| Strategic Financial Consultant Haim Nissenson Joins BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics, Inc. | | Posted Wednesday, May 17, 2006 3:33:08 PM by Blog57 Team | BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics (OTCBB:BCLI - News), the developer of NurOwn(TM) bone marrow-derived-stem cell therapeutic products for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, announced today that the company has appointed Haim Nissenson as strategic financial consultant.
"We are proud to have a person with such vast business experience and extensive international connections join BrainStorm. We are certain that he will make an important contribution to enhancing our financial base and developing strategies for our company as we move forward into the clinical trial arena," said Yoram Drucker, Chief Operations Officer and Principal Executive of BrainStorm.
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| | | Latest News for businessmen travelling internationally or long-distance | | Posted Thursday, February 09, 2006 10:32:31 AM by Rose Martins | Travelling for business purposes? Are you tired of being squashed like a sardine on those long never-ending international flights?
 The latest news from Christopher McGinnis, the CNN Headline News travel correspondent, is that when travelling internationally or long-distance for business purposes, you are now able to preselect the seat of your choice.
Don't wait to arrive at the airport check-in to book your seat when travelling, rather confirm your assigned seat when making your reservation. As a business client, your travel agent and the airline company should be more than happy to oblige.
The next peice of news to keep in mind when travelling internationally or long distance, is choose and exit row seat. Exit row seats offer much more space for stretching your legs.
Another news tip is to book your travel itinerary online. Most online travel websites give you the option of selecting your seat from an interactive seat map when making your international travel reservation. At least this way, you understand exactly what it means to be sitting in seat 23F. Also, ensure that you know what type of aircraft in which you'll be flying. Different aircraft have different layouts.
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| | | Comedy Inc.: The Big Business Of Laughs | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 11:11:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | The business of discovering and developing new comic talent is hardly a laughing matter. It is a multi-billion dollar industry, yet many in the audience may not realize that."One of the things of comedy is that, if it's working ... you don't feel anybody's working too hard," comedian Denis Leary told Sunday Morning correspondent Serena Altschul.At the movies, comedy is the genre-of-the-moment. Last weekend, the top three box-office grossers "Borat," "The Santa Claus 3" and "Flushed Away" were comedies.TV offers a 24/7 smorgasbord of standup, sitcoms, animation and spoofs. The same goes for the Internet and beyond: Make them laugh and you can find an audience.You can even find comedy in the most unlikely places just flip open your cell phone and you can get a standup routine beamed right to your little screen.Whatever the medium, there are big bucks to be made: Last year, film comedies, TV shows and live performances generated an estimated ten billion dollars - not bad for a profession that, in the words of Rodney Dangerfield, gets no respect."Groucho Marx once said, 'I would never want to be a member of a club that would have me as a member,' and I think that's the way comedians feel about themselves sometimes," President of Comedy Central Doug Herzog said.... | |
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| | | 116 Media News jobs being shifted to San Ramon | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 3:34:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | Media News Group, the new owner of the the Contra Costa Times, Oakland Tribune and San Jose Mercury News, plans to move 116 jobs to a business support center at Bishop Ranch in San Ramon next year. Those jobs, now held by members of The Newspaper Guild, would not be union positions. Media News signed a seven-year, $6 million lease for 35,000 square feet of space at the 15-building office park located off Interstate 680, according to sources familiar with the deal. .... | |
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| | | Market Makers Use CMP's Mobile Business Expo to Announce Latest Mobile Technologies, News | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 11:09:53 PM by Blog57 Team | | Mobile Business Expo, produced by CMP Technology, today announced the exhibitors who have chosen to make news and product announcements at this year's event. Mobile Business Expo is the leading conference for the mobile enterprise market and is the only event that focuses on the business requirements, technologies and tools needed to create and manage end-to-end mobile business solutions. Mobile Business Expo (www.mobilebusinessexpo.com), which begins next week, will be held October 31 to November 3 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. The Mobile Business Expo exhibitors who will be making news announcements or demonstrating their new products for the first time will be growing as the event nears and currently includes: Mobile Business Expo features a 3-day conference that provides the most thorough investigation of the relevant technologies, applications and platforms enabling the mobile enterprise.... | |
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| | | Local business agenda | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 1:05:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | Today , The American Marketing Association-Cincinnati chapter: 11:30 a.m.-1:15 p.m.,Montgomery Inn Banquet Center, 601 E. Pete Rose Way, downtown. "Ohio's Third Frontier: New Opportunities for Technology Product Development." $30/members, $45/nonmembers, $18/student members. Details: 513-784-2373 or www.cincinnati.marketingpower.com. .... | |
