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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Biofuel company moving HQ to suburban Philly - BusinessWeek

By PATRICK WALTERS

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.

Gov. Tom Corbett traveled to suburban Philadelphia on Tuesday to welcome a biomass energy company that plans to move its headquarters from Georgia and create 150 jobs over the next three years as it tries to develop ways to turn products such as wood and waste into fuel.

Venture capitalist John Doerr moderated a discussion of alternative energy inside the warehouse building that Renmatix -- which has another facility in Kennesaw, Ga. -- will be calling home.

The company is developing ways to access the fermentable sugars that are the foundation of biofuels. The effort, along with other alternative energy efforts, are all part of helping the country become less dependent on foreign oil, Doerr said.

"Sugar is the next crude, the new crude," Doerr said. "Done right, this can revitalize the American economy."

The company's move, the development of natural gas drilling in the state and new wind and solar energy projects show that Pennsylvania is becoming a center of energy development, said Corbett, a first-term Republican.

Renmatix's processes, which use water to access sugars from biofuels, are an innovative part of finding new ways to create energy, Corbett said.

If Renmatix creates the number of jobs anticipated, the company will receive a total of $1.9 million in loans, tax credits and grants for the project, said Steve Kratz, a spokesman for the Department of Community and Economic Development.

Source: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNH9zx09arIrNW5_fEFzbm3gDUOsrQ&url=http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9Q131S00.htm

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Why Doesn?t Coke CEO Move Company To China? - Big Think

Maybe Mr. Kent needs to look at the reality of corporate taxes today in America:

Corporate Taxes as a Percentage of Federal Revenue

1955 . . . 27.3%

2010 . . . 8.9%

Corporate Taxes as a Percentage of GDP

1955 . . . 4.3%

2010 . . . 1.3%

Individual Income/Payrolls as a Percentage of Federal Revenue

1955 . . . 58.0%

2010 . . . 81.5%

Corporate Tax Rates, Then And Now �

Every CEO in the country needs to remove the word ?uncertainty? from their vocabulary. It is a non-specific word that might mean anything, in the way that the word ?discomfort? could describe the kind of pain you feel when you have a cramp in your leg or the kind of pain you feel when you have a broken neck. In CEO speak, ?uncertainty? is a word that is usually delivered in an ominous tone when they are being interviewed, because we all know that CEO?s are being paid millions of dollars a year to assemble successful business strategies as simply and easily as kids snap together Legos.

What I do know with certainty is that the Coca Cola Co PAC has made its own contribution to congressional gridlock. According to Open Secrets, some of the Coca Cola PAC?s larger contributions during the 2010 election cycle were to the three in Congress most responsible for our current inability to get anything done. Mitch McConnell received $5,000, John Boehner received $7500, and Eric Cantor received $8,000. Only John Lewis, who represents the congressional district in which the Coca Cola Company is located, received more.

Source: http://bigthink.com/ideas/40390?page=2

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Leading Online Real Estate Company Selects Autonomy Optimost to Extend Web ... - MarketWatch (press release)

CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Autonomy Corporation plc , a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, announced today that Move Inc., the leader in online real estate, has selected Autonomy Optimost. Autonomy's full suite of website optimization capabilities will help Move Inc. deliver an engaging customer experience and increase online conversion rates.

Move Inc. operates the Move Network of real estate web site for consumers and real estate professionals, including REALTOR.com, Move.com, and Moving.com. The Move Network of websites captures more than 15 million monthly visitors.

Autonomy will provide Move Inc. with new test design and authoring capabilities through the Autonomy Optimost Author module. Marketers at Move Inc. can use Optimost Author to create highly sophisticated AB and multivariate tests and campaigns, without the lengthy coding and IT involvement that all other testing platforms require. For Move Inc., this translates to more tests and higher ROI for the marketing team, without burdening the IT organization.

In addition Move.com will leverage Autonomy's expert professional services team, pioneers in online testing since 2001. Move.com will also benefit from Autonomy's cloud offering, which at 31 Petabytes is the largest private cloud in the industry.

"Consumers have come to expect dynamic and relevant experiences on the web," said Rafiq Mohammadi, CEO of Autonomy Promote. "Autonomy Optimost provides the Move Inc. marketing team with a proven technology for delivering compelling content and offers. As a result, Move Inc. can deepen customer loyalty and increase online conversions throughout their network of leading websites."

