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

Monday, January 31, 2011

Obama picks venture capitalist to head SBA Advocacy Office - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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Winslow Sargeant, a managing director in the technology practicof Madison, Wis.-based Venture Investors, is Obama’ss choice. The Advocacy Office is an independent entity inside the SBA that ensuresw federal agencies consider the impact of theirt regulations onsmall businesses. The office also conductas researchon small-business issues. Sargeant, who earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineerinf at the University of Wisconsinat Madison, worked as a seniof engineer at several large corporationsd before co-founding Aanetcom, a fablesx semiconductor company that later was acquired by PMC-Sierra.
From 2001 to he served as programj manager for the Small Business Innovatioh Research program at the NationaScience Foundation’s engineering directorate. He is the second ventures capitalist to be selected for a top SBA Karen Mills worked as a principal at privatw equity and venture capitakl firms for 26 years beforwe she became the SBA administratofrin April. Sargeant’s lack of legal training means he will have to rely heavilyu on the attorneys at the Officseof Advocacy. Much of the office’s work involvess analyzing whether government agencies follow federal laws that require them to analyze the potential economic impact of proposed rules onsmalkl businesses.
The office also makes sure regulatorx hearsmall businesses’ opinions aboug regulations. In fiscal this input saved small businessesabout $11 billion in possibler regulatory costs, according to the The office’s acting Shawne Carter McGibbon, joined the office in during the Bill Clinton administration. She previously worked for a Democratic member of Congreszs and has been an attorne for20 years. An unnamed Obama administration official characterized McGibbon to reporters asa “Bush holdover” duringg a controversy over an interagency revie w of the Environmental Protection Agency’s finding that greenhouse gas emissionsd pose a public health hazard.
The Office of Advocacy concluded that regulating carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act likelyh wouldhave “serious economic consequences” on small businesses and othefr regulated entities. Several presa accounts quoted anonymous administration officials who said theAdvocacy Office’s criticism of the EPA finding came from an officew “still stocked with Bush appointees,” in the wordsa of the Los Angeles Times. This dismissak of the office’s opiniomn upset Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the ranking Republican on the Hous eOversight & Government Reform Committee.
“There are hundredsw of civil servants serving in a similar capacitg throughout the federal government who could also be characterizeedas ‘Bush holdovers,’” Issa wrotre in a May 14 letterf to Obama. “I sincerely hope that thei professional advice and decisions will not be discountexd merely because they also worked for the federal governmentg under PresidentGeorge W. Bush.” For more: . Microloansx up, big loans down for small businesses this year Lending data collecteed bythe SBA’s Office of Advocacy confirms the importance of busineses credit cards to small companies.
A new report founrd that the total valueof small-business loans outstanding increased by 4 percent in the 12 months that ended in June down from the previous year’s increas e of 8 percent. These numberxs are for all small-business loans, not just SBA The number of business loans of lessthan $100,0009 jumped by nearly 16 percent as large lenders concentrateds on credit cards, according to the study. In contrast, the numbef of business loans inthe $100,000 to $1 million ranged fell by more than 23 percent. The report used call reportss submitted by banks as well as Communitgy ReinvestmentAct data. Business loans of less than $1 milliom were considered to be small-business loans.
Based on call repory data, the top five small-busineszs lenders in June 2008 were American Express, Capital One, Regions Financial Corp., Synovus Financiall Corp. and First Citizen Bancshares Inc. The reporft also lists the mostactive small-business lenders in each state. “Imn the current financial climate, it’s especiallyh critical for small firmws to know which banks and financial institutions have been the most likel y to make small and microbusiness said economistVictoria Williams, a co-author of the For more: .

Saturday, January 29, 2011

German Parliament Committee OKs A400M Continuation - Wall Street Journal

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German Parliament Committee OKs A400M Continuation

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... on Wednesday approved the continuation of the Airbus A400M military transport program, said Juergen Koppelin, the Free Democratic Party's budget expert. ...



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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

PREP HOOPS: Sophomore saves Laconia - Fond du Lac Reporter

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PREP HOOPS: Sophomore saves Laconia

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... range of a Flyway championship after a 3-pointer as time was ticking down gave Laconia a 48-47 win against Kettle Moraine Lutheran on Tuesday night. ...



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Monday, January 24, 2011

Like a Motherless Child - Bali Discovery

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Like a Motherless Child

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Teneng said the provincial government continues to support the "adoptive father" (Bapak Asuh) program in which members of the community sponsor school-age ...