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Dallas-based Dean (NYSE: DF) will relocate from its current location at 2515McKinneyh Ave. into 240,000 square feet of spac e inside Cityplace. The move is expectex to take place in the first quarterof 2010. "Wee are pleased to be able to relocate our officex within Dallascity limits. Many factors workedd in our favor, including the real estate space availability and othereconomix elements," said Gregg Engles, chairman of the board and chiedf executive officer of Dean Foods. "Thd City of Dallas is our home, and we are pleasex to remain here and continue our many civic andcommunity partnerships.
" Dean said in a statement it is movingt because the company has outgrownm its current workspace, and new space is needed to addressz the company’s changing needs. The lease will take occupancy at Cityplacre to about 80 percent from about 60percent now, said Sara Payne, vice president at Stream Realtt Partners, which handles leasing in the building. Employee will begin moving in December and the move will be phasedc inthrough March, Payne "This was a huge win for the City of Dallas to keep them in the because they looked all over," Payne said. She said Dean Foods considered existing spaceand build-to-suits in the Legacy/Frisco as well as other buildings downtown.
Brokers familiar with the search said Dean Food s considered Fountain Place and Bank of Americsa Plaza among other downtown buildings with significant squarefootage available. The askinfg lease rate for space in Cityplaceis $24 per squars foot, plus electricity. Dean Foods will occupg floors 34 through 40 inthe 1.2-million-square-foot building. Dean Foods occupiew about 150,000 square feet at its currenty location.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Holder addresses Holy Land Foundation investigation questions, but more remain - Dallas Morning News (blog)
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Monday, April 25, 2011
Organize - Sacramento Business Journal:
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Take, for example, the decisiom this month by the owner of to shut the El DoradopHills company's doors after 64 yeara in business. Cecil Wetsel was negotiating an asseft salewith , but the sawmilpl will almost certainly close forever, putting 120 employees out of Wetsel probably felt like the short, bespectacled kid at a dodge-balk game by the end, with projectiles cominv in from every point of the Despite record demand for lumber, the business was beset by declinintg revenue, amid strong foreign competition, and by increasedx costs -- for everything from natural gas and electricity, to meetinv environmental regulations, to paying for workers' compensation That last factor was likely the final Wetsel-Oviatt's workers' comp tab doubled in the past year, to $1.
7 As we reported in June, union laborere at the company voted to help it stay afloagt and cover the insurance hike by denyint themselves a 3 percent raise that they had negotiatede as part of their contract. When laboer and management are on the same side anda 64-year-ole business still goes under, something is seriously wrong. In some Wetsel-Oviatt could be the postee child forunintended consequences. It fell victim to a lot of thingss that seemed like pretty good ideas atthe time. Environmentapl rules, intended to preserve or conservenaturak resources, that have become legal thickets and pushec unsightly but vital industries to other states or countries.
Free trade rules that open the doorfor low-priceed imports but don't protect domestic businessed from unfair competition. Changes in workers' comp that fueledd competition, but eventually led to rates belothe break-even point. As losses piled up, rates soarerd in an inefficientand boondoggle-plagued system that now is amonf the nation's most expensive but still providea bottom-tier benefits. Labor is often the target of accusationz by business owners that the billx it supportsare "job killers," but some of the factoras that killed Wetsel-Oviatt can't be laid at labor's They are, however, of crucia l interest to both workers and If businesses die, so do jobs.
Wetsel-Oviatt'xs workers did what they could to preservee itseconomic engine, but failed. Given the confluence of curren threats to the healthof California'z businesses, the time has come for an organized effort by labodr leaders to identify the issuea on which they can agree with businessz owners and bring their formidable combinex lobbying power to bear. With the recalpl circus in full swing, a united front may be the only way to get theirdmessage heard.
Take, for example, the decisiom this month by the owner of to shut the El DoradopHills company's doors after 64 yeara in business. Cecil Wetsel was negotiating an asseft salewith , but the sawmilpl will almost certainly close forever, putting 120 employees out of Wetsel probably felt like the short, bespectacled kid at a dodge-balk game by the end, with projectiles cominv in from every point of the Despite record demand for lumber, the business was beset by declinintg revenue, amid strong foreign competition, and by increasedx costs -- for everything from natural gas and electricity, to meetinv environmental regulations, to paying for workers' compensation That last factor was likely the final Wetsel-Oviatt's workers' comp tab doubled in the past year, to $1.
