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NEW YORK, NY (MARKET WIRE) Many businesses are facing the first serious recession that will affect them in a significant way. Successful navigation of the new environment may require a whole new mindset and focus -- including a willingness to deal directly and intelligently with difficult issues, according to partners at Marks Paneth & Shron, a New York City-based accounting firm that serves large businesses, including privately owned companies, as well as high net worth individuals.

NEW YORK, NY (MARKET WIRE) iiBIG's 2009 Student Loans Financing Congress, scheduled for April 23-24, 2009 at The Ronald Reagan international trade Center in Washington, D.C. occurs at a critical time with the changing of the guard as the Obama Administration and new Congress are set to take office in January 2009.

FOOTHILL RANCH, CA (MARKET WIRE) Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) today announced that Symantec Enterprise Vault(TM), the industry's most popular archiving platform, has been selected as the backup and archiving solution for CallXpress(R), the company's flagship Unified Communications solution. AVST will leverage Vault Solutions' Archive Accelerator to store CallXpress voicemail messages in Symantec Enterprise Vault. The new voicemail archiving solution enables CallXpress users to meet regulatory compliance requirements.

LAS VEGAS, NV (MARKET WIRE) CA World 2008 -- Axis Group, a global leader in Business Intelligence and Project and Portfolio Solutions, was a hit at the 13th annual CA World event in Las Vegas with the introduction of their Project and Portfolio Dashboard. Hundreds of CA Clarity users experienced compelling demonstrations of the solution and were asked "Are you ready to answer THE NEXT QUESTION?"

The Kansas City area’s unemployment rate was 5.9 percent in October, down from 6.2 percent in September but up from 5 percent in October 2007, according to statistics the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released Tuesday.

Accounting and finance professionals scouring the D.C. area for jobs early next year are in a better boat than their peers across the U.S.