Home Shopping Latino, Inc. has come a long way from CEO Frank Celecia’s original idea two and a half years ago to launch a television shopping channel for the U.S. Hispanic market. In spite of previous ill-fated attempts by others, Celecia felt that the time was now right with a bigger and more prosperous Latino market. HSL sees itself as eventually filling a niche for some 10-13 million U.S. Hispanic homes, a market which is expected to continue to grow to $1 trillion by 2011.

HSL is headquartered in Carson City, Nevada, but its on-air television and website production operations are located in Miami, Florida. The Miami area is a center for Latin television and film production. The company will launch its QVC-style network under the name “Viva Telecompras”, selling gemstones, jewelry, vitamins, and beauty care products, all provided by

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Home Shopping Latino Inc., doing business as Viva Telecompras, is an all Spanish language TV channel and online shopping website. The company will broadcast from Miami, Florida and expand its market via airtime and website broadcasts. The network will sell products provided by third-party wholesalers such as beauty care, vitamins, and in particular gemstones and jewelry.

Initially, the company is most interested in marketing high-quality, high-margin gemstones from the nation of Madagascar and has already developed a relationship to do so with MadAmerican Exports. Viva Telecompras will later subtract with jewelry manufacturers in Florida to make jewelry using these fine gemstones.

Home Shopping Latino is attempting to fill a very profitable niche in the home shopping industry with its Hispanic shopping channel. The Hispanic population is the fastest growing demographic – 9.3 million households with a population of over 35 million

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Equinix, Inc., provider of global data center services, reported yesterday that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Switch & Data Facilities Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: SDXC), a leading provider of data center and Internet exchange services, for approximately $689 million in cash and stock. The acquisition represents a significant market expansion for Equinix and will expand the company’s market presence by adding 16 new markets across North America, including additional 34 data centers in 22 markets in the U.S. and Canada.

The combination of the two companies will further strengthen Equinix’s position in the global data center services market by extending the company’s presence to 16 new markets across North America. Equinix will integrate Switch and Data’s data center business and operations in the U.S. and Canada. It will also increase the Global presence of Equinix leaving the new combined entity with 79 data centers in 34 markets and more

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Formerly known as Ophthalmic Technologies Inc. Opko Health has recently agreed to acquire Chilean pharmaceutical company named Pharma Genexx for around US$ 16 million in cash. One of the reasons why this Florida-based pharma giant is taking up Chilean pharmaceutical is to enter the emerging markets in the future. The Miami-based Opko Health is a specialty healthcare company that is currently involved in the discovery, development and commercialization of pharmaceutical products, vaccines and diagnostic technologies. However, with this acquisition Opko Health is looking to expand into new areas like oncology and neurological disorders.

Opko Health CEO and Chairman Philip Frost have said that Opko Health believes that this acquisition will be an excellent strategic fit for Opko to expand further into international market. Currently, Pharma Genexx is involved in the representation,

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LOS ANGELES, CA and MIAMI, FL — (Marketwire) — 09/30/09 — Muscle Flex Inc. (PINKSHEETS: MFLI) (www.MuscleFlexInc.com) and Sterling Worldwide Entertainment, LLC (www.SterlingWWE.com), a subsidiary of Visual Industries, Inc., jointly announced today that their television show “Sugar Free,” which is currently in pre-production, has received significant expressions of interest from global television program distributors and have engaged the interested media conglomerates in discussions regarding the show. Muscle Flex(R) and Sterling each hold a 50/50 ownership in “Sugar Free” and share equally in its future revenue streams. The companies are now in the final stages of pre-production for the TV pilot, which, upon completion, will be pitched to major television networks and national cable stations for North American and International distribution.

The initial interest is derived from the timely and compelling program content of “Sugar Free” as well as the strong relationships Sterling enjoys in the

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Citigroup, Inc. (C) plans to scale back its U.S. retail footprint to just six major metropolitan areas and limit lending mostly to wealthy customers. Citigroup, one of the biggest recipients of government bailout money, is looking to limit its overall consumer lending in the U.S. primarily to credit cards and "jumbo" mortgages, catering largely to well-heeled customers. The company’s executives are expected to present their plans to the board of directors in October to trim the retail branch network and concentrate mainly on the New York, Washington, D.C., Miami, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles areas. Citi has a global footprint with its branches located internationally. The company currently operates about 1,000 U.S. branches, significantly lower than the 5,000-plus run by Bank of America Corporation (BAC), Wells Fargo (WFC) and JP Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM), which expanded its network with the ...

Taubman Centers Inc. (TCO) recently said it would record impairment charges of $161 million to $169 million in the third quarter. The real estate investment trust is writing down book values of its The Pier Shops at Caesars asset in New Jersey and Regency Square in Virginia to fair values due to the continued economic downturn.

The Pier Shops at Caesars is a 282,000 square feet shopping center in which Taubman owns a 77.5% stake. The company considers net operating income from the property to be insufficient to repay its $135 million non-recourse mortgage debt. Thus, it will write down book value of the asset by $106 million to $111 million, out of which Taubman has a share of about $100 million to $105 million.

Regency Square is an 820,000 square feet shopping center housing leading fashion retailers like Macy’s Inc. (M), J. C. Penney Co. Inc.

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Nutra Pharma Corp.

(Public, OTC:NPHC)

Step aside Morphine, the new king of chronic pain treatment has entered the building. With Nutra Pharma’s stock rising nearly 2300% year-to-date, its time we see what all the commotion is about. StocksHaven Investments takes a closer look at Nutra Pharma Corp., which believes will begin generating significant revenues within the next 12 months. The company has recently made waves throughout the biotech space with their recent “Best New Product” award winning drug, Cobroxin. The product is the first clinically proven treatment for stage 2 (moderate to severe) chronic pain, and was awarded the honour at the Efficient Collaborative Retail Marketing (ECRM) Conference in Miami, Florida. Winning this was no easy task, as a handful of well known companies attended the conference. The

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Nutra Pharma Corp.

(Public, OTC:NPHC)

StocksHaven Investments has confirmed they are set to profile Nutra Pharma Corp. in the coming days, and states that they have also touched base with with Investor Relations in regards to scheduling a tentative conference call with the Chairman and CEO, Rik J Deitsch. Nutra Pharma has recently made waves within the biotech space with their recent “Best New Product” award winning drug, Cobroxin. The product is the first clinically proven treatment for stage 2 (moderate to severe) chronic pain, was awarded the honour at the Efficient Collaborative Retail Marketing (ECRM) Conference in Miami, Florida. The company is also developing treatments for Adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN), HIV and Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

Over 50 million Americans suffer from ongoing chronic pain, but that’s all about to change. In August, a biotechnology company, Nutra Pharma, shook the pain world when

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The Case-Schiller composite index of housing prices in 20 major metropolitan areas rose 0.7% on a seasonally adjusted basis in June, following an essentially unchanged reading in May. The not-seasonally-adjusted numbers were even better (and what most of the press coverage were initially focused on). However, there is a distinct seasonal pattern to housing prices, so it is better to focus on the seasonally adjusted numbers. The increase in prices was widespread, with 15 of the 20 areas seeing an increase -- better than expected, and extremely good news. In May, nine of the 20 cities were up. The news is still tentative, with much of the good news coming from a reduction in supply as banks have been letting the foreclosure pipeline build, and an increase in demand from the first-time homebuyer tax credit, which expires at the end of November. On a year-over-year basis, the composite 20 ...