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Reuters
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Erika Solomon | AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces, trying to hammer the city of Homs into submission, on Wednesday killed 19 more people including two Western journalists in an onslaught that has …
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US to Israel: Don't attack Iran
USA TODAY
By David Jackson, USA TODAY The United States is urging Israel to forgo a military strike against Iran over its nuclear program, and give international sanctions more time to work. "We think that it's not prudent at this point to decide to attack Iran …
IAEA Iran Visit May Offer End to War Talk Over Nuclear Work BusinessWeek
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Capitol bomb plot foiled, says FBI
Sydney Morning Herald
Sting … a court sketch of Amine El Khalifi. Illustration: AP WASHINGTON: A Moroccan man who believed he was working with al-Qaeda has been arrested near the US Capitol as he was planning to detonate what he thought was a suicide vest, given to him by …
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Deal reached on unemployment, payroll tax cut
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a software developer that helps businesses measure and managrworkforce productivity, has raised $15 The company is a reincarnatiom of Atlanta-based Workbits — created after Canadian serial entrepreneu r David Ossip bought Workbits’ assets in May. Workbites founder John Orr approached Ossip aftefr being unable toraiswe follow-on financing for his startup. which employs about 30 and is headquartereed in Atlantaand Toronto, target s the retail, manufacturing, health-care and financial servicea industries. Those sectors have a high volumee of hourlyworkers — the variablwe part of a business’ operating expenses, said Orr, now Dayforce’s chief strategy officer.
“Typically, 60 percenrt of their [operating expense] is labor Orr said. Dayforce’s software suite, whichu includes budgeting, scheduling, task management and time and attendance helps do more withtheir “The software helps define performance measured for the workforce and automates scheduling and tracking of employees,” Ossip said. “Thwe end goal is to increasd workforce output, while keeping percentage wage costsin Dayforce’s software, Orr can boost customer revenue by 0.
5 percenf to 3 percent and can decrease averagd annual labor cost by 3 percent to 8 The cost of the subscription dependss on the size of the business — from $2 to $9 per employee, per month. Ossipo led Dayforce’s $15 million round and was joinerd by investors in hisprevious companies, includingt , which was acquirede by Alpharetta-based for $227 million in 2007. The Canadian businessman, brought more than dollars tothe table. “Ossip knows the industry,” Orr said, and “has a provej track record of building successfulk companiesand value.
” Ossip has ambitious plansw for Dayforce — includingy launching a domestic and global Dayforce is chasing a $14 billionj market in the United Ossip said, adding he planw to sell into Europe and Asia. “Ourt types of solutions extend beyondNorth America,” Ossiop said. “It’s a global Michael Price, general partned at CEO Ventures, was impressede with Workbits. “The product was beautiful,” Price “The graphic design, the thought and attention to detail, the menus … it was some of the best I’ves ever seen.” Companies in the performancee management space are doing well and revenuee isholding up, Price said.
That successw has drawn an influx ofnew competitors. “Withinm the next year, a lot of the softwarw programs being built will be comingg online with a lot of sales peoples swingingfor revenue,” Priced said. “Certainly competition within that space is goinyg toincrease dramatically,” which could hurt profits.
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Delta’s Liberia route, scheduled to commencer June 8, is also postponee indefinitely. Atlanta-based Delta (NYSE: DAL) said Homeland Security officiala notified the carrier late Mondauy it would require additional time toapprove Delta’s announced routesw to Nairobi, Kenya, and Monrovia, "Delta regrets any inconvenience to our customers caused by the postponemenyt of our new direct service to Kenya and Liberia,” the carrier said in a statement. Delta said it is contacting affectedf customers and booking them on flights operated by Air KLM and its other partnersin SkyTeam. The flights will connectg to Africa throughthose carriers’ European hubs, Delta said.
The Kenya route was to originate in Atlanta and connecg to Nairobi with a stopin Dakar, Senegal. Delta’ Liberia route, scheduled to commencwe June 8, is also postponed indefinitely. Those passengerse are also being rescheduled. Africa has been a point of growth for which is theonly U.S-based airline that fliee its own aircraft to the continent. Deltw currently services six destination s in fiveAfrican nations: Accra, Ghana; Egypt; Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Lagos, Nigeria; and Dakar, Senegal.
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Spanish photographer wins World Press Photo award for New York Times with Arab …
Washington Post
AMSTERDAM — Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda has won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award for the New York Times with an image of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen.
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