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Freeport family battered by struggling economy
randi.marshall@newsday.comIt hasn't been an easy economic road for Joan Fennell. Once a hotel chef, Fennell, 58, and her husband Joseph, 63, used to have plenty of savings and a comfortable income. When she became disabled, Fennell switched jobs, working as a conference...Tags: Foreclosures, Financial and Business Services, Economy, Mortgages, Long Island
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40 workers laid off at software startup as 2 execs are charged with cooking the books
Associated Press WriterSEATTLE (AP) _ Two former software executives grossly overstated their company's revenue to attract more than $50 million in private investment, prosecutors said Wednesday, adding that the fraud was uncovered late last month when a worker found a set of...Tags: Corporate Crime, Court Administration, Microsoft Corp., National Government, Government
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Gene-testing startup responds to critics by launching study of tests' influence on behavior
Associated Press WriterSAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ A Silicon Valley gene-testing startup is responding to criticism that the tests could spur bad health-care choices by teaming up for a broad study of how the results affect behavior. Navigenics Inc. charges customers $2,500 to...Tags: Affymetrix Incorporated, Biology, New Products, Microsoft Corp., Medical Staff
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Bank startups still draw investors' attention
Sentinel Staff WriterThe office phone rang constantly as banker David Dotherow tallied the money from investors. There was a tap on the door -- one prospect had a question. Moments later, another knock -- it was FedEx with an envelope containing $250,000 in checks....Tags: Investment Service, Maitland, August, Winter Park, Orlando
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City of Angels: Speak Easy
Of course everyone is entitled to an opinion—but you have to be a Bill Gates for that opinion to make it to prime time. Until now. From a three-story loft on Venice’s Electric Avenue, Lisa Eisenpresser and a band of couch-sleeping, jeans-wearing, self-...Tags: West L.A., Bill Gates, Ashton Kutcher, Intel Corp., Adlai Stevenson
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Silicon Valley nervously eyeing financial crises
New York Times News ServiceSAN FRANCISCO — Since the credit crisis began to grip the financial world, Silicon Valley has watched from the sidelines, secure in the faith that it was insulated from the coming storm. That faith is now being seriously undermined. High-tech...Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Intel Corp., General Motors Corp., Advertising, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
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Looking for loans in new places
Special to The TimesThe Contos family knows the bitter taste of the credit crunch. Plans were drawn up for the third of their Golden Star Family Restaurants on land the family had owned for years. Then their longtime bankers turned down the Contoses' request for a $1.5-...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Loans, Internal Revenue Service, Retirement, 401K
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UCF venture-capital advisers help St. Pete firm get financing
Sentinel Staff WriterVenture-capital advisers at the University of Central Florida have helped a St. Petersburg-based startup company seal a deal for more than $600,000 in financing, officials said this week. UCF's Venture Lab unit played a key role in helping the Cartoons...Tags: University of Central Florida, Biology, Natural Science, Cartoons
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Former anchors grow bolder with new series
Sentinel Television CriticFormer WESH-Channel 2 anchor Marc Middleton hopes his Growing Bolder TV Show is the start of something big. "After we refine it, we will attempt to syndicate it through Florida, then PBS nationwide," Middleton says. The series debuts at 11:30 a.m.... -
Los Angeles pension official's retirement bash raises ethical questions
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWhen Robert Aguallo Jr. retired as general manager of Los Angeles' largest city pension agency, he went out with a flourish rarely afforded such department heads at City Hall. Six weeks before he left government, Aguallo staged an elaborate send-off...Tags: Investment Service, Business Enterprises, Antonio Villaraigosa, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Wages and Pensions
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Fuel Co-Ops Proposed To Speed Hydrogen Highway and Fuel-Cell Car Development
Edmunds.comPeople are paying a lot of attention to battery-electric car technology these days, what with all the promotion for the Chevrolet Volt and the megawatts of info about new hybrids and EV programs being generated by the Paris Auto Show.But though... -
Utah city's goal: sports 'mecca'
When Mayor Matthew Godfrey looks around a downtown that railroads built then abandoned, he sees rock-climbing walls, a sky-diving wind tunnel, a kayaking park. The future of his city of 82,000, he believes, is outdoors. Since he took office in 2000,...Tags: Climbing, Colleges and Universities, Sport Climbing, Brigham Young
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