Wisconsin’s affordable housing agency says it will resume lending to first-time home buyers after suspending loans for 17 months. Read the original here: WHEDA Bringing Back First-Time Home Buyer Loans (CBS 5 Green Bay)

The government has approved spending Bt3 billion on a project to provide low-income earners with lowinterest housing loans this year. Originally posted here: Bt3 bn earmarked to provide housing loans to working poor (The Nation – Thailand’s English news)

The Viennese pride themselves on having turned back the Ottoman invasion of Europe at the city’s gates after a famous 1529 siege. But these days there’s a new threat coming from the East: billions of dollars in potentially bad loans Austrian banks gave out to their former Communist neighbors. Read the rest here: Austria bankers fear wave of bad loans tied to Eastern Europe (The Christian Science...

WYOMISSING, PA & KANSAS CITY, Kan.—-Kansas Entertainment, LLC, a 50/50 joint venture of Penn Hollywood Kansas, Inc, a subsidiary of Penn National Gaming, Inc. and Kansas Speedway Development Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of International Speedway Corporation , today announced that it has received the final approval under the Kansas Expanded Lottery Act along with its gaming license...

Filed under: Biz The Entertainment Software Association continues to expand its membership to smaller game publishers. This week the US video game trade group announced that Deep Silver and Slang have joined the organization. Deep Silver has been publishing games such as the recent RPG title Risen since 2002. Slang is a new console-based publisher who won’t release its first game until summer...

LOS ANGELES – Metatron Inc. today announced that its i-Mobilize subsidiary has signed a licensing deal with Infinity Entertainment Group (IEG) to distribute entertainment content for the revolutionary new iPad, as well as the iPhone, iTouch and other mobile applications. Continue reading here: i-Mobilize Signs Licensing Agreement With Infinity Entertainment Group (dBusinessNews.com)