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BBC Business News Ranks Fourth in The USA!By Vic RomanoBeing proactive, using geographic targeting, or geotargeting, is the ability to target consumers by geographical location and concern news releases is one direction to claim get started.
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RDU adopts air service incentives policy <img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/triangle/images/Michael%20Landguth%20-%20RDU2*100.jpg?v=2'>Raleigh-Durham International Airport will offer marketing support and waive landing fees for airlines that launch new routes ? an incentives policy that could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to airlines.
The airport now pledges $250,000 in advertising spending in support for new domestic flights and $500,000 in advertising for new international flights. The policy, formally adopted by the airport?s governing board on Thursday, also waives landing fees.
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</div>Duke University CIO gets big bonus<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/triangle/duke%20chapel-sw*100.jpg?v=1'>Duke University doesn?t just give big bonuses to its basketball coaches. Investment officers who increase the university?s portfolio are also rewarded.
Neal Triplett, Duke?s chief investment officer, received a $1.2 million bonus in 2010, nearly the amount of his total compensation in 2009. When added to his base salary and other compensation, Duke paid Triplett $2.3 million in 2010, the most recent year for which compensation data is available.
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</div>Corporate Services Inc. to pay $30,000 in penalties<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/dollar-signs*100.jpg?v=3'>North Carolina officials say a California company that allegedly duped 700 North Carolina businesses out of $90,000 has again agreed to comply with a restraining order and return their checks, along with $30,000 in penalties.
The company, Corporate Services Inc., mailed phony letters to the 700 businesses, passing itself off as a government agency and telling each business to pay a $125 fine for failing to comply with state requirements for keeping minutes of corporate meetings, the offices of North...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Some insight into athletes? graduation rates <img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/houston/news/baseball*100.jpg?v=1'>Baseball players in the Atlantic Coast Conference graduated at a rate 32 percentage points lower than the general male student population, according to a study released Wednesday.
That ranks the ACC 24th out of 30 conferences and fifth out of the 10 major conferences, according to the College Sport Research Institute at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which analyzes graduation rates of athletes and compares them to the general student body.
By comparison, football players in the...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Berkshire Hathaway buying Media General papers for $142M<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/charlotte/warren%20buffett%201%20315*100.jpg?v=1'>Warren Buffett?s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is acquiring most of Media General Inc.?s newspapers.
As part of the $142 million cash deal, Berkshire now will have 63 daily and weekly newspapers operating under a new subsidiary called BH Media Group, according to Reuters. Following the acquisition, Media General, the owner of local station NBC 17 WNCN, will mostly be a television company.
Reuters also reports that Berkshire will loan $400 million to Media General and will provide the company with...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Dice-K, Youkilis help boost Bulls attendance <img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/triangle/Bulls550*100.jpg?v=1'>When big leaguers come to town, they not only help on the field but at the ticket booth, too.
Already, the Durham Bulls have sold out for Thursday?s game against the Pawtucket Red Sox, the triple-A affiliate for Boston. The 10,000 tickets sold are some 42 percent more than the 7,000 tickets sold for an average Thursday game in May, according to the Bulls? front office.
Helping drive ticket sales are players from the majors who are expected to play on Thursday. Pitcher Daisuke ?Dice-K? Matsuzaka...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Human Genome Sciences rejects GSK takeover bid <img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/denver/news/ChemistryTestTubesCar*100.jpg?v=2'>Human Genome Sciences Inc. formally rejected a recent $2.6 billion hostile takeover bid by GlaxoSmithKline on Thursday.
Earlier this month, GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) made an unsolicited tender offer to acquire all of HGSI?s outstanding common stock at $13 a share. HGSI officially deemed that offer inadequate Thursday.
In a news release, CEO Thomas Watkins said that HGSI (Nasdaq: HGSI) holds ?great potential? and the current offer undervalued the company. ?The HGS Board of Directors has...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>William Peace University wins $710K grant <img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/drinking%20water%20315*100.jpg?v=1'>Thanks to a $710,000 grant from the state?s Clean Water Management Trust Fund, William Peace University will be able to harvest and conserve more water.
For starters, Peace will install a cistern that will store rainwater that will account for 90 percent of the irrigation water.
Also, the university will install new showerheads and sink aerators as part of its ?going green? initiatives. In addition, the university is receiving rebates for replacing toilets with water-saving models going from...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Wake Tech hires police chief<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/wichita/blog/police%20hat*100.jpg?v=1'>Moving along with its new police department, Wake Technical Community College chose its chief and assistant chief this week.
Michael Allen Penry will serve as chief and Paul Andrew Quinn is the new assistant chief. Both are former Wake County sheriff?s deputies from Garner.
They will be responsible for the college?s five campuses and two training centers, providing a safe and secure learning environment for students, faculty, staff, and visitors, says Wake Tech President Stephen Scott. The...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Bankruptcy filings rise 4% in Wake County <img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/triangle/images/Bankruptcy6*100.jpg?v=2'>Wake County saw a small increase in the number of new bankruptcies filed in April.
