Small Business Makeover: Machinery parts exporter gears up for changes
In the 1970s, Veronica Le-Bert’s father and brothers started a business exporting parts for the massive mining machinery that excavates copper, gold, lithium and other minerals in South America and the Caribbean. For 13 years, Le-Bert International chugged along as a family-run company, becoming a well known name in the industry. Then George Le-Bert decided […]
FCC Grudgingly Hangs Up On LightSquared Over GPS Concerns
LightSquared suffered a potentially fatal blow today after the Federal Communications Commission said it would indefinitely suspend the company’s license to turn on a combined satellite/terrestrial communications network because it would interfere with GPS systems operating on neighboring radio bands. The FCC had little choice after the National Telecommunications and Information Administration concluded there was no […]