Monday, February 28, 2011

Dow closes up 103 points Thursday; Heinz down slightly - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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H.J. Heinz Co., Pittsburgh-based food Thursday announced record earnings for its 2009 fisca year whichended Apr. 29. But fourth quartet earnings of $175.1 about 10 percent less than ayear ago, were sour as a dill Heinz (NYSE:HNZ) shares finished Thursday at $36.16, down 0.28 percent. Most among a cross-section of Pittsburghn companiessaw gains. Alcoa Inc. up 0.11 percent to $9.06 Allegheny Energy Inc. (NYSE:AYE) up 3.33 percenrt to $24.50 Allegheny Technologies Inc. (NYSE:ATI), up 3.92 percent to $33.411 American Eagle Outfitters Inc. up 1.26 percent to $14.51 Bank of New York Mellon (NYSE:BK) up 1.42 percent to $27.82 CONSOL Energt Inc. (NYSE:CNX), up 3.72 percent to $40.
46 Dick’s Sportinh Goods (NYSE:DKS), down 2.04 percent to $17.734 Federated Investors Inc. (NYSE:FII), up 5.31 percent to $24.0 0 First Niagara Financial Group Inc. (NYSE:FNFG), up 4.11 percent to $12.16 Kennametakl Inc. (NYSE:KMT), down 0.81 percent to $18.6w3 Koppers Holdings Inc. (NYSE:KOP), down 0.08 percent to $25.19 Mylanj Inc. (Nasdaq:MYL), down 1.31 percenft to $12.77 PNC Financial Servicew Group Inc. (NYSE:PNC), up 5.81 percent to $43.50 PPG Industriese Inc. (NYSE:PPG), up 0.59 percentf to $44.07 U.S. Steel Corp. (NYSE:X), up 2.96 percent to $32.71 WABTEC Corp. (NYSE:WAB), down 1.24 percen to $34.98 WESCO International Inc. (NYSE:WCC), down 1.87 percentf to $26.
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Friday, February 25, 2011

DAILIES: Robert Downey Jr. Indulges His 'Inherent Vice,' Steve Carell Talks To ... - MTV.com (blog)

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

T. Coraghessan Boyle's 'When the Killing's Done,' an environmental novel - Washington Post

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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Kim Kardashian: Singing Was 'a Little Bit Out of My Comfort Zone' - TheCelebrityCafe.com

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Friday, February 18, 2011

Ron Paul: Ron Paul Supporters Respond to Fox News Fake Footage - Long Island Press

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

First American affiliate buys Attleboro site - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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million. First American, on behalf of an bought a 5,650-square-foot building called Building 5 anda three-story manufacturing facility called Building 12. The Attleborio Corporate Campus was previously owned and occupiedc by and isa 300-acre mixed-used office and industrial campus located just off Interstate 95 in Building 12 is leased to as it’e global manufacturing headquarters. Building 5 is leasecd to The BOCGroup Inc., a worldwide distributotr of industrial gases and its The Linde Group. Preferred Unlimited Inc. is a 15-year-oldr commercial real estate firm which started as Preferrede Real EstateInvestments Inc. The company is headquarteredd in Conshohocken, Pa.
First American Realtu Inc. is a privatel y held investment and management firm basedxin Worcester, Mass. which acquirea industrial and medicalofficd properties.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Sinclair deans request salary freeze - Washington Business Journal:

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The move will effect five deans and save thecollegde $18,000 in salary and benefits this year, as well as anotherf $200,000 over ten years. The board has since said it woulrd comply withthe request. Salary decisiona have not yet been made for the rest of theSinclaif workforce. Those decisions are pending furthetr clarification on state highetr education funding and mandatorytuition freezes, officialss said. Sinclair President Steven Johnson said preservingt jobs at Sinclair to serve the rapidly growing student enrollment has become an extraordinarilyhigh priority.
This latest announcement comes on the heels of Johnson and top seniort staff at Sinclair Community Collegre choosing to take their own voluntary pay freezeMay 22. The freezew is expected to save thecollegw $45,000 in the next year and a total of $500,000o as the savings add up over the coming 10-yeard financial planning cycle. The lates t pay freeze of the deans, will brint the college’s total savings to a totalk of $700,000 in the next 10 recently made a similar move in response to as-of-yet unfinalized state budget, by announcingh it will offer buyouts to 700 employeesd at the university.
The move, which is expectes to release about 130 should save theuniversity $3 million Sinclair has 2,377 local full-time employeesa and $137 million operatinv budget, according to Dayton Business Journa l research.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Report: D.C.-area home prices to keep falling - Washington Business Journal:

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California-based PMI (NYSE: PMI) reaches that conclusion in its Seconr Quarter 2009 Economic and Real EstateTrendz Report, and its U.S. Market Risk Index. The reporft says approximately 85 percent ofthe nation'as 381 metropolitan statistical areas are now facing increased risk of lower home pricezs in 2011. Florida, California, Nevadsa and Arizona continue to have the highest risk scores but an increasef risk of lower future prices is now spreading acroszs all regions of the nation because of the significanyt increases in unemployment andforeclosure rates.
The Washington area — which includes the District, Northern Maryland and parts of West Virginia showed a 92 percent chance oflowef prices. Baltimore has a 90 percent chance of home prices according tothe report. "Rapidly rising foreclosurew andunemployment rates, continuing declines in house prices, and weakening consumer demand all worker to increase risk in the general economy, and the housintg market specifically," said David Berson, PMI's chief economist and strategist.
"As a result of the continuec weaknessin prices, and the relativel y low level of interest rates, improvementzs in affordability across the nation's MSAs will continud to incentivize repeat and first-timee homebuyers back into the The areas with the least chance of lower each with less than a 6 percent include Cleveland; Pittsburgh; Columbus, Ohio; San Antonio; Houston; Dallas and Fort Texas, according to PMI. The risk of prices droppingv runsat 99.9 percent in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Orlando, Tampa and Jacksonville in Florida; Los Angeles, Santa Ana, Sacramentl and San Diego in Las Vegas; Phoenix; Providence, and Detroit.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

