June 27, 2011POTTSTOWN — The law firm of O’Donnell, Weiss & Mattei PC, 41 E. High St., is very proud to announce that two of its attorneys have been named ‘Rising Stars’ by Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Magazine and superlawyers.com. Selections are made on an annual, state-bystate basis. No more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the [...]
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June 25, 2011Irving Picard, the bankruptcy trustee charged with recouping funds for victims of Bernard Madoff’s vast fraud, began his mission just over two years ago with the potential to emerge as a hero. That would have made him a rarity among the long list of financiers, CEOs and politicians blamed for dragging the U.S. economy into [...]
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June 25, 2011With smartphones and tablets each striving to out-do the other with new apps or additional features, the humble, single-purpose e-reader often gets left out of conversation. Wired reviews the latest Nook from Barnes & Noble, though, and finds a device well worth the cost for anyone interested in reading. The latest nook takes on a [...]
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June 24, 2011When the 2011 Oregon Legislature convened in January, AOI was alarmed at the possibility of several new employment regulations that had been introduced. AOI identified scores of legislation that needed to be amended or defeated altogether. We also introduced and supported some concepts we believed would be helpful to employers. As the 2011 Oregon Legislature [...]
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June 24, 2011SOFTWARE developer ScraperWiki is expanding into the US, after winning investment in an American business competition. ScraperWiki was awarded $280,000 in the Knight News Challenge to develop its “data mining” platform, so it can be used by journalists in the US. The company, based at Liverpool Science Park, has created software that makes it easier [...]
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June 24, 2011Employers face hiring hell as they get inundated with unsuitable job candidates, research finds. According to a survey of 626 businesses by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, three quarters of organisations have highlighted an increase in the number of unsuitable candidates for job vacancies over the past year. The main reason for these [...]
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