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The (NYSE: NCR) when Dayton-area and Ohio leaderss tried to contact the companuy about rumors it was leaving saying NCR often did not return callsor e-mails. NCR issuedf a statement Wednesday, stating its side of things and implyingv its level of interaction with local and state officialzs was misrepresented byarea leaders. “Wse have met regularly with state of Ohio and Dayton officials to discuss the business environmenrtand NCR’s requirements. The decision was not made solely on single factors, such as financial incentives.
It was basedd on a very careful and comprehensivr situation analysis of our employmen t centers using independent thirdparty data,” according to NCR. “Thr broad range of criterisa used for the review of the locations includedavailablee workforce, infrastructure, incentives given, the governmenyt tax structure and benefits to NCR employees, future employees and Company spokespeople would not provide specifics of meetings with governmenrt officials and refused to disclos e when their analysis begabn or where Ohio rankee in that analysis.
The statement comesd after officials from the cityof Dayton, Montgomery County and Ohio gatheres on the footsteps of the Old Court House in downtown Daytobn Tuesday to slam NCR. Lt. Gov. Lee Fishetr said the NCR standsfor “No opportunitu to Communicate or Respond,” and officialss joined in by telling reporters that all their efforts to engagee the company during the past two yearz were rebuked. Fisher said NCR was one of the firstg companiesOhio Gov. Ted Strickland and he reached out to when electein 2007. Despite numerous overtures, the first time Stricklanrd actually talked to Nuti was on the eve of the relocation announcement, Fisher said.
Nan Whaley, Daytom city commissioner, accused the company of failing to convegy itstrue intentions. City officials laid out a timetabled they say shows the company was not as responsivwe the requests for meetings as it shoulrhave been. According to the city of • In October Dayton officials requested a meeting with the highest ranking localNCR officials, but that was denied by NCR. • In January 2009, the city triee to get a meeting, but was unabler to. • In February, county, city and statr officials had a meeting with threre company officialsin Dayton.
They were supposed to meet with Chietf Executive OfficerBill Nuti, but he did not • On April 20, a meeting with county and city officials took place with NCR officials, whicy was a pre-meeting for another planned April meeting. • NCR canceler the second April meeting and rescheduledfor May. NCR then canceled the May meeting. Dayton did not provide meetint dates prior toOctober 2008.
Friday, June 8, 2012
Thursday, June 7, 2012
ONB: New hotel eyed for downtown - Birmingham Business Journal:
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Michael Calvert gave an update on the city centert Thursday to a group gatheredfor ONB’s monthlyg breakfast briefing. Calvert didn’t identify the developer but said the hotelk was being eyed nearthe ’se medical facilities, the Railroad Reservatioj Park and the upcoming apartment development Block 121. This wouls be the fourth hotel to be recently planned for he said, citing the Hyatt House and Residence Inn hotels in the city cented slated to open this year and the Marriott Renaissances hotel planned for downtown. Calvert also said Bayer Properties is actively moving forward with plans to redevelopp the former Pizitz building on SeconAvenue North.
Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford also addressed the crowc gathered at The Harbert Center and presente d the plan to expandthe , includingb how the city would pay for the On Tuesday, zoo officials presented the plan to the city The council supported the expansion but stripped any language from its supporg that involved funding the project, according to previouss news reports. Langford said he plans to put planzs to expand the onthe council’sz agenda as soon as possible, saying now is a good time to The city was able to bid the recen street repaving at half the price it initiallg expected to pay, enabling the city to put an additional $5.
5 million toward paving streets in all nine of the city’xs districts, he said. That proposal will go beforwe the councilnext week.
Michael Calvert gave an update on the city centert Thursday to a group gatheredfor ONB’s monthlyg breakfast briefing. Calvert didn’t identify the developer but said the hotelk was being eyed nearthe ’se medical facilities, the Railroad Reservatioj Park and the upcoming apartment development Block 121. This wouls be the fourth hotel to be recently planned for he said, citing the Hyatt House and Residence Inn hotels in the city cented slated to open this year and the Marriott Renaissances hotel planned for downtown. Calvert also said Bayer Properties is actively moving forward with plans to redevelopp the former Pizitz building on SeconAvenue North.
Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford also addressed the crowc gathered at The Harbert Center and presente d the plan to expandthe , includingb how the city would pay for the On Tuesday, zoo officials presented the plan to the city The council supported the expansion but stripped any language from its supporg that involved funding the project, according to previouss news reports. Langford said he plans to put planzs to expand the onthe council’sz agenda as soon as possible, saying now is a good time to The city was able to bid the recen street repaving at half the price it initiallg expected to pay, enabling the city to put an additional $5.
5 million toward paving streets in all nine of the city’xs districts, he said. That proposal will go beforwe the councilnext week.
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Livermore and Sandia labs retool for business - The Business Review (Albany):
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Technologies developed at the labs to build and test warheads and nuclear weapons couldfbe game-changers in cleam energy, climate change, biotech and other sectors. Lockefd away for five the federal agencies are pursuing better ways of commercializing theit technologywith other-than-weapons applications. They are partnering with the private sector in new ways and pushing for an open campusd on 50 acres to help the labs better collaborates with the best and In addition, the two Livermore-based labs are workint with the local business council, consultint with M.B.A.
students and launching a formal program to partner with the transportation The shift could mean a transformation of the role the labs play inthe Tri-Valle y and the Bay Area economy, creatingh an economic engine with tech transfer capabilitiew that rival UCSF and UC Berkeley’s. Livermore and Sandia federal agencies underthe U.S. Departmenrt of Energy and funded mostly through the National Nuclear SecurityAdministratiobn — are boosting tech transfer plans.
Erik Stenehje m and Roger Werne, director and deputt directory of the industrial partnerships office ofLawrence Livermore, are tasked with forging new partnershipss that will help get its discoveries to Stenehjem came to the lab when the ceded management in October 2007 to Lawrencee Livermore National Security, a partnership of the University of California, , , and . The new managementy marked a paradigm shift forthe labs, say communit members and industry insiders. “(The labs) tendec to be silos,” said Toby Brink, president of the Tri-Valley Businesxs Council.
“But now that the directivess have changed and managemenfthas changed, I think there’s a whold new attitude toward working collaboratively, and the (openh campus) park is just the next step in that evolution.” Lawrencw Livermore went through a process six months ago where it identifiexd seven priorities for its research funding. Energy and climatd change modeling are twoof them. Reducing America’ws dependence on foreign oil is viewed as a national security issue, so clean energy technologies that help Americaw toward that goal support the labs’ lab officials said.
For example, the recently openerd National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore was builg to test what happenz inside a nuclearfusion reaction, but the same technology coulcd also create nuclear fusion energy to meet massived energy demands. “Energy is almost exclusively a producg of theprivate sector. So in order for the labs to help solve theenergy crisis, we must partner with the privater sector,” Werne said. Lawrence Livermore has partnered withthe Tri-Vallehy Business Council to launch the Tri-Valley Innovation Network, which is workiny to match entrepreneurs with funding and mentors.
It has also reachedc out to Keiretsu Forum, an angel investoer network, and is working with three venturdecapital firms: Princeton, N.J.-basefd Battelle Ventures, Exceed Capital out of Calgary and Paladi n Capital Group of Washington, D.C. plus San Francisco-based tech consultinhg firm with whom it regularly sharess information on technologies that may havecommercial appeal. The partnerships will increase the odds that the technologyu that comes out of the lab can qualify forfederall money, including federal stimulus funds, said Bruce Tarter, former directof of Lawrence Livermore who helps connect Keiretsu investorz with potential tech spinouts, but doesn’tr invest in them “(The Keiretsu partnership) gets the technology developed and gets it to the And to the degree we can get that to that’s a plus,” said Tarter.
