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Social Ethics: A Peek Into 2012

Linda Novick O'Keefe | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Walmart, Walmart Foundation, Ge, Julie Gehrki, DeShele Dorsey, Bob Corcoran, Corporate Philanthropy, Corporate Social Responsibility, Changing Our World, Fedex, Twitter, Red Cross, Dell, General Mills, Western Union, Facebook, Csr, Business Ethics, Business News
Linda Novick O'Keefe

Business as usual is changing. Or at least the way business leaders think about philanthropy is changing.

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Retro Singing Telegram Makes Comeback In Digital Era

The Huffington Post | Tara Kelly | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Holidays, Video, Singing Telegram, Western Union Singing Telegram 2011, Wu-singingtelegram.com, Western Union Singing Telegram, Timbaland Western Union, Singing Telegram Revival, Singing Telegram 2006, Western Union, Singing Telegram Comeback, Snoop Dogg Western Union, Singing Telegram 1933, Wu-Singingtelegram, K'Naan Western Union, Technology News

Telegraph pioneer turned money transfer giant Western Union is reviving a service they cut in the 1970s by again offering singing telegrams, The New Y...

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Homeowners Unlikely To Benefit From Mortgage Lender Settlements

Daily Finance | Catherine New | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: Mortgage Electronic Record Systems, Lenders, Economic Recession, Borrowers, Banks, Foreclosure, Housing Crisis, Economic Recovery, Homeowners, Western Union, Mortgage Settlement, Business News

Will homeowners see a penny of the reimbursements that the government has ordered 16 mortgage lenders to pay? Not likely, foreclosure victims and hous...

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Goodbye, Western Union? Overseas Remittances Now ATM to ATM

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Multi-National Corporations, Switzerland, Brooklyn, XO Machine, Technology, Western Union, Notebook Industry, Automated Banking, Vital Wave Consulting, Cell Phone, Singapore, Manhattan, Haiti Earthquake, Dr. Andreas Stehmann, Jurgen Samuel, Wincor Nixdorf, Evens Anozine, Cash Remittance Transfer, Classmate PC, Mobile Phone, Moneygram, One Laptop Per Child, Barcelona, Developing-Country Markets, Turkey, Philippines, Germany, Automated Check-Out, GSM Association, Brooke Partridge, Education, Intel, Sicap AG, Haitian Diaspora, Second-Order Impact, Queens, Cam, Connectivity, Healthcare, New York City, France, Fonkoze, Palo Alto, Un-Banked, Atm, Mobile Technology, Senegal, Cash Remittances, Ncr, Business News
Jim Luce

Cash remittances allow people living in cash-hungry countries to receive funds from friends and relatives in cash positive-countries. Before the eart...

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Colorado Companies Drop From Fortune's Most Admired List

Denver Business Journal | Mark Harden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colorado, Western Union, LIBERTY MEDIA, Fortune Magazine, Most Admired Companies, Denver News

Fortune magazine lists two Colorado corporations as industry 'contenders' for its annual 'most admired companies' list, but no local firms reached the...

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Earthquake To Cost Haiti's Economy At Least 15% Of GDP

Bloomberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bank of America, Walt Disney, Amex, Credit Agricole, Lowe's, Western Union, Business Community, Bofa, Coprporate Donations, Wells Fargo, Tesco, Businesses, Digicel, Ups, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Economy, Visa, World Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Disney, Foundations, Business News

The earthquake in Haiti will cost the nation's economy at least 15 percent of its gross domestic product, said Pamela Cox, the World Bank's vice presi...

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Fonkoze: Haitian Diaspora Unites Across U.S.

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anne Hastings, Overseas Remittances, Organized Poor, Thought Leaders, Western Union, Global Citizens, Jimmy Toussaint, Haitian Students Association of Long Island University, Jim Luce, Port-Au-Prince, Father Joseph Philippe, CNB New Jersey and UMASS, HEC Montreal, University of Massachusetts, Alianza International, Barbara Magnoni, University of Fondwa, Ministry of Haitians Living Abroad, Haitian Diaspora, Haitian American Business Network, Inter-American Development Bank, International Fund for Agricultural Development, ?€œDollars and Diaspora?, Haiti, Catholic Theological Union in Chicago., Katleen Felix, University of Montreal, Latin American & Caribbean Center, Jennifer Ching, National Association for the Advancement of Haitians, Youtube, Appleseed, Moneygram, Fonkoze, Haitian-American, World News
Jim Luce

"The Diaspora is the driving force for the economic development of the country, but in order to reach that objective, overseas Haitians need to be organized locally, state-wide, and nationally."

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Poverty in America: The Problems and Solutions

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yunus, Poverty, Check Cashing, Louisiana, Microlending, Nobel, Payday Loans, Obama, Mccain, Western Union, Rural, Teen Moms, Bush, Education, Clinton, South, Palin, Public Transportation, Communities, Shreveport, Economy, Business News
Vivian Norris

We need to make communities strong again. Our local money does not need to be mixed in with some guy's hedge fund abstract tranche of nothing all to make a fee for some banker in New York.

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