburn-based information technology contractor Intelligent Decisions Inc. continues its recent expansion with a new office in Honolulu.
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ARI Network Services Inc. said it saw both sales and profit gains in the fiscal second quarter because of an acquisition and strong sales growth from existing operations.
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Medtronic Inc. on Wednesday said federal regulators have approved its diabetes-management system, which includes features such as predictive alerts that warn diabetics about possible high or low blood sugar. (MDT)
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BrightEdge Technologies Inc. said Wednesday it raised $6.5 million in new funding.
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Garmin Ltd.?s board wants shareholders to approve changing the company?s incorporation location to Switzerland, a location that gives Garmin more of a foothold amid its burgeoning European markets.
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USA Technologies Inc. said Wednesday it has filed registration statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission for two securities offerings that could raise as much as $12 million. (USATT)
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Core BTS Inc., the company that bought Madison-based Inacom Information Systems last year, is moving its sales and delivery operations to Madison and appointing the former Inacom chief operating officer as its new president and CEO, the company said in a news release Wednesday.
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Semiconductor business LSI Corp. raised its guess about revenue and earnings in the first quarter, which ends April 4. (LSI)
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LucidLogix Technologies said Wednesday its received $8 million in new funding. (INTC) (NVDA) (AMD)
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SwapTree Inc., a provider of online bartering services, has raised $4.7 million as part of a planned $6 million equity financing round, according to a regulatory filing. (SFE)
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Computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. hired Rajiv Srivastava as chief operating officer, a new position, in India. (HPQ) (MSFT)
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Nvidia Corp. said Wednesday it extended its $2.7 billion stock repurchase program for three years. (NVDA)
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VirnetX Holding Corp. said it was awarded a $105.75 million judgment against against Microsoft Corp. for patent infringement. (MSFT)
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The stock of LSI Corp. jumped almost 9 percent Wednesday after it said it expects first quarter revenue of $620 million to $640 million, and earnings of 7 cents to 11 cents a share (LSI)
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PayPal said Wednesday it will partner with China UnionPay Co., its Chinese counterpart, to ease purchases by Chinese consumers from overseas merchants. (EBAY)
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Mayor Luke Ravenstahl unveiled a new Web site Wednesday designed to coax Google Inc. into testing its high-speed broadband in Pittsburgh.
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Colorado has established a new automated online system for small businesses to file and pay income taxes.
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The Federal Communications Commission wants major changes to broadband Internet services available to Americans over the next decade under the ?National Broadband Plan? the agency submitted to Congress Tuesday. (Click here for a full DBJ report.)
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Nashville-based medical billing company Emdeon Inc. announced plans today to buy an Indianapolis management consulting firm that specializes in just the type of health care information technology that Emdeon provides. (EM)
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While the Seneca Nation of Indians was celebrating the opening of the enlarged Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino, their thoughts were also focused on the neighboring steel frame of the gaming venue?s planned permanent site.
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A group opposed to a $688 million expansion of a Moses Lake factory for solar and semiconductor materials has filed suit to stop its construction.
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Portland city leaders are considering relaxing laws that prohibit small homeless encampments on city-owned property, on public right-of-ways and on certain church properties.
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Shares rose Tuesday for Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on news that the companies are heating up competition in the server market. (INTC) (AMD)
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A share of eBay Inc. could be worth up to $35 a year from now, according to an analyst. (EBAY)
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EMC Corp. named 20-year IT industry veteran Jeremy Burton executive vice president and chief marketing officer. (EMC) (VMW)
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Internet telephone company iCore Networks is moving to a bigger office, making new executive appointments and expanding its workforce.
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Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory announced Tuesday that the city would be bidding to be the location of Google?s new next-generation Internet network.
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Merix Corp. on Tuesday said it has made an offer to repurchase $1.4 million of the company?s outstanding short-term debt. (VIAS)
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The U.S. Department of Defense awarded a two-year, $27 million contract to World Wide Technology Inc. to furnish advanced technology products and services for the new Medical Education and Training Campus under development at Fort Sam Houston. (CSCO) (HPQ) (ORCL)
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Horizon Data Center Solutions has opened a 12,000-square-foot facility in Manassas, Va., about 30 miles from Washington, D.C.
