The January 9, 2004 was a Friday under the star sign of ♑. It was the 8 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 22 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, January 9, 2026, 174 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, January 9, 2027, in 190 days. You have lived for 8,210 days, or about 197,063 hours, or about 11,823,792 minutes, or about 709,427,520 seconds.
Date: 10 January 2004
By Bloomberg News
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International Business Machines and RealNetworks Inc are collaborating on new programs for selling Internet-based audio and video services; will combine two companies' software to allow users access to such media as Internet-based television and digital music (S)
Date: 10 January 2004
By Bloomberg News
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WestPoint Stevens Inc to close four factories and cut 975 jobs beginning in mid-March; company filed for bankruptcy protection in June (S)
Date: 10 January 2004
By Bloomberg News
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Vital Images Inc, maker of medical-imaging software, lowers earnings estimate for 2003 because of slower-than-expected sales in fourth quarter; acquires HInnovation Inc, maker of software that allows doctors to view medical images over Internet, for $12 million in stock and cash and as much as $6 million in payments if certain goals are met (S)
Date: 10 January 2004
By Bloomberg News
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Strikes by employees of several California grocery stores might have adverse effect on earnings of Medicare health plan operator PacifiCare Health Systems Inc; PacifiCare insures 48,000 United Food and Commercial Workers members who have gone on strike since October, and provides drug prescription services to an additional 200,000 striking union workers (S)
Date: 09 January 2004
By Bloomberg News
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Footstar shareholder Chapman Capital is interested in leading group to buy company for $8 per share, valuing Footstar at $161 million; Chapman also wants Footstar to replace its chief executive Neele E Stearns Jr (S)
Date: 09 January 2004
By Bloomberg News
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Barnes & Noble acquires remaining shares of its Internet unit Barnes & Noble.com for about $150 million in cash, raising previous offer by $35 million; unit will become subsidiary of Barnes & Noble (S)
Date: 10 January 2004
By Bloomberg News
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Rite Aid reassigns chief financial officer Chris Hall because he is in settlement talks with Securities and Exchange Commission over accounting probe at his former employer Ralphs Grocery; Hall is named senior vice president for real estate and planning; is replaced by John T Standley (S)
Date: 09 January 2004
By Bloomberg News
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Biopure, unprofitable biotechnology company developing human blood substitute Hemopure, says Food and Drug Administration has asked for more testing before product can be approved (S)
Date: 09 January 2004
By Bloomberg News
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MedImmune's chief financial officer Gregory S Patrick resigns; controller Lota S Zoth will be acting chief financial officer (S)
Date: 09 January 2004
By Bloomberg News
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Electronic stock brokerage firm Instinet Group will lay off 185 employees, or 15 percent of its work force, and reduce office space because of its decision to split company's operations (S)