DXG USA (www.dxgusa.com), one of the fastest-growing digital camera companies in the U.S., announced today two festive, affordable and fun high definition (HD) camcorders with special holiday pricing and accessories. The brand new DXG-579V is the upright, HD star with 720p video capture and a five megapixel camera, which is available at Kohl’s. The DXG-567V [...]
PARIS - Carrefour, the European answer to Wal-Mart and the world’s second-largest retailer, is in play.
It is a classic story, involving generational tensions, a senior executive summarily dismissed and pressure from powerful investors hunting for profit. But it is also a very French story because the value of the treasure at the tale’s core — [...]
The Austin City Council voted not to limit the height of a proposed luxury condo in Downtown Austin. The council approved the requested 400 feet the developer was asking for.
The proposed high-rise condo will built behind Katz’s Deli. Opponent had asked the council to limit the condo size to 120 feet.
City Council also [...]
Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust announced that it has signed leases for a 30,300 square foot Best Buy and a 41,800 square foot Ashley Furniture at its River City Marketplace in Jacksonville, Florida. In addition, the Company has amended its agreement with Gander Mountain increasing its size from 55,600 square feet as originally planned to an 81,500 [...]
Creative Benefits, Inc., a leading provider of FSA benefits and administrative services, has completed integration with First Data Healthcare Services, part of First Data Corp. and UMB Healthcare Services, a division of UMB Financial Corporation, a leader in financial services for consumer-directed healthcare products. Creative Benefits, paying more than $95 million in claims annually, has [...]
It survived a bitter battle between mayor and council.
It dodged a threatened veto. It’s pushing past a wave of public dissent and a renewed effort to kill it by one-third of the Macon City Council.
So far, Macon’s convention center hotel deal has survived a federal lawsuit over the accuracy of a consultant report that was [...]
The nation’s house party ended with a thud in 2006, leaving everyone from condo flippers to
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke waiting to see what would happen next.
The sudden stall in home sales, home construction and home prices — and what that will mean for the economy — was voted the top business story of the [...]
Cabo San Lucas - Wal-Mart has won preliminary approval to build a store in a resort town on the tip of Mexico’s Baja California. But opponents vow to continue fighting the project with demonstrations or by blocking roads.
Residents and shopkeepers fear that the store could harm the resort town’s laid-back atmosphere, where sports fishermen and [...]
Town Clerk Jeania Joseph is right. With plans for a 100,000-square-foot spa, $6 million villas and $1,200-a-night hotel rooms, the swanky new resort under construction near Lake Powell won’t be serving the “Wal-Mart and Kentucky Fried Chicken crowd.”
No, try the Martha’s Vineyard and Ritz-Carlton set. Think Trump, not tramp; Rockefeller, not [...]
Progress on Fort Wayne’s downtown hotel project remains stagnant while city officials clarify the incentives they can offer.
A ruling by the Indiana Economic Development Corp. over how much Fort Wayne Newspapers would receive in tax credits through the Community Revitalization Enhancement District (CRED) program for its new press building, and an IEDC change in [...]
Yamhill County is a sweet sip of Oregon’s natural beauty.
Green vines stripe its hillsides, and farmlands blanket its valley. Wineries that produce legendary pinot noir sprinkle the hills. And the sweeping landscape is largely uninterrupted because of long-standing state laws that protect agricultural land.
It’s a sigh-inducing sight that businessman David Kahn wants to share.
Kahn plans [...]
Coral Sky Plaza has rung up its biggest sale yet: $41.2 million.
An arm of investment powerhouse ING Clarion Partners this week purchased the 11.2 acres at 500 State Road 7 in Royal Palm Beach from companies controlled by West Palm Beach-based The Goodman Co.
In 1998, the scrap of land was just a gleam in the [...]
