Oregon is opening the longest stretch of electric highway in the nation with the help of AeroVironment and its electric charging stations. It is part of the West Coast Green Highway initiative. According to the Washington State DOT site called West Coast Green Highway: ?The Electric Highways Project will encourage more people and businesses in ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 18:53

Western Digital shares are getting a lift Thursday from Needham analyst Richard Kugele, who upped his rating on the stock to Strong Buy from Buy, with a new target of $66, up from $50. The stock closed yesterday at $39.45; his target suggests a potential gain of 67%. Kugele contends the company?s recently completed acquisition ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 18:55

We?ve just finished running a 2 day seminar for almost 500 entrepreneurs. We taught a lot, but we also learnt a lot. Here?s what I learnt: 1. Entrepreneurs are not just driven by money. Most of the people we spoke to wanted to create something extraordinary, not just make a profit. Sure money was of ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 01:25

One of the more controversial elements of the Dodd-Frank Reform and Consumer Protection Act is the whistleblower incentives. ??And within the whistleblower incentives, there?s an even more controversial issue: should SEC rules require potential whistleblowers to report internally, through corporate compliance programs, first? ??It seems like business interests?the Chamber of Commerce comes to mind?want the ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 05:08

Our team of 10 women, angels-in-training, had sifted through over sixty applications from for-profit, women-led social ventures and had selected nine businesses to invite to pitch to us at the 2012 Pipeline Fellows Summit. For its inaugural Boston class in late February, the Pipeline Fellowship, a woman-led social venture launched by Natalia Oberti Noguera that ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 17:24

How is Best Buy like Starbucks? Aside from a big overlap in their target demographic, there may be more points of difference than similarity. But there is one thing they will soon share ??? the influence of Stephen Gillett.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 20:23

This article is by Danielle Arceneaux, VP and director of public relations for Cramer-Krasselt . As a public relations director at an integrated marketing agency, I advise clients every day on their social media strategies.?? However, as an active participant in the anti- social media protests, I learned more than is possible at any industry ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 20:23

The acquisition makes UPS Europe's largest shipper.

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 19:25

We learn in "" by Walter Isaacson that the college-age son of the most iconic American businessman of his era wants to be a cancer researcher. There is no mention he wants to follow dad into the business he co-founded, , or anything like it.?? It turns out that a lot of kids of Chinese ...

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 03:23

All three of these reflect the pros and cons??of unified action. Even though the U.S. is or soon could be??a net??exporter of gasoline, we still depend on Middle-Eastern oil.?? Iran has a lot of it, and we?re mad at Iran for being, shall we say, disingenuous, about its nuclear weapon readiness/intent/megalomania. So the US has ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 18:23