BRIEFCASE BRANDT PRESIDENT OF WMC MORTGAGE.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services WOODLAND HILLS - WMC WMC Winter Music Conference WMC Weill Medical College (Cornell University) WMC Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (Madison, WI) WMC Westchester Medical Center WMC Western Mining Corporation Mortgage Corp., a wholesale, non-prime lender, announced Monday that its board of directors appointed Amy Brandt as president. Brandt had served as WMC's head of production since the company's transformation to a technology-based wholesale lending platform in March 2000. During her tenure, volume has grown tenfold to more than $550 million per month. Diodes Inc. gives Liu new position WESTLAKE VILLAGE - Diodes Inc., a supplier of discrete semiconductors, announced Monday that Joseph Liu Joseph P. Liu is an associate professor at Boston College Law School. He has published a number of papers and articles on the subjects of intellectual property law, law and the internet, and internet regulation. Biography Liu was born in Seattle, Washington. has been promoted to senior vice president of operations. He continues to serve as president and a director of Diodes-China and president of Diodes-FabTech. Liu joined Diodes in 1990 as part of a new management team. In that time, the company has increased revenue at a compound annual growth rate of more than 20 percent. TiVo, Gemstar end their court battle SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. - TiVo Inc. and Gemstar-TV Guide International Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. is a media company that licenses interactive program guide technology to multichannel operators, such as cable and satellite television providers, and consumer electronics manufacturers, video recorder scheduling code under brands such as VCR Inc. said Monday they ended a court battle over the interactive program guide used in TiVo's digital video recorder See DVR. . TiVo will license a patent on the program guide from Gemstar-TV Guide, which will also provide branded content Branded Content, also known as Branded entertainment and Advertainment, is a relatively new form of advertising medium that blurs conventional distinctions between what constitutes advertising and what constitutes entertainment. to the guide. Terms of the agreement weren't disclosed, but both companies said the agreement won't change their financial forecasts. Short-term T-bill rates at new low WASHINGTON - Interest rates on short-term Treasury securities fell in Monday's auction, with rates on six-month bills dropping to their lowest level on record. The Treasury Department sold $18 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 1.005 percent, down from 1.110 percent last week. An additional $18 billion was sold in six-month bills at a rate of 0.980 percent, down from 1.095 percent. Lou Dobbs Lou Dobbs (born September 24 1945), is the CNN anchor and managing editor for Lou Dobbs Tonight. He is also an editorial columnist and syndicated radio show host. Lou Dobbs Tonight attracts CNN's second-largest audience after Larry King Live drops 'Moneyline' title 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 more than 20 years, CNN's Lou Dobbs is retiring the name of ``Moneyline.'' His nightly news show isn't going anywhere, nor is it changing much, but beginning next Monday, it will be known as ``Lou Dobbs Tonight Lou Dobbs Tonight is an editorial and discussion program on CNN, anchored by journalist Lou Dobbs, who is also its managing editor. The hour-long show is aired live on evenings every weekday, and repeated later at night. .'' It airs weeknights at 6 p.m. EST for an hour. The ``Lou Dobbs Moneyline'' title ``connoted, for too many viewers, a market services show, which it has never been,'' Dobbs said Monday. The new name better conveys the show's broader focus, he said. Deal for Veridian put at $1.2 billion FALLS CHURCH, Va. - General Dynamics Corp. plans to acquire defense contractor Veridian Corp. for $1.23 billion in cash, adding a company with more than $1 billion in annual revenues to its portfolio. The agreement announced Monday also calls for General Dynamics to assume $270 million in debt, pushing the total value of the deal to $1.5 billion. Veridian, which anticipates sales of $1.2 billion in 2003, draws 85 percent of its revenues from contracts with the Pentagon and intelligence agencies. |
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