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First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

$1,500 Google Glass eyewear in the mail

Follow us on Twitter @AJCBiz Are you one of the lucky ones to get a first glimpse through Google’s new mobile computing eyewear? The company has begun shipping 8,000 pairs of Google Glass to individuals who entered a contest to be the first to try ... [Published The Biz Beat - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Google Glass, Mobile Computing, Google Inc

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

United Artists

Regal cutting theater workers’ hours due to Obamacare

Follow us on Twitter @AJCBiz Phil Skinner, pskinner@ajc.com Regal Entertainment Group, which operates Regal Cinemas and United Artists Theatres in metro Atlanta and has more than 6,800 theaters across the country, plans to cut the hours of thousands ... [Published The Biz Beat - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Obamacare, Workers, United Artists, Regal Cinemas Inc, Regal Entertainment Group

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 16 2013 - 1 reports

Sprint Nextel Corporation

Dish Network offers $25.5B for Sprint Nextel

(Associated Press) Follow us on Twitter @AJCBiz Did AT&T and Verizon see this coming? Dish Network, the satellite TV provider, wants to go into the cell phone business by acquiring Sprint Nextel Corp. in a $25.5 billion cash and stock ... [Published The Biz Beat - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Sprint Nextel Corporation, DISH Network Corp, Charles Ergen

First reported Apr 09 2013 - Updated Apr 09 2013 - 1 reports

Amtrak

Amtrak ridership hits record levels

Amtrak is having a good year so far. Ridership grew in the first half of 2013, while March set a record as the single best month ever in Amtrak’s history, the railroad said Tuesday. October, December and January set individual monthly records, Amtrak ... [Published The Biz Beat - Apr 09 2013]

Entities: Amtrak, Superstorm Sandy, Fiscal Year

First reported Apr 05 2013 - Updated Apr 05 2013 - 1 reports

US Department of Labor

Many have given up looking for work

Follow us on Twitter @AJCBiz Many more people stopped looking for work last month than in February, a revelation that cast a pall over a recent string of month-to-month employment gains nationally and locally. The question on the minds of many is ... [Published The Biz Beat - Apr 05 2013]

Entities: Unemployment Rate, US Department of Labor, Atlanta

First reported Apr 03 2013 - Updated Apr 03 2013 - 1 reports

Bell Laboratories

The cell phone turns 40

Follow us on Twitter @AJCBiz (Curtis Compton, ccompton@ajc.com) Remember your first cellular phone? Was it the size of a lunchbox? For those of you into milestones, today is the 40th anniversary of the ubiquitous mobile phone. The Motorola DynaTAC ... [Published The Biz Beat - Apr 03 2013]

Entities: Cellphone, Bell Laboratories, Battery

First reported Apr 01 2013 - Updated Apr 01 2013 - 1 reports

Hotel Indigo

Atlanta hotel rates skyrocket for Final Four

Follow us on Twitter @AJCBiz Jack and Judi Hamilton enjoy martinis with their standard poodles in the lobby of the Hotel Indigo Atlanta-Midtown. (Phil Skinner, pskinner@ajc.com) Atlanta hotels will be charging big bucks for rooms during the NCAA ... [Published The Biz Beat - Apr 01 2013]

Entities: Atlanta, Hotel Indigo, National Collegiate Athletic Association

First reported Mar 29 2013 - Updated Mar 29 2013 - 1 reports

Braves’ value placed at $629 million

Follow us on Twitter @AJCBiz Braves pitcher Paul Maholm delivers a pitch during an exhibition spring training game against the Houston Astros on Thursday in Kissimmee, Fla. (Associated Press) The Atlanta Braves team is the 15th most valuable Major ... [Published The Biz Beat - Mar 29 2013]

Entities: Paul Maholm, Robert E Turner, Liberty Media Corporation, Major League Baseball

First reported Mar 28 2013 - Updated Mar 28 2013 - 1 reports

Facebook founder Zuckerberg plans lobbying group

Follow us on Twitter @AJCBiz Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wants to extend the influence he has on social media to Capitol Hill. Zuckerberg, with the help of a Harvard University alum, plans to create a lobbying group of technology industry leaders ... [Published The Biz Beat - Mar 28 2013]

