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• Why Trump keeps meeting with CEOs like AutoZone's Rhodes

  16-02-2017 21:58 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  In the past few weeks, President Donald Trump has met with leaders from several industries.On Feb. 9, for instance, he met with aviation leaders, including Dave Bronczek, president and COO of Memphis-based FedEx Corp. During that meeting, the group talked about modernizing air traffic control and reforming the FAA by creating a nonprofit corporation with representatives from the government, general aviation and commercial airlines.More recently, Trump met with leaders in the retail industry,&hel
  
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• Tennessee CEO withdraws nomination as Trump’s labor pick

  16-02-2017 15:22 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Andy Puzder, CEO of the Franklin-based company that owns Hardee’s, has withdrawn his nomination to become President Donald Trump’s labor secretary.Puzder made the withdrawal official in a statement released around 2:45 p.m. Wednesday."While I won't be serving in the administration, I fully support the president and his highly qualified team," Puzder said, according to The Associated Press.Prior to the formal announcement, Puzder's expected withdrawal was widely reported by national m
  
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• Amazon patents fly-by drone package delivery technology (Images)

  16-02-2017 14:21 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Amazon.com Inc. has patented technology that allows delivery drones to deploy packages mid-flight and steer them to their destination on the ground.Fly-by drone delivery would save time and energy by eliminating takeoffs and landings for each package. It's the latest patent to come out of the Seattle-based company's futuristic Prime Air delivery program.Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) filed for the patent in June 2015, describing it as technology for “maneuvering a package following in-flight releas
  
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• T-Mobile CEO suggests he could discuss a merger soon

  16-02-2017 14:19 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  T-Mobile merger talks could begin as soon as April, CEO John Legere suggested on a call with analysts and investors Tuesday.Wireless providers are locked into a quiet period barring executives from discussing potential mergers during the Federal Communications Commission's wireless spectrum auction, which sells off access to the radio waves carrying signals from cell towers to cell phones. The auction is expected to conclude March 30.“Nobody is talking right now,” Legere said. &ldquo
  
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• UTHSC's Altha Stewart named president-elect of American Psychiatric Association

  16-02-2017 13:00 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Dr. Altha Stewart has been named the president-elect of the 37,000-member American Psychiatric Association (APA).Stewart, a native of South Memphis, will be the first African-American to lead the 173-year-old organization, which sets policy, establishes practice guidelines and represents the field of psychiatry nationally and internationally.Stewart will be the fourth consecutive woman to lead the organization. She will begin her tenure as president-elect in May and become president in May 2018.
  
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• 'Sweet' cafe has letter of intent for Universal Life building

  16-02-2017 13:00 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  A former Next Food Network Star finalist is bringing her cuisine Downtown.Aryen Moore-Alston, owner and executive chef of Sweet Potato Baby, is planning to open a Downtown cafe as part of the $6.2 million renovation of the historic Universal Life Insurance Co. building."We filled out a letter of intent to lease the space," Moore-Alston said. "We're waiting on final kitchen design to make sure everything we want can be accommodated in that space."To see rendering of the cafe and other photos,&hel
  
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