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BUYINS.NET: APP, BSY, CRH, USS, DIO, AIXG Have Been Removed From Naked Short List Today(M2 PressWIRE Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) RDATE:14012008 BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, announced today that these select companies have been removed from the NASDAQ, AMEX and NYSE naked short threshold list: American Apparel, Inc. (AMEX: APP), British Sky Broadcasting Group plc (NYSE: BSY), CRH Public Ltd. Company (NYSE: CRH), U.S. Shipping Partners L.P. (NYSE: USS), Diomed Holdings Inc (AMEX: DIO), Aixtron Aktiengesellschaft (NASDAQ: AIXG). For a complete list of companies on the naked short list please visit our web site. To find the SqueezeTrigger Price before a short squeeze starts in any stock, go to www.buyins.net. American Apparel, Inc. (AMEX: APP) manufactures, distributes, and retails branded fashion basic apparel. The company offers various products, including t-shirts, bathing suits, sweatshirts, jackets, and undergarments. As of December 1, 2007, it operated approximately 175 retail stores in 13 countries, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Israel, Japan, and South Korea. American Apparel also owns a wholesale business that supplies t-shirts and other casual wear to distributors and screen printers. In addition, it has an online retail e-commerce Web site at americanapparelstore.com. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. With 100,000 shares outstanding and 3.87 million shares declared short as of January 2008, there is no longer a failure to deliver in shares of APP. British Sky Broadcasting Group plc (NYSE: BSY) and its subsidiaries provide pay television broadcast services to retail and wholesale customers in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The company also offers broadband and telephony services. British Sky Broadcasting Group primarily broadcasts sports events, movies, entertainment, and news programs. As of June 30, 2007, it owned, operated, distributed, and retailed 28 Sky Channels, including multiplex versions of the Sky Channels, and retailed 133 Sky Distributed Channels to direct-to-home (DTH) viewers. As of the above date, the company had 8,582,000 DTH subscribers. The company also retails to its DTH subscribers, the digital audio services Music Choice and Music Choice Extra, as well as the Sky Box Office service, a pay-per-view service offering movies, sporting events, and concerts. In addition, it provides an interactive television platform for the development and delivery of interactive services, including retail, betting, customer services, interactive advertising, games, competitions, voting, and quizzes. British Sky Broadcasting Group's broadband and telephony services include Sky Broadband, a broadband Internet access service; and Sky Talk, a telephony service available to DTH subscribers. Further, the company provides Sky Anytime on Mobile, a mobile phone application that provides access to Sky Sports, Sky News, Sky One, and Sky Movies mobile content; Sky Anytime on PC, a PC-application that provides access to Sky Sports, Sky Movies, Sky One, and Sky Arts programming; IP services, including national and cross border IP virtual private networks, Internet connectivity, carrier services, hosting, and co-location; and broadcasts versions of three of its channels, Sky News, Sky Sports News, and Sky Three. The company also owns and operates various Web sites, including sky.com, skysports.com, and sky.com/news. British Sky Broadcasting Group was incorporated in 1988 and is headquartered in Isleworth, the United Kingdom. With 438.21 million shares outstanding and 543,100 shares declared short as of January 2008, there is no longer a failure to deliver in shares of BSY. CRH Public Ltd. Company (NYSE: CRH) engages in the manufacture and distribution of building materials. Its products include cement, aggregates, asphalt, readymixed concrete, and agricultural and chemical lime. The company also offers precast concrete products, clay bricks, pavers, tiles, insulation products, security gates and fencing, rooflights, glass fabrication, and construction accessories; and other concrete products, including block, masonry, patio products, prepackaged concrete mixes, rooftiles, sand-lime elements, and bricks. In addition, it markets and sells builders' supplies to the construction industry, and materials and products for the do-it-yourself (DIY) market through its stores. As of December 31, 2006, the company operated 206 DIY stores and 511 builders merchants stores. CRH operates primarily in the United States, Europe, Argentina, Canada, and Chile. The company was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. With 543.2 million shares outstanding and 612,300 shares declared short as of January 2008, there is no longer a failure to deliver in shares of CRH. U.S. Shipping Partners L.P. (NYSE: USS) provides long-haul marine transportation services to oil and gas companies, primarily for refined petroleum products in the United States. It also engages