FRESNO – John E. Horstmann received the 2013 Leon S. Peters Award Tuesday afternoon at the Fresno Convention and Entertainment Center during the Fresno Chamber of Commerce’s 34th annual Valley Business Awards Luncheon. Horstmann was named the recipient for his accomplishments and personal and public service.  He said before the luncheon that having his family [...]

PITTSBURGH, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – A seven-year Carnegie Mellon University study of Facebook has found evidence of three contrasting trends in the amount of information Facebook users disclosed over time: decreasing public disclosures; abrupt changes in disclosure due to interface and policy changes; and increasing private disclosures. The 2005-2011 study, which appears in The Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality and [...]

FRESNO – In honor of the contributions Fresno State President Dr. John D. Welty made to Central California, funds are being raised to name the Central Valley Educational Leadership Institute (CVELI) the John Welty Center for Educational Policy and Leadership. Established in 2002 under the leadership of President Welty, CVELI is focused on eliminating the achievement [...]

Amy Guerra is a Central Valley native, and graduated from Kingsburg High School in 1997 and then took classes at California State University, Fresno.  She first majored in English, and then made the switch to cultural anthropology.  Guerra has also been involved in AmeriCorps VISTA under the Fresno West Coalition for Economic Development, where the [...]

PALO ALTO, Calif., March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – As tax identity theft impacts more and more consumers, a new survey from TrustedID —the nation’s most comprehensive identity protection and privacy service—indicates that more than half of consumers believe that the IRS is 100% responsible for ensuring that no one can file a return in their name [...]

CLOVIS – Business Street Online will hold a live video streaming video webcast from the Clovis Advantage Trade Show on Tuesday from 4 p.m. – 7 p.m. at the Clovis Veterans Memorial Building in Clovis. The webcast, streamed live on www.BusinessStreetOnline.com, will feature interviews with some of the several dozen exhibitors that have booth spaces [...]

Elena Stefanopoulos is originally from Greece, but moved with her family to the area when she was an infant.  She was involved in sports during her years at San Joaquin Memorial High School, and later graduated from California State University, Fresno in 1998 with a degree in history.  Shortly after, Stefanopoulos joined her family’s business, [...]

FRESNO – This year’s Fresno Food Expo will have a great new addition in the Inaugural San Joaquin Valley New Product Awards, where the winning company will not only have bragging rights but also a spotlight on them in front of the attending buyers during the Expo. “It’s an element that we added to the [...]

WASHINGTON, March. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Top chief executives are more optimistic about prospects for the global economy than they are for the U.S. economy, according to The Business Council Survey of CEOs announced today in collaboration with The Conference Board. Nearly three quarters of CEOs surveyed expect global growth in 2013 will keep pace with 2012 [...]