Lawrence Livermore over the past two years has also put morethan $1 milliob of its own budget into building prototypes of intellectua property — which help investors understand the technology’s commercial potential. Stenehjem said the labs have developedr technologies related tocarbon sequestration, energyy storage, new battery technologies and others. “ A lot of these things got developed forother purposes,” said Stenehjem. “We thinkl they have incrediblecommercial opportunities, and it’s our job to make this known to people.
” Lawrence Livermore two years ago begamn a program with Bay Area students to get ideas about how the labs mighty bring to market discoveries with commerciall applications. Stenehjem also said his goal is to growthe lab’sw licensing revenue to $30 million from approximatelt $9.5 million last year. Similar to Lawrence Livermore’e push, Sandia launched HITEC — the Hub for Innovationm in the Transportation Energy Community earlierthis year.
The hub’s goals are to acceleratde innovation in the transportation industrtthrough large-scale partnerships between the national labs, the private energy industry, transportation companies and other Department of Energy It’s seeking those partners now.
Technologies developed at the labs to build and test warheads and nuclear weapons couldfbe game-changers in cleam energy, climate change, biotech and other sectors. Lockefd away for five the federal agencies are pursuing better ways of commercializing theit technologywith other-than-weapons applications. They are partnering with the private sector in new ways and pushing for an open campusd on 50 acres to help the labs better collaborates with the best and In addition, the two Livermore-based labs are workint with the local business council, consultint with M.B.A.
students and launching a formal program to partner with the transportation The shift could mean a transformation of the role the labs play inthe Tri-Valle y and the Bay Area economy, creatingh an economic engine with tech transfer capabilitiew that rival UCSF and UC Berkeley’s. Livermore and Sandia federal agencies underthe U.S. Departmenrt of Energy and funded mostly through the National Nuclear SecurityAdministratiobn — are boosting tech transfer plans.
Erik Stenehje m and Roger Werne, director and deputt directory of the industrial partnerships office ofLawrence Livermore, are tasked with forging new partnershipss that will help get its discoveries to Stenehjem came to the lab when the ceded management in October 2007 to Lawrencee Livermore National Security, a partnership of the University of California, , , and . The new managementy marked a paradigm shift forthe labs, say communit members and industry insiders. “(The labs) tendec to be silos,” said Toby Brink, president of the Tri-Valley Businesxs Council.
“But now that the directivess have changed and managemenfthas changed, I think there’s a whold new attitude toward working collaboratively, and the (openh campus) park is just the next step in that evolution.” Lawrencw Livermore went through a process six months ago where it identifiexd seven priorities for its research funding. Energy and climatd change modeling are twoof them. Reducing America’ws dependence on foreign oil is viewed as a national security issue, so clean energy technologies that help Americaw toward that goal support the labs’ lab officials said.
For example, the recently openerd National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore was builg to test what happenz inside a nuclearfusion reaction, but the same technology coulcd also create nuclear fusion energy to meet massived energy demands. “Energy is almost exclusively a producg of theprivate sector. So in order for the labs to help solve theenergy crisis, we must partner with the privater sector,” Werne said. Lawrence Livermore has partnered withthe Tri-Vallehy Business Council to launch the Tri-Valley Innovation Network, which is workiny to match entrepreneurs with funding and mentors.
It has also reachedc out to Keiretsu Forum, an angel investoer network, and is working with three venturdecapital firms: Princeton, N.J.-basefd Battelle Ventures, Exceed Capital out of Calgary and Paladi n Capital Group of Washington, D.C. plus San Francisco-based tech consultinhg firm with whom it regularly sharess information on technologies that may havecommercial appeal. The partnerships will increase the odds that the technologyu that comes out of the lab can qualify forfederall money, including federal stimulus funds, said Bruce Tarter, former directof of Lawrence Livermore who helps connect Keiretsu investorz with potential tech spinouts, but doesn’tr invest in them “(The Keiretsu partnership) gets the technology developed and gets it to the And to the degree we can get that to that’s a plus,” said Tarter.
