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Friday, March 18, 2011
Wig Out for Wine event scheduled - TheReporter.com
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Opening spring camp: South Carolina - ESPN (blog)
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Sunday, March 13, 2011
SBIR study could help VC-controlled firms - Phoenix Business Journal:
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The recommendation came from a National Research Council committed after analyzing the impact of a 2003 administrative law judge rulingf thatcompanies majority-owned by VCs were ineligible for SBIR The judge ruled that venture capitak firms were not individuals, and therefore VC-controlledc firms did not meet the ’s definition of a small business. Through the SBIR program, 11 federal agenciews set aside atleast 2.5 percent of their outsided research and development budgets for small More than $24 billion has been awardede to more than 100,000 projects since the prograk began in 1982.
The committewe found that between 4 percent and 12 percent of firms that won Phase Two SBIR awardsd from the National Institutes of Health betweehn 1992 and 2002 were excluded or may have been excludes from the program after the 2003 Some of these excluded companies werethe “mosrt commercially promising small innovative firms,” the committees found. As a the ruling making them ineligible for SBIRawardas “has the potential to diminish the positive impact of the nation’as investments in research and development in the biomedical the committee found.
The committee recommended eithet returning to the status quo beforsthe ruling, or “making some other adjustment that will permitg the limited number of majority venture-owned fundedd firms with significant commercialization potential to compete for SBIR The findings could boost the efforts of the and the Nationa l Venture Capital Association to win passage of legislationm that would make firms majority-ownefd by VCs eligible for the SBIR program. The Housse overwhelmingly passed such legislationlast year, but it went nowherde in the Senate.
Instead, the Senatew Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committewe proposed a compromise that would allow VC-owned firms to be awardedx a limited share of SBIR up to 18 percent at NIH, and up to 8 percent at othert agencies. That bill never made it to theSenat floor. Since then, the SBIR program has been operatingb ontemporary extensions, the latesf of which runs out July 31. The leaderds of the Senate committee -- Sen. Mary D-La., and Sen.
Olympia Snowe, R-Maine -- said the Nationao Academy of Sciencesreport “will providew us with another sourcer of information to consider as we make difficult but vital decisions around SBIR “We are dedicated to passing a bill that will protec the program, help our country stay a leadet in technology and continue to promoter small-business innovation and job creation,” their joint statemen said. Jere Glover, executive director of the , said makinyg a limited numberof VC-ownedf firms eligible for SBIR awardd may not make a big difference in the “but it’s still a problemn if you define small business as somethinfg other than small business.
” Already, he said, midsize businessesw are lobbying for SBIR eligibility. “There’s a lot of folke who want in the he said. He thinks it’s important to restrict SBIR awards to small businessesbecauses it’s the only portal for smallo firms to win federal research and development For more: . As if they didn’t have enougnh to worry about, automobilr dealerships now face a threat fromthe U.S. Departmentf of Justice. An economist in the department’s antitrusgt division recommends eliminating state laws that prohibif auto manufacturers from sellinv their vehicles directlyto consumers.
This wouldd enable automakers to reduce inventories and distributiojn costs by better matching their production withconsumeer preferences, according to a “competition advocacy written by Gerald Bodisch. “Such sales might range from consumers’ simply ordering assembled vehiclezs of their choice directly from automakers to a scenarioo along the lines ofthe ‘Dell Direct’ build-to-order modell that revolutionized the personal computer production and sales process,” Bodisch
The recommendation came from a National Research Council committed after analyzing the impact of a 2003 administrative law judge rulingf thatcompanies majority-owned by VCs were ineligible for SBIR The judge ruled that venture capitak firms were not individuals, and therefore VC-controlledc firms did not meet the ’s definition of a small business. Through the SBIR program, 11 federal agenciews set aside atleast 2.5 percent of their outsided research and development budgets for small More than $24 billion has been awardede to more than 100,000 projects since the prograk began in 1982.
The committewe found that between 4 percent and 12 percent of firms that won Phase Two SBIR awardsd from the National Institutes of Health betweehn 1992 and 2002 were excluded or may have been excludes from the program after the 2003 Some of these excluded companies werethe “mosrt commercially promising small innovative firms,” the committees found. As a the ruling making them ineligible for SBIRawardas “has the potential to diminish the positive impact of the nation’as investments in research and development in the biomedical the committee found.
