Denver International Airport has new videos and a podcast on its website on packing and travel tips for fliers and features on DIA art and airport employees.
The Sights and Sounds feature is accessible through flydenver .com. Sights and Sounds will regularly have new video files and podcasts, according to DIA.
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ARAPAHOE COUNTY
Dex plans stand-alone directory in Spanish
Arapahoe County-based Dex Media will introduce its first comprehensive stand-alone Spanish-language directory for the Front Range next year.
Front Range Dex En Español, which will be printed and distributed in early 2007, will cover communities from Greeley to Pueblo, including the Denver metro area. Dex introduced Spanish-language Yellow Pages sections in Colorado directories in 2002, first in Pueblo, followed by several Denver communities and Greeley.
DULLES, Va.
Upheaval at AOL puts NBC exec in top job
AOL chairman and chief executive Jonathan Miller will be replaced by Randy Falco, a top NBC Universal executive, in a surprise high-level shake-up announced Wednesday evening.
Falco is president of the NBC Universal television group and has overseen NBC advertising.
AOL is transitioning from a subscription-based model to an advertising-supported company with good results. Ad sales for the most recent quarter at AOL were up 46 percent, the company reported this month.
WASHINGTON
Level 3 gets FTC nod for Broadwing deal
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday approved Level 3 Communications’ proposed acquisition of Broadwing for roughly $1.4 billion.
Broomfield-based Level 3 announced plans to acquire Broadwing, a smaller rival based in Austin, Texas, in October.
BOULDER
Cancer drug spurred Pharmion acquisition
Pharmion Corp. said it acquired Cabrellis Pharmaceuticals to gain rights to its oncology medicine amrubicin for lung cancer.
Pharmion will pay $59 million in cash to start and two added payments of $12.5 million each upon approval of amrubicin by U.S. and European Union regulators, the Boulder-based company said in a statement.
CHICAGO
Chase to put ATMs in Colo. Walgreens
Chase Bank said it will place its automated teller machines in 115 Walgreens locations across Colorado. That will more than double Chase’s ATM count in Colorado to 216.
Wells Fargo, the state’s largest bank, has a network of about 229 ATMs. US Bank has 222 machines, and First Bank has 199.
Chase, which formerly operated locally as Bank One, has added 10 branch locations this year in Colorado, giving it 78 locations statewide. Plans are for the bank to have 100 locations by 2008.
HOUSTON
Ex-Enron executive sentenced to 5 1/2 years
Richard Causey, the last of the top Enron Corp. executives to learn his punishment, was sentenced Wednesday to 5 1/2 years in prison for his role in one of the biggest corporate scandals in U.S. history.
Causey, the energy-trading company’s former chief accounting officer, pleaded guilty last December to securities fraud two weeks before he was to be tried along with Enron founder Ken Lay and former chief executive Jeff Skilling on conspiracy, fraud and other charges.
BRUSSELS, Belgium
Microsoft has 8 days to satisfy EU order
Neelie Kroes, the European Union’s top antitrust official, gave Microsoft Corp. eight days to comply with an EU antitrust order or face daily fines of as much as $3.8 million.
Microsoft, which was fined $357 million in July for flouting an EU ruling, still hasn’t provided complete information to competitors on how its Windows operating system communicates over a network, the European Commission said.
DEARBORN, Mich.
Ford delays delivery of crossover vehicles
Ford Motor Co. will delay delivery of its new Ford Edge and Lincoln MKX crossover vehicles as it irons out problems at its Oakville, Ontario, manufacturing complex, company officials said Wednesday.
The company initially said it would deliver the car-based crossover vehicles to dealerships in November, but that has been delayed until an unspecified date in December.
DALLAS
Blockbuster has rights to Weinstein rentals
Blockbuster Inc. said Wednesday it has reached a deal for exclusive U.S. rental rights to movies from the Weinstein Co., whose founders created the Miramax studio and sold it to Disney.
The deal will keep all movies from Bob and Harvey Weinstein’s new production company out of the hands of Netflix Inc., the online service that competes with Blockbuster, the largest movie-rental chain.
SAN BRUNO, Calif.
YouTube to begin airing hockey games
YouTube, a website with postings of more than 100 million videos, will begin offering videos of National Hockey League games this month as part of a content and advertising partnership with the league.
