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Feb

Bull & Lifshitz, LLP Announces Investigation of Solutia Inc.

NEW YORK, Feb. 2, 2012 /PRbuilder.com/ — Bull & Lifshitz, LLP announces an investigation into possible breaches of fiduciary duty in connection with the proposed sale of Solutia Inc. (NYSE: SOA) (referred to as “Solutia” or the “Company”) to E…

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27
Jan

Curran Named Head of Goodyear North American Tire Communications, PR

AKRON, Ohio, Jan. 27, 2012 /PRbuilder.com/ – The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (NYSE: GT) has named Christopher Curran vice president of public relations and communications for its North American Tire business.
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27
Jan

MISO Interpretation of Transmission Capacity Sharing Affirmed

CARMEL, Ind., Jan. 27, 2012 /PRbuilder.com/ – The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), denied Southwest Power Pool’s (SPP) request for rehearing on issues related to its joint operating agreement (JOA) with MISO. 
The ruling affirms, f…

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27
Jan

Sustainability in the Workplace: Healthier Air, Higher Morale

RIVERDALE, N.J., Jan. 27, 2012 /PRbuilder.com-iReach/ — Sustainability isn’t only on the minds of consumers, shareholders, and environmentalists. Employees and companies are finding they are becoming increasingly concerned with how their workpla…

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14
Dec

The Protester, not Steve Jobs, Is ‘Time”s 2011 Person of the Year

Snubbing Steve Jobs, Time magazine named The Protester as its 2011 Person of the Year , paying homage to the “spirit of dissent” that toppled dictators in the Middle East and sparked protests like Occupy Wall Street against corruption and inequality in the U.S. and around the world. “They literally embodied the idea that individual action can bring collective, colossal change,” Time managing editor Richard Stengel said in announcing the Person of the Year today.

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14
Dec

App.net Makes Facebook Pages More Mobile Friendly

More and more companies are relying on Facebook Pages to connect with their fans, but App.net CEO Dalton Caldwell says there's something missing: A simple way to connect those Pages to a company's smartphone apps. For example, the Facebook Page for mobile startup Foursquare has more than 700,000 fans and plenty of content, yet there's no direct link to download the Foursquare app.

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14
Dec

Christiane Amanpour Departs ‘This Week’

Christiane Amanpour has left her position as host of the ABC News Sunday morning program This Week . She will become global affairs anchor and host prime-time specials at ABC

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14
Dec

SAY Media Acquires Tech Blog ReadWriteWeb

SAY Media has acquired popular tech blog ReadWriteWeb. Founded in 2003 by Richard MacManus, ReadWriteWeb became one of the most-respected news sites in the tech world, establishing a voice that's often more serious and in-depth than its competitors. At the same time, it never managed to overtake TechCrunch, the king of the Silicon Valley blogs, and traffic growth seems to have stalled—according to comScore, the site saw 766,000 unique US visitors last month, compared to 837,000 in November 2010.

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13
Dec

Tough Year Ahead for Ad Industry

Media agencies have shrunk their ad spending forecasts, Publicis Groupe is clamping down on hiring and salaries, and MDC Partners CEO Miles Nadal is seeing a deceleration in marketer spending. Looks like 2012 will be another tough year

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13
Dec

A Holiday Tale: The Christmas Tree Wars

The sale of fresh-cut Christmas trees may not rack up the billions spent on clothing or electronics at this time of year, but Americans did buy 27 million holiday conifers last year, dropping $976 million in the process.

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