Idolator: All About The Music | Nicki Minaj Bares Her Teeth On The Cover Of 'Black Book' Idolator: All About The Music Nicki Minaj covers Black Book's March Pop issue striking a furious, monstruous growl. (Not the first time this month she's imitated a wild animal.) This is surely the face Nicki-dissing Lil Kim will be confronted with the next time she encounters ... |
Monday, February 28, 2011
Nicki Minaj Bares Her Teeth On The Cover Of 'Black Book' - Idolator: All About The Music
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Women's Soccer: Butler Signs WPS Contract - West Virginia University Mountaineers
West Virginia University Mountaineers | Women's Soccer: Butler Signs WPS Contract West Virginia University Mountaineers West Virginia women's soccer player Kerri Butler has signed a professional contract with the Atlanta Beat of the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) league. Butler, a four-year letterwinner for the Mountaineers, will join the Beat on March 1 for ... |
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
O4 Corp. gets $15M to expand - Portland Business Journal:
O4 Corp. — which stands for Out Of OfficedOperations — develops mobile software applicationd that consumer products manufacturerws such as and use to instrucyt sales reps to check inventory products displays and pricing information in retail stores. The technologu also wirelessly transmits data and product ordersd backto headquarters. While consumer goodss manufacturers spend significantlyon in-store marketing promotions and new product “they really don’t get visibility into what’s happeningb at the retail shelf,” said Laura Witt, generalk partner at , a Baltimore-based venture firm that investefd the $15 million.
O4’s software empowers manufacturers’ eyes and ears in retai l stores — their saless force, Witt said. “It makes them much more effectivrand efficient,” she said. O4’s technology, designed to run on hand-held is highly flexible, said Dale Hagemeyer, consumer goods technologg analystat “Think of it as a 12-way adjustablew seat,” Hagemeyer said. “It really contours to how people dothei work.” O4’s globe-trotting chief, Desmond Miller, has an ambitious growtg trajectory for his firm.
O4’s subscribefr base is projected to explode fromabout 25,000 todahy to about 250,000 users in the next thre years, Miller said, from Australia. “We are showing a tremendouz ROI (return on investment) to the market righg now in verydifficult times,” said Miller, who lives in Australiza and splits his time between North America, Asia and “We are able to show payback for thes systems in months and not years, and we are givin g our customers an edge in the marketplace.” O4 expectws to hit its growth targets by adding new customerd and selling more services and products to existing “It’s not just beinh an inch deep with the O4 U.S.
President Harris Fogel “It’s [about] being a mile wide and a mile ABS Capital was impressedwith O4’s and its blue-chip client roster. “Itg was clear to us that they must be offeringt something of value for the consumerproducts industry,” Witt said. ABS, whicu invests in later-stage growth companiez in the business health-care, media and communications, and software sectors, was a majotr investor in , which raisedx $112 million in an initial public offeringhin mid-April.
O4 will invesgt the $15 million — the company’s firstt institutional round — into developing an around-the-clock, global customefr support infrastructure, transitioning from a software-licensinf to a software-as-a-subscription model and executinvg a geographic and product The companysees “huge opportunities” in the emerging markete of Latin America, Eastern Europe and China, where consumer products companies have armiee of mobile workers that can benefit from O4’sw software. “A consumer products multinationakl mighthave 10,000 mobile workers in China Fogel said. “We are about users.
” The globakl strategy is critical as O4 keep s pace with itsmultinational customers, who are themselves chasing overseas demand. “The customer is goinhg where there are more mouths to feed and more feetto Gartner’s Hagemeyer said. “If P&fG is going into Asia and LatinAmericza ... you want to follow P&G wherever P&G wantsd to go.”
Monday, February 21, 2011
Delinquent mortgages decline in Wisconsin - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:
The delinquency rate excludesz loans in the process of The percentage of loans in Wisconsin on which foreclosure was starterd during the quarter rose 12 basis points to 1 while the percentage of loans in the foreclosur process at the end of the quarter rose 29 basis pointsto 3.11 percent. The ratez are not seasonally adjusted. Mortgage delinquency ratesa normally drop in the first quarter of the year afterf peakingat year-end due to a variety of seasona factors. The delinquency rate for prime adjustabld rate mortgage loans decreased 75 basi s pointsto 8.49 percent and the rate for primew fixed rate mortgage loans decreased 32 basiws points to 3.
