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January 4th, 2008 | 
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Limelight’s Flash Media Streaming Network Now Integrated with Modavox’s BoomBox Radio and BoomBox Video Software
PHOENIX & TEMPE, Ariz.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Modavox, Inc. (OTCBB:MDVX), Internet broadcasting pioneer and holder of several patented technologies, announced today it has established an agreement with Limelight Networks® (Nasdaq:LLNW), the leading content delivery network (CDN) for digital media, for Global Content Delivery services related to its Internet Radio and Interactive operations. Read the rest of this entry »
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New Name to Unite Company Subsidiaries and Continue Tradition of Quality
PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CB Document Solutions (CBDS), a supplier of high-quality office copiers, has changed its name to its Phoenix-based parent company, Arizona Office Technologies (AOT), effective immediately. The change more accurately reflects the company’s commitment to quality and service in the overall Arizona marketplace, while maintaining a stand-alone full-service operation in the diverse Read the rest of this entry »
AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Solis Women’s Health announced today that it has acquired Phoenix, Arizona-based BenOra Imaging. BenOra, founded by Dr. Avi BenOra in 1982, is the oldest dedicated breast diagnostic facility in greater Phoenix, and a national pioneer in the delivery of women’s imaging. BenOra is led by Wayne Hansen, M.D., Richard Vanesian, M.D., Read the rest of this entry »
Qwest Customers Can Enroll, Select School Districts and Support Education
PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE:Q) today announced a new program to benefit school districts across its residential-service region. The Qwest “1% Back to Schools” program will donate one percent of a residential customer’s Qwest bill every month to a school district of the customer’s choice, when the customer signs up for online billing and auto-pay. Read the rest of this entry »
New IDE Simplifies Mixed C, Embedded C++, Ada and Real-Time Java Development and Software Migration
PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DDC-I, a leading supplier of development tools for safety-critical applications, today announced the first Eclipse-based mixed-language development and run-time environment to integrate C, Embedded C++, Ada, and real-time Java. Known as OpenArbor, the new IDE makes it possible to develop hard real-time applications that combine Java, C, EC++, and Ada. Read the rest of this entry »
PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ILX Resorts Incorporated (AMEX:ILX) announced today the prospective payment of a quarterly dividend of $0.125 per share. The dividend has a record date as of the close of business on September 28, 2007 and is payable on October 10, 2007 to shareholders of record. Shareholders electing participation before the payment date may reinvest their dividends in additional shares of common stock through the Dividend Reinvestment Plan originally adopted in March 2003 and amended and restated in March 2006. The Read the rest of this entry »
PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Buyers came from as far away as Australia, Qatar and Mexico to attend the US$28 million unreserved industrial auction conducted by Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE: RBA) (TSX: RBA) in Phoenix, Arizona, last week. Almost 1,700 construction, transportation and other industrial equipment items were sold on behalf of more than 250 consignors at the public auction, attracting over 1,600 registered bidders from 27 countries, including 46 U.S. states and nine Canadian provinces. Buyers from outside the state of Arizona purchased almost half of the equipment in the auction, representing US$19 million in gross auction proceeds (almost 70 per Read the rest of this entry »
Arizona, Utah, Oregon, Louisiana Among States Using iLinc Across Multiple Agencies
PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Government organizations faced with critical communications technology decisions are influenced by factors unique to the public sector including security mandates, regulatory statutes, preparedness and telework initiatives all while continuing to meet high performance expectations. Recently several state governments have turned to iLinc Communications, Inc. (AMEX:ILC), a leading developer of Web conferencing software and audio conferencing solutions, to provide that balance between performance and security. Read the rest of this entry »
Health Benefits Company Plans to Open Call Centers in Phoenix and Tempe
PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) today announced plans to add more than 530 positions to its current workforce of 665 employees in Arizona, as the health benefits company opens a new state-of-the-art telemarketing call center in Phoenix to support its rapidly growing Medicare Advantage business and a separate call center in Tempe for the company’s mail-order prescription services.
Direct Marketing Services (DMS) Center – Phoenix, which will employ 330 employees by January 2008, will open in November to support Humana’s Medicare Advantage benefit plans and senior products nationwide. An additional 200 employees will be hired in Tempe to staff a new call center opening in support of Humana’s RightSource Home Delivery mail-order prescription service. Once the two call centers are open and staffed fully in January of 2008, Humana’s Arizona workforce will exceed 1,195 employees.
“The Phoenix area has a national reputation as an outstanding site for customer call centers,” said Debbie Smith, regional president of Senior Products for Humana’s Western Region. “With its abundant, well-trained labor pool, excellent business climate and great quality of life, the Valley of the Sun is a natural choice for our call centers.”
Humana signed a long-term lease for 62,946 square feet of office space for the new DMS Center – Phoenix located at the Corporate Center business park, 10400 North 25th Avenue, Suite 200, in Phoenix. Space is being leased from Crown West Realty/St. Paul Travelers. Crown West Properties is the building management.
The RightSource Customer Care Call Center will relocate to the Tempe Commerce Center at 7333 S. Hardy Drive in October. About 112 employees at the RightSource Customer Care Center currently located at the RightSource Pharmacy location at 4031 Buckeye in Phoenix will be moved 17 miles to the new office location in Tempe. By early 2008, an additional 200 employees will be hired to join the existing call center staff.
