Publication: Kansas City Business Journal

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

iPhone slips as other devices make gains in customer satisfaction

Samsung and Motorola devices are creeping up on the Apple iPhone's stronghold with consumers' satisfaction, Bloomberg reports.The iPhone still holds the top spot, but still saw its satisfaction rate drop by 2.4 percent, according to the American Customer ... [Published Kansas City Business Journal - 20 hours ago]

Entities: iPhone, Samsung Group, Apple Inc

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

Laclede plans sale of 8.7M shares to finance MGE acquisition

Officials from the Laclede Group announced yesterday that it plans to sell up to 8.7 million shares of its common stock to help fund its pending acquisition of Missouri Gas Energy, the St. Louis Business Journal reports.A portion will also go to fund ... [Published Kansas City Business Journal - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Laclede Group, Acquisition, Stocks

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Sam Brownback

KU makes lobbying change in fight for higher ed funding

With proposed budget cuts to higher education still on the table, University of Kansas officials reassigned their lead lobbyist away from the Kansas legislature, The Lawrence Journal-World reports.The lobbying change came suddenly amid negotiations between ... [Published Kansas City Business Journal - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Sam Brownback, Higher Education, Kansas Legislature

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

YRC Worldwide Inc

YRC Freight network optimization process begins

YRC Worldwide Inc. started their network optimization process over the weekend as part of an on-going effort to reduce subsidiary YRC Freight's network to a size more appropriate for the company's business.As part of the process, the Overland Park less-than-truckload ... [Published Kansas City Business Journal - 14 hours ago]

Entities: YRC Worldwide Inc, network optimization

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Commercial construction remains sluggish in first quarter

Commercial construction activity declined by 1.1 percent during the first quarter of 2013, but was 7 percent stronger than the first quarter of the previous year, according to an analysis of industry data from the Associated Builders and Contractors ... [Published Kansas City Business Journal - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Construction, Construction Spending, Declination

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

Petro America founder goes free on bond until sentencing

The ringleader of a $10.2 million stock scam that targeted Kansas City-area black churches is back on the streets, at least for a few months.Isreal Owen Hawkins Jr., 57, the founder of Petro America Corp. who was convicted last week of securities fraud, ... [Published Kansas City Business Journal - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Petro America Corp, Sentencing, Securities Fraud

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

NIC Inc

Kansas City Symphony replaces Helzberg as board chair

After 18 years with the Kansas City Symphony, Shirley Helzberg will step down as Chair of its Board of Directors.She'll now serve as Chairman Emeritus.Taking over her former role is former American Century CEO Bill Lyons.Lyons is also an investment manager ... [Published Kansas City Business Journal - 17 hours ago]

Entities: NIC Inc, The Nature Conservancy, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

Sprint outranks AT&T, T-Mobile in customer satisfaction

Customers are increasingly pleased with Sprint Nextel Corp. as a wireless provider, according to a recently released annual customer satisfaction survey, The Kansas City Star reports.Overland-Park based Sprint claimed the No. 2 spot, just behind Verizon, ... [Published Kansas City Business Journal - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Sprint Nextel Corporation, T-Mobile International AG & Co, AT&T Inc

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 reports

Former Mamtek CEO's bond requires GPS monitoring

A court has ordered former Mamtek CEO Bruce Cole to wear a GPS monitoring device as a condition of his bond while he awaits trial on four counts of securities fraud and one count of felony theft, the St. Louis Business Journal reports.A Missouri judge ... [Published Kansas City Business Journal - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Bruce Cole, Chris Koster, Securities Fraud, Circuit Judge

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 reports

Second Missouri social services official departs after 5 months

Alan Freeman, the head of Missouri's social services department, has resigned after being on the job less than five months, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.His resignation follows on the heels of the departure of Ian McCaslin, the state's longtime ... [Published Kansas City Business Journal - 19 hours ago]

Entities: ALAN FREEMAN, Jay Nixon, Medicaid

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

SoftBank issues Asia's biggest sale of retail bonds to finance Sprint deal

In efforts to acquire Sprint Nextel Corp., Tokyo-based SoftBank Corp. is looking to sell $3.9 billion in retail bonds, The Wall Street Journal reports.If it's successful, it will be Asia's biggest sale of retail bonds, the report says. SoftBank won't ... [Published Kansas City Business Journal - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Softbank Corp, Sprint Nextel Corporation, DISH Network Corp

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

Midwest refinery outages boost national gas price average

Refinery outages in the Midwest are driving up gasoline prices throughout the country, the Detroit Free Press reports.Nationally, a gallon of gas averages about $3.66, according to The Lundberg Survey of fuel prices. While Tucson brought in the lowest ... [Published Kansas City Business Journal - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Refinery, Tucson, Minneapolis (Minnesota, United States)

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"We expect to sign a lease and announce the location before the end of 2013," Klumb said. "And we expect to move before the end…"

GSA requests downtown office lease proposals [Published Kansas City Business Journal - May 20 2013]

"With appreciation for his leadership and service to this agency, this is to announce that Dr. Ian McCaslin is leaving the MO HealthNet Division (MHD)" Missouri Department of Social Services Director Alan Freeman wrote in a memo to employees

Director departs from Missouri Medicaid department [Published Kansas City Business Journal - May 15 2013]

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