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Pleasant Prairie is inviting its residents to take a survey in an effort to convince Google to test its high-speed broadband network there, making it the latest in a string of Wisconsin communities bidding to be a test site.
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Charter Communications Inc. Interim Chief Executive Michael Lovett praised the Federal Communications Commission?s push for faster and more affordable broadband Internet service for more Americans.
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World Wide Technology Inc. said Tuesday it won a two-year, $27 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense for technology and supply chain work at the Tri-Service Medical Education and Training Campus at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas.
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Cambridge Heart Inc., a developer of non-invasive diagnostic sensors for cardiac disease, has levied a 10 percent, across-the-board salary cut on its senior officials and eliminated some of the fees paid to its non-employee directors.
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SAP AG?s two top executives dismissed archrival Oracle Corp.?s strategy of growth by acquisition at a press conference in Palo Alto this week. (ORCL) (SAP)
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St. Charles County, Mo., has banned its 1,000 employees from texting while driving.
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Colorado?s Advanced Circuits Inc., a maker of printed circuit boards, said Tuesday it has acquired Tempe, Ariz.-based Circuit Express.
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The Federal Communications Commission will push for major changes to broadband Internet services available to Americans over the next decade under a plan the agency must submit to Congress by Wednesday.
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The Kansas City region ranked fifth among 10 U.S. markets for how its small businesses view the importance of wireless technology, according to a new study. (T)
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U.S. life sciences companies secured $1.9 billion in venture capital financing in the fourth quarter, according to a new report from online venture capital database VentureDeal.
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ATSI Communications Inc. reported a 10 reduction in revenues for its second fiscal quarter, over the same period a year ago.
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Some China-based partners of Google Inc. are worried what will happen to them if the search giant pulls out of the country, according to a report Tuesday in the Wall Street Journal. (GOOG)
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The Computer History Museum said Tuesday that Jan Uddenfeldt of Ericsson and Phil McKinney of Hewlett-Packard Co. are joining the board. (HPQ)
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Money lost from Internet fraud more than doubled last year, according to new data from the Internet Crime Complaint Center, a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center.
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I-Evolve Technology Services, in partnership with Polycom, said it is the first area technology company to offer High Definition telephony service.
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Online customer reviews company PowerReviews Inc. raised $6.1 million in a funding round led by Menlo Ventures and Tenaya Capital.
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Falls Church-based General Dynamics Corp. will continue supplying the Navy with computer systems for its F/A 18 Super Hornet aircraft with a new contract worth $30.5 million. (GD)
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Satellite telephone maker Iridium Communications Inc. says demand for its services in Haiti and Chile following this year?s deadly earthquakes led to a surge in usage. (IRDM)
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San Mateo?s BrightEdge Technologies Inc. raised $6.5 million.
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Capella Inc., which sells optical switching subsystems, on Tuesday named Rafael Torres chief financial officer.
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XPLANE announced Tuesday that it will open a new studio in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on April 1.
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FairPoint Communications Inc. has named longtime Verizon Partner Solutions executive Kathleen McLean to the newly created post of chief information officer. (FRP)
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Gaming developer Heatwave Interactive Inc. has received $2.5 million of a planned $10 million round of financing.
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A decline in fuel prices last month helped break a string of U.S. import price increases dating back to August.
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In what is being termed as the largest deal in the history of the music industry, the estate of Michael Jackson and Sony Music Entertainment have signed a deal for about $250 million, according to media reports.
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InterDigital Inc. said Tuesday it expects its first-quarter revenue will be $37.5 million to $38.5 million more than its previous expectation. (IDCC)
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nGenera Corp. today appointed Sanjay Uppal its chief financial officer and Thomas F. Kelly president and CEO.
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Vistaprint USA Inc., a provider of online marketing and promotional materials, has inked a compensation agreement with its European-group president worth $630,000 in pay and potential bonuses as well as tens-of-thousands more in perks and tax-related benefits.
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Valley Forge Composite Technologies Inc. said it has received its first order for its THOR LVX cargo scanner.