The RightSource Pharmacy will continue in operation at the Buckeye Road location with approximately 360 employees.
RightSource Pharmacy, a Humana-owned, home-delivery pharmacy continues to experience tremendous growth. Starting off as a small operation in Phoenix in January of 2006, RightSource has grown to a state of the art facility that employs over 300 pharmacists, technicians, and clerks. The RightSource Pharmacy in Phoenix continues to hire pharmacists, technicians and clerks.
Humana signed a long-term lease for 81,789 square feet of office space from Invesco for the RightSource Customer Care Call Center in Tempe. The Lincoln Company provides building management.
“The convenience of mail-order prescription delivery to our members’ homes and the continued growth of Humana’s membership have expanded RightSource’s business significantly,” said Smith. “We anticipate continued robust growth in our RightSource operations and we’re committed to providing our Medicare members with a well-serviced health care experience.
Positions being hired for the RightSource Customer Care Call Center include customer care associates, team leads, front line leaders, workforce analyst and managers. The Tempe facility also has the capacity in the future for additional growth to reach 550 to 600 employees.
Job applications for the DMS Center – Phoenix call center positions are also now being accepted. Available positions include telesales specialists, Rx enrollment specialists, client specialists, quality assurance specialists, administrative assistants and supervisors.
Humana offers a comprehensive benefits package including a competitive salary with the possibility of an annual bonus. Successful candidates will have communications skills, problem-solving ability and a post-high school education or equivalent experience. Experience in a customer service or call center setting is also preferred. The company asks job seekers to visit www.humana.com or www.monster.com to complete an online application.
DMS Center – Phoenix is Humana’s sixth telemarketing unit. Other DMS Centers are located in Tampa Bay (2), Miramar, FL, Doral, FL and Puerto Rico. Humana has more than 4.6 million Medicare members nationally, including more than 79,400 in Arizona.
Humana has 160 employees headquartered in Phoenix at 20860 N. Tatum Boulevard in sales and operations support for the company’s Arizona commercial and Medicare products. The company also has an office at 5210 E. Williams Circle in the Williams Center in Tucson housing 25 staff from Humana MarketPOINT senior products and commercial health insurance products, as well as personnel in provider contracting, clinical innovations and provider relations.
About Humana Inc.
Humana Inc., headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, is one of the nation’s largest publicly traded health benefits companies, with approximately 11.3 million medical members. Humana offers a diversified portfolio of health insurance products and related services – through traditional and consumer-choice plans – to employer groups, government-sponsored plans, and individuals.
Over its 46-year history, Humana has consistently seized opportunities to meet changing customer needs. Today, the company is a leader in consumer engagement, providing guidance that leads to lower costs and a better health plan experience throughout its diversified customer portfolio.
More information regarding Humana is available to investors via the Investor Relations page of the company’s web site at http://www.humana.com, including copies of:
Annual reports to stockholders;
Securities and Exchange Commission filings;
Most recent investor conference presentations;
Quarterly earnings news releases;
Replays of most recent earnings release conference calls;
Calendar of events (includes upcoming earnings conference call dates and times, as well as planned interaction with research analysts and institutional investors);
Corporate Governance Information.
Contacts
Humana Corporate Communications
Ross McLerran, 210-617-1771
rmclerran@humana.com
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Humana Corporate Communications
Anna Hobbs-Little, 972-643-1723
ahobbslittle@humana.com
Company Recognized as Environmental Leader for Third Straight Year
PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–For the third straight year, Pinnacle West Capital Corp. (NYSE: PNW) has been selected for the 2007 U.S. Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), the premier index recognizing sustainable business practices for publicly held corporations.
Pinnacle West, parent company of Arizona Public Service (APS), was one of 93 companies, taken from a universe of the 600 largest North American companies, to be included in the U.S. index. Of those 93, only seven were electric power providers. The evaluation criteria provides investors and asset managers a number of sustainability benchmarks including climate change strategies, energy consumption, human resources development, knowledge management, stakeholder relations and corporate governance.
“The quality of a company’s strategy, management and performance in dealing with opportunities and risks deriving from economic, environmental and social developments can be quantified and used to identify and select leading companies for investment purposes,” the Dow Jones stated in this year’s index summary.
The results of the annual review will influence the investment decisions of asset managers in 15 countries who have licensed the DJSI family for a variety of sustainability-driven portfolios – including mutual funds, segregated accounts and structured products, as well as an exchange traded fund (ETF).
“Sustainability is increasingly a core strategy for successful companies,” said Ed Fox, APS Vice President, Communications, Environment & Safety. “There is no doubt that successful companies must be financially sound in the short term, but sustainable companies also must have a longer term view that equally focuses on the environmental and community impacts of their business decisions and their ethical governance. We are honored to be recognized for our efforts to incorporate this triple bottom line into our business strategies.”
Pinnacle West is a Phoenix-based company with consolidated assets of about $11 billion. Through its subsidiaries, the Company generates sells and delivers electricity and sells energy-related products and services to retail and wholesale customers in the western United States. It also develops residential, commercial, and industrial real estate projects.
Contacts
Pinnacle West Capital Corp., Phoenix
Media Contacts:
Alan Bunnell, 602-250-3376
Steven Gotfried, 602-250-3040
Analyst Contacts:
Rebecca Hickman, 602-250-5668
Lisa Malagon, 602-250-5671
Web site: www.pinnaclewest.com
