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 Talk of a 4G network build-out and iPhone sales dominated Sprint Nextel Corp.’s Wednesday call with investors about fourth-quarter financial results.
But a topic that previously dominated almost every time Sprint CEO Dan Hesse was in front of a microphone barely received a mention during Wednesday’s call: AT&T’s failed attempt to buy T-Mobile USA.
Sprint had vehemently opposed the flopped $39 billion acquisition, which occupied much of the Overland Park-based wireless carrier’s public relations energy last year...
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 AMC Entertainment Inc. said it has expanded an agreement with Fandango by which the online retailer will sell movie tickets to all of AMC’s more than 5,000 screens.
Meanwhile, MovieTickets.com — a Fandango rival and an AMC joint venture — is suing Kansas City-based AMC, claiming that the nation’s second-largest movie theater chain violated an agreement that MovieTickets.com would be AMC’s exclusive reseller.
An AMC spokesman said the company doesn’t comment about pending litigation...
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 Of the nation’s 100 largest labor markets, only 13 have managed to bring job numbers back to where they were before the recession.
Kansas City is among the 87 markets still clawing its way back. The area’s private-sector job count of 807,100 remains nearly 5 percent — 41,300 jobs — less than the pre-recession annual average in 2006.
That puts Kansas City below the median. It ranks 56th in terms of five-year percent change and 79th in terms of five-year change in job numbers, according to an analysis by On Numbers, a blog affiliated with the Kansas City Business Journal...
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Graphic Packaging International Inc. plans to lay off 69 Kansas City employees between April and June.
“This is part of a realignment of our supply-chain footprint,” spokeswoman Cynthia Baerman said. “It just made sense to perform some of this work at other locations because we could do it more efficiently elsewhere.”
She said despite the layoffs, Graphic Packaging’s Kansas City operations will continue to play a vital role. The company signed a seven-year lease in April for 155,000 square feet at Kansas City’s Executive Park, expanding its local finished-goods warehouse operations...
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Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback told legislators that the battle to win a national lab in the state may continue for another five years, The Wichita Eagle reports.
The $650 million National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility is to be located in Manhattan, near the Kansas State University campus, with operations potentially beginning by 2018. However, the project’s construction is not fully funded, and the project continues to face opposition from other venues and those who question the security of the facility...
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Sprint Nextel Corp. reported Wednesday that it sold 1.8 million iPhones in its fourth quarter — 40 percent of which were to new customers, the Kansas City Business Journal reports.
Sprint began selling Apple Inc.’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone on Oct. 14; the Overland Park-based company’s fourth-quarter financial results, also announced Wednesday, marked a full quarter of results for its iPhone offering.
Sprint said that strong revenue growth — 5 percent for the quarter and 3.4 percent for 2011 — partially offset the effect of increased equipment subsidies and expenses tied to the “successful launch of the iPhone...
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Continued strong demand for electronic health record systems helped Cerner Corp. beat Wall Street financial estimates in the fourth quarter.
The North Kansas City-based company (Nasdaq: CERN) on Tuesday reported earning $91.2 million, or 52 cents a share, during the three months that ended Dec. 31. By comparison, the company earned $70.6 million, or 41 cents a share, during the same period a year earlier.
Not counting share-based compensation expenses, Cerner said it would have earned 55 cents a share versus 44 cents during the year-ago period...
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The Art of Shaving will open on Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza in the spring.
The store will open in 747 square feet at 327 W. 47th St. near The Classic Cup. It will feature a “barber spa,” which combines barber services with essential oil facial treatments. It also will sell its line of natural shaving products.
“The Plaza location promises to be the destination for luxury men’s grooming services in the Kansas City area,” store spokesman Damon Jones said in a release.
Store founders Myriam Zaoui and Eric Malka opened their first shop in 1996 and now have more than 60 stores nationwide...
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 Atlantic Engineering Group of Braselton, Ga., is handling electrical work for Google Inc. in Kansas City, Kan., this week as it builds the framework for its ultra-fast Internet network, a Board of Public Utilities spokesman said Tuesday.
But even though the engineering firm isn’t locally based, a Kansas Citian who ran a nearby fiber network is helping lead Atlantic’s efforts.
Paul Rader, also a former Black & Veatch telecommunications engineer, left his job as director of the LiNKCity fiber-optic data network in North Kansas City in March to work for Atlantic...
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 The accountants that performed a forensic audit of the Kansas Bioscience Authority said Tuesday that they’ve given former CEO Tom Thornton’s laptop computer and copies of their analysis of the device to the Johnson County District Attorney’s office.
In a supplemental report to the audit delivered Jan. 23, BKD LLP said its auditors stand by their findings that virtually all of the files on the computer were wiped before Thornton handed it to them in April and that no other hard drives or computers containing documents belonging to Thornton exist...
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 All the pieces are falling into place for Oak Park Mall to debut the Kansas City area’s first Lego Store in the summer.
“Our store at Oak Park Mall will enhance our consumers’ overall Lego brand experience through product variety, store design and regular hands-on family events,” Eric Wolfe, vice president of Lego Group, said in a written statement. “Children and families will be able to experience firsthand and hands-on the creativity and imagination that goes into Lego building and be inspired by the over 4 million Lego bricks that are in the store at any given time...
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The Prairie Village City Council voted 7-3 Monday not to change zoning for the Mission Valley Middle School site.
That’s after council members were asked to consider paying more than $100,000 for consultants to help evaluate amending a comprehensive plan covering the shuttered school site and 22 acres around it.
MVS LLC, a development group that includes RED Development LLC principal Dan Lowe, bought the former Mission Valley Middle School site last year and has been considering redeveloping it into a 335,000-square-foot senior living facility with adjoining retail and office components...
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 Sprint Nextel Corp.’s financial report Wednesday morning should shed some much-anticipated light on the rewards of finally getting its hands on the iPhone.
The results will represent nearly a full quarter of offering Apple Inc.’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) popular iPhone. Overland Park-based Sprint (NYSE: S) began selling the smartphone Oct. 14, joining larger competitors AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) and Verizon Wireless, which already had been in the iPhone game.
Sprint has said it will offer more detailed 2012 financial forecasts based on iPhone sales along with fourth-quarter results...
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A former JE Dunn Construction executive has won a nearly half-million-dollar judgment in a legal fight with his ex-employer.
The Kansas City-based construction company sued R.J. Griffin in April, accusing him of leaking confidential information to a competitor.
Griffin, who sold his Atlanta-based company to JE Dunn in 2000 to become its southeastern division, was fired in December 2010 after JE Dunn found he had given documents to his son and son-in-law, who worked for a competing company in Georgia...
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 Analysts expect Cerner Corp. to report double-digit revenue growth for the fourth quarter in its after-market financial report Tuesday.
The North Kansas City-based medical software developer (Nasdaq: CERN) is expected to report $587 million in fourth-quarter revenue, up 17 percent from a year prior, according to 18 analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters.
UPDATE: Cerner tops Wall Street estimates
Earnings per share are expected to grow by 21 percent to 53 cents. Analyst predictions typically exclude items such as one-time charges...
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