TUCSON
● Tucson-based Sasiadek's Information Technologies, 4555 S. Palo Verde Road, Suite 131, recently acquired the computer-service department of North American Digital, 5343 E. Pima St. North American retains its software-development division, while Sasiadek adds the ability to offer computer repair and service in addition to its existing network management, printer and information-technology services. To reach Sasiadek's Information Technologies, call 748-1240.
● An update on a genetic mapping project the University of Arizona is working on with the National Geographic Society will be presented at the next monthly breakfast meeting of the BioIndustry Organization of Southern Arizona Feb. 3 from 7 to 9 a.m. at Acacia, 4340 N. Campbell Ave., Suite 103. Matt Kaplan of Arizona Research Laboratories will speak on how genetics can be used to trace individual ancestry, and the UA's role in the National Geographic/ IBM Genographic Project. The cost is $20 for BioSA members, $25 for nonmembers and $15 for students. For registration information, visit BioSA's Web site at www.bio-sa .org.
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● Ameriprise Financial Inc. said Wednesday it has notified about 158,000 clients that their names and internal account identification numbers were stored on a laptop computer that was stolen from an employee's vehicle. The Minneapolis-based company said it had received no reports that the data lost in the theft had been used improperly. Ameri-prise is the name of the former American Express Financial Advisors division, which New York-based American Express Co. spun off last fall.
● Thanks to soaring oil and gas prices, ConocoPhillips posted a 51 percent surge in fourth-quarter profits on Wednesday, providing a glimpse of what is expected to be an earnings-season bonanza for the entire industry. The Houston-based company's earnings reached $3.68 billion, or $2.61 per share, compared with $2.43 billion, or $1.72 per share a year ago. ConocoPhillips' fourth-quarter revenues surged to $50.2 billion from $40.1 billion in the year-earlier quarter.
● Under threat of daily fines by European Union antitrust regulators, Microsoft Corp. agreed Wednesday to let competitors examine some of the blueprints to its flagship Windows operating system. Microsoft said it would offer commercial rivals access to a "pretty significant" chunk of the source code governing communications between servers. Microsoft in December offered rivals thousands of pages of documentation and free technical support on the communications protocols for its software for running servers.
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