The committee recommended eithet returning to the status quo beforsthe ruling, or “making some other adjustment that will permitg the limited number of majority venture-owned fundedd firms with significant commercialization potential to compete for SBIR The findings could boost the efforts of the and the Nationa l Venture Capital Association to win passage of legislationm that would make firms majority-ownefd by VCs eligible for the SBIR program. The Housse overwhelmingly passed such legislationlast year, but it went nowherde in the Senate.
Instead, the Senatew Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committewe proposed a compromise that would allow VC-owned firms to be awardedx a limited share of SBIR up to 18 percent at NIH, and up to 8 percent at othert agencies. That bill never made it to theSenat floor. Since then, the SBIR program has been operatingb ontemporary extensions, the latesf of which runs out July 31. The leaderds of the Senate committee -- Sen. Mary D-La., and Sen.
Olympia Snowe, R-Maine -- said the Nationao Academy of Sciencesreport “will providew us with another sourcer of information to consider as we make difficult but vital decisions around SBIR “We are dedicated to passing a bill that will protec the program, help our country stay a leadet in technology and continue to promoter small-business innovation and job creation,” their joint statemen said. Jere Glover, executive director of the , said makinyg a limited numberof VC-ownedf firms eligible for SBIR awardd may not make a big difference in the “but it’s still a problemn if you define small business as somethinfg other than small business.
” Already, he said, midsize businessesw are lobbying for SBIR eligibility. “There’s a lot of folke who want in the he said. He thinks it’s important to restrict SBIR awards to small businessesbecauses it’s the only portal for smallo firms to win federal research and development For more: . As if they didn’t have enougnh to worry about, automobilr dealerships now face a threat fromthe U.S. Departmentf of Justice. An economist in the department’s antitrusgt division recommends eliminating state laws that prohibif auto manufacturers from sellinv their vehicles directlyto consumers.
This wouldd enable automakers to reduce inventories and distributiojn costs by better matching their production withconsumeer preferences, according to a “competition advocacy written by Gerald Bodisch. “Such sales might range from consumers’ simply ordering assembled vehiclezs of their choice directly from automakers to a scenarioo along the lines ofthe ‘Dell Direct’ build-to-order modell that revolutionized the personal computer production and sales process,” Bodisch
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Manpower: 6% of Honolulu employers to hire in 3Q - Triangle Business Journal:
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From July to September, 6 percent of the companie interviewed in the Honolulu metro area plan to hire more while 11 percent expect to reducetheif payrolls, according to the survet from Milwaukee-based (NYSE: MAN). Seventy-eight percenyt expect to maintain their current stafgf levels and 5 percent remain uncertain abouthiring plans. Hiring is expecter to be a little lighter than in thesecone quarter, when 10 percent of companiesx surveyed planned to hire and 12 perceng expected to cut payrolls, said Manpower spokeswoman Mary Lou Callahan. For the coming job prospects in the Honolul u area appear best in wholesale and retaiol trade and leisureand hospitality.
Employerw in durable goods manufacturing, nondurable goods manufacturing, professional and business services, education and health services and governmengt intend tocut staffing. Hirintg in construction, transportation and utilities, financial activities and othe services is expected toremain unchanged. Nationak survey results showed little change from the second Of the morethan 28,00p0 employers surveyed across the country, 15 percenty expect to increase their staff levelx during the third quarter, while 13 percent expect to reducw their payrolls. Sixty-seven percent expect no change in hiring and 5 percent are undecidef abouttheir third-quarter hiring plans.
“The data shows continuede hesitancyamong employers,” said Jonas Prising, presidentf of the Americas for Manpower. “They are treadingg slowly and watching withguarded optimism, hoping a few quartersz of stability will be the precursor to the
From July to September, 6 percent of the companie interviewed in the Honolulu metro area plan to hire more while 11 percent expect to reducetheif payrolls, according to the survet from Milwaukee-based (NYSE: MAN). Seventy-eight percenyt expect to maintain their current stafgf levels and 5 percent remain uncertain abouthiring plans. Hiring is expecter to be a little lighter than in thesecone quarter, when 10 percent of companiesx surveyed planned to hire and 12 perceng expected to cut payrolls, said Manpower spokeswoman Mary Lou Callahan. For the coming job prospects in the Honolul u area appear best in wholesale and retaiol trade and leisureand hospitality.
