USER NEWS.CHECK IS IN THE E-MAIL e-mail: see electronic mail. in full electronic mail Messages and other data exchanged between individuals using computers in a network. : Making a mortgage payment is as easy as clicking a computer mouse for Countrywide coun·try·wide adv. & adj. Throughout a whole country; nationwide: launched a fundraising campaign countrywide; a countrywide search. Adj. 1. Home Loans Inc. customers with the Calabasas-based company's Mortgage Pay on the Web, a service allowing customers to make their payments online. Customers can find Mortgage Pay on the Web in the Current Customers section of the company's Web site, www.countrywide.com. They'll need their Countrywide loan number and four-digit personal identification number. Borrowers who use the service receive a confirmation number. The service, introduced in March, is offered free to customers. Payments can be made during regular Countrywide business hours BUSINESS HOURS. The time of the day during which business is transacted. In respect to the time of presentment and demand of bills and notes, business hours generally range through the whole day down to the hours of rest in the evening, except when the paper is payable it a bank or by a . For more information about the service, visit the Web site or call (800) 669-5891. - Daily News NO FLY-BY-NIGHT: Thousand Oaks-based mobile computer network maker Xircom Inc. is growing fast - so fast, in fact, that it just made the Interctive Week Fast 50. The list's rankings are based on a company's revenue and operating income Operating Income The profit realized from a business' own operations. Notes: This would not include income from things such as investments in other firms. Also referred to as operating profit or recurring profit. growth, one-year return to stockholders on their investment and market capitalization Market Capitalization A measure of a public company's size. Market capitalization is the total dollar value of all outstanding shares. It's calculated by multiplying the number of shares times the current market price. This term is often referred to as market cap. . Based on these criteria, Xircom made No. 42, outranking high-profile firms such as Webcaster Broadcast.com (44) and software giant Oracle (46), but behind the likes of online merchant Amazon.com (19), wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. specialist AirTouch (14) and Internet search engine Yahoo! (1). Xircom had 1998 revenues of $276.1 million, representing a 49.56 percent increase over 1997; operating income of $21.9 million, up 375.5 percent; one-year total return to investors of nearly 32 percent, and a market cap of $538.4 million as of April 30. - Daily News |
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