WELLESLEY, Mass., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Babson has been ranked #23 on the BusinessWeek 2009 ranking of "The Best Undergraduate Business Schools." Babson has moved up 5 spots from #28 in 2008 and 10 total spots in just two years.
BusinessWeek ranked 101 colleges that met stringent quality criteria. To identify the best business programs, BusinessWeek used five measures, including a survey of more than 85,000 graduating seniors at top schools and a poll of undergraduate recruiters. BusinessWeek also calculated letter grades on teaching quality, facilities and services and job placement based on the student survey.
This year's ranking continues to provide an indication of the strength of Babson's faculty and overall academic program; the continued momentum of our students' appreciation for our facilities, services and programs; and strong reputation in the recruiter and employer marketplace:
* recruiter survey - up 22 spots from 2008
* student survey - remained steady at #21 in the ranking, up 35 spots in two years' time and included an A+ on teaching quality and an A+ on facilities and services (up from a C in 2007)
* academic quality - up 8 spots from 2008, thanks to an average SAT of 1254 and 86.1 % of students with internships
BusinessWeek's complete ranking of the Top 50 Undergraduate Business Schools is available in their March 9, 2009 issue. The complete list of the top undergraduate business schools, as well as school profiles, Q&As and interactive tools can be found at BusinessWeek.com at http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/undergraduate.
"While these rankings do not change how we prepare and teach our students, they do remain an external measure that prospective students and their parents use to evaluate colleges. The ranking data provide an opportunity to assess how the marketplace evaluates what we do while offering some insights into areas where we can seek improvement. We will continue our efforts of steady improvement and look forward to even higher rankings in the years to come," said President Leonard Schlesinger.
"What is personally so exciting to us about this ranking is that it provides strong validation of our excellence across the campus -- in academics, in student life and in our facilities and services. Thank you for all you have done to help achieve this recognition, while at the same time making Babson a truly unique and special place," said Dennis Hanno, Dean of the Undergraduate School.
Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., is recognized internationally as a leader in entrepreneurial management education. Babson grants BS degrees through its innovative undergraduate program, and grants MBA and custom MS and MBA degrees through the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. Babson Executive Education offers executive development programs to experienced managers worldwide. For information, visit www.babson.edu.
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- New digital-only magazine to be delivered through extended wireless service -
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. News Media Group, one of the nation's leading sources of news analysis and service journalism, today announced that its newly released digital-only product U.S. News Weekly is now also available on Amazon Kindle.
Through this new distribution channel, content from U.S. News Weekly, a digital-only magazine that includes hard news reporting, insightful analysis, unique features and cutting-edge commentary, will be electronically delivered to Kindle users the same day it is published by U.S. News. Similar to the Kindle version of U.S.News & World Report magazine, Kindle users can subscribe and purchase individual issues of U.S. News Weekly.
Every week, the digital magazine will cover national and world news through the following sections: This Week in Washington, The Presidency column, Washington Whispers, Commentary and Opinion editorials, and rotating features including profiles of leading newsmakers, Pro/Con exchanges on hot-button issues, and Q&As with Washington's power brokers.
"While the media industry continues to debate fee-for-payment options, we're moving forward to make our already successful paid and free products widely accessible to readers," said Brian Kelly, editor of U.S.News & World Report. "By providing U.S. News Weekly content on Amazon Kindle, it's easy for readers to receive the news analysis and in-depth reports they want. It's a timely, effective delivery platform that fits our fresh reporting and analysis."
U.S. News Weekly and U.S.News & World Report are currently offered through Amazon Kindle at www.amazon.com/kindlestore.
About the U.S. News Media Group
The U.S. News Media Group is a multi-platform digital publisher of news and analysis, which includes the monthly U.S. News & World Report magazine, the digital-only U.S. News Weekly magazine, www.usnews.com, and www.rankingsandreviews.com. Focusing on Health, Money & Business, Education, and Public Service/Opinion, the U.S. News Media Group has earned a reputation as the leading provider of service news and information that improves the quality of life of its readers. The U.S. News Media Group's signature franchises include its News You Can Use(R) brand of journalism and its "America's Best" series of consumer guides that include rankings of colleges, graduate schools, hospitals, health plans, and more.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Villanova School of Business (VSB) placed #11 in BusinessWeek's fourth annual ranking of undergraduate business schools nationwide, published today. This represents a two-point jump for Villanova, which placed #13 last year. The ranking is based on faculty and educational quality, professional development, business relevance, and student satisfaction.
"We are honored to see Villanova's commitment to excellence and the quality of our business students, faculty, and staff recognized through this national ranking," said VSB Dean James M. Danko. "The BusinessWeek results confirm our strong, consistent position among the top business schools in the United States."
Villanova School of Business is known for its strong liberal arts foundation, its state-of-the-art Applied Finance Lab and learning facilities, and its Augustinian focus on service and volunteerism. Over the past several years, VSB has received recognition on the national stage for its rankings performances as well as its innovative achievements. A radically-redesigned undergraduate curriculum was introduced to incoming freshmen in 2008, and the VSB faculty has restructured itself and redefined its evaluation system. Financial giving to the school has increased five fold, and student applications and student quality have reached unprecedented levels.
"Especially in light of the economic challenges we now face, young business leaders need to approach the practice of global business with increasing agility and openness to change. It's our job to teach them how to solve problems creatively and holistically--and to remain deeply committed to their ethical responsibilities throughout their careers," said Danko. "We've been entrusted by our students--and their parents--to provide this return on their educational investment. Today's BusinessWeek ranking provides positive affirmation that we're doing this successfully."
Established in 1922, the Villanova School of Business serves over 2,500 students across its undergraduate and graduate programs. BusinessWeek ranks the VSB part-time MBA program #11 in the nation and the VSB executive MBA #18 in the nation. VSB is home to faculty research centers including the Center for Global Leadership, the Institute for Research in Advanced Financial Technology, the Center for Marketing and Public Policy Research, the Center for the Study of Church Management, and the Daniel M. DiLella Center for Real Estate.
NEW YORK, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- For more than five years the national
media coverage of the BALCO investigation has been fed by a national obsession
to shame, humiliate and prosecute athletes for alleged lies about sports
doping. In "The Persecution of Barry Bonds" San Francisco based author and
journalist Jonathan Littman takes a different view of the greatest steroid
sports scandal in history, one that asks what it was all about, and whether
the point of the whole multi-million dollar investigation has been to divert
attention from the real villains, Bud Selig, the Commissioner of Major League
baseball and the owners who profited for more than a decade by a culture of
rampant steroid abuse. The full report is available online now at
http://www.playboy.com/steroids and will be printed in the April issue of
Playboy, on newsstands Friday, March 20.
Littman broke the inside story of BALCO in May 2004 for Playboy in
"Gunning for the Big Guy." He has reported on this story for nearly six years,
filing more than fifty stories on the topic. Littman has met and interviewed
the key players in this drama dozens of times over the past half decade. The
only journalist to have interviewed three of the four original BALCO
investigators, Littman has attended nearly every trial and hearing in the
sprawling, massively covered scandal, from the BALCO trials to the hearings in
the perjury case against Barry Bonds, to the Clemens Congressional hearing.
Previously unknown facts uncovered in Littman's report include:
1. NOVITZKY'S GAME: How Agent Jeff Novitzky got the green light for an
unprecedented multi-million dollar IRS witch hunt. Before the 2003
raid on BALCO, before a single headline was ever written, Littman knew
that Agent Novitzky, a then unheralded IRS agent, was obsessed with
bringing down Barry Bonds.
2. PROTECTING BUD: How Novitzky and the BALCO federal prosecutors
seemingly protected Bud Selig and Major League baseball, by not
calling the Commissioner or baseball's owners to testify to their
knowledge of rampant steroid use in baseball.
3. HIDING THE CLEAR: Previous press reports repeated the government
account that The Clear, the centerpiece drug in BALCO was an illegal
steroid. Secret grand jury testimony of Jeff Novitzky himself reveals
that the government knew early on that it was not an illegal drug.
