VENDOR BARES SOUL ON TV.Byline: Seth Sutel 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. Losing your shirt is usually the last thing you'd want to do in business, but that's exactly what the president of an Internet company did in an interview on CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. Tuesday. In a naked attempt to stir up publicity for his company, the head of online software vendor Beyond.com appeared stripped to the waist on CNBC's morning talk show ``Squawk Box Squawk Box A speaker and intercom system used on trading desks. A squawk box allows a firm's analysts and traders to communicate with the firm's brokers through speakers on the brokers' desks. .'' Mark Breier, the chief executive of the company, said he was just trying to shake up the often staid world of financial news commentary. The hosts of the show certainly seemed surprised, even though the company had warned CNBC officials that Breier planned to appear wearing only boxer shorts boxer shorts pl.n. Men's full-cut undershorts. boxer shorts or boxers Noun, pl men's underpants shaped like shorts but with a front opening boxer shorts box during the satellite interview from California. Perhaps the hosts hadn't been fully briefed. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (Color) Mark Breier appeared on ``Squawk Box'' Tuesday. Associated Press |
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