Please visit www.autonomy.com/optimost to learn more about Autonomy Optimost.

About Autonomy

Autonomy Corporation plc , a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, spearheads the Meaning Based Computing movement. IDC recently recognized Autonomy as having the largest market share and fastest growth in the worldwide search and discovery market. Autonomy's technology allows computers to harness the full richness of human information, forming a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data, including unstructured information, such as text, email, web pages, voice, or video. Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications including pan-enterprise search, customer interaction solutions, information governance, end-to-end eDiscovery, records management, archiving, business process management, web content management, web optimization, rich media management and video and audio analysis.

Autonomy's customer base is comprised of more than 25,000 global companies, law firms and federal agencies including: AOL, BAE Systems, BBC, Bloomberg, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Daimler AG, Deutsche Bank, DLA Piper, Ericsson, FedEx, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyds TSB, NASA, Nestle, the New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Shell, Tesco, T-Mobile, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. More than 400 companies OEM Autonomy technology, including Symantec, Citrix, HP, Novell, Oracle, Sybase and TIBCO. The company has offices worldwide. Please visit www.autonomy.com to find out more.

Autonomy and the Autonomy logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autonomy Corporation plc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

 
 
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SOURCE Autonomy Corporation plc

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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Atlas Van Lines Introduces Innovative Moving App - Consumer Electronics Net

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September 21, 2011 --

Evansville, IN (PRWEB) September 21, 2011

Atlas Van Lines, one of Americas leading moving companies, is embracing the hand-held digital revolution with the release of moveAtlas, a free, easy-to-use application for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. moveAtlas is the ideal tool for families preparing to move, giving access to expert advice, moving quotes, and shipment tracking.

The app offers shipment tracking capability for residential customers, and allows corporate customers to track their shipments as well.

According to Jack Griffin, president and COO of Atlas Van Lines, moveAtlas demonstrates that we are a customer-centric company, focused on embracing the latest technology to empower our customers and bring them value instantaneously. This is the type of technology that will continue to position us as a leader in our field and an innovator in customer service.

With moveAtlas, the public has instant access to items including:

Pre-move to-do lists, including helpful checkboxes to help complete organized tasks;
Packing tips for the do-it-yourself mover;
A four-week planner to organize time-sensitive tasks;
A quoting feature for your move for both full-service van line moves and Smart Move container moves;
Ability to track shipments;
A checklist for moving day.

According to Griffin, With moveAtlas, we are focusing on the family or person moving their home putting critical decision-making power literally at their fingertips.

moveAtlas is available on the App Store. Find out more about the new Atlas Van Lines app by visiting http://www.moveAtlas.com.

About Atlas
Atlas Van Lines, a national moving company, is the largest subsidiary of Atlas World Group, an Evansville, Ind.-based company. Atlas World Group companies employ nearly 700 people throughout North America. Nearly 500 Atlas interstate moving agents in the United States and Canada specialize in corporate relocation, household moving services and in the specialized transportation of high-value items such as electronics, fine art, new fixtures and furniture. Visit http://www.atlasvanlines.com for more information on the company and Atlas agents.

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Source: http://www.consumerelectronicsnet.com/article/Atlas-Van-Lines-Introduces-Innovative-Moving-App-1687167

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Biofuel company moving HQ to suburban Philly - BusinessWeek

By PATRICK WALTERS

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.

Venture capitalist John Doerr moderated a discussion of alternative energy inside the warehouse building that Renmatix -- which has another facility in Kennesaw, Ga. -- will be calling home.

"Sugar is the next crude, the new crude," Doerr said. "Done right, this can revitalize the American economy."

Renmatix's processes, which use water to access sugars from biofuels, are an innovative part of finding new ways to create energy, Corbett said.

Source: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNH9zx09arIrNW5_fEFzbm3gDUOsrQ&url=http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9Q131S00.htm

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Moving Beyond Social Media - CMSWire

Social media still matters. But to make these initiatives work for your business and its bottom-line, you need to move beyond social media alone and focus on social business.

In February 2006, Forrester Research published a report titled ?Social Computing,? bringing the basic principles of sharing and collaboration into a commercial spotlight. In the report, Forrester recommended that companies ?abandon top-down management and communication tactics, weave communities into their products and services, use employees and partners as marketers, and become part of a living fabric of brand loyalists.? Social computing was more commonly referred to as social media and has always been about the people.

