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SBI Association Management Announces Acquisition of LoBue & Majdalany Association Management

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SEATTLE, WA, February 9, 2022 – SBI Association Management (SBI), a full-service association management company (AMC) headquartered in Seattle, announced today that effective February 1, 2022, it acquired LoBue & Majdalany Association Management (L&M) an AMC based in San Francisco.

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Minimum Wage Law: Franchise Association Files Suit Against Seattle

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The International Franchise Association has followed through with legal action against the city of Seattle over its $15 minimum wage law, which the association says unfairly targets franchisees. The International Franchise Association (IFA) isn’t taking a dramatic increase in Seattle’s minimum wage lying down.

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Florist Society’s Solution to Stress: A Little Flower Power

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This week, SAF kicked off a new campaign with the help of an old Volkswagen bus—christened the “Flower Power Mobile”—in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, home of the 1960s hippie movement. The tour plans stops along the West Coast, including Portland, Oregon, and Seattle.

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Why High-Tech is High(er) on the List for Meeting Planners

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And if you are thinking that focusing on a city’s tech scene narrows your options to a few places—San Francisco, Seattle, New York, or Boston—think again. Indianapolis is now Saleforce’s largest presence outside of its San Francisco headquarters. It’s a more relevant question than you might think.

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CompTIA Study Finds Tech Hubs Where You Wouldn’t Expect Them

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Yes, you’re probably aware that San Francisco or Seattle are tech hotbeds, but what about Huntsville, Alabama, or Lansing, Michigan? Even though they cost more to live in, median salaries are also much higher than in smaller regions; San Francisco’s $110,000 median salary is $43,000 more than Lansing’s $67,000 median.

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Pi Day Hits a Landmark Anniversary for Number Crunchers and Pastry Lovers

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About that physicist: Larry Shaw, who worked at the San Francisco Exploratorium, a nonprofit science museum, came up with the idea in 1988 , inspired by the fact that the date matched the first three digits of Pi, 3.14, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Local groups are getting their event on, too.

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Bay Area Design Nonprofit Wins Support from Tech Giants

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The Inneract Project , a group that offers design education resources to underserved communities in the San Francisco Bay Area, revealed to TechCrunch that two major tech firms, Facebook and Autodesk, would offer financial support to the group, allowing it to add new full-time and part-time employees.