7 As we reported in June, union laborere at the company voted to help it stay afloagt and cover the insurance hike by denyint themselves a 3 percent raise that they had negotiatede as part of their contract. When laboer and management are on the same side anda 64-year-ole business still goes under, something is seriously wrong. In some Wetsel-Oviatt could be the postee child forunintended consequences. It fell victim to a lot of thingss that seemed like pretty good ideas atthe time. Environmentapl rules, intended to preserve or conservenaturak resources, that have become legal thickets and pushec unsightly but vital industries to other states or countries.
Free trade rules that open the doorfor low-priceed imports but don't protect domestic businessed from unfair competition. Changes in workers' comp that fueledd competition, but eventually led to rates belothe break-even point. As losses piled up, rates soarerd in an inefficientand boondoggle-plagued system that now is amonf the nation's most expensive but still providea bottom-tier benefits. Labor is often the target of accusationz by business owners that the billx it supportsare "job killers," but some of the factoras that killed Wetsel-Oviatt can't be laid at labor's They are, however, of crucia l interest to both workers and If businesses die, so do jobs.
Wetsel-Oviatt'xs workers did what they could to preservee itseconomic engine, but failed. Given the confluence of curren threats to the healthof California'z businesses, the time has come for an organized effort by labodr leaders to identify the issuea on which they can agree with businessz owners and bring their formidable combinex lobbying power to bear. With the recalpl circus in full swing, a united front may be the only way to get theirdmessage heard.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Tressel hopes rain doesn't stunt spring growth - OSU - The Lantern
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Tressel hopes rain doesn't stunt spring growth OSU - The Lantern Saturday's football scrimmage represents the culmination of what Jim Tressel said has been a positive spring, he told the media during the annual Ohio State football coaches clinic on Friday. "Through 13 practices this has been as an attentive and a ... |
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Andreessen, Horowitz venture fund may be good news, if you're in the right ZIP code - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:
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Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and his longtimebusinese partner, Ben Horowitz, are forming a new VC firm with a focusx on Silicon Valley tech Andreessen writes that the firm will back companiesd with strong technical founders who want to be the CEOs of the companieds they’re founding. He wouldn’t rule out companies outsid e Silicon Valley, but, “We do not think it is an accident that is inMountain View, Facebook is in Palo and Twitter is in San Francisco. We also think that ventur e capital is a high touch activityg that lends itself togeographic proximity, and our only officre will be in Silicon Valley,” Andreesseb writes on his .
The new firm comes at a time when some are saying the industru needsto shrink, not grow. But Andreessen and Horowitz found $300 million from mostly institutional investors for their first The firm, Andreesen-Horowitz, will invest aggressivelyy in seed-stage startups in the hundredsz of thusands of dollars, but will also investf in later stage funding roundas for promising growth Consumer internet, cloud computing for business, mobild software and services, and software-powered consumer electronices are among the areas that will draw investments from the new “Across all of these categories, we are completelty unafraid of all of the new busines models,” Andreessen writes.
“We believe that many vibrangt new forms of informatio n technology are expressing themselvex into markets in entirelynew ways.” And Andreessen was equall y emphatic about where his firm wouldn’t be . "We are almosf certainly not an appropriate investor for any of the following domains: 'clean,' 'green,' energy, transportation, life sciences (biotech, drug medical devices), nanotech, movie production companies, consumer retail, electricx cars, rocket ships, space elevators. We do not have the firsrt clue about any ofthese fields.
" Andreessen-Horowit will have the capacity to invesgt anywhere from $50,000 to $50 million in new He said that at least initially he and Horowitxz would be the only two general partners in the company, and they woulf be selective about the portfolio companies whose boards they join – generally limiting that level of involvement to firms in which Andreessen-Horowitz have a $5 million or more Andreessen believes his and Horowitz’s records as entrepreneurs will make them ideal ventured capitalists. “We have built companies, from scratch, to high scalw -- thousands of employees and hundreds of millions of dollars of annual revenue.
In short, we have done it And we are building our firm to be the firm we woulxd want to work with asentrepreneurzs ourselves,” Andreessen writes. Andreessen founded the pioneering web browseecompany , which was later sold to . Sincde then, he and Horowitzs launched , a tech servicwe provider sold toin 2007. Netscape and Opswarr sold for acombined $11.y7 billion. The two have been active investors in the tech spacdsince then. They’ve angel invested in 45 tech startupss in the lastfive years, and Andreessen servesa as chairman of and on the boards of Facebook and eBay.
