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According to the ruling brought by the US Supreme Court employers have the right to check text messages, including personal ones, sent by workers if they have reason to believe that workplace rules are being violated.

An obsessive World of Warcraft player is suing the makers of the game for ruining his life, quoth a gleeful Grauniad this week.

 Though clearly affected by an anemic job market and a two-year drop in housing values, the majority of Californians are nonetheless optimistic about the future of the state, according to the Citi California Pulse™, a new quarterly survey released today by Citibank. 

 Paymate, an innovative provider of Internet payment services, announced today that Mr. Garrett Gafke has been named Chief Executive Officer. Gafke, who was appointed to Paymate's Board of Directors in January 2009, succeeds Mr. Dilip Rao, Paymate's founder and founding Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Rao was named President. The new executive appointments are effective immediately. 

California Bank & Trust (CB&T), a subsidiary of Zions Bancorporation, has completed the conversion of the former Alliance Bank accounts and buildings into California Bank & Trust. It has integrated more than 6,000 deposit accounts of former Alliance Bank following its acquisition of Alliance Bank from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in February 2009.