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IRVINE, CA United States and SYDNEY, NSW Australia – December 2, 2009 – Today, Incipio and Simms International jointly announce their new partnership to expand both companies product offering in Australia. With this exciting new partnership, Simms will become the sole distributor of Incipio’s award winning product line in Australia, which includes accessories for the Apple iPhone, iPod and Mac.…

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Who: Muhtar Kent, Chairman and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company

Phil Radford, Executive Director, Greenpeace USA

Gerd Leipold, Former Executive Director, Greenpeace International

When: Thursday, December 3, 2009

11 a.m. – 12 noon (EST)

Where: Dial-In Number: 1-888-684-1282

International Dial-In Number: 1-913-312-1429

Participant Code: 8749363

Media Note: Digital images and B-Roll will be available for download by…

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- facilitate oxygenation of water to reduce aeration and energy

requirements,

- eliminate habitat for methane producing bacteria in sewers,

- digest sludge to reduce or eliminate sludge handling,

transportation to land fills (resting the pollution elsewhere),

- biodegrade pharmaceuticals and hydrocarbons,

- reduce use and costs of toxic chemicals,

- protect and extend infrastructure life,

- prevent sewer overflows…

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Ecron Acunova, a full service clinical development CRO, announced receiving Series B financing from OrbiMed’s Caduceus Asia Mauritius Ltd. Ecron Acunova conducts clinical trials for pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies in Europe, Asia and the US. To accelerate market entry of new products, the Company provides dedicated local experience in select emerging markets in Central and Eastern Europe as…

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Philips LED Candle combines nostalgic look with new technology
Eindhoven, The Netherlands – Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) is pleased to announce that the Philips’ LED candle, from the Novallure series, has been recognized by the Hong Kong Designers Association with the silver HKDA Asia Design Award 09.

Advantages of the LED candle:
* Reduced energy…

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Anglo American plc is pleased to announce the appointment of Godfrey Gomwe as Executive Director of Anglo American South Africa with immediate effect. He will act as Anglo American’s key representative in South Africa, working together with Anglo American’s Business Unit CEOs to deliver the Group’s strategy in the region.
Mr Gomwe recently served as Head of Group Business…

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that Matthew Glotzbach, Director, Product Management, will participate in a question-and-answer session at the Barclays Capital Global Technology Conference in San Francisco. The session is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time / 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time on Wednesday, December 9, 2009.
To access the live audio webcast of the…

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Frankfurt am Main, Deutsche Bank AG (XETRA: DBKGn.DE / NYSE: DB) today announced the completion of its acquisition of Dresdner Bank’s Global Agency Securities Lending business from Commerzbank AG (XETRA: CBK GY), pursuant to the agreement entered into by the parties in May 2009.
The Dresdner Agency Securities Lending business has been integrated into Deutsche Bank’s Trust & Securities…

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PALO ALTO, Calif., HP Enterprise Services today announced that Ahold, an international group of leading supermarket companies based in the United States and Europe, has extended its existing relationship with HP by signing a new seven-year infrastructure and applications services agreement.
The contract extension is designed to reduce the complexity and improve the efficiency of Ahold’s technology environment.

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Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) today announced global production, as well as domestic sales and export figures for October 2009.

Production: Global total and Japan

Total global production for October came in at 85,080 units, a decline of 29.6 percent over the same month last year and the fifteenth consecutive monthly decrease since August 2008. Production volume in Japan at 46,416…

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Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), a leading provider of global
e-commerce solutions, announced that the company is presenting at the
2009 FBR Capital Markets Fall Investor Conference in New York, N.Y. The
event, being held at the Grand Hyatt, takes place Dec. 1-2, 2009.
Digital River’s vice president of investor relations, Ed Merritt, will
discuss…

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The TJX Companies, Inc. (NYSE:TJX) today announced the declaration of a
quarterly dividend on its common stock of $.12 per share, payable March
4, 2010, to shareholders of record on February 11, 2010.
The TJX Companies, Inc. is the leading off-price retailer of apparel and
home fashions in the U.S. and worldwide. The Company operates 889…

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Regulatory News:
Aéroports de Paris (Paris:ADP) (Pink Sheets:AEOPF) and GE Capital
Real Estate France (through its subsidiary Foncière Ariane SAS) reached,
on 30 November 2009, the final agreement of their partnership regarding
Continental Square real estate complex located at Paris-Charles de
Gaulle airport.
This partnership is about:
The transfer of Continental Square real…

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The limited capabilities of mass market mobile devices and the
restricted expansion of mobile applications due to mobile OS
fragmentation are the two primary barriers to the explosive growth of
mobile applications. But, asks ABI Research’s Mark Beccue, “What if you
could build applications based on web standards, move the processing
associated with the applications…

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MUMBAI: Tata Elxsi, the visual effects and animation arm of the Tata group, on Tuesday said that it is envisaging revenues worth $300-400-million from global operations over the next three years.

