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Business Definition for: Dot Bam

  • a real-world business with a strong Web presence. The "bam" stands for "bricks and mortar."

Additional Resources

Shattered Bam to honour quake victims one year on
BAM, Iran AFP — A year after one of the worst earthquakes in modern history, residents of the Iranian city of Bam are to pay their final respects Saturday to the 30,000 dead and bring an end to the traditional 12 months of mourning. People from Bam and the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, HEALTHCARE, Iran, MARKETING
Research articles 2004-12-24
Tears at memorial for Bam quake victims as Tehran hails US moves
BAM, Iran AFP ? Iranians remembered the thousands killed in the devastating earthquake that flattened the ancient fort city of Bam as more signs of thawing ties between Tehran and its arch-foe Washington emerged. "The magnitude of the disaster caused the whole world to cry. We will never forget...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Iran, team, Washington
Research articles 2004-01-01
BAM ENTERTAINMENT TO SELL SOFTWARE IN AUSTRALIA, EUROPE.
(Full text of a statement. Contact details below.) SAN JOSE, Calif., July 23 PRNewswire-AsiaNet - BAM! EntertainmentR(Nasdaq: BFUN), a developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software, today announced that its subsidiary, Bam Entertainment Ltd., had entered into a distribution agreement whereby Acclaim Entertainment, Ltd, a subsidiary of Acclaim...
Tags: Acclaim, Acclaim Entertainment Inc., entertainment, MARKETING, Nintendo Co. Ltd., software
Research articles 2003-07-24
Grief hangs over scarred Bam as quake mourning ends
BAM, Iran AFP — Thousands gathered at a cemetery in the Iranian city of Bam to remember the 30,000 killed in last year's earthquake, ending a 12-month mourning period but with the scars of the tragedy still painfully clear. Some 5,000 residents of Bam and its region who survived...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Government, Iran, Leadership, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2004-12-25
Duty and helplessness drive Bam residents to Iran polls
BAM, Iran AFP — Still rebuilding lives and homes after the earthquake that stole their loved ones and shattered their city, the people of Bam are preparing to vote in Iran's presidential elections out of duty and helplessness. Azam Shojai is struggling through life in a camp of metal...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Iran, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2005-06-13
Khatami says Bam citadel to be rebuilt "whatever it costs"
KERMAN, Iran AFP ? The historic citadel of Bam, wrecked in last Friday's earthquake which levelled the city in southeastern Iran, will be rebuilt "whatever it costs", President Mohammad Khatami said. "We will call in experts from abroad and whatever it costs we will meet it so that (the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, Government, Investment, Iran, president, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2003-12-30
Rescuers said to find 97-year-old quake survivor as Bam reopens for business
BAM, Iran AFP ? Rescuers pulled a 97-year-old woman alive from the rubble of the Bam earthquake, an official said, as Iranian authorities sought to restore some normality to the devastated town, opening banks and other businesses. The latest death toll in the quake which flattened the ancient mud-brick...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, bank, Iran
Research articles 2004-01-03
Rescuers find 97-year-old quake survivor as Bam reopens for business
BAM, Iran AFP ? Rescuers pulled a 97-year-old woman alive from the rubble of the Bam earthquake, an official said, as Iranian authorities sought to restore some normality to the devastated town, opening banks and other businesses. The latest death toll in the quake which flattened the ancient mud-brick...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, bank, Iran
Research articles 2004-01-03
Rescue workers in Bam downbeat about finding survivors of quake
BAM, Iran AFP ? Rescue workers were downbeat about finding survivors in the rubble of Bam, two days after a devastating earthquake destroyed 70 percent of the southeast Iranian town of 100,000 people with tens of thousands feared dead. Iranian Interior Minister Abdolvahed Mussavi Lari told reporters at Bam...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Iran, worker
Research articles 2003-12-27
BAM Towers Clear Environmental Hurdle At Washington Park
The National Park Service NPS found no environmental reasons to prevent Bell Atlantic Mobile [BEL] BAM from building two radio antenna monopoles in Rock Creek Park in Washington. At the same time, the federal park authorities wants the carrier to move one of the towers and cut 50 feet...
