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Nwf Wants To Know, What's The Big Idea?
breakthrough ideas with the potential to be profitable business ventures are being sought for the upcoming idea competition.
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Conocophillips Sells Gas Station Business
houston-based conocophillips became the latest big oil company to get out of the filling station business, agreeing wednesday to sell its last 600 u.s. gasoline stations to petrosun fuel of seattle.
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Sap To Innovate Heavily In Smb On-demand Suite
palo alto, calif. – sap said it plans to aggressively pursue new markets with a slew of innovative new technologies for its troubled business bydesign on-demand suite of products for small and medium-sized business (smb) customers.
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Candidates Push Small-biz Agendas On Big-biz Bucks
both candidates know they need the little guy, but count on the financial contributions of fortune 500s.
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Copper Cactus Finalists Named
thirty-eight tucson-area businesses have been named finalists for the 2008 wells fargo copper cactus awards. the awards program — billed as the region's oldest and largest small-business recognition event — is in its 11th year. five finalists also were announced for tucson metropolitan chamber of commerce's small business leader of the year award.
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Diageo Full-year Profits Up, But Outlook Weaker
diageo plc, the world's largest producer and distributor of alcoholic drinks, said it is pushing ahead with its focus on premium sales as it posted a small rise in full-year net profit on thursday and cut its earnings forecasts for the current year.
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Auo Expects New Shipment Record In August For Its Small- To Medium-size Lcd Panels
ct liu, vp and general manager of consumer product display business group at au optronics (auo) indicated that the company's small- to medium-size lcd panel shipments in august are expected to exceed july's record shipments of 17.7 million units.
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Small-cap-news / Premium Exploration Provides Update On Its Buffalo Gulch Joint Venture Project
dj small-cap-news / premium exploration provides update on its buffalo gulch joint venture project vancouver, british columbia (august 25, 2008) - premium ...
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Diageo Full-year Profits Up, But Outlook Weaker
diageo plc, the world's largest producer and distributor of alcoholic drinks, said it is pushing ahead with its focus on premium sales as it posted a small rise in full-year net profit on thursday and cut its earnings forecasts for the current year. the maker...
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Conocophillips To Sell The Rest Of Its Filling Stations To Petrosun Fuel
the deal allows the big oil firm to focus on its other operations. houston-based conocophillips became the latest big oil company to get out of the filling station business, agreeing wednesday to sell its last 600 u.s. gasoline stations to petrosun fuel of seattle.
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Italy Gov't To Tackle Alitalia Crisis - International Herald Tribune
rome : one of the prospective investors trying to form a company to salvage alitalia said wednesday he had confidence in the plan, and italy's economy minister said the government will try to resolve the flagship airline's crisis in a way that will ...
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Us Thrifts 2q Loss Of $5.4b Is Second Largest Ever - Miami Herald
washington u.s. thrifts lost $5.4 billion in the second quarter and set aside a record amount to cover losses from bad mortgages and other loans. data from the u.s. office of thrift supervision released wednesday show federally-insured savings and ...
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Two Approaches To Exploiting Higher Food Prices - International Herald Tribune
são paulo : luciano alves planted beans, corn and grain on about 3,000 hectares of his farm in southern brazil last year. this year, he is planting 3,500 hectares. and he credits president luiz inácio lula da silva with the increase. "the ...
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The End Of A Software Gravy Train - Financial Times
that parts of the software business are being reinvented as a service industry has become a truism in the technology world. why face the hassle of loading and running software when you can go online and tap into some internet service that does the ...
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Did Small-cap Rally Indicate Midpoint Of Downturn? - Chicago Tribune
s hort, sweet and probably misleading. in other words, the nice little rally small-company stocks and small-cap mutual funds exhibited during the last few weeks probably represented little more than a head-fake. "we never understood the rally ...
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Boscov's In Bankruptcy - Baltimore Sun
regional department store chain boscov's inc. filed yesterday for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and said it would close 10 stores, including anchors in three of the baltimore area's largest malls, as the company suffers from slumping sales amid ...
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Campaigner Offers Retailers '100 Days To Grow Your Business' Email ... - Forbes
campaigner (www.campaigner.com), a leading email marketing solutions provider, today announced a series of free tips to help retail businesses of all sizes get the most out of their email marketing programs during the crucial holiday sales period ...
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Palm's Treo Pro Ready For High-speed Business - Street.com
back when apple's aapl iphone and most other modern-day cellular devices were merely a gleam in their designers' eyes, a company called handspring melded its pda technology with a cell phone to create the treo. they called it a smartphone because of ...
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Teen's Lucrative Timing On Web Site - Seattle Times
hansup yoon, 15, designed zuneboards months before microsoft launched the product. he credits the internet with helping him set up the site. santa ana, calif. — young entrepreneur hansup yoon, 15, recently sold his creation zuneboards, an internet ...
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Massachusetts Tops In Health Insurance Coverage - Boston Globe
massachusetts has the lowest percentage of residents without health insurance in the nation, according to a us census bureau report released this morning that provides evidence that the state's bold experiment to insure nearly everyone is succeeding ...
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