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The nation's top mine safety official urged quick passage Tuesday of a bill that would crack down on mines with safety problems - despite industry complaints that the legislation is too punitive.
What if senior management in an Agency – or anyone in the public – could identify and monitor the performance of IT projects just as easily as they could monitor the stock market or baseball scores? That’s what the IT dashboard does -- and it’s changing the way government does business.
John Harthorne, CEO of the MassChallenge start-up competition, tells me that this week a group of judges are working to winnow 300 teams of entrepreneurs to 100 finalists; they're hearing some company pitches in person; some via Skype from as far off as California, Spain and Argentina; and Harthorne says a Brazilian team even flew to Boston for some face time. Judges include folks like 170 Systems founder Karl Buttner, Raj Melville of nTag Interactive and BeFree, and Micah Rosenbloom from Brontes/3M.
The goal of the competition is to encourage start-ups to come to Boston — or stay here and grow. The hundred finalist companies (finalists will be announced later this mont...
The tide turned in June 2007, when Dr. Steven Nissen, a respected heart expert at the Cleveland Clinic, published a meta-analysis -- a paper looking at all the available research on Avandia -- and concluded that the drug not only failed to prevent heart disease in diabetics, but actually raised the risk of heart failure and increased the risk of ...
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Apple, Inc. (AAPL) may be in the midst of a PR crisis with its
newest iPhone, but that doesn't mean the company isn't stronger as
it's ever been. The company's release of the iPhone 4 makes that
device quite possibly the fastest-selling in the company's history.
Every time Apple thinks it cannot outperfor...
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will be in Manchester today to meet with seniors about the new health care law and its changes to senior health care coverage.
Just sharing some photos and audio from the first-ever Momentum Summit, held last Wednesday at MIT's Sloan School of Management.
The objective was to gather some of the founders, CEOs, and senior execs from the most successful Massachusetts companies of the past decade, and have them talk about how they grew from start-up to major player. (Disclosure: I was involved as an organizer.) Speakers included TripAdvisor CEO Stephen Kaufer; Constant Contact CEO Gail Goodman; Rue La La/Retail Convergence CEO Ben Fischman; and, surprisingly, Zipcar CEO Scott Griffith, whose company filed for an initial public offering a few weeks before the event — which often means an e...
A Clarksburg man has been convicted in connection with the death of his 4-month-old daughter in July 2009.
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The Supreme Court will decide whether a company can legally retaliate against an employee's friends, relatives or spouse for the employee's filing of a discrimination claim.
Filed under: Stocks to Buy
Just call it a 'June Swoon' for Becton Dickinson and Co.
(BDX),
as the shares have dropped to about $69.50 from highs above $80
this spring. Even so, the business model, first discussed here
on March 17, 2009 at a price of $65.66, remains preferred in
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Retirees and other residents from all over the country were among those who donated nearly $500,000 to help Arizona defend its immigration enforcement law, with most chipping in $100 or less, according to an analysis of documents obtained Thusday by The Associated Press.
A suburban Philadelphia man described by authorities as a "securities fraud recidivist" ran a $16 million Ponzi scheme through several business entities and hedge funds he controlled, federal regulators said in a complaint filed Tuesday.
Federal authorities said Friday they are conducting the largest Medicare fraud bust ever in five different states and arrested dozens of suspects accused in scams totaling $251 million.
AFP - President Barack Obama will Tuesday declare that
America's battle against AIDS is at a "crossroads" and roll out a
plan to cut new infections...
Filed under: News Corp'B' (NWS), Stock Picks
News Corp. (NWS) and MySpace. They've been together for a
while. And I have a question: Should they still be together? Is
there any reason for the social networking business to be in Rupert
Murdoch's empire? Personally, I don't see a rationale for keeping
MySpace in the fold.
Of course, I'm sure Ch...
AFP - European aerospace giant Airbus on Thursday
submitted its bid for a 40-billion-dollar US military contract also
eyed by bitter rival Boeing.
Filed under: Commodities, Oil
The oil market's bears regained control Tuesday, but as they
say in the oil trading pits, 'for now,' or 'stay tuned.'It might not be the Greatest Show on Earth but the legal circus in the $7 billion fraud case against jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford is possibly making it the greatest show in court.
AFP - US President Barack Obama said Friday his
policies had pulled America out of the most vicious economic
d...
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Prison officers sent police a written warning that Raoul Moat was threatening to kill on his release from jail, it has been claimed.
Filed under: Wal-Mart (WMT), McDonald's (MCD)
Are
you one of the millions of Americans out of work and not able find
a good job locally? If you have an adventurous spirit and native
English accent, you can teach overseas and it is more doable than
you may think.
Maybe you hate your current job and need a change before you go crazy? Maybe you are unemployed tired of beating the street around town and always wanted to see the other cultures....
