Channel change.Channel Change: Gemstar-TV Guide International Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. is a media company that licenses interactive program guide technology to multichannel operators, such as cable and satellite television providers, and consumer electronics manufacturers, video recorder scheduling code under brands such as VCR Inc. said it hired Bedi Singh For the fictional global crime syndicate, see . Singh is a Sanskrit word meaning "lion". It is used as a common surname and middle name in North India by many communities, especially by the Sikhs and the Rajputs. , formerly of Novartis Novartis International AG (NYSE: NVS) is a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland that manufactures drugs such as diclofenac (Voltaren), carbamazepine (Tegretol), valsartan (Diovan), imatinib mesylate (Gleevec / Glivec), cyclosporin A (Neoral / Pharma AG, as its new chief financial officer. He replaces Brian Urban, whom the Los Angeles-based media company fired in January. Singh has been chief finance and administration officer for Novartis, a Swiss pharmaceutical firm. Prior to that, Singh was executive vice president and finance chief of Sony Pictures Entertainment, a division of Sony Corp. of America. Gemstar, which publishes TV Guide Magazine and produces TV schedule guides on a variety of platforms, was rocked by an accounting scandal that in 2003 led to a restatement Restatement A revision in a company's earlier financial statements. Notes: The need for restating financial figures can result from fraud, misrepresentation, or a simple clerical error. of its results from 1999 to 2002. A federal judge last month found former chief executive Henry Yuen liable for misleading investors by inflating sales by $248 million. |
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