Question: What chain was the largest direct competitor to Blockbuster Video, that was a retailer for United States computer software company which produces a human resources software line claimed to aid companies in evaluating job applicants and their suitability for particular positions by giving them personality tests?

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Authorization: Authorization is the function of specifying access rights/privileges to resources related to information security and computer security in general and to access control in particular .  More formally, "to authorize" is to define an access policy.  For example, human resources staff is normally authorized to access employee records and this policy is usually formalized as access control rules in a computer system.  During operation, the system uses the access control rules to decide whether access requests from (authentication) shall be approved (granted) or disapproved (rejected) .  Resources include individual files or an item's data, computer programs, computer devices and functionality provided by computer applications. Examples of consumers are computer users, computer Software and other Hardware on the computer.

Human resource management system: A Human Resource Management System or HRIS (Human Resource Information System) is a form of HR software that combines a number of systems and processes to ensure the easy management of a business's employees and data.  Human Resources Software is used by businesses to combine a number of necessary HR functions, such as storing employee data, managing payrolls, recruitment processes, benefits administration and keeping track of attendance records.  It ensures everyday Human Resources processes are manageable and easy to access.  It merges human resources as a discipline and, in particular, its basic HR activities and processes with the information technology field, whereas the programming of data processing systems evolved into standardized routines and packages of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software.  On the whole, these ERP systems have their origin from software that integrates information from different applications into one universal database.  The linkage of its financial and human resource modules through one database is the most important distinction to the individually and proprietarily developed predecessors, which makes this software application both rigid and flexible.

Sysload Software: Sysload Software, was a computer software company specializing in systems measurement, performance and capacity management solutions for servers and data centers, based in Créteil, France.  It has been acquired in September 2009 by ORSYP, a computer software company specialist in workload scheduling and IT Operations Management, based in La Défense, France.

Pro-Active Entertainment Group: Pro-Active Entertainment Group was a United States movie distributing company based in Rancho Mirage California and founded by Leonard Levy.  In the early 2000s, the company distributed or re-distributed many movies, including "The Satanic Rites of Dracula", "Lost on Mars" and "The Fat Spy".  The company had several notable contracts with Raven Moon Entertainment, Inc, Ingram Entertainment Holdings Inc. and Baker & Taylor.  Under its contract with Raven Moon Entertainment, Inc., it purchased DVDs such as "Gina D's Kids Club", "Sing A Long With Gina", and "Smile-Ability", and distributed them to major retail and video stores such as Family Video, Premiere Video, Blockbuster Video, Costco, Hollywood Video, Best Buy, Ingram, Music Land, Borders, Circuit City, Sam's Club, K-mart, Wal-Mart, Sun Coast, Albertsons, Kroger and County Market.  Improved technology such as inexpensive computer software, cameras and other equipment helped to lower production costs, enabling many filmmakers without significant financial backing to produce films, especially for the direct-to-video or direct-to-television markets.  Pro-Active Entertainment Group was among the distribution leaders for these new markets.  Video recording, once viewed as a threat, proved to be a new source of income for home entertainment distributors.  In addition to new releases, distributors re-mastered and re-released older films.  Using the internet and help from other major distributors such as Ingram Entertainment and Baker & Taylor, the Pro-Active Entertainment Group helped many film makers distribute their products.  Pro-Active Entertainment Group operated in California and Tennessee, managed by Levy's associate, Richard Mendelson.  The company closed after running into legal troubles with Backyard Wrestling, Inc.

List of mergers and acquisitions by Symantec: Symantec is an American computer software company founded on March 1, 1982.  It is an international corporation that specializes in selling security and information management software, and is listed on the NASDAQ-100 stock market index and Fortune 1000 list of the largest American companies.  Gary Hendrix founded the company in 1982 with the help of a National Science Foundation grant.  Symantec was originally focused on artificial intelligence-related projects, and Hendrix hired several Stanford University natural language processing researchers as the company's first employees.  After the company's initial public offering in 1989, Hendrix left the company in 1991 and moved to Texas.  The company has acquired 57 companies, purchased stakes in 2 firms, and divested 26 companies, in which parts of the company are sold to another company.  Of the companies that Symantec has acquired, 50 were based in the United States.  Symantec has not released the financial details for most of these mergers and acquisitions.

Time-tracking software: Time-tracking software is a category of computer software that allows its users to record time spent on tasks.  This software is used by employees and employers in many industries, including hourly workers and also professionals who bill their customers by the hour, such as lawyers, freelancers and accountants.  It can be used together with multiple other tools like project management software, customer support and accounting to name just a few.  It is an electronic version of the traditional paper timesheet.  Tracking time can increase productivity, as businesses can better understand what practices lead to wasted time.  This type of software encourages accountability for large businesses, and allows business owners to keep all time data in a central location which allows easier data analysis by human resources departments.  Features offered by time-tracking software include:

Hollywood Video: Hollywood Entertainment Corporation (Nasdaq: HLYW), known as Hollywood Video, was a home video and video game rental shop company started in 1988.  The chain was the largest direct competitor to Blockbuster Video until it was purchased by Movie Gallery in 2005.

Unicru: Unicru is a United States computer software company which produces a human resources software line claimed to aid companies in evaluating job applicants and their suitability for particular positions by giving them personality tests.  Many of their customers are large retailers such as Big Y, Lowe's, Hollywood Video, Hastings Entertainment, Albertsons, Toys R Us, PetSmart, Best Buy, and Blockbuster Video.  According to its vendor, Unicru was used in 16% of major retail hiring in the United States as of early 2009.

Help Desk (webcomic): Help Desk was a webcomic by Christopher B. Wright which debuted on March 31, 1996, making it one of the older webcomics on the Internet.  The comic was a satirical and cynical view of computer software companies and operating systems in general, and of the antics of Microsoft, Apple Computer, OS/2, and Linux in particular, however the first 2 comics were on the subject of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.  This was done through the employees of Ubersoft, a fictional computer software company that markets a number of software products, including a computer operating system called Nifty Doorways.  The comic draws heavily from real-life events in the computer software industry and lampoons those events through its cast of characters.  It features a daily slogan on the title bar.  Examples are "We code what angels fear and dread", "Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt", "Our lawyers are better", "It's not a bug... It's just really really bad", "Standing on the necks of giants", "Four out of five dentists reboot", and "We put the pain in painstaking".

Peterborough Software: Peterborough Software was a Payroll and Human Resources software and services company started in Peterborough, England in 1963.  It is notable for being a pioneer of computerised Payroll Services and Software in the United Kingdom, as cited by UK magazine Personnel Today.  The Company was acquired by Northgate Information Solutions in 2004.

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Answer: Hollywood Video