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MIAMI, Fla. /CitizenWire/ — A Heat-Wave during winter! Yes, it's true. True Fan Sports, Inc., a Miami based company, recently began selling several new sports related products, primarily "Sports Rally Towels" and is today announcing The Heat-Wave Towel(R). "With sporting events and the need for greater fan loyalty growing annually by leaps and bounds, with […]
AUSTIN, Texas /CitizenWire/ — The Texas Mortgage Bankers Association (TMBA) today announced the location and dates of its annual Southern Secondary Market Conference. This year's conference – dubbed Ingredients for Success: Education, Understanding, Execution and Results – will be hosted at the Marriott Woodlands Waterway Hotel and Convention Center in Houston, Texas on January 18-19, […]
AUSTIN, Texas /CitizenWire/ — 360 Mortgage Group, a privately owned wholesale mortgage bank, welcomes Rosa Beaty as a newly hired account executive for the Midwest region, specifically Illinois. Beaty comes to 360 with more than 30 years of experience in retail and wholesale mortgage lending. Beaty has been responsible for operational oversight of a centralized […]
AUSTIN, Texas /CitizenWire/ — Buffington Homes, the leader in Austin Texas and Central Texas real estate for over forty years, is excited to announce the release of their Capital Series in Meadow Park. This boutique community offers the exceptional quality found in Buffington's popular Austin homes for sale, the excitement and convenience of metropolitan living […]
DULUTH, Ga. /CitizenWire/ — Third Law Sourcing, a strategic sourcing and procurement consulting company, will sponsor Special Olympics Georgia's 16th Annual Bob Busse Golf Tournament. Scott Drobes, a managing partner of Third Law Sourcing, has served as an honorary board member of the Special Olympics and been active with the organization for over 20 years. […]
HOUSTON, Texas /CitizenWire/ — Following on the success of their first Facebook "Rock the Vote" engagement ring popularity contest, Whiteflash Inc., online jeweler and specialist in ideal cut diamonds, has decided to host a second round of their own democratic election to crown the top engagement ring setting in their collection. Fun, fresh and engaging, […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. /CitizenWire/ — Ecologic Leasing Services announced today that it has appointed David Bromage and Rod Suhan as its leadership team dedicated to Boart Longyear Financial Services. "Ecologic Leasing Services has dedicated two seasoned veterans to help develop and administer the global vendor financing program recently launched with mineral exploration drilling equipment maker Boart […]
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. /CitizenWire/ — Edgewood Partners Insurance Center (EPIC), a retail property, casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage, is being recognized by the North Bay Business Journal with a 2011 Healthiest Companies award. EPIC is one of just 13 companies to be honored with this award in the North Bay area. Partnering with the […]
FAIRMONT, W.Va. /CitizenWire/ — Backbone Security is pleased to announce the release of Version 3.11 of the Steganography Application Fingerprint Database (SAFDB) which now contains 1,000 steganography applications. Developed in Backbone's Steganography Analysis and Research Center (SARC), SAFDB is the world's largest commercially available hash set exclusive to digital steganography applications. The database is widely […]
MONTEBELLO, Calif. /CitizenWire/ — The City of Montebello announces an improved path. As Americans, we are all in this together. Our country has gone through the worst recession since the tumultuous years of the Great Depression. Thousands of cities across the nation are in financial turmoil. Economic analysis shows continued stagnation over these next few […]
LOS ANGELES, Calif. /CitizenWire/ — RobotDough Software Corporation has issued a call for entries in a writing competition for finance students. The competition, initiating an annual series, requires use of RobotDough's online equity research platform to deliver 500-word articles on the world's equity markets. A panel of expert judges will select five winners, each of […]
CHANTILLY, Va. /CitizenWire/ — Four Points Technology, LLC has appointed Joel Lipkin to the newly created position of Chief Operating Officer. Lipkin joins Four Points from Affigent LLC (formerly TKC Integration Services), where he was general manager. "Joel's experience in leading and managing fast-growing businesses will enhance our already strong leadership team," said David "Chief" […]