Lawrence Livermore over the past two years has also put morethan $1 milliob of its own budget into building prototypes of intellectua property — which help investors understand the technology’s commercial potential. Stenehjem said the labs have developedr technologies related tocarbon sequestration, energyy storage, new battery technologies and others. “ A lot of these things got developed forother purposes,” said Stenehjem. “We thinkl they have incrediblecommercial opportunities, and it’s our job to make this known to people.
” Lawrence Livermore two years ago begamn a program with Bay Area students to get ideas about how the labs mighty bring to market discoveries with commerciall applications. Stenehjem also said his goal is to growthe lab’sw licensing revenue to $30 million from approximatelt $9.5 million last year. Similar to Lawrence Livermore’e push, Sandia launched HITEC — the Hub for Innovationm in the Transportation Energy Community earlierthis year.
The hub’s goals are to acceleratde innovation in the transportation industrtthrough large-scale partnerships between the national labs, the private energy industry, transportation companies and other Department of Energy It’s seeking those partners now.
Monday, June 4, 2012
LoKal's Matthew Kuscher On Chat Chow TV: Sourcing, Ordering 'By The Alligator ... - Huffington Post
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LoKal's Matthew Kuscher On Chat Chow TV: Sourcing, Ordering 'By The Alligator ... Huffington Post Matthew Kuscher, the owner of Lokal in Coconut Grove, has a commitment to quality that is unmatched: he's tapping Floridian farmers, dairies and brewers in order to highlight the bounty of products, goods and ingredients available in the Sunshine State ... |
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Kauai home sales fall sharply - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):
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There were 28 single-family homes sold on the Gardeh Islein June, down 39 percent from June 2007 when 46 according to statistics from . Sales for the firsrt half of the year were down 40 with 148 homes sold between January and June of this compared to 245 sold during the same periodin 2007. The mediaj price of a single-family home on Kauau in June was $687,500, up 5 percen t from the same monthin 2007, when it was The median price for the first six montha of the year was $657,500, up only slightly from $655,009 last year. Condominium sales on Kauai last monthwere 12.5 percent down from last with just 21 sales in compared to 24 sales in 2007.
Salesx for the first six monthes ofthe year, however, were down 35 with 110 sold durintg the first half of this year compared to 170 sold durinvg the same period in 2007. Condo prices on Kauai are holding their own. The median price of a Kauau condo last monthwas $569,000, down less than 1 percen from last year when it was For the first half of the the median price of a condop was up 10 percent to from $525,000 during the first six months of 2007.
There were 28 single-family homes sold on the Gardeh Islein June, down 39 percent from June 2007 when 46 according to statistics from . Sales for the firsrt half of the year were down 40 with 148 homes sold between January and June of this compared to 245 sold during the same periodin 2007. The mediaj price of a single-family home on Kauau in June was $687,500, up 5 percen t from the same monthin 2007, when it was The median price for the first six montha of the year was $657,500, up only slightly from $655,009 last year. Condominium sales on Kauai last monthwere 12.5 percent down from last with just 21 sales in compared to 24 sales in 2007.
Salesx for the first six monthes ofthe year, however, were down 35 with 110 sold durintg the first half of this year compared to 170 sold durinvg the same period in 2007. Condo prices on Kauai are holding their own. The median price of a Kauau condo last monthwas $569,000, down less than 1 percen from last year when it was For the first half of the the median price of a condop was up 10 percent to from $525,000 during the first six months of 2007.
Friday, June 1, 2012
Mobilis Enable Biometric and NFC World Firsts for Mobile Wallets - MarketWatch (press release)
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Mobilis Enable Biometric and NFC World Firsts for Mobile Wallets MarketWatch (press release) ... announced its software services to enable what Mobilis believes to be world firsts for mobile wallets: point-of-sale fingerprint verification for international money transfers to mobile wallets and NFC mobile payments that support any mobile phone. |
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