BRIEFCASE.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services KB Home profits soar 78 percent Second quarter profits at home builder KB Home soared 78 percent on strong increases in sales and average selling price The average sales price of goods or commodities. Especially used in the retail sector and technology distribution. , the company said Thursday. Net income totaled $181.5 million, or $2.06 per share, for the three months ended May 31, up from $102.1 million, or $1.20 per share in the like period a year ago. Analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call had expected $1.78 per share. Blue Shield Blue Shield A US not-for-profit health care insurer that is a reimbursement intermediary for physicians. Cf Blue Cross. grows Medicare share Blue Shield of California Blue Shield of California is a not-for-profit health insurance provider headquartered in San Francisco, California. An independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Blue Shield of California is an incorporated, wholly owned subsidiary of California Physicians' has its eyes on expanding its Medicare business, as the health care company announced Thursday that it applied to offer prescription drug prescription drug Prescription medication Pharmacology An FDA-approved drug which must, by federal law or regulation, be dispensed only pursuant to a prescription–eg, finished dose form and active ingredients subject to the provisos of the Federal Food, Drug, coverage in January. The new plans will allow Blue Shield, with offices in Woodland Hills and San Francisco, to add the drug benefit to Medicare Advantage plans and for employers who offer retiree pharmacy benefits. Adobe Q2 profits rose 37 percent SAN JOSE - Adobe Systems Inc. said Thursday that its second-quarter profits rose 37 percent as the maker of Acrobat and Photoshop reported strong sales of its most popular software. San Jose-based Adobe, the maker of the portable document format (file format) Portable Document Format - (PDF) The native file format for Adobe Systems' Acrobat. PDF is the file format for representing documents in a manner that is independent of the original application software, hardware, and operating system used to create those documents. technology, announced Thursday a fiscal second-quarter profit of $149.8 million, or 29 cents per share Cents per share The amount of a mutual fund's dividend or capital gains distributions that a shareholder will receive for each share owned. , compared with a profit of $109.4 million or 22 cents per share in the same period of 2004. FDIC FDIC See: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FDIC See Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). employees' info compromised WASHINGTON - In the latest security breach of personal data, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has warned thousands of employees that their information was compromised and used in some cases to improperly obtain loans. The FDIC told about 5,900 current and former employees to be ``vigilant'' over the next two years in checking their financial accounts and credit-rating reports. The data lost in the breach that occurred early last year included names, salaries, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and length of employment at the FDIC, the agency told employees in a recent letter, a copy of which was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. |
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