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BUSINESS News, Sep 13, 2011


Yahoo Ousts Bartz as CEO
Wall Street Journal
Yahoo has let go of Carol Bartz and named Tim Morse as interim CEO. Kara Swisher and Rolfe Winkler discuss how the company can recover from a high-profilemanagement misfire. (Photo: Getty Images.) Independent directors did a study of Yahoo's assets ...
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Wall Street Journal
BlackRock's CEO says money managers have been hurt
Reuters
N), the world's largest asset manager. "This (volatility) is not a good short-term trend for the assetmanagement business," Fink said, speaking in New York at a Barclays Capital conference on Monday. He said BlackRock, which oversees more than $3.6 ...
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Family Bank replaces managers in business review plan
Business Daily Africa
At least 24 senior managers have left Family Bank in the past two months as the lender seeks fresh ideas and talent to grow market share. The reorganisation plan is the culmination of a major strategy and business review plan that the bank's new CEO...
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Business Daily Africa
Beth Israel Deaconess CEO ready for changes
Boston Globe
He landed in Boston late Monday night and spent yesterday in meetings withmanagers and physician leaders and walking the floors of the Harvard teaching hospital, chatting with employees. Tabb, 47, who is the chief medical officer of Stanford Hospital ...
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Boston Globe
David Rubenstein Named CEO of BlueMountain Europe
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Mr. Rubenstein succeeds Jeffrey Kushner, who is retiring from the asset management businessand will move back to the United States to pursue other opportunities. Mr. Kushner has been with BlueMountain since the firm's 2003 inception and over the past ...
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People in Business
Houston Chronicle
The Houston Real Estate Council announced its executive leadership team: Philip Schneidau of BMSManagement is president; Tammy Hendrix of Brookfield Properties is vice president/treasurer; Bill Huntsinger of Huntsinger Consulting is governmental ...
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Cormant Announces Optio Development Has Joined Its Certified Solutions ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Cormant Inc. is an information, communication and technology infrastructure management company engaged in the development and marketing of advanced infrastructure managementsoftware systems. Cormant is focused on providing the best infrastructure and ...
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Top regional workplaces make employee satisfaction a priority
Danbury News Times
At Aquarion Water Company, which placed No. 2 among large businesses, managers strive to maintain steady communication with employees, including newsletters, bulletins and email updates. The president and CEO, Charles Firlotte, also sends out ...
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Five Hot Startups at Demo Fall
PCWorld
A CEO at a small company might build a dashboard that shows sales data from a CRM (customer relationship management) system, the progress of an application development team and the latest trouble tickets issued by the customer support department. ...
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Weigand president a 28-year employee
Kansas.com
BY BILL WILSON Truman, the company's business development manager, has been with Weigand for 28 years, beginning her career there in 1983 as an administrative assistant in the commercial division. It's that knowledge of the Weigand operation from the ...
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Kansas.com
30-Min Webinar: Aternity Presents the Latest Innovation in Application ...
PR Urgent
Aternity provides line of business managers and IT managers with complete visibility into end user behavior and application performance “From the Edge on In” in order to dramatically reduce businessdisruptions, increase user productivity, ...
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People at the top crucial in assessing company
New Zealand Herald
Another good sign is when CEOs and managers have their own money in the business. Whilemanagement and shareholder interests should be aligned as part of a CEO's remuneration package, having skin in the game further ensures that management shares ...
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NJ business advocates react to President Obama's jobs plan
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
For Philip Kirschner, president of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association, the credit rewards the kind of hiring that most managers try to avoid. “Employers want to hire workers who'll be as productive as possible,” he said, “whether that's ...
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The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Chatman: Once a CEO, Always Act Like a CEO
CNBC.com (blog)
It turns out that the range of options is significantly reduced if you are the CEO of a publicly tradedcompany, indeed, if you are Carol Bartz. Here's why: Being a CEO of a company comes with the expectation that you are, and will continue to be, ...
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Golf club company owner helps to drive sales worldwide
Chicago Daily Herald
While Mortensen and Biffle didn't win, she did receive a $10000 small business makeover, courtesy of Office Depot. Gerry Dempsey of Batavia, chairman and CEO of Batavia Enterprises Inc., a leasing and property management company, has created a new ...
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Power Assure Inks Strategic Partnership with IQT to Accelerate Data Center ...
MarketWatch (press release)
With Power Assure EM/4, data center managers can collect, synthesize and analyze the overwhelming amount of raw data available from facilities and IT equipment and turn it into usefulbusiness information for making decisions in real time. ...
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Standard Risk Measures Predicted Clear Skies Prior to August Tumult While Tail ...
MarketWatch (press release)
PerTrac RiskPlus, an advanced risk analysis module designed to help institutional investors and portfolio managers decompose hidden risks through the use of multivariate factor analysis, stress testing and risk budgeting, was launched in 2010 under a ...
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PatientKeeper CEO to Speak at Stifel Nicolaus Healthcare Conference in Boston
MarketWatch (press release)
Who: Paul Brient, President and CEO, PatientKeeper, Inc. Stifel Nicolaus provides a full range of strategic wealth management services tailored to individual investors, professional moneymanagers, businesses and municipalities. ...
