Texas Gov. Rick Perry has distributed $205 million in taxpayer money to scores of technology startups using a pet program designed to bring high-paying jobs and innovation to the nation’s second most-populous state.
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Hearing Impaired Associate Uses Talk Fusion To Communicate With The World
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Talk Fusion Associate Elena Shlaneva was born into a normal Russian family. She was the daughter of two loving parents and shared their Pskov home with a brother and twin sister.
Except Elena Shlaneva’s life was anything but normal; she was born deaf.
Her twin – in fact, and everyone else in her family – could hear. In order to deal with her hearing loss, Elena was sent to a special school, which meant she had to live apart from her family. Eventually the geographical and physical isolation took a toll on her.
“I always asked ‘Why was I the only one in my family who was deaf?’ I lived in constant pain,” Elena recalls. “I felt so bad about it, was so often in a bad mood, that I did not even want to live in the world of speakers.”
She dealt with her bitterness for 20 years with no hope in sight. She took a factory job, but felt that she had gone as far as she would ever be able to go. In her words: “just a plain, grey life.”
That would all change when a friend told her about Talk Fusion. With literally nothing to lose, she decided to try the
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Sofinnova Ventures Closes $500M Fund
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Sofinnova Ventures, a firm that specializes in biotech and software investing, has closed a $500 million fund. This is the ninth fund for the firm, since it was founded in 1974.
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APNewsBreak: Medicaid enrollees strain Oregon
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Low-income Oregon residents were supposed to be big winners after the state expanded Medicaid under the federal health care overhaul and created a new system to improve the care they received.
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Fitness company to expand Va manufacturing plant
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Fitness equipment maker Core Health & Fitness is planning to invest $2 million to expand a Grayson County manufacturing plant, creating 250 jobs.
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Fair Trade brings big sales and a clear conscience
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Brooklyn Roasting Co. has a booming business based on helping people thousands of miles away.
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Online-Lending Disruptor AvantCredit Nabs $75M Series C
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Fintech startup AvantCredit, which makes online personal loans, announced a $75 million Series C and a $200 million credit facility.
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Tupperware Sales Down In 2nd Quarter
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Tupperware Brands Corporation today announced second quarter 2014 operating results.
Rick Goings, Chairman and CEO, commented, “While sales results slowed this quarter, we were still able to achieve adjusted E.P.S. in our guidance range. Overall, the business continued to grow, with several markets achieving 20%+ local currency sales increases including Brazil, China, Italy and Turkey.
Both businesses in our North America beauty segment also showed significant sequential sales improvement. Having said this, the quarter was challenging in several aspects. We were up against strong comparisons from prior year when we had our strongest quarterly local currency sales growth at 8%, as well as some external and internal challenges, particularly in Germany. However, our 2.9 million sales force members continue to operate their businesses and earn income to help support their families.”
Goings continued, “The four pillars of our business model enable us to succeed. By focusing and delivering on these pillars: innovative premium quality products; an entertaining selling situation, or party; compelling sales force compensation; and leveraging of direct-to-consumer fundamentals, I am confident that through the strength of our management teams around the world we will see better future sales and profit growth in spite of the challenges we’ll inevitably encounter.”
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Not Sorry: Confidence Is Key For Women at Work
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Women face a lot of external challenges in business and leadership, but one of their biggest hurdles is actually internal: a lack of confidence.
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Is Now the Best Time for a Business Loan?
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Small business loans have gotten a bad reputation over the years. Business owners tend to feel that it’s impossible to qualify for such a loan, and even if they do, the process takes too long for the funding to be worth it.