BRIEFCASE SEE 'HARRY POTTER' FOR FEE AT HOME.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services MARINA DEL REY - Computer users can now watch Harry Potter test his quidditch skills online, as CinemaNow announced a deal Monday making selected Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . films available for download. The bespectacled wizard's blockbuster film, along with unnamed titles to follow, will be available for $3.99, which gives viewers 24 hours worth of access, while older titles can be downloaded for $2.99. The fee allowers users to access the scrambled files, as large as 500 megabytes, then unlock them with a password valid for 24 hours Adv. 1. for 24 hours - without stopping; "she worked around the clock" around the clock, round the clock . Strawberry's set to appear all over BURBANK - Strawberry Shortcake will soon show up in cake form. And on medical scrubs, shoes, hats, sleepwear and a slew of other products, splashing the smiling sprite into a host of new markets. DIC DIC diffuse intravascular coagulation; disseminated intravascular coagulation. DIC abbr. disseminated intravascular coagulation Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) Entertainment, which licenses the character, announced deals with Decopac, Sara Lee, Kids Only and others, adding to Shortcake's ubiquitousness. The firm announced her reintroduction in June, with toys, videos and the new products slated for early 2003 release. Foothill, Image extend accord CHATSWORTH - 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. distributor Image Entertainment Inc. announced Monday that Foothill Capital Corp. has amended its loan and security agreement with the company. The amendment increases Image's maximum revolving credit Revolving Credit A line of credit where the customer pays a commitment fee and is then allowed to use the funds when they are needed. It is usually used for operating purposes, fluctuating each month depending on the customers current cash flow needs. limit by $2 million, from $15 million to $17 million. Additionally, Image and Foothill extended the term of their agreement by one year to Dec. 29, 2005. AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Time Warner has bad news NEW YORK - The bad news kept coming Monday for America Online as its parent company, AOL Time Warner Inc., predicted weaker financial performance for the rest of the year. Citing an ad market that has failed to pick up steam, the world's largest media company said AOL's full-year advertising and commerce revenue - which accounts for about a third of its overall revenue - is expected to be $1.7 billion, but could slip by as much as 5 percent more. As a result, the company's annual earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) is a non-GAAP metric that can be used to evaluate a company's profitability.
T-bill rates rise in Monday's sale WASHINGTON - Interest rates on short-term Treasury securities rose in Monday's auction. The Treasury Department sold $16 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 1.645 percent, up from 1.610 percent last week. An additional $13 billion was sold in six-month bills at a rate of 1.635 percent, up from 1.580 percent. Both the three-month and six-month rates were the highest since July 29 when the bills sold for 1.680 percent and 1.690 percent, respectively. Hundreds to lose Medicare+Choice WOODLAND HILLS - Health Net Inc. will stop offering Medicare+Choice HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, products in Livermore and Santa Maria by the year's end. The withdrawals in Alameda and Santa Barbara counties will affect fewer than 1,000 Medicare beneficiaries. Health Net officials also announced that the Woodland Hills-based company will offer its Medicare+Choice product in 27 counties throughout Arizona, California, Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania by 2003. |
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