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Month: December, 2009

Is a Free Credit Card Too Good to Be True?

23 December, 2009

Just as the old saying goes, there is no free lunch in this world. But there are freebies attached to credit cards – including perks like no annual fee or yearly membership. These so-called free credit card deals may not be completely free of charges – such as interest you still have to pay on [...]

Royersford store hosts rare jewelry collection

23 December, 2009

A pink heart-shaped diamond and brooch set that is part of a colored diamond collection now visiting Calhoun Jewelers in Royersford. Photo by Kevin Hoffman/The Mercury ROYERSFORD — Calhoun Jewelers is one of four businesses nationwide selected to host an exclusive trunk show of jewelry featuring colored diamonds. The jeweler at 500 Main St. is [...]

Chinese passenger jet to depend on Albany Int’l composites

22 December, 2009

Albany Engineered Composites, a unit of Albany International Corp., will provide advanced composite fan blades and other engine components for the LEAP-X engines that will power a new 150-seat passenger aircraft being developed by Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. COMAC announced it had chosen the LEAP-X1C engine developed by CFM International, a joint venture [...]

Avaya Finally Completes Nortel Enterprise Buy

21 December, 2009

After facing down Canadian regulators and Verizon in the U.S., Avaya today completed its purchase of Nortel Networks’ Enterprise business unit. Now that it has the division and paid handsomely for it, what are Avaya’s plans? Enterprise Networking Planet finds out. Nearly six months after making its first public bid for Nortel’s Enterprise assets, Avaya [...]

Winners & Losers 2009

19 December, 2009

Big winner: Canada The Great Recession offered a rare chance for Canada to toot its own dusty horn. Comebacks & flameouts We were too quick to write off some of these embattled icons, but others crashed hard. Saints & sinners The rogues who boiled our blood, and the heroes who restored our faith in business. [...]

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