12 March 2010
The membership of the Visual Effects Society twice honored director James Cameron at its 8th annual awards show on Feb. 28 in Century City. First were the six statuettes given to “Avatar,” Cameron’s sci-fi 3D mega-blockbuster grossing more than $2 billion in worldwide box office receipts The second was in receiving the Encino-based society’s Lifetime [...]
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12 March 2010
Mark Twain was famously quoted as saying,“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” CEO Tama Holve of Willett Travel in Studio City has adapted this quote when she teaches her five students at the Willett Travel Academy, a small class she teaches to future agents making career switches if they give her a [...]
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12 March 2010
The problems faced by Toyota may be just what U.S. car companies need to boost sales and snare market share away from a competitor. Toyota, the top selling vehicle manufacturer in the world, has been knocked to the mat over faulty brakes and sticky accelerators that resulted in a recall on some of its most [...]
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12 March 2010
Students in a Texas school district will receive iPod Touch devices with parental controls supplied by Thousand Oaks firm Mobicip. Terms of the deal between Mobicip and the Jim Ned Consolidated Independent School District in Tuscola, Texas were not disclosed. Adoption of Mobicip’s parental controls by a school district is a testament to its capabilities, [...]
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12 March 2010
The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office has filed a lawsuit challenging the installation of so-called “supergraphic” and other types of signage throughout the city, including a handful in the Valley. Many of the signs identified in the suit cover windows and obstruct ventilation, posing serious safety hazards for building occupants. Designed to be viewed primarily [...]
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12 March 2010
ReachLocal Inc., a Woodland Hills-based online marketing company, acquired SMB:LIVE, developer of digital presence and reputation management solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses. Acquisition of the company’s technology will help ReachLocal develop a solution that enables small- and medium-sized businesses to publish multimedia content from a single interface to a business profile page hosted by [...]
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12 March 2010
Owner and operator of Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel Crown media Holdings, Inc. announced that the Company has approved and executed definitive agreements relating to a recapitalization of the company. A special board committee came up with terms which the company entered into its parent corporation, Hallmark Cards, H C Crown Corp. , a [...]
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12 March 2010
Radio Station KCSN-FM (88.5), based at Cal. State, Northridge, announced it will become the only non-commercial radio station in Los Angeles to broadcast an Adult Album Alternative format 24 hours a day beginning immediately. Located on the university’s campus in the San Fernando Valley, KCSN’s signal covers most of the San Fernando and Santa Clarita [...]
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12 March 2010
Restaurant operator and franchisor DineEquity Inc. narrowed its net loss in the fourth quarter when compared to the previous year. The Glendale-based company, owner of the IHOP and Appelbee’s brands, said a write down of Applebee’s intangible assets contributed to the quarterly results. DineEquity reported a net loss of $48.2 million, or $2.84 per diluted [...]
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12 March 2010
The Ryland Group, Inc. has declared a first-quarter dividend of three cents per share, payable April 30 to common stock shareholders of record as of April 15. Headquartered in Calabasas, Ryland is one of the nation’s largest homebuilders and a mortgage-finance company.
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12 March 2010
Capstone Turbine Corp. has switched distributors for its microturbine Energy products in Southern California. Chatsworth-based Capstone will now have Regatta Solutions representing its product line after mutually cutting ties with former distributor, Collicut Energy Services. Capstone and Collicut agreed their respective business models were not similar enough to continue their distribution relationship. Regatta came out [...]
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12 March 2010
Congress gave recession weary families some good news just before its December recess. In a move designed to help families retain their employer sponsored insurance, Congress extended last year’s COBRA subsidy. The news couldn’t have come at a better time for families looking at the looming December 31 cutoff for the subsidy. Background. The so [...]
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