BRIEFCASE CHAD TAPS YAGER FOR CEO POSITION.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services CHATSWORTH - Earl L. Yager assumed the mantle of chief executive officer of CHAD Therapeutics Inc. on Thursday, the highest-profile post he's held in more than 20 years with the oxygen products manufacturer. He takes over from Thomas E. Jones, who'll remain as chairman of the board. Yager had been chief financial officer since he joined the company in 1983, as well as president since the beginning of 2003 and secretary since 1988. He'll continue in the presidency, while Tracy Kern will take over as CFO See Chief Financial Officer. and the secretary position will be filled later. Yager, a San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. resident since 1949, attended Birmingham High School Birmingham High School is a public coeducational high school in the neighborhood/district of Lake Balboa in the San Fernando Valley section of the city of Los Angeles, California. The school is a part of District One of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). and graduated from California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , with a bachelor's of science degree in accounting in 1968. 321 Studios files appeals of rulings ST. LOUIS - A maker of DVD-copying products said Thursday it has appealed court rulings in California and 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 that it stop making and marketing its software. The company, 321 Studios Inc. based in suburban St. Louis, filed the appeals in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in California and the 2nd U.S. Circuit appellate court in New York. Federal judges in both states recently ordered 321 to stop marketing the software after Hollywood studios contended that it violates the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law which implements two 1996 WIPO treaties. It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services that are used to measures that control access to copyrighted works (commonly . That law bars circumvention of anti- piracy measures used to protect DVDs. Messages left Thursday with the Motion Picture Association of America were not immediately returned. Hearings are scheduled April 13 in the New York case and June 18 in the California matter. Reed will stay on as NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange chairman NEW YORK - The interim chairman of 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. , former Citigroup chief executive John Reed, will remain in the job for at least another year, the exchange confirmed Thursday. The rest of the board of directors will likely remain as well. The NYSE's board of directors, meeting Thursday, decided to postpone the addition of any new members until April 2005. The board had put out an open call for nominations to the board in March, but with more than 110 people nominated, the board wanted to take its time in finalizing a slate of new nominees. Automakers see March sales hikes DETROIT - General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. posted U.S. sales increases in March, as did two of Japan's biggest car manufacturers, but the uptick in business wasn't enough to keep GM and Ford from raising consumer incentives to lure more customers. Industrywide, U.S. sales rose 3.8 percent in March versus a year ago, a jump largely anticipated because of depressed results last March when many people delayed major purchases and watched the war with Iraq on television. |
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