IBM has released a number of updates to its performance management software, promising to help chief financial officers get a better grasp of business analytics. Read the original here: IBM updates Cognos business analytics tools (V3.co.uk via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Today, Miami. Port Directors Jose Abreu and Bill Johnson will brief Miami-Dade’s international business community on the economic impact of Miami International Airport and the Port of Miami in 2009, at a luncheon seminar. See more here: Today’s business event State-of-the-Ports briefing (Sun-Sentinel)

Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama’s nomination of union lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board is on the verge of collapse after U.S. business groups successfully pressured lawmakers to stall the nomination. Read the original: Obama Choice for Labor Board Blocked as Business Groups Lobby (Bloomberg via Yahoo! News)

Discovery Communications Inc. reported a rise in quarterly profit on Wednesday on the back of strong distribution revenue and advertising sales in its international TV business. View post: Discovery profit up with international business (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

&$ &$The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China vows it will not issue new loans to developers who seek to speculate on rising property prices through “hoarding land” or “putting off home sales” and may also call back earlier credit to such borrowers. [China Daily] &$ &$ The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) said yesterday it would apply stricter...

State Sen. Raymond G. Lesniak and five other directors of an Elizabeth bank that collapsed last year borrowed more than $2 million in mortgages and commercial loans from the thrift, records show. Go here to read the rest: Lesniak, other insiders got loans at failed bank (The Record and Herald News)