Wall Street inches higher as yields ease and Best Buy weighs
Wall Street posted small gains on Tuesday as Treasury yields dipped from five year highs, while Best Buy cut its 2008 profit outlook citing weaker demand for high end items. The Dow rose 22.44 to 13,635.42, the S&P 500 gained 2.65 to 1,533.70, and the Nasdaq advanced 0.16 to 2,626.76 with about five advancers for every three decliners.
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Coralville
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Starbucks Opens Free Standing Coralville Drive Through
Starbucks Coffee Co opens its first stand alone Coralville location at 1831 Second St with a drive through window patio and indoor seating. Hours run 5 30 a m to 11 p m daily and a pre opening friends and family event will be held Thursday from 4 to 6 p m offering complimentary samples.
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Starbucks
Second St
Saab chooses Rockwell Collins avionics for Gripen demonstrator
Saab selects Rockwell Collins to supply Flight Management Computers, data transfer and switching, video processing, and three color head down displays for the Gripen jet fighter demonstrator. Contract value not disclosed. work spans three years at Collins facilities in the U.S. and Europe and Saab in Linkoping Sweden. Mike Dexter named a finalist for a Fort Myers tourism post after leading the Cedar Rapids CVB 1994–2005.
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Rockwell Collins
Cedar Rapids
Paris
Gas prices survey in Coralville area update
A brief survey lists current gas prices in Coralville as of yesterday afternoon. Prices are rounded to the nearest cent with a low figure noted at 2.66 dollars in the 4th Avenue corridor.
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India adds 800 engineers via Rockwell Collins India centers
Rockwell Collins expands outsourcing to HCL Technologies in Chennai and Bangalore to add 800 engineers for design and development centers. The move supports rapid growth as Collins plans a $23 million Cedar Rapids campus expansion and other new facilities while boosting 24 hour engineering operations and Asia visibility. HCL and Collins have collaborated six years on software verification and validation.
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Rockwell Collins
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Bangalore
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Tordy
Cedar Rapids
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Kherana
Kelly Orberg
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Bay of Bengal
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Shiv Nadar
Eastern Iowa Airport to Open 4 am Coffee Center
The Eastern Iowa Airport will offer coffee as early as 4 am at a remodeled information center opening late next week. The Blue Strawberry will operate from 4 am to mid-morning with furniture from Meta Home and TV screens for news. The information desk, previously in temporary quarters, will be run by the Cedar Rapids Area CVB in partnership with the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance to promote Corridor events and Eastern Iowa tourism.
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Shellsburg
WuBas Pi
Ba A
Iowa
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Gazette
Edar Rapids
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Iowa City-Coralville
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Meta Home
Iowa City
Convention and Visitors
Ridor Alliance
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Towa Cultural Corridor Alliance
Information Center
Chambers of Commerce
Tim Boyle
Cedar Rapids Area Convention & Visitors Bureau
Convention and Visitors Bureau
Cedar Rapids
Google to Build 800 Million Data Center in Iowa
Google Inc will develop an 800 million data center in Council Bluffs Iowa, creating about 200 jobs with an average salary around 50 000. The facility will open in spring 2009 and expand over 1 185 acres purchased by Google benefiting state economic goals.
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Major airport delays and savvy air travel tips
The Raleigh News & Observer reports airlines face their worst delays in over a decade with only 72.5 percent of flights on time through April. The piece offers Charlene Edwards of AAA Vacations Carolina tips on rebooking, passenger rights, and saving on fares, noting early purchase and avoiding round trips from partial travel.
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Raleigh
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