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The Salt Lake Tribune business digest column
(Salt Lake Tribune, The (KRT) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Apr. 18--EXECUTIVES TO LOBBY UTAH OFFICIALS TO SUPPORT MERGER: Two Delta Air Lines senior executives will be in Salt Lake City today to press their case that merging with Northwest Airlines to create the world's biggest carrier is a good idea for Utah.
Delta CEO Richard Anderson and Ed Bastian, president of the Atlanta-based airline, will seek support from Delta employees, Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker and Salt Lake Chamber CEO Lane Beattie.
Officials with both airlines have been traveling since the proposed merger was announced Monday, meeting with employees, politicians and reporters.
While support for a combination seems widespread in Salt Lake, where Delta operates an airport hub and employs 3,500 people, pockets of resistance have appeared.
Two Northwest unions are opposed to a tie-up and Wall Street has reacted negatively. On Thursday, Delta closed at $8.55, down 7 cents. Northwest fell 6 cents to $9.49.
--Paul Beebe
U. TO SHOW OFF TWO NEW ELECTRON MICROSCOPES: The University of Utah will have an open house Thursday to demonstrate its two new electron microscopes. The microscopes, which cost more than $1 million, will be available for local businesses to use for a fee. They are used for nanometer-scale research, which involves materials with fewer than 1,000 atoms.
University officials will speak about the microscopes from 8 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., with demonstrations from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., in the auditorium of the Intermountain Network and Scientific Computation Center, 155 S. 1452 East, Salt Lake City. The building is north of the Park Building at the top of Presidents Circle.
To submit samples to be examined, contact Matt DeLong at delong@physics.utah.edu or 801-581-7462.
--Brianna Lange
MOVE NETWORKS OPENS 4 SATELLITE OFFICES: Move Networks of American Fork, a provider of online television services, has opened four new offices, including both coasts.
The company opened offices in Los Angeles and San Mateo, Calif., Ann Arbor, Mich., and New York City, the company said in a news release.
Move Networks also announced two management appointments. Thomas Morgan joins the company as chief strategy officer. Paul Ptaschne is the vice president of sales for Latin America.
--Tom Harvey
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