Distressed Homeowners Seek Mortgage Salvation (New America Media)
As the home foreclosure epidemic claims more victims, homeowners are turning to loan modification programs in growing numbers. Many are small-scale community operations. But the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America is doing it on a gargantu

Microsoft stores look surprisingly like Apples (MalaysiaNews.net)
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. â?” Blink an eye, and the Microsoft store could be mistaken for an Apple store. The sign over the doorway has no letters, only a Windows logo instead of an Apple silhouette. Woo...

Small companies can be exception to dour job market for college graduates (The Flint Journal)
FLINT, Michigan â?” Out of a brewery-turned-office building in downtown Ann Arbor, 2008 Kettering graduate Steve Schwartz is helping fuel hope among new college graduates that there will be jobs to go with those degrees.

Peace Software Ships Energyâ„¢ Version 7 (Scoop.co.nz)
Peace Software today announced it has shipped Energy Version 7 to major U.S. utility Xcel Energy.

Decade could see big changes in energy, schools (Tulsa World)
Cars that run on algae. State politics increasingly dominated by suburban Republicans. An education system that blurs the lines today distinguishing high school, college and technical training.