Byron Watkins is the creative director and a partner at Windsong Productions.  In the company’s first year of inception, Watkins has led Windsong Productions to numerous awards locally, regionally and nationally.  He oversees all creative, directing, writing, conception, producing, editing and whatever needs to be completed to make a production happen.  Watkins is in the [...]

ALBANY, New York, January 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research (http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com) “the tablet PC shipment in the U.S. was 34.2 million units in 2012 and is expected to grow to 71.6 million units by 2018, at a CAGR of 13.1% from 2012 to 2018. In 2010, [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Research in Motion, the company that makes the popular BlackBerry smartphones, will now be known as simply BlackBerry. The announcement has been made shortly before the release of a new line of smartphone, the BlackBerry Z10, a touchscreen version, and the BlackBerry Q10, a model with a traditional keyboard. BlackBerry’s new [...]

Pha Mouavangsou came to America from Laos in 1978 and is one of nine siblings.  He obtained an associate’s degree in technology from Heald College, a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from DeVry University, and is currently pursuing his doctorate in educational leadership from California State University, Fresno.  Until recently, Mouavangsou was the division director [...]

TULARE – Results are in for World Ag Expo’s Top-10 New Products competition. The winners will be showcased Feb. 12-14, 2013 during the 46th annual World Ag Expo in Tulare, California. A group of judges made up of farmers, ranchers and industry professionals selected the Top-10 New Products. ADA Enterprises This year, one of the [...]

FRESNO – Fresno State will re-open Thursday, Jan. 3, after a one-day closure for emergency maintenance resulting from a power failure. Winter intercession classes, which involved about 200 students, were accommodated in alternate locations and will return to normal classrooms on Thursday. The issues began Sunday at 2 a.m. with a power surge that disrupted [...]

FRESNO, Calif. – Business Street Online would like to take a visual look back on 2012 with our 2012 Year in Pictures.  2012 was another memorable year for central California business, and Business Street Online is looking forward to bringing you coverage of more memorable news events in 2013. In celebration of New Year’s Day, [...]

CHICAGO, Dec. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — 2013 is expected to usher in more jobs, but U.S. employers will continue to play it safe, according to CareerBuilder’s annual hiring forecast.  Twenty-six percent of hiring managers plan to add full-time, permanent employees in the New Year, up three percentage points over 2012.  The study also points to heightened competition [...]

NEW YORK, Dec. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Looking to the year ahead, travel, hospitality and leisure (THL) companies may have reason to be optimistic for renewed growth domestically, for the power of technology to transform the consumer experience and for the opportunity to capitalize on emerging market growth, according to Deloitte’s 2013 Travel, Hospitality and Leisure [...]

VISALIA – The Kaweah Delta Wound Center is now open and offering treatment in the first hyperbaric chambers in Tulare County. The center offers specialized physician oversight and the first hyperbaric chambers in Tulare County.  The program provides care for people whose wounds do not heal naturally or respond to other wound-healing methods, particularly diabetics.  [...]

OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Regardless of which holidays are celebrated this season, most Americans can agree on one thing this time of year: holiday music is essential. A new survey by Pandora (NYSE: P), the leading internet radio service, yields interesting insights into how Americans prefer to listen to Christmas and holiday-themed [...]

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration is seeking nominations for awards honoring the critical economic role small businesses play in federally funded research and development through SBA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. Two awards will be given: the “Hall of Fame” award recognizing companies that have an [...]

SELMA, Calif. – The City of Selma is reminding residents of a service that has been in place since 2006 to assist them.  Connect-CTY allows City staff to provide citizens with notification in the event of an emergency, unforeseen incident or other issue. “This program allows the City of Selma to provide notification to our [...]

BEVERLY HILLS and BURBANK, Calif., Dec. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Netflix Inc. (Nasdaq:NFLX) and The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) today announced a new multi-year licensing agreement that will make Netflix the exclusive U.S. subscription television service for first-run live-action and animated feature films from The Walt Disney Studios. Beginning with its 2016 theatrically released feature [...]

FRESNO, Calif. – Roughly 75 small and disadvantaged businesses interested in participating in the nation’s first high-speed rail project are getting certified today and tomorrow through workshops being held at the UC Merced Small Business Development Center. Construction on the first segment, which is scheduled to run from Ave. 17 in Madera to American Ave. [...]

NEW YORK, Nov. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — More than one in three middle school students are using mobile devices to complete homework, and more of those who use these devices for learning in the classroom express a strong interest in science, technology and math than those who do not, according to a new national survey. [...]

CLOVIS, Calif. – As part of its multi-year, $300 million expansion and renovation project, Clovis Community Medical Center opened its new 5-story, private patient room bed tower on its campus Wednesday morning. Over 1,000 hospital staff had been trained for the transition of over 100 patients from the old 3-story, 60-bed tower that was built [...]

DENVER, Nov. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — ShopAtHome.com, the largest coupon search engine that connects upwards of 12 million consumers each month to the best deals and cash back savings, today released its Cyber Monday 2012 Special Report, which offers data on traffic, consumer coupon usage and trends on the site. With holiday sales beginning as [...]

FRESNO, Calif. –  The City of Fresno has been selected as a top-ranked digital government in the 12th annual Digital Cities Survey by e.Republic’s Center for Digital Government and Digital Communities program. The survey recognized Fresno as number 10 in the nation in cities with populations of 250,000 or more. Louisville Metro Government in Kentucky was the first-place [...]

CHANTILLY, Va., Nov. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — BIA/Kelsey, advisor to companies in the local media industry, expects the overall U.S. local media market to grow moderately through 2016, at a 2.1 percent compound annual growth rate. In the fall update to the firm’s U.S. Local Media Forecast (20011-2016), the firm forecasts total U.S. local media [...]