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Feds: Fla. woman defrauded Georgia Medicaid
Federal prosecutors say a Florida woman defrauded Georgia’s Medicaid program of more than $500,000 by falsely claiming reimbursements for medical services that were never provided. Jennifer Alsdorf, who owns Hand in Hand Speech & Language Services Inc. in Tampa, faces 74 counts of health care fraud and 10 counts of ...
Starbucks to display calorie counts
Starbucks will make it easier for you to check the calories in that Caramel Ribbon Crunch or Mocha Cookie Crumble coffee when you walk in the door. The popular coffee shop with a gazillion locations in metro Atlanta and across the country will begin posting calorie counts on its menu ...
Falcons offer incentives to stadium builders
The Atlanta Falcons will offer financial incentives to motivate contractors to finish a new downtown stadium ahead of schedule, the team’s top executive said. The Falcons want to open the new facility by March 1, 2017, but Falcons CEO Rich McKay said the deal with its construction team offers money ...
Ex-Home Depot worker convicted in $2M extortion plot
A New York man has been convicted of trying to extort $2 million from Atlanta-based Home Depot by threatening to detonate a pipe bomb at stores last year. A federal jury convicted Daniel Sheehan, 50, of Deer Park, N.Y., on Monday after two hours of deliberation, according to several published ...
Career paranoia vs. real threats
Didn’t someone once say, “It’s not paranoia if someone’s really chasing you”? Well, that makes sense. Unfortunately, when it comes to work situations, some dire circumstance may indeed be chasing you, but not in a way that you can easily see or measure. When it comes to careers, all kinds ...
Report: EU to approve ICE’s $8.2B NYSE deal
Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange’s $8.2 billion acquisition of NYSE Euronext appears to be headed for European Commission approval without conditions, according to an exclusive report by Reuters. Reuters, quoting two people familiar with the EU’s position on the deal, said antitrust regulators found no concerns that the deal would place European commodities ...
Atlanta set to land sought-after AT&T startup hub
The Georgia Tech area will soon be the new home of an AT&T innovation center that would add dozens of new research jobs and power a high-tech incubator designed to generate more startups across metro Atlanta, according to two people with direct knowledge of the deal. The company has selected ...
Global Aviation names CEO
Peachtree City-based Global Aviation Holdings Inc., which operates World Airways and North American Airlines, named John Graber as chief executive officer. Graber is a former president of CHC Helicopter Services and former president of ABX Air. His new job at Global Aviation, the largest commercial provider of charter air services ...
Austin-based RetailMeNot Inc. seeks to raise $230 million with initial public stock offering
Austin online coupon company RetailMeNot Inc. has filed for an initial public stock offering, which it hopes will raise up to $230 million.The company said it will apply to have its stock listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the trading symbol “SALE.”Founded in 2009 as WhaleShark, the company ...
CNN Latino programming expanding to Miami
CNN is expanding its Spanish-language programming to Miami, the company said Monday. WDFL-Channel 11 will broadcast CNN Latino programming from 3 to 11 p.m. beginning in August.The programming, which CNN said is represents an alternative to traditional Hispanic networks, also will be available locally on Comcast Channel 18, AT&T U-Verse ...
Zaxby’s building 4th Atlanta location
Zaxby’s fourth restaurant in Atlanta is being built in the northeast part of the city at 425 Ponce DeLeon Avenue.The quick casual restaurant known for its chicken fingers has 207 locations in Georgia and more than 575 in 13 states.The Atlanta restaurant is being built by Zaxby’s licensee Sterling Coleman, ...
Falcons stadium concept moves forward
A stadium with a more puzzle box roof opening is the working favorite for the new playing field for the Atlanta Falcons. During a stadium committee meeting Monday of the Georgia World Congress Center Authority, the stadium’s architect revealed it preferred a concept of a geometric roof design in which ...
Atlanta set to land AT&T innovation center
Atlanta will soon be the new home of an AT&T innovation center that would add dozens of research jobs and power a high-tech incubator designed to generate more startups across the metro area, according to two people with direct knowledge of the deal. The company has selected the Georgia Tech ...
High court to hear open records challenge
Quick Start’s customized job-training program has been called one of Georgia’s key weapons for luring new business into the state. After Kia Motors announced it would build its behemoth new plant southwest of Atlanta, it identified Quick Start as a reason for choosing Georgia over other states. Today, the Georgia ...
Rethinking coffee supply chain
In the winter of 2011, Michael Jones left a profitable healthcare services company that he founded and went in search of meaning. He was 40 years old, a husband and the father of sons aged 5, 3 and 1, with whom he longed to spend more time. He was a ...
4 easy steps for businesses considering the cloud
Isn’t it ironic that with all of the technology advancements over the past 30 years, global paper consumption has gone up almost 50 percent? For many businesses, it takes a crisis before realizing they have to move to a paperless solution. As companies experience growth, they inevitably see an increase ...
Communicating the brand to the frontline to improve the customer experience
Despite the staggering amounts many companies spend on advertising to build customer awareness for their brands, the delivery of that brand promise is often left to chance. The people charged with fulfilling that brand promise – the drive-thru attendants, cashiers, salespeople, flight attendants, shuttle drivers and other frontline workers – ...
Largest metro Atlanta builders getting a larger share of the market
Metro Atlanta’s biggest builders are getting the most new business as the housing market recovers. Though they are still building far fewer homes than they did at the market peak, the top 10 builders in the region are constructing an ever-larger share of the region’s new houses. At the same ...
CDC Foundation chief: ‘It’s positive reinforcement that really gets the results’
There’s never enough money when it comes to fighting contagious and chronic diseases around the world. At least that’s what Charlie Stokes, chief executive of the CDC Foundation, believes. Stokes, 64, has led the Atlanta-based not-for-profit organization since its inception in 1995. It has raised a total of about $400 ...
Discounters making grocery gains, despite limitations
The days when getting groceries required a trip to a supermarket dedicated solely to rows of food and a butcher have long been a thing of the past. But today not only are big box discounters such as Walmart and Target adding food to their regular line up of baby ...
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