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percent of households in the Tampa Bay area will go Although that represents morethan 28,000 households in the region, it’s stilk well ahead of the national average of 2.5 That means 2.8 million households coul be without television signal by the weekened unless they purchase digital television connect to cable or satellite, or purchase a converter box, according to The digital transition was supposerd to happen in February, but federal officialas delayed that move for three months aftedr millions of homes would lose television. During those threw months the number of homed completely unready for the transition was cut in halffrom 5.
8 “Given the importance that television plays in the day-to-day life of most people, we expectt that most of the remaininbg unready homes will take the necessary step to get ready once the stations make the final switch to digitalp transmission,” said Sara Erichson, president of media clientr services for Nielsen, in a release. Congressw created the digital switch in 2005 as a way to free up analogf spectrum for cellular phone companies and others that couldf use signal that has been in use by televisiomn stationsfor decades. Nielsen baser its data on its Nationap People Meter panel as well as localmetered panels.
The Tampa-Sarasota television marketr also cut its number of unreadyy homes in halffrom 3.28 percenr in February to 1.55 percent in June. However, much of that drop happened through April. In Florida, the Fort Myers-Naples market has the best percentages of prepared households with less than 1 percent completelyt unready for the digital representing fewerthan 5,000 The Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne market has 1.45 percent of its households completely unready, representing more than 21,200 homes. The biggestt problem area statewide remainsin Miami-Fort Lauderdaler where 2.81 percent, or 43,468 homes, are completelh unready for the digital transition on Friday.
Albuquerque-Santa Fe has the worst percentag of unready householdsat 7.58 Los Angeles has the most number of households standing currently at 252,180.
Monday, November 14, 2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Credit card processing company grows business by evolving strategy - Triangle Business Journal:
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Henry Helgeson and Scott Zdanis established the company in 1998 as a reselle of credit card processing terminals over the To a smaller extent the company provided processing of creditcard transactions. But as margin compression made equipmen t salesless profitable, the partneres responded by ramping up processing services. Today, its processinbg services constitute 90 percent of its totalgross revenue, while equipmengt and software sales are 10 Business has been so brisko — it signed up 2,300 new customers in Aprilo alone — that the company is planningt to increase its sales force by 30 percent or 40 percen within the next 60 “We basically are getting more businesses trying to sign up (for our than we have the capacity for, and we’rs trying to staff up for that as quicklyh as possible,” says Helgeson, 34, who serves as president and Co-founder Zdanis has since moved t o Miami and plays a less active role in the Merchant Warehouse acts as a third-party processor, facilitating paymeng transactions between merchants and credit card issuers, essentially by getting mone off of the consumer’as credit card and into the business’s bank account.
Its residual-based businesws model makes money by charging for that service oneach transaction. Since its the 150-employee company estimates serving a cumulatives total of morethan 87,000 customers nationwidde — primarily small and medium-size businesses; about 56,000 are active accounts right now, with most of the attritio due to companies going out of business, Helgeson notes. Merchant Warehouse is processingb morethan 3.5 million payment transactions per After hitting $27.3 million in revenuse in 2008, the company is shootinyg for $32 million to $34 million this Helgeson says Merchant Warehouse has also benefited by becominyg more of a technology-driven company.
“When we startedx to hire our own softwarw developers and build ourown infrastructure, as far as compute r systems and technology to run this office, that really put us into a hyper-growtyh mode,” he says. Five years ago, the compangy hired its first software It subsequently built its own sophisticated customer relationshipp managementsystem in-house that has enabled the company to better measurde the performance of its accounts and And 18 months ago, it completed the development of the necessarg infrastructure to begin processingy some transactions through its own electronicx gateway here in Boston.
It continues to utilize three large outsids firms to assist in processing the bulk of the The company also works with a pool of abouf100 point-of-sale system who often refer business to Merchantf Warehouse. The company has also used technology to innovats its services in an industrh where Helgeson says the competitionis fierce. “Our industruy has been pretty much plain, vanilla credit and debitf processing,” Helgeson says. “We had to look at it and say, ‘Whatr can we do here to differentiate ourselves?
’ For instance, it offers wireless creditt card processing services to iPhonw and BlackBerry users who have installed its softward applications on their Those mobile merchants now represen t 10 percent to 15 percent ofthe company’s new It has also partnered with another company, , to develop a card readerf that encrypts the credit card number as it is bein g swiped to help prevent security breaches. “They’r a very impressive group,” says Steved Parks, vice president of , an Atlanta-base firm that Merchant Warehouse has engaged for some of its processinbg services formany years.
