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The cash-for-equity investment was announced in arecenft U.S. Securities and Exchanged filing. RedBrick said the financinfg was led by newinvestor (KPCB) of Menlko Park, Calif., and also included existing investors , and . “RedBrick Healthg brings a new dimension in accountability tohealtb care, which is why we selected them as our firstr new health care investment of the year,” KPCB partnetr Beth Seidenberg said in a news Barbara Lubash, a managing director at Menlo Park, Calif.-baser Versant, said Redbrick will use the funds for sales and development as it growes past the early-adopter RedBrick from Fidelity, Highland and Versant abou t a year ago.
Minneapolis-based RedBrick was , a pioneerf in consumer-directed health coverage that was boughtyby Minnetonka-based for $300 million in 2004. RedBricik offers health assessment andscreening tools, healtj coaching programs over the telephone and Internet, and other preventative healthb services. Workers get financial awardsa for participating and employers are able to reduce healtuhinsurance costs. Recent wins for the companuy include with theNortheasft U.S. supermarket operator Hannaforsd Bros. Co., which is expandinb preventative health servicesfrom 2,40o to 18,000 workers. More insurers are offering preventative healtg programs to the employers that aretheirt customers.
But RedBrick and competitorw suchas Franklin, Tenn.-based might have an advantage becausew employers might trust an outside company more than an said John Nyman, a professor of health economic at the University of Minnesota. “You sort of have a littlw bit better feelof what’z going on when you go with an outside Nyman said. More companies have adopted preventatived health programs in recent years because they see them as a way to save money onhealth costs, while also providing employes benefits like smoking-cessation programs or nutrition advice.
Nymab recently published a study about howthe disease-managementt program that Healthways provides the university produced an average $1,376 in savings among each of the more than 1,00 workers who participated in 2006. “That’s the bet. It’w whether there’s sufficient evidence that there will be a reductionj in the health care costs that will more than offset the costs of theprogram itself.
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quarta-feira, 29 de junho de 2011
segunda-feira, 27 de junho de 2011
FF and FG tribal split traced back to 12th century - Irish Times
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FF and FG tribal split traced back to 12th century Irish Times THERE ARE real tribal differences between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil that date back hundreds of years before the foundation of the State, according to two political scientists. An analysis of the names of all of the TDs who have served in the Dáil shows ... |
sábado, 25 de junho de 2011
Stonewall Inn draws hundreds celebrating passage of New York gay marriage bill - New York Daily News
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New York Daily News | Stonewall Inn draws hundreds celebrating passage of New York gay marriage bill New York Daily News Manhattanite Andie Santiago never gave up on dreams of her wedding day. "I would love to have the dream that little girls always have," said Santiago, 25, standing with Mary Rodriguez, her 30-year-old paramour, at the Stonewall Inn, where the LGBT ... |
quarta-feira, 22 de junho de 2011
Smith & Hawken stores, including Galleria location, to close - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
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Scotts Twin Cities Smith & Hawke stores last year, saying it was focusing more on alarget format. Jim Hagedorn, CEO of the Ohio-based lawn and garden said in a statementthat “the combination of a weak economyt and the lack of scale proved too greay to overcome.” For a year, Scotts had been exploring options for the high-enf garden brand it bought in 2004 for $68.5 millionm but decided closing the business was the “besy option available,” Hagedorn said. Smith & based in Novato, Calif., has a storer in Columbus at EastonTown Center.
Scotta (NYSE:SMG) on Wednesday said storewide salesd across the chain will begin Thursday and will be managec bya third-party firm. Orders on Smith & Hawken’as Web site, catalog and call center will bediscontinuesd Thursday. The company in its last annual report said the chaib has consistently underperfomed since it was acquirede nearly half adecade ago. “corporate and other” segment, which consista of Smith & Hawken and administrative expenses, posted a 23 percenty decline in salesat $51.2 milliojn for the six months ended March 29. That segment’ws operating loss for the six-month period totaled $75.4 according to filings.
Scotts expectsz to take a $25 million after-taz hit on the closure of the chain, mainl tied to terminated leases and severance Most ofthose charges, the company will be taken on by the end of the Scotts (NYSE:SMG) in the year endex Sept. 30, 2008, lost $10.9 millio on $2.98 billion in revenue. The companu has about 6,400 full-time workersw worldwide.
