Retired CEO buys 244 acres in Currituck County (The Virginian-Pilot)
The retired chairman and CEO of Caterpillar Inc. has bought a 244-acre piece of land once slated to be developed into a mixed-use residential community in Currituck County.
Cox expands wireless services to Roanoke, N. Va. (Inside Business)
Cox Communications is expanding availability of its wireless services in Virginia, less than a year after launching its wireless network in Hampton Roads.
Lerner is ready to build again without Tysons tenants lined up (Capital Business)
Lerner Enterprises has no lender, no equity partner and no tenants lined up for 1775 Tysons Blvd., an office building the developer is planning for land adjacent to the Tysons Galleria mall. Which, in the Lerner mindset, means it’s time to build.
Hundreds of wine bloggers pour into city (Daily Progress)
On Friday, the lobby of the Charlottesville Omni Hotel was filled with people drinking wine and typing into their computers.
With Fan at the Helm, Marvel Safely Steers Its Heroes to the Screen (New York Times)
Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, would rather go unnoticed in a darkened movie theater or in the aisles of a comic book shop. He lives in lumpy zip-up sweatshirts and his office is little more than a laptop. A favorite vacation spot is Walt Disney World, where he sweats in line like everybody else.
The cost of law school (Washington Post)
Regulators are pressing the American Bar Association to decrease student debt levels.
China officials close fake Apple stores in Kunming city (BBC)
Three of the elaborate fake stores, which mimicked the look of the real thing, came to the world’s attention after being exposed on a blog.
Thiel Fellow Ben Yu Scrapped Harvard To Climb Kilimanjaro, Revolutionize Online Price Comparisons (Fast Company)
Dropping out of Harvard to climb Kilimanjaro, visit Buddha, and pose at Giza may seem like folly. But for Ben Yu–one of the Thiel Fellows bankrolled by Facebook investor Peter Thiel–it was the only way to get out of plain old Plainsfield, Ill., and into entrepreneurship.
Retired CEO buys 244 acres in Currituck County (The Virginian-Pilot)
The retired chairman and CEO of Caterpillar Inc. has bought a 244-acre piece of land once slated to be developed into a mixed-use residential community in Currituck County.
Cox expands wireless services to Roanoke, N. Va. (Inside Business)
Cox Communications is expanding availability of its wireless services in Virginia, less than a year after launching its wireless network in Hampton Roads.
Lerner is ready to build again without Tysons tenants lined up (Capital Business)
Lerner Enterprises has no lender, no equity partner and no tenants lined up for 1775 Tysons Blvd., an office building the developer is planning for land adjacent to the Tysons Galleria mall. Which, in the Lerner mindset, means it’s time to build.
Hundreds of wine bloggers pour into city (Daily Progress)
On Friday, the lobby of the Charlottesville Omni Hotel was filled with people drinking wine and typing into their computers.
With Fan at the Helm, Marvel Safely Steers Its Heroes to the Screen (New York Times)
Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, would rather go unnoticed in a darkened movie theater or in the aisles of a comic book shop. He lives in lumpy zip-up sweatshirts and his office is little more than a laptop. A favorite vacation spot is Walt Disney World, where he sweats in line like everybody else.
The cost of law school (Washington Post)
Regulators are pressing the American Bar Association to decrease student debt levels.
China officials close fake Apple stores in Kunming city (BBC)
Three of the elaborate fake stores, which mimicked the look of the real thing, came to the world’s attention after being exposed on a blog.
Thiel Fellow Ben Yu Scrapped Harvard To Climb Kilimanjaro, Revolutionize Online Price Comparisons (Fast Company)
Dropping out of Harvard to climb Kilimanjaro, visit Buddha, and pose at Giza may seem like folly. But for Ben Yu–one of the Thiel Fellows bankrolled by Facebook investor Peter Thiel–it was the only way to get out of plain old Plainsfield, Ill., and into entrepreneurship.