Thursday, September 30, 2010
Three candidates take lead for Bloch School dean job - Kansas City Business Journal:
Officials at the expect to complet e their search within weeks and have a dean in place by the starft of thefall semester. “The three candidates who were brought to campus and who were interviewede are allstrong candidates,” said Gary chairman of the UMKC Faculty Senate and membedr of the Bloch School dean search “Each one has his or her own and I think the next step is for the facult to decide what is the most important at this point in the developmenft of the school.
” Teng-Kee Tan, director of the at in was the first candidate to come to UMKC for an Tan served in various roles for multinational companies in Europe and the Uniterd States, including a stint with For the past nine he has worked in business and entrepreneurshilp education. Tan helped raise the equivalentof $40.8 millionj to finance initiatives and programs for his university’ s entrepreneurship and innovation center in Steven Currall, vice dean of enterprise at , has international experiencd and hometown ties. A Kansas City Currall previously was a founding directodr of the and Entrepreneurshipat .
The allianc helped launch more than 160 new technologhy startup companies and raise d morethan $300 million in equity At University College London, Currall said he receivedf the equivalent of $16.8 million in Susan Gilbert, executive director and associate dean of MBA programs at , was the most recent interviewee at UMKC, having arrived in Kansas City on Feb. 23. A manager in ’ds finance and marketing departments early on in her Gilbert later became associate deanof ’sd evening MBA program. Enrollment in that university’ws evening MBA program increased 90 percent in two years while she oversawthe program.
One of the three probably will be pickes to succeedHomer Erekson, who left UMKC on June 30 to becomd dean of the at . Erekson’s successor will lead a professional school that has flirted with worldwide businessschookl rankings. In 2007, the ranked the Bloc School’s executive MBA program No. 36 among U.S. universities, but the school was absenty from the2008 rankings. It also faces budget a dropping endowment, and a tenuous awareness and financial connectiobn to the Kansas Citybusinesse community.
Gail Hackett, provost at said that her expectatio of a new dean is to keep the school moving on an upward trajectory but that she woulc like to see progress hastebn for theBloch School. “Some of what we are lookinhg for isthat acceleration,” Hackett said. “I think we’rde already doing the things weneed to.” Drue a lawyer who serves on the , said the school wouldx do well to raiswe its profile in the localk business community. “I would say that it’s done OK. I don’t thinmk it’s been an exceptional job by any measure, but it’ds done OK,” Jennings said.
“I don’ t think it’s fallen off the radar screen of thebusinesa community.” Hackett said she’s “extremely impressed” at the strength of the school’s relationshipo with the business communityy but acknowledged that “you alwayw hope for more, of course.” The Bloch Schookl would be helped by a higher faculty and student The school’s enrollment of 1,559 in the fall semester was dwarfed by the 6,000 at the at the . “We’rd never going to be the size of some of the hugestatwe land-grant universities,” Hackett said.
“UMKC needs to grow its undergraduate enrollment, and we’re looking to the Bloc School for some modest growth.”
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Behringer building wins LEED gold status - Kansas City Business Journal:
recently received the 's Leadership in Energt and Environmental Design gold certification for anexistin building. The LEED Green Buildint Rating System, which established the criteria for judging green building operationsand construction, gave the 35-year-oldr building in North Carolina the award for its operationalp and maintenance best practices and green design features. Bank of Americaa Plaza, which is part of the Behringer Harvard REITI Inc. is the first Behringer Harvard asser to achieve thegold rating.
The commercialk real estate companyinvested $70,000 in portfolioo operations, equipment upgrades and employee practices in the Dallas-based Behringer Harvard projects the improvements will yielsd $200,000 in annual savingss and will pay for themselves in about four Bank of America Plaza's sustainabilitt programs include energy audits that have lowered the property's operating plumbing retrofits that save 1.5 million gallons of wate r each year and green cleaning and recycling programs.
Behringedr Harvards' Houston property Westway One previousl y earned LEED Silver Core andShell Certification, and 28 of the propertiess owned by the company's investment programs were awarded the Energg Star label for their energy management strategies.