A total of 211 Wake County businesses and individuals in the county filed new petitions last month in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, according to a report the court published Wednesday.
That represents an increase of more than 4 percent from April 2011. Numbers in most recent months have been down by small percentages, both in Wake County and in Durham and Orange Counties.
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Health care, economy top concerns of Bay Area small business, Bank of America survey says
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/Shanks,Emily_supl*100.jpg?v=1'>Bay Area small business owners' greatest concerns center on health care costs, credit availability and a recovery in consumer spending, according to Bank of America's inaugural survey of small business owners that the bank plans to conduct twice a year.
On an optimistic note, BofA's (NYSE: BAC) survey found Bay Area small business owners are more confident about prospects for the local economy than their counterparts in other markets surveyed.
In the Bay Area, 52 percent of respondents said the...<div class="feedflare">
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Caveat crowdfunder! California warns investors to beware
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/California_state_flag*100.jpg?v=1'>Though the Internet has made raising money for business ideas very easy, California's government has warned investors to be "extremely cautious about crowdfunding."
"Unfortunately, the potential for fraud is significant," said Jan Lynn Owen, commissioner of California's department of corporations.
Crowdfunding is a way for many small businesses or creative people like artists, musicians or film makers to easily raise capital by soliciting small amounts from lots of people. (The Business Times will...<div class="feedflare">
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Bank of America shuttered 154 branches in Q1
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/charlotte/bofa%20moynihan%20315*100.jpeg?v=1'>Bank of America says it closed 154 branches and eliminated 631 ATMs as it sought to improve efficiency as more customers embrace online and mobile banking, the bank told the Securities and Exchange Commission this month.
After accounting for new branch openings, the bank had a net reduction of 51 branches in the first quarter, according to a report this week from SNL Financial, a research firm.
California's largest bank operates about 5,700 branches and 17,250 ATMs nationwide.
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Red Bull could fill America's Cup with cool
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/red%20bull%20am%20cup*100.jpg?v=3'>San Franciscans love a party.
Blow up some fireworks. Pump loud music in the streets. Blaze klieg lights outside a theater.
These are the kinds of things that pique our curiosity, draw us out of our homes and to where the action is.
Yacht racing won't do that -- not for long stretches of time such as the July to September period in 2013 when dozens of races will be held in San Francisco Bay to determine the boat that will challenge for the America's Cup.
A big party? That's another story.
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U.S. puts 30% tariff on solar panels
The United States is sticking it to Chinese solar panel makers and will enforce tariffs of 30 percent or more on equipment manufactured there and sold into the United States.
The U.S. Commerce Department decided to impose the tariffs, which are in addition to a 2.9 percent to 4.73 percent already imposed in March ? and the new tariffs will be retroactively applied 90 days.
"(The Department of) Commerce has now confirmed that Chinese manufacturers are guilty of illegally dumping solar cells and...<div class="feedflare">
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Facebook prices stock at $38
Facebook priced its shares Friday at $38, giving the company a valuation of more than $100 billion, and the stock will start trading Friday morning on the NASDAQ under the symbol FB.
The world?s largest social networking Web site raised $16 billion at the price, which was above the initial $28 to $35 share price the company had initially sought. Of that, $6.84 billion will go to Facebook, while $9.16 billion will go to selling stockholders.<div class="feedflare">
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Big Hewlett-Packard layoffs rumored
Huge layoffs could be coming to Hewlett-Packard Co., according to rumors that are being widely reported Thursday.
Numbers being thrown around range as high as 35,000 -- according to Business Insider, which cited an unnamed source -- but HP (NYSE: HPQ) has not provided any confirmation or details.
HP's stock is down by more than half from what it was in early 2011, and the company employed a whopping 349,600 employees as of October 31, 2011, notes 24/7 Wall Street Wire.
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UC Berkeley to consolidate HR, admin staff at West Berkeley site
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/Cal_Campanile_Yellow_Roses*100.jpg?v=1'>The University of California, Berkeley picked a site at Cedar and Fourth streets in the West Berkeley flatlands for a "shared services" center that will handle consolidated personnel, finance, research administration and information technology work now done in 200 separate places on the campus.
This new center, near Berkeley's Fourth Street shopping district, is "projected to generate significant savings for the campus," the university said.
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Heller Manus settles into its new office under the Transamerica Tower
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/Heller_Manus5*100.JPG?v=5'>Heller Manus Architects has debuted its new digs in the shadow of the Transamerica Tower in San Francisco.
The architecture firm took an unusual space for its new headquarters at 600 Montgomery St., which formerly housed restaurants.
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The space has been empty since 2002 when Redwood Park closed.
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Ross raises the roof on earnings guidance, seeks 1,300 more stores
Discount clothing seller Ross Stores Inc. raised its guess about this year's earnings after sales and profit grew in the first quarter ended April 28.