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ParkerVision Inc. on Monday said its year-end losses narrowed to $21.5 million as it continues to work towards getting its radio frequency product to market.
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InfoLogix Inc. said Monday evening it has been notified that it is out of compliance with a NASDAQ Stock Market listing requirement because it doesn?t have at least three people on its board of directors? audit committee. (IFLG)
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Big Blue is going with Red Hat to expand its virtualization and cloud computing services. (RHT) (IBM)
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Rackspace Hosting is launching a new service for the music industry called Rackspace Media Services. It will provide an open source, direct-to-consumer (D2C) web infrastructure from which music recording labels can accelerate content delivery online and create new streams of revenue. (RAX)
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Comcast Corp. and DirecTV said Monday after the markets closed that they have reached an agreement that allows DirecTV to carry Comcast?s Versus channel again. (DTV) (CMCSA)
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An event series that offers small businesses chances to pitch their wares to buyers from various government agencies and Fortune 500 companies will land in Kansas City on April 28. (HPQ)
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Shortly after he was named one of the top names to know in smart grid, Austin Energy Chief Information Officer Andres Carvallo has accepted an offer with San Francisco, Calif.-based Grid Net.
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Back up the moving truck right here: Kentucky software startup Backupify Inc. has raised $1.1 million and is coming to Boston.
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MillerCoors LLC has introduced a Miller Genuine Draft 64-branded application that turns the iPhones of the beer's calorie-conscious drinkers into a pedometer that can link with social networking site Facebook.
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Correlsense Ltd., a developer of business software, has raised $8 million in a Series B funding round of venture capital.
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Impairment, restructuring and severance charges helped sink A.D.A.M. Inc. into the red in 2009. (ADAM)
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PureDepth Inc. said Tuesday it filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to voluntarily deregister its common stock and suspend its reporting obligations.
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The Computer History Museum put Jan Uddenfeldt of Ericsson and Phil McKinney of Hewlett-Packard Co. on its board of trustees. The board now has 33 members total. (HPQ)
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Sales of Google Inc.'s Nexus One phones are reportedly moving at a much slower pace than Apple Inc.'s iPhone when it was first introduced. (GOOG) (AAPL)
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Sigma-Aldrich said Tuesday it plans to buy Ace Animals Inc., a Berks County, Pa.-based breeder of research rodents for the biomedical industry.
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A former Yahoo! Inc. senior vice president was added to the Demand Media Inc. payroll, officials said today less than a month after assembling an advisory board of equal veteran experience.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. has apologized in China for faulty laptops sold there and has offered extended warranties to those affected after Chinese authorities launched an investigation into the problems. (HPQ) (NVDA)
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Yahoo Inc. is reportedly ready to buy an online sports site this week. (AAPL) (YHOO)
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Twitter Inc. Chairman Jack Dorsey said Monday night that the company is working to provide Chinese users with a way to sign up in their own language to the micro-blogging site that is officially blocked in their country.
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A new report on Monday indicates that by one measure Facebook has overtaken Google as the most popular Web site in the U.S. (GOOG)
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Tarpon Towers LLC, a company focused on wireless communications towers has picked up a $15 million equity commitment from Spire Capital Partners.
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Sutter Health said Monday it will accelerate implementation of its electronic health record system in affiliated hospitals across 26-hospital system, after putting on the brakes in late 2007.
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Comcast Corp. and Augusta National Golf Club said Monday they are teaming up to make next month?s Masters Tournament available in 3D on the 3D-enabled television sets and computer monitors that are just being rolled out. (CMCSA) (SNE) (IBM) (PC)
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The Federal Communications Commission wants major changes to broadband Internet services available to Americans over the next decade under a plan the agency submitted to Congress Tuesday. (Q) (DISH)
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Facebook Inc. had ?the most visited website for the week? last week, according to a report from Experian Hitwise, which tracks such things. (GOOG)
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A flurry of news reports said search and advertising giant Google Inc. is likely to stop its Google.cn operation in China. (GOOG) (BIDU)
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Information technology workers need to be sure that they are ready for the start of the NCAA basketball tournament, a Cisco Systems Inc. unit warned on Monday.