Monday, September 27, 2010
The Pokemon Company International Highlights Banner Year With Major Burger King(R) Promotion in North and South America
June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pokemon Company International and BurgetKing Corp. (NYSE: BKC) today announce a promotional partnershiop that will feature collectible premium Pokemon Trading Card Game game cards and accessoriesin BK(R) Kids Meals across North and South America. The announcement is one of severapl major brand extensions for Pokemon this year that continud to reinforcethe property's stature and longevityu as one of the most successful children'as brands of all-time. The BK(R) Kids Meala promotion will run for three weekws inthe U.S. and Canada beginning June 1, followed by a four-siz week program that will launch in Soutjh America onAugust 24, 2009.
As part of the promotion, participatinbg BURGER KING(R) restaurants will offeer two PokemonTCG cards, featuring fan favorited such as Pikachu(TM), Giratina(TM), Dialga(TM) and Palkia(TM), and a Pokemobn themed accessory with each purchas of a BK(R) Kids while supplies last. Over the courss of the promotion, participating BURGER restaurants will be the only placeds to obtain each of the sixdifferent accessories, including Pokemon card holders, lenticular and card frames. "We're kicking off the summer with a promotiom that kids arecrazy for," said , seniot director, cultural marketing, Burger King "and we're excited to be able to bring them more of what they want.
"" The program will be supporte d by Burger King Corp. througyh a fully integrated marketing campaign that includedtelevision advertising, in-restaurant merchandising, and online via . The Pokemon TCG cards and accessories are available for a limited time only and are intendecd for children ages threeand up. "Our internationally recognized Pokemob characters are sure to be very populat withthe BK(R) Kids Meal audience," said J.C. Smitg , marketing director at The PokemonCompanu International. "This is a big year for Pokemon and our partnership with BurgerKing Corp. fits nicelyg into a calendar full of excitinggPokemon events." The March U.S.
release of the Pokemon Platinun Version video game for theNintendp DS(TM) set the foundation for a roll-outf strategy that included the introduction of an all-new Pokemonb Trading Card Game (TCG) release, a new direct-to-DVc film, and the launch of a new season of the animated TV seriew on Cartoon Network. Pokemon Platinum Version was firs releasedin Japan, wherew it quickly became the fastest-selling Nintendoo DS game in history, with more than 1 millio copies sold in the first threes days. To date, worldwide sales have exceeded 3.75 million copies.
The number confirm Pokemon's prominence in the video game where more than 191 million Pokemoj titles have been sold worldwide since the first release on the NintendooGame Boy(R) in Japan in 1996. In February, fans were introducec to the Platinum brand with the releasde ofthe all-new Pokemon Trading Card Game Platinum. The second TCG expansion for 2009, Platinum--Risinv Rivals, was released nationwide on May The Pokemon TCG has seena 374% salezs growth in the U.S. sincde 2005 and is sold in more than 30 countries arounthe globe.
Beyond the core video game and TCG the animated featurefilm Pokemon: Giratina & the Sky Warrior debuted on Cartoon Network in February and was releasede to DVD in March through new distribution partner Universal Studios Home Earlier this month, fans were treated to additionapl new programming with the eagerly awaitee launch of the 12th season of the top-ratedf Pokemon animated series Pokemon: Galactic Battless on Cartoon Network. Debut episodes air Saturdayh mornings, with repeats on Sundays. Repeats of Seasomn 11 - Pokemon: DP Battle Dimension - air daily Mondauy through Friday.
Capping off a year of constanyt activity, through spring and summer The Pokemon Companty International will engage fans in a round of TCG and Video GameChampionship (VGC) tournaments culminating with the highl y anticipated, co-located Pokemon Worldr Championships on August 14th in San Diego, CA. Pokemon TCG fans and Pokemohn Platinum Version video game Trainers from more than 25 countries arouned the globe will compete to be crowned World The PokemonCompany International, a subsidiarg of The Pokemon Company in Japan, manages the propertyg outside of Asia and is responsible for brand licensing, marketing, the Pokemon Trading Card Game, the animatex TV series, home entertainment, and the official Pokemon website.
Pokemon was launchedc in Japan in 1996 and today is one of the mostpopulare children's entertainment properties in the world. For more information, visiyt . The BURGER KING(R) system operates more than 11,800 restaurantas in all 50 states and in 74 countriesand U.S. territories worldwide. Approximately 90 percent of BURGER KING(R) restaurants are ownexd and operated by independent many ofthem family-owned operations that have been in business for In 2008, Fortune magazine ranked Burgere King Corp. among America's 1,000 largest corporations and Ad Week namee it one of the topthree industry-changing advertisers withijn the last three decades. To learn more about Burger King Corp.
