On February 8, 2010
Bankers Urged to Get to Know Borrowers
Regulators want the nation's banks to get to know their small business customers better. In a statement Friday, federal and state regulators said banks shouldn't curtail credit based on negative trends in an industry or location. Instead, they should…
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On February 8, 2010
WPP Wins One, Loses One in CMD Case
A judge handed down a mixed ruling in a case in which ad agency holding company WPP (WPPGY) sued the former owner of Current Medical Directions, a medical education company that WPP bought in 2004.
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On February 8, 2010
Should the U.S. join the European Union?
The U.S. is failing to get its fiscal house in order. A simple proposal: Join the EU.
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On February 8, 2010
Report: iPad Will Propel Tablets Into Mainstream Use
There will be 50 million tablet computers on the market by 2014, according to a new In-Stat report -- and if Apple plays its cards right, a significant portion of them could be iPads. In-Stat took several…
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On February 8, 2010
Tennessee Hospitals to State: Tax Us, Please!
Tennessee hospitals are discussing whether to support a new state tax to bolster Medicaid and prevent a catastrophic loss of federal funds.
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BMS’s “Information Security Department” Has Spyware for Employee Laptops
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the case of Shalin Jhaveri -- the Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) management trainee arrested for allegedly stealing 45 gigabytes of confidential biologics info to start his own company in India -- is the fact that
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NBC Tries to Make Conan O’Brien’s Tonight Show Vanish. Isn’t That a Great Joke?
NBC is trying to "disappear" online content from "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien." Is it possible the network doesn't get social media either?
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On February 8, 2010
The Rubber Macondo.
In the early part of the last century, Henry Ford was one of the most influential and admired men in the world. He was an industrialist-philosopher, building a new, mechanized Jerusalem in America. He hired men of every color, nation…
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On February 8, 2010
More SMB’s Doing Their Internet Marketing Homework
I have spoken here at Frank Thinking about how it seems that SMB’s just don’t get it when it comes to Internet marketing and social media. Too much chasing rabbits and too little chasing reality.
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On February 8, 2010
No Bridge to Nowhere: Feds Derail Conoco’s Alaskan Oil Ambitions
If ConocoPhillips' recently scuttled plans to develop Alaska's North Slope teaches us anything it's that sometimes the biggest hurdle to domestic oil production is about access, not drilling. The Army Corps of Engineers' recently denied a permit request by Conoco
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