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Southern Kansas Telephone Co. Inc. is selling off a pair of its business assets.
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Pericom Semiconductor Corp. on Monday named Aaron Tachibana chief financial officer. (PSEM)
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The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded Minnesota?s Dislocated Worker Program a $787,000 grant to assist about 183 workers affected by layoffs at BAE Systems Inc.
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Eagan-based Orbit Systems Inc., is one of seven finalists for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce?s Dream Big Small Business of the Year Award.
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CSI Leasing Inc. said it established an alternative markets group to invest in energy, health care and acquisitions, and move the company beyond its traditional core business of information technology leasing.
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Six weeks after raising $50 million, women?s web site business Glam Media Inc. set up shop in France. (MSFT)
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Garmin Ltd. has signed an agreement with a Denver-based company to provide 3-D topographical information to its navigational devices.
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North Carolina employers in February posted more than 1,700 information technology job openings, the highest number since November 2008, according to one of two North Carolina Technology Association reports released Monday.
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Weedle, an Irish online networking company with an office in Palo Alto, raised $4 million.
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Seneca Gaming Corp. is set to open its expanded Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino.
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The latest IT Job Trends report from the N.C. Technology Association found a 33.1 percent increase in the number of openings in February statewide.
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A top ad sales executive at Yahoo Inc. is jumping ship to be Demand Media's chief revenue officer. (YHOO)
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Software maker Solarwinds Inc. has set aside 3.1 million common stock shares for an equity incentive plan. (SWI)
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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and FORMA Therapeutics Inc. have partnered to develop drug candidates targeting lymphoma.
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The owner of Scioto Downs race track found itself on different sides of two controversial gaming proposals in Ohio last year, sending its spending on lobbying into the millions of dollars and deepening the company?s red ink for 2009. (MNTG)
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A Boca Raton company has agreed to pay $61,500 to settle claims it had unlicensed copies of various software installed on its computers.
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The Army and Air Force Exchange Service, a Dallas organization that oversees more than 12,000 stores used by military personnel worldwide, has inked a deal with FuelQuest Inc. to help manage its use of fuels for vehicles. The contract is worth $15.5 million over a five-year period, according to an AAFES spokesman.
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Latisys has signed a 52,000-square-foot lease at Corporate Campus at Ashburn Center to sit next to its newly-acquired company. (FPO)
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Former U.S. Sen. John W. Warner has joined the board of directors at Manassas-based Aurora Flight Sciences Corp.
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Video game retailer Blockbuster Inc. said Monday the company cannot comment on news reports that it plans to sell off its European arm. (BBI)
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CDI Corp. said Monday that its Engineering Solutions division has joined MaisonWorleyParsons in an alliance that will do business in China. (CDI)
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Gina Bianchini, co-founder of do it yourself social network site Ning Networks with Marc Andreessen, is leaving her post as Ning's CEO to take a job as executive in residence at Andreessen's new venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. (HPQ)
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Netflix Inc. has called off a prize that would have awarded $1 million for ways to improve the accuracy of movie recommendations. (NFLX)
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The Walt Disney Co. will shut down its motion-capture technology studio in San Rafael to save money. (DIS)
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Vacation rental Web site operator HomeAway Inc. closed a $8.2 million round of financing that?s related to one of its recent acquisitions.
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Enterprise-software developer Pegasystems Inc. has agreed to acquire California-based Chordiant Software Inc. for up to $161.5 million.
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McLean-based Capital One Financial Corp. charged off an annualized 10.2 percent of its domestic credit cards in February, down from 10.4 percent in January, the company reported Monday, March 15. (COF)
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Rapid7 LLC has raised $2 million of a planned $4 million venture round, according to a regulatory filing posted last week.
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Fridley-based medtech Medtronic Inc. is touting the benefits of a device that treats irregular heartbeat.
