ZTE USA, Inc. a subsidiary of ZTE Corporation, a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, and Qualcomm Incorporated, a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, today announced their collaboration with Aircell® to create the networking platform for Aircell’s new Inflight Internet service, Gogo®, which first began service [...]

WeRentMotorcycles.com, the leading motorcycle adventure travel company in California, announced today that it is offering free delivery and pickup of its motorcycles for customers in Southern California. “People visiting California don’t want to rent a car to drive somewhere to rent a motorcycle,” says Jack Reynolds, President of WeRentMotorcycles.com, “They want the bike and gear [...]

Exercise equipment leader Life Fitness will be carried through 15 new specialty retailers beginning this month, in a move to extend its reach in advance of the all-important holiday shopping season and beyond. The new relationships increase the presence for Life Fitness within key markets in the Northeast, Northwest, Southwest, Southern California, Colorado and Alaska.
The [...]

The Bay Area and San Diego were big winners as the California Transportation Commission allocated $191 million in new transportation funding from Proposition 1B, the 2006 voter-approved transportation bond.
“The new projects will reduce traffic congestion, improve air quality and, most importantly, provide good paying construction jobs that will help boost our state’s economy,” said [...]

From shuttles fueled with hydrogen to dinner plates made from sugarcane, the 10 theme parks owned by Busch Entertainment Corporation (BEC) — including SeaWorld and Busch Gardens — are launching initiatives to tackle some of today’s most pressing environmental challenges in the areas of waste, water, food and fuel.
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The Hoffman Company, a leading land brokerage firm in Southern California, announced today the close of a $30 million transaction in North San Diego County that will allow the residential mixed-use project to move forward and benefit both parties involved.
The property was acquired by ConAm Group of Companies, a San Diego-based real estate management and [...]

While some multi-family developments are currently under construction in San Diego County, the amount of condominium projects that will begin during the remainder of this year will be minimal, as a significant number of previously proposed condo projects have been delayed, offered for sale by the developer or become bank-owned.
“None of the permits that [...]

Miami has a new vice: bottom-fishing for condo bargains.
Some are searching for investment properties, confident home prices will eventually rebound. In hard-hit Miami-Dade County, condos originally costing as much as $1.4 million at the peak of the market now sell in some cases for $840,000, a 40 percent drop. Farther north, a coming auction at [...]

The ugly side of San Diego’s condominium downturn is on display along Fifth Avenue.
The bones of what was supposed to be Atmosphere, nearly 80 “luxury live/work units for a life well-designed,” sit open to public view. Naked steel rods and yawning holes are in the earth. The wood and chain-link fence around the site [...]

The national and the local apartment vacancy rates, far apart in recent years, are much closer now.
Reis, Inc. (AMEX: WRP) a New York-based research firm, said the nation’s average apartment vacancy was 5.8 percent as of the end of the second quarter, down from 6 percent during the first three months of 2007 –reportedly the [...]

A three-alarm fire caused $8.5 million in damage early Tuesday when it ripped through a four-story hotel under construction in Carmel Valley, forcing the evacuation of about 400 people and destroying more than two dozen vehicles.
The fire broke out around 1:45 a.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn on the corner of Vista Sorrento Parkway and [...]

Southern California’s residential real estate market continued its wayward course in March with the median price reaching another record while sales declined to a 10-year low for that month, a market tracker said this week.
Last month the median price of a home in the six-county region rose an annual 4.6 percent to $505,000, said La [...]