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Business Journal honors Health Care Heroes ? Slideshow
by Donna J. Tuttle
23 May 2012 at 6:00am
The 2012 San Antonio Business Journal Health Care Heroes were honored at the McNay Art Museum on Tuesday, May 15th. The museum was packed with a veritable Who?s Who in the Alamo City health care industry. Here are a few photos from the event. Click here for a slideshow.
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Wells Fargo to hold mortgage assistance event in Dallas
by Lance Murray
23 May 2012 at 5:59am
Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) will hold a free Home Preservation Workshop Thursday to offer assistance to Wells Fargo mortgage customers who might be having financial difficulties.
The event will be from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Dallas, 300 Reunion Blvd.
The workshop is for customers of Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Wells Fargo Financial, and Wells Fargo Home Equity who are facing financial hardships. Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) said it has has invited more than 6,000 North Texas mortgage...
Apple, IBM leaders among world?s most valuable brands
23 May 2012 at 5:59am
Apple grew its value as the globe?s most valuable brand by 19 percent in the past year, the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal reports.
According to the annual BrandZ study by market researcher Millward Brown, Apple?s brand is now worth an estimated $183 billion, or 37 percent of its market capitalization.
The top 10 brands in the study are dominated by technology and telecommunications companies, with IBM second with its brand up 15 percent to $115.9 billion and Google at No. 3 with...
Washington University receives $3 million to design cancer-killing viruses
23 May 2012 at 5:59am
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received a $3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop a single virus equipped to find, image and kill cancer cells, all at once, the St. Louis Business Journal reports. Led by Dr. David Curiel, professor of radiation oncology, the program will build on his group?s expertise with adenovirus, which causes the common cold and has shown promise in cancer therapeutics and imaging.
Naropa University picks familiar name as new president
23 May 2012 at 5:57am
Charles Lief will return to Boulder from Vermont to take over as president of Naropa University, the Daily Camera reports.
Lief, who helped found the university in 1974, is chairman of the school's board. He takes over from John Whitehouse Cobb, who filled the president's role on an interim basis after the resignation last September of Stuart Lord.
Five websites that can save you money
23 May 2012 at 5:57am
New applications, websites and other technologies are helping consumers save money and become more efficient, the U.S. News & World Report reported.
Five new sites to help save money include: Priceonomics, a price guide for everything that takes the guesswork out of how much a consumer should pay for used items; Aisle50, a new daily deal website for groceries that offers savings of 30 to 60 percent; Dealupa, a site that aggregates other daily deal sites and ranks them; Carsabi, a used-car research...
PPD names Pfizer vet chairman and CEO
23 May 2012 at 5:56am
Pharmaceutical Product Development LLC said Wednesday that its board of directors has named David Simmons chairman and CEO. Simmons joins PPD from Pfizer Inc., where he served as president and general manager of the emerging markets and established products business units. Simmons begins his new role June 4 and will be based in PPD?s headquarters in Wilmington.
Benchmark buys in Maryland, wraps Tonawanda work
by James Fink
23 May 2012 at 5:55am
The Benchmark Group has added to its real estate portfolio by acquiring a Maryland apartment complex and, at the same, has completed the build out of the Delaware Sheridan Plaza in the Town of Tonawanda.
The Amherst-based Benchmark has purchased the 144-unit Greens at Cross Court Apartments in Easton, Md. Benchmark was part of a private investment group that purchased the garden-style apartments from a real estate investment trust.
Terms were not disclosed.
Benchmark is being retained to manage...
Delta, Southwest agree on jet lease deal
23 May 2012 at 5:54am
Delta Air Lines reached a deal to lease 88 Boeing 717s that Southwest Airlines got when it bought AirTran but doesn't want, reports The Associated Press.
Delta will start taking three 717s a month beginning in mid-2013 if its pilots approve a new labor contract, the news service reported.
Delta, the busiest airline flying out of Dayton International Airport, would use the 117-seat planes to replace 50-seat regional jets and the DC-9s the airline got when it bought Northwest, The AP said.
Southwest...
Chipotle's immigration probe isn't over yet
by Mark Reilly
23 May 2012 at 5:54am
Chipotle Mexican Grill, which faced a big investigation of its hiring practices last year and cut a third of its Minnesota workforce over immigration issues, is facing a new probe into the issue.
Minnesota Public Radio reports that Chipotle is facing a criminal investigation by prosecutors who want to know if Chipotle tried to hide the earlier investigation from investors. Nation's Restaurant News notes that the company has received subpoenas from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Chipotle...
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