Los Angeles-area small-business lender receives cash infusion (Los Angeles Times)
Valley Economic Development Center gets $15 million from the city of Los Angeles and $1 million from Merrill Lynch to bolster nearly drained loan funds. After nearly running out of money in its small-business loan funds last month, Valley Economic Development Center Inc. of Van Nuys says it is getting $16 million to enable it to continue to lend to Southern California firms caught in the ...
Interest rates cut to 1.5pc: Business and industry reaction (Daily Telegraph)
The Bank of England has cut interest rates by half a percentage point to 1.5pc. Here is a roundup of reactions from business and industry figures.
National retailers’ plans to close stores hit home (Bluefield Daily Telegraph)
PRINCETON — Local business leaders remained optimistic about the area’s economy Wednesday after a national retailer announced plans to close stores in 20 states.
Chamber names award winners (The Times-Reporter)
Dave Kaufman Realty has been chosen as the Tuscarawas County Chamber of Commerce’s 2008 Small Business of the Year, while the Muskingum Lakes Chapter of the American Red Cross is the 2008 Organization of the Year.
Top Global Introduce the World's First 3GSpot Combining an 3G USB Modem and a WiFi HotSpot in One Compact Design (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
The patent pending duo mode 3G USB modem and WiFi HotSpot combo product is called the 3GSpot(TM). Its small form factor is ideal for business travelers and road warriors to get internet connectivity anywhere within 3G cellular coverage.
A miniature synchrotron for your home lab (PhysOrg)
In 2004 Lyncean Technologies announced the construction of the Compact Light Source (CLS), a miniature synchrotron which uses inverse Compton scattering to produce high-intensity, tunable, near-monochromatic x-ray beams. The CLS was designed to bring state-of-the-art protein structure determination to the home laboratory -- but it has also promised to have a broad impact across the spectrum of ...