BRIEFCASE IRIS STARTS TRADING ON NASDAQ TODAY.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services CHATSWORTH - IRIS International Inc. will begin trading 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. today, the urinalysis systems manufacturer announced Tuesday. Formerly traded under the symbol IRI on the American Stock Exchange American Stock Exchange (AMEX) Stock exchange in the U.S. Originally known as “the Curb,” it began as an outdoor marketplace in New York City c. 1850. It moved indoors to its present location in the Wall Street area in 1921. , the company's shares will now trade as IRIS on the Nasdaq. On their final day on the AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange , shares closed up 6 cents at $6.90. Studios sue over DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. descrambler de·scram·bler n. An electronic device that decodes a scrambled transmission into a signal that is intelligible to the receiving apparatus. descrambler Seven major movie studios sued a Fremont-based microchip company this week for allegedly selling DVD descrambling technology to manufacturers unlicensed to receive it, court papers showed. The studios claim that ESS Technology was required by the license for the ``Content Scrambler A device or software program that encrypts data for security purposes. See scramble. System'' in its microchips to refrain from selling them to DVD makers not approved by the DVD Copy Control Association The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) is an organization primarily responsible for the copy prevention of DVDs. The Content Scramble System (CSS) was devised for this purpose to make copyright infringement difficult. . In response to the suit filed by MGM, Paramount, Sony, Disney, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox and Universal Studios, an ESS official said the company ``intends to comply with all the terms of the license agreement.'' Weak March hurts 99 Cents earnings COMMERCE - 99 Cents Only Stores warned Tuesday that first-quarter earnings will fall short of estimates because of weak March sales. The discount retailer forecast first-quarter earnings of 18 cents to 19 cents a share, below its prior view of 20 cents to 21 cents a share. Analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call targeted earnings of 20 cents a share for the period - flat with a year earlier. Sales at stores open at least a year, also known as same-store sales, increased 0.2 percent during the first quarter ended March 31, compared with expectations of 1 percent to 2 percent growth. Latino characters on TV unchanged The number of minority characters who appeared regularly on prime-time TV rose slightly in 2003, but the number of Latino characters was the same as 2002, according to a UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX study outlined Tuesday. Overall, 25 percent of regular characters, or 172, who appeared on network prime-time shows in fall 2003 were minorities, compared with 23 percent, or 151, the previous year, according to ``Looking for Latino Regulars on Prime-Time Television: The Fall 2003 Season,'' a study by UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center. White characters accounted for more than 75 percent of all regular character roles on prime-time TV and can be found on 95 percent of all prime-time series, the study notes. |
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