The Bangalore-headquartered company has charted out a global expansion plan and will open a new visual effects studio in Santa Monica, US, end-this week.

The company has…

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One of the UK’s premier online retailers of high quality ski clothing have announced their top destination tips for the Christmas 2009 ski season.
According to Martin Rouse, Managing Director of Ski & Trek, “We offer a range of fantastic ski clothing for men, women and children, all at great prices. Our gear is high quality, despite coming in…

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Promethean and European Schoolnet have announced the launch of the ’Best MST Learning Resource Golden Prize’ as part of eLearning Awards, Europe’s leading competition to reward excellence and best use of technology in education. More than 700 schools and teacher training institutions have registered to present their best projects making use of ICT for teaching and learning. The winners will…

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New car of the year: Polo

The new Polo is Car of the Year 2010: Today the Car of the Year jury chose the Volkswagen as number 1; this is the crowning achievement of an extraordinary year for the new Polo.

“The new Polo stands for German…

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Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), a leading provider of global
e-commerce solutions, announced that the company is presenting at the
Credit Suisse 2009 Annual Technology Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. The
event, being held at The Phoenician, takes place Dec. 1-3, 2009.
Digital River’s CFO, Tom Donnelly, will discuss the company’s business
strategy during a fireside…

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Regulatory News:
Sectra (STO:SECTB) today announces a partnership agreement with Canon
Marketing Japan, Inc., an affiliate of Canon Inc. Canon Marketing Japan
is headquartered in Tokyo and has offices in all of the major cities in
Japan. The company employs nearly 20,000 people and has annual sales in
excess of JPY 800 billion (USD 9…

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DotAsia announces plan to release multilingual domain (IDN Internationalized Domain Name) registrations in 2010. Following announcements by ICANN to approve the use of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN), DotAsia Organisation, the global top-level domain authority for .Asia, will accept IDN registrations starting in the second half of 2010 to address the pent up demand in Asia for multilingual web addresses.

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Rio Tinto Iron Ore chief executive Sam Walsh today signed an memorandum of understanding with the Premier of Western Australian, Colin Barnett, and the Minister for Regional Development, Brendon Grylls, as the first step towards a town redevelopment strategy in the Pilbara.
The MoU will lead to the formalising of a co-operative partnership between the State Government and Rio…

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This release is available in German.

Today the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) is calling for registration and publication of the results of all clinical trials to be made obligatory. The German Federal Government must push for a mandatory regulation to be implemented at EU level; in the USA this obligation has been in force…

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BOZEMAN, Mont. — A journey that started with a box of bird feet carried three Montana State University graduate students into the gruesome world of raptors and led to their findings being published in a prominent journal.

Normally focused on dinosaurs, the students compared the claws and killing methods of four types of raptors and published a paper about their…

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Co. Armagh, United Kingdom (Nov 13 2009) – CSC, the company behind leading provider of fuel cards for the UK and across Europe, fuelcards.com, have expanded their already wide European network yet further with the addition of 15 new G & V truck stations in Belgium.

Already a leading independent provider of petrol and diesel cards across Ireland and Europe,…

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Zurich Financial Services Group and CSC Sign New IT Services Contract in Europe and North America
ZURICH, Switzerland, and FALLS CHURCH, Va., CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced today that it has signed a ten-and-a-half year master service agreement with Zurich Financial Services Group (Zurich) for data center and information technology (IT) infrastructure managed services. The master service agreement provides the…

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From 19 December to 3 January
General public
Wapikoni mobile – documentaries
Overview of the Aboriginal communities in Quebec
Every day, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
The concept of the Wapikoni mobile? A mobile video studio sets off to meet the First Nations. Then a team of staff train young Aborigines on audiovisual production techniques.…

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DSV Road has set up its own operation in Guernsey to build its growing business in the Channel Islands.

