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Cool Offices: Bellmont’s build-out goes bigger and bolder
Do you work in a Twin Cities-area Cool Office? If so, send high-resolution photos (Dropbox is best for easy sharing) and a description of the space including its location, size, use, features, technology, employee count, designer and builder to Kim Joh...
Milwaukee Public Schools superintendent to earn $252,000 annually
The new superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools will earn a salary of $252,000 annually during his initial two-year contract. Keith Posley became the district’s interim superintendent in May. The School Board unanimously decided on Oct. 9 to drop ...
Gateway Technical College breaks ground on iMET Center expansion
Gateway Technical College broke ground Monday on the expansion of its Sturtevant campus. The college is expanding the SC Johnson iMET Center by about 35,000 square feet to support the needs of employers associated with Foxconn Technology Group’s deve...
Fandango dances onto 5,000 more screens in Latin America
By inking multiyear deals with several international exhibitors, Fandango has added more than 5,000 new screens to its movie ticketing network in more than 15 Latin American countries. The Beverly Hills, California-based company has signed pacts with ...
Loot Crate taps ex-Fandango exec as CFO
Subscription box service Loot Crate has hired former Fandango Chief Financial Officer Rob Leff as its CFO. Leff worked at movie ticketing company Fandango for 10 years and was its CFO since 2011. Loot Crate said Leff was a “significant force” in Fan...
Behind the deal: How this company hopes to leverage its acquisition of Allen payment firm
The acquisition of the Allen company closed on Oct. 2.
Applied Insight acquires McLean intelligence contractor
Government IT contractor Applied Insight is deepening its inroads in the national security and intelligence community markets.
Movie Review: In ‘The Old Man and the Gun,’ it’s as if the Sundance Kid survived
One measure of the affection (and, yes, lust) that has accrued to Robert Redford over his decades in movies is, when he walks into a bank in “The Old Man and the Gun,” we reflexively wonder, is he “walking” like an old man or does he, at 82, now walk l...
Steps tech entrepreneurs should take to manage wealth from a liquidity event
Entrepreneurs and corporate executives in the technology industry put an immeasurable amount of time and energy into building their businesses. They also take on a significant amount of financial risk because a majority of their net worth is represente...
Countdown: The top 6 private K-12 schools in the Dayton region
The Dayton region has an abiding interest in quality education, and many consider private schools a place to obtain that level of schooling. While much attention is placed on public schools, a recent report delves into private schools in the area, name...
MATC shows off $1.2 million in new Swiss CNC manufacturing machines
Milwaukee Area Technical College recently spent more than $1.2 million on six Swiss Computer Numerical Control manufacturing machines. CNC manufacturing is a growth industry for Wisconsin, and the new machines, purchased earlier this year, will help t...
Budget and Tax
UK wartime codebreaking center becomes cyber education college
BLETCHLEY, England It was once the home of Britain's codebreakers during World War Two. Now more than 70 years later, Bletchley Park is preparing to host the UK's first national college of cyber education, with [...]
Trump’s Education Secretary Choice Is A Blow To Our Nation’s Science Health
Drew Angerer/Getty Images Donald Trump’s transition team has announced his choice for education secretary, Betsy DeVos, a billionaire from Michigan who has actively campaigned against marriage equality and for school vouchers. Of note, DeVos, now tapped [...]
Early childhood literacy an ‘enormous driver’ for Tipp City Foundation
Tipp City’s many community advocates come from varied backgrounds, but their unifying factor has been a love of this Miami County town. Few towns of this size have a foundation dedicated to their growth as is the Tipp City Foundation. Founded in 194...
Health Care Digest: Winning the war for biotech talent, dialysis companies spend big on Prop. 8, and more
Editor's note: The San Francisco Business Times is launching this weekly health care digest by reporter Ron Leuty. It features a roundup of local news items, musings from notable figures, insights from other publications and must-reads from our own new...
Del Monte cuts 63 jobs at Crystal City plant
Del Monte Foods Inc. is cutting 63 jobs at its canning plant about 120 miles southwest of San Antonio following a decision to skip the plant's fall and winter packing seasons. The California-based company recently filed a worker adjustment and retrain...
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Health Care Digest: Winning the war for biotech talent, dialysis companies spend big on Prop. 8, and more
Editor's note: The San Francisco Business Times is launching this weekly health care digest by reporter Ron Leuty. It features a roundup of local news items, musings from notable figures, insights from other publications and must-reads from our own new...
Sports
Several NFL agents suspended
Several NFL agents have been suspended as a result of a new test that the NFL Players Association instituted this year, including Deryk Gilmore, who negotiated Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans’ $82.5 million contract. It is not clear exac...
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Several NFL agents suspended
Several NFL agents have been suspended as a result of a new test that the NFL Players Association instituted this year, including Deryk Gilmore, who negotiated Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans’ $82.5 million contract. It is not clear exac...
How ex-ESPN chief John Skipper got Golden Boy’s boxing on DAZN
Early in the afternoon on Oct. 2, John Skipper sat in Golden Boy’s Los Angeles office to pitch the group on DAZN, a subscription-based video streaming service that launched in the United States earlier this year. Golden Boy Promotions’ media rights de...
Cool Offices: Bellmont’s build-out goes bigger and bolder
Do you work in a Twin Cities-area Cool Office? If so, send high-resolution photos (Dropbox is best for easy sharing) and a description of the space including its location, size, use, features, technology, employee count, designer and builder to Kim Joh...
Early childhood literacy an ‘enormous driver’ for Tipp City Foundation
Tipp City’s many community advocates come from varied backgrounds, but their unifying factor has been a love of this Miami County town. Few towns of this size have a foundation dedicated to their growth as is the Tipp City Foundation. Founded in 194...
Health Care Digest: Winning the war for biotech talent, dialysis companies spend big on Prop. 8, and more
Editor's note: The San Francisco Business Times is launching this weekly health care digest by reporter Ron Leuty. It features a roundup of local news items, musings from notable figures, insights from other publications and must-reads from our own new...
Del Monte cuts 63 jobs at Crystal City plant
Del Monte Foods Inc. is cutting 63 jobs at its canning plant about 120 miles southwest of San Antonio following a decision to skip the plant's fall and winter packing seasons. The California-based company recently filed a worker adjustment and retrain...
Medtronic co-founder Earl Bakken, 94, dies at Hawaii home
Earl Bakken, the electrical engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist who invented the first wearable heart pacemaker, has died at his Hawaii home. He was 94. Bakken co-founded Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) in 1949 in Minneapolis along with his brother-in-la...
Microsoft veterans raise $15 million to grow Madrona-backed cloud startup
The cloud startup is looking for office space in the downtown Seattle area.