Humana Inc. (Video Included Inside!), Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and Crown
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__ HUM, Humana Inc.
HUM is a full-service benefits and well-being solutions company, offering a wide array of health, pharmacy and supplemental benefit plans for employer groups, government programs and individuals, as well as primary and workplace care through its medical centers and worksite medical facilities.
HUM has approximately 10.2 million medical members, 7.1 million specialty members, and operates more than 300 medical centers and 240 worksite medical facilities.
HUM was informed recently by the U.S. Department of Defense that it has awarded the South Region TRICARE contract to HUMs wholly owned subsidiary, Humana Military Healthcare Services, Inc.
Under terms of the award, Humana Military will continue supporting the Department of Defenses delivery of health care services to three million active duty and retired service members and their families in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and most of Texas.
This is the sixth TRICARE contract administered by HUM`s Humana Military since 1996. The contract is worth as much as $23.5 billion over five years.
In light of this report, HUM raised its guidance for diluted earnings per common share for the year ending December 31, 2011, to a range of $5.95 to $6.15, as HUM no longer anticipates incurring expenses in 2011 of approximately $0.25 per share associated with the loss of the TRICARE South Region contract in early 2012.
More about HUM at www.humana.com *******************
BRK.A, Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
BRK.A is a holding company owning subsidiaries that engage in a number of diverse business activities including property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, freight rail transportation, utilities and energy, finance, manufacturing, services and retailing.
Included in the group of subsidiaries that underwrite property and casualty insurance and reinsurance is GEICO, the third largest private passenger auto insurer in the United States and two of the largest reinsurers in the world, General Re and the Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group. Other subsidiaries that underwrite property and casualty insurance include National Indemnity Company and affiliated insurance entities, Medical Protective Company, Applied Underwriters, U.S. Liability Insurance Company, Central States Indemnity Company, Kansas Bankers Surety, Cypress Insurance Company, BoatU.S. and several other subsidiaries referred to as the Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies.
BRK.A reported that its 4Q profit climbed 43%, posting a profit of $4.38 billion, or $2,656 a share, up from $3.06 billion, or $1,969 a share, a year ago.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., which BRK.A bought last year, earned $1.03 billion in the fourth quarter.
More about BRK.A at www.berkshirehathaway.com *******************
CRWE, Crown Equity Holdings Inc., CRWE.OB With the increase of data on the internet and the amount of time individuals spend on it, that has in turn generated a unique market for web-based advertising. Some of the richest businesses in the world have made sure that they get a portion of the internet marketing pie, and for many good reasons Content published on the Net is automatically offered to an international audience of users. This makes the World Wide Web an incredibly cost-effective medium to publish information. Getting to greater than 190 countries.
CRWE, together with its digital network, currently provides electronic media services specializing in online publishing, which brings together targeted audiences and advertisers. CRWE offers internet media-driven advertising services, which covers and connects a range of marketing specialties, as well as search engine optimization for clients interested in online media awareness.
CRWE recently reported that it has extended its CRWENEWSWIRE global platform web presence and is now publishing online news and information to the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom, using their specific country code domain and native language.
CRWE has also established over 1,100 city specific sites within the US, allowing CRWE to publish its news and information globally or geographically.
One Internet advertising benefit is always that, since internet spans the entire planet, pockets of one`s target audience is scattered worldwide, can be targetted at once, instead of trying to find different publications, radio stations and tv stations that focus on a particular geographical area.
Furthermore, CRWE`s wholly owned subsidiary, Crown Tele Services Inc., has completed installing servers for its business, which is currently in the process of preparing to provide and offer its “VoIP” communication services to small, large and enterprise businesses.
VoIP industry is fast augmenting and hence it could assures a definite hike in the revenue generation to any organisation that steps into this field.
The principle behind VoIP is simple. Calls are placed over the Internet instead of using dedicated voice lines to do the job. This is easy to understand once we realized that all information can be digitized and sent as a signal over a wire. In fact, this also happens with regular voice – your sound signals are encoded and sent over a wire. With the Internet, such things become easy and voice communication can happen in real time just as with a normal phone.
According to ABI Research, the latest global business VoIP services forecasts show that the value of the overall market, which includes VoIP integrated access, SIP trunking, hosted IP-PBX/IP Centrex and managed IP-PBX services, is set to double over the next five years, to exceed $20 billion by 2015.
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