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He writes the Gaming Guru blog for WRAL.com, and for the past several months he has been breaking a lot of stories about the Triangle’s growing gaming industry for WRAL Local Tech Wire.He’s been a widely publisher reviewer of videogames and interactive entertainment for several years, and his expertise is a valuable addition to the LTW lineup. Emily, meanwhile, s a widely published blogger about technology and is a producer for the WRAL News Channel. She is published at About.com, Download Squad, and Reviewd.com a syndicate of the Washington Post. Their contributions are part of LTW’s efforts to broaden coverage of the technology industry both across the Carolinas and Georgia as well as nationally. Our growing readership has demonstrated a growing amount of interest in the videogame sector as companies such as Virtual Heroes and Epic set trends in technology as well as entertainment.Enjoy.
Cullman area seems to buck national real estate trend
The reality of realty is not as bleak locally as recent national news headlines suggest, according to area real estate professionals who say the Cullman housing market is strong."It's been a little slow, but it's not nearly what the national media makes us think that it is," said Cindy Dyer of Crye-Leike Realty Inc. in Cullman.The cover of the Sept. 24 edition of Time suggested otherwise. The magazine posed this question: "Will the real estate bust cause a recession?" Less than a month earlier, in the magazine's Aug. 27 issue, the cover promoted a story on "How Wall Street caused the housing mess."According to the Sept. 24 article, the average home sits on the market for 9.6 months, more than twice the time it took to sell a house two years ago.However, Rita Tucker, broker and co-owner of Alabama First Realty, said this is hardly the case in Cullman.
The Nielsen Company's 2008 Guide to the Super Bowl
NEW YORK, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The Nielsen Company today released its annual Guide to the Super Bowl which showcases a wide range of consumer and media information about the most notable marketing event in the U.S. -- the NFL's Super Bowl -- scheduled for February 3 in Glendale, AZ. TELEVISION: In 2007, an average of 93.1 million Americans tuned in to the CBS Network to watch the Indianapolis Colts beat the Chicago Bears. The event averaged a 42.6% household rating, up from the 2006 match-up between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Seattle Seahawks, which was watched by 90.7 million viewers and an average of 41.6% of U.S. homes. The most-watched Super Bowl of all time was in 1982 with a 49.1% rating, which also happened to be the fourth-highest rated television program since 1961 just behind the final episodes of M*A*S*H, Dallas and Roots Part VIII.
Koontz McCombs, LLC
Koontz McCombs, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is a multi-faceted commercial real estate company with active disciplines in Development, Construction, Leasing and Property Management. This unique combination of services provides our clients a single, seamless point of contact for all their commercial real estate needs. Koontz McCombs has been involved in the development and/or acquisition of over 1,600,000 square feet of commercial property. Koontz McCombs is active in the Texas market, specifically San Antonio, Austin and Houston. Koontz McCombs, LLC Executives Bart C Koontz [Chief Executive Officer] Troves B Gilbert [Chief Financial Officer] Alex H Yount [Vice President, Koontz McCombs Realty Services, Inc.] Monte Barrett [Vice President of Multifamily Construction, Koontz McCombs Construction, Ltd.] Thomas Wells [Vice President of Multifamily Development] .
Home Front: Affordability gap - Is Sacramento tempting more Bay Area ...
Not so long ago, Sacramento-area home prices were miracles to behold in the eyes of Bay Area and Los Angeles residents. Oh, the wonders here of a sprawling, three-bedroom home for the same price as a tiny, one-bedroom condo there. That allure of lower-priced homes drew plenty of transplants to the Sacramento region earlier this decade. But as housing values began soaring, that affordability began disappearing. Well, look again. Those days are coming back. .
Scottsdale home sells for $3.5M
A president of a Wichita, Kan. company, a president of a contracting firm in Jessup, Md., and a CFO of a communications company in Bingham Farms, Mich., are among the buyers and sellers in this week's priciest home sales. $3,525,000. David L. Robertson and Kathleen L. Robertson, as trustees of the David L. Robertson Revocable Trust, paid cash for a 6,388-square-foot home with ot pool originally built in 2006 east of the Estancia Club in Scottsdale. David Robertson was named president and chief operating officer of Koch Industries Inc. based in Wichita, Kan., in 2005. He serves on the board of the company, which owns a diverse group of businesses with about $90 billion in revenue, 80,000 employees and locations in almost 60 countries. The home was sold by Calvis Wyant Homes of Scottsdale. $3,300,000.
Not only the pious are drawn to interest-free Islamic banking
Financing deals resemble lease-to-own arrangements, layaway plans, joint purchase and sale agreements, or partnerships. "This is an industry on its way from a niche industry to becoming a truly global industry," said Khawaja Mohammad Salman Younis, the managing director for operations in Malaysia for Kuwait Finance House, the world's second-largest Islamic bank after Al-Rajhi Bank. "In the next three to five years you'll see Islamic banks coming out in Australia, China, Japan and other parts of the world," he said. The stampede into Islamic finance is mostly an effort to tap an estimated US$1.5 trillion in funds sloshing around the Middle East, largely from higher oil prices. While a lot of this oil money was parked in the US, Britain and Switzerland before Sept. 11, 2001, bankers say many wealthy Arabs are investing closer to home, in part to avoid increased scrutiny.
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