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Date: 02 December 2003
By Michael Wines (NYT)
Michael NYT
Government announces that white owners of commercial farms in Zimbabwe do not require individual notification of impending land confiscation; suggests public newspaper listing is sufficient; seizure of white-owned property is ongoing in Zimbabwe (S)
Date: 02 December 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Archipelago Holdings, the parent of the all-electronic Archipelago Exchange, said it planned to sell shares to the public for the first time next year. The company, which is based in Chicago, expects to file a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the next several months, a spokeswoman, Margaret Nagle, said. Archipelago began in 1997 after the Securities and Exchange Commission approved it as one of the first four electronic communications networks, or all-electronic trade-matching and order-routing systems. Goldman Sachs has the biggest stake among 14 Wall Street firms that invested in Archipelago.
Date: 02 December 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Protein Design Labs Inc. settled a dispute with Genentech Inc. over payments for an experimental cancer treatment, Avastin, the companies said. Protein Design shares rose 23 percent. Genentech will license Avastin if the product wins regulatory approval, paying lower royalties than called for in a broader agreement signed earlier, the companies said. Protein Design will receive payments based on combined sales of Avastin and three other medicines. Terms of the accord were not disclosed. Protein Design is based in Fremont, Calif., and Genentech is based in San Francisco.
Date: 02 December 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Icad Inc., a maker of computer-assisted medical tests, said that it would buy CADx Systems Inc. and its parent, Qualia Computing Inc., for about $30.6 million to expand its business. Icad, which is based in Nashua, N.H., said it would issue 4.3 million shares of its common stock, representing 16 percent of the outstanding shares after the merger. The company will also pay $1.55 million in cash and issue a $4.5 million promissory note to buy Qualia shares held by two institutional investors. The companies have collectively installed more than 300 systems that detect breast cancer in early stages, Icad said. CADx is based in Beavercreek, Ohio.
Date: 02 December 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
First Community Bancorp, the holding company for Pacific Western National Bank and First National Bank, agreed to buy Harbor National Bank for $35.5 million to add customers in Orange County, Calif. First Community, based in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., said it would pay about $13.28 a share for Harbor National after all outstanding stock options were cashed out. That is 8.4 percent less than Harbor National's closing price of $14.50 on Wednesday, when the shares last traded. Harbor National is based in Newport Beach, Calif.. First Community had 32 branches and $2.4 billion in assets as of Sept. 30.
Date: 02 December 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The wireless equipment maker Powerwave Technologies said yesterday that it had agreed to acquire LGP Allgon Holding of Sweden in a $407 million deal to create a company that can offer customers a broader range of wireless infrastructure gear. The transaction is expected to add to Powerwave's earnings per share in the first full quarter after its completion and to result in savings of at least $15 million a year, according to a news release. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2004. Shares of Powerwave, which makes power amplifiers used in wireless communications networks, fell 17 cents, or 2.3 percent, to $7.28. Trading in shares of LGP Allgon, which makes products to improve radio coverage, capacity and data speed in mobile communications networks and employs 1,400 people, was suspended on the Stockholm stock exchange.
Date: 02 December 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, owner of the Sheraton and Westin chains, hired Vasant Prabhu away from the grocer Safeway to fill the job of chief financial officer being vacated in a management reorganization.
Date: 02 December 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
OfficeMax, the office products retailer, said yesterday that sales this quarter would exceed its expectations after a one-day record of more than $40 million on Friday. The number of transactions on the day after Thanksgiving set a single-day record, the chief executive, Michael H. Feuer, said.
Date: 02 December 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
A former employee of Tyco International told a jury in New York yesterday that she had run a three-person department that managed the personal affairs of a former chief executive, L. Dennis Kozlowski, and a former chief financial officer, Mark H. Swartz. Testifying at the trial of the two men on fraud charges, the former employee, Kathleen McRae, said her duties as director for the executive treasury included tracking the cattle inventory at Mr. Swartz's farm in Virginia and updating Mr. Kozlowski on the status of his divorce case.
Date: 01 December 2003
INTERNATIONAL A3-13 Intense Shootout in Iraq: 46 Guerrillas Killed American soldiers killed 46 guerrillas in fiery shootouts in central Iraq, the largest battle in the country since coalition forces toppled Saddam Hussein's regime. At least 18 of the attackers were wounded and eight captured, the military said. No Americans were killed, but five soldiers and one civilian were wounded. A1