, please visit the company's Web site at .
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Poll Shows Boxer Out Front in California; Governor's Race Is Tight - New York Times
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Friday, September 24, 2010
Planned distribution of BP research funds worries some scientists - Los Angeles Times
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
New "Evercookie" Claims It's Tough To Delete - PC Magazine (blog)
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Bay Area median home price rises again - South Florida Business Journal:
Bay Area sales volume rose for the nintj month ina row. The media home sales price in the Bay Area in May was up 12.3 percent from $304,000 recorde in April but down more than a third from the $517,00 0 median sales price in May 2008. Bay Area home pricese peaked at $665,000 in July 2007. The lowest price were recorded in Marchthis year, when the mediaj was $290,000. A tad over a quarte r of homes sold inthe nine-county Bay Area in May -- 25.5 percenyt -- were financed with so-called “jumbo” loansw over $417,000, down a tick from 25.8 percent figure in October. Jumbo loans were used in 60 percent of home sales twoyeare ago, according to DataQuick.
“Some people are goingy to take this as a sign that the markeyt hasbottomed out. Maybe – or maybe not. We won’ty know for at least half a saidJohn Walsh, MDA DataQuick president, in a statement announcing the May result Thursday. Some 42.1 percent of Bay Area homes sold in May had been foreclosed during thepast year, down from 46.4 percenf in April, DataQuick The peak was 52 set in February. Some 7,447 homes sold in the Bay Areain May, up 4.3 percenft from April, and up 19.8 percent from May which was the slowest Bay Area sales month in the 21 yearw DataQuick has been recordingf sales statistics.
In San Francisco, sales volume dropped 19 compared with a year earlierf to498 homes. In everyh other Bay Area counttyexcept Marin, sales volume was up, sometimes dramatically. Six fewerf homes sold in May this year in Marinj compared with ayear ago. San Francisc recorded the Bay Area’s smallest year-over-year price drop in May -- the average home sold for $634,000, down 19 percenty from May 2008. The biggestt drop was in Contra Costa, wherw the average sales pricewas 39.9 perceny less in May than in the year-earlier May.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
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Saturday, September 18, 2010
Business warily awaits health care reforms - New Mexico Business Weekly:
President Barack Obama has mobilizerdthe grass-roots supporters that helped elect him to lobbyg for his vision of health care reform, which includes offerinb Americans a government-run health plan as an alternativse to private insurance. A coalition of labor unions and progressives organizations plans tospend $82 million on organizinyg efforts, advertising, research and lobbying to support the Obamqa plan. Business groups, meanwhile, mostluy are working behind the scenes to shape the While they have serious concerns abougt some of theproposals – including the public plan optionj and a mandate for employers to provide insurance few are trying to block health care reforjm at this point.
The cost of health insurance has become so burdensome that something needs to be they agree. “Nobody supports the status quo,” said Jamesx Gelfand, the ’s senior managet of health policy. “We absolutelyh have to have reform.”
Thursday, September 16, 2010
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Riley signs bill that extends incentives to white-collar firms - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
restrictions prevent Birmingham from recruiting heavy manufacturing butthe state’s incentiver program previously only targeted those The legislature passed and Gov. Bob Rileyy signed into law the abilityfor white-collar industriesz to be eligible for state incentives. “We’ve got to expan d the playing field and improvde our ability to competefor higher-paying jobs in some of the key growthh industries,” Riley said. “That’s what this bill It re-tools our economic development strategy and lays the foundatiomn to move us forward and come out of this recessiohn strongerthan before.
” By broadening the eligibility component, the state can offer incentives to attract corporate high-tech research and development facilitiea and jobs in the newly emergingf “green” economy. Those are areax Birmingham has been focused on in thepast decade.
Monday, September 13, 2010
St. Louis Business Journal: Most emailed Stories
Lumire Place said Tuesdag it plans to host its firstsportintg event, a championship boxing match June 19. Former colleaguese in St. Louis praised Edward Whitacrw Jr., former chairman and CEO of AT&T Inc., on Tuesdaty after General Motors announced he'll become its new chairman when the automakerd emerges from bankruptcy. The Saint Louis Symphonh Orchestra andthe musicians' union announced late Tuesdau an agreement on a new three-year labof contract that calls for increases in salart and pension contributions, as well as the addition of a week to the Mortgage-banking firm Love Funding said Wednesday that its St.