In 2005, Vineet Sinha was a PhD student in MIT's computer science department, presenting some of his work at a prestigious academic conference in San Diego. The project, Relo, proposed that one way to increase programmers' efficiency was to help them understand vast swaths of already-existing software code more quickly; understanding the code that exists, Sinha explains, requires an enormous investment of time, but if programmers don't do it, their new contributions tend to create problems. Relo created diagrams that showed how various chunks of code were connected to each other — a sort of automatically-generated Ra...
Young Americans might not get full Social Security retirement benefits until they reach age 70 if some trial balloons that prominent lawmakers of both parties are floating become law.
The White House asserted Wednesday that the $862 billion stimulus law has been even better for the economically-struggling country than previously advertised.
Filed under: Research in Motion (RIMM), Amer Intl Group (AIG)
Alan
Greenspan called for a pause in the return to growth, but wholesale
trade and some international stability helped stop things from
getting too far out of line. We had three days of rallies and the
action at the end of the day made this a fourth straight day of
rallying. In fact, buying interest led to closing right near the
highs of the trading day.
Share Expenses with Neighbors from personal finance blog
Bargaineering.com.
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The Maes & Macs: Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Ginnie Mae, and
Sallie Mae from personal finance blog
Bargaineering.com.
AP - The Democratic Party put Supreme Court nominee
Elena Kagan front and center Thursday on an e-mail appeal to raise
funds and sign up...
Your Take: Would You Raise Your Own Food? from personal finance blog
Bargaineering.com.
Three Philadelphia police officers plotted with drug dealers and staged a traffic stop and drug seizure in a scheme to steal $15,000 worth of heroin from a supplier and sell it, federal authorities charged.
Filed under: Google (GOOG), Apple Inc (AAPL), Motorola (MOT), Verizon Communications (VZ)
Talking to a friend last night, he told me that he was going
to purchase the new Droid X. His main reason is that he's been a
long-time Verizon (VZ)
customer and d...
A panel of state lawmakers is examining the federal health care overhaul and Minnesota's efforts to provide health care to more people.
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Reuters - President Barack Obama's Supreme Court
nominee Elena Kagan on Tuesday defended her decision to limit
military recruiting at Harvard and rejected Republican charges she
would be a liberal judicial activist...
The state of Virginia and the government were pitched in a legal battle in a federal courtroom on Thursday that could lead to the undoing of the massive healthcare reform law passed three months ago.
Arizona's impending immigration law went before a federal judge for the first time Thursday, and attorneys for both sides sparred over who had the right to enforce immigration law: local officials or the federal government.
McClatchy Newspapers - JERUSALEM — Israel on
Monday announced a major change in the way it will manage the
country's controversial blockade of the Gaza Strip, a move Israeli
officials hope will ease tensions with ...
Kansas Republican Jerry Moran says he was the first congressman to introduce a bill this year to repeal the new federal health care law.
From counseling for kids who struggle with their weight, to cancer screenings for their parents, preventive health care will soon be available at no out-of-pocket cost under consumer rules the Obama administration unveiled Wednesday.
A U.S. judge in Boston has ruled that a federal gay marriage ban is unconstitutional because it interferes with the right of a state to define marriage.
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Today we saw action fueled by earnings from banks and
weakening cons...
The next time the Lottery Commission wants to launch a new revenue-raising idea, it ought to check with its friends at the State House.
Reuters - A U.S. appeals court on Thursday appeared
divided over whether to bar deepwater oil drilling from resuming
again after the Obama administration's six-month moratorium in
response to the BP Pl...
How to Dry Fresh Herbs from personal finance blog
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Flexo’s Investment Portfolio, 2Q 2010
On Tuesday, July 13th, Mrs. Obama is answering your questions in her first-ever web chat, as part of the launch of a new Let’s Move! website. The First Lady will answer your questions on the Let's Move! initiative to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity during a live event that is moderated by AOL Health. You can participate by submitting questions now or during the chat. Then tune in to the live event at 10:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, July 13 here on WhiteHouse.gov...
Reuters - President Barack Obama sought on Wednesday
to lift sagging confidence in his economic stewardship by enlisting
the help of predecessor Bill Clinton, as a leading business group
issued a scathing critique of the administration's policies.
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George Steinbrenner’s Heirs Inherit $1 Billion Tax
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The Toledo veterinarian who is overseeing the treatment of the family dog that was allegedly shot by his owners' neighbor said Friday he expects the animal to recover.
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Rich Homeowners More Likely to Walk Away From Mortgages
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A federal judge on Friday drastically trimmed a $675,000 verdict against a Boston University graduate student who was found liable for illegally downloading and sharing 30 songs online.
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The
stock market is on a tear, fueled higher by better than expected
corporate earnings. So says
Filed under: Earnings Reports
Back in October of last year, I wasn't bullish on
Fastenal (FAST).
Today, though, things could be different after the company, which
sells all kinds of industrial products (think tools, motors,
chemicals, paints, etc.), reported its second-quarter numbers on
Tuesday. The figures do tell a story of a nice rebo...