| 99X's demise means loss of unique Atlanta lifestyle
Perhaps readers are wondering what the demise of a radio station has to do with Atlanta's growth and development. Cities are dynamic organisms that encompass every facet of life. It's not just roads and bridges, office buildings, homes and sewers. They should be places were people gather to enjoy the softer sides of life — the arts, parks and yes, music — music of all kinds. In my family, music has brought us together in so many ways. When I was debating writing a column about the demise of 99X, my children, who rarely show much interest in what I write, excitedly told me I should. Carmen quickly listed a host of bands and artists that she heard first on 99X or at one of the station's concerts. Then the three of us started reminiscing on all the ways 99X has touched our lives.
Omniyat Properties reveals new generation of premium real estate
Since its inception, the company has already launched two residential and five commercial projects valued at over Dhs5bn making it one of the region's fastest growing property developers. Two new plots of land in Business Bay, facing the widest part of the Dubai Creek, with a built-up area of 700,000 square feet will be used to develop an Dhs1.5bn premium office complex similar in scale and quality to Omniyat's hugely-successful project, The Opus, which has been 80 per cent sold out since being first revealed in London five months ago. This new double-plot project will be ready for launch early next year. Located on Dubai Waterfront - a master development by Nakheel - another new project will face the Palm Jebel Ali and will occupy one of the largest single plots of land available on the main beach front in an area to be known as Madinat Al Arab.
Mashable.com Announces First Annual Open Web Awards to Celebrate Web 2 ...
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Mashable.com today announced the opening of nominations for its first annual Open Web Awards (http://www.openwebawards.com/), created to recognize and celebrate the best online communities representing Web 2.0 technologies. The Mashable.com-hosted Open Web Awards is the first online, open collaboration awards event to use widget technology to collect votes from all over the web. This unique approach will enable partner blogs and websites from multiple countries to take part in the voting process and allow their global readers to nominate their favorite Web 2.0 sites. Winners will be announced on December 20, 2007. The online event will be followed by a live award ceremony in San Francisco on January 10th at the Palace Hotel. Online event partners and industry leaders will be in attendance at the invite-only celebration to recognize the winners of each category of the Open Web Awards.
Building Executive Bench Strength: Ensuring Leadership Agility in ...
Finding executive talent can be tough. Almost half the participants in our research expressed concern about their ability to replace key executives when faced with sudden departures. Placing executives entails much more than matching the skills demonstrated by an individual with those historically demanded of a job. To keep the pipeline full of talent, you need to articulate what types of leaders are needed both now and in the future. Bench strength is a Board-level priority. The CEO, Board of Directors and executive team are accountable for the long-term health of the corporation. In companies with renowned bench strength programs, the executive team and board give regular and focused attention not only to the placement of key executives, but also to the overall quality of succession planning and leadership development.
Zillow.com(R) and 11 Newspaper Companies Form Online Real Estate ...
SEATTLE, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading real estate Web site Zillow.com and 11 newspaper publishing companies representing 282 newspapers nationwide announced plans today for a strategic partnership to extend local classified advertising such as for-sale listings and open house information to Zillow's online platform. Local advertisers who place their print and online listings with the newspapers will be able to choose to have their listings and open house ads also displayed on Zillow, one of the largest online real estate sites. Four million people visit Zillow every month, with 70 percent buying or selling a home now, or planning to buy or sell a home in the next one to two years. Home buyers on Zillow in turn will see a more comprehensive set of for-sale listings and open house details in their market.
drugstore.com and Revolution Health Group Announce Breakthrough Deal
BELLEVUE, Wash. and WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Revolution Health Group (RHG), owner of one of the Internet's fastest growing health properties, and drugstore.com (NASDAQ: DSCM) , a leading online provider of health, beauty, vision, and pharmacy products, today announced a major agreement whereby Revolution Health will aggregate drugstore.com's traffic as part of the Revolution Health Network and manage advertising sales for drugstore.com. This alliance means the Revolution Health Network now reaches more than 9 million unique visitors each month, and generates more than 100 million monthly page views -- making it the 3rd largest Health Information property, based on comScore's recent rankings. It also means drugstore.com is now positioned to develop a new revenue stream from high margin advertising sales, as the Revolution Health Network will deliver a significant quantity of premium, targeted, high-quality impressions to advertisers in a critically important demographic -- women who are actively managing their health and their families' health.
Aussie mobiles get PayPal boost
PayPal has unveiled Mobile Checkout, allowing people in Australia to buy movie tickets, flowers and other goods on-the-fly. The internet has already brought the world'Ts shopping malls into the bedroom but now Australian shopaholics can satisfy their impulses with a few button presses while walking home or riding a bus - as long as they have a PayPal account. PayPal Australia product director Dinuke Ranasinghe said people had long been able to surf the web on their handsets but there had never been an easy way to make payments. Keying credit card and other details into websites manually was cumbersome using a mobile keypad, while shopping via the mobile provider's "walled garden" portal, which charged purchases to the customer's phone bill, was largely limited to ringtones and wallpapers.
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