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| | | Business People | | Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 11:05:21 AM by Blog57 Team | | Press releases and photos for the Monday People column should be submitted to The Oregonian Business News Department via e-mail at money@news.oregonian.com or fax at 503-294-4079. E-mailed photos should be 200 dpi, jpeg quality maximum or excellent and 3 inches in depth. Items are run on a space available basis, and run dates cannot be guaranteed. LAW Carey to lead Tonkon Torp's labor law division Tonkon Torp has named Robert Carey head of the firm's Labor & Employment Practice Group. Carey has nearly 20 years of litigation experience and served as a trial and appellate attorney in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps from 1987 to 1993 and was a founding partner of the employment law firm Barran Liebman.... | |
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| | | 'Republic' Weblogs provide complete coverage of Arizona business | | Posted Saturday, October 07, 2006 11:07:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | Check out our regular updates on Arizona business news at our new spot, www.bizblogs.azcentral.com. In addition to the news of the day and updates around the Valley, we have blogs on: • Money/personal finance by Russ Wiles and Yvette Armendariz. • Real estate by Catherine Reagor. .... | |
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| | | Business Announcements | | Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 3:04:53 AM by Blog57 Team | | To submit items: Does your business have an announcement for this column? Please write: The Oregonian's Metro West News Bureau, 1675 S.W. Marlow Ave., Suite 325, Portland, OR 97225; e-mail: west@news.oregonian.com; or fax: 503-294-5902. Beaverton Kokopelli Mexican Grill to make Oregon debut Oregon's first Kokopelli Fresh Mexican Grill is scheduled to open Wednesday in the Cornell Center, 16155 N.W. Cornell Road. The restaurant specializes in made-to-order Mexican food, including slow-cooked beans, burritos, tacos and five salsa varieties. It is the first of five Kokopelli restaurants that owner Paul Preston plans to open in Oregon. More than 70 of the franchise outlets are in development or operating in states including Arizona, Florida and Michigan.... | |
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| | | Business news briefs: 9/19/06 | | Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 7:06:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | About 100 business and civic leaders from Birmingham, Ala., will be completing a whirlwind tour of Pittsburgh today as they seek to learn from the region's efforts to redevelop brownfields, improve its image and revitalize Downtown. Since arriving Sunday, the group has visited the Waterfront and Carrie Furnace sites in the Mon Valley, toured Piatt Place -- the former Lazarus-Macy's department store being converted into condos, shops and offices -- and learned about the region's parks and trails. The trip, hosted by the Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce, was arranged because of the similarities between the two old steelmaking cities, said Barry Copeland, chamber executive vice president. American Textile expanding American Textile Co. is expanding its manufacturing operations in Duquesne with public and private financial assistance totaling more than $4.5 million.... | |
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| | | FEATURE-Bad air taints Hong Kong's business reputation | | Posted Sunday, September 10, 2006 5:53:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | HONG KONG, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Andy Ridehalgh, a British expatriate who has worked as an English teacher for three years in Hong Kong, has had enough of the city's air pollution. He'll move with his wife and newborn son to southern France next year. "I'm asthmatic and I use a lot more Ventolin when I'm here," he said, referring to his asthma medication. "If you think about the effect it's having on me, think about the effect it's having on a small baby. It's not something we want permanently." Hong Kong's international business community, drawn for years by the city's low taxes and strong legal system, has become increasingly critical of the bad air tainting its business-friendly credentials. "It's a major concern to the chamber and its members and their families," said Deborah Biber, the Chief Executive of the Australian Chamber of Commerce.... | |
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| | | Sky News to fill business hole | | Posted Saturday, September 02, 2006 11:17:21 AM by Blog57 Team | | PAY TV's Sky News is launching a new business program to fill the hole left by the demise of the Nine Network's Business Sunday. The 30-minute Sky News Sunday Business will launch at 8.30am on Sunday, September 3 – the same day Nine reveals its new-look Sunday program, which will absorb the old Business Sunday. Sky News Sunday Business is a collaboration between Sky News and News Limited, parent company of the publisher of NEWS.com.au, led by its national newspaper The Australian. The program will be hosted by Sky News Canberra bureau chief David Speers, who will front a team of experienced business journalists, including The Australian's Robert Gottliebsen and Jane Schulze. "Following the demise of Business Sunday we thought it was a good opportunity to continue to provide that service to our viewers," Australian News Channel chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos said.... | |
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