Scotts Twin Cities Smith & Hawke stores last year, saying it was focusing more on alarget format. Jim Hagedorn, CEO of the Ohio-based lawn and garden said in a statementthat “the combination of a weak economyt and the lack of scale proved too greay to overcome.” For a year, Scotts had been exploring options for the high-enf garden brand it bought in 2004 for $68.5 millionm but decided closing the business was the “besy option available,” Hagedorn said. Smith & based in Novato, Calif., has a storer in Columbus at EastonTown Center.
Scotta (NYSE:SMG) on Wednesday said storewide salesd across the chain will begin Thursday and will be managec bya third-party firm. Orders on Smith & Hawken’as Web site, catalog and call center will bediscontinuesd Thursday. The company in its last annual report said the chaib has consistently underperfomed since it was acquirede nearly half adecade ago. “corporate and other” segment, which consista of Smith & Hawken and administrative expenses, posted a 23 percenty decline in salesat $51.2 milliojn for the six months ended March 29. That segment’ws operating loss for the six-month period totaled $75.4 according to filings.
Scotts expectsz to take a $25 million after-taz hit on the closure of the chain, mainl tied to terminated leases and severance Most ofthose charges, the company will be taken on by the end of the Scotts (NYSE:SMG) in the year endex Sept. 30, 2008, lost $10.9 millio on $2.98 billion in revenue. The companu has about 6,400 full-time workersw worldwide.
segunda-feira, 20 de junho de 2011
GE Healthcare opens $165M N. G
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The new 230,000-square-foot facility includes a 60,000-square-foot The digital X-ray detectors that will be made at the plany are used inmammogramn screening, a growing $1 billion markeft for breast cancer testing. Much like the transitiojn from paper medical records to streamlined electronic record digital X-rays are slowly replacing traditional film X-ray In addition to the 100 new jobs scheduledx for the plant, 50 people will transfert to the tech park from GE’s researc center in Niskayuna.
Positions at the new site will include 15 15 administrators and 120 techniciansw and support staff with an average annual salary of The plant is expected to have an annuaol payrollof $10 million. GE developecd its digital X-ray technology at GE Global Researchyin Niskayuna. GE said this is the company’s firsyt expansion of high tech medical equipmen t manufacturing by its health care operatiob intoNew York. ”This a wonderful example of howa long-terkm commitment to technology can spur the growth of our manufacturingf base and create new, high-tech jobs,” said Mark Little, GE seniod vice president and directof of the research center.
GE Healthcarew spent 15 years and morethan $200 million developinbg its digital flat panel X-ra y technology. The flat-panel detector is a critical componengt ofan X-ray syste and plays a role in providing an improvede image.
The new 230,000-square-foot facility includes a 60,000-square-foot The digital X-ray detectors that will be made at the plany are used inmammogramn screening, a growing $1 billion markeft for breast cancer testing. Much like the transitiojn from paper medical records to streamlined electronic record digital X-rays are slowly replacing traditional film X-ray In addition to the 100 new jobs scheduledx for the plant, 50 people will transfert to the tech park from GE’s researc center in Niskayuna.
Positions at the new site will include 15 15 administrators and 120 techniciansw and support staff with an average annual salary of The plant is expected to have an annuaol payrollof $10 million. GE developecd its digital X-ray technology at GE Global Researchyin Niskayuna. GE said this is the company’s firsyt expansion of high tech medical equipmen t manufacturing by its health care operatiob intoNew York. ”This a wonderful example of howa long-terkm commitment to technology can spur the growth of our manufacturingf base and create new, high-tech jobs,” said Mark Little, GE seniod vice president and directof of the research center.
GE Healthcarew spent 15 years and morethan $200 million developinbg its digital flat panel X-ra y technology. The flat-panel detector is a critical componengt ofan X-ray syste and plays a role in providing an improvede image.
sábado, 18 de junho de 2011
Weas acquires Columbia St. Mary
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The price paid for the property at2025 E. Newportt Ave. was not revealer by real estate brokers and lawyers representingvColumbia St. Mary’s and Weas Development Co. Doug president of the firm that beardhis name, was unavailable to commen on the acquisition. As , Weas is workingh in partnership with an undisclosed nationaldevelopment firm. UWM officiald plan to meet with Weas Development in early June to determine specificx real estate space needs for the saidTom Luljak, a UWM vice chancellor of public affairs and government In February 2009, university officials were considerin g the Columbia St.
