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Deals of the Hour / September 23, 2010, 4:40 am

U.S. Blockbuster files for bankruptcy protection

NEW YORK, N.Y.—Blockbuster Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection early Thursday, according to a report ... Once a home entertainment powerhouse, Dallas-based Blockbuster has been losing market share for ... (Source: Toronto Star 2010-09-23T11:10:58Z)

Somewhat ignored Alzheimer's tangles get new attention, offer clue to worsening

Nobody knows what causes Alzheimer's, although the disease's hallmark plaque — that gooey stuff called beta-amyloid — is the main suspect. Yet repeated attempts at anti-amyloid treatments have failed, (Source: Canada East 2010-09-20T18:52:40Z)

Blockbuster files for bankruptcy protection in U.S.

... Blockbuster Inc. is filing for bankruptcy protection ... New York on Thursday, in which it outlined plans to recapitalize its balance sheet and transform its business model. Once a home entertainment powerhouse (Source: Toronto Star 2010-09-23T11:25:17Z)

Summary Box: Treasury sells Hartford warrants

WARRANT AUCTION: The Treasury Department said Wednesday it has raised $706.3 million from the sale of warrants it held in The Hartford Financial Services Group. SALES PRICE: The warrants sold for $13.70 per warrant ... (Source: AP - msnbc.com 2010-09-22T22:32:12Z)

Sale Of Warrants For Shares In The Hartford Raised $706 Million

The U.S. Treasury said Wednesday it raised $706 million selling warrants, or rights to purchase, more than 52 million shares in The Hartford Financial Services Group during an auction Tuesday. The Treasury ... (Source: Hartford Courant 2010-09-22T22:03:34Z)

Michael Jackson Dance Game Under Development

A game being developed by French video game maker Ubisoft is helping resurrect Michael Jackson's dance moves by teaching players to master the King of Pop's most famous moves. The "Michael Jackson: The ... (Source: Redorbit.com 2010-09-13T11:22:50Z)

AP Exclusive: Palestinian hints at settlement deal

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has repeatedly threatened to walk away from peace talks, launched this month in Washington, if Israel resumes building in its West Bank settlements after a 10-month moratorium ... (Source: Las Vegas Sun 2010-09-23T07:14:45Z)

Commonwealth Games athletes delay departure for Delhi

Earlier this week, Team Scotland branded the accommodation it had been provided as "unsafe and unfit for human habitation." Safety fears were heightened by the collapse of a pedestrian bridge near the main stadium ... (Source: Courier 2010-09-23T09:37:55Z)

Dais Analytic Corporation Announces University of Florida Research Agreement

... Florida located in Gainesville, Fl. The agreement will power the path to energy's future focusing on Dais' NanoCap™ ultra capacitor ... the energy density of gasoline," said Scott Ehrenberg, Chief Technology ... (Source: msnbc.com 2010-09-21T10:59:02Z)

Speeches from Obama, Ahmadinejad to top UN session

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the foreign ministers of Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia met Wednesday to try to find a solution to the long-running dispute over Iran's nuclear ambitions. (Source: Jerusalem Post 2010-09-23T08:04:51Z)

Blockbuster files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, plans to stay open

NEW YORK - Troubled video-rental chain Blockbuster Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and said it plans to keep ... Once a home entertainment powerhouse, Blockbuster has been losing market share and ... (Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune 2010-09-23T11:18:08Z)

Dais Analytic strikes deal with University of Florida

... Florida . The agreement focuses on Dais' NanoCap ultracapacitor, an energy storage device ... Scott Ehrenberg, Dais' chief technology officer, said in the statement. Dais will work with a University of ... (Source: Tampa Bay Business Journal 2010-09-21T14:12:18Z)

More athletes delay coming to New Delhi for scandal-plagued Commonwealth Games

NEW DELHI - A growing number competitors are putting off travel to the Commonwealth Games to allow organizers time to finish their frantic preparations and clean the filthy accommodations that were slated ... (Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune 2010-09-23T07:50:32Z)

For sufferers of an early-onset dementia, career choice may determine location of ...

