Joe Chamberlain says he can’t build homes fast enough to keep up with demand. The founder of Caprock Custom Construction Inc. in Rockwall, Texas, has yet to break ground on any of the three houses he sold in May and June.
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Posted Tuesday, July 2nd 2013 at 11:28PM
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Investing in housing south of the border has changed dramatically over the past few years as the United States has worked its way out of a recession after the financial crisis, which began in late 2008.
The steals that were to be had between 2009 ...
Posted Tuesday, July 2nd 2013 at 11:16PM
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By JUHANA ROSSI in Helsinki And IAN EDMONDSON in London
Nokia Corp. NOK1V.HE +3.65% signaled an end to its tie-up with Siemens AG, SIE.XE +2.55% announcing a €1.7 billion ($2.21 billion) deal to buy its German partner out of the two companies' tel ...
Posted Monday, July 1st 2013 at 6:45PM
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The $27 billion Essar Group, with major stakes in the world's shipping, steel and oil industries, and its billionaire owners -- brothers Shashikant and Ravikant Ruia -- are putting together a strategy to save $300 million a year from the Indian rupee ...
Posted Monday, July 1st 2013 at 10:22AM
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The Ouya, a similar device running a modified version of the Android operating system, has been released following its highly successful Kickstarter campaign, the second best in the crowd-funding website’s history. Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) will also re ...
Posted Monday, July 1st 2013 at 10:03AM
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India is set to overtake China as the world’s largest importer of coal used in power plants, as the country battles chronic power shortages that are crippling its growth while domestic sources of natural gas are being depleted at an alarming rate.
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Posted Saturday, June 29th 2013 at 12:35AM
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Starbucks Corporation (Nasdaq:SBUX) finally paid 5 million pounds ($7.7 million) in U.K. corporation tax, the company announced on Monday. The last time it paid U.K. corporation tax was 2009, according to the BBC.
Seattle-based Starbucks has only ...
Posted Thursday, June 27th 2013 at 9:22PM
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China Is Reaping Biggest Benefits of Iraq Oil Boom
Nabil Al-Jourani/Associated Press
An oil refinery in Basra, southeast of Baghdad, in which China has a stake. China has poured money and workers into Iraq.
By TIM ARANGO and CLIFFORD KRAUSS
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Posted Thursday, June 27th 2013 at 11:25AM
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This is Sinopec’s second buy in the field in Africa’s second-largest oil producing country. In 2011, it bought a 5 percent stake in the field from Courbevoie, France-based Total SA (NYSE:TOT). Sinopec says the field has a proven reserve of 533 mi ...
Posted Thursday, June 27th 2013 at 10:29AM
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Crowdfunding is global and growing. Quickly.
There are approximately 600 crowdfunding platforms, which help users raise small sums of money from a group, throughout the world, according to Los Angeles-based crowdfunding and crowdsourcing research ...
Posted Wednesday, June 26th 2013 at 6:58PM
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Dr. Steve Sherick wants to build out the emergency-care business he started two years ago, but the $300,000 in student loans he and his wife carry makes it difficult. The 36-year-old physician’s team of seve ...
Posted Tuesday, June 25th 2013 at 9:54PM
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It's a company that earned $30 billion in profits over three years, but effectively resided nowhere, filed no income tax return, and paid no tax to any government for five years.
Tax planners and tax consultants have a name for that $30 billion in ...
Posted Tuesday, June 25th 2013 at 9:26AM
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A new amendment to Japan’s copyright laws proposes some serious jail time for those caught with illegal downloads or pirated copies of Blu-ray and DVD movies. CNET Japan has discovered that penalties issued could be as much as two years in prison o ...
Posted Monday, June 24th 2013 at 1:38AM
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Economic data from the 17-nation euro zone and the UK released on Tuesday surprised markets as sentiment and inflation beat expectations, but a strong recovery could still be some way off.
Kriss Szkurlatowski/stock.xchn
German ZEW investor se ...
Posted Wednesday, June 19th 2013 at 9:18AM
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Managing your employees is not a popularity contest. When you remain focused on real goals so will they.
As the leader of my online marketing company VerticalResponse, I wear a lot of hats and do many things. The one thing I'm not down with is be ...
Posted Sunday, May 12th 2013 at 1:00PM
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When Bryan Burkhart and Sonu Panda launched their New York-based subscription floral service H.Bloom in 2010, they spent every working moment together.
"We went to the flower market at the crack of dawn, interviewed every type of potential hire an ...
Posted Thursday, May 9th 2013 at 9:46PM
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When Bryan Burkhart and Sonu Panda launched their New York-based subscription floral service H.Bloom in 2010, they spent every working moment together.
"We went to the flower market at the crack of dawn, interviewed every type of potential hire an ...
Posted Thursday, May 9th 2013 at 9:45PM
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http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-08/a-new-way-to-get-small-business-loans-from-neighbors#r=sma-ls
This BusinessWeek article talks about alternative sources of funding for small business. Something referred to as crowdfunding. It is sor ...
Posted Thursday, May 9th 2013 at 7:05PM
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