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BUSINESS BRIEFS.(TO THE POINT)
ACCOUNTING
Andersen snubbed by committee
A House committee probing Enron refused on constitutional grounds to turn over documents to Arthur Andersen. The papers relate to the panel's interviews of Andersen's chief auditor on the Enron account. Andersen is scheduled to face trial Monday on a criminal obstruction charge for destroying Enron-related documents.
KPMG Consulting is close to acquiring Andersen's U.S. consulting arm and parts of its overseas consulting business for more than $250 mil, reports say.
SEC eyes critical accounting rules
The financial watchdog wants firms to do a better job of alerting investors to key accounting decisions. Under the proposal, execs would have to disclose "critical" accounting choices involving ...
- Kyodo News International, Tokyo, Business Briefs Column.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News July 10, 2003 700+ words
...ELPIDA TO PRODUCE WORLD'S FASTEST MEMORY CHIP: TOKYO--Toshiba Corp. and Elpida...they say will be the world's fastest memory chip. The new chip, called XDR DRAM, uses...best-in-class personal computer memory chip currently available, they said. Toshiba...
- Business Briefs
- Newspaper article from: Honolulu Star - Bulletin Anonymous July 30, 2008 700+ words
...Toshiba Corp. said it sank into a loss of 11.6 billion yen ($107.91 million) because of the nose-dive in flash memory chip prices. BREIFCASE SCRABBLE SUSPENSION: The creators of a Scrabble knockoff responsible for countless hours at the online...
- The Denver Post Business Briefs Column.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 20, 2002 700+ words
...PROBED: U.S. antitrust officials are investigating whether semiconductor makers manipulated prices in the $11.9 billion memory-chip market. The government requested information from Micron Technology Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. and Infineon Technologies...
- Evening Standard, London, Business Briefs Column.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News September 19, 2003 700+ words
...settle in" management and staff. SAMSUNG ON ITS WAY FROM KOREA TO CHINA: Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest memory chip maker, plans to move most of its personal computer manufacturing operations from Korea to China by 2005 to cut costs. The...
- The Salt Lake Tribune business briefs column.
- Newspaper article from: Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, UT) July 30, 2004 700+ words
...p.m. Wednesday at Sorensen Multicultural Center, 855 W. California Ave. MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC. -- which operates a memory chip testing facility in Utah County -- has won the Editor's Choice Award from AnandTech. The online publication recognized...
- The Sun, Lowell, Mass., business briefs column.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News September 21, 2004 700+ words
...yesterday announced that it has landed a multimillion-dollar contract with Powerchip Semiconductor Corp., a leading memory chip manufacturer in Taiwan. The pact calls for the deployment of Brooks' fault detection software at Powerchip's two new 300mm...
- Bernie Ebbers, chief executive of WorldCom, was forced out of office.(also,...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) May 4, 2002 700+ words
...business. The board of South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor reversed a decision to accept a $3.4 billion offer for its memory-chip business from Micron, an American rival, after months of negotiations. The company's state-controlled creditor banks...
- Business Briefs: 165 Guiding Principles from the World's Sharpest Minds.
- Magazine article from: Entrepreneur Phillips, Debra January 1, 1997 700+ words
...surely appreciate the straightforwardness of Russ Wild's Business Briefs: 165 Guiding Principles From the World's Sharpest Minds...there's enough entrepreneurial information provided to make Business Briefs worthwhile.
