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Nir Zuk's Palo Alto Networks Is Blowing Up Internet Security
Forbes
As one of the earliest employees at Check Point Software Technologies in the 1990s he wrote parts of the world's first commercial firewall. He later built essential chunks of the firewall sold by Juniper ... In 2011 a U.S. government report accused ...

La Crosse Common Council District 5: Chartrand vs. Svitavsky
The Courier Life News
A North Side business owner and a pupil services specialist for La Crosse Schools are vying for the District 2 seat on the La Crosse Common Council. Read more ... Some areas I would be especially hesitant to cut, however, would be our protective ...

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Keyport prepares for property revaluation
Holmdel Independent
A complete revaluation typically involves interior and exterior inspection of each individual property on the tax rolls — both commercial and residential, Wright said. Property lines, damage, improvements and other factors are all taken into account ...

Rebar Prices Rise as Spring Construction Demand Trims Stockpiles
Bloomberg
Steel reinforcement-bar rose on optimism that demand for the material used in housing and railroads will increase as large construction projects in northern China resume operations after winter. The contract for delivery in October rose as much as 0.9 ...

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StandardNet
Construction on Layton public trail begins with approval from city officials
StandardNet
The project includes construction of a sidewalk, light fixtures, landscaping, landscape irrigation, bridges and one entry node around a detention basin on 2 acres of land west of the Hilton Home 2 Suites and east of the Best Western Hotel. The project ...

4 protesters arrested at Hwy 101 construction site
Sacramento Bee
WILLITS, Calif. -- Authorities in Sonoma County have arrested four people protesting the construction of a Highway 101 bypass in Willits. The Santa Rosa Press Democrat ( http://bit.ly/XFlPS9) reports the protesters were arrested for trespassing at the ...

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NAR announces inaugural group for 'tech accelerator'
Inman.com
Editor's note: This story has been updated to note that the REach program now has more than 140 mentors. A tech incubator launched by the National Association of Realtors has selected an inaugural group of six companies that will receive mentoring ...

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BUSINESS IN BRIEF 27/3
VietNamNet Bridge
It has expanded to its 10 current Vietnamese branches and transaction points that offer a full range of services including retail banking, institutional banking, and commercial banking catering to small, medium, and emerging businesses. In February ...

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Construction employment in Salem falls in 2012
Statesman Journal
... part of the construction industry. Associated General Contractors of America concluded that construction employment increased in 145 out of 339 metropolitan areas between January 2012 and January 2013, declined in 141 and was stagnant in 53. Tweet ...

Busy summer ahead for road construction projects
Chapel Hill News
CHAPEL HILL - Several road construction projects will occur this summer in the southern portion of Chapel Hill and Carrboro community that will bring infrastructure benefits valued at more than $11 million, town leaders said. Construction in Chapel ...

New York Observer
Weapons of Mass Construction: Satmars' Secret to Keeping Housing Prices Low
New York Observer
For half a million dollars, you can buy a three-bedroom condo in a new elevator building. The tan brick buildings won't win any design awards, with their looming, protruding window cages and diagonally cascading balconies built solely for constructing ...

Verizon, community celebrates construction start on vacant Lake Mary site (Video)
Orlando Business Journal (blog)
The participants ceremoniously shovel the first scoops of dirt at the Verizon Communications Inc. construction. View Slideshow. Jim Carchidi. The participants ceremoniously shovel the first scoops of dirt at the Verizon Communications Inc. construction ...

Mlive Kalamazoo
Union construction workers protest Borgess Health for contracting non-local ...
Mlive Kalamazoo
Washington was joined Tuesday by Hugh Coward with the Michigan Building and Construction Trades, Jeff Breslin with the Michigan Nurses Association, Carlton Lartigue with JONAH faith-based social justice coalition, George Brown with Creating Change, ...
Groups picketing Borgess construction siteWTVB

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Inman.com
Hispanic buyers could kick recovery into high gear
Inman.com
Hispanics accounted for more than half of new owner-occupied households last year and have the purchasing power "to push the U.S. housing recovery into high gear," according to an annual report from the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate ...

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NPR (blog)
Under Construction: Kazakhstan's Space-Age Capital
NPR (blog)
In 1997, Kazakhstan, recently freed from the Soviet Union, packed up its border-location capital, and moved it to the inhospitable steppe, smack in the middle of the country. That's where the country's president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, thought it should be.

Inman.com
Shadow inventory down 28% from peak
Inman.com
The "shadow inventory" of distressed homes likely to hit the market fell 18 percent in January from a year ago, to 2.2 million homes - about nine months of supply at the current rate of sales, according to a new report by loan data aggregator CoreLogic.

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Zillow adds Spanish support to rental app
Inman.com
Editor's note: A previous version of this story stated that Spanish support for the app was focused on its voice-recognition capability. The language update was for the whole app. Zillow added Spanish support to its Android home-rental app today ...

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Inman.com
New-home sales climb in February from a year ago
Inman.com
Sales of new single-family homes showed a 12.3 percent year-over-year jump in February from a year ago, according to a monthly report from the U.S. Census Bureau released today. February's seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 411,000 new-home sales ...

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Foreclosure inventory down 19.6% from year ago
Inman.com
Foreclosure pre-sale inventory was down 19.6 percent in February from a year ago, to 1.7 million homes, according to the latest "First Look" Mortgage Report from Lender Processing Services. The mortgage delinquency rate fell to 6.8 percent in February, ...

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Dart Appraisal integrates appraiser database with federal registry
Inman.com
Dart Appraisal announced today that it has integrated its database of appraisers with the registry of The Appraisal Subcommittee (ASC), a move that it says will make it easier for the company to locate qualified appraisers in certain areas. The APS ...

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