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Image credit: Courtesy of Boston 4 Productions Celebrate the Fourth of July, Boston style! The Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular attracts approximately 500,000 visitors to the Charles River Esplanade.

According to the study conducted by Frost & Sullivan amongst European and Russian consumers, Nokia is the number one choice for mobile navigation over other leading handset manufacturers.

Japan's Canon Inc. plans to cut about 700 jobs from its lithography stepper division, according to various reports.

LONDON, July 2 Frost-Sullivan-Fleet LONDON , July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- During times of financial crisis and economic downturn, logistic and transportation companies as well as commercial fleets in other industries suffer from increasing fuel costs and shrinking revenues.

LONDON, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The list of locations around the world having experienced terrorist attacks on luxury hotels is growing fast: Netanya in Israel, Jakarta in Indonesia, Taba and Sharm al-Sheikh in Egypt, Sana'a in Yemen, Amman in Jordan, Islamabad in Pakistan, Mumbai in India in November 2008 and last month, Peshawar in Pakistan.

CBIZ Inc. said today it has acquired an employee benefits firm based in Manasquan, N.J. The company, EAO Consultants LLC , began in 2004, and focuses on employee health benefits, retirement programs and executive benefits.

Should new-business incentive efforts work more regionally than municipally? Yes, help the smaller towns.

Red Hat, Inc., has announced the Premier Cloud Provider Certification and Partner Program, designed to simplify and expand the adoption of cloud computing by enterprise customers.

Websense, Inc. today announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned Websense as a leader in its recently released "Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention." The firm evaluated Websense Data Security solutions, which are part of the Websense Essential Information Protection portfolio of content-based security products.

Harvard University is across the Charles River from Boston. If you go Not every restaurant in Boston is old.

What is Buckhead? The leisure and shopping hub of North Atlanta may pitch itself as an area that offers a luxury experience that is accessible to people from all walks of life.

Microsoft is putting Internet ad agency Razorfish up for sale, according to a Financial Times report Sunday.

Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby, Inc. and Watson Wyatt Worldwide Inc. said Sunday they have agreed to merge in a $3.5 billion deal that will create a global professional-services and human-resources consulting firm with annual revenues of more than $3 billion.

A US bankruptcy judge ruled on Wednesday that Barclays Capital had to comply with requests for information about its whirlwind acquisition of Lehman Brothers last September from Lehmana s creditors, who claim that BarCap enjoyed a windfall of more than $2bn in the deal.

GP Strategies Corporation , the parent company of global performance improvement solutions provider General Physics Corporation , announced that it will join the Russell 3000A Index when Russell Investments reconstitutes its family of U.S. indexes on June 26, according to a preliminary list of additions posted June 12 on www.russell.com : . "We are ...

Posted June 25th, 2009 by theStockMasters... in Red Hat Inc. managed to increase profit by 7% when compared to the quarter last year, an amazing feat for any software/tech company given the state of the economy.A However, those results weren't good enough for the Street, RHT shares are down 6.6% today and in the $18 range.

Shares of the following companies are having unusual moves in U.S. trading this morning.

The impact of the economic downturn on the European heavy and medium commercial vehicles telematics market will be outweighed by strong market-driving factors including fleet process optimisation and cost cutting.

Gartner Inc. analysts are predicting this holiday season will be sweeter than last year's for the PC industry.Computer makers bank on holiday shopping for a large portion of their annual sales.

Business consultant and outsourcing company Accenture Ltd. said its fiscal third-quarter profit declined, mainly due to the negative effects of the stronger dollar on international sales, but still topped Wall Street estimates.