The global market for private security products and systems is forecast to advance 8.0 percent per annum through 2010, reaching $85 billion. While building construction -- especially in North America, China and Eastern Europe -- is expected to decelerate from an impressive 2000-2005 performance, a firming global economy and rising urbanization will continue to drive demand. Especially favorable
Indicators Strong for Small Businesses (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LOS ANGELES----Sept. 18, 2006--Business.com, the web's leading business search engine and directory, today released its August Business.com Barometer, a monthly measurement that provides a snapshot of the rising and falling business search trends among small business Internet users.
Most Canadian small business owners want to remain small (Investment Executive)
Most Canadian small business owners would rather remain small than keep growing their businesses, according to a report by CIBC World Markets.
FINANCIAL ADVICE: Policies help rich get richer (Courier-Post)
The rich apparently are getting richer -- thanks partly to federal wealth-accumulation policies that heavily favor affluent Americans.
Metropolis Technologies Corp. Announces The Otto Law Group PLLC of Seattle, Washington Has Been Retained as the (PrimeZone via Yahoo! Finance)
Metropolis Technologies Corp. announced today that the company has retained The Otto Law Group PLLC as its corporate counsel of record.
Scottish intellectuals ?are talking the country down? (Sunday Herald)
Leading historian Tom Devine has attacked high-profile Scots, including Channel 4 executive Stuart Cosgrove and television don Niall Ferguson, for being too ?pessimistic? about their nation.
Group offers $100,000 for best business idea (Syracuse.com)
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) ? An economic development consortium is putting up $100,000 for a competition "to ignite the entrepreneurial spirit in Central New York," officials announced Wednesday.
Richest in U.S. get most help (The Arizona Republic)
Federal policies designed to encourage saving, homeownership and small businesses have largely benefited affluent Americans with fairly minimal impact among the poor, according to a new study released in Phoenix.
Honoring a firm's success (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Six years ago, the corporate headquarters for Providence Pediatric Medical DayCare Inc. was Leeanna Román's house. A former construction-supply company owner, Román acquired Providence Pediatric by inheriting its debt. It now has 60 employees, three day-care sites, and a separate corporate headquarters.
ARCHITECTURE/ENGINEERING (Pioneer Press)
ARCHITECTURE/ENGINEERING HGA Architects and Engineers, Minneapolis, recently hired Patricia Neuman as a senior associate for the science and technology practice group, with responsibility for business development. ? Darush Sakizadeh and Steven Sauer have become co-managing directors of the Benham Cos., St. Paul. ? Schoell Madson, Plymouth, added Corinne Schrantz as a senior associate.
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