BRIEFCASE.Byline: -- Staff and Wire Services Stocks up for Amazon, TiVo SEATTLE -- News that Amazon.com Inc. and TiVo Inc. will soon let customers download movies from the Web to their set-top boxes shook up the stocks Wednesday of companies involved in digital video services. Shares of digital video recorder See DVR. maker TiVo and Web retailer Amazon.com both gained ground after the companies announced a partnership that will roll out in full later this year. The service, Amazon Unbox Amazon Unbox is an Internet video on demand service offered by Amazon.com which according to their website is available to "U.S. customers located in the 48 contiguous states, Alaska, Hawaii, and the District of Columbia". on TiVo, advances existing offerings from Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc. that pipe downloaded video and music to computers, TVs or portable media players. TiVo's stock rose 49 cents, or 8.9 percent, to close at $5.97 on the Nasdaq Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. , while shares of Amazon.com climbed 71 cents, or about 2 percent, to $38.98. Meanwhile, shares of online DVD rental Online DVD rentals allow a person to rent DVDs by mail. Generally, all interaction between the renter and the rental company takes place through the company's website. How it works Most companies operate on the following model: Worker output gains are weaker WASHINGTON -- Workers stepped up their efficiency in the final three months of 2006, yet productivity still turned in the weakest yearly performance in almost a decade. The Labor Department The Department of Labor (DOL) administers federal labor laws for the Executive Branch of the federal government. Its mission is "to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working reported Wednesday that productivity, the amount of output per hour of work, rose at a 3 percent annual rate for October through December. That compares with a 0.1 percent decline in three previous months. For the entire year, productivity edged up by 2.1 percent, the weakest performance since a 1.6 percent rise in 1997. Productivity is the vital element needed to boost living standards living standards npl → nivel msg de vida living standards living npl → niveau m de vie living standards living npl . It allows businesses to pay workers more, because of their increased output, without having to raise the cost of their products. Delta progresses in bankruptcy 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 -- Delta Air Lines moved a giant step closer to emerging from bankruptcy Wednesday when a judge approved a disclosure statement that will be sent to creditors along with the carrier's reorganization plan A scheme authorized by federal law and promulgated by the president whereby he or she alters the structure of federal agencies to promote government efficiency and economy through a transfer, consolidation, coordination, authorization, or abolition of functions. . The judge also ruled to block any strike action by pilots of Delta subsidiary Comair if it imposes wage cuts and other concessions on them. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Adlai Hardin's approval of Delta Air Lines Inc.'s disclosure statement now lets the carrier begin soliciting votes for its plan to emerge this spring as a stand-alone company stand-alone company An independent operating firm. For example, a large diversified firm may consider spinning off a subsidiary because, as a stand-alone company, the subsidiary would command a higher price-earnings ratio than the parent. worth more than $9.5 billion, Delta lawyer Marshall Huebner said in court. Delta has estimated in court documents that it could be worth between $9.4 billion and $12 billion. Nissan overhauls `Titan' big pickup CHICAGO -- Nissan's Titan has been a veritable midget in the big-pickup truck market, mustering only a 3.3 percent share last year as it was easily outmuscled by the Big Three. The Japanese automaker hopes to size up a bit with a refreshed version due out this spring that it predicts will reverse a two-year sales decline. Those changes include the addition of long-wheel-base models that will give the Titan a 7- and 8-foot bed and an enlarged 37-gallon fuel tank, which a company official said will be the largest in the category. Interior upgrades include new controls, screens and gauge lighting, while the front-end design has been revised. |
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