Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
Monday, July 21st, 2008
Part I
I grew up in Denver. Growing up, I heard references to Denver as a "cow town." Local city officials grew tired of it. A transplant from south Texas decided he would do something about it. Federico Pena ran for mayor, won, and built the crown jewel of airports in ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
SAN ANTONIO - On the heels of AT&T's announcement last week that it is relocating its headquarters from San Antonio to "The Big D," as they idiotically like to call it here, Toyota today announced that they will shutter the brand spanking new production plant in San Antonio that went ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
SAN ANTONIO - Bullard High School valedictorian Arthur Mkoyan will be deported shortly after his graduation, say immigration officials. The Fresno, Calif., student has been in the U.S. since the age of two and will most likely lose out on at least two scholarship opportunities waiting for him when he ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
This is old news, but I just got burned by this today so I am posting. After getting my wallet stolen a couple weeks ago, you figure I would be more alert, but I guess not...
Internet domain name registrar Network Solutions is the subject of a class action suit filed ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
SAN ANTONIO - The manager of Blackrock's World Energy fund, Robin Batchelor, this week predicted oil prices to remain high well into the next decade, reports Britian's Financial Times.
The world's emerging economies, particularly China, are to blame for a rise in demand for oil. Batchelor suggested a continued increase in ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
SAN ANTONIO - Embattled Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang apparently decided to celebrate his ill-advised defeat of Microsoft's takeover bid with a little Cinco de Mayo spice.
The image appears today on top of the Yahoo home page.
Rumor is that tacky stereotypes are part of Yang's plan to bring Yahoo back to ...
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