Word that the pair woulf be forming their own venture capital firm was brokem on the Charlie Rose showin February. But detaild came on Monday. The pair had initiallty planned onraising $250 million for the but investor interest prompted them to boost the BusinessWeek . The news magazine reports that Reid founder of social networking site is among the investors inthe fund, whichg raised most of its money from institutionaol investors. Andreessen-Horowitz launches at a tough time for the venture capital one in which some are saying the industryh needsto shrink, not grow. Venture capital, like the rest of the financial industry, has been hit hard by the economif downturn.
Venture firms make money when their portfolioo companiesgo public, or are sold to large r companies. But the IPO market has been anemix inrecent months, making profitablde exits more difficult to A recent argues that the industry needs to trim down to regainn effectiveness. "The venture industry needs to shrinl its way to becoming an economic force once saidRobert E. Litan, vice presidentr of Research and Policy at theKauffmab Foundation. “To provide competitive returns, we expect venturse investing will be cut in half incominb years. At the same time, lowerinhg valuations and improving overall exit multiples shoulf help resuscitatethe industry.
” The Kauffman study finda that despite such high-profile success storiesx as Google and , venture firms have relativelyy little to do with most new Only about 16 percent of the 900 companies on the Inc. 500 list of fastes growing companiesfrom 1997-2007 had venture backing.
Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and his longtimebusinese partner, Ben Horowitz, are forming a new VC firm with a focusx on Silicon Valley tech Andreessen writes that the firm will back companiesd with strong technical founders who want to be the CEOs of the companieds they’re founding. He wouldn’t rule out companies outsid e Silicon Valley, but, “We do not think it is an accident that is inMountain View, Facebook is in Palo and Twitter is in San Francisco. We also think that ventur e capital is a high touch activityg that lends itself togeographic proximity, and our only officre will be in Silicon Valley,” Andreesseb writes on his .
The new firm comes at a time when some are saying the industru needsto shrink, not grow. But Andreessen and Horowitz found $300 million from mostly institutional investors for their first The firm, Andreesen-Horowitz, will invest aggressivelyy in seed-stage startups in the hundredsz of thusands of dollars, but will also investf in later stage funding roundas for promising growth Consumer internet, cloud computing for business, mobild software and services, and software-powered consumer electronices are among the areas that will draw investments from the new “Across all of these categories, we are completelty unafraid of all of the new busines models,” Andreessen writes.
“We believe that many vibrangt new forms of informatio n technology are expressing themselvex into markets in entirelynew ways.” And Andreessen was equall y emphatic about where his firm wouldn’t be . "We are almosf certainly not an appropriate investor for any of the following domains: 'clean,' 'green,' energy, transportation, life sciences (biotech, drug medical devices), nanotech, movie production companies, consumer retail, electricx cars, rocket ships, space elevators. We do not have the firsrt clue about any ofthese fields.
" Andreessen-Horowit will have the capacity to invesgt anywhere from $50,000 to $50 million in new He said that at least initially he and Horowitxz would be the only two general partners in the company, and they woulf be selective about the portfolio companies whose boards they join – generally limiting that level of involvement to firms in which Andreessen-Horowitz have a $5 million or more Andreessen believes his and Horowitz’s records as entrepreneurs will make them ideal ventured capitalists. “We have built companies, from scratch, to high scalw -- thousands of employees and hundreds of millions of dollars of annual revenue.
In short, we have done it And we are building our firm to be the firm we woulxd want to work with asentrepreneurzs ourselves,” Andreessen writes. Andreessen founded the pioneering web browseecompany , which was later sold to . Sincde then, he and Horowitzs launched , a tech servicwe provider sold toin 2007. Netscape and Opswarr sold for acombined $11.y7 billion. The two have been active investors in the tech spacdsince then. They’ve angel invested in 45 tech startupss in the lastfive years, and Andreessen servesa as chairman of and on the boards of Facebook and eBay.
Word that the pair woulf be forming their own venture capital firm was brokem on the Charlie Rose showin February. But detaild came on Monday. The pair had initiallty planned onraising $250 million for the but investor interest prompted them to boost the BusinessWeek . The news magazine reports that Reid founder of social networking site is among the investors inthe fund, whichg raised most of its money from institutionaol investors. Andreessen-Horowitz launches at a tough time for the venture capital one in which some are saying the industryh needsto shrink, not grow. Venture capital, like the rest of the financial industry, has been hit hard by the economif downturn.
