About the Company: The IT vendor in this case study is a $6 billion per year IT professional services and outsourcing company that sells to governments and large corporations. The AR department consisted of one AR director and one AR coordinator. Situation: AR was notified by Sales that a bid for a $35m services opportunity never materialized because a major analyst firm had not included the company on the short list. This was puzzling because the AR department had recently developed a
The White House continues its obsession with Fox News with a post on the front page of Whitehouse.gov. My question is, is it really appropriate for the gateway to and the homepage of the President of the United States to attack Glenn Beck and Fox News? I guess Beck got under their skin when he exposed the Green Czar who had the unique characteristic of being a communist and a truther, all in one. Talk about a distracted White House. Here’s the post: Reality Check: Trying to Turn a P
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Yesterday, Dynavax Technologies Corp. ( DVAX ) announced that it has resumed the late-stage registration trial of its hepatitis B (HBV) vaccine Heplisav in patients with chronic kidney disease. The trial will enroll 600 patients. Heplisav will be tested against GlaxoSmithKline plc’s ( GSK ) Engerix-B. The company intends to begin another late-stage registration trial in adults over 40 years of age in early 2010. Dynavax expects to complete both trials within the next 2 years. Management ex
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Not to get too personal, but I haven't exactly been counting calories this summer. So I decided to dust off my online South Beach Diet account. I enter in the website that I want to lose 20 pounds this winter, and it tells me how to craft my diet to meet my 20 pound weight-loss goal. Then it occurs to me: This is what we're already doing for energy! We've created a website that allows me to plug in information about my home and lifestyle (like the kind of heater I have and how much I ru
One of the hardest hit areas during a recession is the construction industry.A piece of that big industry is the roofing industry.People don’t realize that they can’t avoid buying roofs not because they just like to buy one but because someday they would have to replace it.The roof is a part of your home that is very important that when it needs to be replaced you really have to replace it.If you do not do it because you are saving money then it will cost you more money in the long run because o
The recession in the U.S. economy has resulted in more foreclosures than experienced by any other generation of Americans. However, opportunistic real estate investment professionals are turning the recession into great profits with a bit of creativity. The new opportunity is known as ‘ Bulk REO Investing’ or ‘REO Package Investing’ and it’s a huge opportunity. Take a just a minute to consider the basics of this highly profitable business. Understanding the notion of Bulk REO’s requires
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I was asked to review WebNotes PR and the questions to address when reviewing this product were: Are there real benefits of using this tool (like saving time, monitoring media, etc)? Can WebNotes PR be used to generate professional media reports? Is WebNotes PR worth its price? Are there other similar products that could be used instead of WebNotes? What professional PR media monitoring and reporting tools would you recommend? Intuitive UI – Easy to Use, Aesthetic I signed up
As per a recent article in the Wall Street Journal , Hewlett Packard Company ( HPQ ) is considering merger of its Personal-Computer (PC) and Printer businesses into one single division. The combined unit would be headed by Todd Bradley, the chief of the personal computer division. This indicates that the printing business, once the biggest revenue earner for the company, is going through a bad patch and the company is currently focussing on building other businesses relating to PC, commercial
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Two of the main banking regulators, the OCC and the OTS, jointly released data on mortgage performance in the second quarter today, and the news was not good. The report covers 34 million individual first mortgages totaling about $6 Trillion. All types of delinquencies were up, but most distressing was the information about serious delinquencies, or mortgages that are more than 60 days past due. They reached 5.3% of all mortgages, up from 4.7% in the first quarter, an increase of 11.5%. Forecl
By John Byrne, the raw story Warren Buffett balked at conflict of interest BREAKING 10:08 AM ET:Vanity Fair will report in the next issue of the magazine that US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson — a former head of the investment bank Goldman Sachs — tried to orchestrate secretive deals in the midst of the financial crisis but got blowback from prominent investor Warren Buffett. The following press release was obtained by Raw Story; the magazine appears today on newsstands in New York and Los
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