The Pleasanton company (NASDAQ: ROST) now thinks it is likely to earn $3.26 to $3.37 a share for the year ending Feb. 2, 2013, up from an earlier guess of $3.12 to $3.27 per share.
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City ordinance will be amended to protect gay people
Ever since the idea for amending the Jacksonville anti-discrimination ordinance to include gay people came up a couple of weeks ago, people have been wondering why Mayor Alvin Brown has declined to address the issue head on, which seems to be his style on just about any topic you can name.
We argue in Friday?s Jacksonville Business Journal editorial that when all is said and done, it really won?t matter what the Mayor says on this issue. Chances are, the ordinance will be amended by the City...<div class="feedflare">
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Wells Fargo No. 1 SBA 7(a) lender in Florida
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/images/BOL-Wells-Fargo*100.jpg?v=2'>Wells Fargo was the No. 1 Small Business Administration 7(a) lender in 12 states ? including Florida ? for the first six months of federal fiscal year 2012.
SBA 7(a) loans are given to qualifying businesses in a wide range of industries that generally have average revenue of less than $20 million and 500 or fewer employees.
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Ideas abound to fix Downtown, but which are gaining traction?
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/blog/SkylinefromRiversidecarousel550*100.jpg?v=1'>Of all the issues Downtown revitalization faces, a shortage of ideas isn?t one of them.
Sidewalk cafes. The transformation of a blighted corner into a boutique hotel and urban chic apartments. A new convention center.
Then there are the ideas Mayor Alvin Brown has put out there in recent weeks: The private investor fund for revitalization projects and putting out a request for proposals to take inventory of vacant properties.
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JPMorgan Chase trading loss to increase by at least $1 billion
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/4-jp%20morgan%20chase%20logo*100.jpg?v=1'>The $2 billion loss from a JPMorgan Chase & Co. investment office is could increase by at least 50 percent, the New York Times reports.
CEO Jamie Dimon announced the loss last week, and said they could double within the next few quarters, the NYT reported.
The FBI has launched a preliminary investigation into the bank.
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Southwest slows fleet growth, ups dividend
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/stlouis/Southwest_Boeing_737_Promo*100.jpg?v=1'>Southwest Airlines announced Wednesday that it plans to slow down its fleet growth as part of its plan to hit profit targets, the Dallas Business Journal reports.
?The delivery deferrals will reduce our capital spending roughly $1 billion, in total, for 2012 through 2014, supporting our desire to strengthen our free cash flow in an uncertain economic and fuel cost environment,? said Gary Kelly, Southwest?s president, chairman and CEO, at Wednesday?s annual shareholder meeting.
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Wells Fargo customers in Florida to get $7 fee
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/images/BOL-Wells-Fargo*100.jpg?v=2'>Wells Fargo customers in Florida with Essential Checking accounts will be charged a $7 monthly fee starting in September unless they keep a $1,500 minimum daily balance or have $500 a month directly deposited, the Sun Sentinel reports.
The fee will go to $5 if customers are willing to get online instead of paper statements.
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Wells Fargo asks for reversal of $203M overdraft damages
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/images/BOL-Wells-Fargo*100.jpg?v=2'>Wells Fargo & Co. is seeking a reversal of a judgment that orders it to pay California customers $203 million for manipulating debit-card transactions to boost overdraft fees, Bloomberg reports.
Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) asked a federal appeals court to throw out the judgment, saying the lawsuit claims are preempted by federal banking law.
The suit came after customers alleged the bank changed its treatment of debit-card transactions and cash withdrawals in 1999 to boost overdraft fees.
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Bank of America sheds branches
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/austin/news/BankofAmerica%20icon*100.jpg?v=1'>In an effort to shave costs, Bank of America Corp. closed 154 banking centers and 631 ATMs in the first quarter, the Phoenix Business Journal reports, citing a securities filing from the Charlotte-based banking giant.
BofA (NYSE:BAC) said the number of online banking customers increased by 374,000 and mobile customers by 2.7 million during the first quarter, reflecting customers? changing preferences.
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Judge keeps Hostess Brands' union contacts intact
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The company had sought to throw out its agreement as it struggles with its second Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization it the past couple years.
?We told our Hostess members all along that we would vigorously oppose the imposition of unjust working conditions since Hostess first filed bankruptcy, and we have done just that,? Teamsters...<div class="feedflare">
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Stein Mart reports first quarter earnings
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/Stein-Mart-550*100.jpg?v=1'>Stein Mart (Nasdaq: SMRT)
Sales: $303.4 million, flat from $303.5 million a year earlierNet income: $11.8 million, down from $15.9 million a year earlierEarnings per share: 27 cents per diluted share, down from 35 cents a year earlier
?It is very important for us to reinforce the value of our merchandise at their regular prices,? said Jay Stein, interim CEO. ?We have made substantial progress on this initiative during the first quarter with only a minimal impact to our comparable store sales....<div class="feedflare">
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