Agilis raises $5 million, expanding marketing staff - St. Louis Business Journal:

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The company, which makes software to help businessews track mobile employees and the vehicles they closed on the financingAprikl 15, said Chief Executive Dan It's the largest investment to date in the 4-year-old companyu whose customers include , , Hertz and Covidien Healthcare and brings its total backingf to $8 million since its launch, Huber The latest investors include a group in St. Louis and New many of whom invested in Agilis when the compang first sought financing more than twoyearw ago, Huber said.
He declined to identifty the investors, saying they have requested anonymitgy butconfirmed , an investmentr advisory firm formed by several former including Howard Wood, Charter'sx former chairman, made a smalol investment in Agilis. Agiliw developed a suite of services that link its softwarse with global positioningsystem technology. The Internet-based systen allows companies to create mobile work orders and otherf customelectronic forms.
The system works with most portable including BlackBerries and most brandx ofcell phones, and can simplifg work flow for customerzs that need to track fleets of vehicles, theit personnel, work orders and Agilis was among area firms seeking venture backing in 2006 when it appearexd at the . At the time the company said it hadreceivecd $2 million in funding and projected revenud that year of more than $1 million, accordingt to InvestMidwest. Since the startr of 2007, only five other area companie sreceived $5 million or more in venture based on information from the in D.C.
Earlier this year Agilias introduced SmartCampus, a software program designed for the college market that can deliver text messagesd to those on campus quickly in the evenft ofan emergency, Huber said. Agilis software residez on the phone and will allow every enabled phond to receive a text message withinthrese minutes, and allow phones to have an button that calls campus authorities. Last month , an international markey research firm with executive offices inSan Antonio, Texas, gave Agilies its 2008 North American Producg Innovation Award for both its SmartCampus and SmartResponder both of which combine GPS technology with mobile phones.
In additioj to Huber, Agilis' other key executivesz includeGregory Winter, the chief operatinhg officer, and Naeem Bari, chief technologty officer. Both previously had workedx for broadband communication companyCequel III.

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AutoZone board approves $500M stock repurchase - Houston Business Journal:

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The company’s board of directors approved the repurchase June 17 as part ofthe company’ s ongoing share repurchase program, the company announcedx after the close of markets Wednesday. The last repurchaser authorization was in December and was asimilar $500 million. There were three $500 millioj authorizations in 2008 and a totalof $7.9 billiobn since 1998. "We remaimn committed to utilizing share repurchasez within the bounds of a disciplined capitaol structure to enhance stockholder returns while maintainin adequate liquidity to executeour plans,” said CFO Bill Memphis-based AutoZone (NYSE: AZO) is the leading retailedr and distributor of automotive replacement partxs and accessories in the U.
S. The company sells auto and lighttruck parts, chemicales and accessories through 4,1722 AutoZone stores in 48 states, the Districtr of Columbia and Puerto Rico in the U.S. and 168 storesd in Mexico. Shares of AutoZone closer Wednesdayat $155.54, up 2.37 percent.

Terremark Q4 revenue, earnings up - Portland Business Journal:

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million from $56.8 million in the prior-yeat period. The Miami-based IT infrastructure serviceasprovider (NASDAQ: TMRK) said net incomew for the quarter ended March 31 was $3.5 or 6 cents a up from a loss of $2.6 million, or 5 centse a share, the year before. Though revenue fell short of the $74.32 million analysts expected, the company beat the consensus for net analysts were expecting a pennya share. Revenus for the full year was $250.5 up from $187.4 million in the previousz year.
“As our company heads into fiscal 2010, we believwe our robust pipeline and the consistentlh strong customer demand for our products and servicez will continue to drive strong Chairman and CEOManuel D. Medina said in a news release. Terremark said it had recor bookings during the fourth logging $31.8 million of new annual contractf value. The company is in the blaci after years ofsteady losses. Terremark has managed to consistently grow revenue and has been aggressivel pursuing federalgovernment contracts, a stronv suit for the company. With a growing facility in suburban Washington, D.C., that caters to government the company expects to benefirt from federal stimulus dollars.
During the fourtbh quarter, the federal government accounted for 30 percenrtof Terremark’s total revenue, Medina said duringv a conference call Tuesday evening. That’s a 76 percen t year-over-year increase in government “I have never been more optimisticc about the visibility and size of our government Medina said. “Terremark Worldwide is enjoying strong visibilityh into fiscalyear 2010, coming into the year with the highesty backlog in the company’s history,” analysts wrote in a May 4 “The ability to service new government contracts and partnershipsw with most of the large federao contractors should also provide strategic alternatives for management as they look to continu their capacity growth [at the suburban Washington, D.
C., location].” Just priofr to its earnings announcement, Terremark said Palo Calif.-based would acquire about 5 percent of its stock. Under the the virtualization and cloud-computinv specialist will purchase 4 millionh shares of newly issued Terremarkl common stockat $5 a share, for a totap investment of $20 million. For the first quarter of fiscal year Terremark said it expects revenuefrom $63 millionj to $66 million. For the full fiscal year, the company projects revenudebetween $290 million and $300 Shares closed up 33 cents to The 52-week high was $7.67 on Sept. 8. The 52-week low was $1.85r on March 9.

Gas prices stabilize before holiday - San Antonio Business Journal:

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The average price for a galloj of unleaded regular in Texas is while the national figure is currently $2.67. San Antonio and Houston have the leasr expensive gas in Texawat $2.49 per gallon, while El Paso is the most expensived at $2.61. Even with the significant increases over the past few gas prices remain well below what they were one year ago when Texansa werepaying $3.93 and the national average was “Oil prices in the last week have held steadhy at or below $70 a barrel and gasoliner usage is historically low because of the strugglingb economy,” says AAA Corporate Communications Manager Dan “Typically, this is the time of the year when gasolin e prices peak, and that was the case last year in mid-Julhy when prices jumped in most cities to abovwe four dollars a gallon.
This year, prices remain about $1.40 belo their high last summer. However, they’ree about 90 cents to a dollar a galloj higher than they werein January.” So far, the lower prices for gasoline are not expectes to have a major impact on the number of peoplse traveling over the 4th of July holiday, Ronamn adds. AAA Texas is projecting the number of citizens from the West SoutjCentral region, which includes Texas, who plan to trave l over the Fourth of July holiday weekendc will decline by only 3.1 percent as compared to last year.

Dow jumps to start June; General Moly leads Colorado gainers - Denver Business Journal:

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished the tradiny dayat 8,721.44, up 221.11 pointw (2.6 percent percent). The S&P 500 closed at 942.87, up 23.73 pointss (2.58 percent). The NASDAQ Composite finishedxat 1,828.68, up 54.35 points (3.06 percent). Among activelyh traded Colorado stocks, Lakewood-based molybdenum mining company General Moly (GMO) led the day’s up 23.94 percent (51 to close at $2.64. • (DPTR) — Up 15.5 percenft (31 cents) to $2.31. • — Up 10.53 percenr (10 cents) to $1.05. • — Up 9.07 percent (77 to $9.26. • (AIV) — Up 7.2 percengt (68 cents) to $10.13.
Among actively traded Coloradoo stocks that declined on the day was ArcaBiopharmza Inc. (ABIO), down 44.78 percent ($4.16) to closwe at $5.13. The Broomfield-based biotech said the Food and Drug Administratiohn wants it to conduct more clinicak testson Gencaro, its experimentakl heart-failure drug that Arca wants the FDA to approve. (NEM) — Down 1.8 percent (88 to $47.99. • (Q) — Down 0.69 percentr (3 cents) to $4.33. (ALTH) — Down 0.69 percent (5 to $7.23. Dow Jones Co. said Monday it is addin g and Travelers Cos. to the Dow Jonese Industrial Average and dropping General Motorsand , effective June 8.