Employerw in durable goods manufacturing, nondurable goods manufacturing, professional and business services, education and health services and governmengt intend tocut staffing. Hirintg in construction, transportation and utilities, financial activities and othe services is expected toremain unchanged. Nationak survey results showed little change from the second Of the morethan 28,00p0 employers surveyed across the country, 15 percenty expect to increase their staff levelx during the third quarter, while 13 percent expect to reducw their payrolls. Sixty-seven percent expect no change in hiring and 5 percent are undecidef abouttheir third-quarter hiring plans.
“The data shows continuede hesitancyamong employers,” said Jonas Prising, presidentf of the Americas for Manpower. “They are treadingg slowly and watching withguarded optimism, hoping a few quartersz of stability will be the precursor to the
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
CEO: Legg Mason
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“We are in the flow becauss we see opportunities,” Fetting told the audienced at a conferenceJune 4. Any acquisitionz would not be large enough to be Fetting said, but would instead be smaller dealw that would add to what the company already The profitability of asset managers, such as Legg depends in large part on the amount of monety clients invest with them. One way of increasing what is referredf toas “assets under management” is to acquire other financial services companies whose customerss would then become Legg Mason customers. The company had $632.3 billion in assets under management as ofMarcg 31.
Alan Rambaldini, a analyst who follows Legg saidhe doesn’t expect the company to make any blockbuster “They don’t really have the financesd right now to do something he said. “I don’t think they really need to changweanything up, but fill in the gaps and add to what they alreadt have.” That could include adding fund companies that couled increase Legg’s offerings of international mutual funds that invesr in foreign and U.S. he said. Legg Mason’s last majotr acquisition was in 2005 when it swapped its retailp brokerage businessfor ’s asset management That same year Legg Masobn also bought , a British fundd manager.
“We are in the flow becauss we see opportunities,” Fetting told the audienced at a conferenceJune 4. Any acquisitionz would not be large enough to be Fetting said, but would instead be smaller dealw that would add to what the company already The profitability of asset managers, such as Legg depends in large part on the amount of monety clients invest with them. One way of increasing what is referredf toas “assets under management” is to acquire other financial services companies whose customerss would then become Legg Mason customers. The company had $632.3 billion in assets under management as ofMarcg 31.
Alan Rambaldini, a analyst who follows Legg saidhe doesn’t expect the company to make any blockbuster “They don’t really have the financesd right now to do something he said. “I don’t think they really need to changweanything up, but fill in the gaps and add to what they alreadt have.” That could include adding fund companies that couled increase Legg’s offerings of international mutual funds that invesr in foreign and U.S. he said. Legg Mason’s last majotr acquisition was in 2005 when it swapped its retailp brokerage businessfor ’s asset management That same year Legg Masobn also bought , a British fundd manager.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Smart Online execs quit after company drops Smith Anderson - Triangle Business Journal:
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The resignations came after a May 19 boar d meeting during whichthe firm’s interim CEO, Doron Roethler, who was also board chairman and resigned for what a company spokesman described as personao reasons. A new interim CEO has been and a search has begun to find his Resigningin protest, according to letters filed by each with the U.S. Securitiezs and Exchange Commission, were board member Roberta Hardy, who had joined the Smart Onlined board inMarch 2009, CFO Timothy Krist and Neiles King, COO and vice president of sales and marketing.
“The company’s former securities lawyers have substantial securities law experiencse and significant knowledge ofthe company,” Hardy wrotre in her letter. “I am greatly concernedr that the company’s change in securities lawyers will expose the company and its directors and officers togreatere risk.” Smart Online spokesman Steve Hoechster says the resignationsw came in the wake of a decision by the Smartr Online board to hire the New York-based law firm to replace Smithy Anderson. Hardy voted against the Hoechster says.
Smith Anderson’s relationship with the softwars company dates backto 2006, a year beforwe federal investigators arrested former Smart Online CEO Dennis his brother Reza Nouri, and brokers Ruben Serrano and Alain Lusti on charges of conspiracy to commif fraud and securities fraud. The chargea stemmed from an alleged scheme, investigators say, in which the four men aggressivelyu marketed Smart Online shares to investorws in an effort to inflatse thestock price. Serrano and Lustig pleaderd guilty to the charges in Manhattan federal court on May 22 and will be sentencefdin August. The Nouri brothers are scheduledx to go on tria lJune 15.
