http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansascity/breaking_news.html?ana=from_rss Kansas City Business Journal : breaking news from Kansas City http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/rc/30414/www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2008/12/01/daily38.html?ana=from_rss Kansas City-based Internet hosting services company GreenSoft Solutions Inc. has asked a federal bankruptcy judge in Kansas to allow it to stop providing service to recently bankrupt LaGarde Inc. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:56:39 GMT http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/rc/30414/www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2008/12/01/daily37.html?ana=from_rss The Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City will give $26.5 million in grants in 2009, up $1.5 million from last year. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:50:19 GMT http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/rc/30414/www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2008/12/01/daily36.html?ana=from_rss CrossPoint Bank has hired Mike Maddox as CEO, succeeding Gregg Motley, who resigned in late October. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:47:58 GMT http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/rc/30414/www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2008/12/01/daily35.html?ana=from_rss Two days shy of its first month as a full-fledged electronic stock exchange, BATS Exchange said Thursday that it traded 10.37 percent of all shares traded in November, up from 6.9 percent in November 2007. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:36:24 GMT http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/rc/30414/www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2008/12/01/daily34.html?ana=from_rss A federal judge ordered a Lee’s Summit helicopter dealer to pay fines and restitution and liquidate his business for selling defectively repaired helicopter engine components. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:16:17 GMT http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/rc/30414/www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2008/12/01/daily33.html?ana=from_rss AT&T Inc. will cut about 12,000 jobs in December and throughout 2009, or about 4 percent of its 300,000 U.S. employees, and take a fourth-quarter charge of $600 million. (T) Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:45:06 GMT http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/rc/30414/www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2008/12/01/daily32.html?ana=from_rss Layne Christensen Co. reported higher third-quarter earnings and record revenue compared with the same period last year, driven by improvements in most of its business segments. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:14:19 GMT http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/rc/30414/www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2008/12/01/daily31.html?ana=from_rss PAS Technologies Inc. received an $8.5 million contract for coating fan blades in engines that power the U.S. Air Force’s F-15 and F-16 aircraft. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:25:19 GMT http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/rc/30414/www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2008/12/01/daily30.html?ana=from_rss The owner of a large farming operation in Buchanan and Clinton counties in Missouri was indicted by a federal grand jury in Kansas City for defrauding two banking institutions to obtain loans and violating federal bankruptcy statutes. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:23:44 GMT http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/rc/30414/www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2008/12/01/daily29.html?ana=from_rss YRC Worldwide Inc. wants to cut union employees’ wages by 10 percent and suspend cost-of-living adjustments and in exchange give employees a 15 percent ownership stake in the company. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:20:13 GMT