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Local Search Launches the UAEs Ultimate Business Locator to Take you the Last Mile

Doing business often starts with finding a business but the UAE has no single unified addressing system and so finding companies and their physical locations can often be a long and frustrating process. However, wasting valuable time trying to find a company is set to become a thing of the past as Local Search, powered by Informap, introduces a unique virtual addressing system for the UAE called GRL, as part of its online business search service http://www.pearlpublicschool.org/nutrition-on-line-faculties.html.

We have all experienced the dreaded question on the phone - 'where is your office location?' - followed by frustrating minutes of cross communication and often with no satisfactory result at the end. Now, Local Search has incorporated a unique business locator based on an interactive digital map of the UAE, made available exclusively to Local Search business directory service under an agreement with Informap Productions LLC.

Almost every single building and company registered in the UAE and its freezones has been assigned a unique 6-digit number (GRL - Geo Reference Locator) with the details of areas, streets and building posted names on the most accurate and detailed digital map ever available online for the UAE.

Mr Kelly Jones, General Manager - Sales & Marketing, Local Search, explains: "We believe that the GRL Number will become an essential element of every business address for companies in the UAE, just like a telephone number. This benefits not only the smaller SMEs in more traditional business areas of the UAE but even those based in the new business districts and Free Trade Zones with their office tower complexes. Local Search takes you the last mile - even the last few steps - to your business destination. 90 per cent of the UAE's buildings have already been mapped and assigned a GRL and this will be an ongoing mapping process."

Any UAE company can find its office

After Hours: H-P results, job cuts expected after hours

> LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Wall Street late Wednesday will look for Hewlett-Packard Co. to report a decline in quarterly results and announce plans to cut thousands of jobs, and NetApp Inc.’s quarterly results are expected to reflect growth over the past year http://www.twellow.com/stenfysh.

Media reports ahead of the release of H-P’s  results indicated the company is set to eliminate 25,000 to 30,000 jobs, or up to 10% of its workforce. The technology sector heavyweight will outline a restructuring plan late Wednesday, a source told MarketWatch. Read preview of H-P's results.

AOL's bet on local news

Patch.com, a network of small-town news sites owned by AOL, has emerged at the center of a tug of war over the Internet company's future, Keach Hagey reports on digits.

H-P’s fiscal second-quarter earnings are likely to drop 27% to 91 cents, according to a consensus estimate from FactSet Research. Revenue is projected to fall by 5% to $29.93 billion.

Storage-technology company NetApp  is expected to report a 7% gain in fiscal fourth-quarter earnings to 63 cents a share. Sales are projected to jump 18% to $1.68 billion.

Pandora Media  , which provides streaming and personalized online radio services, is forecast to report a first-quarter loss of 17 cents a share on revenue of $74.4 million.

During the regular session, U.S. stocks took part in a global selloff of equities on intensifying concerns that Greece could exit the euro zone as European Union leaders meet in Brussels. More on Wednesday's drop in U.S. stocks in Market Snapshot.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average  fell 97 points, or 0.8%, to 12,406, but was off session lows. The S&P 500 Index  fell 0.7% to 1,308 and the Nasdaq Composite Index  lost 0.5% at 2,824.

After Hours: H-P results, job cuts expected after hours

LightSquared on verge of bankruptcy: report

> CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — LightSquared Inc. a venture of hedge-fund manager Philip Falcone was teetering on the verge of bankruptcy Sunday as talks with lenders to avoid going bust have faltered, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing unnamed sources http://pickedjobs.com/career/search-engine-optimization-seo-summer-training-2012/.

The parties have until 5 p.m. Eastern Monday to keep LightSquared out of Chapter 11 but the sides remain far apart, the newspaper reported, and some people involved see the company ready to make preparations for bankruptcy.

LightSquared’s board was slated to meet Sunday to talk about authorizing a bankruptcy filing, the Journal reported, and it is likely to come before Monday evening.

LightSquared needs an extension of a debt-term violations waiver that expires Monday but Falcone and the lenders could not agree on how much of a stake in the venture would be ceded to get it.

Falcone’s hedge fund, Harbinger Capital Partners, is LightSquared’s main backer.

He has put billions of dollars of his and his investors’ money into the venture, which is aimed at competing with AT&T , Verizon  and others to sell wireless service wholesale.

However, his attempt to create a nationwide high-speed mobile broadband network have been blocked by federal regulators who say they’re concerned it could interfere with Global Positioning System signals.