4. PERJURY TRAP: The BALCO investigation, far from an attempt to clean up
sports, was designed to entrap one man, Barry Bonds. How the
government misled Bonds on the day of his Grand Jury testimony and
appears to have to set up baseball's all-time home-run king on a
perjury charge.
5. TRUTH TELLER UNMASKED: At the very time Agent Novitzky was given
unprecedented powers and funds to trip up athletes in lies, the
Treasury opened an investigation that questioned his credibility. The
origins of a five-year-old secret investigation that has already
caused the lawyer for one BALCO defendant to ask a judge to set aside
a conviction and may imperil the Bonds case.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Advanced Analogic
Technologies, Inc. (AnalogicTech(TM)) (Nasdaq: AATI), a developer of power
management integrated circuits, announced today that the AAT1282 Flash Driver
IC has been selected by EDN Magazine as one of three finalists in the Power
IC: Drivers category for the publication's prestigious EDN Innovation award.
Introduced by AnalogicTech in April, 2008, the AAT1282 is the industry's first
2A flash LED driver to use a super capacitor to deliver the high light
intensity needed for mobile phones featuring cameras with resolutions greater
than 5 Megapixels.
Over the past 18 years, EDN's Innovation Awards have honored the people,
products and technologies that have shaped the semiconductor industry. Awards
are given in 28 categories. Three finalists in each category are selected by
EDN's editors as products that demonstrate a level of innovation resulting in
a significant advance in technology or product development. During the month
of February, EDN's worldwide audience of electronic engineers and engineering
managers will vote on the ultimate winners in each category. Winners will be
announced at a dinner and awards ceremony on March 30, 2009 in San Jose, CA.
Smaller Footprint
A new generation of high intensity White LEDs (WLEDs) offers an attractive
space-saving and lower cost alternative to conventional xenon flash, the bulky
de facto standard for flash in high performance digital still cameras and
smart phones. But their adoption has been hindered by rigorous requirements
for high current, forward voltage and peak current to deliver such a high
intensity level of light. The AAT1282 stores the output of a boost converter
in a high-capacity super capacitor and uses fixed input current limiting.
This allows designers to use compact WLEDs to deliver the high intensity light
needed for professional-quality flash and video applications in high megapixel
cameras without draining or damaging the Lithium-ion battery.
"Given the number of innovative products announced each year and the level
of competition, we are delighted that EDN has named the AAT1282 as one of the
three finalists in this product category," said Ed Lam, vice president of
marketing and engineering at AnalogicTech. "Our development team worked very
hard on this project so we are proud that the editors at EDN acknowledge that
effort and recognize the benefits this product will bring by improving photo
quality and simplifying portable product designs."
About EDN
Published 26 times a year, EDN serves the vital information needs of
design engineers and engineering managers worldwide. The publication provides
in-depth design features and technical information on the microprocessors and
other digital ICs, analog ICs, ASICs, computers and software, computer
peripherals, components, power sources, interconnects and packaging. EDN also
explores important application areas such as computers, communications,
embedded design, industrial and consumer electronics. The magazine is
published by Reed Business Information, the largest business-to-business
publisher in the U.S. and a member of Reed Elsevier Group Plc (NYSE: RUK and
ENL), a world-leading publisher and information provider.
About AnalogicTech
Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc. (AnalogicTech) is a supplier of Total
Power Management(TM) semiconductor solutions for a variety of consumer,
communications, and computing systems. The company focuses its design and
marketing efforts on the application-specific power management needs of such
devices as mobile handsets, smartphones, digital cameras, netbooks /
notebooks, personal navigation systems, and wireless LANs. AnalogicTech also
develops and licenses device, process, package, and application-related
technologies. AnalogicTech is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA and Macau,
S.A.R., with offices in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and the U.K.,
as well as a worldwide network of sales reps and distributors. The company is
listed on NASDAQ under the symbol AATI. For more information, please visit
http://www.analogictech.com. (AnalogicTech - G)
AnalogicTech and the AnalogicTech logo are trademarks of Advanced Analogic
Technologies Incorporated. All other brand and product names appearing in this
document are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders.
never.no, creators of the software that powers the world's most popular
interactive video systems, today announced that Arab Media Group (AMG) has
selected never.no's Interactivity Suite to support a participation-TV venture
by AMG's Arab Television Network (ATN), including channels such as MTV
Arabia. Located in Dubai, AMG is the largest media conglomerate in the Middle
East, comprising television, radio, print, online, and advertising companies.
"The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is the fastest-growing and most
competitive media market in the world, and AMG is the largest and most
dynamic media organization in the UAE," said Lars Lauritzsen, CEO of
never.no. "The selection of our Interactivity Suite to be the enabling
technology behind this high-profile project represents further recognition by
the global media industry of the suite's exciting potential. We are committed
to helping AMG redefine the playing field for participation TV in combination
with mobile marketing concepts."
never.no's Interactivity Suite comprises four software applications that
enable audience members both to influence a television broadcast in real time
and to interact with one another. Using it, media owners and advertisers can
track consumers from medium to medium, communicate with them individually,
and tailor content and advertising to suit them. Broadcasters also can use
the Interactivity Suite to integrate user-submitted content into their
programming.
The suite consists of Auto-Dialogue System, which provides design,
configuration, deployment and operation of one-to-one dialog services in
electronic media and is targeted at mobile phones; Interactivity Desk, an
editorial system for managing and moderating viewer input and executing
simple broadcast control functions including preparation and scheduling of
content; Dynamic Content Scheduler, which provides frame-accurate scheduling
and configuration of broadcast time besides automating interactions with
graphics systems, video servers, automation systems, and station clocks; and
Intelligence, a data mining and statistical reporting tool.
The Interactivity Suite interfaces in all directions through
industry-standard protocols and supports any format logic from simple SMS
votes to highly complex and individualized applications with timelines
spanning several years. Currently, it provides the basis for more than 2,000
diverse mobile consumer services, and produces daily live television
broadcasts on some 30 channels around the world.
"We wanted the best, most reliable, and most functional solution for
enabling participation TV, which is why we opted for never.no, the leading
player in the global interactive market," said Khadeeja Al-Marzooqi, general
manager of AMG's Arabian Digital Network. "We are expecting a great response
from our audience and ultimately a higher market share as a result both of
the creative and the technology aspects of our participation-TV project."
More information on this and any other never.no products is available at
http://www.never.no or by phone at +47-22-01-66-20.
About Arab Media Group
Founded in March 2005, Arab Media Group (AMG) is the largest media
organization in the UAE. Its business interests include nine radio stations,
three newspapers, television, online, distribution, printing, events
management and outdoor advertising. Its most recent ventures are the launch
of MTV Arabia through its ATN subsidiary, and the launch of Virgin Radio.
About never.no
never.no connects broadcasters, brands, outdoor media owners and digital
screen networks with online and mobile consumers. never.no's interactive
video platform enables audience participation by modifying the video stream
based on live, user-submitted opinions and content. Able to function with
traditional TV, webTV, IPTV and mobile TV platforms, the never.no product
suite powers interactive TV formats and entire channels and allows viewers to
participate through mobile phones and the Internet. With datacenters in Oslo,
Los Angeles, and Dubai, never.no serves customers including broadcast, telco,
and media companies worldwide. More information about never.no products is
available at http://www.never.no.
All trademarks appearing herein are the property of their respective
owners.
Agency Contact:
Marguerite Clark
Wall Street Communications
Telephone: +33-1-45-25-36-91
E-mail: marguerite@wallstcom.com
never.no:
Lars Lauritzsen
CEO
Telephone: +47-22-01-66-20
E-mail: lars@never.no
SHENZHEN, China, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Global Sources
(Nasdaq: GSOL) announces the opening of the 14th International IC-China
Conference & Exhibition (IIC-China, http://www.english.IIC-China.com ), the
only systems design event in mainland China, at Shenzhen Convention and
Exhibition Center through Feb. 27.
(Logo:http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030303/LNM011LOGO-b )
IIC-China is also scheduled to be held in:
-- Xi'an: March 2-3, Xian Greenland PICO International Convention and
Exhibition Centre;
-- Beijing: March 5-6, China World Trade Center; and
-- Shanghai: March 9-10, Shanghai Mart.