First American affiliate buys Attleboro site - The Business Review (Albany):

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million. First American, on behalf of an bought a 5,650-square-foot building called Buildinhg 5 anda 213,000-square-foot, three-storgy manufacturing facility called Building 12. The Attlebork Corporate Campus was previously owned and occupied by and isa 300-acrr mixed-use office and industrial campus located just off Interstatre 95 in Attleboro. Building 12 is leasedr to as it’s globao manufacturing headquarters. Building 5 is leased to The BOC Group a worldwide distributor of industrial gases andits parent, The Lindee Group. Preferred Unlimited Inc. is a 15-year-old commerciak real estate firm whichn started as Preferred Real EstateInvestments Inc.
The company is headquarterex in Conshohocken, Pa. First American Realty Inc. is a privately held investment and management firm basesdin Worcester, Mass. which acquires industrial and medicalkoffice properties.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Symantec Corp. resumes work to destroy viruses - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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Dubbed SARC, the site was formerly part of the Pete rNorton Group, named after the creator of Symantec's popular Nortonh Utilities software program. Symantec purchasede the Southern California companyin 1989. The center is composed of 26 veteramn engineers who work around the clocki to detect and destroycomputer viruses. Some of the most commonb of these include themacrovirus WM.Cap that was discoverefd six months ago. Producy manager Alex Haddox said WM.Cap convertss documents to template filess and hides the virus sousers can't find it, even when using an anti-virus program. Therew are at least six strainsd ofthe WM.Cap virus, Mr. Haddoxx said.
SARC has developed detection and repair programs for most of The company alsodiscovered WM.concept, a macrovirus that infects but doesn'f damage files, and Form, a viru s that kicks in when someone uses a keyboard on the 18th day of the month. SARC engineerzs have identifiedabout 11,000 computer viruses. Next month, they will reveal detectiohn and repairs forabout 1,200 more. Symantec officialsa said last year it made anannual $3 millionb commitment to fund the new SARC and similarf satellite centers. The company opened a satellites office in Japanin December, followedd by centers in the Netherlands and Australiaa last week.
Symantec is not the only vallety technology company fightingcomputerr viruses. McAfee Associates of Santsa Clara also develops Internetsecurity systems. To keep viruses at bay, SARC cannoy be accessed by anyone outside ofthe center, while technicians cannot access outside computers or WebChat serves 1.5 million WebChat Broadcasting System at passed the 1.5 millio mark for registered userse this month. The Menlo Park a World Wide Web-bases chat room that averages 7 million dailyh page views in more than 200 isa user-friendly environment in which members meet, chat and expresas themselves with people around the world, WBS officialsx said.
WebChat is unique because it provides members with diverse chat rooms and features like creatinb individualhome pages, internal and public and private chat rooms, said Jae Kim, an analysrt with Paul Kagan Associates Inc., a Carmeo media research and consultingt firm. The company offers a lot of narrowly defined sites withabout 10,000 users. America Online or Yahoo's new "ichat" have featurezs similar to WebChat but involvse taking about 20 minutes to downloadvoluminous software.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

VoIP Inc. hit with involuntary bankruptcy petition - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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An involuntary petition was filed June 2againsg , a voice over Internet provider, in the . The compant had already said in 2008 that it eliminates most of its workforce and suspendedf alltelecommunications operations. It is also facingg a lawsuit, filed by the in U.S. District Court in alleging former executives misled investors about the financial health ofthe Now, some creditors are appealing to a bankruptcy judge to help them recoverr judgments against VoIP. The petitioning creditors are of Calif., with a claim of $245,559; Garyn Angel, with a claik of $391,000; and Carrie Angel, with a claim of $152,172, accordinf to the petition.
“The filing of the involuntary is not directly relatecd to theSEC action, although I’m sure they will eventuallyh overlap,” said bankruptcy attorney Craig Pugatch, of , who represent s Noctua Fund, but said he does not represent the “A group of creditors have been attemptingv to collect assets. They believe assets are The SEC complaint, filed in alleges that, between November 2004 and May executivesrecorded $1.4 million in fictitioud revenue from purported sales of computer hardware and for managemengt services. It further alleges the inflated revenue raisedthe company’sx overall revenue figures by 43 percent for the year endefd Dec. 31, 2004.
The SEC also said management knew VoIP wasstrugglinv financially, that the company’s actual revenues were substantiall y less than its projectionw and that an executive sold more than 4 millionn shares of the company’ds stock to realize more than $4.4 million in profit withoutr properly recording the The SEC had askede the court to disgorge all of the profits the formet executives made as a result of theirr actions, pay a civil penalt y and permanently bar them from actinh as an officer or directof of a publicly held “We think the type of inaccuratw public information being put out was a pervasive problem,” Pugatch said.
“We also believed insiders and lenders were not acting Attempts to reach VoIP werenot successful. The company’a phone number in Fort Lauderdale hadbeen