LightSquared on verge of bankruptcy: report

Yahoo CEO to step down; board reshuffled

> CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — Yahoo Inc. said Sunday that its chief executive, Scott Thompson, has left the company, Board Chairman Roy Bostock is leaving and it has settled its proxy fight with dissident investor Daniel Loeb.

The midafternoon announcement from Yahoo followed a morning of media reports that Thompson would step down as a result of the furor over a false claim on his resume that he had a college degree in computer science.

It represented a major victory for Loeb.

AllThingsD dfirst reported Thompson’s impending departure.

Yahoo said Ross Levinsohn, the company’s head of  head of global media, would replace Thompson as interim chief executive and Fred Amoroso would replace Bostock as chairman of the board.

The Wall Street Journal reported Thompson agreed to resign after the board of directors found evidence that contradicted his claim of innocence over his misstated academic record. The report cited unnamed people familiar with the matter.

The Journal and AllThingsD, like MarketWatch, the publisher of this report, are subsidiaries of News Corp.

Yahoo’s board is continuing its probe to determine if it can fire Thompson with cause, meaning he would forfeit millions in severance pay, the Journal said.

Yahoo also announced a settlement with Loeb of Third Point, the man who discovered the faked resume.

Loeb and allies Harry J. Wilson and Michael J. Wolf will join the board effective Wednesday, Yahoo said.

Yahoo said Bostock, and Patti Hart, VJ Joshi, Arthur Kern and Gary Wilson, all of whom previously said they wouldn’t stand for re-election, as well as Thompson have decided to step down from the board immediately.

Third Point, which owns 5.8% of Yahoo common stock, has agreed to withdraw its previous board nominations for consideration at the annual meeting and vote its shares in support of Yahoo’s nominees, the company said.

Yahoo’s slate for election or re-election at the 2012 annual meeting will include Amoroso, John Hayes, Peter Liguori, Thomas McInerney, Maynard Webb, Sue James, David Kenny, Brad Smith, Loeb, Wilson and Wolf.

Amoroso had been leading a probe into how the phony credentials were put in Thompson’s biography and ended up in the company’s regulatory filings.

The company’s full board met on Sunday to hammer out a final deal, AllThingsD said.

As part of the agreement, Loeb will drop his proxy fight, the Journal reported.

Thompson’s resume had said he had degrees in computer science and accounting from Stonehill College in Easton, Mass., when he actually only had an accounting degree. He reportedly graduated in 1979.

He had at first called the resume problem a “distraction” and an “inadvertent error” after news of it broke 10 days ago. He also attempted to blame a search firm for it.

Thompson took the top job in January after the firing of former CEO Carol Bartz in September 2011. The company has been overseen by four CEOs, including Terry Semel and co-founder Jerry Yang, since 2007.

Thompson had previously been at eBay , where he was president of the company’s PayPal unit. His biography on eBay’s site had also said that he had a computer-science degree, although the company’s filings with the SEC were accurate.

The controversy had already claimed one member of Yahoo’s board last week when Hart, who chaired the committee that tapped Thompson, stepped down. Hart is chief executive of slot machine maker International Game Technology .

Yahoo CEO to step down; board reshuffled

Automakers Vie for Market Share in China

The competition is intensifying in China, where automakers are competing for a share of the market in the world's most populous country.  More than 18 million cars were sold in China last year, and that number is expected to double in less than 10 years.Featuring more than 1,100 flashy, new vehicles, the Beijing Auto Show is now among the largest in the world. Car News web magazine editor Tycho de Feyter says it's an important showcase of China's economic clout."The Chinese auto industry really wants to show off.  They want to show what they have. They want to show their new developments. They want to show their new cars. So this is really important," Feyter said.With annual sales projected to top $30 million by 2020, automakers are increasingly turning to China to drive global revenues. General Motors is opening up 600 new dealerships. And Ford Motors Asia Chief John Hinrichs says construction of two new manufacturing plants will double Ford's production capacity there."China is a big part of our growth plan. It is the largest market in the world and a great potential opportunity for Ford to grow our business even further as part of our plan to sell 8 million vehicles annually in 2015 around the world," Hinrichs said.With a recent Beijing directive to have 5 million hybrid and electric vehicles on the road by 2020, many see China as a lucrative market for green technology. Among them, Nissan Motors chief executive Carlos Ghosn."As leaders of the zero emission and EV [electric] cars in the world, we have to bring our technology and bring our products.  The Chinese want us to put it under a Chinese name.  We selected Venusia, so you're going to see a lot electric cars with Nissan technology coming under the Venusia name," Ghosn said.Not to be outdone, Europe's largest automaker, Volkswagen, is investing $400 million to build new manufacturing plants in China.  And Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche says Mercedes Benz is expanding its lineup to target Chinese buyers."First of all there is no stronger brand than the Mercedes brand with the three pointed star. Secondly, we're in the middle of our product offensive, that we'll add 10 new vehicles in our portfolio, plus replacing the ones which exist," Zetsche said.  Despite a slowdown in overall sales from previous years, industry experts say the growing ranks of Chinese millionaires continue to fuel double-digit increases in the sales of sport utility vehicles (SUV's) and luxury automobiles.

