BRIEFCASE NEWSPAPER GROUP PURCHASES LA.COM.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services The California Newspapers Partnership, managed by MediaNews Group Not to be confused with Media General, an unrelated newspaper and TV group. MediaNews Group, based in Denver, Colorado, is one of the largest newspaper companies in the United States. , has acquired the Internet domain name An organization's unique name on the Internet. The chosen name combined with a top level domain (TLD), such as .com or .org, also called a "domain extension," makes up the Internet domain name. For example, computerlanguage.com is the domain name for the publisher of this Encyclopedia. ``la.com.'' CNP (Certified Network Professional) A professional designation and accreditation given to individual IT networking professionals by the Network Professional Association (www.npa.org). , whose partners include MediaNews Group, Gannett Co. Inc. and Stephens Media Stephens Media LLC is a Las Vegas, Nevada diversified media holding company that publishes over 30 newspapers in 8 states, primarily in Nevada and Arkansas. The company has been expanding its interactive Internet business, where it operates online sites for its newspapers Group, operates the Daily News and 20 other daily newspapers in California <noinclude>:List is in order of place of publication</noinclude>
The domain name was acquired from David Ezra and Marty Mizrahi of Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. . Ezra and Mizrahi have operated a Web site at the la.com Internet address There are two kinds of addresses that are widely used on the Internet. One is a person's e-mail address, and the other is the address of a Web site, which is known as a URL. Following is an explanation of Internet e-mail addresses only. For more on URLs, see URL and Internet domain name. for several years. The purchase price was undisclosed. ``We expect to launch an exciting new site encompassing the partnership's newspapers and a variety of strategic community and travel partners later this year,'' Gerald Grilly, president of California Newspapers Partnership, said in making the announcement. Until the new site is launched, the site will feature content from the partnership's daily papers in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . Rainbo Records buys 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. maker CANOGA PARK - Rainbo Records & Cassettes has acquired CD and DVD manufacturer DOCdata USA, enabling the company to replicate an additional 120,000 CDs a day. Though the deal's terms remain undisclosed, the transaction includes Canoga Park-based DOCdata's 37,000-square-foot manufacturing and warehousing plant in 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. . For the past 63 years, Santa Monica-based Rainbo has manufactured vinyl, tapes, CDs and other recording materials. Adelphia is under city attorney's eye VAN NUYS - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo said Wednesday that his office is watching Adelphia Communications closely to make sure the financially troubled cable company continues its service to Los Angeles subscribers. Adelphia, the second-largest cable provider in the city, is facing Chapter 11 bankruptcy after defaulting on $7 billion in loans and seeing its stock price fall 99 percent since March. Adelphia currently has five franchise agreements with the city, covering about 250,000 subscribers in Los Angeles. Arco settles suit for $45.8 million Arco will pay $45.8 million to settle a state lawsuit concerning underground-tank violations at 59 stations in California, it was announced Wednesday. Attorney General Bill Lockyer said the agreement includes the largest penalty ever, $25 million, for violating underground-tank standards. It also calls for Arco to make $20.8 million in improvements to underground tanks at its more than 900 stations in California. The payments include civil penalties, reimbursement of investigation and enforcement costs and funding for the prosecution of other environmental protection cases. Arco also agreed to specified court-enforceable monitoring and inspection at its stations. Subpoenas issued to 3 chip makers SAN JOSE - At least three of the world's largest makers of computer memory chips have been subpoenaed as part of a federal criminal antitrust investigation, the companies said Wednesday. Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest maker of memory chips, Infineon Technologies AG and Micron Technology Inc. confirmed that they received subpoenas earlier this week. The three companies, which make up a majority of the $12 billion global memory market, described the U.S. Department of Justice actions as part of an industrywide investigation and said they would cooperate. |
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