MUHAMMED EL-HASAN: Welcome to the Future of Fitness

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This week's column by Muhammed El-Hasan looks at the Wii promotion at Sports Authority.

MUHAMMED EL-HASAN: Welcome to the Future of Fitness

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This week's column by Muhammed El-Hasan looks at the Wii promotion at Sports Authority.

Suggestion: Give Boeing a $5 Mil Advantage for Tanker Contract

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This may be the most politicized defense contract in recent history.

Boeing tanker ally eyes $5 mln per plane Airbus duty

WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - A Boeing Co (BA.N) ally in Congress urged the Pentagon on Wednesday to add as much as $5 million per plane to a rival trans-Atlantic team's bid to supply new U.S. mid-air refueling aircraft.

Rep. Norm Dicks, a member of the House of Representatives Defense Appropriations subcommittee, floated the figure as part of a renewed push by Boeing's political backers, aimed at factoring a September interim global trade ruling into the tanker contract battle.

Read more on the Air Force Tanker Contract.

Toyota Gets Legal Win

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This case, which seemed so explosive just a few months ago, pales in comparison to Toyota's problems with the floor mats and gas pedals.

Toyota Former Inhouse Lawyer Must Arbitrate Claims

(Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp. won a ruling forcing a former inhouse lawyer to arbitrate racketeering and other claims he brought in a lawsuit accusing the carmaker of hiding information in litigation over rollover crashes.

U.S. District Judge George H. King in Los Angeles, in an order today, granted Toyota's request to compel Dimitrios Biller to arbitrate the dispute as was stipulated in his September 2007 severance agreement. Biller's claims against Toyota will be put on hold pending the completion of arbitration, the judge said.

Read more on Toyota's legal battle.

Auto Magazine Moves to El Segundo

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Four Wheeler Magazine moves to El Segundo from Wilshire Boulevard in LA.

El Segundo is already home to a lot of magazines on such topics as hobbies and vegetarian cooking.

Water Ice Found on Moon, South Bay Spacecraft Key

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Last month's LCROSS satellite crash into the moon has allowed NASA to find water ice in a dark lunar crater.

LCROSS was built by Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach.

Here's the wire story:

NASA finds water found on the moon

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A "significant amount" of frozen water has been found on the moon, the US space agency NASA said Friday, boosting hopes of eventually setting up a permanent lunar base.

Preliminary data from a moon probe "indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater," NASA said.

Read more on NASA's find.

About Biz Waves

Biz Waves is a one-stop Web hub for business news and content from the South Bay region of Los Angeles County and beyond.

The primary contributor is:

Muhammed El-Hasan, a business reporter at the Daily Breeze since 2000, covers aerospace and everything else about business in the South Bay. Muhammed previously reported at the San Bernardino Sun and the community news division of The Orange County Register. He also worked as a researcher in the Jerusalem bureau of the Los Angeles Times in 1996-97. But his career highlight as a young man was driving a forklift at a Gardena company near Hawthorne, where he grew up.

You can email Muhammed at muhammad.el-hasan@dailybreeze.com

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