The News Review:
- Driver team cap off weekend sweep with Auto Club 500 win.
- Balda sells auto parts units to Hanse for 7.5 mln eur
- Gamer builds ‘auto-play machine’
- Core Concepts: Gear Up With Auto Retailers
Driver team cap off weekend sweep with Auto Club 500 win.
Free with registration – Daily Press – AccessMyLibrary.com – Feb 26, 2007
(26-FEB-07) Daily Press (Victorville CA). 26–FNTANA — Matt Kenseth and his team traveled across the country and made last week’s troubles seem a world away. Kenseth and Roush Fenway Racing followed a disappointm.
Balda sells auto parts units to Hanse for 7.5 mln eur
Forbes – Feb 26, 2007
5 mln eur to Hanse Industriekapital-Beteiligungs-GmbH. Balda also said that as part of the sale it will receive an additional 4. 0 mln eur in inter-company loans which Hanse has agreed to redeem. Hanse has also agreed to allow all of the 408 Balda employees at these facilities to keep their jobs.
Gamer builds ‘auto-play machine’
BBC News – Feb 26, 2007
Car mechanic David Harr from Seattle realised he needed to devote 40 hours of playing just to earn the final reward points for Perfect Dark Zero. He built a machine that would start and re-start the game to register for the final achievements he needed. “I reverse engineered the problem and came up with the xBot” he said. Xbox 360 games come with up to 50 different achievements for gamers to unlock.
Core Concepts: Gear Up With Auto Retailers
TheStreet.com – TheStreet.com (subscription) – Feb 26, 2007
Until the CarMax model came along consumers didn’t have an easy efficient way to buy and sell their cars. CarMax offers no-haggle fixed prices on all of its cars. And CarMax will pay you cash for your used car (a no-haggle offer) whether you buy a car from the company or not.