For the fifth consecutive year, Customer Service Solutions, Inc. (http://www.cssamerica.com) has been engaged by Wilkes Regional Medical Center (http://www.wilkesregional.com) for new hire customer service training. CSS, the Charlotte-based customer service firm, will provide its unique Service Excellence program in 2011.

A 24-year old San Francisco Bay Area native, Alicia Chin, has opened a huge discount women’s shoe store in the Mission District in San Francisco. The store features well-made, comfortable shoes for only $11.99 and boots from $12.99 to $22.99.

The Gurhan jewelry trunk show, scheduled this February at Union Street Goldsmith, will feature the jeweler’s signature hammered 24kt gold pieces and fine and blackened silver lines. Union Street Goldsmith is donating 5% of sales to Glide Memorial Church’s homeless services.

The national whistleblower law firm of Nolan & Auerbach, P.A. announces today the unsealing of a whistleblower case filed nearly a decade ago on behalf of its client Constance Conrad. Until today, the public has been unaware that dozens of small and mid-sized pharmaceutical companies have sidestepped (and a few continue to sidestep) the FDA [...]

Applied Predictive Technologies (APT) announced today that leading retailers increased their use of scientific testing by more than 21% in 2010 compared to 2009. APT’s findings, based on a survey of leading US retailers, highlighted the fact that businesses became increasingly open to testing new customer-facing strategies as the economy began its protracted recovery.

Insurent Lease Guaranty has quickly engrained itself as part of the New York City rental process since their start only two years ago. Currently over 125,000 apartments in NYC representing over 1,000 buildings accept the Insurent Lease Guaranty enabling hundreds of landlords to increase occupancy, eliminate rent loss and close leases quickly – all at [...]

- NASA announced Thursday that astronaut Rick Sturckow will serve as a backup commander for the STS-134 space shuttle mission to facilitate continued training for the crew and support teams during STS-134 Commander Mark Kelly’s absence. Kelly’s wife, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was critically wounded in a shooting on Jan. 8 in Tucson, Ariz.

- Hill Commercial Construction, LLC has been awarded the 200 Union Plaza Facade Renovation project by Crown West Realty, LLC.

Cloud-based, streaming music service Thumbplay® Music™ now features exclusive, advance tracks from the new Duran Duran album, All You Need Is Now. The critically acclaimed album was produced by the Grammy Award-winning Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse, Adele, Kaiser Chiefs, Lily Allen) and mixed by Spike Stent (Madonna, Björk, No Doubt). The complete album will be [...]

This June’s Security Industry Association (SIA) Government Summit will be headlined by a double-bill of Washington pundits.

- Golden Dawn Minerals Inc. (TSXV: GOM, Frankfurt: 3G8) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce the first batch of assay results from its November and December 2010 16-hole drilling program on the Wild Rose Property, near Greenwood, B.C. which targeted the potential for high grade veins in association with open-pit bulk tonnage low grade gold-copper [...]

- Employment numbers seem to be improving, but tight lending standards and large home inventories are sending a clear signal to homebuilders to restrain building activity in 2011.

Office and industrial design professionals often have to consider appearance and durability when selecting wall partitions. Unfortunately, most of the office partitions on the market today favor appearance over durability and stability. However, PortaFab Modular Building Systems has developed a product that bridges the gap with its new free standing wall system. Meeting the industry’s [...]

Totally Wicked E-Liquid is pleased to announce the arrival of the new Tornado Tank System, designed to provide e smokers with a much improved, cleaner “vaping” experience.

Quorum Business Solutions, Inc. (Quorum), a leading provider of business and information technology solutions for the oil, gas, and renewable energy industry, announces the full integration of CO2 processing as used in enhanced oil recovery into Quorum TIPS Gathering. Quorum TIPS Gathering is the industry’s only solution to account for the full life cycle of [...]

Laserfiche today kicked off its “Empower 2011” Conference with a keynote speech from company Founder and CEO Nien-Ling Wacker celebrating the Laserfiche community’s successes in 2010 and the company’s vision for 2011. A record 1,400 attendees turned out for the event.

- Dycom Industries, Inc. (NYSE: DY) today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Dycom Investments, Inc., has priced its offering of $187.5 million in aggregate principal amount of 7.125% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2021 (the “Notes”), in an offering to qualified institutional buyers in the United States pursuant to Rule 144A and outside the United States [...]

Berlin-based cloud company Zimory announced today that it has secured a 5-year strategic agreement with T-Systems to provide Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). This enables T-Systems International GmbH to offer IaaS on a large scale and at low costs to their enterprise customers.

Ridge Property Trust (Ridge), a private REIT specializing in industrial property development and management, today announced that tenant, IDQ Holdings, Inc. is expanding its operations and increasing capacity at its facility in Garland, Texas.

Home Stagers from all over North America submitted their before and after photos for consideration for the industry’s most prestigious award. Ms. Burke of Sensational Home Staging is the only Northern California home stager finalist vying for the title of Pro Stager 2011.