IN BRIEF.VALLEY INDEX FALLS: Shares of most companies in the Daily News Index were lower Tuesday, led by Xircom Inc. of Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. . Xircom fell $3.375 to $43.5675. - Daily News SEMINIS ACQUISITION: Seed giant Seminis Inc. of Saticoy announced Tuesday it has acquired Barham Seeds Inc Seeds was a Japan-based independent video game development company. It was founded on August 1,2006 by Shinji Mikami, Atsushi Inaba and Hideki Kamiya, the former key members of Capcom's Clover Studio and still retains many other former members of the studio. ., a Gilroy company that specializes in developing seedless Seed´less a. 1. Without seed or seeds. Adj. 1. seedless - lacking seeds; "seedless grapefruit" seedy - full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig" seedless adj → watermelons. Seminis officials said the purchase will allow the company to enhance its existing product lines, including Asgrow Vegetable Seeds, Petosee and Royal Sluis. Seminis shares rose 12.5 cents to $8.75 on volume of 1.7 million, roughly 12 times normal volume. - Daily News MRV MRV minute respiratory volume. CHANGES: MRV Communications announced its chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , Zeev Rav-Noy, is resigning, citing personal reasons and a desire to pursue other interests. Rav-Noy was one of the company's co-founders in 1988. The company also appointed two new members to its board. Daniel Tsui and Baruch Fischer will join the board effective immediately. Tsui is a Nobel Prize-winning professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University, and Fischer is dean of the electrical engineering faculty at the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology. - Daily News UNION GROWS: A union representing about 400 Los Angeles city employees in management-level posts will affiliate with Service Employees International Union Local 347, officials announced. The city employees, including assistant general managers and division heads, are represented by the Los Angeles Professional Managers Association. - City News Service IMAGE DEAL:Chatsworth-based Image Entertainment Inc. has signed a supply agreement for DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. programming with RadioShack for the RadioShack Unlimited program, under which RadioShack consumers can order merchandise from a selection of more than 100,000 items. Stock of Image rose 31.5 cents to $5.625 on Friday following the announcement. - Daily News |
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