LOS ANGELES, Calif. /CitizenWire/ — Inventive Minds continues to add useful and inspirational media products to its line of tools for inventions. Most recently, it has created and released "A Workbook For Young Inventors" (ISBN: 978-0983344803). This workbook for kids incorporates colorful characters known as the "Dreamalings(R)" that are used to educate and motivate children […]
DALLAS, Texas /CitizenWire/ — Radio personality, best-selling author, filmmaker, and leader of the successful civil rights march in Jena, LA, Michael Baisden not only talks the talk afternoons on his nationally syndicated "Michael Baisden Show," he also walks the walk. Baisden recently announced his plans to give away a half-million dollars to small businesses and […]
FREMONT, Calif. /CitizenWire/ — TeamF1, Inc., the leader in embedded networking and security software solutions for wired and wireless applications, today announced its support for the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA) that aims to foster the adoption of open virtualization technologies, including Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). With its membership in the OVA, TeamF1 plans to build […]
NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. /CitizenWire/ — EaseUS Software, a leading provider of data backup and disaster recovery and storage management solutions for Windows environment, today announces the general availability of EaseUS Todo Backup 3.5. To remotely backup and restore another computer within a Local Area Network (LAN) is now available in Version 3.5. With a […]
BOULDER, Colo. /CitizenWire/ — Boulder-based TeamSnap, which operates an online service that helps sports teams and other groups communicate, manage schedules, share photos, track game statistics, and coordinate refreshments and other activities, has raised close to $910,000 in new funding, according to CEO, Dave DuPont. DuPont said the funding came from all its existing investors, […]
BERGEN, Norway /CitizenWire/ — Harlequins Enigma is back again, This time with their third volume in the octagon series: "Battle Without Dishonour." Battle Without Dishonour is an instrumental hip hop album and contains some of Age Rissnes' all-time favourite tracks in the dance genre.
MALVERN, Pa. /CitizenWire/ — Reaction Biology Corporation (‘RBC’) today announced the publication in Nature Biotechnology, of the largest kinase profiling data set in the public domain, disclosing previously unknown kinase inhibition relationships. The data set was compiled from over 100,000 independent activity assays performed with RBC’s proprietary HotSpot(SM) technology.
AUSTIN, Texas /CitizenWire/ — The Austin Business Journal has named RC Billing to its 2011 Fast 50, the list of 50 fastest growing privately-held companies in the Austin area. The Fast 50 ranks companies based on compounded annual average sales growth over three years. RC Billing was named #21 in the $500,000 to $9,999,999 category.
ATLANTA, Ga. /CitizenWire/ — Jay Fenello, a homeowner who has been working on a mortgage modification with Bank of America for over 18 months, today announced that he has filed a pro se legal action against the bank, alleging 13 causes of action including Fraud, Bad Faith, Equitable Estoppel, and violating numerous state and local […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. /CitizenWire/ — The leading Internet provider of paper rolls and other point-of-sale (POS) supplies, POSPaper, announced this week that it is opening two additional distribution centers in Dallas and Chicago. They are expected to open in mid-November of this year.
DENVER, Colo. /CitizenWire/ — A new look, new services and a new partner for Culinary Procurement Specialists, LLC has been unveiled. The new company name, Restaurant Mechanix, LLC (the ‘Company’), signifies the expansion of its consulting services into all aspects of restaurant operations and management.
HOUSTON, Texas /CitizenWire/ — Whiteflash Inc. announced today the exclusive launch of the latest collection of engagement rings by award winning jewelry designer Vatche. The ‘Serenity’ collection features modern designer styling for the classic engagement ring.
BIRMINGHAM, Mich. /CitizenWire/ — United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM), a national wholesale mortgage lender operating in 47 states, announced that they earned a spot on Mortgage Technology magazine’s 2011 Top 25 Tech-Savvy Lenders list for the first time. UWM built its own proprietary technology, which in part helped the company to become one of the largest […]
ALPHARETTA, Ga. /CitizenWire/ — InnoVergent, a technology consultancy firm and reseller and system integrator of cloud computing accounting software, announced today the availability of Fixed Assets and Collections Management modules for Intacct Financial Accounting users.