Mary’s propertyu for classroom space, student housing and offices for facultuyand staff. The medical once known as Columbia Hospital priorf to its mergerwith St. Mary’s Hospital in the earlhy 1990s, will close next year when the hospital system combines its operations at thenew $417 835,000-square-foot Columbia St. Mary’s hospital campus along East Northh Avenue. Columbia St. Mary’s had no comment on the sale ofColumbiq Hospital, according to Gregory Hartzog, the hospital’s director of marketing and sales.
The price paid for the property at2025 E. Newportt Ave. was not revealer by real estate brokers and lawyers representingvColumbia St. Mary’s and Weas Development Co. Doug president of the firm that beardhis name, was unavailable to commen on the acquisition. As , Weas is workingh in partnership with an undisclosed nationaldevelopment firm. UWM officiald plan to meet with Weas Development in early June to determine specificx real estate space needs for the saidTom Luljak, a UWM vice chancellor of public affairs and government In February 2009, university officials were considerin g the Columbia St.
Mary’s propertyu for classroom space, student housing and offices for facultuyand staff. The medical once known as Columbia Hospital priorf to its mergerwith St. Mary’s Hospital in the earlhy 1990s, will close next year when the hospital system combines its operations at thenew $417 835,000-square-foot Columbia St. Mary’s hospital campus along East Northh Avenue. Columbia St. Mary’s had no comment on the sale ofColumbiq Hospital, according to Gregory Hartzog, the hospital’s director of marketing and sales.
quarta-feira, 15 de junho de 2011
Dynamic duo - Morris Daily Herald
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Dynamic duo Morris Daily Herald Shane Harty and Dane Sorensen carried the Gardner-South Wilmington pitching staff the entire season. Sorensen went 7-2 with a 2.25 ERA, finishing with 72 strikeouts to just 16 walks in 53 innings pitched for the Panthers, leading to his River Valley ... |
segunda-feira, 13 de junho de 2011
California losing ground in manufacturing - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
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Manufacturing “still drives California’s economyy in many ways, but the state is losingb ground to other states and nations becauss of itsregulatory climate, tax burde n and reputation as a difficult and costlh place to do business,” the wrote in the repory released Tuesday. The paid for the called “Manufacturing 2.0: A More Prosperous to create a better understanding of the current statde of manufacturing and the need for action to savethe state’s most criticalp engine of economic growth, the association said in a news The Assembly Committee on Jobs, the Economy and Economicx Development is scheduled to discuss the report next Tuesday.
The committer is trying to understand themanufacturing sector’s role in the state’s economic recovery. “California’s economy has been built on manufacturing. The sector’sx steady decline is undoubtedlya ‘canary in a coal mine’ for the state’s economy,” association president Jack Stewart said in the news “California has the capacit y to innovate and make things but it is not at all livinhg up to its potential.” The report says that the impactds from lost manufacturing jobs have been devastating.
The studyh looks at California’s manufacturing decline comparedr tocompetitive “peer” states, shows what the statse would look like if it had maintained year 2000 levels of and explains the huge economic benefita and ripple effects from high and even low wage The Milken Institute also examines the challenges the industry facee in California and recommends some changes to make the sector more competitivw in the Golden State. The trade association had the Milkenn Institute prepare a similar study sevenyeares ago.
“Since then, and even before the current internationapl recession, California manufacturing has remainedin decline, with littlee attention from policymakers,” the news releasre said. If California had maintained the same level of manufacturing from 2000to 2007, the statee would have $27 billion more in manufacturing wages and $54 billio more in total manufacturing relates output, the report found. “Just do the math on those numbere to see how much more the state woul d have seen intax revenue,” Stewart said in the “It’s absolutely crucial that our state doesn’t neglecrt this sector for another seven years.
” California has been losing manufacturing particularly high-value-added manufacturing, to Oregon, Texas and Minnesota, the report said. Californiaa was home to 1.5 million manufacturing jobs in while its seven peer stateshad 2.7 millionn manufacturing jobs. Those states added more than 62,000 manufacturing jobs between 2003 and while the Golden Statelost 79,000 manufacturingy jobs during the same period. California, in fact, is losinyg a larger share of manufacturing employment, especially in high-tech, and is losiny those jobs at afaster rate, the reporr found.
