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ATLANTA, Ga., June 1 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Corporate and organizational custom publishing expert Bookhouse Group has the privilege of being selected as publisher for the one-hundred-year commemorative book of BDO Seidman, LLP, one of the nation's leading professional services organizations. The firm evaluated a group of competitive bids before choosing the twenty-year provider of museum quality history books to begin its project in June for delivery by September 2010.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has sued Houston-based O’Connor & Associates and a judge has ordered a temporary restraining order against the property tax consulting firm based on allegations it violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Janice Phillips, managing director of the company’s property tax division, called the allegations “ludicrous.”

Britain's Got Talent proved to be not just a TV sensation but a massive hit on the web too, according to web-monitoring firm Hitwise.

As the worldwide recession took hold late last year and into the first quarter of 2009, shipments and revenues for the global server market plummeted by 24 percent each, according to Gartner. IBM remained the top revenue generator and HP sold the most units in a quarter plagued by economic deterioration and businesses drastically cutting back their IT budgets. Gartner analysts said 2009 will be a difficult year for server makers, though the second half should show a slight improvement. - The worldwide server industry, battered by the global recession, experienced historic declines in the first quarter, according to research firm Gartner. Echoing what counterpart IDC found in its first-quarter report May 28, Gartner June 1 reported that server revenue declined 24 percent worldwide i...

Apple has been awarded a number of new patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week. Two of the patents give Apple a firmer hold on its multitouch and touchpad surface technologies and the iPhone's case design. An important patent for a touchpad surface titled Force imaging input device and system covers the multitouch trackpad in Apple's more recent notebook computers and--to some degree--the iPhone touch screen. The abstract from the patent describes a system with multiple layers comprised of two sets of drive traces, one layer of sensing traces, and a spring membrane. The layers are arranged over a base and have an outer layer such as plastic or glass that gives the entire assembly a pleasing outward appearance and provides an interactive surface with the outside world. (Credit: U.S. Patent Office) The invention is credited to Steven Hotelling and Brian Huppi, and could serve as a defense for Apple against any multitouch copycat devices. The second patent, ti

Auerbach Grayson & Company, a New York-based brokerage firm, has appointed Alexander Kazan vice president of Latin american equities.

Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co KKR.UL posted a substantial loss in 2008 as the global economic downturn took its toll on the firm's investments.

President Barack Obama pushed General Motors Corp. into bankruptcy on Monday and said it was part of a 'viable achievable plan that will give this iconic company a chance to rise again.' Obama said he hoped the firm would emerge quickly from bankruptcy court,...

Enter Robert George. A professor of politics (and a lot more) at Princeton--he holds an endowed chair once held by Woodrow Wilson--George wants to bring intellectual vigor to the republican party and the conservative movement, especially on social issues like pornography and marriage. 'We need to connect our intellectuals with our activists,' he says. George, 48, has founded the american Principles Project (APP) with an ambitious agenda that would change the face of conservative politics. And Frank Cannon and Jeffrey Bell, leading conservative strategists who run a public affairs firm in Washington, have joined him.

He is hardly your average movie investor. He cultivates his privacy, and he heads a $13 billion hedge fund that, unlike those run by Carl Icahn and others, rarely mounts a proxy fight. But while most hollywood bankers have turned off the money spigot, billionaire Paul Singer's Elliott Associates appears to be stepping up its investments. Last year the firm lent money to film investor Ryan... Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.