Patrick Thompson, manager of DSV’s Channel Island operations, says: “We have seen our volumes grow year on year in Guernsey so wanted to take more control of our own business here. We have also brought in our own liveried vehicles…

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Singapore’s business events sector continues to forge ahead with a momentum of growth. Bolstered by its strong business fundamentals and initiatives to build a vibrant ecosystem of business events, Singapore has successfully clinched a good number of association meetings over the next few years.

November 26, 2009 /India PRwire/ — With Singapore’s economy turning…

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The Asia-Pacific biometric market is projected to grow at a CAGR of over 27% between 2010 and 2012 on its wide application in industries and civil areas, says RNCOS.

November 26, 2009 /India PRwire/ — Biometrics is witnessing rapid adoption by both public and private sectors worldwide as an accurate, reliable and cost-saving way…

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Prague, Czech Republic / Madrid, Spain
Nokia Siemens Networks has been selected to participate in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) trial in the Czech Republic, as part of LTE trials that Telefónica will be running in about half a dozen countries in Europe and Latin America. During the six-month trial, Nokia Siemens Networks will demonstrate its end-to-end LTE solution…

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“real,- Future Store” in Toenisvorst, Germany implements Infosys ShoppingTrip360 for superior shelf inventory management
Toenisvorst, Germany – METRO Group, one of the largest and most important international retailing companies, has selected Infosys Technologies (NASDAQ: INFY) as a partner in its Future Store Initiative (FSI) for the advancement of cutting edge technologies and innovative shopping concepts. Infosys was chosen as…

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Through this expansion, resellers in Canada will have access to the industry-leading value-added services and support that Catalyst Telecom offers, including online, in-person and self-paced training covering manufacturers, products and business acumen; pre- and post-sale technical support; VoIP and wireless network assessments; solution design support; and customized financial services support. In addition, resellers will be supported by a sales and…

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United Airlines is offering travelers new opportunities to experience the beauty of Rome when the airline begins daily seasonal service between Chicago and the Italian capital on May 1, 2010.

The once-daily flight will operate through the peak summer travel season, ending on Aug. 31, 2010.

Service between Rome and Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, United’s largest hub, will offer convenient…

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Henley Business School MBA courses have retained key business school ranking positions in both the Financial Times EMBA Rankings 2009 and Economist Intelligence Unit Full-time MBA Rankings 2009.
Overall positions have remained similar to 2008 MBA rankings, with the executive MBA ranked 6 in the UK, 15 in Europe and 44 in the world. The Henley Executive MBA has…

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The Rezidor Hotel Group owned Regent Berlin’s Fischers Fritz restaurant, has been awarded two stars by Michelin, the French guide to fine dining, for the third consecutive year.
Chef de Cuisine, Christian Lohse, has succeeded in maintaining his crown as Berlin’s only two Michelin-starred Chef, with his classic French cuisine with a contemporary twist. In fall 2007, Lohse’s dedication…

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Lilliput Kidswear Ltd, the dominant player in the Kidswear industry walked away with the prestigious ‘SME of the Year Award’ and ‘Most Promising SME – Retail’ at the ‘CNBC TV18 and ICICI Bank’s ‘Emerging India Awards 2009′.

November 25, 2009 /India PRwire/ — Lilliput Kidswear Ltd, the dominant player in the Kidswear industry walked…

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Allianz has acquired two more wind farms from Nordex France

Hamburg, Nordex AG is further improving its position as one of the leading project developers on the French market: Allianz Specialised Investments, part of the alternative asset investment activities of the Allianz Group, has purchased the wind farms “Barbes d´Or” (12.5 MW) and “Joyeuses” (10 MW), planned and erected by…

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• Rise in sales in the first nine months to EUR 814 (2008: 781) million
• 12% increase in gross profit to EUR 179 (160) million
• CEO Richterich: “Foundations in place for sustained profitable growth”

Hamburg, In the first nine months of 2009, the Nordex Group (ISIN: DE000A0D6554) generated a 4 percent increase in sales to EUR…

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A complement to the original East India Company, East India Company: Battle of Trafalgar recreates the legendary naval battle fought between the British Royal navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish navies during the height of the Napoleonic wars in late 1805. Featuring historically accurate ships from all three fleets along with the key naval personnel of…

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