in the coastwise transportation of petrochemical and commodity chemical products. As of December 31, 2006, the company's fleet consisted of 10 tank vessels, including 6 integrated tug barge units (ITBs), 1 product tanker, and 3 chemical parcel tankers. The company's tank vessels transport refined petroleum products, such as gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel, and feedstocks from refineries to terminals and facilities engaged in further processing. Its ITBs primarily transport clean refined petroleum products, such as gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil, jet fuel, and lubricants from refineries and storage facilities to various destinations, including other refineries and distribution terminals. The company's product tanker carries petroleum products; and parcel tankers transport specialty refined petroleum, petrochemical, and commodity chemical products, such as lubricants, paraxylene, caustic soda, and glycols from refineries and petrochemical manufacturing facilities to other manufacturing facilities and distribution terminals. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Edison, New Jersey. With 18.24 million shares outstanding and 541,300 shares declared short as of January 2008, there is no longer a failure to deliver in shares of USS. Diomed Holdings Inc (AMEX: DIO) through its subsidiaries, engages in the development and commercialization of minimally invasive medical procedures that employ its laser technologies and associated disposable products. It offers endovenous laser treatment (EVLT), a minimally invasive laser procedure for the treatment of varicose veins caused by greater saphenous vein reflux. The company also develops and markets lasers and disposable products for photodynamic therapy cancer procedures; and products for other clinical applications, including dental and general surgical procedures. In addition, Diomed Holdings provides its customers with physician training and practice development support. It serves hospitals, private physician practices, and clinics, as well as focuses on specialists in vascular surgery, interventional radiology, general surgery, phlebology, interventional cardiology, gynecology, and dermatology. The company sells its products through its direct sales force, and a network of distributors in the European Union, Latin America/Mexico, the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, Australia, South Korea, the Peoples' Republic of China, and Canada. Diomed Holdings was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts. With 30.32 million shares outstanding and 1.27 million shares declared short as of January 2008, there is no longer a failure to deliver in shares of DIO. Aixtron Aktiengesellschaft (NASDAQ: AIXG) produces and supplies deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry. Its solutions are used by a range of customers to build components for electronic and opto-electronic applications, which are used in fiber optic communication systems, wireless and mobile telephony applications, optical and electronic storage devices, computing, signaling and lighting, and displays. The company offers vapor deposition systems for the production of wafers; systems for research and development use and small-scale production; and a range of peripheral equipment and services, including products capable of monitoring the concentration of gases in the air and of cleaning the exhaust gas from metal organic chemical vapor deposition processes. It also assists its customers in designing the production layouts of tube piping and switching devices for the gas supply to thin film deposition systems, as well as offers process technology, training, and consulting services. The company sells its products and services directly through strategically located sales and service facilities in Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Japan, South Korea, China, and Taiwan, as well as through independent sales and service representatives in India, Israel, Poland, Russia, and Taiwan. AIXTRON Aktiengesellschaft was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Aachen, Germany. With 88.66 million shares outstanding and 293,500 shares declared short as of December 2007, there is no longer a failure to deliver in shares of AIXG. About BUYINS.NET WWW.BUYINS.NET is a service designed to help bonafide shareholders of publicly traded US companies fight naked short selling. Naked short selling is the illegal act of short selling a stock when no affirmative determination has been made to locate shares of the stock to hypothecate in connection with the short sale. Buyins.net has built a proprietary database that uses Threshold list feeds from NASDAQ, AMEX and NYSE to generate detailed and useful information to combat the naked short selling problem. For the first time, actual trade by trade data is available to the public that shows the attempted size, actual size, price and average value of short sales in stocks that have been shorted and naked shorted. 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