Tuesday, June 29, 2010

• Big Fish Games President and CEO Jeremy Lewis Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2010 Award Recipient in Pacific Northwest --- SEATTLE
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  Big Fish Games, a leading developer, producer and distributor of casual games, today announced that its president and chief executive officer, Jeremy Lewis, received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® 2010 Award in the Technology category in the Pacific Northwest. According to ... read more
• ON Semiconductor Receives Celestica's 2009 Total Cost of Ownership Supplier Award --- PHOENIX
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  ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN), a premier supplier of high performance, energy efficient silicon solutions for green electronics, has been awarded a 2009 Total Cost of Ownership (TCOOTM) Supplier Award from Celestica, a global leader in the delivery of end-to-end product lifecycle solutions. The ... read more
• Independence Blue Cross Offers Waiver or Reduced Waiting Period for Preexisting Conditions on Individual Health Plans --- PHILADELPHIA, June 29
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  Beginning July 1, 2010, Independence Blue Cross (IBC) will begin to waive or reduce the waiting period for preexisting conditions on its medically underwritten individual health plans, by giving new individual members credit for prior coverage. This will mean more people can have faster access to covered care for conditions for which they have previously received medical advice or treatment. "As we move toward the dawn of federal health care reform taking effect, we are proud to proactively reduce or waive ... read more
• Locus Technologies to Sponsor EPRI and NEI Nuclear Industry Workshops --- SAN FRANCISCO, CA
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  SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/29/10 -- Locus Technologies (Locus), the industry leader in web-based environmental software, announced today that it is providing Gold Sponsorship for the EPRI Groundwater Protection Workshop organized in collaboration with Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) in San Jose, California on 30 June and 1 July, 2010. In addition, Locus is sponsoring workshops for the Radioactive Effluent Technical Specifications (RETS) and Radiological Environmental Monitoring Programs (REMP) at commercial nuclear power plants also being held ... read more
• CORRECTING and REPLACING Advanced Technologies Present Growth Opportunities for Current Immunoassay Players and New Entrants, Scientia Advisors Finds --- BOSTON & SAN FRANCISCO
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  First bullet of release, under "Review highlights," has been replaced and should appear as below. The corrected release reads: ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES PRESENT GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES FOR CURRENT IMMUNOASSAY PLAYERS AND NEW ENTRANTS, SCIENTIA ... read more
• Fashionable Comply™ Foam Tips S-Series Pump Up Earphone Style, Transform Listening Experiences from Ordinary to Extraordinary --- OAKDALE, Minn.
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  The colors we wear and the music we listen to are expressions of our attitude, style and state of mind. Combining great sound with cool colors, the new Comply™ Foam Tips S-Series line of earphone replacement tips from Hearing Components provides consumers with an outlet to ... read more
• HyTrust Wins Coveted Red Herring 100 North America Award --- MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.
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  HyTrust, Inc., the leader in policy management and access control for virtualization infrastructure, today announced it has been named a winner of the prestigious Red Herring 100 North America Award, which recognizes leading North American private companies and celebrates their ... read more
• MarkLogic Wins 2010 Red Herring 100 North America Award --- SAN CARLOS, CA
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  SAN CARLOS, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/29/10 -- MarkLogic® Corporation, a leading provider of information infrastructure software, today announced that it has been named to Red Herring's North America 100 list, a prestigious list honoring the year's most promising private technology ventures in North America. "We are pleased to be named to the Red Herring 100 as we know the competition to be on the list is fierce and that only the best of the best make it," said ... read more
• AreYouInterested.com Reveals World Cup Cramps Summer Dating --- NEW YORK, June 29
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  In a recent poll, AreYouInterested.com, a top dating application on Facebook Platform with over 15 million users, discovered singles are spending less time looking for romance and more time watching the World Cup. AreYouInterested.com posted the survey on its AreYouInterested.com Facebook Fan Page to find out if the World Cup is cramping summer dating. Overall, the results revealed that singles are making the World Cup a greater priority than finding romance. Results show: -- 58% of participants ... read more
• PIKAMAB Secures Patent Rights Related to IgA-mediated Autoimmune Diseases --- MENLO PARK, Calif.