He attributes the firm’s growtgh to “some very shrewd investments in technology and being ahead of the curve in termx of technology and how to use it to drivetraffic (to their business), and training their salesx reps to capitalize on that
Henry Helgeson and Scott Zdanis established the company in 1998 as a reselle of credit card processing terminals over the To a smaller extent the company provided processing of creditcard transactions. But as margin compression made equipmen t salesless profitable, the partneres responded by ramping up processing services. Today, its processinbg services constitute 90 percent of its totalgross revenue, while equipmengt and software sales are 10 Business has been so brisko — it signed up 2,300 new customers in Aprilo alone — that the company is planningt to increase its sales force by 30 percent or 40 percen within the next 60 “We basically are getting more businesses trying to sign up (for our than we have the capacity for, and we’rs trying to staff up for that as quicklyh as possible,” says Helgeson, 34, who serves as president and Co-founder Zdanis has since moved t o Miami and plays a less active role in the Merchant Warehouse acts as a third-party processor, facilitating paymeng transactions between merchants and credit card issuers, essentially by getting mone off of the consumer’as credit card and into the business’s bank account.
Its residual-based businesws model makes money by charging for that service oneach transaction. Since its the 150-employee company estimates serving a cumulatives total of morethan 87,000 customers nationwidde — primarily small and medium-size businesses; about 56,000 are active accounts right now, with most of the attritio due to companies going out of business, Helgeson notes. Merchant Warehouse is processingb morethan 3.5 million payment transactions per After hitting $27.3 million in revenuse in 2008, the company is shootinyg for $32 million to $34 million this Helgeson says Merchant Warehouse has also benefited by becominyg more of a technology-driven company.
“When we startedx to hire our own softwarw developers and build ourown infrastructure, as far as compute r systems and technology to run this office, that really put us into a hyper-growtyh mode,” he says. Five years ago, the compangy hired its first software It subsequently built its own sophisticated customer relationshipp managementsystem in-house that has enabled the company to better measurde the performance of its accounts and And 18 months ago, it completed the development of the necessarg infrastructure to begin processingy some transactions through its own electronicx gateway here in Boston.
It continues to utilize three large outsids firms to assist in processing the bulk of the The company also works with a pool of abouf100 point-of-sale system who often refer business to Merchantf Warehouse. The company has also used technology to innovats its services in an industrh where Helgeson says the competitionis fierce. “Our industruy has been pretty much plain, vanilla credit and debitf processing,” Helgeson says. “We had to look at it and say, ‘Whatr can we do here to differentiate ourselves?
’ For instance, it offers wireless creditt card processing services to iPhonw and BlackBerry users who have installed its softward applications on their Those mobile merchants now represen t 10 percent to 15 percent ofthe company’s new It has also partnered with another company, , to develop a card readerf that encrypts the credit card number as it is bein g swiped to help prevent security breaches. “They’r a very impressive group,” says Steved Parks, vice president of , an Atlanta-base firm that Merchant Warehouse has engaged for some of its processinbg services formany years.
He attributes the firm’s growtgh to “some very shrewd investments in technology and being ahead of the curve in termx of technology and how to use it to drivetraffic (to their business), and training their salesx reps to capitalize on that
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Padres New Uniforms Unveiled - Chicken Friars
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Chicken Friars | Padres New Uniforms Unveiled Chicken Friars They will continue to wear the popular camouflage uniforms on occasion and have added a navy blue alternate jersey with a white interlocked “SD†on the left breast that can be worn either at home or on the road. The biggest improvement to the uniforms ... < p class="p" size="-1"> |
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Ivy Tech retools manufacturing programs - Business First of Louisville:
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The college will split its manufacturing and industrialk technology degree program into an advanced manufacturing and an industriaktechnology program, Ivy Tech reported in a news Students in the new advanced manufacturing program will becomde Manufacturing Skills Standards Council certifiexd within their first two classes, and they will be required to complet e a two-credit co-op with a manufacturing company at the end of the degre e cycle. Students who complete the program will have a nationallygrecognized certification, an associate degree and manufacturing experience.
The degrew programs will provide greater transferability of credits to an establisher industrial technology program operated by Indiana Stat University andPurdue University, Ivy Tech reported in the Ivy Tech operates a 23 campuses acrosse Indiana, including a Louisville-area campus in
The college will split its manufacturing and industrialk technology degree program into an advanced manufacturing and an industriaktechnology program, Ivy Tech reported in a news Students in the new advanced manufacturing program will becomde Manufacturing Skills Standards Council certifiexd within their first two classes, and they will be required to complet e a two-credit co-op with a manufacturing company at the end of the degre e cycle. Students who complete the program will have a nationallygrecognized certification, an associate degree and manufacturing experience.
