Expo launched for help desk professionals
(5/8/2008)
Colorado Springs, CO-based HDI, a company and membership association for help desk and IT service and support professionals, is launching the HDI 2008 Service Management Conference and Expo, Oct. 15-17, 2008, at the InterContinental Hotel in Miami, FL.
Leadership leaves Pulvermedia (5/6/2008) Pulvermedia Founder Jeff Pulver and the rest of the Pulvermedia management team, including President and CEO Jason Chudnofsky and Carl Ford, Vice President of Content and Community, have all left the company. The company's financial backer, TICC Capital Corp., has taken over the company's assets.
Wynn to build new Las Vegas exhibit space (5/2/2008) Stephen Wynn, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Las Vegas-based Wynn Resorts, Limited, revealed plans to build a more than 1.6 million-square-foot meeting and convention space on the company's golf course property in Las Vegas. Plans for the property include adding two new hotels with approximately 2,600 rooms each, expanding the property's room count to 10,000.
Hanley Wood acquires The TFM Show (5/1/2008) Washington, DC-based business-to-business media company Hanley Wood LLC has acquired The TFM Show, a trade show for senior facility management executives (held April 22-24 at Navy Pier in Chicago), from Group C Communications Inc., a Tinton Falls, NJ-based media company.
Thomas Kemp forms new business media company (4/30/2008) Thomas Kemp, former Managing Director of media industry private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson, has launched Oakstreet Media LLC, a New Canaan, CT-based company that will seek to acquire media properties in the business media and information markets.