Canada – In an international study of patients with a devastating type of dementia ... FTLD is as common as Alzheimer's disease. Like Alzheimer's, it is progressive and fatal. Unlike Alzheimer's, which tends to ... (Source: EurekAlert 2010-09-22T16:05:39Z)

Spain reaches deal that will help it pass 2011 budget key to cutting deficit

MADRID (AP) — Spain's government has reached a deal ... Failure to pass a budget would be unprecedented and presumably force Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to call early elections. The ruling party's ... (Source: Chicago Tribune 2010-09-23T09:09:17Z)

Cision Marketing: Cision Integrates Self-Service TV and Radio Monitoring Into ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--First Solution ... solution – making CisionPoint ( http://uk.cision.com/Products-and-Services/CisionPoint/ ) the first software platform of its kind in the United Kingdom to offer near ... (Source: Yahoo Finance 2010-09-22T08:27:31Z)

Perfect the King of Pop's moves in virtual world

LOS ANGELES — The man who made the moonwalk famous will soon be getting a planet of his own. The Michael Jackson estate has entered a licensing deal with a Los Angeles company that will create an online ... (Source: Houston Chronicle 2010-09-21T21:43:16Z)

Fleet Street Consulting: De Vere Cameron House Partner with Lexus to Offer ...

uk Copyright Business Wire 2010 -0- KEYWORD: United Kingdom (Source: CNBC 2010-09-20T14:06:20Z)

India battles Commonwealth Games crisis

NEW DELHI (AFP) – New Zealand has delayed the departure of its Commonwealth Games athletes due to a long list of problems with accommodation in Delhi, the country's Games chief Mike Stanley said Thursday ... (Source: YAHOO! 2010-09-23T03:04:13Z)

World powers renew offer of nuke talks with Iran

... Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and the foreign ministers of Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia met on Wednesday to try to find a solution to the deadlock. They urged Iran to come to the ... (Source: AP - msnbc.com 2010-09-22T23:43:47Z)

Clock ticking on freeze of Gaza construction

JERUSALEM - With Israel's construction freeze on Jewish settlements in the West Bank scheduled to end this weekend ... Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, has often said that once building begins again, (Source: Columbus Dispatch 2010-09-23T10:35:11Z)

Spain reaches deal with small opposition party that will help it pass 2011 budget

The ruling Socialist party ... criticize its handling of Spain's economic crisis. Failure to pass a budget would be unprecedented and presumably force Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to call early elections. (Source: Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel 2010-09-23T08:40:39Z)

Spain government inches closer to budget support

The ruling Socialist party ... criticize its handling of Spain's economic crisis. Failure to pass a budget would be unprecedented and presumably force Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to call early elections. (Source: AP - msnbc.com 2010-09-23T08:47:48Z)

Michael Jackson Estate Approves "Planet Michael"

The Associated Press reports that Michael Jackson's estate has entered a licensing deal with a Los Angeles company that will create an online virtual world based on the King of Pop called "Planet Michael ... (Source: Artistdirect.com 2010-09-22T18:21:39Z)

TicketPrinting.com Opening New Customer Support Center in Lewistown

... United Kingdom and Australia in 2009 and are now market leaders ... UK Ticket Printing and TicketRiver Australia, and to its new online event promotion and tickets sales site, Ticket River(TM). TicketPrinting. (Source: Forbes 2010-09-13T11:44:18Z)

Dais Analytic Corp. (DLYT.OB) Partners with University of Florida to Advance Dais ...

... Florida in Gainesville, Fla., to bring Dais' NanoCap™ ultra capacitor from testing ... to deliver the electronic equal to the energy density of gasoline," Scott Ehrenberg, chief technology officer of Dais ... (Source: Transworld News 2010-09-22T18:57:27Z)

Obama, in UN address, challenges world to unite around Israeli-Palestinian peace

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is threatening to walk out of the talks if Israel does not extend a slowdown on construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank that is set to expire next week. Israeli Prime ... (Source: KFOR 2010-09-23T10:06:33Z)

Memory Walk 2010 in Aptos aims to raise funds, awareness for Alzheimer's disease

when they were preparing to leave for a ski trip to Canada and she couldn't remember ... Clinic in Santa Clara -- where she was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease. Although her father suffered from the ... (Source: San Jose Mercury News 2010-09-22T08:27:31Z)

Obama and Ahmadinejad to Face Off at U.N.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the foreign ministers of Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia met Wednesday to try to find a solution to the long-running dispute over Iran's nuclear ambitions. (Source: My Fox Boston 2010-09-23T10:42:20Z)

Hartford warrants sell for $706.3 million

The government has raised $706.3 million from the sale of warrants it held in The Hartford Financial Services Group. It was the latest move to recoup costs for taxpayers from the $700 billion financial bailout. The ... (Source: AP - msnbc.com 2010-09-22T15:58:29Z)

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