Archive for November, 2011
Nov 30th, 2011
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Nexstar Broadcasting Group Incorporated - symbol NXST - reported that it has reached a new, multi-year retransmission consent agreement with DISH Network Corporation, the third largest multichannel TV provider in the U.S.
On its third quarter fiscal 2012 financial results, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Incorporated - symbol KKD - posted revenues of $98.7 million, a 9.4% increase year over year and its operating income rose 36.2% to $5.6 million compared to the same period a year ago. The Company has raised its outlook for fiscal 2012
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Nov 30th, 2011
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Tuesday night, Rev. Robert Hoatson, a molestation victims' advocate, said that "there is a fourth victim" of Bernie Fine's. The advocate said the family of the unidentified man, who has been in contact with the District Attorney's office and police, contacted him last week soon after he appeared in Syracuse and had a press conference about the Fine case. Hoatson, a Catholic priest who runs the advocacy group Road to Recovery said, "I was told that there was another victim, a guy who was abused as a teen. He was a young teen when it started."
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Nov 30th, 2011
Groupon Inc's shares increased more than 6 percent on Wednesday after Chief Executive Andrew Mason came up from the company's post-IPO quiet period to share holiday sales numbers.
Groupon sold more than 650,000 holiday deals between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, an rise of 500 percent compared with last year, Mason stated in a blog post on Wednesday.
The largest daily-deal company's shares have been hammered in recent weeks on concern about increased competition. The stock has dropped by nearly half since hitting a high of $31.14 on its November 4 market debut.
Groupon shares rose 6.9 percent to $17.11 in late morning trading on
Nov 30th, 2011
Another purported victim of Oneal Ron Morris, a transgender woman accused of performing many illegal cosmetic procedures, has stepped forward.
Rajee Narinesingh's damaged and misshapen features are still evident over 2 years after she says she received a backroom cosmetic procedure from Morris, who police say performed a number of botched procedures, CBS Miami reports.
Narinesingh told CBS Miami on Monday that she had to end up going to surgery, to get her even to this point, pointing to the disfigurement she still is trying to have reversed.
Morris, 33, was taken into custody over a week ago and charged with practicing medicine with
Nov 30th, 2011
Skyworks to Acquire AnalogicTech for $5.80 Per Share in Cash; Tender Offer to be Commenced within Seven Business Days
Transaction Expected to be Completed in January 2012
WOBURN, Mass & SANTA CLARA, Calif--(CRWENEWSWIRE)-- Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (“Skyworks”) (NASDAQ:SWKS) and Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc. (“AnalogicTech”) (NASDAQ:AATI) today announced that the two companies have amended their previously announced merger agreement. Under the terms of the revised merger agreement, Skyworks will acquire all of the outstanding shares of AnalogicTech for $5.80 per share in cash through a tender offer that Skyworks i
Nov 30th, 2011
Pope Benedict XVI says he supports political actions around the world aimed at eliminating the death penalty, reflecting his stance as an opponent of capital punishment.
Wednesday, he made the comments to participants at a meeting being promoted by the Catholic Sant'Egidio Community on the theme "No Justice without Life."
He said he hoped "your deliberations will encourage the political and legislative initiatives being promoted in a growing number of countries to eliminate the death penalty."
Benedict, like his predecessor Pope John Paul II, has appealed for commutation in a number of death penalty cases.
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Nov 30th, 2011
Third quarter revenues increased 33% to $12.0 million
Third quarter net profit increased 358% to $573,000
Net Profit of $1.6 million for the first nine months of 2011
PETACH-TIKVA, Israel-- (CRWENEWSWIRE) -- Eltek Ltd. (NASDAQ:ELTK), a leading Israeli manufacturer of advanced flex-rigid circuitry solutions, announced today its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2011.
Third Quarter 2011:
Revenues for the quarter ended September 30, 2011 increased 33% to $12.0 million compared to revenues of $9.0 million recorded in the third quarter of 2010.
Gross profit for the third quarter of 2011 increased 75% to $2.4 million
Nov 30th, 2011
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has started a historic visit to the long-isolated Southeast Asian nation of Burma testing the country's first civilian government in decades on its commitment to reform, which includes severing military and nuclear ties with North Korea.
Wednesday Clinton arrived in the capital of Naypyidaw on the first trip by a U.S. secretary of state to the nation also known as Myanmar in over 50 years. She is meeting senior Burmese officials Thursday before going to the commercial capital of Yangon, where she will visit opposition leader and Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who is returning to th
Nov 30th, 2011
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 30, 2011 (CRWENEWSWIRE) -- GLG Life Tech Corporation (Nasdaq:GLGL) (TSX:GLG.TO) ("GLG" or the "Company"), the vertically-integrated leader in the agricultural and commercial development of high quality stevia and all-natural and zero-calorie food and beverage products, is pleased to announce the signing of a renewable five-year product supply agreement with International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. ("IFF") for high-purity Rebaudioside C ("Reb C") extracts.
IFF is a global leader in the creation of flavors and fragrances used in a wide variety of consumer products and packaged goods. The signing of the
Nov 30th, 2011
Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for human consumption after Congress lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections. Activists say slaughterhouses could be up and operating in as little as a month.
Slaughter opponents pushed a measure stopping funding for horse meat inspections through Congress in 2006 after other efforts to pass outright bans on horse slaughter failed in previous years, where now Congress has lifted the ban in a spending bill President Barack Obama signed into law Nov. 18.
However, it did not allocate any new money to pay for horse meat inspections, which opponents claim could cost taxpayers $3
