Western Union CEO, Hikmet Ersek, discusses his company’s recently announced $1.2 billion share buyback program, the new ApplePay partnership, and the importance of female immigrants to the money transfer business in an exclusive interview with TheStreet’s Janet Al-Saad. 
Following Los Angeles, Turkish Airlines adds its 2nd destination in California and 11th in the Americas by inaugurating flights to San Francisco. Beginning on April, 13th 2015, San Francisco flights will be operated 5 times per week on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays in both directions. 
Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ:MXIM),The Director officer (PRESIDENT, CEO & DIRECTOR) of Maxim Integrated Products Inc, Doluca Tunc sold 16,800 shares at $36 on March 6, 2015. The Insider selling transaction had a total value worth of $604,800. The Insider information was disclosed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in a Form 4 filing. 
Turkey’s Culture and Tourist Office in New York, and agency M. Silver/A Division of Finn Partners, have won Gold in the prestigious Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) Adrian Awards. Announced at the Adrian Awards Gala at the New York Marriott Marquis on February 23, 2015, the recognition for a major feature cover story in Travel + Leisure brings Turkey a total of five gold awards awarded over the past five years, highlighting the effectiveness of M. Silver’s ongoing public relations program for the country. 
The Bridge Careers in Finance, the first job board in Turkey dedicated to the finance sector, talked to Cenk Aydin, Founder & Managing Partner, Halikarnas Financial Services and Advisory about his goals, plans and achievements. You’ve had a long successful corporate and investment banking career both in Wall Street and London. What has prompted you to start a new firm, Halikarnas Financial Services & Advisory from scratch in Istanbul? .
For 30 minutes after practice on Thursday night, Rudy Gobert worked with head coach Quin Snyder underneath a basket away from the remainder of the Utah Jazz. There, coach and player went through almost every move of the interior offensive playbook, including jump hooks, drop steps in the lane and 10-foot jumpers.
Not long after a branch of Turkish cafe chain Simit Sarayı opened in New York City, a historic and famous köfte (a traditional meat dish) seller, Tarihi Sultanahmet Köftecisi Selim Usta, has attempted to commence operations in the US, suggesting that growing foreign demand for Turkish food products has attracted local Turkish companies in recent years. 
On February 5, 2015, the California Department of Corrections Parole Board denied Hampig Sassounian release on parole, because he continues to pose a public safety risk due to his violent extremism in advocating the Armenian allegation of genocide. This was Sassounian's fourth parole denial in ten years.
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has completed acquisition of a UK- and Germany-based aircraft company, 328 Support Services GmbH (328), owner of the type certificate and intellectual property (IP) rights for design, manufacturing, maintenance and certification of the 200 existing Dornier 328 (D328) prop and jet aircraft. In addition, SNC holds IP rights and supplemental type certificates (STCs) for modernization technologies that allow the Dornier 328 aircraft to be used by the U.S. for multi-mission applications ranging from transport and cargo to surveillance and medical use. 
The domestic cyber security systems developed by Comodo, which gained fame for the online security solutions they built for U.S. President Barack Obama's election campaign websites, will be exported to the world, according to Comodo's founder Melih Abdulhayaoğlu. "We have 13,000 business partners in the world. Our new product, Korugan, is currently being exported to Germany. We are planning to reach out to the rest of the world as well," Abdulhayaoğlu said in an interview with Turkish magazine Ekonomist. 
By Zach Dyer- President Luis Guillermo Solís and Muhtar Kent, CEO of U.S. soft-drink giant Coca-Cola, met at Casa Presidencial Wednesday morning to discuss the company’s expansion here and an initiative to incorporate more diverse producers into the company’s supply chain. 
Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) Space Systems and OHB System AG (OHB) announce the completion of the initial Dream Chaser® for European Utilization (DC4EU) study co-funded by the Space Administration of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and OHB. OHB and DLR are both based in Germany. As announced by the companies in late 2013, SNC and OHB entered into an agreement to study the feasibility of using SNC’s Dream Chaser spacecraft for a variety of missions. The DC4EU study thoroughly reviewed applications for the Dream Chaser including crewed and uncrewed flights to low-Earth orbit (LEO) for missions such as microgravity science, satellite servicing and active debris removal (ADR). 
Jazz at Lincoln Center plans to renovate the public spaces in Frederick P. Rose Hall, its home in the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle. The project will commence in July, with an estimated cost of $18.5 million and a scheduled completion of December, according to an announcement to be made on Thursday. The redesign comes a decade after the opening of Rose Hall, known internally as the House of Swing, a roughly $130 million performing arts complex hailed at the time as an unprecedented achievement for any jazz organization. Since then there have been thousands of events in the hall’s three main rooms — the 1,233-seat Rose Theater, the glass-faced Appel Room (formerly the Allen Room), and Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola — and the facility has become a prominent feature on the cultural landscape of New York City. 
Yogurt company Chobani is expanding its space nearly threefold and getting the test kitchen of its dreams in a move from one Soho building to another, General Growth Properties’ 200 Lafayette Street. The rest of the building is occupied by J.C. Penney, which is giving up the top two floors to make way for Chobani. For the past three years, the yogurt maker has been in 11,500 square feet at 72 Spring Street, and will expand its square footage to 33,560 with the move to the sixth and seventh floors of the new building, the New York Post reported. 
