by Kevin Wang | Jun 28, 2012 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON–As the global economic crisis forces countries to maximize competiveness, U.S. businesses have lost at least $13 billion due to attacks on their intellectual property by foreign countries, a senior FBI official said Thursday. At a hearing hosted by...
by Elizabeth Dexheimer | Jun 28, 2012 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission will miss its July 4 deadline to adopt rules that would allow hedge funds to advertise, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro said Thursday. Schapiro told House Oversight and Government Reform Committee members the...
by Kevin Wang | Jun 27, 2012 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – When Glenn Garland was growing up, his older friends were returning from the Vietnam War with physical and emotional scars. Now, as a new generation of American veterans is returning home from battlefields in the Middle East, Garland, wants to help ensure...
by Simone Del Rosario | Jun 27, 2012 | Business & Tech, Education
WASHINGTON, D.C — Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack said parents are able to tell their children there is real opportunity in the small towns they live in because of land-grant universities like Iowa State University. Vilsack, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, spoke...
by Kevin Wang | Jun 26, 2012 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — With negotiation on how to fix America’s $1.2 trillion budget loophole in limbo on Capitol Hill, politicians and defense industry experts worry that the inaction could deeply hurt the nation as a whole. New Hampshire Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte,...
by Kevin Wang | Jun 25, 2012 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON- The election of Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi as Egypt’s first democratically elected president will be good for U.S. business interests, top Chamber of Commerce officials said Monday. Speaking to a group of about 60 business professionals...
