IN BRIEF.VALLEY INDEX GAINS: Shares of most companies in the Daily News Index were higher Wednesday, led by Countrywide Credit Industries Inc. of Calabasas, which rose $1.6875 to $31. - Daily News PRICE SLIDE:Encino-based e4L Inc. announced it knows of no operating or business reason for the recent decline in its stock price, which saw shares fall from $4 on Oct. 1 to $1.9375 on Tuesday. The specialist in direct-response TV programming said its new management team, which assumed control almost one year ago, has made significant improvements in its cost structure and changes in its business strategies including electronic commerce initiatives. Shares rose 18.75 cents Wednesday to $2.125. - Daily News OVITZ'S BUTLER: Hollywood deal-maker Michael Ovitz Michael S. Ovitz (b. December 14 1946, Los Angeles, California) is a former talent agent and Hollywood powerhouse who served as the head of the Creative Artists Agency from 1975 to 1995. said Wednesday he's taking on some new talent: the fictional Internet gofer (language) Gofer - A lazy functional language designed by Mark Jones <mpj@cs.nott.ac.uk> at the Programming Research Group, Oxford, UK in 1991. It is very similar to Haskell 1.2. Jeeves the butler. Ask Jeeves Noun 1. Ask Jeeves - a widely used search engine accepting plain English questions or phrases or terms trademark - a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product Inc., which uses the butler's character on its Ask.com search site as a kind of Web-surfing domestic servant domestic servant n → sirviente/a m/f domestic servant n → domestique m/f domestic servant domestic n to track down information for computer users, has retained Ovitz's Lynx Technology Group LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control and his talent agency, Artists Management Group, to help take the butler beyond the Internet with potential merchandising, animation and placement in movies and television shows. - Associated Press DREAM DEAL: DreamWorks SKG SKG Stichting Kwaliteit Gevelbouw (Dutch) SKG Spielberg, Katzenberg,and Geffen (DreamWorks Studios) SKG Thessaloniki, Greece - Thessaloniki (Airport Code) SKG Smith and Kraus Global , Steven Spielberg's Universal City studio, has signed up to develop four additional films with British producer Aardman Animations, DreamWorks' partner on next year's animated movie ``Chicken Run.'' Aardman, based in Bristol, England, specializes in stop-motion clay animation. - Associated Press DISNEY PROMOTION:Burbank-based Walt Disney Co. has promoted Rob Moore to executive vice president of operations and finance for Disney Studios. He will oversee all business and operating activities of the unit, which makes feature animation and live-action movies and TV programs. - Daily News |
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