Monthly Archives: August 2003

Sisters for justice, NEW STRAITS TIMES-MANAGEMENT TIMES

xfdws SISTERS-FOR-JUSTICE sked Emerging Markets Datafile August 11, 2003 NEW STRAITS TIMES-MANAGEMENT TIMES MALAYSIA ENGLISH Sisters for justice, NEW STRAITS TIMES-MANAGEMENT TIMES Sofianni Subki ASIA WorldSources, Inc. 322 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE 2ND FLOOR, NE WASHINGTON, DC 20002 COPYRIGHT 2003 BY WORLDSOURCES, […]

Merrill’s Ex-Research Chief to Return

NEW YORK (AP) – Robert J. McCann, a Merrill Lynch veteran who oversaw the company’s stock-research department until March 1, is returning as an executive vice president overseeing the company’sbrokerage, research and money-management operations, Merrill said Tuesday. McCann, who joined […]

Beware Greenspan bearing gifts ; City Comment

THE cheerleaders for the American economy have been out in force again in the past few days, trying to convince themselves and indeed everyone else that the world’s biggest economy has got over itswoes and is truly on the mend. […]

Biotech Company Recognized For Raising Venture Capital

Targacept has won an award for its ability to raise venture capital. The Winston-Salem company, which is developing treatments for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, won an Entrepreneurial Excellence Award on Friday from the Council for Entrepreneurial Development. Targacept, a 1997 […]

Security Veteran Selected to Speak at Datacenter Ventures

ATLANTA, GA — (MARKET WIRE) — 08/12/2003 — Trusted Network Technologies, Inc. (www.trustednetworktech.com), the leader in Identity-based Access Control™ software, announced today thatCEO, Stephen Gant, will speak at Datacenter Ventures, which is scheduled to take place September 16 to 17, […]

Security Veteran Selected to Speak at Datacenter Ventures

Trusted Network Technologies, Inc. (www.trustednetworktech.com), the leader in Identity-based Access Control(TM) software, announced today that CEO, Stephen Gant, will speak at Datacenter Ventures, which is scheduled to take place September 16 to 17, 2003, at the Sofitel San Francisco Bay […]

Bush lauds Taylor’s departure, but does not discuss more U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President George W. Bush described former Liberian President Charles Taylor’s departure into exile as “an important step” but gave no hint whether it moved him closer todeploying more U.S. troops to the war-ravaged country. Three U.S. warships […]

The sound of money

Two New Jersey companies, Expand Networks and Audible, celebrated $15 million in venture capital investments last week. Wayne-based Audible received a $6 million investment from Apax Partners, aglobal private equity firm, and Bertelsmann, an international media company. Alan Patricof and […]

Venture capital deals soar in second quarter

Two quarterly surveys of venture capital financing show investments soaring statewide and nationally in the second quarter of 2003. According to the PficewaterhouseCoopers/ Thomson Venture Economics/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree Survey, 11 Connecticut companies received $114 million during the second […]

Milwaukee-Area Venture-Capital Pool Gets Bigger

Aug. 11–Baird Venture Partners, a Milwaukee investment firm, plans to announce Monday that it has raised $90 million to back technology, biotechnology and business services companies in Wisconsinand the Midwest. The Baird fund — along with the Frazier Technology Ventures […]

Wall Street Column

Aug. 11–GROWTH STOCKS: “JetBlue Airways (JBLU) differentiates itself by flying new aircraft, offering low fares and good service. This strategy has been well received, as indicated by the company’s87.4 percent load factor in the second quarter of 2003 the best […]

CORRECTION: Wall Street Column

Aug. 11–The story slugged WS-WALL-STREET-COL, which was sent by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News for Aug. 11, contained an error in the Logitech section. The end of the fifth sentence should have read “profits fell to $0.12 per share on lower […]