IN BRIEF.VALLEY INDEX CLIMBS: Shares of most companies in the Daily News Index were higher Friday, 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. , which gained $7.78125 to $75. Daily News MARKETS CLOSED EARLY: Most financial markets, including the stock markets, conducted a half day of trading on Friday. Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. VIDEO RELEASES: ``Star Wars: Episode I _ The Phantom Menace'' and ``The Sixth Sense'' will be arriving at local video stores this spring. The Bruce Willis hit, ``Sixth Sense,'' will be available in both VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier. and 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. on March 28, while ``The Phantom Menace'' will invade stores April 4 on video. A ``special edition DVD of the $811.4 million blockbuster ``Independence Day'' will be released June 13. Daily News DVD CHAMPS: Digital Video Discs, also known as DVDs have been growing in popularity nationwide, but nowhere are they more popular than in Los Angeles and 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 . According to VideoScan, which tracks DVD sales, as of Dec. 26, almost 1.9 million DVDs were sold in Los Angeles. In New York, 1.84 million units were sold. Daily News SITESTAR PURCHASE: Encino-based Internet holding company Sitestar Corp. recently acquired a 10-percent stake in Qliq-On Corp, a Los Angeles-based Internet marketing company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the companies said the acquisition calls for Qliq-On to act as Sitestar's outsourced marketing department. Sitestar said Qliq-Ons abilities will allow it to focus on further acquisitions. Daily News NEW OFFICE: German sensor manufacturer Silicon Sensor International recently opened an American subsidiary in Westlake Village. Headed by chief executive George Pankau. Pacific Silicon Sensor has 10 employees and plans to expand. The company makes photodiodes and photodiode A light sensor (photodetector) that allows current to flow in one direction from one side to the other when it absorbs photons (light). The more light, the more the current. Used to detect light pulses in optical fibers and other light-sensitive applications, it works the opposite of a arrays. Daily News |
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