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Tetra Tech shares decline on cautious outlook

AP News 13 days ago

Tetra Tech shares decline as analyst points to fiscal 2010 guidance below some expectations Shares of Tetra Tech Inc. slid Thursday, a day after the engineering consulting firm forecast earnings for fiscal 2010 that fell below of some Wall Street estimates. The ...

Major Pittsburgh-based law firm cutting salaries

AP News 14 days ago

Major Pittsburgh-based law firm cutting salaries for entry-level attorneys, citing economy The Pittsburgh-based law firm Reed Smith is delaying hiring new attorneys, who will see their entry-level salaries cut by nearly 20 percent when they join the firm in January. Eight new ...

Google snaps up mobile ad startup for $750 million

AP News 16 days ago

Google accelerates its mobile ad expansion with $750 million purchase of AdMob Google Inc. is buying mobile advertising network AdMob for $750 million, underscoring the Internet search leader's determination to ensure its marketing machine reaches the growing number of people surfing the ...

Google buys mobile ad firm in 750-mln-dollar deal

AFP Global Edition 16 days ago

Google announced Monday it is buying smartphone ad specialty firm AdMob in a 750-million-dollar stock deal. Google hopes AdMob will help it more effectively extend its lucrative Internet advertising domain into the booming world of mobile devices. "Mobile advertising has enormous potential ...

Earnings Preview: Live Nation 3Q seen lower

AP News 19 days ago

Earnings Preview: Live Nation 3rd-qtr results seen falling as investors await merger update Live Nation Inc., the world's biggest concert promoter and proposed merger partner of Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc., is scheduled to report its third-quarter earnings on Monday. The following is a ...

Laid-off Orlando engineer kills one, wounds five

Reuters US Online Report Top News 19 days ago

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - An ex-employee of an engineering consulting firm who was laid off in 2007 opened fire at his former workplace in Orlando, Florida, on Friday, killing one person and wounding five others, police said. The suspected gunman, who caused ...

Judge throws out LA deal for digitizing billboards

AP News 20 days ago

Judge throws out deal between Los Angeles, billboard companies to digitize displays A judge overturned a settlement allowing major outdoor advertising companies to convert more than 800 billboards in Los Angeles into digital displays, but declined to revoke permits already granted for ...

FTC allows eight more months for Red Flags compliance

SC Magazine 22 days ago

Enforcement of the Red Flags Rules has been put off again -- this time until next summer, at the request of Congress. The Federal Trade Commission again is pushing back the deadline for financial institutions and creditors to comply with the Red ...

We've made a nice gain on Acxiom (ACXM)

AlphaNinja 27 days ago

Interactive marketing firm Acxiom(ACXM) is up 15% today after reporting a decent quarter. After the close of trading on June 24th, they preannounced an ugly quarter, and I wrote that we should expect them to trade down when trading resumed and maybe ...

Two top law firms have stake in governorÕs race

Las Vegas Sun 29 days ago

Reid, Sandoval work for pillars of NevadaÕs power structure If the leading candidates for governor win their parties nominations next year, the race will be more than a contest between a Republican and a Democrat it would also pit a lawyer at ...

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