BRIEFCASE.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services L.A.'s Ellis Group buys London firm Los Angeles-based CB Richard Ellis CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. NYSE: CBG is a multinational real estate corporation currently based in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.. On December 20, 2006, the corporation, also known as CBRE, completed acquisition of Trammell Crow Co. in a transaction valued at $2. Group Inc. announced Monday that it has acquired Dalgleish & Co Ltd., a retail real estate services specialist in the United Kingdom, for $37.9 million in cash. The acquisition marks a further step in the company's plan to expand its retail capabilities across Europe. Founded in 1979, Dalgleish employs 93 people in central London The term Central London refers to the districts of London which are considered closest to the centre. There is no such conventional definition, nor any official one, for the entire area that can be called "central London". , and provides tenant representation, agency leasing and investment advisory services advisory services advisory services provided to the public, in their capacity as owners and managers of animals, are an important part of veterinary science. They may be provided by government bureaux, by commercial companies who deal in pharmaceuticals or animals or animal throughout the UK. It has annual revenues of about $34 million. Malcolm Dalgleish, founder and principal shareholder of the firm, will lead CB Richard Ellis' retail services business across Europe. Short-term T-bills best buy in years WASHINGTON - Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in Monday's auction to the highest levels since spring 2001. The Treasury Department auctioned $19 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 3.890 percent, up from 3.850 percent last week. An additional $17 billion in six-month bills was auctioned at a discount rate of 4.125 percent, up from 4.065 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 4.26 percent last week from 4.19 percent the previous week. Cell-phone song service launched KANSAS CITY Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). , Mo. - Sprint Nextel Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world. With 55 million subscribers, Sprint Nextel operates the third largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States (based on total wireless customers), behind Corp. on Monday launched a downloadable music service, the first to deliver songs over a U.S. cellular U.S. Cellular (NYSE: USM) is a super-regional cellular telephone provider, serving 5.8 million customers in 189 markets in 26 U.S. states. The company was created in 1983 as a subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. Since April 2000, John E. network, in an attempt to keep pace in a wireless race increasingly dominated by mobile Internet Refers to gaining access to the Internet using a lightweight, handheld device. See Mobile IP, PDA, smartphone and mobile TV. services. The Sprint Music
Sprint Music Pty Ltd is an independent record label set up by Australian rock band Midnight Oil to publish their music. Store is being launched in tandem with the rollout of speedier wireless technology that Sprint is rushing to deploy in competition with broadband offerings from Verizon Wireless and Cingular Wireless. The new service is not available to the company's Nextel subscribers, who are served by a slower network. Sprint is charging $2.50 per song for two copies of each track: one to play on a phone and one for a personal computer. That's much pricier than the typical 99 cents charged by Apple Computer Inc.'s wildly popular iTunes and other music stores, though none of those features the potential convenience and spontaneity of not needing a computer to buy music and download it to a mobile device. |
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