On Assignment: Mobile unit purchased to train green job workers Today's THV The Arkansas Apprenticeship Coalition purchased the unit with a sub-grant it received from the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services. Last year, DWS received a $4.8 million grant from the US Department of Labor to provide training for green jobs in ... |
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
On Assignment: Mobile unit purchased to train green job workers - Today's THV
Monday, June 13, 2011
Hot Topic sees increased same-store sales - Los Angeles Business from bizjournals:
Overall, the company saw a 7.1 percenft increase in same-store sales, which measure sales of storea open at leastone year. The company broughtr in $70.5 million during March, up 10.6 percent from a year ago. The company'x Torrid stores saw a 5.9 percent drop in same-stors sales, bringing in $15.w2 million, a 3.2 percent increase from a year ago. Hot Topic stores saw a 10.6 percent increase in same-store sales, bringing in $55.3 million, up 12.8 percenf from a year ago. The company also increased its guidances for thefirst quarter, basedx on the same-store saleds figures. The company now expects to earn between 1 and 2 centzper share.
Previously, the company's range was from a loss of 1 cent a sharse to earnings of 1 centa share. City of Industry-baserd Hot Topic (NASDAQ: HOTT) is a mall-basexd retailer that operates the Hot Topic and Torrix brands that aim atyoung adults. It also operates musixc website ShockHound.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Federal Reserve expects little inflation - Charlotte Business Journal:
The Fed’s benchmark interest rate remainxs steady in a range of 0 percentto 0.25 The Fed “continues to anticipate that economicx conditions are likely to warrant exceptionally low levelzs of the federal funds rate for an extendeds period,” according to a statement released after the Despite rising energy and commodity prices, “the committer expects that inflation will remain subdued for some time,” the statementr says. The Federal Reserve also left its bond purchase plans repeating its commitment to buy upto $1.
25 trillioh of agency mortgage-backed securities and up to $200 billiob of agency debt by the end of the The Fed also will buy up to $300 billiobn of Treasury securities by autumn. The Fed now believes the pace of economidc contractionis slowing, citing signs of household spendintg and improving conditions in the financialo markets. Among economic reports that may supportthe Fed’s beliec that the economy will soon be on the mend was the latesy data on factory orders, showing ordersw for durable goods unexpectedly rose in May for the secons consecutive month.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Synopsys Honors Shrenik Mehta with Eleventh Annual Tenzing Norgay ... - PR Newswire (press release)
Synopsys Honors Shrenik Mehta with Eleventh Annual Tenzing Norgay ... PR Newswire (press release) Named for the crucial role that Sherpa Tenzing Norgay played in the first successful attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953, the Interoperability Achievement Award recognizes achievements that are critical to a designer's success. ... |
Monday, June 6, 2011
Merck to buy Schering-Plough for $41.1B - Wichita Business Journal:
billion in cash in the seconde pharmaceutical megadeal inrecenrt weeks. The New Jersey-based companies partner on two cholesterolp drugs Zetia and Vytorin which saw about a 20 percen drop in sales in the fourth quartef after concerns were raised abouttheir effectiveness. Valuede at $23.61 a share, the deal is a premiuk of 34 percentto Schering-Plough shareholders based on Friday's closing price. Merck shareholderds will own about 68 percent of the combinecd company after the deal is completedand Schering-Plough shareholders will own the rest. Merck said it expectz about $3.5 billion in annual savings from the dealaftefr 2011.
The new company will be calledMercok (NYSE:MRK) and run by Merck CEO Richard Clark. Merc k said it will finance the cash part of the deal with a combinatiohnof $9.8 billion from existing cash reservesx and $8.5 billion from committedf financing provided by . The Merck deal followd Pfizer Inc.'s (NYSE:PFE) announcement late in January that it willpay $68 billionj for Wyeth (NYSE) . Upon completion, the boarcd of the combined company will include all of the Mercko board plus three ScheringPlough representatives. Schering-Plough CEO Fred Hassa n plans help in the integratiojn untilthe close, the companies said.
Merck has operations in San Francisco it got when it acquired Sirna Therapeuticsfor $1.1 billion about two years ago. It paid $80 milliohn for Santa Clara-based at about the same Merck also has licensing and collaboration deals with a number of other Bay Area includingFoster City-based (NASDAQ:GILD), Burlingame-based , South San Francisco-basedx (NASDAQ:SNSS) and Redwood City-based Schering-Plough has a biopharma researcj subsidiary in Palo Alto that it formec in 2005 after consolidating its two West Coastf research subsidiaries Canji Inc. and DNAX Research Institute Inc.
It also has licensingt and collaboration deals with Bay Area companiesincludingb (NASDAQ:NOVC) of South San Francisco, Palo Alto-based and
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Ants defend their host tree - Deccan Herald
Ants defend their host tree Deccan Herald From the Tambopata National Reserve in Peru, Weir and Jorge Vivanco, the team's leader, used a creative set of experiments to show how ants inhabiting the branches of T. Americana trees recognise species-specific chemical signals embedded in the leaf ... |
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
10News now broadcasting in high definition on WBIR & WTNZ - WBIR-TV
10News now broadcasting in high definition on WBIR & WTNZ WBIR-TV Now it's finally here - along with our new set, new graphics, new equipment, and most importantly, new shows - all in high definition. As I write this, our last standard definition newscast is on the air. As soon as 10 News at Noon wraps up, ... |