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• Week in Photos: Hornets a community player; Johnny Harris on HB2; BofA talks sales practices

  21-10-2016 21:04 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Charlotte developer Johnny Harris didn't mince words when it came to talking this week about North Carolina's controversial House Bill 2.“Just change the damn law,” said Harris, when speaking on a panel at CBJ's PGA Championship event on Wednesday. Harris is the developer and president of Qual Hollow Club, where the 2017 PGA Championship is set to take place.“That’s all we’ve got to do.”That story, along with an article on Bank of America executives speaking o
  
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• Appearance on Shark Tank drives company’s expansion into Charlotte

  21-10-2016 21:03 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  The upcoming PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club is a perfect opportunity for this Chicago-based company to expand its footprint.Rent Like A Champion facilitates rentals of private homes — from high-end estates to modest dwellings — that are located near sporting events such as college football games or golf tournaments.“We’re using the PGA Championship to springboard into the Charlotte market,” says CEO Mike Doyle.There’s also potential to market homes in t
  
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• Trick or treat? The business behind the haunted house industry (PHOTOS)

  21-10-2016 21:01 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Make no bones about it, there is money to be made from running a haunted house attraction.Stats from the Haunted House Association, a national trade organization dedicated to advancing Halloween haunts, estimates the haunted attraction industry grosses between $400 million and $500 million annually, with more than 1,500 events set up across the nation.And 21% of adults — or about 35 million people — are expected to visit a haunted house over the Halloween season, says the National Re
  
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• BofA report: Charlotte millennials don’t really feel like adults

  21-10-2016 20:53 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Many Charlotte millennials don’t really feel like adults yet, according to a Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC) report released this month. The report found Charlotte millennials consider adulthood synonymous with financial independence, rather than turning 18.The bank surveyed 2,180 millennials (ages 18 to 26) across the country to explore their views on personal finances, and then broke up the results by region. Overall, the report found young people are “cautiously optimistic and pr
  
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• Capital Bank Financial Corp. officially keeps its headquarters in Charlotte now

  21-10-2016 20:44 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Capital Bank Financial Corp. (NASDAQ:CBF) now officially keeps its headquarters in Charlotte after switching regulators last year. While the holding company is based in Charlotte, the bank keeps its headquarters in Raleigh.The move makes Capital Bank Financial Corp. the second-largest Charlotte-based bank by assets behind Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC).Capital Bank was previously based in Coral Gables, Fla., before it changed to a North Carolina charter from a national charter last year. The&h
  
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• Sam’s Club cuts checkout lines with new offering

  21-10-2016 20:11 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Sam’s Club has launched a new app that lets its members bypass the checkout lane.The "Scan & Go" mobile app can be used at the retailer’s 645 locations nationwide.It allows customers to scan products in their cart as they go and pay from their phone — avoiding waiting in line at the register. They then present a digital receipt as they leave the store.The app also allows users to track spending.“We understand the holidays can create a major time crunch for our members
  
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• New Scott Safety heat camera wins magazine award

  21-10-2016 19:35 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Longin Kloc is pleased that Scott Safety’s new thermal imaging camera for firefighters won one of 100 Popular Science magazine’s Best of What’s New Award.But to Kloc, Scott Safety’s global products manager for growth initiatives, the most important aspect of the new in-mask camera system is the firefighters and other lives that it will save.It’s impossible for firefighters to see in a smoke-filled building that’s on fire. With Scott Sight, the first responders
  
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• Campaign cash: Who gave to Trump and Clinton in your city? Here's the breakdown

  21-10-2016 19:24 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  If individual donations to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are a harbinger of what’s to come Nov. 8, then this year’s presidential election could go down as one of the most lopsided contests in the history of U.S. campaigns for the White House.Federal election data show that Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the presidency generated roughly $184.7 million in individual donations from residents of U.S. cities as of Sept. 1, the latest reporting period available. That’s about
  
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• Here’s why AT&T is interested in buying a company like Time Warner

  21-10-2016 18:51 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Over the last two months, AT&T (NYSE:T) has undergone a massive effort to secure content for its upcoming, all-important streaming service DirecTV Now.First came the announcement that it brought on Disney’s ESPN and ABC. Then, HBO and Cinemax came aboard. Next came NBC Universal, Discovery and others. AT&T already had contracts with those companies through DirecTV and U-Verse, but had to re-enter negotiations to put the channels on the new OTT platform.Content, it is clear, does no
  
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• N.C. orders detailed safety, environmental evaluations at Duke Energy’s flooded Lee plant

  21-10-2016 16:18 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  State environmental regulators have called on Duke Energy to submit a plan to address issues raised by post-Hurricane Matthew flooding at the power company's H.F. Lee Plant near Goldsboro.And the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality says it continues to evaluate information to see if the problems led to any environmental violations.DEQ sent a letter to Duke Energy Progress on Thursday laying out the information and proposals it wants.It called on the utility to assess what kind and what&hell
  
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