BRIEFCASE GRILL RESTAURANTS SET TO BE DELISTED.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services Grill Concepts, which owns and operates The Grill on the Alley and the Daily Grill, said Friday that it will be delisted from the Nasdaq at the opening of business Tuesday for failing to file second-quarter earnings on time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The delisting comes as the company sought more time to review accounting procedures for its interest in the Chicago Grill on the Alley. Grill Concepts has requested a hearing to stay the delisting. The company expects to complete its restated financial statements as quickly as possible. The company has been trading under the symbol GRILLE. Hewlett-Packard releases an iPod SAN JOSE - Hewlett-Packard Co. unveiled its own version of the iPod portable music player See digital music player and Portable Media Center. Friday, showing the fruits of a groundbreaking partnership it had previously announced with Apple Computer Inc. HP is now taking orders for the player, which it has dubbed the ``Apple iPod from HP.'' The product is a replica of Apple's latest models of the popular white 20-gigabyte and 40-gigabyte iPods - but carries the HP brand instead. The licensing deal, which was announced this past January, is a break from Apple's usual isolationist i·so·la·tion·ism n. A national policy of abstaining from political or economic relations with other countries. i stance and should help it capitalize on the broad retail reach of HP, the world's largest computer printer maker and second-largest PC maker. For HP, working with Apple, the leader in portable music players and online music store A Web-based service that sells copyrighted songs and albums for a fee. With Apple's iTunes being the most popular, an online music store is a legitimate music distribution organization that pays royalties to the music's copyright holders. sales, gives it a quick foothold in the digital music space. The price will be $299 for the 20-gigabyte model, or $399 for the 40-gigabyte model, matching Apple's current prices. Yahoo says it sold off Google stock 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 - Yahoo Inc. said Friday that it sold $191 million in Google Inc. stock in that company's initial public offering, cashing out some of the 2.7 million shares Google gave Yahoo this month to settle two disputes. Yahoo sold 2.3 million of the Class A shares last week at $82.62 apiece. Google shares began trading on Aug. 19, following its IPO (Initial Public Offering) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard. . In exchange for giving Yahoo 2.7 million shares Aug. 9, Google got a perpetual license to Yahoo's patent on matching online advertisements to Web-search results. Yahoo also agreed to drop another dispute over warrants to purchase shares that Google granted it under a partnership signed in 2000. The stock of the Mountain View, Calif.-based Internet search engine finished at $106.15 Friday, down $1.76, or 1.6 percent, on the Nasdaq Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. . Ford hopes to lure younger buyers DETROIT - Ford Motor Co.'s Mercury brand, in the midst Adv. 1. in the midst - the middle or central part or point; "in the midst of the forest"; "could he walk out in the midst of his piece?" midmost of launching six new vehicles over the next four years, will call its new entry-level sedan the Milan and try to use the car to attract a younger buyer. The five-passenger Milan will compete in the mid-size sedan category, one of the industry's biggest. The car is scheduled to go into production in Hermosillo, Mexico, in the third quarter of 2005 and reach showrooms by year's end as a 2006 model. The Milan will be built on the same vehicle platform as the upcoming Ford Fusion and Lincoln Zephyr Zephyr or Zephyrus: see Eos. . Earlier this year at the Chicago Auto Show The Chicago Auto Show is held annually in February at Chicago's McCormick Place convention complex. It is the largest auto show in North America[1] (1.2 million sq. ft - 111,200 m². , Ford chairman Bill Ford said Mercury would expand its lineup from four to seven vehicles by the end of 2005, a clear signal the automaker hasn't given up on the struggling brand. Judge dismisses antitrust lawsuit A federal judge Friday dismissed an antitrust complaint against a key Internet oversight group brought by a company that controls directories for guiding Internet users worldwide. U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz dismissed the suit brought by VeriSign Inc. against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers See ICANN. (body, networking) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - (ICANN) The non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for IP address allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system . The judge had previously dismissed the challenge but allowed VeriSign time to file an amended complaint. |
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