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Did anyone else notice the film crew and equipment at 18th and H Streets this morning? Apparently there has been a Russell Crowe sighting in the District. Crowe is downtown today filming scenes for his new movie, “Body of Lies.”
According to the Examiner, Crowe has spent a good part of the fall in […]
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Filed under: Economy, Regional News
My phone has been ringing off the hook today. Everyone wants to know what impact AOL’s announcement to move its headquarters to New York will have on Greater Washington.
Other than bragging rights to the official title of “headquarters,” Greater Washington is fortunate in that most of the 4,000 employees of AOL in Northern Virginia […]
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Today’s Examiner has a telling piece about the area’s culture. According to an AOL study, Greater Washington tops the nation in email addiction, with Atlanta, New York, San Francisco, and Houston rounding out the top 5.
So does this make us workaholics? Or are we leading the way in establishing a new work culture?
The Examiner article […]
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Filed under: Demographics, Regional News
Who’d have thought that a DC-area company formerly known as Quantum Computer Services would be topping Google, eBay, and other online innovators in advertising potential? In a Washington Post article about Nielsen’s new system for rating web sites — a guiding light for advertising dollars — Dulles, Va.-based AOL tops the list.
This news probably won’t […]
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Paris Hilton was on “Larry King Live” last week touting her business skills:
“But a lot of people don’t know that I’m a businesswoman, and I run several businesses. And I like to go out, as well, and socialize.” — Paris Hilton
That’s well and good, but I wonder how well she’d stack up against the many […]
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Filed under: Research, Demographics, Regional News, GWI In the News
If you need business news about the region, you’ll want to take note of The WashBiz Blog, launched a few weeks ago by The Washington Post to focus on business in Greater Washington.
The blog is written primarily by business editor Dan Beyers, who has a pair of personal blogs: Columbia Talk and Behind Columbia […]
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I don’t like being self-promotional on this blog, but hey, we’re a marketing organization and we’ve had a lot of good news lately. So here’s some of the recent news coverage we’ve received.
Before I do that, however, a special thanks to Kim Hart of the Post I.T. blog for a little promo of Regional Biz […]
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Filed under: Regional News, GWI In the News
While Knight Kiplinger published a commentary describing Uncle Sam’s reach into Greater Washington’s economy, a separate article in today’s Post spotlights the region’s strengthening biotech sector, noting acquisitions of three local companies totaling $18 billion.
Kiplinger might say that local biotech companies benefit from federal contracts and laboratories, but it’s worth noting that the companies leading […]
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Filed under: Economy, Regional News
