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| Professionals turning to online communities to make business contacts |
| On 06-08-2007. |
Within minutes, the founder and CEO of Detroit-based After5 L.L.C. has cruised myspace.com, linkedin.com and facebook.com while eyeballing the patrons milling about.
Soon, nearly every professional will have an online profile, one virtual billboard to showcase their face, their talents and competitive strengths, said Kay Luo, director of corporate communication for the Palo Alto, Calif.-based linkedin.com. ... |
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| City database helps small contractors compete |
| On 03-08-2007. |
When: Active now, with more than 200 members and ready to accept additional companies.
How: Register by calling TALA Professional Services at 205-323-1993 or City Planner LaParry Howell at 205-248-5080.
Name recognition, high visibility and experience with the complex landscape of government give some companies an edge over those owned by minorities and women, which may be unfamiliar, if not unknown, to ... |
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| Home builders suffer hard blow to wallets |
| On 30-07-2007. |
Home builders suffer very hard blow to wallets "You do what you have to do to survive,&39;&39; says one.
The view from one garage under construction in the Spring Ridge subdivision of Brooksville on Thursday afternoon.
[Julia Kumari Drapkin | Times] Juan Ruiz, right, checks the master plans of one house under construction in the Spring Ridge subdivision in Brooksville as Renee Jiminez, center, and Pablo Hidalgo, ... |
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| People on the Move |
| On 26-07-2007. |
- Russell Wirth has been appointed senior vice president of sales at San Francisco-based PopularMedia. Wirth previously was vice president of sales at Coremetrics Inc. of San Mateo.
- Brian Hetherington has been promoted to executive vice president and managing director of property and casualty services for the Redwood City headquarters of ABD Insurance and Financial Services. Hetherington, who joined ABD ... |
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| Subprime Lenders Fallout - It&39;s all hitting the fan |
| On 22-07-2007. |
Mike Larson writes: It's all hitting the fan ” right here, right now The two Bear Stearns (BSC) hedge funds that Martin told you about in late June have reportedly been all but vaporized. Wiped out
"Bear Stearns told clients in its two battered hedge funds late yesterday that their investments, worth an estimated $1.5 billion at the end of 2006, are almost entirely gone. In phone calls to anxious investors, Bear ... |
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| The Morality of Race Factoring in Public School Assignment |
| On 18-07-2007. |
| In the recent Louisville and Seattle desegregation decisions, one plurality of the U.S. Supreme Court made it tougher for school districts to achieve racial diversity and eliminate racially isolated public school systems. In essence, the plurality found an immoral equivalence between using race to include and using race to exclude. This equivalence is not only incongruent but also immoral. ... |
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