Arnall Golden Gregory announced Friday it will stay in the Wells Fargo building at 171 17th Street in Atlantic Station. The building was the first office tower built in Atlantic Station, which is west of Midtown. The law firm has been there since 2004. Its lease was set to expire in 2014, but the firm decided to extend it until 2024.
Arnall Golden has 265 employees in Atlanta and occupies five floors of the 21-story office building. Under the new deal, the firm will take slightly less space.
Morris, Manning & Martin last week announced it would stay in Buckhead’s Atlanta Financial Center. Alston & Bird, McKenna Long & Aldridge, and Kilpatrick Townsend also renewed leases in their current homes instead of moving.
Real estate services firms Carter and Jones Lang LaSalle brokered the deal.
The news about the winding down of a competitor is never nice to hear, and it is unfortunate that many of our confreres at MMV Financial have been laid off over the past two weeks as is now being reported in the Private Equity wires. In a relatively small space such as venture debt, theres a camaraderie that builds up over time despite the competitive nature of the industry; you win some opportunities, lose others. Thats how it is.
Some like amortizing debt , others prefer growth capital . Much like Chevy and Ford, theres historically been enough business to go around. This from Fortunes Dan Primack earlier today:
Exclusive: MMV Financial in trouble
A venture debt provider stops writing new business.
MMV Financial looks like its on the ropes.
Fortune has learned that the Toronto-based venture debt provider has closed its three U.S. offices, laid off its U.S. staff and stopped writing new business.
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Brainshark recently launched an Android app designed to provide an improved interactive experience for users when they view video presentations on Android devices. The new Brainshark App delivers superior browsing and viewing experience on Android phones and tablets and it is available as a free download in Google’s Android Market.
Brainshark App allows users to easily navigate Brainshark online presentations, view presentation attributes, and also download related attachments. The app makes it easy for users to share presentations with a single click via email or social applications, and access a history of recently viewed presentations. By logging on their Brainshark enterprise or myBrainshark account, users can access company and personal content.
Additionally, the app allows access to a library of free eLearning content from Brainshark’s community of experts. The
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Q. I have to write performance appraisals for all 15 people who report to me, and it takes a huge amount of time. How I can get this done quickly? — Isaiah R.
A. You could make up a job behaviors checklist and just rate everyone from 1 to 5 on every item, then give them a total score at the end. And you can probably do each one in about 10 minutes.
But how would you like it if your boss gave you such a checklist — with a total score of 3.9 — and just asked you to sign it?
Yes, it is a formality. But you should treat it as a key interaction between you and the employee. And what goes into the employee’s file is in writing. So, let’s establish a few basics:
A manager’s job is to make effective use of people — and is responsible for helping them improve. The manager does that through everyday coaching and, in a more formal way, by writing an appraisal that defines the employee’s value to thepany.
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Online retail giant Amazon today launched a new service called Kindle Textbook Rental which allows students to save up to 80% off textbook prices by renting from the Kindle store. The new service provides students with access to tens of thousands of textbooks for this school year and gives them an option to choose the rental length between 30 and 360 days paying for the exact time they need a book.
“Students tell us that they enjoy the low prices we offer on new and used print textbooks. Now we’re excited to offer students an option to rent Kindle textbooks and only pay for the time they need—with savings up to 80% off the print list price on a 30-day rental,” Dave Limp, VP of Amazon Kindle said in a statement.
With Kindle Textbook Rental students can access their notes whenever they need them at kindle.amazon.com even upon the expiration of the rental. Students can also easily extend the rental period by as little as 1 day and just pay for the added days.
“We’re extending our Whispersync technology so that you get to keep and access all of your notes and highlighted content in the Amazon Cloud, available anytime, anywhere – even after a rental expires. If you choose to r
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I thought I’d post this question from JRussell since a lot of people seem to be asking it lately:
I took some economics in college & like to think I have a better understanding of macro than the average person, but I have never felt like I grasped how currencies are valued & exchanged. (For example, what does it mean when a country devalues [or refuses to devalue] its currency? Why is the value not set by demand, so it would not be up to the individual country?) I know this is too complex to answer here, but can you recommend a book or other source understandable to an amateur? Economics books tend to focus on prices etc within one country, and pertinent sources I have found just make my head hurt. Has anyone written an “arbitrage for dummies” version? Thank you.
Answer: If you can, take another course at the university. I did one called International Trade, a four hundred level, which cleared that all up very well for me. Befor
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