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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Arun Majumdar, an ASME Fellow nominated in November by President Obama to serve as Under Secretary of Energy, has been approved by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. As this...

HEADNOTE The seventh annual Community Bankers Symposium, co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), was held...

Based in Shanghai with a staff of 5 persons for its debut in 2012, Transgene Biopharmaceuticals Technology Co. Ltd is a Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise, or WOFE, under the laws of the People's...

An independent watchdog group has asked the Food and Drug Administration to disregard a safety panel's recommendation to keep the popular birth control drugs Yaz and Yasmin on the market, citing evidence that...

Indiana's taxpayer-supported venture capital fund picked a winner in Marcadia Biotech, but Sen. Brent Waltz doesn't think the state saw enough of a payday. The state got its $2 million back, plus $600,000,...

New Orleans residents will have a chance starting Monday to weigh in on a proposed plan to more than double Sewerage and Water Board customer rates over the next five years. Through a...

Since its inception a year ago, Accelerate Long Island strived to be the end-all, be-all crossroads for research, venture capital and entrepreneurial ability here on Long Island. Unfortunately, where the organization has been...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Rockwell Collins, Inc. (NYSE: COL) today reported first quarter fiscal year 2012 income from continuing operations of $130 million compared to $150 million in the same period last year....

Strong Capital Generation With Tier 1 Common Equity Ratio at 9.86 Percent Global Excess Liquidity Sources Remain Strong at $378 Billion, up $42 Billion in 2011 Investment Bank Maintained No. 2 Global Ranking...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Real Estate Board of New York was successful in achieving many of the goals established in its 2011 agenda, in spite of increasing government dysfunction on the federal level and...

* 9 of 10 executives report economic crisis negatively impacts their ability to innovate * View innovation as primary driver of economic growth, jobs, quality of life * Pro-innovation markets produce better economic...

TEWKSBURY, Mass. -- Cambridge Heart, Inc. (OTCBB: CAMH), a developer of non-invasive diagnostic tests for cardiac disease, today announced that on January 17, 2012 it completed an initial closing of a private placement...

Inaugural Project to Focus on Improving Government Efficiency Through IT FAIRFAX, Va. -- The American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council today announced the creation of an Institute for Innovation to provide an objective...

Operating-Basis((1)) Earnings Per Share of $3.73 Increased 10% from $3.40 in 2010 BOSTON -- State Street Corporation today announced full-year and fourth-quarter 2011 earnings per common share of $3.79 and $0.76, respectively, compared...

SAO PAULO & RIO DE JANEIRO -- Fitch Ratings has assigned the following initial ratings to Banco do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (Banrisul): --Foreign and Local Currency Long-Term Issuer Default Rating...

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- On December 8, 2011, International Data Corporation (IDC) hosted its first New England State Government Broadband Summit. Attending the summit were representatives from broadband and telecom organizations in Connecticut, Maine,...

NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AA+' rating to the following Commonwealth of Massachusetts general obligation (GO) bonds: --$171,240,000 GO refunding bonds (SIFMA Index Bonds) 2012 series A; --$291,815,000 GO bonds consolidated...

NEW YORK -- the course of routine surveillance, Fitch Ratings has taken the following action on Chesterfield Valley Transportation Development District, MO's (the district) bonds: --$17.4 million series 2006 transportation sales tax revenue...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates & SINGAPORE -- Masdar - Abu Dhabi's multi-faceted renewable energy company, and Reed Exhibitions today announced their plans to hold the 'Asia Future Energy Forum & Exhibition' (AFEF),...