| CoStar Group Named One of the Fastest Growing Technology Companies for Eighth Consecutive Year | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 10:47:28 AM by Blog57 Team | | CoStar Group, Inc. , the number one provider of information services to the commercial real estate industry, today announced that for the eighth consecutive year it has been named a Maryland Technology Fast 50 Company by Deloitte & Touche LLP. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060510/COSTARLOGO ) CoStar Group's revenue grew by 85.3% between 2001 and 2005, the five-year period on which the rankings are based. The company reported revenue of $134.3 million in 2005. "We are extremely honored to once again rank in the Deloitte & Touche Maryland Fast 50," said CoStar Group President and CEO Andrew C. Florance. "This ranking reflects the hard work by everyone at CoStar as we continue to achieve subscription revenue growth and invest in the company's expansion." Florance added, "CoStar is committed to maximizing the use of technology to provide the most comprehensive commercial real estate information available." Founded in 1987, CoStar Group established itself as an independent source of local market information for commercial real estate firms in Washington, D.C.... | |
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| | | Spy Shots: Dodge Sprinter | | Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 12:45:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | Allpar.com has posted some great spy shots of the revised Dodge Sprinter. The Mercedes-built van has been a quiet success for DaimlerChrysler in the U.S., and DCX may be looking to expand its place in the market. The passenger version shown in these photos may indicate a new focus for the Sprinter van product, as well. With a little investment, the Sprinter could become an even better people moving tool for organizations like churches, schools, and maybe even some families, supplanting the age-old Ford E-Series Econoline and similar offerings from General Motors. The current generation van can be configured as a people mover, but the revisions to the rear window glass and some packaging changes could indicate that Dodge is ready to go after some of the full-size van market. The Sprinter offers better fuel economy, more space, and an overall better packaging proposition than most full-size vans.... | |
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| | | UPI Thoroughbred Racing Roundup | | Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:46:10 AM by Blog57 Team | | CHICAGO, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Most of the heavy artillery was on the firing line at tracks around the country during the weekend in final preps for the Breeders' Cup World Championships, now less than a month away. And perhaps the biggest guns of all -- Bernardini and Lava Man -- both did what they needed to do in preparation for the marquee event of the Nov. 4 races at Churchill Downs -- the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic. Among the human competitors, trainer Todd Pletcher made the biggest bang. Four of his horses won graded stakes and another finished second, earning nearly $1.5 million in one day. Bernardini was the clear favorite in a four-horse field in Saturday's $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park and ran like it. The 3-year-old son of A.P.... | |
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| | | Automakers looking for woman's design touch | | Posted Sunday, September 24, 2006 2:46:17 AM by Blog57 Team | | DETROIT -- Katie Slater, a soft-spoken, ponytail-sporting 17-year-old, is attracted to fast cars and powerful engines. As a 14-second, 100-meter sprinter at Cabrini High School in Allen Park, Mich., Slater says she thinks cars should run and look as sleek and fast as her sprint. Chelsea Ramirez, 17, of Plantation, Fla., is more about luxury and less about practicality, even though her own wheels, a 2005 Honda Civic, are famously functional. Meet the car buyers and designers of the future. According to Ford Motor Co. research, women influence 85 percent of all car-buying decisions and purchase 45 percent of all vehicles, Ford spokeswoman Marisa Bradley said. Despite that, women are still the minority in the design workplace, something the industry is trying to change.... | |
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| | | Take Me (and my gear) to the Starting Line! | | Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 12:45:48 PM by Blog57 Team | | Even the most organized adventure racer has oodles of gear to put in just the right place when packing for an adventure race. Outdoor Retailer Summer Market showcased improvements to several items adventure racers already use, and even introduced some items completely new to the scene that could forever alter the way you get to and from the race. If you've got the resources (about $60,000), consider the Sportsmobile conversion of that boxy new van you?ve seen around town. Some carry the Mercedes mark, others say Freightliner, still others say Dodge, but they?re all called Sprinters. Introduced in Europe by Mercedes in 1995, the platform has been commonplace throughout the world, but was only recently introduced to the U.S. market. Sportsmobile, famous for customizing vans from the Big Three automakers into off-road adventure machines, is now adapting what converts to the funky shape are calling "the van you can stand up in." Mountain bike champion Brian Lopes loves the van so much, he has one customized for his specific needs.... | |