Automakers Vie for Market Share in China

Look! App in the sky! Its Legos superhero movie maker

As a parent, there's nothing quite so satisfying as watching your kids express their creativity. Doesn't matter if it's with a set of blocks, a box of crayons, or an app that turns long sequences of still photos into superhero-themed movies -- it's just thrilling.

On Saturday, I gave my 9-year-old son a five-minute tutorial on using Lego Super Hero Movie Maker, a new app that lets Lego fans create nifty stop-motion animations using their own minifigs (i.e. little Lego people).

By Sunday, he'd already created several hilarious movies, the best of which involved a giant praying mantis catching and devouring several minifigs (hey, who says the good guys always get to win?). And he was just getting started -- Super Hero Movie Maker was an instant hit.

The app takes a simple, straightforward approach to movie-making. First, you choose one of about a dozen title cards, which you customize with the name of the movie and director.

Next, you start snapping frames, which is literally as simple as setting up your first shot, tapping the screen, moving your subject(s) a bit, then tapping again. Wash, rinse, repeat. (Obviously you don't have to use superhero minifigs or even any Lego products at all.)

A toggle button activates your device's LED if you need to throw more light on the scene, while another one adds a 3x3 grid to help with framing. Best of all, the app has an onion-skin toggle that overlays a transparent image of the previous frame, a huge help in positioning.

When you're done shooting, you can add one of half a dozen action-adventure soundtracks or choose from a similar number of visual filters. The app also lets you adjust the speed of the movie, anywhere from 1-10 frames per second, and add or delete individual frames.

All told, it's everything young moviemakers need to mess around and have fun, in a simple and accessible package. For the best results, I recommend putting your "camera" on a tripod, or at least a stand, so you can focus more on the scene and less on holding your phone or tablet steady. iPhone owners, here's a cheap tripod mount that doubles as a case.

I do have a couple small gripes with Super Hero Movie Maker. First, there's no way to get the camera to refocus, as any tap of the screen fires the shutter. A couple times my scene got blurry for some reason, and the only fix was to skip ahead to post-processing and then go back to editing.

Second, the app has only one orientation: lens low. If you flip your iPhone around so the lens is higher (which I find preferable), the app doesn't flip with it. Also, you can't delete an in-progress movie without first saving and processing it.

But, hey, there's no such thing as hassle-free moviemaking, right? None of these problems seemed to bother my son at all; he had a blast with Lego Super Hero Movie Maker. Given the sky-high prices of actual Lego, I'm surprised this app is free -- but you won't hear me complaining.

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Uppademic Students Take A Camera Shot

New York Uppademics second session is will focus on photography. The group will be meeting on The City College of New York campus in the Hoffman Lounge where students will have a photography session facilitated by photographer Fabian Palencia. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE GS_googleAddAdSenseService("ca-pub-83492339"+"76388614"); GS_googleEnableAllServices(); GA_googleAddSlot("ca-pub-8349233976388614", "NewsArticles_ATF_Center_250x250"); GA_googleAddSlot("ca-pub-8349233976388614", "NewsArticles_BTF_Footer_728x90"); GA_googleFetchAds(); GA_googleAddAdSensePageAttr("google_color_bg","ffffff"); GA_googleAddAdSensePageAttr("google_color_border","ffffff"); GA_googleAddAdSensePageAttr("google_color_link","2050d0"); GA_googleAddAdSensePageAttr("google_alternate_ad_url","http://www.prlog.org/jsinc/noidx/ads.html"); GA_googleAddAdSenseSlotAttr("NewsArticles_ATF_Center_250x250","google_ad_type","text"); GA_googleAddAdSenseSlotAttr("NewsArticles_ATF_Center_250x250", "google_ad_channel", "1297855608+0633753409+7072525493+0362719149+6863560615");GA_googleFillSlot("NewsArticles_ATF_Center_250x250"); uppademics PRLog (Press Release) - Apr 22, 2012 - In the second session participants will have the opportunity to learn the various settings and filters associated with photography. At the beginning Fabian will provided an overview of the importance of photography within any arts career whether as a painter, musician, artist or poet. After students were able to take pictures of themselves and others and post to the UPPADEMICS Facebook page to be viewed with the entire group. This was a wonderful opportunity for the students and a fun filled Saturday session. ABOUT UPPADEMICS: Uppademics seeks to support, educate, and empower students who wish to balance their artistic passions with their academic goals. We’re a youth based non-profit organization based in NYC that provides high school and college students with the tools to be better academics and artists. We aim to accomplish our vision by incorporating fundamental principles of academic fields such as law and engineering with artistic expression in an effort to help bridge the gap between artistic passions and academic goals.Contact: Nathan HossanahUppademics – Co Founderupppademics@gmail.comPhoto:http://www.prlog.org/11855892/1...

