Coworking sites cater to the lonely self-employed - Chicago Tribune
NEW YORK The new way to work on your own is to work alone together. Across the country, spaces are springing up to meet the demands of a new workforce, made up of self-employed entrepreneurs or part-time employees for whom the freedom of padding

Boeing strike impact to be felt globally - Reuters
TOKYO/PARIS (Reuters) - Aerospace groups dusted off contingency plans on Monday for a potentially lengthy strike at Boeing, whose workers halted production for a third day, while shares in the parent of European rival Airbus got a sharp boost. Boeing

RPT-FEATURE-Afghan kidnappings damage business revival - Forbes
KABUL, Sept 8 (Reuters) - When foreigners are kidnapped in Afghanistan it always makes headlines, but it rarely rates a mention when Afghans are abducted in their own country as worsening security and poverty fuel crime. Rather than being seized by

New York Times Columnist Calls for a Green Revolution - ABC News
In a follow-up to “The World Is Flat,” his book about globalization, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman brings a new perspective to climate change and the energy crisis. (amazon.com) In “Hot, Flat and Crowded,” Friedman argues that the new

China’s Outsourcing Appeal Dimming - Washington Post
A factory worker at the Shanghai Oliver Enterprise Co. helps produce one of the last batches of Disney-branded sleeping bags for U.S. stores. Because of rising fuel costs, the company that sells the bags decided to move the production back to the

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Police halt gun buyback by mayoral candidate - Chicago Tribune
BLUE ISLAND, Ill. - Thirty-eight-year-old Tommy Brown, who is running for mayor Blue Island , has been frustrated in his attempt to hold a “Turn in Your Gun Day” in the southern Chicago suburb. Brown offered $100 for every gun turned in from 9 a.m

DFSA Enforces Sanctions Against GFS Investments - MSN MoneyCentral
- that the trading included repeated instances of mis-selling, including transactions that were unfair, unsuitable and not made in the best interests of customers; - that, in some cases, the mis-selling was accompanied by deliberate and dishonest

The BT Business Botnet Buster - Itwire.com
Malicious botnet attacks represent a growing threat to enterprise networks. Which is probably why BT’s Managed Security Solutions Group has launched it’s Business Botnet Buster BT has announced a major enhancement to the existing global Event

Colangelo talks Olympics, business ventures - AZCentral.com
He assembled a World Series winner with the Arizona Diamondbacks, was elected into basketball’s Hall of Fame and was the architect behind Team USA basketball’s gold-medal victory in China. Jerry Colangelo, a longtime Phoenix sports executive who also

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DSG says not in talks with Germany’s Metro - Reuters UK
LONDON, Sept 6 (Reuters) - DSG International (DSGI.L: Quote , Profile , Research ), Europe’s second-biggest electrical goods retailer, said on Saturday it was not in talks with bigger rival Metro (MOEG.DE: Quote , Profile , Research ) about a

AT&T Prepared for Hurricane Ike in Florida - Forbes
MIAMI, Sept. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — As residents and businesses throughout the Southeast and Florida recover from the impact of Hurricane Gustav as well as Tropical Storm Fay, AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is also taking steps to prepare equipment and

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Report: Samsung pursuing acquisition of US computer memory card maker - Baltimore Sun
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) _ Samsung Electronics Co. is pursuing an acquisition of U.S. computer memory card maker SanDisk Corp., a South Korean online business newspaper reported Friday. Both Samsung and SanDisk neither confirmed nor denied the report

Get a Greater Degree of Perspective on This Complex Market with US - Forbes
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/621d8f/us_small_business) has announced the addition of the “US Small Business Applications Expenditures, 2007-2012″ report to their offering. This Excel-based Data-rich Deliverable

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Movado Group, Inc. Chairman Announces His Retirement; President & CEO - MSN MoneyCentral
PARAMUS, N.J. , Sept. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Movado Group, Inc. MOV , today announced that company founder Gedalio Grinberg, age 76, plans to retire as Chairman of the Board at the end of fiscal 2009 and will remain on the Board with the title

Reshuffle in Informa takeover consortium - CNBC
LONDON - Informa PLC, the publisher of Lloyd’s List maritime newspaper, on Thursday said that Blackstone Management Partners LLP had replaced fellow U.S. private equity firm Hellman & Friedman LLC in a takeover consortium. Blackstone joins Providence

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