BRIEFCASE.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . inks China online deal GLENDALE - Warner Bros. Online announced plans Monday to partner with TOM Online Inc. to market and distribute wireless and online content throughout China. Under the terms of the deal, the two companies will launch the first official Warner Bros. Studios site in China, which will be the first to deliver official studio content to Chinese fans via Internet and wireless platforms. Warner Bros. Studios' classic characters such as Scooby-Doo, Bugs Bunny and Tweety will be featured on the site, along with sections dedicated to the studios' movies, games, and wireless Internet products. Web sites for feature films will also be available. Insomniac Games cool place to work BURBANK - Insomniac in·som·ni·ac n. One who suffers from insomnia. adj. Having or causing insomnia. Games' free lunches, cruises and fully paid health care benefits won it recognition as one of the best companies to work for in the nation, the Society for Human Resource Management  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . announced Monday. The 145-employee video-game developer ranked third on the list of top 25 small companies, compiled by the organization responsible for producing Fortune magazine's ``100 Best Companies to Work For'' list. Founded in 1994, the privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. developed the ``Spiro the Dragon'' and ``Ratchet & Clank'' game lines. Six-month bills up sharply at auction WASHINGTON - Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills were mixed in Monday's auction as rates on three-month bills fell while six-month bills rose to the highest level in nearly four years. The Treasury Department auctioned $16 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 2.965 percent, down from 2.975 percent last week. An additional $14 billion in six-month bills was auctioned at a discount rate of 3.175 percent, up from 3.120 percent last week. In a separate report, the Federal Reserve said Monday that the average yield for one-year Treasury bills, a popular index for making changes in adjustable-rate mortgages, rose to 3.39 percent last week from 3.30 percent the previous week. Cablevision bids to go private, split 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 - After months of intense public scrutiny, the family that controls Cablevision Systems Corp. is offering to take the cable TV provider private, marking the latest dramatic turn for a company that has been riven rive v. rived, riv·en also rived, riv·ing, rives v.tr. 1. To rend or tear apart. 2. To break into pieces, as by a blow; cleave or split asunder. 3. by a family feud and mounted a fierce showdown with the mayor of New York. At the same time, Cablevision will spin off its lucrative cable channels - AMC (Advanced Mezzanine Card) See AdvancedTCA. , IFC (Internet Foundation Classes) A class library from Netscape that provides an application framework and graphical user interface (GUI) routines for Java programmers. IFC was later made part of the Java Foundation Classes (JFC). See JFC, AFC and AWT. See also ICF. and WE - into a new company called Rainbow Media Holdings. Google could dig at PayPal service SAN FRANCISCO - Hoping to build upon the power of its Internet leading search engine, Google Inc. is believed to be developing an online payment system that would pose a stiff challenge to online auctioneer eBay Inc.'s industry-dominating PayPal service. Industry analysts, merchants and investors were digesting reports Monday that the Mountain View-based company is testing a payment system - code-named ``Google Wallet'' - in hopes of rolling out the service later this year. Slower economic growth indicated NEW YORK - A closely watched gauge of future business activity fell more than expected in May, indicating slower economic growth may lie ahead later this year, a private research group announced Monday. The New York-based Conference Board reported that its Composite Index of Leading Indicators Composite Index of Leading Indicators An index published monthly by the Conference Board used to predict the direction of the economy's movements in the months to come. The index is made up of 10 economic components, whose changes tend to precede changes in the overall economy. fell 0.5 percent last month to 114.1. The decline was more than the 0.2 percent drop that analysts had expected. The May decline follows a revised unchanged level in April and a 0.6 percent decline in March. OPEC OPEC: see Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. OPEC in full Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries Multinational organization established in 1960 to coordinate the petroleum production and export policies of its reacts as oil price nears $60 NEW YORK - Oil prices marched to new heights near $60 a barrel even as the president of OPEC said Monday the group will consider raising its output ceiling by half a million barrels as early as this week. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), multinational organization (est. 1960, formally constituted 1961) that coordinates petroleum policies and economic aid among oil-producing nations. raised its output target by that amount just last week. The move appeared to have little impact on prices, which have risen by almost $12 a barrel in the past month because of concerns about limited refining capacity and rising demand for gasoline and diesel. Light sweet crude for July delivery climbed 90 cents to settle at $59.37 a barrel. |
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