College Students Must Make Real Change as Economic Literacy at All-Time Low
By Clare Morgan nFinanSe Inc. As posted on The Huffington Post As National Financial Literacy Month comes to a close, young adults remain vulnerable to the traps of poor financial management in record numbers with 45 percent of college students with more than $3,000 in credit card debt. The number of college students who drop [...]
More Signs Pointing Up for Tech Industry
By Scott Duke Harris MercuryNews.com If Tesla Motors and other electric carmakers have their way, the phrase “hitting on all cylinders” may someday go the way of the horseless carriage. But for now, the metaphor seems apt as Silicon Valley tries to accelerate out of the Great Recession. The region’s unemployment remains stubbornly high at [...]
Ernst & Young LLP seeks high-potential women entrepreneurs for 2010 Ernst & Young Entrepreneurial Winning Women competition
Ernst & Young LLP is calling for applications for its third annual Entrepreneurial Winning Women competition, a program designed to accelerate the growth of high-potential businesses founded by women entrepreneurs. To obtain an application form, or to nominate a deserving woman entrepreneur, visit: www.ey.com/us/entrepreneurialwinningwomen. The application deadline is June 30, 2010. The Ernst & Young [...]
Non-English Speakers Struggle To Get Up To Speed As States Try To Keep Them Off Roads
By Louis Provenzano Language Line Services, LLC As posted on The Huffington Post. Nine states currently offer an English-only written driver’s license test and at least three others – Georgia, Missouri and Tennessee – are actively pursuing legislation to join that list. Those in favor of such laws say not speaking English is a safety [...]
USC MarshallVOICES – They Call Me MOTY
By Peter Griffith Global Managing Partner – Operations & Finance Ernst & Young LLP Written for The University of Southern California’s MarshallVOICES. That’s my nickname now. At home and in parts of Los Angeles, I’ve been “MOTY” ever since the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners named me their first [...]
The Language Interpretation Industry’s Real Dangers
By Steve Weinberg Language Line Services, LLC As posted on Law 360 One of the pressing challenges facing the U.S., both domestically and from a global perspective, is how to integrate into our culture in an effective way the growing waves of limited English proficiency speakers moving into and being born in America. With over [...]
More Payment Card Readers for iPhone
By Daniel Wolfe American Banker Three more companies have announced card readers that work with Apple Inc.’s iPhone. Hypercom Corp. announced Tuesday that it would sell two versions of a card reader that plugs in to an iPhone and uses its wireless connection to handle card payments. The SmartPayments Mobile devices are aimed at merchants [...]
Hypercom Introduces Secure Payments Solutions For iPhone
SmartPayments™ Mobile Encrypted Card Reader, Barcode Scanning, Signature Capture and Payment App Bring New Capabilities to Apple’s Popular Smartphone Las Vegas, Nevada - Hypercom Corporation today unveiled the first two members of a product family that enable smartphones to accept card payments. The two elegant, state-of-the-art SmartPayments Mobile payment solutions are for merchants with Apple® iPhones® who [...]
Baseline Magazine – IT Spending Meets C-Suite Expectations
By Leslie Blair Ernst & Young LLP As posted on Baseline Magazine Organizations search for ways to optimize the value delivered by its investments. Given our turbulent economic environment, cost reduction is a top-of-mind issue for executives. Many organizations are aggressively working to reduce their technology spend; many are also working to drive costs out [...]
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award semi-finalists in the Greater Los Angeles Area announced
Los Angeles, CA – Ernst & Young LLP is pleased to announce the semi-finalists for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® award in the Greater Los Angeles Area. This group of outstanding entrepreneurs was selected by an independent judging panel made up of regional business, academic and community leaders. Finalists will be announced [...]
