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Lenovo Group today announced results for its fourth fiscal quarter and full-year ended March 31, 2013. With record full-year sales of US$34 billion, an increase of 15 percent year-over-year, a record full-year pre-tax income of US$801 million, up 38 percent year-over-year and record earnings of US$635 ... read more

ChannelAdvisor Corporation today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 5,750,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $14.00 per share. The shares are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on May 23, 2013 under the ticker “ECOM.” All of the ... read more

SAP users learned how Excel4apps expedites financial reporting from SAP with its flagship GL Wand solution at SAPPHIRE NOW, Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG) Annual Conference, held May 14-16 in Orlando. In an interactive customer panel, Kevin Lybbert, senior cost/SAP analyst for Purcell ... read more

Today, Merz North America, exclusive distributor of Asclera® (polidocanol) Injection in the U.S., announced Paula Forman as the grand prize winner of the Stand and Deliver™ program, an initiative created to honor women who take a stand and make a difference in their communities. Paula Forman ... read more

STEPh, Inc., a full service medical communications company, is pleased to announce the launch of their web site ( http://www.stephreports.com ) dedicated to investigational drug reports [STEPh Reports]. About STEPh Reports STEPh Reports are comprehensive critical reviews of drugs in development. Each STEPh Report assesses the competitive landscape by individual drug monograph, MOA, clinical trials data, projected launch year, company, and specific key issues. STEPh Reports are written by individuals with expertise in clinical pharmacology and knowledge of ... read more

Square 1 Bank, the premier banking partner to entrepreneurs and the venture capital community, announced today it has provided a term loan and revolving line of credit to new client Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc., a life science technology company providing unique workflow solutions to laboratories and ... read more

LipoScience, Inc., (NASDAQ: LPDX) a diagnostic company pioneering a new field of personalized nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) diagnostics to advance the quality of patient care, today announced availability of NMR lipoprotein particle testing using the Vantera(®) Clinical Analyzer through Mayo Medical Laboratories. NMR lipoprotein testing on the Vantera Clinical Analyzer will be accessible to Mayo Clinic physicians and patients and other hospital clients of Mayo Medical Laboratories. The Vantera Clinical Analyzer can identify and quantify concentrations of ... read more

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) announces commercial availability of XLamp® XP-E2 color LEDs. The new XP-E2 color LEDs deliver up to 88 percent higher maximum light output compared to alternative high-power color LEDs, enabling lighting manufacturers to more cost-effectively address a wide spectrum of applications such as ... read more

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has implemented SAS Visual analytics to inform policy decisions on health, welfare and community services. AIHW recently became accredited as a data integrating authority by the Australian government, along with the ... read more

Entera Health, Inc. announces today three presentations were given at Digestive Disease Week DDW® 2013, which was held in Orlando, FL, Saturday, May 18 – Tuesday, May 21. Dr. Eric Weaver presented initial clinical data on the use of the ... read more

SciQuest (NASDAQ:SQI), a leading provider of cloud-based business automation solutions for spend management, today announced that Douglas Keister will be joining the company as its new senior vice president of worldwide sales. Keister will be replacing Jeffrey Martini, who will be ... read more

Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. (NASDAQ:SLXP) today announced the successful completion and outcome of two pivotal Phase 3 studies to evaluate the efficacy and safety of budesonide foam in the treatment of active mild to moderate ulcerative proctitis (UP) or ulcerative proctosigmoiditis (UPS). In each of the two ... read more

AT&T* has turned on the nation's fastest 4G LTE network** along the Outer Banks, bringing the latest generation of wireless network technology to customers from Duck to Avon. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120612/DA23287LOGO) Other towns where 4G LTE will initially be available include Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, Manteo (Roanoke Island), Nags Head, Rodanthe, Southern Shores and Wanchese. "The first sailing vessels which appeared off the Outer Banks were there because people embraced a technology that could deliver new opportunities and possibilities for the future," ... read more

Overture, innovating at the metro edge for service providers and network operators worldwide, today announced Global Capacity, a leading network connectivity company, has selected the 6000 Multi-service Carrier Ethernet platform to enable both Ethernet and TDM-based access services over a ... read more

Pike Electric Corporation (NYSE: PIKE) (“Pike”), one of the nation’s leading energy solutions providers, today announced the closing of the upsized secondary public offering of 8,000,000 shares of its common stock (the “offering”) by an affiliate of Lindsay Goldberg LLC (the “selling stockholder”) at a price ... read more

THORLO, originator of the Thorlos(®) brand and one of the few sock manufacturing companies to maintain full operations in the USA, has responded to Operation Gratitude's request to help fill its care packages with 1,000 pairs of clinically-tested padded military socks. "THORLO has been responding to requests from our military as well as first responders since the tragedy of 9/11," says THORLO founder and CEO Jim Throneburg. "We welcome this opportunity to continue our support as part of our larger ... read more

Oxygen Biotherapeutics, Inc. (“OBI”) (NASDAQ: OXBT), today announced Col. (ret.) Charles L. Pamplin III, M.D., was appointed to the position of Chief Medical Officer effective May 20. In this position, he reports to the Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Pamplin will be implementing the Company’s strategic clinical ... read more

Aqueti, a new company commercializing gigapixel photographic technology developed at Duke University, announced today that it will utilize the popular Kickstarter fundraising site to introduce Aware, the world’s first gigapixel digital camera. The campaign will run May 20 – June ... read more

ChannelAdvisor, a leading provider of cloud-based e-commerce solutions that enable retailers and manufacturers to increase global sales, today announced that its CEO Scot Wingo will present a fireside chat with Emerson Senior Vice President Charlie Peters at BLAZE, The 2013 Global Business Marketing Association Conference, to ... read more

Liquidia Technologies today announced that its collaborative agreement with PATH, a global health nonprofit organization, has been extended. The extension of this agreement allows for the continuation of preclinical proof-of-concept studies on a next generation pneumococcal vaccine. If successful, the vaccine could potentially allow for ... read more