Business Feeds
Fortune telling is big business for Japan Web firm (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
An Internet firm specializing in crystal balls, tarot readings, I-ching and horoscopes is raking in business as Japanese seek reassurance about the future in the midst of a global financial crisis.
What's up in business books, magazines, TV in December (USA Today)
Stories about Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein are featured in December issues of business magazines. On TV, look for shows Secret Millionaire and The Money Chase: Inside Harvard Business School. and Eugene Ludwig, former Comptroller of the Currency, answers five questions.
Obama: A War on Big Business? (US News & World Report)
Would Obama be a pro-small-business president and an anti-big-business president?
Fear of More Attacks Could Hurt Business in India (PC World via Yahoo! News)
Mumbai is trying to limp back to normalcy after terrorist attacks last week left around 195 dead, and close to 300 injured. But there are questions whether foreigners will continue to take the risk of doing business in the city and the rest of the country, which have faced repeated terrorist attacks in the past.
Explosion sets off fire in business park (UPI)
SLOUGH, England, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- British firefighters Monday were battling a blaze caused by an explosion at a plastics and chemical plant in a Slough-area business park.
Blackstone, CMS Group launching new business (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Investment firm Blackstone Group and CMS Group, an information technology services provider, are teaming up to create a new infrastructure management and outsourced business services company, Blackstone said Monday.
Motlana, Black Business Pioneer and Mandela's Doctor, Dies (Bloomberg)
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Nthato Motlana , doctor to Nelson Mandela and a pioneer of black empowerment in South African business, has died. He was 83. Motlana died yesterday after a long battle with cancer, the Johannesburg-based Nelson Mandela Foundation said in an e-mailed statement today.
Two business-law partners climb aboard Cozen O’Connor firm (BizJournals)
Cozen O’Connor added two more partners to its business law department, both of whom provide commercial, transactional and regulatory services to insurance-related clients.
South Africa May Amend Empowerment Scorecard, Business Day Says (Bloomberg)
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s Department of Trade and Industry may remove affirmative action and skills- development requirements from its so-called black economic empowerment scorecard, Business Day reported.
Rhea F. Law: Business planning to achieve goals (BizJournals)
Who am I? NAME: Rhea F. Law TITLE AND COMPANY: CEO, chair of the board, Fowler White Boggs PA YEARS WITH THE COMPANY: 27 YEARS IN TAMPA BAY AREA: Born, raised and remain in Tampa Bay NATURE OF BUSINESS: Attorney EDUCATION: B.A., University of South Florida; J.D., Stetson University College of Law WHERE YOU GREW UP AND WHAT IT WAS LIKE: I grew up in Tampa. It was a much smaller, ...