Business

Ramada Plaza, once Macon’s largest hotel, to be auctioned

The Ramada Plaza, Macon’s major downtown hotel for nearly four decades, is back on the market.

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• Design review board cancels its meeting

• New credit card rules kick in

• Faces and places: Carlyle employees receive professional certifications

• To alcoholic: Employment depends on seeking help

• Tax Guide: New deductions, credits for 2009 returns

• Tax Guide: Understanding homebuyer credit can be trying

• Tax Guide: Energy efficiency can mean lower taxes

• P&Z to revisit retirement complex plan near Bowden Golf Course

• Minding your Business: Digitized, wired and ready

• Midstate high school students explore careers at Perry event

• Geico is largest United Way donor — again

• Fundraising, nonprofit conference to be held Feb. 19

• ‘Ask what you can buy for Vista’

• Tough economy spurs shift to cheaper liquor

TECHNOLOGY

Review: 2K Games' rapturous return to `BioShock'

Rapture used to be a nice place to live. That is, if you didn't mind being at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. And putting up with the occasional rants of its megalomaniacal founder, Andrew Ryan.

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• Maine company to lay 1,100 miles of optic cable

• Clinton trip announced via Twitter

• RealNetworks, MTV to spin off Rhapsody

• Online ad improvement seen in IAC's 4Q loss

• The top 10 singles and albums on iTunes

• Summary Box: IAC indicates online ad improvement

• On the Call: IAC CEO Barry Diller

• Micron to buy Numonyx in $1.3 billion stock deal

• Correction: Atmel earnings story

• Google's e-mail gets social in Facebook face-off

• PayPal's India transaction block could last months

• Warner CEO sees e-book `fracas' as helping music

• Atmel's losses widen; shares climb on better sales

• Summary Box: New attack shows security chip hole

FROM THE BUSINESS WIRES

• Dollar slides on hopes for debt help in Europe

• Stocks jump on hopes for Greece debt rescue

• Obama speaks hopefully of movement on jobs bill

• Toyota seeks damage control, in public and private

• Obama: Energy policy must have some old, some new

• Toyota to recall over 50,000 Prius in Europe

• Wholesale inventories cut 0.8 percent in December

• Despite all the nice talk, partisanship reigns

• Business Highlights

• Obama: joint action can build business confidence

• Orange juice, sugar prices rise on falling supply

• Opel asks European govts for $3.7 billion in loans

• Amgen sees positive data in bone drug study

• Solar Capital shares drop in trading debut

• Rentrak posts 3Q loss on charges

FINANCIAL

• Japan Airlines rejects Delta, stays with American

• Delta, US Airways may drop planned slot swap

• Strong overseas sales put fizz in Coca-Cola's 4Q

• A list of Toyota recalls and the affected vehicles

• Drivers, cars are ill-equipped when panic sets in

• LHC Group announces another acquisition

• UPS: Pilots must agree to more cost savings

• Judge: Pratt can't move jobs out of Conn.

• Beazer Homes posts a $48 million profit for Q1

• Is the US swine flu epidemic over?

• US carriers not planning Haiti flights yet

• Delta may shut Cincinnati crew base, shift flying

• A list of Toyota recalls and the affected vehicles

• Toyota dealers extend hours to fix faulty pedals

• GM Jan. sales rise 14 pct; Toyota sales drop