BRIEFCASE GAMEMAKER THQ NAMES DIRECTOR.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services CALABASAS - Gamemaker THQ THQ Toy Headquarters THQ Territorial Headquarters THQ Tehsil Headquarters (Pakistan) THQ The Holy Quran THQ Theater Headquarters Inc. appointed the former chairman of interactive television company Wink Communications to its board of directors Wednesday. Brian Dougherty Brian Dougherty (b. December 10, 1973) of Philadelphia, PA is a lacrosse goaltender. He attended The Episcopal Academy before attending University of Maryland. Dougherty is one of the most decorated and accomplished goaltenders in the history of lacrosse. left Wink, the company he founded in 1995, after selling it to Liberty Media this year. GE obtains FTC FTC See Federal Trade Commission (FTC). OK to buy Bravo 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 - The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday it has given antitrust clearance to General Electric's plans to buy Cablevision Systems Corp.'s Bravo cable network. GE is the parent company of NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. , which announced earlier this month that it was buying Bravo in a $1.25 billion cash and stock deal. In return for its 80 percent stake in Bravo, Cablevision gets about $1 billion in GE stock and about 53.2 million shares of Cablevision Class A common stock presently held by NBC. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., which owns the other 20 percent of Bravo, gets about $250 million in cash. Home starts down but still healthy WASHINGTON - Housing construction lost momentum in October, plunging by 11.4 percent, the biggest drop since 1994. But even with the sharp decline - which came after the level of housing construction shot up to a 16-year high in September - the number of housing units for which builders broke ground in October was still considered to be in the healthy zone. Builders began work on 1.60 million housing units, at a seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Mathematically adjusted by moderating a macroeconomic indicator (e.g., oil prices/imports) so that relative comparisons can be drawn from month to month all year. annual rate, representing a 11.4 percent decline in October from the previous month, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. Fuel-efficiency required of SUVs? NEW YORK - The Bush administration is considering a proposal that would require sport utility vehicles This page lists sports utility vehicles currently in production (as of April 2007), as well as past models. The list includes crossover SUVs, Mini SUVs, Compact SUVs and other similar vehicles. to be more fuel-efficient, according to a report published Wednesday. A proposal drafted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA, often pronounced "nit-suh") is an agency of the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government, part of the Department of Transportation. , which annually establishes fuel-economy standards, suggests raising rates by a total of 1.5 miles a gallon by 2007, The Wall Street Journal reported. The plan was based on data compiled by Detroit's Big Three automakers. Auto makers are required by law to have at least 18 months to make design changes if the agency proposes an increase in fuel-economy standards. HP, Compaq deal working just fine SAN FRANCISCO - Hewlett-Packard Co. on Wednesday delivered a quarterly profit that indicated its contentious $19 billion takeover of Compaq Computer is progressing better than skeptics predicted. The Palo Alto-based company earned $390 million, or 13 cents per share Cents per share The amount of a mutual fund's dividend or capital gains distributions that a shareholder will receive for each share owned. , in the three months ended Oct. 31. If HP and Compaq had been together at the same time last year, the company would have lost $505 million, or 17 cents per share in that year-ago quarter. If not for accounting charges unrelated to HP's ongoing business, the company said it would have earned 24 cents per share. That topped the consensus estimate of 22 cents per share among analysts polled by Thomson First Call. |
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