Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minn.) | April 23, 2008
- Apr. 23--LendingTree, the popular online lending exchange, is contacting customers nationally about a security breach involving loan request forms submitted on the Web from late 2006 through early this year.
- According to an alert LendingTree e-mailed a Twin Cities customer Monday, former LendingTree employees slipped passwords to a handful of mortgage lenders to access customer files.
- The files contained names, addresses, telephone numbers, Social Security numbers, employment and incomes, but not credit card numbers, the April 21 notice said.
The Daily Oklahoman | April 22, 2008
- Apr. 22--One day in 1999, Dr. David Albert responded to the annoying "chirp" made by a smoke detector in his Oklahoma City home by replacing the failing battery.
- When he tested the new battery and the smoke detector emitted the high-frequency alarm that would sound in the event of a fire, serendipity happened.
- Down in the basement of his Crown Heights home, Albert's then-14-year-old daughter, Kathryn, noticed that the smoke detector alarm caused a blip in a wireless device that her father had developed for monitoring patient vital signs in hospitals.
MARKET WIRE | April 23, 2008
- PowerDirect, an innovator in door hanger advertising, today announced their introduction of PowerShopper (Comprador Poderoso), a new, monthly, bilingual door hanger.
- Spanish on one side and English on the other, the new PowerShopper door hanger will leverage PowerDirect's sophisticated targeting capabilities to pinpoint Hispanic consumers with highly specific behaviors and profiles in major U.S. Hispanic markets.
- "The PowerShopper door hanger is divided into five 5.5"x2.5" coupons," says Ed Dryden, Sales Director.
PrimeNewswire | April 22, 2008
- NEW YORK, April 22, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- The DIRECTV Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:DTV) of El Segundo, California, will become a component of the NASDAQ-100 Index(r) (Nasdaq:NDX) and the NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index (Nasdaq:NDXE) prior to market open on Wednesday, April 30, 2008.
- The DIRECTV Group, Inc. will replace BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BEAS).
- With a market capitalization of approximately $29.5 billion, The DIRECTV Group, Inc. is a provider of digital television entertainment services in the United States and Latin America.
Business Wire | April 22, 2008
- The average U.S. household reports spending $1,405 on consumer electronics products in the past 12 months, $120 more than the year before, according to new research released today by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)®.
- The 10th Annual Household CE Ownership and Market Potential Study shows that HDTVs will have the highest growth in household penetration rates this year.
- Multi-functional devices are one reason why the average number of consumer electronics (CE) products is down slightly, from 25 products in 2007 to 24 in 2008.
Business Wire | April 23, 2008
- DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIVX), a technology company, today announced that the company has made significant progress extending the DivX CertificationTM program to digital televisions from a variety of manufacturers that will enable consumers to easily enjoy high-quality video they create on their PC or discover on the Internet from the comfort of the home theater.
- Various models also enable content to be streamed directly from Internet services.
- By working with these major chip providers, DivX continues to emerge as a prominent digital video standard with significant market presence for next generation entertainment across digital televisions.
Associated Press | April 22, 2008
- WASHINGTON--The top U.S. government communications official, Kevin Martin, said Tuesday there is no need for new regulation of the Internet, saying his agency has all the authority it needs to prevent discrimination by Internet service providers.
- The FCC has conducted two hearings on "network management" following admissions by Comcast Corp. that it sometimes delayed file-sharing traffic for subscribers as a way to keep Web traffic flowing.
- The hearing was called at a time when the issue of "network neutrality" _ the principle that people should be able to go where they choose on the Internet without interference from network owners _ has heated up.
Chicago Tribune | April 22, 2008
- Apr. 22--Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has an agreement in principle to acquire control of Tribune Co.'s Long Island, N.Y.-based daily newspaper, Newsday, sources said late Monday.
- While the sources cautioned terms were not yet final, the complex transaction would have Tribune Co., led by Chairman Sam Zell, selling a majority of the paper to News Corp. for about $580 million, with the deal structured in a way designed to reduce Tribune's taxable capital gains.
- Tribune Co. would retain a small stake in the Melville, N.Y., paper and "some of the pieces," including the paper's real estate, a source said.