--(www.USEquityNews.com)-- 12/14/2007 - Business service industry alert provided by U.S. Equity News. IPTV Corporation (OTC: IPTV), continues to build momentum and chooses Arqiva for DTH distribution giving IPTV Transatlantic fiber connectivity, uplinking to the UK, and access to the British Sky Broadcasting digital platform allowing the Company to operate as if it were a UK broadcaster. Arqiva is positioned as the major gateway to Europe for American broadcasters and allows IPTV to distribute its live and pre-recorded television programming from its offices in Santa Monica, California directly to the UK in a very cost efficient manner. IPTV CEO Jeff Hultman states, ``Partnering with a forward thinking technology company such as Arqiva enhances our ability to distribute our content in the UK and positions us to expand across Europe as we execute our business plans.
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) recently announced it has signed an agreement with Bill Me Later, Inc., a leading provider of alternative payment technologies, to make the Bill Me Later payment option available on the Amazon.com website. The company also announced it is making an equity investment in Bill Me Later, Inc. "Bill Me Later has developed a very customer-centric method to make online shopping even easier," said Matt Swann, vice president of payments at Amazon.com. "We are pleased to make the convenience of Bill Me Later available to our tens of millions of Amazon customers."
PayPal an eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) company, recently announced it has hired four top industry veterans to help drive the company's continued global growth. The four new members of PayPal's executive leadership team are Jack Stephenson, senior vice president of strategy and new ventures; Mary Anne Gillespie, vice president of sales; Barry Herstein, chief marketing officer; and Robert Mansell, vice president of product development. With more than seven decades of combined experience at global companies including Avon, American Express, McKinsey & Company, Oracle and Visa International, the group brings a wide range of payments and technology expertise to PayPal's executive bench.
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), a leading global Internet company, recently announced that it has become a platinum sponsor of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Continuing its dedication to open and collaborative computing and research, Yahoo!'s financial sponsorship of the non-profit, volunteer-run foundation will help provide much needed working capital, hardware infrastructure, and support resources required to serve the ASF's industry-defining projects and incubating initiatives. Yahoo!'s support of the ASF stemmed from its work with the Apache HTTP Server and Lucene projects.
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