Ivanhoé Cambridge Acquires 73 Office Buildings in Silicon Valley with Partners TPG and DivcoWest

Montreal, Quebec, March 20, 2013 – Ivanhoé Cambridge continues to develop its U.S. office portfolio and announces an investment in California’s Silicon Valley region through the acquisition of 73 office buildings in partnership with affiliates of TPG and DivcoWest, who jointly led the transaction which closed in late December 2012.

This opportunistic investment provides the partners with immediate access to 6.4 million square feet of leasable space with a very attractive potential long-term return.

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New headquarters provide global analytics software leader with a hub for innovation and development in San Jose, Calif.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – January 4, 2013 – FICO (NYSE: FICO), the leading provider of predictive analytics and decision management technology, today announced that it has relocated its corporate headquarters to San Jose, Calif. from Minneapolis. The new headquarters will serve as an innovation and development hub in the heart of Silicon Valley, enabling the company to continue to take advantage of technology innovations in Big Data and cloud computing, and draw from the region’s deep technology talent pool.

The move brings FICO back to its origins — the company was founded as Fair, Isaac in 1956 by engineer Bill Fair and mathematician Earl Isaac, who met when working on operations research projects at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, Calif. In its early days, the company revolutionized consumer lending through credit scoring, with analytic products such as the FICO® Score, the standard measure of U.S. consumer credit health. Today banks, retailers, insurance companies, government agencies, pharmaceuticals companies, telecommunications firms and many other organizations use FICO analytic software to make better decisions.

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How to travel around the state, conduct business in several cities, and still be home in time for dinner?

Borelli Investment Company recently solved that problem by partnering with Silicon Valley Air Charter – a small plane air taxi service in San Jose. Imagine taking a limo to your sales visits – an “air limo” – departing from the bay area and having you in the far reaches of the state in minutes.

For more information about Bay Area airplane charter – call Silicon Valley Air Charter at 408-599-3205.

From the Wall Street Journal:

Boston Properties Inc. and SL Green Realty Corp. reported stronger-than-expected quarterly earnings, a sign that the nation’s largest office landlords have been able to boost revenue despite tepid job growth.

Boston Properties, which owns office buildings in New York, San Francisco and Boston, reported late Tuesday that fourth-quarter funds from operations, a key profit metric, was $1.21 a share, two cents higher than analysts projected.

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