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For Pandora Media CFO Steven Cakebread, running a fast-growing business is all about anticipating the demands of growth.  Cakebread, who joined the Internet radio company in 2010 and helped the company through its $2.6 billion IPO last year, says one of his biggest tasks is ensuring cost increases don’t outpace revenue growth. In an interview with [...]

We are gathered here to cherish the memory and 159th birth anniversary of a great statesman and distinguished personality this country had produced. The late Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam, of whose birth and life that we remember today, was born in 1853 to a very well-known and highly respected family in Manipay, Jaffna. Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam [...]

CYPRESS – At the Cypress School District’s board meeting last month, residents filled the room to let the panel know how much they disliked a proposal to sell or lease some of the district’s empty school sites. It was a different story on Thursday; the voices of the five board members echoed in the nearly [...]

January 14, 2012, 12:15 PM EST By Zoe Schneeweiss (Updates with other banks’ reductions in third paragraph.) Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) — Deutsche Bank AG, Germany’s biggest lender, said it’s scaling back its equity business in Austria and moving staff to bigger offices elsewhere in Europe as a slump in markets and trading weighs on earnings. [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C.The country’s biggest banks are overwhelmingly supporting Mitt Romney’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination, a Charlotte Observer analysis of federal campaign contributions shows. Employees at the five largest U.S. banks by assets, including Bank of America Corp. and Wells Fargo Co., had given Romney about $600,000 through the first three quarters of 2011, [...]

Civil rights law, immigration law, juvenile crime and race are topics that will be discussed during the spring lineup for the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law’s 14th annual Public Interest Law Policy Speakers Series. The series continues Wednesday, Jan. 18, with “Representing a Race: The Creation of A Civil Rights Lawyer” by [...]

 ¡No Se Deje!By Attorney Jess J. Araujo Every year the state of California enacts hundreds of new laws. While some of the new laws become effective during the year, the vast majority of new laws become effective on January 1st of the following year. More than 700 new laws passed in 2011 took effect on [...]

(Updates share prices starting in first paragraph.) Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) — JPMorgan Chase Co. fell the most in almost a month in New York trading after the bank reported a 23 percent drop in profit on lower investment-banking fees and revenue from trading stocks and bonds. JPMorgan, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, dropped 2.5 [...]

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