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Luke Weil and LW Air Group Announce Fifth Acquisition in Preliminary Slate of Airplanes

Luke Weil and LW Air Group Announce Fifth Acquisition in Preliminary Slate of Airplanes

Press release from PRWeb LW Air Group has acquired its fifth airplane, a Piaggio Avanti P180 II. The P 180 II is manufactured by Piaggio Aero Industries S.p.A.,...

 

Can Corporate America Ever Be Cured?

Via Businessweek If anything seemed to be certain after 2008, it was that capitalism as we knew it was going to change forever. An obscure financial device, so complicated...

 

Facebook boosts IPO size by 25 percent, could top $16 billion

From Yahoo News Facebook Inc increased the size of its initial public offering by almost 25 percent, and could raise as much as $16 billion as strong investor demand...

 

States Borrow to Cover Pension Fund Shortfalls

From Businessweek Debt-burdened U.S. states and municipalities were grappling with about $900 billion in long-term unfunded pension liabilities as of 2011, according...

 

SkuRun Goes to the Kentucky Derby

Mobile business to business application startup SkuRun, founded by Ralph Acosta and backed by Luke Weil, wins Startup America’s ‘Send My Founder to the Kentucky...

 

A Welcoming New Restaurant

Via WWD Review by Amy Wicks There is an eagerness to please at Ken & Cook that is kind of irresistible. On a recent visit to the new “industrial brasserie”...

 

VCs are feeling super confident after a dismal 2011, survey says

Via Venture Beat In the first quarter of 2012, investor confidence rose to the highest point it’s been in more than a year. The latest Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist...

 

Bill O’Reilly Re-Signs With Fox News

Bill O’Reilly has re-signed a multi-year deal with FOX News Channel (FNC) to continue hosting The O’Reilly Factor, announced Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO of...

 
DNAinfo.com New York Launches, Expands Coverage to all 5 Boroughs

DNAinfo.com New York Launches, Expands Coverage to all 5 Boroughs

Via DNAInfo DNAinfo.com New York launched Monday, taking its award-winning coverage of Manhattan’s neighborhoods to all five New York City boroughs. The hyper-local...

 

Talent Wars

Via AdWeek Here we go again. The people problem, a perennial fear of agency bigwigs, has begun percolating again over the past year or so, starting in the way that...

 
 

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Housing data points to slowdown in sales

Article via Reuters By Supantha Mukherjee Signed contracts for the sale of existing U.S. homes retreated from a 1-1/2-year high in December and demand for home loans...

 

The Triple Hex in Unemployment

By Phin Upham To paraphrase Tolstoy, All employed people are employed for different reasons, but all unemployed people are unemployed for only one reason: a bad...

 

Caveman Investing

A gold coin invested at 3% above inflation at the time of Christ would be worth today as much as a sphere of gold four times larger than the world. This implies...

 

Theory of the Firm

In a broad intellectual tour, Phin Upham takes us through a set of theories of organizations using the core propositions contingency theory, resource-dependence...

 

Intentions and Commitments

Analyzing the statement “I intend to do X, although it is a mistake from every point of view” we can establish the relationship between reasons and intentions...

 
 

RSS Financial Times

  • Murdoch quashes talk of UK paper spin-off May 18, 2012
    News Corp’s chief has moved to quash talk about selling its tainted UK newspaper business, saying publishing would remain ‘a core component’ […]
  • Hollande holds line on tax and troops May 18, 2012
    French president tells UK’s Cameron he will not reverse pre-election pledges on financial transaction levy and Afghan withdrawal […]
  • Faltering start for the new Facebook May 18, 2012
    Glitches delayed the opening of trading and underwriters had to intervene to prevent the group’s shares falling below the $38 price set on Thursday […]

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