| JGI Buys New York City Consulting Firm ValueMine
Rochelle Park-based JGI, a professional services firm specializing in software applications and business intelligence, has acquired New York City-based ValueMine Consulting, a management-consulting firm, for an undisclosed amount. Once fully integrated, ValueMine will operate under its current name as the management-consulting arm of JGI. ValueMine's co-founders, James Paddon and Jay Weiss, will remain with the company in senior roles. .
Cruise and Holmes miss out on dream home
Hollywood couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have failed to land a $20m (29.5m) apartment in New York City's Dakota building, after it was sold to a mystery buyer.
The pair were rumoured to be interested in the 12-room home in The Dakota block, opposite Central Park. .
• New York Sues Drexel Over Student Loans
New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo has taken the first legal action against a school in his nationwide student loan investigation. Cuomo announced a notice of intent to sue Drexel University in Pennsylvania over its revenue sharing agreements with Education Finance Partners. Earlier this week, California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. demanded two California student-loan businesses produce records concerning their financial relationships with public and private universities, and vocational schools in California as part of his ongoing probe into the student-loan industry. In the New York probe, Education Finance Partners (EFP) agreed to Cuomo's College Loan Code of Conduct and will end revenue sharing agreements. Cuomo also announced settlement agreements with three more schools: Salve Regina in Rhode Island, Pace University and the New York Institute of Technology.
Centro Properties Group Completes Acquisition of New Plan Excel ...
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Centro Properties Group (ASX: CNP) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of New Plan Excel Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: NXL). The acquisition was completed by means of a merger of Super MergerSub, Inc. ("MergerSub"), an affiliate of Centro, and New Plan, following the successful tender offer for New Plan's common shares. Andrew Scott, Chief Executive Officer of Centro, commented: "We are pleased to announce the successful completion of Centro's acquisition of New Plan, and we are excited with the opportunity this acquisition represents for Centro. Centro Watt's fully-integrated national platform is well placed to manage the diverse style and geographic mix of its expanded U.S. retail property platform." On April 19, 2007, MergerSub announced that approximately 88.0% of the outstanding shares of New Plan common stock had been tendered and were accepted for payment in MergerSub's tender offer, which expired at 12:00 midnight, New York City time, on April 18, 2007.
Dan Girardi: apple of the Big Apple's eye; welland native tops ...
Dan Girardi was oblivious. He didn't know what he had won until a recent TV interview when he was told about the compliment hockey fans in New York had paid him.
Girardi, a defenceman with the New York Rangers, was voted by the fans in the Big Apple as the team's top rookie this season.
Even though there are only a handful of first-year players who have laced up their skates for the Blueshirts this year, the Welland native is proud of the recognition given to him by loyal and knowledgeable hockey fans.
"It's a good honour," Girardi told The Tribune yesterday in a cellphone interview from New York City.
The son of Carol and Mark Girardi said he must have done something right to get noticed.
"I'm playing solid night in and night out," he said.
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