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The Conifer Group Selects Empaxis for Application & Automation Support
MarketWatch (press release)
Conifer's comprehensive platform of business and operations solutions appeals to both start-up and established managers by allowing them to focus exclusively on running the investment operations of their business. Headquartered in San Francisco and ...
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How to play it: Re-education of McGraw-Hill brings opportunity
Reuters
Wall Street analysts and money managers say the company's markets group, which will include the Standard & Poor's ratings business, will tend to be the more consistent performer. The marketsbusiness, with about $4 billion in revenue in 2011, ...
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Clarabridge Named One of KMWorld's Trend-Setting Products of 2011
MarketWatch (press release)
This year, more than 800 products were assessed by KMWorld's judging panel, which consists of editorial colleagues, analysts, system integrators, vendors, line-of-business managers and users. All products selected demonstrate clearly identifiable ...
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As BNY Mellon CEO exits, opportunity knocks
Globe and Mail
With the demand for its services rising with investment managers' desires to outsource, “the tailwind in this industry grows, and Bank of New York is well-positioned to grab a share of new business.” Raymond James analyst David Long puts some numbers ...
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Globe and Mail
Buffett's New Hire Is Marathoner Whose BofA Bet Beat Berkshire
BusinessWeek
Buffett has said he was searching for money managers who are “genetically programmed” to avoid large risks. Buffett, who is chief executive officer and chairman, has said his candidates for CEOalready work at Berkshire. Weschler worked at Grace, ...
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Business briefcase
Gloucester Daily Times
Cunha comes to The First National Bank of Ipswich from Danversbank, where she held the position of vice president, retail sales manager, and previously was assistant vice president, branch officer at Medford Bank. She earned a Master of Business ...
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Post-Crisis, Nimble Hedge Fund Strategies Survive
CNBC.com
Lionel Erdely, CEO of Lyxor Asset Management, adds that Global Macro's flexibility can also mean better risk management: “For example, managers might go long silver and gold exposure to protect themselves in case they're wrong on stocks. ...
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CNBC.com
RedZone Robotics Announces Acquisition of Cleanflow Systems
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The challenge here is to put the much needed information in the hands of wastewater managers so they can proactively manage their sewer infrastructure," said CEO Eric Close. "The combined offering gives collection system owners, as well as their ...
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Data Center World Opens in Orlando
MarketWatch (press release)
The report outlines the objectives, priorities and responsibilities data center managers--and organizations overall--need to put in place in order to properly safeguard their data and operations during cyber-attacks or natural disasters. ...
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FOX News Channel Business Journalist Stuart Varney to Keynote CSCMP's Annual ...
MarketWatch (press release)
12, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- FOX News Channel business and financial journalist Stuart Varney will be the opening general session speaker at the Council of Supply Chain ManagementProfessionals' (CSCMP) 2011 Annual Global Conference, ...
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Alterra promotes three senior managers
Business Insurance
Hamilton, Bermuda-based Alterra's US business includes wholesaler Alterra Specialty and retailer Alterra USA. Steve J. Vaccaro Jr., formerly CEO of Alterra Specialty, now is chairman of Alterra's US insurance operations. ...
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Sallie Krawcheck Died Like A Man...
Business Insider
But I see it as just another mediocre manager firing another mediocre manager of a mediocrebusiness. Let's be honest. Today's big business, upper level managers are by no means exceptional or creative. These are guys (and..some girls) whi tested ...
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WorkForce Software Achieves Inc 5000 Ranking in Fifth-Straight Year
MarketWatch (press release)
About Inc. Magazine Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures LLC, Inc. ( www.inc.com ) is the only major business magazine dedicated exclusively to owners and managersof growing private companies that delivers real solutions for ...
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CEO Interview: Noah Education Holdings Ltd. (NED) - Jerry He
The Wall Street Transcript
This Special Report contains expert industry commentary through in-depth interviews with publiccompany CEOs, Equity Analysts and Money Managers. Please find an excerpt below. Jerry He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Noah Education Holdings ...
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo's “State Of The Union” Address
Search Engine Land
Plans to grow the ad business. These stats and facts are part of a “State Of The Twitter” talk Twitter CEO Dick Costolo gave to the press today. Live blogging below! Dick arrives. Nothing big, he says. “I just wanted to give you a state of the union on ...
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Search Engine Land
Mobile Device Management: A Thriving Industry
TMC Net
The company also welcomes the growing competition in this space. Bob Tinker, MobileIron CEOnoted that they are in a market that just got really, big really fast. Among its customer base, 60 percent already offer employees a BYOD (bring your own ...
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9/11: Attacks Changed the Way Companies View IT
PCWorld
The 9/11 attacks, coming just after the late '90s Internet boom, were a wake-up call for many ITmanagers who hadn't contemplated the possibility of their entire computing systems being destroyed without warning, some IT managers and company executives ...
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Shaw Capital Management News: Former Lenovo's Rory Read is ...
