2/4/10

• PG&E says raccoons caused power outage
• Acquisitions/Offerings/Dividends/Financials/Contracts: --- Network Equipment Technologies Acquires "SmartSIP" Product Line From Evangelyze Communications --- McClatchy sweetens bond buyback offer --- BioMarin to Acquire LEAD Therapeutics ---
• Quarterly Earnings Reports & Financials Northrop Grumman --- KLA-Tencor --- Illumina --- ResMed --- Edwards Lifesciences --- NetSuite --- Essex Proptery Trust ---
• Corporate Actions: Midea Group Selects Riverbed to Accelerate Application Performance in Centralized IT Environment --- Sequenom Announces Launch of SensiGene Fetal RHD Genotyping Test --- VOX Amps Up New Designs with Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Showcase Software --- Aerojet’s rocketry boosts bottom line at GenCorp Inc. --- Allergan Lowers Q1 Outlook, Tepid on 2010 --- XenoPort Announces Horizant(TM) as Brand Name for XP13512 --- BioMarin Announces 2010 Guidance --- Allergan Lowers Q1 Outlook, Tepid on 2010 --- Essex Provides 2010 G uidance ---
• Boards, Meetings and Personnel: --- Certification Magazine Poll Shows Brocade Certified Network Engineers (BCNEs) Are Highest Paid in the Industry --- Cisco to hire new employees in the coming months --- AOL taps another Google exec --- Gymboree changes CFOs ---
• Awards, Products & Shows: Jack in the Box(R) Launches New Product Platform in Super Bowl Ad; Chain Debuts Two Varieties of Grilled Sandwiches Served on Artisan Bread --- EA Welcomes Players to Hell with the Release of Dante's Inferno --- BC Interactive Task Force Welcomes Proposed BC Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit For Video Game Development ---
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• Justice Kennedy laments the state of prisons in California, U.S.
• State offers tax payment plans
• Furlough end run vs. new jobs
• California to help in purchasing of heavy-duty hybrid trucks and buses
• Speed-camera proposal stalls - GOVERNOR’S PLAN TO RAISE CASH A BAD IDEA, LEGISLATORS SAY
• Poll: Voters say technology industry is at core of California's recovery
• The Big 5 power grab: A bad way to make state budgets
• Dropping holidays was legal, judge rules - STATE UNION WANTED TO KEEP OLD TERMS
• LAO says budget cuts will come with legal battles
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• Macerich Declares Quarterly Dividend on Common Shares of $.60 Per Share Payable 10% in Cash and 90% in Shares
• Foreclosure rate soars in Stockton
• Gap Inc. Reports January Sales
• Edwards 4th-quarter profit rises 25%
• Ross Stores Reports January 2010 Same Store Sales Gain of 8%
• ResMed second-quarter earnings up 36%
• EA's Groundbreaking Franchise The Sims Turns Ten
• Soaring cost of healthcare sets a record
• Heartland Payment Systems and Visa Inc. Announce Acceptance Rate of Over 97% for Data Security Breach Settlement Agreement
• Compiled NYSE News Featuring Index Listed Corporations note: you'll logging into our sister site
• Dow dips below 10,000 mark on eurozone debt, jobs data
• HP must pay $315 million to BSkyB
• Google to enlist NSA to ward off attacks: Firm won't share user data, sources say
• PG&E converted coal plant deal approved
• PG&E gets approval for renewable energy pact
• Cisco bucks tech stocks' tumble
• Justice Kennedy laments the state of prisons in California, U.S.
• Network Equipment acquires SmartSIP line
• Oracle axes two Sun projects
• Apple app previews available to browsers
• Sun CEO hits the tweets with exit haiku

2/3/10

• Murdoch: iPad 'unloved and unsold' without content
• Acquisitions/Offerings/Dividends/Financials/Contracts: --- CKE Restaurants(R), Inc. Reports Period Thirteen Same-Store Sales --- Ducommun Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend --- Ducommun Announces Award of $2.3 Million Electromechanical Assembly Contract with Raytheon --- Ducommun Announces New Contract Award to Support NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) Program --- Broadcom Declares Quarterly Dividend --- Broadcom to Gain EPON Technology With Acquisition of Teknovus ---
• Quarterly Earnings Reports & Financials Health Net --- GenCorp --- Visa --- NOVELLUS SYSTEMS --- Broadcom --- Cisco --- Occidental Petroleum --- Standard Pacific Corp. --- Dolby --- CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. ---
• Corporate Actions: Lightower Expanding Services to Equinix NY4 Data Center --- McAfee, Inc. Announces McAfee Security Quickstart Services for Small and Medium-Size Businesses --- Crop Quest Selects Symantec for Data Security and Management --- Salesforce.com Raises the Stakes for Enterprise Cloud Computing Platforms With New Force.com Visual Process Manager --- McClatchy increases buy-back offering ---
• Boards, Meetings and Personnel: --- Cisco to Introduce Melissa Hathaway in New Security Advisory Role --- Riverbed Appoints Michael Boustridge to Board of Directors --- Applied Materials execs charged in tech theft ---
• Awards, Products & Shows: DICE Invites PlayStation 3 Gamers to Get into the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Demo on February 4 --- Friends Like You Like TurboTax --- EA SPORTS Predicts New Orleans Saints Defeat Indianapolis Colts, 35-31, at Super Bowl XLIV Using Madden NFL 10 on Xbox 360 --- Broadcom is First to Market With the Industry's Lowest Power 40nm 10GBASE-T PHYs ---
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• Judge: State is within its rights in eliminating two holidays
• Dan Walters: As feds stiff state, budget crisis deepens
• California's credit rating? On par with Libya and Estonia
• California sets up statewide network to monitor global-warming gases
• California revokes record number of real estate licenses
• Delays could cost state $93 million in federal grants
• California constitutional convention backers allege blacklist attempts
• California had 10,000 job cuts in January
• Federal Funding For High Speed Train Falls Far Short of Rail Authority Expectations
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• Delays could cost state $93 million in federal grants
• Ducommun Announces Award of $2.3 Million Electromechanical Assembly Contract with Raytheon
• Health Net Reports Adjusted1 Fourth Quarter 2009 Net Income of $72.4 Million, or $0.69 Per Diluted Share
• CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. Reports Earnings Per Share of $0.28 for the Fourth Quarter and $0.39 for the Full Year 2009
• CKE Restaurants(R), Inc. Reports Period Thirteen Same-Store Sales
• Visa Inc. earns $763 million in Q1
• Acacia wins $12.4M patent judgment against Yahoo
• Monster pays Yahoo $225M for HotJobs
• Compiled NYSE News Featuring Index Listed Corporations note: you'll logging into our sister site
• Dow, S&P end lower as Pfizer, Obama reforms weigh
• New Research Reveals 'Faux Paws' at Feline Mealtime
• British Business Counting Pennies, Not Carbon
• Alejandro Fernandez, Joan Sebastian, and Marco Antonio Solis Announce LOS TRES TOUR (Live Nation)
• EA SPORTS Predicts New Orleans Saints Defeat Indianapolis Colts, 35-31, at Super Bowl XLIV Using Madden NFL 10 on Xbox 360
• Etex Offers Triple Play via Fiber to the Home to Rural Texas over Brocade IP Network
• Ducommun Announces New Contract Award to Support NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) Program
• Inflation threat shouldn't derail your asset allocation for bonds
• Study: Mortgage payments lag as consumers pay credit cards instead
• Adobe to Apple: Tear down the walls
• Apple, others asked about China Web policies
• Caps, No Caps: The Number of Medical Malpractice Suites is Down Either Way