Jan 19
BOSTON – Massachusetts foreclosures last year rose by 32 percent compared with 2009, The Warren Group said Wednesday.
The real estate tracking firm said lenders completed 12,233 foreclosures last year, up from 9,269 the year before.
In Bristol County, Mass., foreclosures totaled 1,280 in 2010, marking a 45 percent increase from the 884 foreclosures completed the year before.
Warren Group CEO Timothy M. Warren Jr. attributed the increases to Bay State lenders spending 2010 working through a backlog of foreclosures started in previous years. T
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Jan 18
Small businesses employ 60% of the private sector workforce and estimated to account for 45% of total energy use, government figures show.
Small businesses that hold liability insurance must be considered first when it comes to carbon reporting standards, according to the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).
The environmental and carbon impact of is significant.
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Jan 14
The government has announced plans for a standalone organisation to support and co-ordinate open data initiatives across the public sector.
As well as making the government’s open data programme more efficient, it said, the Public Data Corporation (PDC) will help address a dilemma that some public sector bodies face. Charging private organisations for access to data is an important source of revenue for many government divisions, but they are under increasing pressure to make data available for free.
“At present many state agencies face a conflict between maximising revenues from the sale of data and making the data freely available to be exploited for social and economic gain,” said Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude in a statement. “Crea
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Jan 13
Get Out While You Can – Escape the rat race in 2011 by George Marshall encourages you to work less, work when you choose and earn more money, doing what you want – all whilst working from home. Wherever that home may be.
So how is that possible? Well as Get Out While You Can explains, the Information Age affords each and every one of us some amazing business opportunities. Opportunities that are low cost – you can start an Internet business for less than £50 (and Marshall explains how to do so) – and thus relatively risk free. Yet thes
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Jan 12
My wife just closed the books on 2010 for our online store and I’m pleased to share some of the numbers with you. Looking back, I’m still amazed and proud that our little online store continues to grow at such a fast pace. To think that our business all started when we found out that my wife was pregnant makes me almost want to have another kid (though I might have to run this one by my wife first…).
This year was especially hard on my wife and I (in terms of the business) because our second child was born in late 2009. Durin
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Jan 10
BBC News had an interesting short spot about Hybrid Air Vehicles and their SkyCat lighter than air vehicle today.
SkyCat can operate at up to 10,000 feet and 120 knots, with an endurance of up to 5 days. Not only that, but it can operate on just about any surface and needs no infrastructure or ground crew.
It sounds like a great business idea, and there’s obviously a lot of business opportunities that it will open up for Hybrid Air Vehicles and their customers. No doubt the military will be interested (in fact according to the BBC News story they have apparently taken a £300M order from the US military) in it as an UAV for surveillance with interdiction, but also with a maximum payload of 1,000 tons it could be used to deliver troops and equipment into unprepared forward operating bases. Whi
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