For the third year, IIC-China's Shenzhen, Xi'an and Shanghai venues will
also present Components Zone, mainland China's largest electronic components
sourcing event.
"Mainland China's electronics exports may have slowed down from the
double-digit growth we are used to, but they remain robust. Mainland China is
the single largest source of manufactured electronics worldwide. It is an
industry driven by both global and domestic demand," said Mark A. Saunderson,
President of Global Sources' Electronics Business Unit.
"Recent mainland China government policy is expected to expand demand for
consumer electronics in mainland China. The breadth and size of the market,
coupled with favorable policy are expected to support the international
technology companies that supply this industry.
"With the recent dramatic market changes, electronics manufacturers
recognize there is no longer a place for low-price, 'me-too' products. They
are now focusing on quality and innovation to survive and prosper.
"Engineers working for these companies must keep apace of latest design
possibilities and new technology. Their job depends on inspired design, and
inspired design demands new technology -- in a word, innovation; and
innovation is what IIC-China is all about.
"At a time when marketing and promotion are key to survival and growth,
exhibitors use IIC-China to stand out from the crowd and leapfrog competitors
who are pulling back."
Top technology companies keen to penetrate mainland China market
With mainland China ranked as the world's largest IC market, companies
like Altium, Analog Devices, Atmel, Fairchild Semiconductor, Intel, Intersil,
Maxim, Micrel, Microchip Technology, Microsoft Windows Embedded, NEC
Electronics, Numonyx, NXP Semiconductors and Vishay are seizing this
opportunity to exhibit their latest products and services to mainland China's
engineering community.
Intel China's director of embedded sales and marketing group, Terry Sze,
said: "Although the global economic downturn is affecting mainland China, we
are glad to see that so many technology manufactures from around the world are
still participating at IIC-China -- this provides Intel and our fellow
technology companies a great opportunity to network with each other.
"Intel has been promoting the development of industrial and home
automation and embedded ecosystem for over 30 years. Today, we work with our
business partners and over 3,500 clients on developing innovative IA embedded
solutions catering to different applications. The development of embedded
Internet, which is expected to connect over 15 billion embedded computing
devices by 2015, relies on our constant effort to exchange ideas with our
business partners and clients."
IIC-China delivers educational conferences to engineers seeking
inspiration
Industry gurus from leading technology companies are scheduled to deliver
the latest design theories and application methodology on next-generation
communication, embedded systems, automotive electronics and power management
technologies.
Companies to host seminars include Actel, Freescale Semiconductor, Fujitsu
Microelectronics, Future Technology Devices International (FTDI), Infineon
Technologies, International Rectifier and STMicroelectronics.
Saunderson said: "For 14 years, IIC-China has connected great minds,
original ideas and new technology. It has helped mainland China evolve from
being the world's factory to a power house for technologic innovations.
Technology vendors and engineers have always relied on IIC-China as the
perfect channel that delivers solutions for them to cope with different
challenges every step along the way."
Global Sources' design-to-export solution for Greater China and Asia's
electronics industry
IIC-China is an important part of Global Sources' portfolio of electronics
industry media and trade show brands. Combining 29 online and 10 print media,
plus four events which run 13 times across 11 cities, Global Sources provides
Greater China and Asia's electronics industry with end-to-end support - from
product conceptualization through to export of finished products.
Global Sources' key electronics industry event brands also include
International IC-Taiwan Conference & Exhibition
( http://www.english.iic-taiwan.com ) and China Sourcing Fairs: Electronics
and Electronics & Components ( http://www.chinasourcingfair.com ).
For more information about Global Sources, visit
http://www.corporate.globalsources.com .
About Global Sources
Global Sources is a leading business-to-business media company and a
primary facilitator of trade with Greater China. The core business uses
English-language media to facilitate trade from Greater China to the world.
The other business segment utilizes Chinese-language media to enable companies
to sell to, and within Greater China.
The company provides sourcing information to volume buyers and integrated
marketing services to suppliers. It helps a community of over 790,000 active
buyers source more profitably from complex overseas supply markets. With the
goal of providing the most effective ways possible to advertise, market and
sell, Global Sources enables suppliers to sell to hard-to-reach buyers in over
240 countries.
The company offers the most extensive range of media and export marketing
services in the industries it serves. It delivers information on 4.3 million
products and more than 196,000 suppliers annually through 14 online
marketplaces, 13 monthly magazines, over 100 sourcing research reports and 11
specialized trade shows which run 32 times a year across 11 cities.
Suppliers receive more than 53 million sales leads annually from buyers
through Global Sources Online ( http://www.globalsources.com ) alone.
Global Sources has been facilitating global trade for 38 years. Global
Sources' network covers more than 69 cities worldwide. In mainland China,
Global Sources has over 2,800 team members in more than 44 locations, and a
community of over 1 million registered online users and magazine readers for
Chinese-language media.
Global Sources Press Contact in Asia
Camellia So
Tel: +852-2555-5021
Email: cso@globalsources.com
Global Sources Press Contact in U.S.
James W.W. Strachan
Tel: +1-480-664-8309
Email: strachan@globalsources.com
Global Sources Investor Contact in Asia
Investor Relations Department
Tel: +852-2555-4777
Email: investor@globalsources.com
Global Sources Investor Contact in U.S.
Kirsten Chapman & Timothy Dien
Lippert/Heilshorn & Associates, Inc.
Tel: +1-415-433-3777
Email: tdien@lhai.com
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- David J. Pecker, Chairman, President and CEO of American Media, Inc. (AMI), today announced that Allan Donnelly has been named the new Editor-in-Chief of FLEX magazine. Since joining FLEX in 2006, Mr. Donnelly has been involved in all aspects of the magazine and website, rising from Senior Editor to Online Editor and, most recently, Executive Editor. His involvement with AMI and Weider Publications dates back to 2001, when he began as an Editor at Men's Fitness and a contributor to Muscle & Fitness.
Since its inception in 1982, FLEX magazine has been the world's leading publication for bodybuilding enthusiasts. FLEX reaches over one million readers a month.
About American Media, Inc.
American Media, Inc. is the leading publisher of celebrity journalism and health and fitness magazines in the U.S. These include Star, Shape, Men's Fitness, Fit Pregnancy, Natural Health, and The National Enquirer. In addition to print properties, AMI manages 14 different web sites. The company also owns Distribution Services, Inc., the country's #1 in-store magazine merchandising company.
NEW YORK, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Alain Lemarchand, President and CEO, Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. (HFM U.S.) announced today that Eddie Alterman has been named Vice President, Editor In Chief of Car and Driver. Alterman will report to Lemarchand will begin his new position on Monday, March 2, 2009. HFM U.S. Group Editorial Director John Owens has served as acting editor in chief since Csaba Csere's departure two months ago.
"We are fortunate to have Eddie Alterman joining us as the editorial head of one of our largest and most important brands. He is a respected journalist and has extensive experience in automotive both in print and digital content. He and John Driscoll, Vice President, Publisher Automotive Group, will make a great team," said Lemarchand. "We're confident that Alterman and his group will be able to create outstanding content that will accelerate the growth of the brand by enlarging the audiences of automotive enthusiasts as well as consumers who look to Car and Driver and CarandDriver.com for credible advice and reviews when they are buying a car."
In 2006, Alterman was founder and Editor In Chief of Motivemag.com, an online car magazine combining original editorial and user-generated content. Before that Alterman founded and served as Editor In Chief of MPH's magazine and website. He also coordinated advertising and marketing effort for print and online and was named one of Crain's Detroit Business's "40 Under 40" young leaders. Alterman worked for Men's Journal and began writing the magazine's car column and automotive feature stories from 2006 to present. During his tenure with Automobile, he developed and supervised the brand's web site and maintained writing, editing, and custom-publishing responsibilities.