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  PIKAMAB, a biopharmaceutical company specializing in stratified medicine, announced today that it has secured exclusive rights to an issued U.S. patent (US 6,986,987) from the UAB Research Foundation (UABRF). This patent pertains to the discovery that the functional polymorphism (Ser/Gly248) ... read more
• SmartOps Software Licensed by PPG Industries --- PITTSBURGH
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  SmartOps Corporation, the leading provider of enterprise-class supply chain optimization solutions, announced that their Enterprise Inventory Optimization (EIO) and Service Level Optimization (SLO) software solutions have been licensed by PPG Industries. ... read more
• Uroplasty, Inc. to Begin Trading on NASDAQ Capital Markets --- MINNEAPOLIS, June 29
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  Uroplasty, Inc. (NYSE Amex: UPI), a medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets innovative proprietary products to treat voiding dysfunctions, announced today that it has been approved for listing on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol "UPI." Trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market is expected to commence on July 12, 2010. The Company's common stock will continue to trade on AMEX until the market close on July 9, 2010. "We are pleased to announce the Company's listing on the ... read more
• AGT Forms Strategic Partnership With Microsoft to Drive Integrated Technology Solutions for Global Homeland Security Market --- ASPEN, Colo., June 29
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  The challenge of ensuring that security solutions are fully integrated into the globalized economy of the 21st century took an important step forward today with the announcement at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado that AGT International will partner with Microsoft to drive integrated technology solutions for the homeland security market. A privately-held firm with aggregate global sales in excess of $7 billion, AGT delivers advanced technology security systems and intelligence solutions for governments and corporations through its group of ... read more
• Sangart, Inc. Completes Enrollment in Phase IIa Study of Oxygen Therapeutic Agent MP4OX in Severe Trauma Patients --- SAN DIEGO, June 29
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  Sangart, Inc., today announced that enrollment was completed in a Phase IIa clinical study of MP4OX (oxygenated pegylated hemoglobin) in severely injured trauma patients with hemorrhagic shock causing lactic acidosis. Complete study results are expected, after follow up of outcomes in these patients, in the second half of 2010. "The hemorrhagic shock that results from severe trauma can cause organ dysfunction and even death," said Karim Brohi, global principal investigator of the study. "Pre-clinical study models of hemorrhagic shock suggest that ... read more
• Praxair Announces Conference Call Details for Second-Quarter Earnings --- DANBURY, Conn.
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  Praxair, Inc. (NYSE: PX) announces the following details for its second-quarter earnings release and teleconference call, which will be open to the public and to the media in listen-only mode. Earnings release: Wednesday, July 28, 2010, before the market opensTeleconference: ... read more
• ARRA Financial Incentives Drive Demand for VisualMED smart EHR --- LAS VEGAS, NV
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  LAS VEGAS, NV -- (Marketwire) -- 06/29/10 -- VisualMED Clinical Solutions Corp. (The "Company") (PINKSHEETS: VMCS) (FRANKFURT: VA6.F) announces that it has received in the past three weeks firm orders for its Clinical Information System from independent private medical facilities worth an aggregate amount of 2.6 million. The deals are multi-year rental agreements that will see the deployment of the Company's signature smart Electronic Health Record, with full CPOE, decision support and medical alerts, over the next 3 months. ... read more
• AOL'S JSYK, Nestle® USA, Macmillan Children's Publishing Group and Candlewick Press Join DOVE® Go Fresh Deodorant and Matching Body Mist as Official Sponsors of the 2nd Annual AllyKatzz Tween Summit --- NEW YORK, June 29
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  Just four months away, the 2nd Annual AllyKatzz Tween Summit -- founded by AK Tweens, the nation's leading tween girls' marketing/consulting firm and AllyKatzz.com, the largest COPPA compliant tween girl social networking site -- has been attracting national brands that want to support, empower, and inspire tweens. Joining DOVE go fresh Deodorant and Matching Body Mist as official sponsors are AOL's JSYK, Nestle USA, Macmillan Children's Publishing Group and Candlewick Press. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100222/NY58868LOGO-b ) (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100222/NY58868LOGO-b ) Building on momentum garnered from ... read more
• Lightyear Announces $1.7 Million Service Migration for Nationwide Casino Operator --- LOUISVILLE, Ky.
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  Lightyear Network Solutions, Inc. (OTCBB: LYNS), a provider of telecommunication services to large, medium and small businesses, as well as residential consumers throughout North America, announced today it is nearing completion of a migration to Lightyear service for 40 different locations for one of the nation's ... read more
• VESA® Issues Updated Embedded DisplayPort Standard --- NEWARK, Calif.
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  The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) has announced a new version of the Embedded DisplayPort Standard (eDP™). eDP version 1.2 includes several enhancements to further enable improved display performance and reduced system power consumption. eDP v1.2 defines new panel and backlight control capabilities using the DisplayPort ... read more
• ClickFox Customer Sprint Wins Gartner & 1to1 Media CRM Excellence Award for Customer Experience --- ATLANTA, GA
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  ATLANTA, GA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/29/10 -- ClickFox, the pioneering leader of customer experience analytics (CEA) software and solutions, today announced that Gartner, Inc. and 1to1 Media have recognized their customer, Sprint, as the Gold winner of the 2010 Gartner & 1to1 Media Customer Relationship Management Excellence Award in the Customer Experience category. Sprint leverages ClickFox CEA to analyze customer experience behavior trends across interaction channels, including retail stores, web, call center, IVR, and CTI routing applications. This single, ... read more