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		<title>Mobile-Powered Sales: 5 Reasons to Go All In &#8211; Technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Webber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For salespeople, success is found at the intersection of opportunity and availability. Larry Ritter, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Sage CRM Solutions gives five great reasons mobility can lead your business to success. TAGS: Android, business gadgets, business innovation, business software, business tips, CRM, iPad, mobile business, mobile sales, Sage CRM, smartphones, tablets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100th Year Anniversary of the BBB</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Flinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Believe it or not, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) has been around for 100 years. Their latest infographic provides a highlight of their biggest events from the first BBB in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1912 to the release of their app in 2011. In 1930, BBBs developed Truth in Advertising Standards, something most consumers can appreciate. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economist pledges realistic view of Memphis commercial property market</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Bland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Memphis real estate professionals will get a forecast on the commercial market, which includes the Ridgeway Trace center at Poplar and Interstate 240, on Feb. 8 from economist Loren C. Scott. Economist Loren C. Scott will give Memphis commercial real estate professionals his forecast for 2012 using undergrad-level economics principles and history lessons instead of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Air Products earnings flat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Webber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First quarter earnings were flat for Air Products and Chemicals. The Trexlertown gas maker, the world&#8217;s largest hydrogen producer, said Tuesday net income for the fiscal first quarter ended Dec. 31 rose 1 percent compared to a year ago. It earned $292 million, or diluted earnings per share of $1.36, versus $296 million for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant Depot has plans for Colonie</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Flinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Restaurant Depot, headquartered in the College Point section of Queens,  is planning a store at 22 Warehouse Row in Colonie, the towns planning director confirmed Monday. The wholesaler of fresh, frozen and dry foods, beverages, paper goods, cleaning supplies and equipment would employ about 35 people when it first opens, said Joe LaCivita, the town [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crisis? Crash? Minutes of US Fed&#8217;s 2006 meetings reveal little worry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Flinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minutes of its interest rate-setting meetings from that year, as US house prices began to crumble, show its top officials laughing about excesses in the housing market and what turned out to be signals of trouble in the economy of Iceland, whose subsequent collapse was a harbinger of the global credit crisis. The reputations of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building down: City of Redding suffers tough year; construction numbers sink in north state</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Bland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite a late-year jump in activity, especially in home building, 2011 will go down as abysmal for construction in the north state. The city of Redding suffered its worst year for building since 1981. Factor inflation, and 2011 was arguably the worst year ever in Redding. &#8220;To me, (2011) felt like a year of transition,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boulder City signs lease agreement for solar power plant</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Webber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boulder City officials today signed a 50-year lease agreement with Korean Midland Power Company to develop a 250 to 350 megawatt solar generation facility, the company announced. The project is expected to create hundreds of jobs during construction. The solar array will be located in the Eldorado Valley, about 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia&#8217;s Putin dreams of sweeping Eurasian Union</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Bland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has a vision for a Soviet Union-lite he hopes will become a new Moscow-led global powerhouse. But, his planned Eurasian Union won&#8217;t be grounded in ideology: This time it&#8217;s about trade. The concept of regional economic integration may be losing some of its allure in Europe, where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental agency rejects Valero&#8217;s tax exemption request that would have cut into school budgets</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Flinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has rejected Valero Energy Corp.&#8217;s request for retroactive tax exemptions at six refineries, a ruling that relieves many municipal and school district officials. An affirmative decision would have required local governments already crunched by lean budgets to pay back millions of dollars to the company, which officials feared would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free workshop on commercial grants and tax credits scheduled for Jan. 26 in Roanoke</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Webber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The city of Roanoke will hold a free commercial grants and tax credits workshop Jan. 26 Topics will include enterprise zone program grants, tax abatements, facade improvement grants, brownfield grants, historic rehabilitation tax credits, job creation grants and entrepreneurship grants. Time will be available at the end of the workshop for participants to meet with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Retail Federation boosts its holiday sales forecast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Bland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[View full sizeDominique Fong/The OregonianCustomers shop at Best Buy&#8217;s Tualatin store on Black Friday. &#8220;Promising&#8221; retail gains from November motivated the National Retail Federation to boost its holiday sales forecast to $469.1 billion. With the final Christmas countdown begun, the nation&#8217;s largest retail trade group has upgraded its holiday sales forecast reflecting growing optimism that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuts possible at American Eagle as American Airlines reorganizes, analysts say</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Webber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some industry analysts have made the case that cuts may come soon to American Eagle — the airline that flies to and from Abilene — as parent company AMR Corp. reorganizes under bankruptcy proceedings. On Wednesday, American Eagle confirmed that it suspended training for 20 Eagle pilots, according to several published reports. A day earlier, [...]]]></description>
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