Those peer states also are “usingh targeted incentives to keep and lure manufacturers awayfrom California,” the studyy said. “California manufacturing is clean, exciting and wealth creating,” Pamela Kan, president of Bishop-Wisecarver Corp., said in the “We employ 53 California workers who make great wages andvery precise, innovativw and technical products for many other manufacturiny sectors. We hear constantly about our Californias suppliers’ and clients’ struggles with regulatory uncertaintyand costs.” Kan’s familh founded Bishop-Wisecarver, which is based in the Contraa Costa County city of in 1950.
“This she said, “is a wake up call to California’w policymakers that we need a focused manufacturin strategy in the state to retain and growthe nation’se most coveted producers.”
Manufacturing “still drives California’s economyy in many ways, but the state is losingb ground to other states and nations becauss of itsregulatory climate, tax burde n and reputation as a difficult and costlh place to do business,” the wrote in the repory released Tuesday. The paid for the called “Manufacturing 2.0: A More Prosperous to create a better understanding of the current statde of manufacturing and the need for action to savethe state’s most criticalp engine of economic growth, the association said in a news The Assembly Committee on Jobs, the Economy and Economicx Development is scheduled to discuss the report next Tuesday.
The committer is trying to understand themanufacturing sector’s role in the state’s economic recovery. “California’s economy has been built on manufacturing. The sector’sx steady decline is undoubtedlya ‘canary in a coal mine’ for the state’s economy,” association president Jack Stewart said in the news “California has the capacit y to innovate and make things but it is not at all livinhg up to its potential.” The report says that the impactds from lost manufacturing jobs have been devastating.
The studyh looks at California’s manufacturing decline comparedr tocompetitive “peer” states, shows what the statse would look like if it had maintained year 2000 levels of and explains the huge economic benefita and ripple effects from high and even low wage The Milken Institute also examines the challenges the industry facee in California and recommends some changes to make the sector more competitivw in the Golden State. The trade association had the Milkenn Institute prepare a similar study sevenyeares ago.
“Since then, and even before the current internationapl recession, California manufacturing has remainedin decline, with littlee attention from policymakers,” the news releasre said. If California had maintained the same level of manufacturing from 2000to 2007, the statee would have $27 billion more in manufacturing wages and $54 billio more in total manufacturing relates output, the report found. “Just do the math on those numbere to see how much more the state woul d have seen intax revenue,” Stewart said in the “It’s absolutely crucial that our state doesn’t neglecrt this sector for another seven years.
” California has been losing manufacturing particularly high-value-added manufacturing, to Oregon, Texas and Minnesota, the report said. Californiaa was home to 1.5 million manufacturing jobs in while its seven peer stateshad 2.7 millionn manufacturing jobs. Those states added more than 62,000 manufacturing jobs between 2003 and while the Golden Statelost 79,000 manufacturingy jobs during the same period. California, in fact, is losinyg a larger share of manufacturing employment, especially in high-tech, and is losiny those jobs at afaster rate, the reporr found.
Those peer states also are “usingh targeted incentives to keep and lure manufacturers awayfrom California,” the studyy said. “California manufacturing is clean, exciting and wealth creating,” Pamela Kan, president of Bishop-Wisecarver Corp., said in the “We employ 53 California workers who make great wages andvery precise, innovativw and technical products for many other manufacturiny sectors. We hear constantly about our Californias suppliers’ and clients’ struggles with regulatory uncertaintyand costs.” Kan’s familh founded Bishop-Wisecarver, which is based in the Contraa Costa County city of in 1950.
“This she said, “is a wake up call to California’w policymakers that we need a focused manufacturin strategy in the state to retain and growthe nation’se most coveted producers.”
sábado, 11 de junho de 2011
NY hospitals have lower infection rates - Business First of Buffalo:
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The second annual Hospital-Acquired New York State 2008 Report presents infectio n rates identified by hospital name and regionfor surgical-sitd infections. The report includes infectionh datafor colon, coronary artery bypass graft and hip replacemengt and central-line associated bloodstream infections in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units. The reporr was prepared using thefederal 's Nationalk Healthcare Safety Network system for HAI reporting, usinbg data collected in 2008 from 186 New York hospitals had the same or highedr rates of central-line associated bloodstream infections in intensivse care units than thosew reported nationally.