About Car and Driver
Car and Driver's expert editorial team is recognized by car enthusiasts and automotive manufacturers as credible journalists who practice to the highest standards. The magazine is published by Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. twelve times each year delivering an audience of over 11 million readers monthly (source: MRI Fall 2008). With a circulation of 1.3 million copies (ABC Jan-June 2008), Car and Driver is the world's largest monthly automotive magazine. The magazine is a leading publication for in-market buyers, and the Car and Driver brand extends to many platforms including a web site, mobile site, radio, custom marketing programs and an integrated marketing database. CarandDriver.com relaunched last year with an easy-to-search format for the consumer which combines Car and Driver's credible car reviews with improved searchability and tools for people who are in the market to buy a car. CarandDriver.com's advertising is sold by Jumpstart Automotive Media, an HFM U.S. company.
Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. (www.hfmus.com) enthusiast brands and targeted media products reach nearly 60 million consumers through magazines, online and mobile content. The company's editorial hallmarks are trusted expert content along with independent product testing. Our prestigious brands fall into five sectors and include: Fashion (ELLE, ELLEgirl); Automotive (Car and Driver, Road & Track, Jumpstart Automotive Media); The Luxury Design Group (ELLE DECOR, Metropolitan Home, PointClickHome); Women & Health (Woman's Day and Woman's Day Special Interest Group) and Enthusiasts (American Photo, Boating, Cycle World, Flying, Popular Photography, Premiere and Sound & Vision). HFM U.S. Total Solutions marketing initiative packages these assets across brands and platforms with customized marketing programs. HFM U.S. is part of Lagardere's (www.lagardere.com) media division Lagardere Active, a producer of special interest content in over 40 countries.
HONG KONG, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Five international
buyers are scheduled to meet pre-screened Indian suppliers at two Private
Sourcing Events ( http://www.PrivateSourcingEvents.com ) in New Delhi. The
events for Kitchen & Tabletop Accessories, and Crafts, Gifts & Packaging are
being held today and tomorrow, respectively, by Global Sources' (Nasdaq: GSOL)
( http://www.globalsources.com ) sales representative for India.
Global Sources' Chairman and CEO, Merle A. Hinrichs, said: "Though China
continues to be the world's number one sourcing destination, India offers some
unique advantages to buyers aside from lower prices.
"While high volume production is China's forte, India's suppliers are able
to produce handcrafted items in small quantities. This is particularly
important today as buyers look to place smaller orders in response to slowing
consumer demand.
"To diversify their sourcing options, many buyers are turning to India and
other emerging countries. The further expansion of Private Sourcing Events
this year to India, Vietnam and other alternative sourcing locations helps
them do this."
Representing US$37.8 billion in annual sales, buyers scheduled to
participate in the Kitchen & Tabletop Accessories, and Crafts, Gifts &
Packaging events are:
-- Atico -- the largest sourcing and product development company in the
U.S.
-- Dollar General -- the largest discount chain in the U.S. based on store
locations
-- El Corte Ingles -- Spain's largest retailer
-- Newell Rubbermaid -- a global marketer of consumer and commercial
products
-- Test Rite -- one of Taiwan's largest trading companies
One participating buyer, Product Manager of Test Rite India, Sanjiv Kumar,
said: "As we expand our India sourcing program, we're working with a lot of
suppliers for the first time. So, it's important for us to find new, quality
suppliers for a whole range of products.
"Private Sourcing Events help us find quality suppliers with products that
deliver the right mix of quality and value our customers expect."
One participating supplier, Senior Merchandiser of Rajan Overseas, Shaheer
Ahmad, said: "India-made products are moving up the value chain and this is
bringing more top buyers to the region. Private Sourcing Events put us on the
fast track to meet these buyers. And this type of face-to-face format is ideal
for negotiations. We're extremely happy to have been selected to participate."
Hinrichs concluded: "Through our online, face-to-face and print channels,
we strive to give buyers the best range of options so they can make the best
possible sourcing decisions."
World's top buyers scheduled to attend upcoming Private Sourcing Events
Over 100 Private Sourcing Events are planned for 2009, with dozens of
buyers including Carrefour, Auchan, Metro and Lowe's scheduled to participate.
All Private Sourcing Events are complimentary for buyers and only Global
Sources suppliers are eligible to participate. More information about Private
Sourcing Events is available at http://www.PrivateSourcingEvents.com .
Suppliers wishing to participate should contact csm@globalsources.com.
Specialized Global Sources websites, face-to-face events and trade
magazines
Private Sourcing Events are part of the company's portfolio of brands for
sourcing and product information services, which include Global Sources Online
( http://www.globalsources.com ), China Sourcing Fairs
( http://www.chinasourcingfair.com ) and Global Sources monthly magazines.
For more information about Global Sources' products and services to
connect quality buyers and quality suppliers, visit
http://corporate.globalsources.com .
About Global Sources
Global Sources is a leading business-to-business media company and a
primary facilitator of trade with Greater China. The core business uses
English-language media to facilitate trade from Greater China to the world.
The other business segment utilizes Chinese-language media to enable companies
to sell to, and within Greater China.
The company provides sourcing information to volume buyers and integrated
marketing services to suppliers. It helps a community of over 790,000 active
buyers source more profitably from complex overseas supply markets. With the
goal of providing the most effective ways possible to advertise, market and
sell, Global Sources enables suppliers to sell to hard-to-reach buyers in over
240 countries.
The company offers the most extensive range of media and export marketing
services in the industries it serves. It delivers information on 4.3 million
products and more than 196,000 suppliers annually through 14 online
marketplaces, 13 monthly magazines, over 100 sourcing research reports and 11
specialized trade shows which run 32 times a year across 11 cities.
Suppliers receive more than 53 million sales leads annually from buyers
through Global Sources Online ( http://www.globalsources.com ) alone.
Global Sources has been facilitating global trade for 38 years. Global
Sources' network covers more than 69 cities worldwide. In mainland China,
Global Sources has over 2,800 team members in more than 44 locations, and a
community of over 1 million registered online users and magazine readers for
Chinese-language media.
Global Sources Press Contact in Asia
Camellia So
Tel: +852-2555-5021
Email: cso@globalsources.com
Global Sources Press Contact in U.S.
James W.W. Strachan
Tel: +1-480-664-8309
Email: strachan@globalsources.com
Global Sources Investor Contact in Asia
Investor Relations Department
Tel: +852-2555-4777
Email: investor@globalsources.com
Global Sources Investor Contact in U.S.
Kirsten Chapman & Timothy Dien
Lippert/Heilshorn & Associates, Inc.
Tel: +1-415-433-3777
Email: tdien@lhai.com
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Thomson Reuters, the world's
leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals,
announced today the launch of Thomson Innovation(SM), the international award-
winning premier intellectual property (IP) research and analysis solution
( www.thomsoninnovation.com ) to enhance productivity and decision making for
enterprises and IP, legal and R&D professionals in Taiwan.
Thomson Innovation was most recently named one of the 100 best information
technology (IT) projects of 2008 by Infoworld, an International Data Group IT
online media and events business. Earlier in 2008, Thomson Innovation was
recognized by R&D Magazine as one of the top 100 most technologically
significant products introduced to the marketplace in the past year.
Thomson Innovation integrates IP, scientific literature, business data and
news with analytic, collaboration and alerting tools. Researchers,
information professionals, attorneys and analysts can simultaneously search
global patent data, Taiwan and Asian patent sources, scientific literature, as
well as business and news content to help their companies inspire innovation,
drive strategy, increase productivity and gain a critical competitive
advantage.
As the world's leading provider of Asia-Pacific patent content in English
including Japanese full-text, Korean abstracts and editorially-enhanced
abstracts of Chinese utility models and Chinese applications from 2007 to
present, Thomson Innovation helps customers effectively track and manage
global activity.
Thomson Innovation supports strategic IP decision making through powerful
analysis and visualization tools, such as charting, citation mapping and
search result ranking. The tracking functionality enables the centralized
control of managing research done across an organization, including reporting
options for client charge backs and cost allocation.
Customers also benefit from powerful functionality such as the ThemeScape
landscape visualization tool which enables at-a-glance view of search results
including first-level patent data, value-added patent information from Derwent
World Patents Index(R) (DWPI), and scientific literature (comprising Web of
Science(R), Current Contents Connect(R), INSPEC(R) and ISI Proceedings). DWPI
is the world's most comprehensive database of enhanced patent documents.
