LexisNexis, a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions, announced that it has acquired IDEX, Inc. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Based in Overland Park, Kansas; IDEX is a leading provider of expert witness content to the legal market. The company maintains an authoritative, exclusive database of more than 1,000,000 records on 200,000-plus experts - including expert profiles, testimonial histories, verdict awards, settlement amounts, authored content, and expert depositions and court testimony.
Cincinnati Bell Inc. (NYSE:CBB) announced financial results for the third quarter of 2008 including revenue of $347 million, up $2 million or 1 percent year-over-year. Operating income was $80 million with net income of $27 million. Earnings per share on a diluted basis were 10 cents, which is a 12 percent increase over the third quarter of 2007. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization(1) (Adjusted EBITDA) equaled $120 million, which was even with a year ago. "Cincinnati Bell's third-quarter results demonstrate solid performance in the face of challenging times in the U.S. economy," said Jack Cassidy, president and chief executive officer of Cincinnati Bell. "As a company we continue to deliver superior network quality, service, and value to consumers and businesses. Our customers in Greater Cincinnati and Dayton experienced this firsthand when we took quick and decisive action to respond to the region's largest-ever commercial power outage in September."
PARTICIPANTS . Traci Bolte, Cincinnati Bell, Inc., VP, IR & Corporate Communications . Jack Cassidy, Cincinnati Bell, Inc., President & CEO . Brian Ross, Cincinnati Bell, Inc., COO . Gary Wojtaszek, Cincinnati Bell, Inc., CFO . Mike McCormack, J.P. Morgan, Analyst . Jason Armstrong, Goldman Sachs, Analyst . Simon Flannery, Morgan Stanley, Analyst . Batya Levi, UBS, Analyst . David Barden, Banc of America, Analyst . Frank Louthan, Raymond James, Analyst . William Power, Robert W. Baird & Co, Inc., Analyst OVERVIEW CBB reported 3Q08 revenue of $347m. 3Q08 EPS excluding special items was $0.10.
LexisNexis, a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions, announced that it has acquired IDEX, Inc. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Based in Overland Park, Kansas; IDEX is a leading provider of expert witness content to the legal market. The company maintains an authoritative, exclusive database of more than 1,000,000 records on 200,000-plus experts - including expert profiles, testimonial histories, verdict awards, settlement amounts, authored content, and expert depositions and court testimony.
Cincinnati Bell Inc. (NYSE:CBB) announced financial results for the third quarter of 2008 including revenue of $347 million, up $2 million or 1 percent year-over-year. Operating income was $80 million with net income of $27 million. Earnings per share on a diluted basis were 10 cents, which is a 12 percent increase over the third quarter of 2007. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization(1) (Adjusted EBITDA) equaled $120 million, which was even with a year ago. "Cincinnati Bell's third-quarter results demonstrate solid performance in the face of challenging times in the U.S. economy," said Jack Cassidy, president and chief executive officer of Cincinnati Bell. "As a company we continue to deliver superior network quality, service, and value to consumers and businesses. Our customers in Greater Cincinnati and Dayton experienced this firsthand when we took quick and decisive action to respond to the region's largest-ever commercial power outage in September."
OXFORD, England, November 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Media invitation to the 8th annual Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford - the Said Business School's leading entrepreneurship forum. Speakers will explore the big issues and future directions of innovation and entrepreneurial phenomena in a vibrant and fast paced mix of masterclasses and panel debates. This leading European entrepreneurship forum brings business leaders and luminaries from across Silicon Valley with Oxford faculty, MBAs, student members of Oxford University and the British entrepreneurial ecosystem. Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford 2008 will feature a full 360 degree perspective of the various technologies, ventures, sectors and trends which represent the Silicon Valley phenomenon. Systems, software and the internet are the bedrock of Silicon Valley from smart search engines and intelligent databases to open source software, social networking, e-commerce and web TV. The overlap of these technologies and trends provides the opportunity to fully explore future directions. Trends shall be contrasted with the longer term and visionary elements of technology on a keynote panel entitled 'The Universe, the Brain and Second Life.' Naturally, entrepreneurship and innovation shall be explored against the backdrop of the current economic and political climate.
NEW YORK, Nov. 19, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- For the 12 million U.S. children currently living on the brink of hunger, Procter & Gamble's Cascade brand has partnered with Feeding America (formerly named America's Second Harvest) in an effort to raise four million meals this holiday season, through the launch of a powerful new Web site, http://www.cascadefeedsamerica.com/ . The far-reaching goodwill campaign has joined forces with head judge of Bravo's hit TV series "Top Chef," Tom Colicchio, to shine a spotlight on the cause. With just one click on http://www.cascadefeedsamerica.com/ visitors will help donate meals to needy children through Feeding America's "Kids Cafe" program, and can also discover a delicious holiday recipe created by Colicchio for "Roasted Chicken and Fingerling Potatoes with Lemon and Rosemary."
AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Supercomputing 2008, Booth 1009 -- Belgium's Catholic University of Leuven (K.U.Leuven) has selected an energy-smart, space-efficient cluster system from Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI)(NASDAQ:SGIC)to form one of the initial building blocks of a new supercomputer center to drive research excellence in the Flemish Region of Belgium. K.U.Leuven, the oldest existing Catholic university in the world, recently installed a 928-core SGI(R) Altix(R) ICE system and a 29 Terabyte (TB) SGI(R) InfiniteStorage NEXIS 2000 InfiniBand NAS storage solution. The high- productivity installation will hasten computational results Belgian researchers require to achieve breakthroughs in the study of climatology, molecular imaging, computational systems biology, nanoscale physics, chemistry and more.
HARTFORD, Conn., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Day Pitney LLP, a leading full-service law firm with offices in Boston, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Washington, DC, announced today that Law & Politics has named 55 Day Pitney lawyers as Super Lawyers(R) or Rising Stars. Victoria Woodin Chavey appears on the "Top 50 Women" list and Steven Greenspan appears on the New England Top 100 list. Both are listings of lawyers who received the highest point totals in the nomination and review process. New England Super Lawyers is a regional recognition based on peer nominations, a blue ribbon panel review and independent research on each of the candidates (view full selection process here). Each year, Super Lawyers selects the best attorneys in over 70 practice areas across the New England region (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont). The following is a list of the Day Pitney 2008 New England Super Lawyers and Rising Stars, by category:
