SEATTLE Internet icon Yahoo Inc., under pressure of a three-week deadline from Microsoft to accept its $41 billion buyout bid, said Monday it doesn’t oppose a deal with the world’s largest software maker but wants a better offer.
The statement comes after Microsoft warned Saturday [...]
Any delay in the recruitment process for many small businesses will be disaterous. With a record low unemplyment rate in the UK finding the right candidates is harder than ever and this new blow is an unwelcome addition to any HR teams day.
London, UK, April 4, 2008 — In the UK from this Autum UK [...]
Bend agency wins the highest number of awards from regional program.
Bend, Oregon 10 April 2008 tbd advertising, a full-service advertising agency, today announced that it was the most award-winning agency at the 2008 Northwest ADDYs, a regional advertising competition held in Boise earlier this month. The firm won a total of 17 awards, with [...]
McCLOUD, Calif. The lumber mill closed five years ago, and so many families moved out that the town can no longer even field a high school football team.
But McCloud is hoping to turn things around by exploiting the other natural resource in abundance along [...]
%26#8226; Brad Mortensen has been named vice president for university advancement at Weber State University. Mortensen has served in several roles since arriving at WSU in 2004, most recently as interim vice president for university relations. Prior to joining WSU, Mortensen gained extensive experience in higher education and [...]
Many politicians are talking about various programs to help the economy. I don’t know about you, but I get really nervous when I see the words “politicians” and “economy” in the same sentence.
There is a definite role for government in the economy, but generally that [...]
WASHINGTON Lenders are dropping out of the federally backed student loan business in droves, fleeing an environment squeezed of cash because of the credit crunch.
The call for government action is getting louder, just as the pile of loan applications gets higher on the desks [...]
Normally reliable General Electric Co. shocked investors with a six per cent decline in its first-quarter profit and slashed its earnings forecast for the full year, sending its own shares down more than 10 per cent and the broader market sharply lower on fresh worries about the weakening economy.
GE blamed disruptions in its financial business [...]
The federal government has served notice it has deep reservations about the sale of Canada’s biggest space technology firm to an American arms-maker.
Industry Minister Jim Prentice confirmed Thursday morning that he wrote to Alliant Techsystems Inc. on April 8 to advise the U.S. company that he is “not satisfied that the proposed sale of MacDonald, [...]
The universities of Teesside, Staffordshire and Cumbria, and Worcester College of Technology are the first to get some of the %26#163;105m available from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce), to run courses with employers.Hefce today announced it was allocating %26#163;8.3m for projects involving the three universities aimed at meeting employers’ needs and creating [...]
