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Altivia Chemical looks to enter energy wastewater business

J. Michael Jusbasche may have sold most of the assets of Houston-based Altivia Corp., a water-treatment chemical business, to Brenntag AG for $125 million, but he is holding on to two local assets ...

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Fiscal cliff deal offers some good news for retail industry

As the saying goes: A good compromise is one in which both parties come away dissatisfied. Whether or not the fiscal cliff deal will go down in history as a good compromise remains to be seen. But ...

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Hawaii business leaders join The Queen’s Health Systems board

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McCrory to business N.C. brand ‘diminished’

Triangle Business Journal by Lee Weisbecker, Staff Writer Date: Wednesday, January 2, 2013, 4:02pm EST End Component ID: 142 - Article Page: Head ...

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A Man Will Attempt To Break The World Record For Fastest Pizza At A Financial...

If you're in the Financial District, you might want to check out this pizza making battle next month at Harry's Italian Pizza -- we know Wall Street loves a ...

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Microsoft Drags YouTube Back Into Google Antitrust Fight

';Scroogled'; campaign. Now Microsoft has a new bone to pick with the search giant. In a blog post by Dave Heiner, Microsoft’s Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, he ...

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Corporate America voices frustration on fiscal cliff deal

Executives on Wednesday sharply criticized the political log-jams in Washington that delayed until January 1 the deal to keep the U.S. economy from sliding over the "fiscal cliff" and into ...

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U.S. economy to row against austerity tide in 2013

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington has steered clear of severe austerity measures for now, reducing the risk of recession, but a clutch of U.S. tax hikes will nevertheless be a drag on economic growth ...

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The 5 winners of the Fiscal Cliff Business Awards are ...

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you'll get what you need. That Rolling Stones chorus sums up what businesses got out of the fiscal cliff ...

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Bring on the U.S Canada mindful of recent failure at world juniors

Team Canada forward Ryan Hugent-Hopkins, right, battles for the loose puck against Team USA forward Mario Lucia, left, during second period IIHF World Junior Championships hockey action in Ufa, ...

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Regina Pats Morgan Klimchuk is a fan of world juniors

Morgan Klimchuk knows what it is like to help Canada win a gold medal in international hockey.And he would like to do it again at a future world junior championship.Klimchuk, a 17-year-old left ...

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Fiscal cliff The good bad and ugly for business owners

After all that, we have a (pretty underwhelming) deal. Congressional negotiations on the scheduled New Years tax hikes and spending cuts collectively known as the fiscal cliff ran into the first day ...

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Sandy victims outrage forces Congress to vote on relief package

The Federal Emergency Management Agency was praised by President Obama for its handling of Superstorm Sandy, but not all East Coast residents ravaged by Mother Nature last month would ...

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Fracking Industry Coming to a Neighborhood Near You

reports Wednesday-pointing to one suburban town in Texas that has become rife with backyard drilling wells and the stench of fracking at every front ...

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Qualcomm Looks To Bolster Chipset Business With Sharp Investment

Qualcomm is looking to increase its stake in the ongoing mobile revolution by developing new low-power display technologies. Having initially flirted with a MEMS-based Mirasol display technology that ...

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ABM Industries Breaks Above 200-Day Moving Average - Bullish for ABM

NYSE: ABM ) crossed above their 200 day moving average of $20.35, changing hands as high as $20.68 per share. ABM Industries, Inc. shares are currently trading up about 1.6% on the day. The chart ...

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UTEP Study Mexico Economy to Outgrow US

Mexico's economy is expected to grow much faster than the United States' economy in 2013, predict eight economists surveyed quarterly by the University of Texas at El Paso. Mexico's ...

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US Manufacturing Activity Picks Up

Economic activity in themanufacturing sector expanded in Decemberfollowing one month of contraction, and the overall U.S. economy grew for the 43rd consecutive month, according to the latest ISM ...

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Microsoft blasts Google over YouTube access

Microsoft to Google: Let us play with YouTube. It's the same old story that we've been hearing since 2010. Google won't give Microsoft the same access into YouTube's metadata that it ...

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VantageSouth Bank launches homebuilder-finance unit in Charlotte

VantageSouth Bank has hired three builder-finance lenders and opened an office in Charlotte to make loans to homebuilders, the Charlotte Business Journal has learned. Its VantageSouths first move ...

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