Said Mr. Gary Liang, Senior Regional Manager, Asia Pacific, Thomson
Reuters, "We understand our Taiwan customers' IP needs and the challenging
business environment they operate in. Thomson Innovation meets our customers'
demand for complete, reliable information and premium content from DWPI for
worldwide IP research plus powerful applications and analytics on one robust
platform for optimum effectiveness. This total solution helps them save time
and money, accelerate their business decisions and optimize their IP assets in
today's competitive marketplace."
Thomson Innovation will be launched in Taiwan at workshops held in Taipei,
Hsinchu and Tainan from February 25-27. For registration, visit
http://www.isiuser.com/event20090225-27.html .
About Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information
for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with
innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision
makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and
media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. With
headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota,
Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people in 93 countries. For more
information, go to thomsonreuters.com .
BOSTON, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Solos Endoscopy, Inc. (Pink Sheets: SNDY) is pleased to announce that the Company's Breast Endoscopy System, the MammoView(TM), was featured in the "Product News" section of Outpatient Surgery Magazine in the January 2009 issue. The article focused on the MammoView(TM)'s functionality and its ability to detect breast cancer earlier, with minimally invasive ductoscopy.
The MammoView(TM) product line employs advanced microendoscopes and optical technology which can detect precancerous and cancerous cells approximately five years before a mammogram would, as stated in the article. Using the MammoView(TM), doctors can enter the breast through the nipple, navigate through the mammary ducts, where most breast cancers originate and develop, and use irrigation and video technology to observe any abnormalities. The procedure lasts approximately fifteen minuets.
"Solos Endoscopy is pleased to have the MammoView(TM)'s direct advantage to mammography outlined in one of the surgical industries top magazines. We expect that our inclusion will increase the worldwide exposure of our products to potential customers and partners," stated Bob Segersten, President of Solos Endoscopy, Inc.
To view the article in its entirety, please go to www.solosendoscopy.com.
About Outpatient Surgery Magazine: Outpatient Surgery Magazine serves as a meeting place for decision makers in facilities where ambulatory surgery is done. The magazine facilitates the exchange of ideas, advice, experiences and information between surgical facility management team members. It also delivers relevant info and advice from experts, professional advisors, industry, and others: http://www.outpatientsurgery.net/.
About Solos Endoscopy, Inc.: Solos Endoscopy, Inc. is a healthcare technology company whose mission is to develop and market breakthrough technology, applications, medical devices, and procedural techniques for the screening, diagnosis, treatment and management of medical conditions. Backed by technical support, Solos' sales team can help make the right buying decisions for the hospital, surgery center, or physician office. Additional information is available on the Company's website at: www.solosendoscopy.com.
Safe Harbor: This release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 27E of the Securities Act of 1934. Statements contained in this release that are not historical facts may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain. Actual performance and results may differ materially from that projected or suggested herein due to certain risks and uncertainties including, without limitation, ability to obtain financing and regulatory and shareholder approval for anticipated actions.
BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Money is tight these days, so people are paying close attention to how they spend their precious dollars. This can include eating at home more and canceling pricey gym memberships. In this new economic era, unrestrained spending is out. But don't allow tight times to compromise the health of you or your family. To help health seekers navigate the new terrain, the editors at Natural Solutions: Vibrant Health, Balanced Living magazine have published "31 Ways to Stay Healthy and Save Money" in their March issue -- on newsstands now.
"The things that keep us healthy are often the first to go when we clamp down on our spending," said Linda Sparrowe, Natural Solutions' editor-in-chief. "We can't stop paying the mortgage or the utilities, so we downgrade our healthy lifestyle expenditures to 'dispensable.'" Turns out that's not such a healthy idea. Uncertain times like these, Sparrowe says, create an inordinate amount of stress, which is reason alone to find a way to keep what keeps you sane. How can you do that without breaking the bank?
Barter. Many service providers are willing to strike a trade. To keep a healthful practice, such as yoga classes or regular massages, offer valuable skills in trade.
Strike a deal. Let a massage student practice on you for free. Offer to pay for a yearlong gym membership for a discount over the month-to-month price, or join budgets with a friend to hire a personal trainer who will let each person pay half the fee.
Plan ahead when you shop. In addition to sale items, zero in on the store's private-label brand (for food and supplements), the bulk-foods section, and value packs of meat, poultry, and fish. Buy seasonal produce with a friend and take weekly turns chopping it to avoid expensive pre-cut produce.
Want more tips? Log on to www.naturalsolutionsmag.com.
About Natural Solutions
Natural Solutions: Vibrant Health, Balanced Living, formerly Alternative Medicine magazine, has been the trusted voice in the natural health arena for 15 years. Natural Solutions guides and inspires its readers to make informed decisions about their health and well-being in all aspects of their lives. Visit naturalsolutionsmag.com to view a free digital edition of the magazine.
NEW REALSIMPLE.COM GOES LIVE TODAY WITH FRESH, DAILY CONTENT AND A STREAMLINED LOOK TO HELP MAKE CONSUMERS' LIVES EASIER, EVERY DAY
SITE'S TRAFFIC UP 35% VERSUS 2008
NEW YORK, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Real Simple, the award-winning Time Inc. lifestyle brand, today unveils its new website, RealSimple.com, it was announced by Tanya Singer, Executive Director, RealSimple.com and Steve Zales, President, Digital, Time Inc. Lifestyle Group. The guiding philosophy of the site, "life made easier, every day," is showcased in fresh, daily content enabling consumers to find smart, realistic solutions to their everyday challenges.
Featuring the channels "Food & Recipes," "Home & Organizing," "Beauty & Fashion," "Holidays & Entertaining," "Health," and "Work & Life," the new RealSimple.com includes all content areas that are integral to the brand. It has been redesigned to be the premiere destination for busy women looking for realistic yet inspiring solutions.
"The new RealSimple.com combines the great service consumers expect from Real Simple magazine with the fresh, interactive quality of the web," said Singer. "Whether visitors are looking for information on how to get stains out or how to throw a special celebration, RealSimple.com is the go-to resource for digital consumers looking to make life easier."
RealSimple.com has received a complete overhaul based on the brand's beautiful, streamlined aesthetic. The homepage features "Today's Tip," valuable advice to make life easier, accompanied by a How-To video or photograph, across all content areas from Real Simple editors. "Today's Tip" is also offered as a newsletter and an RSS Feed. The homepage also highlights the site's popular blogging network, "Simply Stated," and its most recent blog posts, and provides entry into a new faceted search experience designed to give users more control over accessing solutions.
"RealSimple.com already has a very loyal consumer base, and we're excited to extend the site's offerings through the re-launch," echoes Zales. "The website will provide consumers with more features to help them gain control over their lives as well as provide advertisers with additional, meaningful ways to reach our growing and highly engaged audience."
RealSimple.com is launching with more than 100 original "How-To" videos featuring the brand's editors and covering a wide range of topics including, how to carve a turkey, how to fold a fitted sheet, how to apply eyeliner, and how to make a martini. The site features written, step-by-step instructions on the same page as the video so consumers can easily follow along. RealSimple.com will continue to add more "How-To" videos to the site in the coming months.
RealSimple.com also features more than 100 checklists on everything from the basic vacation packing checklist to commonly overlooked tax deductions. These checklists are a smart way for consumers to get organized and track their progress for a given task.
RealSimple.com has already experienced significant traffic growth, with 17.6 million page views in January 2009 (up 35% over the 2008 monthly average) and 2.1 million unique visitors in January 2009 (up 19% over the 2008 monthly average.) (Source: Omniture).
RealSimple.com has garnered tremendous response from advertisers. Despite the site's rapid growth, it has been sold out of advertising inventory throughout 2008 and into 2009. The growth of RealSimple.com is a big priority for the brand in 2009, both in providing the ultimate online service to its consumers as well as the ability to offer advertisers large, multiplatform deals. RealSimple.com counts among its launch partners All Bran (which will have 100% share of the new Health channel at launch), Best Buy, Quaker, Shredded Wheat, and Purina.