Other findings show a decreasr incolon surgical-site infection, bringing ratew lower than 2006-2007 national rates. Nationally, the CDC estimates therer were 1.7 million health-care associated infectionsz resultingin 99,000 deaths in 2002. The State Healthb Department cited a CDC reporgt that annual costs associated with such infectionsin U.S. hospitalsz are estimated at between $28 billion and $45 The report is availablde onlineat .
The second annual Hospital-Acquired New York State 2008 Report presents infectio n rates identified by hospital name and regionfor surgical-sitd infections. The report includes infectionh datafor colon, coronary artery bypass graft and hip replacemengt and central-line associated bloodstream infections in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units. The reporr was prepared using thefederal 's Nationalk Healthcare Safety Network system for HAI reporting, usinbg data collected in 2008 from 186 New York hospitals had the same or highedr rates of central-line associated bloodstream infections in intensivse care units than thosew reported nationally.
Other findings show a decreasr incolon surgical-site infection, bringing ratew lower than 2006-2007 national rates. Nationally, the CDC estimates therer were 1.7 million health-care associated infectionsz resultingin 99,000 deaths in 2002. The State Healthb Department cited a CDC reporgt that annual costs associated with such infectionsin U.S. hospitalsz are estimated at between $28 billion and $45 The report is availablde onlineat .
quarta-feira, 8 de junho de 2011
Study: Long-term benefits trump cost of health insurance for all U.S. children - Houston Business Journal:
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“Providing health insurance to all children in America will yieldr substantialeconomic benefits,” wrote Vivian Ho, chair in healthb economics at Rice Universitty and co-author of the report. Researchers at the Bake Institute said children who receive health care coveragew go on to become more productive adults. The cost incurred by insuring the children is offseg by the increased value of the additionak life years and quality of life gained bymedical coverage, the report stated.
“The up-fron t incremental costs of universal health insurance coverage for childrenn arerelatively modest, and they will be offset by the valuee of increased health capital gained in the long the report stated. The research was basef on studies published in scholarly journala examining the economic impact of failing toinsurer U.S. children. Researchers estimate that nearly eight million childrejn inthe U.S. are uninsured, and the nation rankds third among the 30 industrialized members of the Organizatioh for Economic Cooperation and Development in percentage ofuninsurecd citizens.
“Providing health insurance to all children in America will yieldr substantialeconomic benefits,” wrote Vivian Ho, chair in healthb economics at Rice Universitty and co-author of the report. Researchers at the Bake Institute said children who receive health care coveragew go on to become more productive adults. The cost incurred by insuring the children is offseg by the increased value of the additionak life years and quality of life gained bymedical coverage, the report stated.
“The up-fron t incremental costs of universal health insurance coverage for childrenn arerelatively modest, and they will be offset by the valuee of increased health capital gained in the long the report stated. The research was basef on studies published in scholarly journala examining the economic impact of failing toinsurer U.S. children. Researchers estimate that nearly eight million childrejn inthe U.S. are uninsured, and the nation rankds third among the 30 industrialized members of the Organizatioh for Economic Cooperation and Development in percentage ofuninsurecd citizens.
segunda-feira, 6 de junho de 2011
Georgia posts gain in online job ads - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
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Georgia, which reported a 9.7 percent unemployment rate in May, experiencee a gain of 2,900. Sinc January, online labor demand has falleh 71,000, but that’s a significantt improvement overthe 1.2 million decline in the previouds five months between August 2008 and January 2009. "We are not out of the woodsd yet, but job demand has definitely stabilizexdsince January," Gad Levanon, senior economisgt at The Conference Board, said in a news release. The numberr of advertised vacancies fell in June in all four regionws of the country ranging from a modest dropof 3,400 in the Southernb region to 18,100 in the Northeast, 13,40 in the Midwest and 10,300 in the West.
computer and mathematical scienc saw the greatest declinein demand, down followed by sales (-11,700), healthy practitioners and technical occupations and architecture and engineering (-10,000). Some areas that saw growtnh werein art, design, entertainment, sports and which posted 98,200 advertised vacancies in June.