As social media evolved, we saw best practices emerge. Companies listening to unstructured consumer conversations to gain real-time insights. Employees humanizing brands by joining in discussions across channels. Activation of brand fans to help spread their passion for their favorite products and services, with consumer-generated advocacy complementing paid media placements. Anyone attending a marketing conference around this time was highly likely to hear stories about strange objects in blenders, photoshopped time lapse cosmetics videos, and a guy dancing on command in a chicken suit. By November 2008, I compiled a list of over 300 social media marketing examples; at the time, it was the largest list around.

According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, over 65% of online adults use social networking sites. Having the majority of the country?s population online and using some form of social media presents massive opportunity for brands ? and even bigger challenges for companies that aren?t prepared to engage. Over time, as more people began participating in social media, new issues emerged. Companies could engage directly, but should every employee be involved? Employees humanized brands by speaking their minds, but what if they were disgruntled? How can activity be measured in order to determine what matters?

Moving Toward Social Business

To address these issues, companies must move beyond social media and focus holistically on social business. Individual efforts need to be orchestrated as part of a scalable corporately-supported effort. The process of listening and response requires a workflow to accommodate multiple levels of response, with policy to guide content and tools to facilitate publishing, tracking, and analytics. Most importantly, companies need to have the desire to connect with their constituents and harness trends to drive profitable returns.

For the most part, the structural and cultural changes required to move organizations beyond social media to social business have been ignored by many companies. Why? Change is difficult. Branding is fun; infrastructure isn?t. There aren?t hundreds of great end-to-end social business case study examples. But that doesn?t mean companies should stand by idly and wait to see if social business is for real or not. Just as we saw with early social media examples, competitive advantage goes to those companies able to act decisively and incorporate what matters into their ongoing operations, while discarding what doesn?t.

Getting Started with Social Business

Getting started with social business starts in a familiar place ? after all, companies are made out of people. Brands need to start with culture, defining their shared values and beliefs, creating a strong core that supports authentic exchanges that are on point with brand goals. With the proper mindset in place, the organization should be designed to connect core constituents with consumers and prospects. The connections within the ecosystem will have strong and weak ties; a successful social business will have a continually expanding periphery. With standard protocols and shared services, brands can scale rapidly and successfully, managing stakeholder decision rights at various levels and driving economies of scale. Finally, engagement requires the use of the right tools for the right jobs. From consumer-level tools to emerging systems for sCRM, internal ideation, and big data analytics, businesses must upgrade and unlock the power of their people.

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Source: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/moving-beyond-social-media-012768.php

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Bologna find sponsor to fund Bryant move - YAHOO!

Kobe Bryant
Park Ji-Hwan, AFP/Getty Images

Bologna president Claudio Sabatini claims to have found a sponsor capable of funding a big-money move for NBA star Kobe Bryant on a short-term contract.

Bologna have offered the Los Angeles Lakers scoring guard $800,000 net to play in their first three home games of the new season.

And although Sabatini didn't reveal who the sponsor is, he said the money was there.

"We have a sponsor supporting us. It's an Italian company that's known all over the world," he said.

"We will soon have a meeting but I can't tell you any more."

Originally Bologna wanted to sign the 33-year-old on a short-term deal but due to the NBA lock-out they are also looking at an option for the whole season, according to reports.

If NBA teams and players don't find a resolution to their dispute and the 2011/12 season is cancelled, Bologna are looking at finding $5-million to bring Bryant to Italy.

"It's a huge gamble but I want to try right to the end. I'm an optimist even if there we're aiming very high," added Sabatini.

In any case, Bryant will be in Italy next week with his sponsor Nike, spending a day in Milan and another in Rome.

Bryant actually spent seven years growing up in Italy when his father Joe "Jellybean" Bryant moved there to continue his playing career having left the Houston Rockets in 1983.

"I don't think we'll have any news within the next week, not least because to finalise the contract, which will be like a bible, you need several days," added Sabatini, who is said to have received encouragement from Bryant's agent Rob Pelinka.

Bryant is a five-time NBA champion with the Lakers and was named MVP in 2008.

He has made the All-Star team 13 times, missing out only once since 1998.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=afp-basket_ita_usa_nba_bryant_20110924

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