BRIEFCASE SOOD JOINS AMGEN INVESTOR RELATIONS.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services THOUSAND OAKS Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. - Amgen Inc. will offer a new spokesman to shareholders, as the drug developer announced Thursday that it has appointed Arvind Sood as vice president of investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. . A former senior vice president of investor relations for Aventis S.A., Sood has spent 20 years in the pharmaceutical business. Hailed by IR Magazine as ``Best IR Professional'' for 2004, he holds an undergrad degree from Western Michigan University Western Michigan University, at Kalamazoo, Mich.; coeducational; founded in 1903 as Western State Normal School, became accredited in 1927 as a college, gained university status in 1957. and an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration from Central Michigan University Central Michigan University, at Mount Pleasant, Mich.; coeducational; est. 1892 as a normal school, became Central State Teachers College in 1927, achieved university status in 1959. The university maintains a forest that is used for botanical and biological research. . Northrop names leader of shipyard CENTURY CITY - Northrop Grumman Corp. said Thursday it has named C. Michael Petters president of its Newport News unit. He succeeds Thomas Schievelbein, who is taking an early retirement. Northrop, the Los Angeles-based global defense giant, said Petters, 44, will assume his new position Nov. 1. He will report to Ronald Sugar, Northrop's chairman, chief executive and president. Schievelbein, 51, led the Newport News shipyard operations for eight years and was key to the integration of the sector into Northrop Grumman, following its purchase of Newport News in 2001. Lawyers to share in Microsoft fees SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has ordered Microsoft Corp. to pay $112.5 million to attorneys who successfully sued the software maker for monopolizing a segment of California's market. The award for fees and costs comes in a case in which Microsoft agreed to allocate $1.1 billion for California consumers - after a small San Francisco law firm sued in state court here alleging the company inflated prices by monopolizing the pre-installed software market from 1995 to 2001. The deal enables anyone who bought a computer in California to get vouchers worth $5 to $29 per Microsoft product. Two-thirds of the unused settlement is earmarked for poor California schools. 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. joins foes of anti-spam effort 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 - Add America Online Inc. to the growing list of companies and organizations shunning a spam-fighting proposal from Microsoft Corp. AOL cited ``tepid support'' for Microsoft's so-called Sender ID technology, which seeks to cut down on junk e-mail by making it difficult for spammers to forge e-mail headers and addresses. |
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