By Shaw Capital Management Factoring and Financings
AMD announced its new CEO Rory Read. His new position follows ... Read served IBM for 23 years, including managing director for IBM's Consulting Services division and general manager for businessconsulting services in the South Pacific. ...
Shaw Capital Management Factoring...
New CEO of HSBC Hong Kong appointed | China business news
New CEO of HSBC Hong Kong appointed. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC) Friday announced that the bank's Group General Manager Anita Fung has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of HSBC Hong ...
China business news
“Breaking” News: Righthaven's Partnership with the Denver Post is ...
By Eric E. Johnson
Key to the story is that MediaNews Group's change of heart corresponds with a change inmanagementNew CEO John Paton has different ideas about what MediaNews should be doing in the face of the digital transition – and it's not suing ...
Blog Law Blog
Is John Paton the savior newspapers have been waiting for ...
By Mathew Ingram
... not just of a declining industry, but of a crushing debt load of more than $700 million. And he made it clear from the beginning that he was going to remake the chain completely by focusing on the web first, rather than the print side of the business. ... Paton's ascension to the executive suite at MediaNews wasn't really a surprise (he is also CEO of a new management entity called Digital First Media). Martin Langeveld — a former Media News publisher — and analyst Ken Doctor have ...
GigaOM
8 Candidates Of New CEO Of Yahoo | The Daily News Global
By Dimas
New Step Of Yahoo After Firing Carol Bartz Yahoo - Leading Internet companies from the United States, Yahoo, has been fired Carol Bartz as CEO. Bartz was fired. ... Bartz on a CEO chair. Bartz substitute is expected to bring Yahoo! face new challenges today's digital business, ie mobile and social media platforms. ... CEO of Yahoo. Prior to Yahoo, Morse had been a CFO at a computer chip manufacturer Altera Corp. and manage the management of General Electric Co.. for 15 years. ...
The Daily News Global
MTN makes two new executive appointments : Ghana Business News
By ekow
An official statement named them as Mrs Cynthia Lumor, Corporate Service Executive, and Mr Eric Nsarkoh, General Manager of the newly created MTN Business Solutions. Mrs Lumor replaces Mrs Mawuena Trebah, who ... The CEO of MTN Ghana, Mr Michael Ikpoki said: “MTN is happy to welcome these personalities to join MTN to complement the excellent staff we have and to support the business drive of the organisation in Ghana.” He added: “MTN Ghana will continue to work at ...
Ghana Business News
Jim Sinegal to retire as Costco CEO : The Issaquah Press – News ...
By Warren Kagarise
“Costco has a very strong culture and a deep bench of management talent,” Sinegal said in a statement. “I have total confidence in Craig's ability to handle his new responsibilities and feel we are fortunate as a company to have an executive of ...
The Issaquah Press - News, Sports,...
Hello, You're Fired: Yahoo CEO and Breakup Etiquette - Business ...
By Carmen Cox
Business and Economic News and Headlines From ABC News Radio. ... But when Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was fired over the phone by Chairman Roy Bostock, she decided not to go quietly. She informed the entire company about it in an ...
Business News - ABC News Radio
Starbucks CEO: 'We Can't Wait for Washington' - Business News ...
By Jeanette Torres
Mario Tama/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who recently made a call to action for his "fellow concerned Americans" to boycott campaign contributions, said it is up to U.S. business leaders to help get the country ...
Business News - ABC News Radio
Who's News | Business 380
By Michael Chevy Castranova/Business380 editor
You are here: Who's News; Who's News ... Tim Sebetka, assistant vice president real estate loanmanager at Collins Community Credit Union, was elected president-elect of the Iowa Mortgage Association. Sebetka will serve as president-elect ...
Business 380
SecureForce Names Marc Perrelli as New President and CEO ...
By SecureForce LLC
STERLING, Va., Sept. 8, 2011 — SecureForce LLC, a leading cyber security solutions company, has named its COO Marc Perrelli as the company's new President and CEO. Mr. Perrelli brings 19 years of leadership and senior management ...
eReleases Press Release Headlines
Yahoo fires its CEO - over the phone - Leadership, business and ...
Read [Object title] and more leadership, business and management news, tips and features ... The troubled tech giant has divested itself of CEO Carol Bartz. ...
www.managementtoday.co.uk/go/.../yahoo-fires-its-ceo-phone...
MediaNews Group Announces the Appointment of John Paton as ...
Gordon Paris, who has served as interim President of MediaNews since the beginning ... It will be one of the largest and most compelling news platforms in the ... Digital First Media represents the codification into a management company of a ...
money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=PR...
Tulumaris takes Biomedical Structures CEO post - Mass High Tech ...
He also served, according to his LinkedIn profile, as vice president and general manager of MedSource Technologies Inc., which was acquired by Accellent Inc., ...
www.masshightech.com/.../daily5-Tulumaris-takes-Biomedical...
Ciena CEO Gary Smith talks to Fox Business News | Ciena Insights ...
Ciena CEO Gary Smith was a guest on U.S. cable network Fox Business News' program "Countdown to the Closing Bell" yesterday. He spoke with show host Liz ...
www.ciena.com/.../Ciena-CEO-Gary-Smith-talks-to-Fox-Busin...

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