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| North Texas homebuilders feel the sting of the housing slump North Texas may not be bearing the brunt of the national housing bust, but some local businesses are feeling the pain. Several local homebuilders have gone out of business. Others are scaling back their operations, cutting jobs as revenue and profit fall. |
| AnalystWatch: WEF Report on "Networked Readiness" The World Economic Forum recently released its Global Information Technology Report 2007-2008. According to the organizations web site (www.weforum.org) summarizing the report and the associated Network Readiness Index (NRI), Denmark is the most networked |
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