Papa John's (PZZA)

Papa John's, the recognized quality leader and world's third-largest pizza chain with more than 3,400 restaurants in 30 countries, announced today a first-time sponsorship to be the Official Pizza Sponsor of the NFL and Super Bowl XLIV. Papa John's will activate its sponsorship in several ways, including using the official status to celebrate January as "National Football Month," the time of year when football games matter most - all leading up to The Big Game on Sunday, February 7.
"Companies and brands associate with the NFL and the Super Bowl because they are committed to a quality and leadership position, and that's consistent with our philosophy at Papa John's," said Andrew Varga, Papa John's Chief Marketing Officer. "This is an important marketing partnership for Papa John's, as there is no better combination in our industry than pizza and NFL football. The Super Bowl is the grandest stage - or 'house' as we like to call it - and Papa John's is thrilled to be in the house with football fans at this event."

Jan 12 · 3:07:00 PM · Source: Company Press Release
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by Rich Pike

CKE Restaurants (CKR)

CKE Restaurants today announced two franchise agreements that will bring an additional 31 Carl's Jr.(R) restaurants to Texas over the next nine years. Frontera Star Foods has committed to opening 20 units in the Laredo, Brownsville, McAllen, and Harlingen areas in Southeast Texas. The second franchisee, Burger Barons, has agreed to open 11 units throughout the Waco, Killeen, Temple, College Station and Bryan, Texas communities. Both franchisees are new members of the Carl's Jr. franchise community.
As of the end of its fiscal 2010 third quarter, CKE Restaurants, Inc., through its subsidiaries, had a total of 3,147 franchised, licensed or company-operated restaurants in 42 states and in 14 countries, including 1,221 Carl's Jr. restaurants and 1,913 Hardee's(R) restaurants.

Jan 12 · 2:58:00 PM · Source: Company Press Release
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by Rich Pike

Cray Inc (CRAY)

Supercomputer maker Cray Inc. said today that based on preliminary results, total revenue for 2009 is now expected to be about $284 million and earnings are expected to be in the range of about break-even to a small loss from operations. Cash and short-term investments as of December 31, 2009 are expected to be above $110 million. Cray retired all remaining convertible notes during the fourth quarter of 2009.

Jan 12 · 2:57:00 PM · Source: Company Press Release
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by Larry Etter

Compellent Technologies (CML)

Compellent Technologies, Inc. today announced the availability of Storage Center 5, designed to simplify disaster recovery and enable automated tiered storage for any sized budget. Built on its Dynamic Block Architecture, Storage Center 5's new features include: Portable Volume replication, scalable SAS storage, automated tiered storage with RAID 6 protection, Virtual Ports I/O technology, Server Mapping provisioning and space-efficient Consistency Groups. With Compellent's persistent, scalable design and block-level virtualization, end-users can mix different storage tiers from SAS to SSD in a single, virtualized pool of storage as the core of a fluid data environment.

Jan 12 · 2:45:00 PM · Source: Company News Release
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by Larry Etter

Compellent Technologies (CML)

Jan 12 · 2:42:00 PM
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Stratasys Inc. (SSYS)

One year after introducing what has become the world’s best-selling 3D printer — the Dimension uPrint — Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS) says it has expanded the product line with the uPrint Plus – an enhanced version with lots of new features – while still keeping the price under $20,000 (USD).

Jan 12 · 2:40:00 PM · Source: Company News Release
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by Larry Etter

NCR Corp. (NCR)

NCR Corporation unveiled a personal-sized checkout solution (50 percent smaller than the standard NCR one-bag self-checkout) to provide fully integrated security features, the enhanced NCR SelfServ Checkout Mini.

Jan 12 · 2:36:00 PM · Source: India Retailing
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by Larry Etter

IBM (IBM)

IBM Tuesday announced it received 4,914 U.S. patents in 2009, marking the 17th consecutive year it has topped the list of the world's most inventive companies. IBM also announced that, for the first time, it will offer its invention know-how and patent portfolio management software to clients seeking to enhance their intellectual property (IP) management capabilities in support of innovation-based growth strategies.

Jan 12 · 1:08:00 PM · Source: Company News Release
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by Larry Etter