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Friday, April 30, 2010 |Two immigrant families vie for a chance to showcase Orange County's surf culture by operating a small grocery store atop a picturesque bluff overlooking Dana Point's Salt Creek Beach . The battle, which has been going on since last September, will go before county supervisors next week. Board members will face a difficult question regarding county interests: preserving tradition or promising more revenue. The competition also offers a window into the behind-the-scenes intrigue that often precedes the decisions managers make on stage. Currently, the Dana Point concession is operated by the Efstatiou family, led by father…
At Convergence 2009, the biannual New Orleans event for the Microsoft Dynamics lineup of business management solutions, Microsoft Business Solutions Corporate Vice President Kirill Tatarinov introduced Dynamic Business, a way for organizations to combine the unique values of their employees. We have outlined Microsoft's vision called . , business processes, and connections with customers and trading partners, making them more relevant, responsive, and impactful. He also said the software giant is trying to help businesses make the most of their investments in enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) to help them weather economic downturns at no additional…
NEW YORK — March 16, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer today outlined the company's vision that people with the right software are the key to driving business success. This vision of a business called “People-Ready” is the backdrop for a series of innovative solutions in new and existing categories that Microsoft plans to bring to market over the next year. Mr. Ballmer presented new business solutions to his more than 500 business customers and announced that they will be able to integrate them with the company's next version of the Windows Vista™ operating system, the 2007 Microsoft® Office…
MANATEE COUNTY — It took Tony Zanoni three months to find warehouse space for his growing kitchen installation business.He eventually found an 11,000-square-foot lot at the Sarasota-Bradenton Commerce Center on East 15th Street between Whitfield Avenue and Talevast Road in southern Manatee County.”We store cabinets and furniture that are worth a lot of money,” says Zanoni, president of Lakewood Ranch-based Kitchens Direct. “We needed something that we knew was safe.”Kitchens Direct is one of 20 companies currently occupying more than 575,000 square feet within the complex.Notably, more than half of the space, or 350,000 square feet, was leased in the…