About Real Simple:
Real Simple is a multimedia, award-winning power-brand that launched in April 2000. With more than 8.6 million consumers per month in print, 2 million consumers on the Web, and many viewers through the new TLC television series, Real Simple. Real Life. The brand delivers content designed to make busy women's lives easier across all media platforms.
Real Simple is part of Time Inc., one of the largest content companies in the world and the largest publisher in the U.S. Time Inc. is a Time Warner company.
CLEVELAND, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and mental_floss magazine want to send you and a guest to "A Rockin'Weekend in Cleveland. "You'll get the VIP treatment at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Cleveland (April 3-4, 2009). Witness rock history as Metallica, RUN-D.M.C., Little Anthony and the Imperials, Jeff Beck, and Bobby Womack will be honored.
The Grand Prize winner and a guest will be treated to a red carpet experience at the newly re-imagined Ritz-Carlton, Cleveland. Transportation, spending money and two tickets to the VIP pre-induction party and the induction ceremony are included. Fifty Runner-Up prizes, including Rock Hall and mental_floss T-shirts, CDs and Rock Hall memberships will also be awarded.
No purchase or payment necessary to enter or to win the Sweepstakes. A purchase will not increase your chances of winning. Void where prohibited by law. You must be 21 to enter. One entry per person. The Sweepstakes ends at 11:59 P.M. (EST) on March 16, 2009. The odds of winning depend upon the number of entries received.
For more details and an entry form, visit: www.iwanttorockincleveland.com
Mental Floss, LLC
Mental Floss, LLC is a rapidly growing media company that creates content that blurs the lines between education and entertainment. mental_floss magazine is its flagship product; other products include a popular web site, a series of eight books published by HarperCollins and Law School and Med School in a Box. For more information about the company and its line of products, visit: www.mentalfloss.com
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is the nonprofit organization that exists to educate visitors, fans and scholars from around the world about the history and continuing significance of rock and roll music. It carries out this mission both through its operation of a world-class museum that collects, preserves, exhibits and interprets this art form and through its library and archives as well as its educational programs. www.rockhall.com
MANCHESTER, England, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Courion(R) Corporation, leaders in access and compliance management, today announced that the Courion Enterprise Provisioning Suite(TM) solution was voted as a finalist for the SC Magazine Awards Europe in the Best Identity Management category. The SC Magazine Awards Europe rewards excellence and innovation within IT security.
The annual SC Magazine Awards Europe has recognised security's key contributors and outstanding products for more than a decade. As the industry's preeminent award program, individuals, brands, and products chosen address not only the challenges prominent today, but also the emerging threat landscape of tomorrow. The Awards presentation will take place on Tuesday 28 April 2009 at the Hurlingham Club in West London.
Courion's inclusion as a finalist follows SC Magazine US naming its Enterprise Provisioning Suite a "Best of 2008" identity management product, where it was praised as "an excellent overall product with ease of use and excellent pricing."
"We are delighted to be included as a finalist in SC Magazine's Best Identity Management award category," explains Courion's UK General Manager, Stuart Hodkinson. "This is yet another example of the recognition our Enterprise Provisioning Suite has received for how quickly and easily it solves even the most complex identity and access management, risk and compliance challenges."
The Enterprise Provisioning Suite is an example of Access Assurance, Courion's unique approach to access and compliance management, ensuring only the right people have the right access to the right resources and are doing the right things. Access Assurance unifies Access Governance, Access Provisioning and Access Compliance in even the most complex, heterogeneous environments. This comprehensive approach increases operational efficiency and transparency, strengthens security, and improves compliance, while delivering the industry's fastest time to value and lowest total cost of ownership.
About Courion
Courion's award-winning Access Assurance solutions are used by more than four hundred organizations and over 7.5 million users worldwide to quickly and easily solve their most complex identity and access management (password management, provisioning, and role management), risk and compliance challenges. Courion's business-driven approach results in unparalleled customer success by ensuring users' access rights and activities are compliant with policy while supporting both security and business objectives. For more information, please visit our website at www.courion.com.
Courion is a registered trademark. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners
Rachel Weeks Chris Green
Courion Corporation DMG Europe
+1 508-661-0467 +44 1256 807362
courion@daviesmurphy.com
Industry Publication Recognizes Metastorm for Demonstrating Innovation in Knowledge Management
BALTIMORE, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Metastorm, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Business Process Analysis (BPA), and Enterprise Architecture (EA) software for aligning strategy with execution, today announced its inclusion for the sixth straight year in KMWorld Magazine's "100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management." This annual list is compiled through discussions with practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors and their customers and colleagues, and will be featured in KMWorld's March 2009 print issue.
According to KMWorld's editor in chief, Hugh McKellar, "Each company embodies as part of its culture agile and limber execution of its mission, embracing a spirit of both adaptability and innovation."
About Metastorm Inc.
With a focus on enterprise visibility, resource optimization, efficiency and agility, Metastorm offers market-leading software for enterprise and business architecture (EA), business process analysis (BPA), and business process management (BPM). As an integrated product portfolio, Metastorm Enterprise allows organizations to improve business results by better aligning strategy with execution. By combining the power of these three disciplines onto a common platform, Metastorm is helping organizations worldwide focus on the right business improvements, instill stronger governance, and accelerate time to value. For more information and success stories on organizations powering strategic advantage with Metastorm Enterprise, visit www.metastorm.com.
ATLANTA, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- ZAKAR Magazine launches this week
providing women with a resource for personal empowerment and growth in these
tough social times. ZAKAR, published by Jennifer Keitt
(http://www.jenniferkeitt.com), founder and host of the nationally syndicated
radio show, Today's Black Woman, is loaded with practical articles on
information pertinent to a woman's daily life, from emotional well-being,
career success, financial empowerment, dating, mating and relating to self-
care and fitness.
ZAKAR introduces to women its exclusive Z-Coaches, who team up with them
to bring a sense of balance and hope for empowered living. Because of the
publication's convenient digest size, women will literally be able to carry
their coaches and life empowerment around with them in their purses and
planners!
"Women are struggling now more than ever with the recent collapse of our
economy and societal chaos that we have been plunged into and they are in dire
need of powerful personal growth tools and resources to help them stabilize,
bringing back a sense of well-being and wholeness into their lives. We're
offering them hope, encouragement, coping strategies and focused thought that
they can literally download and carry with them at all times," Keitt said.
As founder and host of Today's Black Woman Radio Show
(http://www.todaysblackwomanradio.com), Keitt has invested almost twenty years
in empowering women globally who want the best out of their lives. "I am
committed to women and our lives, making sure that we have the resources,
personal growth tools, strategies, and urgent support, ensuring that we all
become and stay "recession-proof," she declares.
ZAKAR is one more resource in a growing bundle of empowerment tools Keitt
offers to women. Her goal is to empower, educate, equip and encourage women in
what Keitt calls the 7 key areas of a woman's life: spiritual, emotional,
physical, financial, relational, occupation and self-esteem. ZAKAR speaks the
language of today's real women in a way that makes them feel safe, secure and
empowered to return to their lives.
The premiere digital issue of ZAKAR is being distributed FREE and is
available online at http://www.zakarmagazine.com. To order printed copies call
678.569.2407.
For almost two decades Jennifer Keitt has been empowering, educating,
equipping and encouraging women through her nationally syndicated radio show,
Today's Black Woman. She is now releasing her latest personal empowerment tool
for women: ZAKAR MAGAZINE! For further information, please contact us at
404-314-4646.
This press release was issued through 24-7PressRelease.com. For further
information, visit http://www.24-7pressrelease.com.
CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, California, February 23
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a
global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced
that 20 Minutos, the highest circulating Spanish newspaper reaching an
audience of 2.5 million readers daily, has selected Autonomy's meaning-based
technology to power its public facing website, http://www.20minutos.es and
index up to 2.2 million documents. The unique news portal features an
extensive selection of news stories in a number of different formats
including text, audio, and video attracting approximately half a million
unique users daily. 20 Minutos' readers will now benefit from instant access
to sought-after content, customized recommendations to conceptually similar
stories and automatic summaries of articles in any format for a first-class
user experience.