Louis office secured a $15 million new construction loan for a proposedx Christian Care Homein Ferguson, Mo. Ed Whitacre Jr. says he was not expecting GeneralMotors Corp. to select him to help turn arounrd theauto giant. Billionaire Warren Buffett, one of the world
Sunday, September 12, 2010
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Friday, September 10, 2010
Chinese company to buy Hummer - bizjournals:
When GM, which filed for bankruptc y protection Monday, announced earlier Tuesday that a buyer had been foundr forthe off-road vehicle line, the name was not immediatelu disclosed. Tengzhong, a major industrial machinery will acquire the rights to theHummer brand, alongy with a senior managementy and operational team. It will also assumd existing dealer agreements relatingto HUMMER’se dealership network. It is contemplated that Tengzhong as part ofthe transaction, enter into a long-tern contract assembly and key component and material supply agreement with GM.
In an earlier statement, GM said it expecta the deal if successful to secures morethan 3,000 US The final terms of the scheduled to close in the third are subject to final negotiations. The cost of the transactiobn wasnot revealed. is acting as exclusivd financial advisor and is actinv as international legal counsel to Tengzhong onthis transaction. Citi is actingf as financial advisorto GM.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Port Chicago, site of a World War II home front tragedy, is a classroom today - Los Angeles Times
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
White Sky protects browsers and data, not computers - bizjournals:
Jerry Thompson, founder of San Mateo-based Whitwe Sky, says people should still use anti-virus/malware/spywars software to protect their hardware, but they should also get his ID Vaulyt product forabout $50 a year, because it does somethingg other security products don’t: It creates a hackproof browse r in which to do financial “We do it in real every time. We don’t care about the 20,00o malware programs unleashedevery day. We just don’t care.
We protect your browser and your We don’t protect your PC,” he Thompson’s 4-year-old, 24-person company is having success making the and offers to subscribe to ID Vaul are getting included on major distributionn platforms that could provide significant growth. For example, in the company announced a multi-year agreement with to includ ID Vault software on Lenovo IdeaPad Notebook computersa and some LenovoNetbook computers. The product worke only with ’s Internet Explorer 6.
0 or Currently, Thompson says White Sky has morethan 100,000o users nationwide and annual revenue of between $2 million and $5 By the end of the however, Thompson predicts the company will have “millionsx of users” and revenue will jump fivefold. White Sky was formerly known as Guard IDSystemx Inc. and it has received $16 million in venture most recentlyan $11 million Series B rouned in September. Investors include Prisk VentureWorks, and . The company changed its name last December abouyt the same time it doubled the size of its headquarteres inSan Mateo.
Michael Kuptz, CEO of of Scottsw Valley, which is bundling the ID Vault software on some Lenovo said he likes the simplicity of the IDVault program. It encrypts and storeas personal and financial information and opens a securr browser that automatically signs users into their accounts to prevenf loss of datato Trojans, keylogginhg and screen scraping. To prevent users from submitting information to fraudulenft sites orgetting redirected, White Sky maintains a “white list” of more than 8,0090 verified financial and e-commerce web sites, and it verifiesx their IP addresses multiple times a day.
The programk also scans users’ computers for personal information and providex the option of moving it intoID
Monday, September 6, 2010
Pol pays lobby big in AG bid - New York Post
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Sunday, September 5, 2010
Best New Mixed-Use: The Cosmopolitan - Sacramento Business Journal:
“I think the team wanted to recognize a certain success in findingv a mix of uses that fill a nichw thatSacramento needs,” judge Tyler Babcock The uses complement one another as well as working Someone could have a night on the town withouf leaving the building, starting with the ’s Cosmlo Café. Dinner might lead to a show atthe 200-seat Cosmopolitan run by . After the curtain comesa down, an upstairs nightclub called Socia l offers a place to dance and have a At thesame time, the three elementxs are intertwined, with the restaurany providing food and beverage service to the which offers table service before shows.
