Brightsource Energy files for IPO
Bizjournals.com
As the San Francisco Business Times reports, the filing came days after Brightsource secured financing for a $1.6 billion federal loan guarantee. You must be logged in to post a comment. Log in or Register. Use of, or registration on, ...

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Online success
Press-Enterprise
Espinosa has been developing and designing websites and consulting for companies since he was 16, but Bckyrd.com was his first startup venture. He's selling the site to PixelFish, an online video production company based in Torrance. ...

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Ramtron Names Mark R. Kent As Chief Financial Officer
TheStreet.com (press release)
By Business Wire 04/26/11 - 08:30 AM EDT US semiconductor maker Ramtron International Corporation (Nasdaq:RMTR) announced today that it has named Mark R. Kent as chief financial officer effective immediately. Mr. Kent, 51, is responsible for directing ...

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Acucela Inc. Appoints Seasoned Financial Executive, David L. Lowrance, CPA, as ...
Business Wire (press release)
In addition, he led all aspects of finance and accounting, and played a key role in formulating the Company's business and financing strategies. Formerly, he was head of finance at a division of BorgWarner Inc, a leading $3B auto manufacturer supplier, ...

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GE Capital, Franchise Finance Provides $7.5 Million to Church's Chicken and ...
Business Wire (press release)
(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Capital, Franchise Finance provided a $7.5 million credit facility to MSK Enterprises, LLC, a Church's Chicken and Little Caesar's franchisee. The facility includes a $6.5 million term loan used for the acquisition of 14 Church's ...

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General Electric stock edges up after upgrade
BusinessWeek
During the recession, GE's financing arm GE Capital was weighed down by risky loans. The financing business improved in the last several months, however, as the economy picked up. In the first quarter, GE Capital profits more than tripled to $1.8 ...

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The Express Tribune
Launching your business: Four common mistakes
The Express Tribune
A successful entrepreneur will constantly adjust course without losing sight of the final destination. Don't shortchange your start-up when estimating the funds you will require – you'll just diminish your chances of success. ...

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A few keywords for success
Financial Times
Mentors then guide the would-be entrepreneur through the process of turning a good idea into a great business. StartUp Britain needs to mirror that process in order to deliver on its promise to make Britain a more enterprising place.

LCA-Vision Reports First Quarter EPS of $0.11
PR Newswire (press release)
Importantly, our many initiatives that are supporting business improvements as we move through the current economic conditions also are aimed at building a strong infrastructure to support growth and profitability as the economy improves. ...

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Wealthy investors add art startups to their collections
CNN
Artsicle co-founder Scott Carleton, 25, is among the entrepreneurs trying to change that. "It's kind of the last e-commerce frontier from our end," he says. The New York startup offers customers a "try before you buy" system, allowing subscribers to ...

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Ceradyne, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2011 Financial Results
SYS-CON Media (press release)
... of marketable securities 7000 12 Proceeds from sale of equipment 1339 284 Acquisition of business (27673) - --------- --------- NET CASH USED IN INVESTING ACTIVITIES (27251) (3769) --------- --------- CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES: Proceeds ...
Popular, Inc. Reports Financial Results for the Quarter Ended March 31, 2011Business Wire (press release)

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More UK Entrepreneurs Research Online to Ensure Business Success
WebWire (press release)
The internet has equipped entrepreneurs with the facility to source both information and trade contacts online.” The modern day entrepreneur has a host of online resources at their finger tips for advice and guidance on business start-up and growing ...

Prosper.com Reports Record P2P Lending Growth in the First Quarter of 2011
PR-USA.net (press release)
"At first I thought it was too good to be true, but the speed of funding and the great rates proved to me that, on Prosper.com, small businesses can get access to the affordable small business financing they need," said Lydia Hamilton-Monnie, ...

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RTT News
Scor Agrees to Acquire Aegon's Transamerica Re Business for $912.5 Million
Bloomberg
Aegon will keep about half the reinsurance reserve financing obligations, the Dutch insurer said. Scor Chief Executive Officer Denis Kessler has been seeking to expand France's largest reinsurer's life business, which helps insurers pool their risks ...
AEGON to Divest Transamerica Reinsurance to SCORPR Newswire (press release)
Scor to buy Aegon's resinsurance unit for $913 millionReuters
Aegon To Sell Transamerica Reinsurance Unit To Scor For $1.4 Bln - UpdateRTT News
Insurance Business Review
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Melrose Jewelers: Recent USC MBA Graduate Krishan Agarwal Leads Online Luxury ...
Marketwire (press release)
Los Angeles local, Krishan Agarwal began his successful online retail store, MelroseJewelers.com, originally as a hobby to help fund his education while completing his MBA at the University of Southern California. He saw an untapped area of the luxury ...

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Brainstorming for New Startup Ideas: A Framework to Spur Creative Thinking
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
If you are a serial entrepreneur starting to look for an idea for your next startup, you are likely to want a way to stimulate your brain to come up with as many good ideas as possible. This blog post outlines a framework that is designed to fire up ...

S&P Rates Japan Finance Corp. Series 16, 17, And 18 Bonds
Reuters
April 26 - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said today that it had assigned its 'AA-' senior secured long-term debt ratings to Japan Finance Corp.'s (JFC; AA-/Stable/A-1+) bonds: series 16 (for the Micro Business and Individual Operations), ...

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RTT News
AEGON to Divest Transamerica Reinsurance to SCOR
PR Newswire (press release)
The company sharpens its focus on its core business of life insurance, pensions and asset management, while improving its risk-return profile, and reducing reinsurance reserve financing related to the divested life reinsurance business by approximately ...
Scor to buy Aegon's resinsurance unit for $913 millionReuters
Aegon To Sell Transamerica Reinsurance Unit To Scor For $1.4 Bln - UpdateRTT News

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Business-for-Sale Activity Improving
CSP Daily News
The report also shows a slight increase in business succession activity in first-quarter 2011 over the same period in 2010. "We've been predicting for quite some time that the business-for-sale market would improve as more financing becomes available ...
Small Businesses Selling Well in 2011 Q1CSNews Online
BizBuySell analysis: Columbus sales picture for 1QBizjournals.com

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Lehman, Vitro, River Road, IGP, Constar, C-Bass: Bankruptcy
BusinessWeek
It says that “Lehman was no different from other large financial enterprises” in how it ran the business. The Deutsche-Goldman group explains how large companies legitimately set up multiple subsidiaries for tax, capital raising and liability ...

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