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Four telecommunications companies have partnered with Sprint Nextel Corp. to offer their customers wireless service under their own brands. (S)
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Wabtec Corp. of Pennsylvania has bought Xorail LLC, a Jacksonville provider of signal engineering and design, for $40 million in cash. (WAB)
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Data storage giant EMC Corp. has hired Jeremy Burton as executive vice president and chief marketing officer, the company said on Monday. (EMC)
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Kitware Inc., a software developer based in Clifton Park, has received a two-year grant worth more than $600,000 from the National Institutes of Health to develop an interactive neurosurgery simulator for doctors.
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Computer maker Dell Inc. has filed a lawsuit alleging that five companies fixed liquid crystal display panel prices.
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Sigma-Aldrich said it entered into an agreement to sell 100 Pfizer-developed small molecule compounds to life-science researchers.
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Shares of Boston Scientific Corp. were up Tuesday after a sharp drop on Monday, when the company suspended shipping of two key cardiac-rhythm management product lines. (BSX) (STJ) (MDT)
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Investors hammered Boston Scientific Corp. after it announced Monday it would temporarily halt shipments and recall inventory of several brands of implantable heart defibrillators because parts of the products? manufacturing processes have not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. (BSX)
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Information technology professionals received much smaller salary increases in 2010, but that had little effect on job satisfaction, says a new study from Cary-based Global Knowledge. (IBM)
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Facebook Inc. is opening new offices in Austin, Texas and in Hyderabad, India, according to a posting on the company's blog.
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San Jose-based nanotechnology developer SVTC Technologies inked a distribution deal with a Japan-based company that will expand its reach in China and Taiwan.
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Weedle, an Ireland-based Internet company, said Monday it raised $4 million to expand its social media platform in the U.S. and other parts of the world.
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MagnaChip Semiconductor LLC on Monday filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to $250 million in an initial public offering.
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Twitter Inc. CEO Evan Williams unveiled a new platform called @Anywhere Monday that puts Twitter links and data onto partner sites and media outlets.
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Commtouch Inc. said Monday its board approved the repurchase of up to $5 million of the company's stock. (CTCH)
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Austin-based casino games dealer Multimedia Games Inc. (Nasdaq: MGAM) is considering selling the company, officials said in an interim CEO announcement today. (PNK)
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Comparison shopping site Become.com on Monday named Charu Rudrakshi chief technical officer.
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Consumer complaints about how Hewlett-Packard Co. is treating flaws in some of its personal computers are reportedly being looked into by China's product-quality agency. (NVDA) (HPQ)
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Plug Power Inc. reported a net loss of $12.1 million, or 9 cents a share, for the fourth quarter.
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Chinese authorities have reportedly warned Google Inc.'s partners that they must observe the country's censorship laws, too.
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Often the differentiator between strong growth and stalling growth at a company is the ability of the founding management to bring in the next generation of managers.
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They may not have had the fanciest or most high-tech presentation at the Beta Summit, but what Pawaa Software representatives did have was enough of the right stuff to persuade the venture capitalist judges to hand their company the top prize.
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An online sports registration company in Saratoga County has signed an exclusive agreement with a subsidiary of Foot Locker Inc. to sell custom-made apparel to youth sports organizations. (FL)
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The city of Alexandria is discussing what to do next after recently learning it will be the region?s only major jurisdiction indefinitely shut out of Verizon?s popular FiOS television and Internet service.
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CACI snares $588M Navy job Arlington-based CACI International Inc. will add as much as $588 million in sales from a new Navy contract.
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Bill Weaver is banking on a year of stability for Thomas & Betts Corp. in 2010 and is anticipating two key acquisitions will help lead the company out of the recession.
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The casual game player on social networks like Facebook is a growing part of the future of gaming, according to Blue Fang Games LLC. And that is why the Waltham company ? best known for the Zoo Tycoon franchise ? has just released a Facebook game called Zoo Kingdom.
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Irvine Hockaday Jr. has turned over chairmanship of the Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute Inc. to health care executive Dr. L. Patrick James, completing a leadership transition and pivoting the organization toward a key initiative.
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Editor's Note: After reading about how e-readers could change the advertising industry, answer our poll question about whether you plan to buy one of the gadgets.
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E-readers are an early favorite of, perhaps, an unexpected audience ? at least in the case of Amazon?s Kindle. Recent tallies of Kindle ownership show that more than half of the e-reader owners are over age 50, and more than 70 percent are over 40.
