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Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (OTCBB:CRWE.OB) recently announced that it has launched its crwenewswire.fr website to provide news in France’s native language. Crown Equity Holdings Inc. had previously launched its German website crwenewswire.de and is launching its Canadian website crwenewswire.ca shortly.

“The new website is one step in many towards the company goal of expanding its footprint internationally, ” commented Kenneth Bosket, President and CEO of Crown Equity Holdings Inc. “Our goal for 2010 is to have all CRWE’s clients’ press releases, articles and news content published in every major financial country’s native language, as well as within cities of every state of our country,” stated Mr. Bosket.

Crown Equity Holdings is a news service containing news from around the world, and an advertising media, consisting of : crownequityholdings.com, CRWEnewswire.com, DrStockPick.com, CRWEfinance.com, CRWESelect.com, CRWEpicks.com, BestOTC.com , Stock-PR.com, PennyOmega.com, PennyToBuck.com, StockHotTips.com, CRWEwallstreet.com, Doubleinstocks.com, Crowntradingsystems.com.

Crown Equity Holdings, Inc. is a consulting organization which provides and assists small business owners with the knowledge required in taking their company public, and has re-focused its primary vision with its aligned group of independent website divisions to providing media advertising services, as a worldwide online media advertising publisher, dedicated to the distribution of quality branding information, as well as search engine optimization for its clients.

Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) has appointed Len J. Lauer to its board of directors. Lauer, who currently serves Memjet as president, CEO and director, brings to WD deep experience with large, multi-national public technology companies and consumer products markets. He will serve on WD’s board until the annual meeting of shareholders in Nov. 2010, when he will stand for election to a full term. With this appointment, membership on the WD board stands at 11, including 10 non-executive directors.

Prior to joining Memjet, a color printing technology company, in January 2010, Lauer was executive vice president and chief operating officer of Qualcomm, Inc. from August 2008 through December 2009, and served in other senior executive positions with the company since 2006. Prior to his tenure at Qualcomm, he held senior executive positions, including chief operating officer, of Sprint companies since September 2000. Lauer also served in several executive positions at Bell Atlantic Corp. and spent the first 13 years of his business career at IBM in various sales and marketing positions. He currently is a director of H&R Block, Inc.

WD, one of the storage industry’s pioneers and long-time leaders, provides products and services for people and organizations that collect, manage and use digital information. The company designs and produces reliable, high-performance hard drives and solid state drives that keep users’ data accessible and secure from loss. Its advanced technologies are configured into applications for client and enterprise computing, embedded systems and consumer electronics, as well as its own consumer storage and media products.

Western Refining, Inc. (NYSE:WNR) has completed the safe and orderly shutdown of its refining process units at its Yorktown, Virginia refinery. The suspension of refining operations at Yorktown was announced on August 5, 2010. The decision was based on the continued outlook for weak refining margins on the East Coast.

“We have processed the remaining inventory and completed the shutdown of refining operations at Yorktown. I want to commend our employees for safely securing the plant and their professionalism during this difficult time. At some point in the future, if the refining economics on the East Coast improve, we would consider restarting refining operations,” said Mark Smith, Western’s President – Refining and Marketing.

The Company will continue to operate the products terminal and storage facility and supply the region with finished products. The Company is continuing to evaluate all strategic alternatives for the facility.

The Yorktown decision will result in the Company recording a one-time cash charge totaling approximately $13 million during the second half of 2010. Additionally, the Company expects to generate approximately $50 million in cash from the reduction of working capital at Yorktown in the third quarter.

The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) reports that its board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.06 per common share, payable October 14, 2010 to shareholders of record at the close of business on October 4, 2010.

The Western Union Company is a leader in global payment services. Together with its Vigo, Orlandi Valuta, Pago Facil and Custom House branded payment services, Western Union provides consumers and businesses with fast, reliable and convenient ways to send and receive money around the world, as well as send payments and purchase money orders. The Western Union, Vigo and Orlandi Valuta branded services are offered through a combined network of approximately 430,000 agent locations in 200 countries and territories. In 2009, The Western Union Company completed 196 million consumer-to-consumer transactions worldwide, moving $71 billion of principal between consumers, and 415 million business payments.

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