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Looking at Silicon Valley's startup landscape, where Facebook just raised $16 billion in its initial public offering and newbies like Pinterest and Instagram have commanded soaring valuations, you'd think optimism would be running high among venture capitalists.

GAME Australia administrators announced plans to close 60 retail stores at the cost of 264 jobs, GamesIndustry International reported Friday.

Gregory Macfarlane has been appointed to the top finance spot at H&R Block Inc. He succeeds Jeff Brown, who will become chief accounting and risk officer.

Most regional stocks wrapped up a mostly unimpressive week with modest gains or losses Friday.The regional leaders included Sprint, Ferrellgas, H&R Block and UMB Financial.The losser list included Kansas City Southern, DST, Garmin, Commerce Bancshares and YRC Worldwide.Overall, aAnother flare-up in Europe’s debt crisis knocked U.S. markets ... (more)

The High Court victory for investors in Finance and Investment this week might have come at a high cost for another big group of Nelson investors those with money tied up in the loser, LDC Finance.

Golden Alliance Resources Corp. is pleased to announce that all resolutions presented to the Company's shareholders at the annual general meeting of shareholders held on May 24, 2012 were approved.

BULKY goods retailing has been one of the beneficiaries of the rise in internet use, although observers say sections of it need to adapt to remain relevant.

The firm currently has an "outperform" rating and a $70.00 price target on the company's shares.

Kansas City, MO - infoZine - Marketwire - H&R Block, Inc. , named Gregory J. Macfarlane as the company's Chief Financial Officer.

Cuts in workers compensation benefits will force vulnerable families "out on the street", NSW MPs have been told, with unions warning against a race to the bottom in cutting the premiums paid by businesses.

AMC Entertainment of Kansas City and the Cordish Co. of Baltimore are getting a divorce.Gerry Lopez, CEO and president of AMC, said Thursday the joint venture established with Cordish in 2005 to redevelop the historic Mainstreet and Midland theaters is expected to end soon.Could it be the seven-year itch? “We’ve had a joint venture ... (more)

Eric E. Mellen who joined Gencor in 2011 as Director of Corporate Development will be promoted to Chief Financial Officer.

This year's Budget is surprisingly reliant on squeezing more tax from an economy that may not grow as fast as the Treasury forecasts it will, say accounting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young.

The PwC building remains the tallest structure standing in Christchurch - but not for long.

The SA Health report, completed by PricewaterhouseCoopers and released today, recommends changes to prison health services and recommends improvements to mental health support for prisoners in the state's correctional facilities.

A former PricewaterhouseCoopers officer worker who vowed never to re-enter the Christchurch high rise after the February 22 earthquake says he is sad to see the building go.

The shortage of grapes this year is likely to lead to more interest in vineyard purchases as wineries move to shore up security of supply, PriceWaterhouseCoopers liquidator Richard Longman says.

A group of about 290 depositors of failed Nelson finance company Finance and Investments is celebrating after winning a four-year battle against another failed Nelson finance company, LDC, over more than $9 million.

H&R Block named Gregory Macfarlane as its chief financial officer, a month after the top U.S. tax preparer appointed its incumbent finance head as the chief accounting and risk officer.

Nortel Network Corp.'s senior executives clashed with increasingly "inflexible" auditors from Deloitte & Touche over the company's controversial use of accounting reserves in mid-2003, a Toronto fraud trial heard Wednesday.