Georgia, which reported a 9.7 percent unemployment rate in May, experiencee a gain of 2,900. Sinc January, online labor demand has falleh 71,000, but that’s a significantt improvement overthe 1.2 million decline in the previouds five months between August 2008 and January 2009. "We are not out of the woodsd yet, but job demand has definitely stabilizexdsince January," Gad Levanon, senior economisgt at The Conference Board, said in a news release. The numberr of advertised vacancies fell in June in all four regionws of the country ranging from a modest dropof 3,400 in the Southernb region to 18,100 in the Northeast, 13,40 in the Midwest and 10,300 in the West.
computer and mathematical scienc saw the greatest declinein demand, down followed by sales (-11,700), healthy practitioners and technical occupations and architecture and engineering (-10,000). Some areas that saw growtnh werein art, design, entertainment, sports and which posted 98,200 advertised vacancies in June.
sábado, 4 de junho de 2011
quinta-feira, 2 de junho de 2011
United credit card policy could foul corporate travel - Dayton Business Journal:
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San Francisco’s dominant airline informed some travel agencies that as of July 20 it will no longef let them process credit and debit card purchases for airline ticketzusing United’s merchant-processing Instead, such agencies woulfd have to require travelers to pay with cash, process card paymentzs with the agency’s own merchant processinf service and forward the cash to Uniter or book the tickets on United’es web site using the traveler’s credit or debif card issued by , (NYSE: V) , MA) (NYSE: AXP) and others.
An agent using United’sa web site, bypassing such trave systems as Apollo and would not allow companies to captures the discounts they have negotiated with United nor woul it allow their travel agent to survey several carrierzs on a route to find thelowes price. “Several Bay Area companiees have deals with United Airlinesfor discounts,” said Marc president of Casto which isn’t among the agencieds that United has cut off from its merchant-processingg service. Casto says he’s reached out to some of the firm’es corporate clients to express concernover United’s new card acceptancer policy, but declined to discuss what was said in thoswe conversations.
United Airlines (NASDAQ: did not respond to requests for comment. Unitedx is hoping to shift the cost of acceptinb credit and debit cards onto selectedxtravel agencies. Those agencies say the airline’se move shifts to them the risk for payinyg out refunds if the carriegoes bankrupt. While it’s also likelyg to reduce the amount of monehy that United has to keep in the bank to guardsagainst charge-backs, it would increase those requirements for the travel That’s a nonstarter for most agencies — and theird banks, which would have to honod charge-back requests that could total billions of dollar s in the event of an airline “I don’t think there’s any travel agency, includingy American Express Travel, that could shoulder that Casto said.
San Francisco’s dominant airline informed some travel agencies that as of July 20 it will no longef let them process credit and debit card purchases for airline ticketzusing United’s merchant-processing Instead, such agencies woulfd have to require travelers to pay with cash, process card paymentzs with the agency’s own merchant processinf service and forward the cash to Uniter or book the tickets on United’es web site using the traveler’s credit or debif card issued by , (NYSE: V) , MA) (NYSE: AXP) and others.
An agent using United’sa web site, bypassing such trave systems as Apollo and would not allow companies to captures the discounts they have negotiated with United nor woul it allow their travel agent to survey several carrierzs on a route to find thelowes price. “Several Bay Area companiees have deals with United Airlinesfor discounts,” said Marc president of Casto which isn’t among the agencieds that United has cut off from its merchant-processingg service. Casto says he’s reached out to some of the firm’es corporate clients to express concernover United’s new card acceptancer policy, but declined to discuss what was said in thoswe conversations.
United Airlines (NASDAQ: did not respond to requests for comment. Unitedx is hoping to shift the cost of acceptinb credit and debit cards onto selectedxtravel agencies. Those agencies say the airline’se move shifts to them the risk for payinyg out refunds if the carriegoes bankrupt. While it’s also likelyg to reduce the amount of monehy that United has to keep in the bank to guardsagainst charge-backs, it would increase those requirements for the travel That’s a nonstarter for most agencies — and theird banks, which would have to honod charge-back requests that could total billions of dollar s in the event of an airline “I don’t think there’s any travel agency, includingy American Express Travel, that could shoulder that Casto said.
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