Autonomy's core infrastructure software, the Intelligent Data Operating
Layer (IDOL), can derive meaning from content from over 1,000 data types and
virtually all languages thus overcoming traditional barriers to data
retrieval and allowing cross-referencing across languages, geographical
locations and data types. IDOL's truly innovative features such as Conceptual
Retrieval, Hyperlinking, and Summarization add unprecedented level of
intelligence to data access and processing thus enabling 20 Minutos' readers
to keep their finger at the pulse of information, automatically and in
real-time.
"Today's discerning online reader expects to find desired information at
the click of a button," commented Emmanuel Meriot, Regional Manager for
Autonomy Southern Europe. "Autonomy is delighted to supplement 20 Minutos'
unique news offering with a first-class user experience for its web readers."
Please visit http://www.autonomy.com/idolserver to find out more.
About Autonomy
Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in
infrastructure software for the enterprise, is spearheading the meaning-based
computing movement and was recently ranked by IDC as the clear market share
leader in enterprise search with market share nearly double that of its
nearest competitor. Autonomy's technology allows computers to harness the
full richness of human information, forming a conceptual and contextual
understanding of any piece of electronic data including unstructured
information, be it text, email, voice or video. Autonomy's software powers
the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications including
information access technology, pan-enterprise search, information governance,
end-to-end eDiscovery and archiving, records management, business process
management, customer interaction solutions, and video and audio analysis, and
is recognized by industry analysts as the clear leader in enterprise search.
Autonomy's customer base is comprised of more than 17,000 global
companies and organizations including: 3, ABN AMRO, AOL, BAE Systems, BBC,
Bloomberg, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Daimler AG, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson,
Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyd TSB, NASA, Nestle, the New York Stock Exchange,
Reuters, Shell, T-Mobile, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department
of Homeland Security and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. More
than 350 companies OEM Autonomy technology, including BEA, Citrix, EDS, H-P,
Novell, Oracle, Sybase and TIBCO, and the company has over 400 VARs and
Systems Integrators. The company has offices worldwide. Please visit
http://www.autonomy.com for more information on Autonomy.
Autonomy and the Autonomy logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of
Autonomy Corporation plc. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
Autonomy Editorial Contacts:
Assia Svinarova
Autonomy (UK)
+44-1223-448000
assias@autonomy.com
Edward Bridges
Financial Dynamics (UK)
+44-207-831-3113
edward.bridges@fd.com
David Vindel
The Red Consultancy
+44-207-025-6529
david.vindel@redconsultancy.com
Ian Bain
The Red Consultancy (US)
+1-415-618-8806
ian.bain@redconsultancy.com
COVER: The Education of Larry Summers (All overseas editions). Senior Editor Michael Hirsh and Editor-At-Large Evan Thomas profile Larry Summers, Obama's top economic adviser. Summers has gone from being part of the government that got out of the way of the markets in the freewheeling days of the late 1990s to become the man mainly in charge of the immense government bailout. Summers's greatest test will be persuading Congress to vote for "entitlement reforms" -- i.e., cutbacks and/or higher taxes on Social Security and health benefits for the poor and elderly. Summers plans to urge the president and Congress to venture into an area where politicians have long feared to tread, the so-called third rail of politics. "Necessity requires it, he says -- if the United States cannot curb its spending and debt, interest rates will soar and the economy will plunge once more."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/185934
America's New Shrink. Every day seems to bring bad news, with more on the way, observes Senior Editor Jonathan Alter. The nation is in a pessimistic mood and although Obama is popular and refreshing, he is still well short of transformative. "For all of the legislative achievements of his first month in office, Americans have not yet had their faith in the future restored," Alter writes. Despite Obama's initial stumbles, which include mistakes in cabinet selection, Alter believes President Obama has a good chance of restoring confidence and pulling America back from the brink. He writes, "My take on Obama... is that he has a firm grasp of the psychological and substantive challenges of the presidency. Equally important, his 2008 campaign proved that he possesses a superior sense of timing."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/185800
The No-Risk Culture. Special Correspondent Tracy McNicoll reports that despite the French's long held negative beliefs about entrepreneurship, there is a new law aimed at simplifying and promoting business startups. At the start of this year, a law took effect that allows just about anyone to become their own boss, without endless bureaucracy and fees. Retirees, students, workers, the unemployed and even bureaucrats can sign up online in 15 minutes and start building their own businesses, without losing their existing publicly funded pensions and unemployment and other benefits. By mid-February, there were already 62,000 auto-entrepreneurs on the books, suggesting that the number of startups could surpass half a million by the end of the year. Finance Minister Christine Lagarde says the figures "will explode the initial objective." Philippe Hayat, founder of 100,000 Entrepreneurs, a network of businesspeople that has been trying to change French attitudes toward entrepreneurship, calls the legislation "a revolution."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/185810
Going Back To the Farm. Special Correspondent Mary Hennock reports over the last 30 years, as its economy has raced ahead, China has witnessed the world's largest internal migration, with some 250 million farmers and others abandoning its impoverished heartland in search of factory work and a better life on the coast. Now, as the economy slows, many of those factories have shut down, and unemployment is thought to have hit 10 percent. Among the most worrisome effects: some 20 million migrant workers have returned home, flooding areas where able-bodied youngsters were recently a rarity. This is producing great anxiety among Chinese officials, who have begun warning of civil unrest in unusually stark terms. The fear is that jobless workers -- many of them young men -- will band together and turn to violence or crime.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/185811
GLOBAL INVESTOR: Keeping Stability at All Costs. Ruchir Sharma, head of emerging markets at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, writes about Brazil's divergent attitude toward the global economic crisis. It's not as if Brazil is completely unaffected by the worldwide collapse in economic growth. After expanding at an average of nearly 4 percent over the past five years, the Brazilian economy is set to slow to a crawl in 2009. "But given its long history of crises, Brazil's reaction to the current shock is more along the lines of 'we have seen this movie before' -- and its past experience has seasoned the nation to weather such storms," Sharma writes. Another reason Brazil is different compared with many emerging markets in Eastern Europe and Asia is the country's main policy objective this decade of seeking stability above all else, rather than the 'growth at any cost' mantra in several other emerging markets."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/185826
Bring On The Credit. Special Correspondent Barrett Sheridan reports that the problem with China's banks isn't their size -- the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China is the world's sixth largest corporation, with a market value greater than Microsoft. It's that, despite their wealth, they don't lend enough. And what loans they do make go mostly to large companies and state-owned businesses. According to research by Morgan Stanley, just 7 percent of the loans made last December went to households. This isn't an accident, but the fruit of a deliberate government policy, a war on lending that Beijing has waged to help keep inflation in check. To keep prices stable during China's years of torrid growth, Beijing set quotas on how many loans could be issued. Now that the global economy is cooling, inflation is no longer a worry, according to Brad Setser, an economist at the Council on Foreign Relations, Beijing's policymakers ought to "unshackle the banks."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/185815
WORLD VIEW: Why Chavez May Outlast Us All. Jorge Castaneda, a former foreign minister of Mexico and Global Distinguished Professor at New York University, writes that Venezuela's Hugo Chavez may wind up as the longest reigning elected president in history anywhere. To win his last election, "Chavez used every conceivable instrument of the state, every imaginable subterfuge, every trick in the book, to stack the deck in his favor and against his opponents," Castaneda writes. However, as long as his opposition remains divided, they will have trouble curtailing Chavez's force. "Their defeat may prove dispiriting, and Chavez has the power to concentrate even more power in his hands, as well as further clamping down on the media, the judiciary, the unions, human-rights groups, the business community, students and the opposition."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/185825
THE LAST WORD: Igor Yurgens, economic-policy advisor to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Yurgens spoke to Newsweek about his radical prescriptions for reversing Russia's dependence on oil and what he sees as the main problem with the government's policies. "Our ideal scenario is that the state should mix liberal and statist policies. They should allow the market to decide what industries should die naturally, but at the same time selectively support the sectors whose collapse would cause the most social upheaval." He adds that the state should "spend its money on strategic goals like economic diversification, and developing nanotechnology, biotechnology and information technology. The biggest fault is that the government has not explained its strategy to people, and there appears to be favoritism in selecting which businesses to bail out. People believe that the state is helping its friends and letting others fail."