07 The delinquency rate for the subprime ARM loans decreasedd 156 basis points to 25.25 percent, while the rate for subprim e fixed rate loans decreased 136 basis points to 20.47
Saturday, February 19, 2011
US hails Uzbek cooperation on NATO supply routes - AFP
US hails Uzbek cooperation on NATO supply routes AFP TASHKENT â" A top US official visiting Tashkent on Friday praised Uzbekistan for opening up supply routes and building infrastructure for NATO operations in Afghanistan. "The United States highly values Uzbekistan's support for international efforts in ... Press Conference |
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
ION Geophysical to buy Canada's ARAM Systems for $346M - Houston Business Journal:
a Canadian provider of cable-based land seismidc recording systems forabout $346 Included in the deal is ARAM' s affiliate company, Canadian Seismivc Rentals Inc. Houston-based ION (NYSE: IO) will pay aboutg $275 million in cash and the rest in common ION President and Chief Executivs Officer Bob Peebler describes ARAM as a majort player in the analog segment of the global markeftfor cable-based land seismic recording systems. Says Peebler: "...ARAM's reputation for engineerinhg and supplychain excellence, produc reliability, and value-adding custome support have contributed to rapidly growinhg revenues that now exceed $100 millionj per year.
" Evercore Group LLC out of New York serverd as ION's financial advisor, while Houston-based Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. LLC advised ION is a provider ofgeophysicalp technology, services, and solutions for the global oil & gas It aims to allow exploration and productionm operators to get higher resolution images of the subsurfacw to reduce the risk of exploration and reservoird development, and enable seismic contractors to acquire geophysical data more efficiently. The transactionm is expected to be earnings neutral for the remainde r of 2008 and accretiveto ION's consolidatedc pro-forma earnings in 2009.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Transilvania Construcţii, la raport - Ziua de Cluj
Transilvania ConstrucÅ£ii, la raport Ziua de Cluj Conform calendarului, raportul pe primul trimestru al acestui an va fi fÄcut public în 13 mai, iar cel semestrial este programat pentru 12 august. |
Friday, February 11, 2011
16000 new jobs created with SME upgrading - AsiaOne
Straits Times | 16000 new jobs created with SME upgrading AsiaOne Sm » |
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
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Here is another helpful Lots of referral sources becoms reversereferral sources. I have seen many sales folks get frustratef when they lose a referral source becausee they do not realize that power source did not disappear butgot better. Let’s say you’rw a mortgage broker and your biggest referral sourcde just got promoted to management and cannot directl y referyou anymore. Do not panic: You might have just gained 20 more referral sources. I literally had a client headed to a docto over this one until we spoke and putthe four- I formula to work.
There are so many I have createda “peers, partners and concept to learn how to identif and connect partners in real-life scenarios without getting the wires getting crossed. A warning, Sal: Failurwe to do this properluy leaves you feeling overwhelmed like an offensive linemen on the bottojm of thepile — suffocating and being steppeed on at the same time. It is not that complicated; no different than being asked for a jump by astrandex motorist. But you’d better know how to hook up those cables or you will get the shock ofyour life.
Martin Toucgh tip: Do not connect your sources with each othe until you have an individual plan in placre and it is working for six This is a common mistake that sometimess results in only alooss connection. Unfortunately, in most cases, it turns into smoke — and wheres there is smoke, there is Remember to always look carefullyy under the hood and understand that your sourceare invaluable. Every electrical box has a ground wire and that’s you, Sal. That means if you are goinvg to connectthe wires, you cannoty be an absentee owner. If you understand the four-Ik formula, you will have somethinfg invaluable.
You will feel indescribable and you canyell “beam me up, with a sense of mission accomplished.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
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Thursday, February 3, 2011
Feds: One of U.S.'s 'most wanted' fugitives caught in Argentina - CNN International
Fox News | Feds: One of U.S.'s 'most wanted' fugitives caught in Argentina CNN International Eischeid, 39, was captured Thursday in Buenos Aires by Argentine authorities, according to a statement released by the US Department of Justice. ... Fugitive Suspect in Brutal Arizona Murder Caught in Argentina After High ... Most Wanted Fugitive Captured in Argentina Most Wanted Fugitive Captured |
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
McLaren return 'difficult' admits de la Rosa - Motorsport.com
McLaren return 'difficult' admits de la Rosa Motorsport.com By Motorsport.com/GMM Pedro de la Rosa has played down recent reports that he is close to returning to McLaren in 2011 as reserve driver. ... |