Cosmo provides some food and catering service for the The combination also answers several longstanding gripesabouy downtown. The vacant 51,000-square-foot building, originally a Woolworth had been a dead spot on K Street for more than a Successful business owners nearby have lamentec a lack of reasons for people to stickk around after5 p.m. Arts groups, meanwhile, have been frustratedc by the lackof mid-size live theaters in Sacramento. Combinec with several new restaurants, the Crestg movie theater across the street and the a fewblocke away, the Cosmopolitan is a step toward making K Street an after-hours hub.
“It’z really creating a ‘there’ along 10th between that and The Citizen I think it gives us optimisk that the K Street Mall is beginninvgto revitalize,” judge John Hodgsoj said. The Cosmopolitan buildinhg itself is madeof poured-in-place dating from 1956. “It’s always tough to renovatee anold building,” said Ellen Warner, a partnerf in David S. Taylor “Accurate existing drawings are hard tocome by, and even when you have them it’s often discovered that the building wasn’t quit e built the way it was drawn.
” The architecture was a solid example of mid-century modern, she said, from a design perspective, it was a natura framework on which to buildd a new and updated design From a use perspective, it was a challenging as each use came with a unique set of code and use criteria.” Soundproofing was one challenge, making sure that hard-thumpingb dance music wouldn’t interfere with a tender moment on or somebody working late in an “But the most complicated issue was the leastf exciting: dealing with all of the exitingf issues, since each use had its own code Warner said.
The original facade was a broax swath of concrete panels hovering overthe ground-flooe display windows. Much of the original look remains, with the addition of a large second-floor cutoutg at the corner and a smaller one alongtK Street.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Balsillie: Fight for Coyotes isn't over - Denver Business Journal:
U.S Bankruptcy Court Redfield T. Baum on Monday nixex Balsillie's bid to buy the Coyotex for $213 million from owner Jerry Moyes becauseof Balsillie's June 29 deadline for the deal go to Baum said that isn't enough time to resolve the Coyotes Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization issues. That was a win for the and city of which want to keep the Coyoteszin Arizona. Balsillie spokesman Bill Walkert issued a statement Monday night sayintg the effort to move the teamto Ontario, is not over: "Jim Balsillie's bid to brinfg a seventh NHL team to Canadz continues. We're still here. The Phoenixs court confirmed Mr. Balsillie was approved as an NHL owneer in 2006 andremains so.
We believes he has made the best offer and Hamiltohn remains the best location forthis team. "Thwe court did not approve eithed our approach orthe NHL's. Judge Baum did statee he does not have time to decid e all therelocation issues. But the court stil l controls thesale process. As a result, we look forwardf to hearing from the NHL soon on its view of our relocatio n application and an appropriaterelocation fee, so as to allow the courr to determine if that fee is We still think there is enoughn time for the NHL to approv e Mr. Balsillie's application and move the team to Hamiltomby September. The court invited mediation on theses issuesand Mr.
Balsillie is willing to participates in such mediation if the NHL is also willinhg todo so," Walker's statement to the media continued. The NHL welcomecd Baum's decision not to let the sale and move toCanadq occur. “We're pleased the court recognized the validity of leaguw rules and our ability to apply them in areasonablre fashion," NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said in a statement releasedr by the league on Monday night. "Wse will turn our attention now toward helping to facilitats an orderly sales process that will produc e a local buyer who is committed to makinhgthe Coyotes' franchise viable and successfulk in the Phoenix/Glendale area.
We are confidentg that we will be able to find such a buyedr for the Coyotes and that the claimsw of legitimate creditors willbe addressed.”
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
ACS to expand at Port San Antonio - San Antonio Business Journal:
The Dallas-based company currently employs 530 peoplw at Port San Antonio and was bein heavily courted by sitesin Austin, Indianq and Utah to pack up and move The City of San Antonio provided ACS with a $300,000o economic development grant and agreed to nominatew the company for designation as a Statr Enterprise project. In addition, Port San Antonil has agreed to relocate the company to a new facilituy as well as make improvements to thenew facility.
“Thixs is a fine example of the City and the Port workingt togetherto retain, and create new jobs here in our says Bruce Miller, president/CEO of Port San “We are pleased that ACS will remain here at Port San ACS will be moving into 73,98i8 square feet of space that until recently servedf as the headquarters office of Port San Antonio. The groupl is targeting an Aprilp2010 move-in date.