Entities: Facebook Inc, Immigration, Reformism, Alum, Harvard University

First reported Mar 27 2013 - Updated Mar 28 2013 - 1 reports

Wells Fargo shakes finger at ‘Harlem Shake’ YouTube video

Follow us on Twitter @AJCBiz Wells Fargo is getting a lot of interest on YouTube, but not because of its latest rates. It appears Atlanta actors Emmanuel and Phillip Hudson, who have several hits on YouTube, managed to pull off a “Harlem Shake” video ... [Published The Biz Beat - Mar 27 2013]

Entities: Wells Fargo & Company, YouTube LLC, Wells Fargo Bank NA, Atlanta

First reported Mar 25 2013 - Updated Mar 25 2013 - 1 reports

Overdue debt burdening students, graduates

Follow us on Twitter @AJCBiz Despite signs that the economy appears to be on the rebound, many consumers continue to struggle under the weight of debt they can’t pay off. Equifax reported Monday that charge-offs, debts that creditors deem uncollectible, ... [Published The Biz Beat - Mar 25 2013]

Entities: Encumbrance, Equifax Inc, Mortgages, Unemployment

First reported Jan 23 2013 - Updated Jan 24 2013 - 2 reports

AT&T to credit U-verse customers’ accounts for lost service

Follow us on Twitter @AJCBiz AT&T says it will provide credits to customers affected by a U-verse outage that left many without phone, Internet and TV services for several days this week. “U-verse service has been restored for the vast majority of ... [Published The Biz Beat - Jan 24 2013]

Entities: AT&T Inc, Social Media, Twitter

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$1,500 Google Glass eyewear in the mail [Published The Biz Beat - Apr 18 2013]
Regal cutting theater workers’ hours due to Oba... [Published The Biz Beat - Apr 17 2013]
Dish Network offers $25.5B for Sprint Nextel [Published The Biz Beat - Apr 15 2013]
Amtrak ridership hits record levels [Published The Biz Beat - Apr 09 2013]
Many have given up looking for work [Published The Biz Beat - Apr 05 2013]
The cell phone turns 40 [Published The Biz Beat - Apr 03 2013]
Atlanta hotel rates skyrocket for Final Four [Published The Biz Beat - Apr 01 2013]
Braves’ value placed at $629 million [Published The Biz Beat - Mar 29 2013]
Facebook founder Zuckerberg plans lobbying group [Published The Biz Beat - Mar 28 2013]
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Overdue debt burdening students, graduates [Published The Biz Beat - Mar 25 2013]
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$1,500 Google Glass eyewear in the mail [Published The Biz Beat - Apr 18 2013] Follow us on Twitter @AJCBiz Are you one of the lucky ones to get a first glimpse through Google’s new mobile computing eyewear? The company has begun shipping 8,000 pairs of Google Glass to individuals who entered a contest to be the first to try ...
Regal cutting theater workers’ hours due to Oba... [Published The Biz Beat - Apr 17 2013] Follow us on Twitter @AJCBiz Phil Skinner, pskinner@ajc.com Regal Entertainment Group, which operates Regal Cinemas and United Artists Theatres in metro Atlanta and has more than 6,800 theaters across the country, plans to cut the hours of thousands ...
Dish Network offers $25.5B for Sprint Nextel [Published The Biz Beat - Apr 15 2013] (Associated Press) Follow us on Twitter @AJCBiz Did AT&T and Verizon see this coming? Dish Network, the satellite TV provider, wants to go into the cell phone business by acquiring Sprint Nextel Corp. in a $25.5 billion cash and stock ...
Amtrak ridership hits record levels [Published The Biz Beat - Apr 09 2013] Amtrak is having a good year so far. Ridership grew in the first half of 2013, while March set a record as the single best month ever in Amtrak’s history, the railroad said Tuesday. October, December and January set individual monthly records, Amtrak ...
Many have given up looking for work [Published The Biz Beat - Apr 05 2013] Follow us on Twitter @AJCBiz Many more people stopped looking for work last month than in February, a revelation that cast a pall over a recent string of month-to-month employment gains nationally and locally. The question on the minds of many is ...