Corvis Will Change Name To Broadwing
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Corvis Corp. said yesterday it will change its name to Broadwing Corp., a move that reflects the Columbia company's reinvention from a maker of fiber-optic equipment to a provider of telecom services.
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Cincinnati-based parent company Federated Department Stores says it plans to convert all of its regional department stores -- including Burdines -- to the Macy&#39;s nameplate by the end of January.
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As goes Liberty House will go Lazarus and Burdines. Federated Department Stores has decided to rebrand all of its stores as Macy&#39;s stores in coming months.
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Cognos has rebranded the financial performance management software it gained through the acquisition of Applix earlier this year and provided a road map for the product line Tuesday.
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Bank of America Corp. has agreed to give up its rights to put its name on the FleetCenter, freeing the arena's owner, Delaware North Cos., to open up a bidding war for naming rights to the home of the Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins.
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Centric CRM said Wednesday it has changed its name to Concursive Corp., a move that coincides with the 5.0 release of its product.The name change was necessary to better reflect the widening scope of the Norfolk, Virginia, company&#39;s open-source software, according to Michael Harvey, executive vice president. &quot;We are providing a much broader application than is just captured by the term CRM,&quot; he said.The software, now dubbed ConcourseSuite 5.0, includes Web site creation and deployment tools, CRM functionality, collaboration-oriented features and content management. It is available in both hosted and on-premises form.Customers can also extend the core platform by plugging in portlet applications. The product comes with a number of prebuilt portlets, including ones for analytics and charting, according to the company.&quot;It would not be inconceivable for someone to turn every part of the experience we provide off and have everything be done through these portlets,&quot; Harvey said.The company will continue to court primarily midsized companies, not large enterprises. &quot;We&#39;re certainly not going to turn down any Fortune 500 companies.... But quite often, those companies will have an entrenched system, so the sale becomes more complicated,&quot; Harvey said.Sheryl Kingstone, an analyst with Yankee Group, said that as Centric CRM, the firm&#39;s profile was fairly low, &quot;So if you&#39;re going to change your name, now is the time to do it.&quot;Reasons beyond new product features influenced the company&#39;s decision, according to 451 Group analyst China Martens: &quot;What they were telling me is they were running into all the other &#39;centrics&#39; around.&quot; Those include Centric Software, which makes applications for product and project management.Martens said CRM vendors are trying to differentiate their offerings from that of competitors. &quot;Theirs is going to be collaboration and Web 2.0.... It makes sense. It&#39;s one of those areas right next to CRM,&quot; she said.But Martens said Concursive&#39;s platform isn&#39;t quite baked. &quot;I think we&#39;ll get a better sense next year in [version] 6, when everything&#39;s fully incorporated,&quot; she said.Maintenance fees for ConcourseSuite Enterprise Edition start at $250 per seat per year.
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ACE Ltd. yesterday became the latest insurance company to unveil changes in its business practices in response to the industry probe launched by New York's attorney general.
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BellSouth shuffled its senior management ranks Monday, naming Mark L. Feidler chief operating officer in a move that gives him the inside track to be the company&#39;s next CEO.
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ACE yesterday became the latest insurance company to announce changes in its business practices in response to the industry investigation launched by New York&#39;s attorney general.
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The nonprofit Loudoun Healthcare Inc. will announce today its decision to merge with the Inova Health System, a move that could allow the only hospital in the nation's fastest-growing county to greatly expand its services and remain competitive with a second, for-profit hospital being planned nearby.
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Cognos Inc. has reassigned its North America operations chief after he was indicted by a grand jury in San Diego in connection with a financial scandal at Peregrine Systems Inc.
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A name chosen to represent the merger of two major U.S. brokerage watchdogs will be changed because the acronym may be considered offensive due to its similarity to an Arabic term.
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Does the Openads name change portend great things for the company?  We'll have to wait and see.
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By Scott Wuerz, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Feb. 10----   After 10 years as a Computer Renaissance franchisee, Toby Griggs has gone independent and changed the name of his store to Action Computer Co.
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As the First Albany Companies closes the sale of a controlling stake in itself to, the investment bank is expected to rename itself and broaden its focus.
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Invesco Funds Group will become part of a sister mutual-fund family, ending a 74-year-old Denver institution and opening a door to changing the name of the city&#39;s football stadium.
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Health insurer WellPoint Inc.  stands to become the largest company in the United States with a woman at the helm, on Monday naming General Counsel Angela Braly to replace retiring CEO Larry Glasscock.