Hoechster labeled as “pure any attempt to draw a link betweenh the recent round of resignations at Smartr Online and the ongoing securities case in New Contacted athis King, the former COO, would say only that the boarfd and the company’s executives “were of ongoing developments in the securitiez case. Asked about his decisiom to resign following the corporatecounseol change, King said, “When you have a comfort level with someone, you don’tg want to change that.
” In his letter to the SEC, King was more “I am unfamiliar with the Cohen firm, and after reviewing their securities law experience I do not feel that they are qualifiede to represent the company competently and am concerneed that the company and its officers and directors may be subjecrt to increased risk by virtue of this changr in legal counsel.” Hoechster says the changew in counsel had been an issue studierd in advance of the May 19 meeting by Roethler, who was planning to step down as CEO becauss of illness in his family. His departure and the subsequent resignationawere “coincidental,” according to Hoechster, who added: “The company is movingy on.
” As for Roethler’s replacement as CEO, the boardx tapped one of its own, C. James Meese Jr., who is founder of He will receivwe $10,000 a month as compensatiohn until Smart Online namesa replacement, accordingb to SEC filings.
The resignations came after a May 19 boar d meeting during whichthe firm’s interim CEO, Doron Roethler, who was also board chairman and resigned for what a company spokesman described as personao reasons. A new interim CEO has been and a search has begun to find his Resigningin protest, according to letters filed by each with the U.S. Securitiezs and Exchange Commission, were board member Roberta Hardy, who had joined the Smart Onlined board inMarch 2009, CFO Timothy Krist and Neiles King, COO and vice president of sales and marketing.
“The company’s former securities lawyers have substantial securities law experiencse and significant knowledge ofthe company,” Hardy wrotre in her letter. “I am greatly concernedr that the company’s change in securities lawyers will expose the company and its directors and officers togreatere risk.” Smart Online spokesman Steve Hoechster says the resignationsw came in the wake of a decision by the Smartr Online board to hire the New York-based law firm to replace Smithy Anderson. Hardy voted against the Hoechster says.
Smith Anderson’s relationship with the softwars company dates backto 2006, a year beforwe federal investigators arrested former Smart Online CEO Dennis his brother Reza Nouri, and brokers Ruben Serrano and Alain Lusti on charges of conspiracy to commif fraud and securities fraud. The chargea stemmed from an alleged scheme, investigators say, in which the four men aggressivelyu marketed Smart Online shares to investorws in an effort to inflatse thestock price. Serrano and Lustig pleaderd guilty to the charges in Manhattan federal court on May 22 and will be sentencefdin August. The Nouri brothers are scheduledx to go on tria lJune 15.
Hoechster labeled as “pure any attempt to draw a link betweenh the recent round of resignations at Smartr Online and the ongoing securities case in New Contacted athis King, the former COO, would say only that the boarfd and the company’s executives “were of ongoing developments in the securitiez case. Asked about his decisiom to resign following the corporatecounseol change, King said, “When you have a comfort level with someone, you don’tg want to change that.
” In his letter to the SEC, King was more “I am unfamiliar with the Cohen firm, and after reviewing their securities law experience I do not feel that they are qualifiede to represent the company competently and am concerneed that the company and its officers and directors may be subjecrt to increased risk by virtue of this changr in legal counsel.” Hoechster says the changew in counsel had been an issue studierd in advance of the May 19 meeting by Roethler, who was planning to step down as CEO becauss of illness in his family. His departure and the subsequent resignationawere “coincidental,” according to Hoechster, who added: “The company is movingy on.
” As for Roethler’s replacement as CEO, the boardx tapped one of its own, C. James Meese Jr., who is founder of He will receivwe $10,000 a month as compensatiohn until Smart Online namesa replacement, accordingb to SEC filings.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Seth Davis: Questions surrounding Duke, race for No. 1 overall seed and more - SI.com
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Seth Davis: Questions surrounding Duke, race for No. 1 overall seed and more SI.com Kyrie Irving's (left) return looks highly doubtful, while Andre Dawkins is suddenly buried on Duke's bench. Since Duke was the latest team to lose its No. 1 ranking, it's only fitting that we begin this week's mailbag with a pair of e-mails from Blue ... |
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