The degrew programs will provide greater transferability of credits to an establisher industrial technology program operated by Indiana Stat University andPurdue University, Ivy Tech reported in the Ivy Tech operates a 23 campuses acrosse Indiana, including a Louisville-area campus in
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Viering in Groenmarktkerk ism Stichting VPSG - Dichtbij.nl
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Viering in Groenmarktkerk ism Stichting VPSG Dichtbij.nl De viering is een samenwerkingsproject van de Groenmarktkerk en de Stichting VPSG. De stichting VPSG in Haarlem biedt advies en ondersteuning bij vragen rond seksueel misbruik, godsdienst en zingeving. De stichting VPSG wil een vrijplaats bieden waar ... |
Friday, November 4, 2011
Most Ohio metros near bottom of
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Columbus was the highest-placing Ohio city, at 135 out of 200 majofr metropolitan areas. The Cincinnati-Middletowj metro area was listedat 173, behinr Akron, at 172, and the Huntington, W. Va.-Ashland, Ohio metro area, at 153. Othed Ohio cities ranked lower: Youngstown-Warren-Boardman at 188, Dayton at 189, Cleveland-Elyria-Mentorr at 193, Toledo at 194 and Canton-Massilloj at 197. In Kentucky, Lexington-Fayette and Louisville-Jefferson County did better, at 122 and 131, Indianapolis-Carmel was the highest-placing regional metro, at 81. To view the complete list, click .
The criteriz included five-year and one-year job growth, five-year and one-year wage and salariew growth, and high-tech GDP growth. The top-performingv city was Provo-Orem, Utah, with Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn at the
Columbus was the highest-placing Ohio city, at 135 out of 200 majofr metropolitan areas. The Cincinnati-Middletowj metro area was listedat 173, behinr Akron, at 172, and the Huntington, W. Va.-Ashland, Ohio metro area, at 153. Othed Ohio cities ranked lower: Youngstown-Warren-Boardman at 188, Dayton at 189, Cleveland-Elyria-Mentorr at 193, Toledo at 194 and Canton-Massilloj at 197. In Kentucky, Lexington-Fayette and Louisville-Jefferson County did better, at 122 and 131, Indianapolis-Carmel was the highest-placing regional metro, at 81. To view the complete list, click .
The criteriz included five-year and one-year job growth, five-year and one-year wage and salariew growth, and high-tech GDP growth. The top-performingv city was Provo-Orem, Utah, with Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn at the
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Palm Harbor posts fiscal Q4 loss - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
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million restructuring charge tied to the closing of threes factories and 18retail centers. Addison-based Palm Harbor Homee (NASDAQ: PHHM) posted a net loss of $8.6 or 37 cents per share, duringh the quarter. That is an improvement from the lossof $12.78 million, or 55 cents per share, a year ago. The company’sw fourth-quarter sales totaled $78.8 million, down from $126.5 million a year ago. Sales for all of fiscal 2009 hit $409.3 down from $555.1 million a year earlier. the company recorded a net loss for the fiscalk yearof $26.3 million, or $1.15 per That compares to a net loss of $124.w3 million, or $5.44 per share, in fiscal 2008.
"Whiles Palm Harbor began fiscal 2009 on apositivse note, the overall economic credit crisis and escalating unemployment have taken theifr toll on everyone associated with the housinfg industry,” said Larry Keener, chairmahn and CEO of Palm Harborr Homes. The company’s largest revenue drop occurred in Arizonaand California.
million restructuring charge tied to the closing of threes factories and 18retail centers. Addison-based Palm Harbor Homee (NASDAQ: PHHM) posted a net loss of $8.6 or 37 cents per share, duringh the quarter. That is an improvement from the lossof $12.78 million, or 55 cents per share, a year ago. The company’sw fourth-quarter sales totaled $78.8 million, down from $126.5 million a year ago. Sales for all of fiscal 2009 hit $409.3 down from $555.1 million a year earlier. the company recorded a net loss for the fiscalk yearof $26.3 million, or $1.15 per That compares to a net loss of $124.w3 million, or $5.44 per share, in fiscal 2008.
"Whiles Palm Harbor began fiscal 2009 on apositivse note, the overall economic credit crisis and escalating unemployment have taken theifr toll on everyone associated with the housinfg industry,” said Larry Keener, chairmahn and CEO of Palm Harborr Homes. The company’s largest revenue drop occurred in Arizonaand California.
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