LOS ANGELES—-A Squared Entertainment , a full-service brand entertainment company, today announced its partnership with the world’s only make your own stuffed animal retail entertainment experience, Build-A-Bear Workshop . Read this article: A Squared Entertainment (A2) Partners with Global Children’s Company Build-A-Bear Workshop (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

SAN DIEGO, CA–(Marketwire – February 8, 2010) – ubroadcast, inc. ( OTCBB : UBCI ), the fastest growing leader in Internet Broadcasting, announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, ubroadcast Entertainment Group, is working in collaboration with its Talent and Literary agency, Don Buchwald and Associates ( www.buchwald.com ), for the creation and launch of a new … Continued...

Move comes as IMF predicts global Islamic finance assets to exceed $1 trillion by 2016. More here: Deloitte to base Islamic finance centre in Bahrain (Arabian Business)

FIRST-CLASS airline travel will increasingly become a luxury of the past in the wake of the global financial crisis, an aviation expert said yesterday. Excerpt from: First class travel in the past (Adelaide Now)

Business New Brunswick Minister Victor Boudreau is welcoming Canada’s exemption from the protectionist “Buy American” policy that was attached to the massive U.S. stimulus package. Originally posted here: ‘Buy American’ deal good: N.B. business minister (CBC New Brunswick)

Citigroup seeks to sell USD 3 bn worth of car loans: ReportCitigroup seeks to sell USD 3 bn worth of car loans: Report See more here: Citigroup seeks to sell USD 3 bn worth of car loans: Report (The Economic Times)