COVER: The Confidence Game (p. 18). Senior Editor Jonathan Alter writes that every day seems to bring bad news, with more on the way, and the nation is in a pessimistic mood. Although Obama is popular and refreshing, he is still well short of transformative. "For all of the legislative achievements of his first month in office, Americans have not yet had their faith in the future restored," Alter writes. Despite Obama's initial stumbles, which include mistakes in cabinet selection, Alter believes President Obama has a good chance of restoring confidence and pulling America back from the brink. He writes, "My take on Obama...is that he has a firm grasp of the psychological and substantive challenges of the presidency. Equally important, ever since his 2008 campaign proved that he possesses a superior sense of timing."
LIVING POLITICS: "Paging Doctor Zeke" (p. 23). Senior Washington Correspondent Howard Fineman profiles oncologist Ezekiel Emanuel, brother to White House chief of staff Rahm and Hollywood agent Ari, who has just taken a key role advising the budget direct, Peter Orszag. "In the view of the health-care industry, Zeke is a fundamentalist. He favors guaranteed care for everyone through a system of government vouchers; national boards, he says, should help decide which treatments work most effectively. Costs should be funded by a dedicated national value-added tax."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/185801
ECONOMY: The Reeducation of Larry Summers (p. 24). Senior Editor Michael Hirsh and Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas profile Larry Summers, Obama's top economic adviser. Summers has gone from being part of the government that got out of the way of the markets in the freewheeling days of the late 1990s to become the man mainly in charge of the immense government bailout. Summers's greatest test will be persuading Congress to vote for "entitlement reforms" -- i.e., cutbacks and/or higher taxes on Social Security and health benefits for the poor and elderly. Summers plans to urge the president and Congress to venture into an area where politicians have long feared to tread, the so-called third rail of politics. "Necessity requires it, he says -- if the United States cannot curb its spending and debt, interest rates will soar and the economy will plunge once more."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/185934
ECONOMY: The Stunted Economic Stimulus (p. 28). Contributing Editor Robert J. Samuelson writes that the $787 billion economic stimulus program is deeply disappointing, given that the expectation is for the package to focus exclusively on reviving the economy. "The case for a huge stimulus, which I support, is that it's insurance against the possibility of a devastating downward economic spiral," Samuelson writes. "If the economic outlook is as bleak as Obama says (and it may be), there's no reason to dilute the upfront power of the stimulus. But that's what Obama's done." The stimulus package offers only modest relief. Postponed spending weakens the economic benefit. By using the stimulus for unrelated political and policy goals, Obama mandates delays. This is not a quick stimulus.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/185852
INTERVIEW: "To Pack a Real Punch" (p. 40). Newsweek international Editor Fareed Zakaria interviews Alex Molinaroli, the president of power solutions at Johnson Controls, which will supply the battery for Ford's first plug-in electric vehicle. "The automotive companies' being in a crisis [means] now's the time for a disruptive technology. Before, I don't think they could afford to retool, and they weren't motivated to retool. The automotive industry has now moved beyond trying to protect the old technology, to a place where they want to be a part of the solution. Now it's a race."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/185797
HEALTH: "Anatomy of a Scare" (p. 42). Senior Editor Sharon Begley reports that the study that linked childhood vaccines to autism set off a panic that is still affecting families today, even though the research didn't hold up. "Scientists and government officials who defended the safety of childhood vaccines were not shy about attributing the fears to the science illiteracy of the public and the fearmongering of the press," Begley writes. However, by this time mistrust of the scientific establishment had mushroomed into something decidedly ugly and the antivaccine campaign began to have an effect. "As parents postponed vaccinating their children, or refused vaccines entirely, children were suddenly catching preventable diseases, and some were dying." An overwhelming majority of vaccine and autism experts were convinced that parents were putting their children at real risk over a phantom fear. "It is bad enough that the vaccine-autism scare has undermined one of the greatest successes of preventive medicine and terrified many new parents. Most tragic of all, it has diverted attention and millions of dollars away from finding the true causes and treatments of a cruel disease."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/185853
"A New Mission for the NAACP" (p. 48). Contributing Editor Ellis Cose writes that though the NAACP marked its 100th anniversary this February, in recent years there have been times when even supporters of the venerable organization have questioned its role in the modern world. Benjamin Jealous, 36, named to the top job last May, is the youngest NAACP CEO ever and has taken over at a time when some Americans question the need for not just the NAACP but for all the civil-rights groups, now that we have an African-American president. "[Jealous] hopes to make the association matter in a way that it has not for a long time: as an irresistible voice for progressive change...His more visible, more aggressive NAACP will spawn a new mass movement, mobilizing support for wider health-care access and quality jobs." Those are big dreams for an organization that many have long thought of as irrelevant.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/185805
CULTURE: "Her Cups Runneth Over" (p. 52). Contributor Eliza Gray writes about the 50th anniversary of Barbie and the two new books coming out about her creation. Robin Gerber's "Barbie and Ruth" and Jerry Oppenheimer's "Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel" give two different accounts of who they claim is responsible for Barbie's creation, but they are in total agreement about their subjects' shared passions: Barbie dolls and large breasts. "In her half century of existence, Barbie has become something of a Rorschach test for views about modern feminine identity. Either she's a sunny, self-confident, good-time girl...or, more commonly, she's the original bimbo, a relic of postwar paternalism that teaches its young owners to worship at the altar of blond hair, peach skin and formidable cleavage atop a waistline the size of a pinkie ring." With the creation of Barbie, America's toy chests have never been the same.
PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS THE CONFIDENCE TO RESTORE HOPE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
OBAMA HAS A "FIRM GRASP OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SUBSTANTIVE CHALLENGES OF THE PRESIDENCY"
NEW YORK, Feb. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Every day seems to bring bad news, with more on the way, observes Senior Editor Jonathan Alterin the March 2 Newsweek cover "The Confidence Game" (on newsstands Monday, February 23). The nation is in a pessimistic mood and although Obama is popular and refreshing, he is still well short of transformative. "For all of the legislative achievements of his first month in office, Americans have not yet had their faith in the future restored," Alter writes. Despite Obama's initial stumbles, which include mistakes in cabinet selection, Alter believes President Obama has a good chance of restoring confidence and pulling America back from the brink. He writes, "My take on Obama...is that he has a firm grasp of the psychological and substantive challenges of the presidency. Equally important, his 2008 campaign proved that he possesses a superior sense of timing."
In these difficult economic times, the question is: What's a president to do? "If he starts in with the happy talk, he sounds like John McCain saying 'the fundamentals of the economy are strong,' which is what sealed the election for Obama in the first place," Alter writes. "But if he gets too gloomy, he'll scare the bejesus out of the entire world. The balance Obama strikes is to say that things will get worse before they get better, but that they will get better. Now he must convince us that's true."
Alter examines why confidence is the critical piece of what makes a good leader. "Leadership in a peacetime crisis also involves making the right calls on policy--but at bottom, it's dependent on a subtle understanding of how to make people feel better so that they invest in the future," he writes. "Too much confidence makes people and nations hubristic, while those on the receiving end feel conned. Too little confidence breeds timidity and uncertainty, which can be fatal." For years the country has lacked that balance, acting too confident for too long in the unerring genius of markets. Though it's still early in his presidency, President Obama is showing signs of carrying himself in a more naturally confident way, with the right blend of traits. "He's bold enough to add a couple of zeroes to the conversation about spending, but humble enough to utter those three most unpresidential words: 'I screwed up,'" Alter writes.
"Obama is betting on two things: first, that people are so tired of being bamboozled that a little straight talk about their woes will make them feel more in control, the prerequisite for genuine confidence. And second, that he'll get props for trying, that the very effort of riding events instead of letting them ride him will at least offer the illusion of mastery. Once these mental pieces are fastened in place and we're fully 'in recovery,' to use therapy lingo, the enduring problems won't seem so terrifying anymore," he writes.
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