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India, Pakistan Take Steps to Boost Trade

India and Pakistan have inaugurated a new trading post on the heavily militarized Attari-Wagah border between the two countries. The move follows an important symbolic visit by Pakistan's president to New Delhi last week, and coincides with a groundbreaking Pakistan trade fair in the Indian capital http.It is music to the ears of merchants on either side of the India-Pakistan border.Top trade officials from both countries cut the ribbon recently on the four-day “Lifestyle Pakistan” trade fair in New Delhi - bringing, in their words, a who's who of hundreds of Pakistan's top exporters to town. jwplayer('jwPlayer1').setup({'flashplayer': 'http://www.voanews.com/MediaAssets2/ThePlatform/jwplayer/5_8_licensed/player.swf','file': 'http://av.voanews.com/VOA_Clickability_Feed_Connector/73/358/India_Pakistan_Trade_4x3web-fixed-x264-Platform_YTHQFull__018704.mp4','controlbar': 'bottom','image': 'http://media.voanews.com/images/India_Pakistan_Trade_4x3web-fixed-x264-Platform_YTHQFull_640x480_2223345867.jpg','width': '480','height': '297','plugins': {'sharing-3': {code: '%3Ciframe width%3D%27480%27 height%3D%27305%27 src%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.voanews.com%2Ftemplates%2FwidgetDisplay.html%3Fid%3D147596195%26player%3Darticle%27 frameborder%3D%270%27 allowfullscreen%3E%3C%2Fiframe%3E',link: 'http://www.voanews.com/templates/widgetDisplay.html?id=147596195&player=article'},'gapro-2': { accountid: '19450753-5', trackstarts:'true', trackpercentage:'true', tracktime:'true'}},'backcolor':'666666','frontcolor':'FFFFFF'});

Indians - never shy about shopping - are relishing the opportunity to purchase Pakistani textiles."Actually the patterns are lovely, the vibrant colors, especially the flow and the texture, they are really different from what we get nor

Mutual Funds Weekly: Fund investors’ double standard on taxes

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Paying capital gains taxes means you made money on your investment http://hechcoursesor.livejournal.com/121609.html. But mutual fund investors, unlike shareholders of individual stocks and exchange-traded funds, can owe capital gains taxes even if they themselves have lost money.

This investing double standard lands in Chuck Jaffe’s sights this week, as millions of Americans mail specially marked packages to the Internal Revenue Service.

Much of your tax fate as a fund investor depends on what time of year you buy the shares and the fund manager’s trading habits. Read Chuck’s column to get a better understanding of this predicament — one that might prompt you to send a taxing letter to some other federal institutions: your congressman and senators.

— Jonathan Burton , Money & Investing editor

INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS Taxes on mutual funds are a mess As mutual fund investors put the finishing touches on their tax returns for 2011, they should also give up hope that the confusing, complex way funds are taxed will get better anytime soon, writes Chuck Jaffe. Read more: Taxes on mutual funds are a mess.

How to win the quest for yield with stocks Dividend-paying stocks’ appeal has cooled recently, but the drivers for these stocks and investor’s desire for income persist, notes Rachel Koning Beals. Read more: How to win the quest for yield with stocks

Schwab could be ETF investors’ new Vanguard Charles Schwab Corp. has aggressively entered the exchange-traded fund market with products that compete with both Vanguard and BlackRock Inc.’s iShares lineup. In this battle, investors win,

How To Read Faster And Comprehend More

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