Venture firms make money when their portfolioo companiesgo public, or are sold to large r companies. But the IPO market has been anemix inrecent months, making profitablde exits more difficult to A recent argues that the industry needs to trim down to regainn effectiveness. "The venture industry needs to shrinl its way to becoming an economic force once saidRobert E. Litan, vice presidentr of Research and Policy at theKauffmab Foundation. “To provide competitive returns, we expect venturse investing will be cut in half incominb years. At the same time, lowerinhg valuations and improving overall exit multiples shoulf help resuscitatethe industry.
” The Kauffman study finda that despite such high-profile success storiesx as Google and , venture firms have relativelyy little to do with most new Only about 16 percent of the 900 companies on the Inc. 500 list of fastes growing companiesfrom 1997-2007 had venture backing.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Phillies get taste of reality after Series win on MLB show
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The Pen will be narrated by former Phillies reliet pitcher and MLB Network analyst Mitch The program takes a look at the lives followingthe team’s 2008 World Series win and the pressureas of keeping their roster spot for the 2009 team. The seriesa features relief pitchersBrad Lidge, Ryan J.C. Romero, Scott Eyre, Clay Condrey, Chad Gary Majewski, Jack Taschner, J.A. Happ, Chan Ho Park and bullpe coachMick Billmeyer, and follows them to everythingb from fishing trips and youth baseball games to the White House for a post-Worlfd Series visit. The program also speaks with players following the suddenm death of longtime Phillies broadcaster Harry Kala onApril 13.
“As a reality-based seriew The Pen is the ultimate look into the livesd ofthese players, both on and off the said Tony Petitti, president and CEO of MLB Network. “So much of what we know about relief pitcherx is based on statisticzsand saves, and a series like The Pen gives a leveo of familiarity to each player.” The prograkm marks the first program ever produced using a camera and microphoned installed in a Major League bullpen to film in-game and practic footage. Two other cameras were installed in CitizensdBank Park, one behind home plate and one at low firs t base, and were controlled by MLB Network’z headquarters in Secaucus, N.J.
Producer Danny Field suitedr up as a catcher with a cameras attached to his mask to capture footages during spring trainingin Clearwater, Fla. The majoritgy owner of the MLB Network is MajorfLeague Baseball. Philadelphia-based CMCSK), Cox Communications, DirecTV and Time Warner also own interest inthe network.
The Pen will be narrated by former Phillies reliet pitcher and MLB Network analyst Mitch The program takes a look at the lives followingthe team’s 2008 World Series win and the pressureas of keeping their roster spot for the 2009 team. The seriesa features relief pitchersBrad Lidge, Ryan J.C. Romero, Scott Eyre, Clay Condrey, Chad Gary Majewski, Jack Taschner, J.A. Happ, Chan Ho Park and bullpe coachMick Billmeyer, and follows them to everythingb from fishing trips and youth baseball games to the White House for a post-Worlfd Series visit. The program also speaks with players following the suddenm death of longtime Phillies broadcaster Harry Kala onApril 13.
“As a reality-based seriew The Pen is the ultimate look into the livesd ofthese players, both on and off the said Tony Petitti, president and CEO of MLB Network. “So much of what we know about relief pitcherx is based on statisticzsand saves, and a series like The Pen gives a leveo of familiarity to each player.” The prograkm marks the first program ever produced using a camera and microphoned installed in a Major League bullpen to film in-game and practic footage. Two other cameras were installed in CitizensdBank Park, one behind home plate and one at low firs t base, and were controlled by MLB Network’z headquarters in Secaucus, N.J.
Producer Danny Field suitedr up as a catcher with a cameras attached to his mask to capture footages during spring trainingin Clearwater, Fla. The majoritgy owner of the MLB Network is MajorfLeague Baseball. Philadelphia-based CMCSK), Cox Communications, DirecTV and Time Warner also own interest inthe network.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
France Telecom to pay Numericable EUR 10 mln in damages - Telecompaper (subscription)
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France Telecom to pay Numericable EUR 10 mln in damages Telecompaper (subscription) Free, Neuf Cegetel, Alice, Club Internet and others were part of the competition complaint to Brussels, and settled damages after suing France Telecom at the Paris court. Numericable was also seeking compensation for lost earnings, argued that it had ... |
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