BRIEFCASE AMGEN'S EXECS CERTIFY ACCOUNTS.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services THOUSAND OAKS Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. - Amgen Inc.'s chairman and chief executive officer, Kevin Sharer, and chief financial officer, Richard Nanula Richard Nanula has served as Chief Financial Officer of Amgen Inc. (biotechnology) since August 2001 and as Executive Vice President since May 2001. On April 10, 2007 Amgen announced that he would be resigning from his position "to pursue other opportunities" He will be at Amgen , have certified the biotechnology giant's financial statements, they said Tuesday. As required under the new federal Sarbanes-Oxley Act See SOX. , today is the deadline for CEOs and CFOs of companies with more than $1.2 billion in annual revenue to certify the accuracy of all corporate financial statements since 2001. Vivendi creates studio for games UNIVERSAL CITY - Vivendi Universal Publishing announced on Tuesday the formation of Black Label Games Inc., a development studio that will publish personal-computer and console-based interactive entertainment products. The studio will develop titles based on original intellectual properties, as well as content licensed from external strategic partners. The first titles coming from Black Label Games will include ``The Thing,'' an action and horror survival game that is a sequel to John Carpenter's 1982 film of the same name, and ``The Lord of The Rings: Fellowship of the Ring,'' based on J.R.R. Tolkien's worldwide best-selling literary saga. Torrie Dorrell, formerly vice president of marketing for Universal Interactive, has been named general manager of Black Label Games. Dorrell will report to Jim Wilson, president of Universal Interactive, who will oversee the new studio in addition to his current responsibilities. More tenants sign at Westside Media Los Angeles-based Kilroy Realty Corp. announced Tuesday that Immortal Entertainment Group leased 24,000 square feet at the Westside Media Center, and the company's own headquarters will occupy 31,000 square feet. Immortal will join Kilroy Realty in the second building of the three- building complex at Olympic Boulevard and Bundy Drive in West Los Angeles
Mark Gordon Productions, the producer of films including ``Saving Private Ryan'' and ``Speed,'' is among other entertainment tenants signed for the building, as are Mercury Media and Waronzoff Associates. Founded in 1992 by CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Happy Walters, Immortal's nine divisions span film, television and music production, talent management and live events. Broke firm forgot celebrities' debts ORLANDO, Fla. - Planet Hollywood International Inc. wrote off $5 million in loans to celebrities and created a tangled web of deals that benefited its top executives and other insiders, an independent review of the bankrupt company shows. The once high-flying restaurant company, which counted Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore and Sylvester Stallone as celebrity backers, is now struggling to emerge from bankruptcy for a second time in two years. The independent examiner's report, ordered by the court at the request of the company's unsecured creditors who are owed $20 million, was filed Monday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court bankruptcy court n. the specialized Federal court in which bankruptcy matters under the Federal Bankruptcy Act are conducted. There are several bankruptcy courts in each state, and each one's territory covers several counties. in Orlando. The names of celebrities who had loans forgiven weren't made public. IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) cutting 5% of jobs: 15,600 NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of - After months of surreptitious SURREPTITIOUS. That which is done in a fraudulent stealthy manner. layoff notices, technology giant IBM Corp. revealed that it's in the process of cutting more than 15,600 jobs, or 5 percent of its work force. The total layoff figures appeared in a Tuesday filing with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission. IBM reported cutting 14,213 jobs from its Global Services unit, along with smaller numbers of workers in its servers and software businesses, and 1,400 in its Microelectronics division, which manufactures semiconductors. United stock hits 20-year-low mark CHICAGO - United Airlines' stock plunged an additional 28 percent to a 20-year low Tuesday, pressured by rival American Airlines' newly announced overhaul and a rare ``sell'' recommendation by a top Wall Street analyst. A day after falling 27 percent in response to US Airways' bankruptcy filing, shares in UAL UAL United Airlines (ICAO code) UAL Unified Accelerator Library (Brookhaven National Laboratory) UAL User Account Lockdown UAL User Access Layer UAL Universal Auxiliary Language UAL User Agent Layer Corp. dropped an additional $1.06 to close at $2.74 in heavy trading on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. . The frenzied selling, spurred by increasing fears of bankruptcy, has wiped out 47 percent of the stock in two days and sent it to its lowest level, adjusting for stock splits, since January 1982. |
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