Tags: agency, Clear, industry, MARKETING, pole, Strategy, Washington
Research articles 1999-03-04
World Bank to pay first installment of Bam citadel reconstruction loan
TEHRAN AFP ? The World Bank is to pay a first installment of 15 million dollars to the Iranian government in mid-May as part of plans to rebuild the historic mud-brick citadel in Bam that was destroyed in last December's earthquake. According to the semi-official Cultural Heritage News Service,...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, restoration, World Bank
Research articles 2004-04-26
Bam! stays on Nasdaq and on course to gain Vis
Bam! Entertainment has been granted a temporary exception to remain listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange, removing one of the key obstacles standing in the way of its acquisition of Scottish games developer Vis Entertainment. In February the two companies announced that terms of the deal were...
Tags: acquisition, entertainment, FINANCE, Games, Investment, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.
Research articles 2004-04-18
Quake city residents look to future a week after tragedy
BAM, Iran AFP ? Residents of Bam were trying to pick up the pieces of their lives, a week after a massive earthquake shattered their city, now that virtually all of the 30,000 or so dead have been buried and the official mourning period is over. The survivors were...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, HEALTHCARE, hospital, Iran, tragedy
Research articles 2004-01-02
Iran begins work on Bam reconstruction plan, rejects US delegation
BAM, Iran AFP ? Iranian authorities were starting to draw up a multi-million-dollar reconstruction plan for earthquake-hit Bam, but the foreign ministry said the time was not yet right to receive a high-level US delegation to follow up on Washington's dispatch of aid. With almost all of the 30,000...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, delegation, Iran, ministry
Research articles 2004-01-04
Shareholders approve Vis purchase
Shareholders in California publisher Bam! Entertainment have approved the acquisition of the Scottish computer games developer Vis Entertainment. At a special meeting last week, 79% of voting stockholders said they were in favour of the terms, while 19% abstained. The news means that Vis chief Chris van...
Tags: developer, entertainment, FINANCE, Games, MARKETING, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., shareholder, U.K.
Research articles 2004-04-04
Iran begins work on Bam reconstruction plan, aftershocks continue
BAM, Iran AFP ? Iranian authorities were beginning to draw up a multi-million dollar reconstruction plan for the earthquake-hit city of Bam, as more powerful aftershocks continued to raise questions over whether the city should be rebuilt in the same spot. With virtually all of the 30,000 or so...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Iran, Litigation, U.N.
Research articles 2004-01-04
Iran: World Bank loan to support Iran's reconstruction efforts following Bam Earthquake.
M2 PRESSWIRE-29 October 2004-WORLD BANK: Iran: World Bank loan to support Iran's reconstruction efforts following Bam EarthquakeC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10282004 WASHINGTON - The World Bank today approved a $220 million loan to the Government of Iran for a project to...
Tags: FINANCE, Iran, World Bank
Research articles 2004-10-29
Hopes fading for further quake survivors
BAM, Iran AFP ? Hope was fading fast of finding many more survivors in the rubble of Bam, two days after a devastating earthquake destroyed 70 percent of the southeast Iranian town of 100,000 people with tens of thousands feared dead. In Geneva, the United Nations announced that the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Iran, team
Research articles 2003-12-28
Rescuers pull out three more survivors from ruins of Bam quake
BAM, Iran AFP ? A young girl and a pregnant woman were among three people pulled out alive from the rubble of the Bam earthquake, Iranian state radio reported. Rescuers had all but abandoned hope of finding more survivors in the ruins of the devastating quake that killed thousands,...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, MARKETING, radio
Research articles 2004-01-01
More than 20,000 killed as huge quake devastates Iranian city
BAM, Iran AFP ? More than 20,000 people were killed when a massive earthquake devastated Iran's historic southeastern fort city of Bam and its surrounding district, a source in the provincial governor's office said. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, added that 50,000 others were injured. Earlier,...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Governor, HEALTHCARE, hospital, Iran
Research articles 2003-12-26