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which runs many of the Internet’s core systems, said Wednesday it has signed a deal to sell and lease back a portion of its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters.
VeriSign plans to sell about 159,000 square feet of its 290,000 square-foot headquarters to PR III Middlefield Road LLC for $49 million, according to a filing with the [...]

Mayor Wong had many plans for Fitchburg in 2008 that did not involve a previously unidentified and undeclared $4.5 million budget deficit (she had advance warning about the first $500,000 of our shortfall). But regardless of the surprise factor, the budget crisis is now, finally, being dealt with comprehensively - and Fitchburg’s department heads need [...]

Ben Verwaayen, the man credited with turning around BT, surprised the City
yesterday by announcing he is to step down as chief executive at the end of
next month. The Dutchman, recruited six years ago to pick up the pieces at
the beleaguered telecoms giant, is handing over to Ian Livingston, head of
the retail division.
Gavin Patterson, managing director [...]

Ben Verwaayen, the man credited with turning around BT, surprised the City
yesterday by announcing he is to step down as chief executive at the end of
next month. The Dutchman, recruited six years ago to pick up the pieces at
the beleaguered telecoms giant, is handing over to Ian Livingston, head of
the retail division.
Gavin Patterson, managing director [...]

Capital Region business owners are feeling the pinch. Local gasoline prices have increased 53 cents over the past year to $3.45 a gallon, while diesel has risen from $1.46 to $4.40 a gallon, according to the American Automobile Association.
That’s more of a hit than in the rest of the country. Gasoline prices in the United [...]

To say that strategy and technology are finally becoming interlinked in business is pure BS.
It has always been thus.
I’m certain that when the first cash-register salesman convinced the first general-store owner to buy a cash register, the sale went through because he was able to convince the owner that this new technology would improve the [...]

SAN FRANCISCOYahoo Inc. will begin showing homemade videos on its online photo-sharing site, Flickr, in a long-anticipated move that may be too late to lure most people away from the Internets dominant video channel, Google Inc.s YouTube.Flickrs video technology, to debut late Tuesday, [...]

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FRANKFURT, Feb 27 (Reuters) - German telecoms group Versatel
(VTWGn.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) posted an 18-percent fall in quarterly core profit
due to a severe drop in prices and said on Wednesday it expected
customer growth to slow this year as competition intensifies.
Adjusted earnings before interest, tax, [...]

NEW YORK, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Short interest on the Nasdaq
rose 4.9 percent in mid-February, the exchange said on
Wednesday, suggesting an increase in bearish sentiment in the
stock market.
The following stocks saw increased interest from short
sellers, who bet that a certain stock’s price will fall. The
data reflect short trades [...]

LOS ANGELES — CBS Corp. executives took an unusual risk last fall before its series debut of “Big Bang Theory” - it offered the entire episode online despite the chance it would sap viewership for the TV premiere.The show, about two geeky physicists and their beautiful [...]