HOUSTON, Texas /CitizenWire/ — Brian Gavin scores another first with the introduction of the customized American Gem Society (AGS) Proprietary Light Performance Diamond Quality Document for his Signature diamonds. The AGS Proprietary Light Performance Diamond Quality Document provides the most technologically advanced, scientifically rigorous and independently vetted cut grade system in the industry as well […]
ARLINGTON, Va. /CitizenWire/ — Remarks by ‘Black Box Casino’ author Robert Stowe England at this month’s Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) annual conference in Chicago detailing his exploration of how, in his words, ‘The story of the financial crisis is the story of mortgage banking,’ have been posted on YouTube.
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. /CitizenWire/ — Hair Spa Dance’s Grand Opening November 19, 2011 will feature: music, food, and 50 percent off all our products and services, dance shows, multiple vendors, and many prizes. Hair Spa Dance is a unique combination of hair salon/spa and dance studio.
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. /CitizenWire/ — Dr. Craig Spodak, of Spodak Dental Group in Delray Beach, FL, was recently honored by the South Florida Business Journal as a finalist among health care CEOs in South Florida. Leading health care professionals across Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties gathered to honor local organizations that are making a […]
MIAMI, Fla. /CitizenWire/ — Southeast Computer Solutions (SCS), a Miami-based consulting firm specializing in Sage software solutions, announced today it has added Sage ERP X3 to its product portfolio which also includes Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200, Sage ERP MAS 500, Sage ERP Accpac, Sage Abra, Sage SalesLogix, and SageCRM.
AUSTIN, Texas /CitizenWire/ — The Iron Workers International Union, teaming with the Ironworker Management Progressive Action Cooperative Trust (IMPACT), released a series of new architectural and ornamental training modules designed to replicate real-world assembly and installation challenges ironworkers face on jobsites.
HATFIELD, Pa. /CitizenWire/ — Hill PHOENIX Inc., a designer and manufacturer of commercial refrigeration equipment, and Keasbey, N.J.-based Wakefern Food Corp are pleased to announce the grand opening of the new GreenChill Gold Award-winning ShopRite store in the Hatfield Pointe Shopping Center in Hatfield, Pa.
MALVERN, Pa. /CitizenWire/ — Reaction Biology Corporation (‘RBC’), a leading contract research organization providing drug discovery services in epigenetics, today announced the rollout of a new product line, recombinant proteins for epigenetic research. RBC’s initial offerings will emphasize the histone methyltransferases (HMTs), including exclusive targets for which there has been no previous commercial source.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. /CitizenWire/ — When filmmakers E. Raymond Brown and Williams Arntz first released the independent movie ‘Ghetto Physics’ in late 2010, they knew the film was an early battle cry, a wake up call to America and beyond. Distributed by Intention Media, owned by ‘What the BLEEP, Do We Know?’ filmmaker Betsy Chasse, […]
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. /CitizenWire/ — The Energy Cooperative, a member-owned nonprofit, announced today the delivery of their 10 millionth gallon of biodiesel blended fuel. The delivery went to Krapf Bus Companies, a local private bus contractor for school districts. These 10 million gallons of biodiesel blends have resulted in the use of nearly 1.5 million gallons […]
TWIN FALLS, Idaho /CitizenWire/ — When the dairy producer leaders of the United Dairymen of Idaho (UDI) and its two branches – the Idaho Dairy Products Commission and the Idaho Dairymen’s Association – agreed to establish a scholarship program this year, they intended to award $1,500 scholarships to seven deserving students of Idaho dairy farm […]
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. /CitizenWire/ — The National LTC Network, an alliance of leading distributors of long term care insurance, announced today its endorsement of the American C.E. Institute, LLC.
AUSTIN, Texas /CitizenWire/ — Dawn Westerberg, president of Dawn Westerberg Consulting LLC and an authorized Duct Tape Marketing Consultant, will be presenting a session on Blogging, Twitter and Google+ at the Duct Tape Marketing Gathering 2011 conference in Kansas City, Mo., October 27 – 29, 2011.
JIQUILISCO, El Salvador /CitizenWire/ — A tropical depression in the Pacific, coupled with a weather front stemming from Hurricane Jova in the Atlantic, converged on El Salvador this weekend to cause what appears to be the largest disaster in a generation. EcoViva, an international development organization based in Oakland, California, has been in close contact […]