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| | | ETC.: | | Posted Wednesday, August 23, 2006 6:45:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | Lost in the Fog, the 2005 Eclipse Award winner as sprinter of the year, has cancer in his spleen and abdomen, and trainer Greg Gilchrist said the 4-year-old colt will have to be put down soon. ... Sasha Artemev capped his faster-than-expected comeback from a shoulder injury by winning the U.S. men's gymnastics title in St. Paul, Minn., with 180.35 points to 179.3 for runner-up Jonathan Horton. ... Juventus has failed in its attempt to get a lighter sentence in Italy's match-fixing scandal. Juventus wanted readmission into the elite Serie A. ... The United States beat Congo, 2-1, in Moscow in its opener at the FIFA Under-20 Women's World Championship. ... English Premier team Portsmouth is set to sign midfielder Sulley Muntari, a star for Ghana's World Cup team, from Udinese for a club-record $17 million.... | |
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| | | After the conversion: The search for vegetable-oil motor fuel | | Posted Tuesday, August 01, 2006 4:45:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | The quest for secondhand fryer oil to use as a motor fuel sometimes turns on the question of whom you know. But as some restaurant owners and managers have discovered, it is also a question of who you are and what you do for a living. Take David Selig, the 41-year-old owner of five restaurants in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Cooking flash-fried rice balls, lotus-root chips and vegetarian meatballs, his kitchens produce as much as 266 liters of waste oil each week -- sometimes more than twice the amount needed to run the Dodge Sprinter diesel van that Selig uses in his restaurant and catering businesses. Selig, who has a four-restaurant chain called Rice and a separate establishment featuring Basque cuisine called N (pronounced enya), had a modified Greasecar conversion kit installed in the van last month.... | |
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| | | Bush: U.S. progress on better plug-in hybrids speeds along | | Posted Monday, July 31, 2006 2:45:48 AM by Blog57 Team | | WASHINGTON -- The United States is making good progress on plug-in hybrid battery technology that would allow drivers to travel 40 miles without using any gasoline, President Bush said Thursday. "We're working on battery technologies," Bush said in Washington at a speech to the National Association of Manufacturers. "They say we're pretty close to a breakthrough in a battery where you can drive the first 40 miles on a battery, and your car doesn't look like a golf cart." But don't get the checkbook out to buy that plug-in hybrid yet. The big unknowns are cost and battery life. Plug-in hybrids are gas-electric vehicles that recharge their batteries with an extension cord and a normal wall outlet when parked, and through a regenerative brake system while on the road.... | |
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| | | Chrysler dealers open until midnight | | Posted Sunday, July 09, 2006 4:46:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | For the first time in its history, Chrysler Group dealerships in the Shreveport area and across the country are staying open until midnight each day through Wednesday to push the companys employee pricing discount. Customers visiting a Shreveport Chrysler, Jeep or Dodge dealer will receive employee pricing on vehicles plus zero percent financing for 36 months on qualifying 2006 models. The program includes nearly all the 2006 model year lineup, including Dodge Ram pickup and Chrysler Town & Country and Dodge Caravan minivans. The Dodge Viper, Dodge Ram SRT10 pickup and Dodge Sprinter are not included. The Employee Pricing Plus program runs through July 31. Dealers nationwide responded positively to staying open late for the holiday weekend, said Gary Panteck, co-president of the Chrysler-Jeep Dealer Council.... | |
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| | | Unprecedented New Chrysler Group Corporate Ad Campaign Focuses on Consumer Benefits of Best of American and German | | Posted Saturday, July 08, 2006 10:45:58 AM by Blog57 Team | | AUBURN HILLS, Mich., June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- For the first time since the merger of the former Daimler-Benz and Chrysler Corporation, Chrysler Group is communicating the consumer benefits of the best of American and German engineering and design built into every Chrysler, Jeep(R) and Dodge vehicle in a new corporate ad campaign. Chrysler Group revealed its unprecedented campaign today and introduced its new spokesperson, DaimlerChrysler (Nachrichten/Aktienkurs) Chairman Dieter Zetsche. The multifaceted "Ask Dr. Z" campaign launches July 1 and focuses on the innovative design, quality, reliability, performance and fuel economy of Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge vehicles today. The campaign launch coincides with the beginning of an Employee Pricing Plus summer sales program.... | |
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