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AmericasMart Expand for hit with buyers

Aug. 16, when the August Atlanta Apparel Market starts, Michelle Harrison & Associates will be stationed right outside the John Portman-designed & Associates will be stationed right outside the John Portman-designed elevators on the 10th floor with a new 1,000-square-foot showroom.
The new space — looking much like a high-end salon — will be dedicated only […]

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Pay raises for teachers and employees hit chopping block

There everything from pay raises for teachers and state employees to tax cuts passed during the 2008 General Assembly session could be on the chopping block if the economy continues to stumble, a key lawmaker said Tuesday.
are looking at a whole host of options as they try to decide how to address the state’s latest […]

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Video game sales soar 53 percent in June

U.S. video game retail sales soared 53 percent in June, fueled by Nintendo Co.’s Wii and handheld DS gaming systems, as well as Konami Corp.’s blockbuster “Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots” — by far the month’s best-selling title.
Total sales of video game hardware, software and accessories hit $1.69 billion during the month, […]

Friday, July 18th, 2008

North Korea’s “Hotel of Doom” wakes from its coma

North Korea’s phantom hotel is stirring back to life. Once dubbed by Esquire magazine as “the worst building in the history of mankind,” the 105-storey Ryugyong Hotel is back under construction after a 16-year lull in the capital of one of the world’s most reclusive and destitute countries.
According to foreign residents in Pyongyang, Egypt’s […]

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Apple new iPhone went getting the phones

Apple Inc.’s new iPhone went on sale Friday to eager buyers worldwide, but there were problems getting the phones to work.
Kenny Pichardo, 24, was the first to buy an iPhone 3G at an AT&T store in the New York borough of Queens, but he said it took the store half an hour to get the […]

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Dow drops below 11,000 for 1st time in 2 years

Stocks tumbled Friday as investors focused on troubles at mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and watched oil prices climb further into record territory. The Dow Jones industrials fell more than 200 points and slid below the 11,000 mark for the first time in two years.
Investors seemed unimpressed by a statement from Treasury […]

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Cash Store Approach Regulation of Payday Loan

The Cash Store Financial Services Inc. supports Ontario’s balanced approach to regulation of the payday loan industry. Cash Store (formerly Rentcash Inc.) is Canada’s largest broker of small-sum short-term consumer loans. Headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, the Company is publicly traded on the TSX.
The Company employs over 1,500 associates in nine provinces and two territories and […]

Thursday, June 19th, 2008