BRIEFCASE GOZING DOES DEAL FOR DOWNLOADS.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services ENCINO - goZing Surveys announced a partnership with Roxio Inc. on Wednesday, allowing it to offer free downloads from the Napster service. The marketing company will use the music tracks as an incentive to get users to complete online surveys, offering the tracks in place of a financial reward. goZing hopes the deal will allow it to attract more survey respondents in the 18-to-25 year-old demographic and expects up to 20,000 downloads within the first 90 days. L.A. near bottom in credit scores IRVINE - Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. ranks 17th out of 20 American metropolitan areas in the average credit score for its residents, Irvine-based Experian Consumer Direct reported Wednesday. Lenders use the scores to determine a potential borrower's creditworthiness Creditworthiness The condition in which the risk of default on a debt obligation by that entity is deemed low. Creditworthiness Eligibility of an individual or firm to borrow money. . According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the credit reporting service, Minneapolis has the top ranking of any city on Experian's National Score Index. Residents there averaged a credit ranking of 707 out of a possible 830. Boston residents have an average credit ranking of 693, compared with 667 in Los Angeles, which is 11 points under the U.S. average, according to Experian. At 653, Dallas has the lowest average score of any major U.S. city. Revenue offset by charges at CKE CKE Clock Enable (memory signal) CKE Carl Karcher Enterprises, Inc. (restaurant chain) CKE Certified Kitchen Design Educator CKE Catia Knowledge Engineering CKE Content and Knowledge Engineering CARPINTERIA - The latest quarter's loss at CKE Restaurants Inc., the parent of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's, widened as charges offset a 9 percent increase in total revenue. In a press release Wednesday, the restaurant group posted a loss of $51.2 million, or 86 cents a share, for the fiscal fourth quarter ended Jan. 26. Last year, the fourth-quarter loss was $7.7 million, or 13 cents a share. Excluding goodwill and charges related to restaurant closings, CKE's loss was $500,000, or a penny a share, for the latest fourth quarter. Genentech rings up solid profits SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden - Biotechnology company Genentech Inc.'s yearlong year·long adj. Lasting one year. Adj. 1. yearlong - lasting through a year; "attending yearlong courses" long - primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or hot streak continued Wednesday when it reported robust profits for the first quarter while its newest cancer drug Avastin rang up better-than-expected sales since its launch earlier this year. The results, released after the stock market closed Wednesday, beat analysts' expectations. CalPERS to hold back board votes 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 $165 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System, continuing a campaign for better corporate governance Corporate Governance The relationship between all the stakeholders in a company. This includes the shareholders, directors, and management of a company, as defined by the corporate charter, bylaws, formal policy, and rule of law. , has decided to withhold its votes for Morgan Stanley  To comply with Wikipedia's , the introduction of this article needs a complete rewrite. board directors at the investment bank's annual meeting on April 20. The reason is that Morgan Stanley won't hold board elections each year. Shareholder proposals to adopt annual elections received a majority vote of support in 2002 and 2003. In 1999 and 2000, similar proposals were voted down. This year, the proposal is again on the ballot. ``We feel strongly that if a majority of shareholders has advised a company to do something, the board has a moral obligation to do it,'' CalPERS spokeswoman Pat Macht said. ``Any time we see companies that fail to respond to shareholders' cry for action, we're going to vote against that board.'' Morgan Stanley declined to comment on CalPERS' move. |
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