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• Announcing Zadby -- Product Placement Meets User Generated Video

  - 2008-03-10

  SXSW Interactive Festival -- Zadby, Inc. announced that it has launched an online marketplace ( www.zadby.com ) where advertisers, marketers, and brand managers can connect with freelance video producers to create innovative product placement videos tailored for sites like YouTube, AOL, and MySpace. As traditional spot advertising loses its...

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• IPods and Polk Audio products, no longer Apples and oranges.(APPLE SLICES)

  - 2008-02-09

  Polk Audio has announced that its I-Sonic Entertainment System 2 (ES2) and its miDock Studio models will soon be available at over 170 Apple stores and on Apple's Internet shop. The ES2 is significant because of its ability to bookmark songs heard on...

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• Small Cap Review - Small Cap Stocks to Watch.

  - 2008-02-04

  M2 PRESSWIRE-4 February 2008-SmallCapReview.com: Small Cap Review - Small Cap Stocks to WatchC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04022008 SigmaTel (Nasdaq: SGTL) Closed at $1.69. Today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Freescale to acquire SigmaTel. ...

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• Maryland-based Polk Audio products to be available at Best Buy

  - 2008-02-01

  Polk Audio's home audio entertainment products will be available in June at more than 900 Best Buy locations throughout the U.S., according to an announcement by Directed Electronics Inc., which acquired the Baltimore-based designer and manufacturer of high- performance audio products in 2006. In a statement, California- based Directed Electronics...

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• NetStreams' StreamNet Technology Selected by Three Industry Leading Companies for IP Speakers

  - 2007-09-07

  Triad, Sonance to Develop StreamNet Connected; Polk Audio to Broaden Line StreamNet Ready IP Speakers DENVER -- NetStreams([TM]), the global leader in networked audio/video distribution based on Internet Protocol IP, announced today that Triad([R]) and Sonance([R]) have chosen to license its' patent-pending StreamNet[TM] technology to develop IP Speakers, and...

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• News Summary

  - 2007-03-16

  Lawmakers protect terrapins Diamondback terrapins got a pardon Thursday, when Maryland's House and Senate gave final approval to bills banning commercial harvesting of the state's favorite turtle. The bills would end the state's short commercial season for terrapins, which thrive in brackish waters around the Chesapeake Bay but...

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• Baltimore-based Polk Audio Inc. unveils a new brand

  - 2007-03-15

  Polk unveils new brand Polk Audio Inc., of Baltimore, a manufacturer of audio equipment, unveiled a new brand called "Polk Audio Designs" for mass-appeal products such as iPod accessories, radios and other audio systems. First out is the MiDock10, a portable iPod audio system that is being sold...

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• Correction

  - 2006-10-20

  ** Polk Audio's I-Sonic tabletop entertainment system carries a list price of $599, not $499 as stated in Wednesday's Gizmo column. ** To clarify a report on the St. Hugh Housing Initiative that appeared Monday in Earni Young's Real Estate Notebook: The rehabilitation of the 17 homes is an initiative...

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• Two new HD radios put to the test

  - 2006-10-18

  THE GIZMO: Accurian and Polk Audio HD radios. Some people believe, incorrectly, that they're hearing better quality sound whenever the DJ announces that the show is broadcast in "HD Radio." In truth, you need to plug in a new breed of digital receiver to enjoy the higher resolution (and sometimes...

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• Trivest Affiliate Directed Electronics, Inc. Acquires Polk Audio

  - 2006-09-26

  MIAMI -- Trivest Partners, L.P. today announced that its affiliate Directed Electronics, Inc. ("Directed" or the "Company") has acquired Polk Audio ("Polk"), a leading provider of high performance home and mobile audio equipment, for approximately $136 million in cash. Including Polk Audio's approximately $86 million in net sales for the...

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