| Debt.com tries to stake out local lead-referral business
The image is eye-catching: a young couple, dressed in rags, shares a single strand of spaghetti. Dark lighting shows just enough of their surroundings: an old shack with its sparse furnishings and dirty, cracked walls.The scene is reminiscent of a Depression-era "poorhouse," or maybe the shacks that lined Southern country roads during Reconstruction.And that's exactly what Todd Cook wants. The president of Debt.com has just kicked off a "poorhouse campaign" to try to wake up consumers to the consequences of unchecked debt. .
Our view: Fresh approach will smooth La.'s roadwork
The annual report for Louisiana's Transportation Infrastructure Model for Economic Development Program does a good job of telling us that the highway and bridge program works. It does, to the extent that funding allows. What it doesn't tell us is what the state should do to 1) catch up -- fast -- on the $14 billion backlog of projects and 2) get ahead of the curve. .
ING North America Insurance Corp. Purchases a License under the Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. Patents
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');" onMouseOut="setTimeout('hideLayer()',500);" class=hotlink2>A2D, L.P. The nonexclusive license covers services offered by ING in the "Financial Services Call Processing" Field of Use, including customer service provided via automated systems and live agents. The patents held by Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. cover a wide range of interactive technology including automated forms of: customer service, securities trading, prescription refill services, merchandising, prepaid services, telephone conferences, registration, home shopping, as well as functions involved in securing information from databases by telephone, interactive cable transactions, and various other uses of toll free and local numbers.
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