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As president of Boost Mobile, Matt Carter provided a much-needed victory last year for Sprint Nextel Corp. as his division generated more than 2 million new customers for the wireless carrier.
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An Atlanta-based enterprise software maker has raised $110 million in private equity financing, as it embarks on acquisition-fueled international growth.
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GPS technology has put Booyah right where it wants to be ? at the center of the latest hot trend for casual gaming.
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Rachel Clemens, owner of Creative Suitcase, and her partners are preparing to launch a new venture at the South By Southwest Interactive festival that she hopes will turn some influential heads.
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For San Francisco-based market research firm MarketTools, the economic crash at the end of 2008 led to significant staffing cutbacks and a renewed focus on the company?s technology roots in pursuit of efficiency.
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Arkayne Inc. has received $1 million in angel funds, bucking the trend of technology startups struggling to find capital during the recession.
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What aging patients and their doctors really want to know about their bones isn?t thickness or mineral content, according to a new local company.
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WILLOW GROVE ? For rebounding after nearly folding twice in six years to grow 57 percent from 2005 through 2008, the EF Precision Group last fall received the Small Business Excellence Award in Manufacturing from the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.
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Technology company Vinimaya is joining its parent company in Cincinnati and expanding its work force as its procurement software grows in popularity.
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A company that developed a device to make seat belts work better has come out with a version of it for children?s booster seats that is being carried by major retailers.
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The number of foreign workers brought into the U.S. by southwestern Pennsylvania companies plummeted in 2009, with H-1B visa cases dropping by more than half compared with 2008, according to recently released immigration data.
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The Houston data center of an Atlanta-based Internet hosting provider is getting a major face-lift as part of the company?s multicity growth plan.
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The genetic code locked inside one of the world?s most famous men may help Houston researchers cure diseases on the other side of the world.
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? Gulfside Regional Hospice opened the Center for Hospice Care at 5760 Dean Dairy Road, Zephyrhills. The 21,000-square-foot facility has 12 private bedrooms, a salon, a message therapy room, family rooms, a children?s play area, a private dining room and a town square. For more information call (727) 845-5707.
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Twitter represents a gold mine of marketing possibilities, but the vast majority of firms haven?t figured out how to transform those 140-character tweets into sales. (EMC)
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There is business intelligence and then there is basketball intelligence. Ken Bero, president and CEO of Datawatch Corp., has both, although these days he deals with the former much more than the latter.
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It?s not quite the holodeck from ?Star Trek,? but it?s definitely a step in that direction.
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Redbeacon Inc. believes it?s time to send out a new and brighter signal to the world.
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IBM Corp.?s Charlotte operations have changed over the past three decades as much as the computer itself. But Gary Lancaster, IBM?s senior executive in Charlotte, says the company?s commitment to the Queen City remains strong.
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What?s more likely to fly off store shelves: Insecticidal Crystal Proteins with Enhanced Toxicity or Mosquit-No-More?
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Clearwire Corp. is seeking permission from planning agencies to install its 4G telecommunications equipment in much of the Sacramento region, signaling that the service will be launched locally sometime by 2012.
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Ross Borden is executive vice president for publishing at NCsoft West, part of Seoul, Korea-based video-game company NCsoft. It specializes in massively multiplayer online role-playing games, also known as MMOs, such as Aion and Lineage. NCsoft West has been based in Seattle for the past year, and employs about 300 people in the region, including its Bellevue-based studio ArenaNet, maker of the popular Guild Wars franchise.
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Telecommunication provider Insight Business is making a concerted effort to gain a larger share of the corporate market.
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The California Emerging Technology Fund has been given a $7.25 million federal grant to help bridge the digital divide between people with broadband Internet service at home and those without.
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Streetza Pizza probably wouldn?t exist in Milwaukee without social media, co-owner Scott Baitinger said.
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Orlando-based Surgical Services Inc. was sold March 2 for $25 million by Limerick, Pa.-based Teleflex Inc. to an unnamed privately owned, multiservice line health care company. (TFX)
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