Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA - Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, a leading firm in the field of trademark, copyright, design patent and unfair competition law, announced today that firm partner Lawrence Apolzon's co-authored book entitled "From Edison to iPod: Protect Your Ideas and Make Money," has won the Gold Medal in the category of "Entrepreneurship" at the Axiom Business Book Awards.

Apolzon co-authored "From Edison to iPod” with Frederick Mostert, who is Chief Intellectual Property Counsel of the Richemont Group of Companies in London. The book provides entrepreneurs, writers, inventors, and other business professionals with practical information and actionable guidance on leveraging current intellectual property law

EVLiving - USA - Serinova Financial, L.L.C., a direct lender for privately financed commercial real estate, is celebrating its first appearance in the Arizona Business Journal’s Book of Lists, joining 24 other top-rated, Arizona-based commercial mortgage brokers. With no prior ranking, Serinova Financial saw remarkable growth in 2007. The company expanded its business over 1,000 percent, allowing them to secure the 5th spot on the list.

The Book of Lists, published annually by the Phoenix Business Journal, provides readers with a report on top Arizona businesses in more than 255 industry categories and market segments. The Top 25 commercial mortgage brokers are ranked according to

Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA - Modavox, Inc. (OTCBB: MDVX) Internet broadcasting pioneer, producing and syndicating online audio and video, today announced that Career Coach, speaker and author of the first books on Career Contentment, Jeff Garton has joined the VoiceAmerica Network, online internet talk radio network, as host of his new show, "Career Contentment Radio." The program debuted August 16 and can be heard every Thursday at 12:00PM/PST, 3:00 PM/EST (http://www.voice.voiceamerica.com).

Jeff Garton is a career coach and author whose career has been devoted to the discovery of practical solutions to combat prolonged unemployment and job dissatisfaction. His efforts have produced the first book and learning

Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA - Hewlett Packard is an extremely successful technology company that serves more than one billion customers in more than 170 countries on six continents. It is no surprise that they are one of the leading sources of information for small business owners around the world.

A major vehicle for getting small business advice to their many customers around the world is through their blogs, the Small Business Toolbox. HP isn't alone in using this technology - the use of blogs is becoming industry standard with small and large businesses around the world.

Dave Sifry, the CEO of Technorati, recently wrote, "The blogosphere is

Web Services Journal - Montvale, NJ, USA - An unhappy, unproductive workforce is the subject best-selling author and CEO of The Table Group, Patrick Lencioni, tackles in his seventh business book, The Three Signs of a Miserable Job (Jossey-Bass, August 2007, $24.95, Cloth).

"No one is immune to job misery -- it touches every profession imaginable from restaurant service worker, to middle manager, to NBA superstar," says Lencioni. Countless sources support this statement including a recent USA Today poll, which found that "people unhappy with their jobs is at an all time high." Lencioni, known for his ability to net-out complicated theories into actionable models, offers a practical solution

PR Web (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA - According to Bob Prosen, "the mission of The Prosen Center is to help business leaders rapidly increase performance, productivity and profits." Not one to embellish ideas or thoughts, Prosen is the author of the best-selling, multi award winning business book, Kiss Theory Good Bye, published in 2006.

Prosen recently recorded an interview with Peter Clayton, host of the popular online career radio show, Total Picture Radio. The former Fortune 100 executive discussed with Clayton "proven tools and techniques" he has developed for becoming a high-performance leader. With more than 25 years of global business experience, the Dallas, Texas-based leadership expert likes

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA - An unhappy, unproductive workforce is the subject best-selling author and CEO of The Table Group, Patrick Lencioni, tackles in his seventh business book, The Three Signs of a Miserable Job (Jossey-Bass, August 2007, $24.95, Cloth).

“No one is immune to job misery – it touches every profession imaginable from restaurant service worker, to middle manager, to NBA superstar,” says Lencioni. Countless sources support this statement including a recent USA Today poll which found that “people unhappy with their jobs is at an all time high.” Lencioni, known for his ability to net-out complicated theories into actionable models, offers a practical solution

Loyola University New Orleans - New Orleans, LA, USA - The Gillis Long Poverty Law Center and Loyola University New Orleans will host a lecture by award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and author Naomi Klein, on Saturday, August 25, at 6 p.m. in the Loyola University College of Law, Room 405. Her lecture is entitled, “Katrina Disaster Capitalism.”

Naomi Klein is the international bestseller of No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. In 2000, the Guardian short-listed No Logo for its First Book Award. In 2001, it won the Canadian National Business Book Award and the French Prix Médiations. In 2004, Klein’s reporting from Iraq for Harper’s magazine won the James

Canada.com - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - The current upheaval in global markets has many on Wall Street drawing comparisons to turmoil seen in 1998, 1987 and even 1929, but a new book suggests investors should look back as far as 1907 for insight into the mechanisms that can trigger a crash.

"The Panic of 1907" (Wiley, $29.95) begins with the Park Avenue suicide of Charles Barney, a prominent New York banker. Barney was one of many casualties -- both individual and institutional -- of an attempt to corner the market in shares of United Copper Co., which brought a string of banks to the brink of collapse.

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