Monday, January 31, 2011

AdEx raises $2.3M in private placement - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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million. Mountain View-based AdEx (OTCBB:ADXM) said it issue about 1. 9 million shares of stock at $1.20 per share and warrantsa to purchase an aggregateof 975,668i shares at an exercise pricde of $1.56 per share. The company plans to use proceeds from the financinb to expand its consumerproduct offerings, diversify its marketingv platforms and services and for ongoing working capital requirements. "The completion of this offering provides furthere validation of our business model and strengthens ouroperational capabilities," said CEO Scott Rewick.
"W are very pleased to welcome our new investorw to the AdEx We also appreciate the continuecd strong support of our many existinvg investors who participated inthis round." AdEx is an integrateed Internet marketing and consumer product company with a focus on marketing, distributinh its own products and offerinfg advertising customers a multi-channel Interne advertising, publishing and lead generation

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Ohio, colleges awarded $4M in Gates grants - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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The foundation’s Development Educatiomn Initiativeawarded $16.5 million to Connecticut, Florida, Texas and Virginia, as well as community collegesa in each state. A community collegee in North Carolina also received The initiative seeks to suppory programs that help studentw enrolled in remedialprograms — so-called refresher courses for students who are not up to graded level in a given subject. The goal is to improvd classroom performance so students can go on to take advance courses and eventually graduate with a degreeor certificate.
The stat e of Ohio was awarded $300,000 over a three-year period to develop a new performance-based funding system that rewards community collegesz for helping students complete remedialand college-levek courses. The foundation also said it’x awarding $743,000 over three years to each of the followingh fiveOhio schools: , , , and . The grantzs will support various state andcollegw programs, including efforts to collect data and bettedr track the performance of remediaol students, the foundation said. Clicmk for a look at awards recipients nationwide.

Friday, January 21, 2011

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Sac State receives $211K for 'green jobs' training - Washington Business Journal:

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The college has received $210,950 in stimulusa money to provide classroom training for gree jobs inthe high-growth industr y of facilities management, a news release said The money comes from almost $5 million in federaol Recovery Act funds allocated by the through the Sacramentl Employment and Training Agency. The College of Continuing Education is one of 19 area organizationas receivingthe funds. The college’s training program will starg inthe fall. It will help workers from facility management and theconstruction industry, which are sectords that have lost many jobs in the deep recession.
Those eligible for the program include adults who are interestesd in or have some experience inconstructiojn management, operations and maintenance, custodial landscaping, the environment, contract management and wastew management, the release “These funds will allow us to develop and deliver much-needef training for an industry sector in our communityg that has been extremely hard hit by the budgett downturn,” Alice Tom, dean of the Collegew of Continuing Education, said in the release. “Sustainable facilitiee management has been designatecd asa high-growth job area by the Bureauy of Labor Statistics, so this traininyg will have both immediate and long-ter usability.
” “The training will prepare workerzs for high-wage jobs with career advancement opportunities,” Tonii Ramirez, seniofr program coordinator with the College of Continuing said in the release. “Itr meets the college’s goal of helpin adults update their skills and move aheade intheir careers. “The program will offer a comprehensive review of the skills requiredof today’sa facility managers,” Ramirez said.
“It will teach the importance of incorporating sustainability in all stepds of facility management, including the LEED (Leadership in Energ and Environmental Design) certification process, which rates projectss based on their environmental awareness in desigjn and construction.” • $257,79r5 to study an advanced technique for sampling hydrocarbon emissionsx from certain kinds of vegetation. The granft will fund research by one graduate student and oneundergraduate student. $17,664 to supplement an earlier non-stimuluz award of $198,000 to study sugar-basedf molecules that potentially could be used to fight viral diseasezs suchas HIV, which can lead to AIDS.
The supplemenr will fund work by two undergraduate students and one high school studentthis summer. $74,760 from the federal Noyce Teaching Fellowshi p Program to provide planning funds for a collaboration by the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematiczs and the College of Education to create traininhg programs for math andsciencee teachers.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Cincinnati-area firms win Ohio incentives - Nashville Business Journal:

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, a maker of marketing simulation andplanningb software, received $1.1 million from the Innovatiomn Ohio Loan Fund, at an annual interestg rate of 1 percent for the first year and 8 percenyt for five years. The Cincinnati-basedc company will use the loan to develolp a new generation of its Emerginh Marketplace software and buycomputer equipment. The $2.2 milliob project is expected to create 36 jobs and retain10 jobs. Two local firmss also received Job Creation Tax Credits forexpansiobn projects. • , a supplier of labelingb systems for thebeverage industry, was awardedd a 45 percent tax credit for five yearxs for a $1 million expansiomn project in Mason.
The company expects to use the worthabout $52,700 over its term, to creats 25 jobs and retain 118. won a 45 percent job for a six-year term, for a $170,000 expansion projecr at its regionalofficwe downtown. The credit is valued at about $119,750 over its Advantage expects to create 33 positionse andretain 65. The company, headquartered in Wash., provides energy management consulting services.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Monday, January 10, 2011

Jerry Brown's budget for California is 'honest' and 'very painful' - Christian Science Monitor

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Saturday, January 8, 2011

Who Should Be the GOP Nominee--and Can Any of Them Beat Obama? - ABC News (blog)

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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

TiVo wins $103M round in EchoStar fight - San Francisco Business Times:

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EchoStar lost an appeal in district court in The courtawarded Alviso-based TiVo (NASDAQ: $103, 068,836 plus interest, which coversx the period from Sept. 8, 2006 to April 18, 2008. But EchoStar (NASDAQ: SATS), of Colo., will appeal the matter to the U.S Court of Appeald for the Federal Circuit. Even if TiVo which observers think likely, the award won’tg wipe away its large accumulated deficit. In the fiscak years 2008 and 2007, before it won TiVo lost $31.6 millionn and $49.1 million, respectively. TiVo has alread y been awarded $105 million in this patenf fightwith EchoStar. Though that earlier EchoStar payment contributed to a profiyof $103.
6 million for TiVo in the quartetr ended January, the company’s accumulated deficirt (how much it has lost or writtenh off since it started) at that time was $672.3 million. “We will need to generate significant additional revenues to achieve sustained the company said in its most recentquarterlyt filing. TiVo’s president and CEO, Tom 54, was paid a salary of $800,0090 in the latest fiscal year. His totao compensation for the yearwas $5.9 including $54,824 for housing, housin related and living expenses, $42,796 in insurance related expenses, and $20,09o in family travel related expenses, according to TiVo’d proxy card.
Rogers also sits on the boarx at , a Texas telephone book publishedr that filed Chapter 11in March. He’s been a director there since November 2006. based at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, paid a cash retainet of $60,000 to directors in the latestyear it’s reported in a proxy Former TiVo board member Charles Fruit, a marketinv executive who sat on TiVo’x audit committee, died May 27. TiVo had 463 workerws as of March 23, more than half of them in researcuh anddevelopment jobs.

Monday, January 3, 2011

Early Columbus goal fires up Preds coach - The Tennessean

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