http://www.gettingevenwithbigbusiness.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 01 Aug 2010 02:08:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en AP - U.S. regulators earlier this year demanded improvements to the pipeline network that includes a segment that ruptured in southern Michigan, spilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River, according to a document released Saturday. See the original post here: Feds warned company in Mich. ... http://www.gettingevenwithbigbusiness.com/2010/07/31/feds-warned-company-in-mich-spill-about-pipeline-ap/ AP - Michigan voters frustrated over lost jobs, home foreclosures and budget deficits will vote in Tuesday's primary election for leaders they hope can move the state out of its economic morass. Excerpt from: Michigan voters search for economic savior (AP) http://www.gettingevenwithbigbusiness.com/2010/07/31/michigan-voters-search-for-economic-savior-ap/ AP - BP's catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is fueling opposition to the University of California, Berkeley's research partnership with the British company, with activists on the famously liberal campus demanding a severing of ties. Continued here:  Oil spill mars UC Berkeley's BP-funded research ... http://www.gettingevenwithbigbusiness.com/2010/07/31/oil-spill-mars-uc-berkeleys-bp-funded-research-ap/ AFP - A year-old program granting movie studios tax breaks for filming in California has saved jobs and should yield two billion dollars in direct spending, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said. More: Movie tax cuts 'help struggling California economy' (AFP) http://www.gettingevenwithbigbusiness.com/2010/07/31/movie-tax-cuts-help-struggling-california-economy-afp/ Reuters - French financial holding firm Eurazeo said on Saturday it is in exclusive talks to sell its B&B Hotels chain to U.S. private equity firm the Carlyle Group. Original post:  Eurazeo in exclusive B&B Hotels talks with Carlyle (Reuters) http://www.gettingevenwithbigbusiness.com/2010/07/31/eurazeo-in-exclusive-bb-hotels-talks-with-carlyle-reuters/ AP - The helicopter passes over the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico — with surprisingly little oil visible on its surface — when out of the sea rises a skyscraper-like structure nearly 350 feet above the waves. The $600 million rig, nearly 100 miles off Louisiana's coast, has ... http://www.gettingevenwithbigbusiness.com/2010/07/31/ap-exclusive-salazar-tours-rigs-keeps-drill-ban-ap/ AP - ICICI Bank, India's largest private sector bank, said quarterly profit rose 17 percent as it cut costs and eliminated bad loans amid revived credit demand in India's growing economy. Original post:  ICICI Bank profit up 17 percent on better loans (AP) http://www.gettingevenwithbigbusiness.com/2010/07/31/icici-bank-profit-up-17-percent-on-better-loans-ap/ Reuters - BP Plc is seeking to sell its German petrol station chain Aral for around 2 billion euros ($2.6 billion), German magazine Wirtschaftswoche reported on Saturday, citing investment bankers familiar with BP's plans. The rest is here:  BP may sell German gas stations for $2.6 billion (Reuters) http://www.gettingevenwithbigbusiness.com/2010/07/31/bp-may-sell-german-gas-stations-for-26-billion-reuters/ AP - BP's new boss says it's time for a "scaleback" in cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. View original post here: Signs of oil spill recovery entering new phase (AP) http://www.gettingevenwithbigbusiness.com/2010/07/30/signs-of-oil-spill-recovery-entering-new-phase-ap/ AP - Volunteers and government officials scrambled on Friday to save geese and other wildlife damaged by an oil spill in a southern Michigan river as the Canadian company that owns the ruptured pipeline said the crude had been contained. View original here: Wildlife rescue escalates at Mich. river oil ... http://www.gettingevenwithbigbusiness.com/2010/07/30/wildlife-rescue-escalates-at-mich-river-oil-spill-ap/