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BNET Daily Dispatch: U.S. Steel, Circuit City, TJX, and Discovery

U.S. Steel agreed to buy Lone Star Technologies, whose products are used to line oil and gas wells and build pipelines, for $2.1 billion. In the past three years, the energy industry has invested billions of dollars in new gas and oil sources in North America. Officials...

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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Paper Supports Additional Role for Cethromycin as Potential Treatment for Infections Caused by Community- Associated Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

CHICAGO, June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Advanced Life Sciences Holdings, Inc. , a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of novel drugs in the therapeutic areas of infection, cancer and respiratory diseases, today announced that the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy has published a paper entitled 'Susceptibility of...

Articles 2008-06-25

Discovery Networks Bring their Quality Brands and World Class Programming to Blockbuster Stores

Popular Non-Fiction Titles from Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, TLC & Others To Be Sold in Participating Stores Nationwide SILVER SPRING, Md., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Entertainment lovers who have a curiosity about the world around them can now turn to their local BLOCKBUSTERR store to purchase the...

Articles 2008-06-24

/C O R R E C T I O N — Discovery Communications/

In the news release, Discovery Networks Bring their Quality Brands and World Class Programming to Blockbuster Stores, issued earlier today by Discovery Communications over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the final sentence of the first paragraph should read as "BLOCKBUSTER stores around the U.S." rather than...

Articles 2008-06-24

Weststar Acquires "18 Meter" Coal Property, Announces Private Placement and Appoints New Director

Weststar Resources Corp. (TSX-V: WER) (the"Company") is pleased to announce that, subject to regulatory approval, ithas entered into a letter of intent with a group of arms-length Vendors(the "Vendors"), pursuant to which the company has acquired 72 coalpermit applications, known as the "18 Meter" property, locatedapproximately 70 km northwest of...

Articles 2008-06-23

Canopus BioPharma Strengthens its CB1400 Platform Technology for Mucositis and Oncology Treatments Through License Agreement With Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

LOS ANGELES, California, June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Canopus BioPharma, Inc. , a biotechnology company developing pharmaceutical products and assay methods for patients suffering from infectious disease, radiation sickness, cancer and addiction, today announced the signing of a licensing agreement with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation WARF, an organization serving...

Articles 2008-06-18

Canopus BioPharma Strengthens Its CB1400 Platform Technology for Mucositis and Oncology Treatments Through License Agreement with Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

LOS ANGELES -- Canopus BioPharma, Inc. (OTC: CBIA), a biotechnology company developing pharmaceutical products and assay methods for patients suffering from infectious disease, radiation sickness, cancer and addiction, today announced the signing of a licensing agreement with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation WARF, an organization serving the University of Wisconsin-Madison...

Articles 2008-06-18

Neil Smit and David Zaslav Named Honorary Co-Chairs for the 22nd Annual NAMIC Conference

NEW YORK, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- NAMIC (National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications) today announced that Neil Smit, president & CEO, Charter Communications, Inc. and David Zaslav, president & CEO, Discovery Communications, will serve as Honorary Co-chairs for the 22nd Annual NAMIC Conference. Scheduled for September 14-16, 2008,...

Articles 2008-06-18

New Music Branding and Advertising Synchronization Service Announced by The Sync Agency and Music Intelligence Solutions, Inc.

The Sync Agency, one of the UK's leading musicstrategy and branding agencies, announced the company will be using MusicIntelligence Solutions, Inc.'s patented Hit Song Science™ and MusicUniverse™ discoveryservices to help source rich and varied music content for brands andinstitutions on a global basis. The Sync Agency helps international...

Articles 2008-06-16

Danish biopharmaceutical company Symphogen A/S signs strategic collaboration agreement with Genentech Inc

NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-11 June 2008-Danish biopharmaceutical company Symphogen A/S signs strategic collaboration agreement with Genentech IncC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Danish biopharmaceutical company Symphogen A/S said on Tuesday (10 June) that it has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with the US drug developer Genentech Inc (NYSE:DNA). ...

Articles 2008-06-11

Sonian Announces Fast-Track Partner Program for Selective Value Added Resellers and Managed Service Providers

Sonian, Inc. announced today an innovative newprogram for the channel community to begin quickly deploying emailarchiving services to virtually all of their customers regardless of emailplatform. Qualified Fast-Track Program Partners will be provided access toadditional discounts, cooperative marketing initiatives, a white-labeled orcobranded user interface and OEM web services APIs...

Articles 2008-06-10

Gentag, Inc. and MacroArray Technologies Join Forces

WASHINGTON, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Gentag, Inc. and MacroArray Technologies, LLC have entered into a development program to design a wireless immunoassay incorporating Gentag's cell phone communication technology and MacroArray's urine diagnostic test for prostate cancer. One in six males are at risk of developing prostate cancer,...

Articles 2008-06-09

MRV to Review Historical Option Practices and to Review Accounting for Earnouts and Profit Sharing in Two European Subsidiaries and Expects to Restate Financial Statements

CHATSWORTH, Calif. -- MRV COMMUNICATIONS, INC. (Nasdaq:MRVC) today announced that as a result of the recent discovery and preliminary analysis by management of information relating to the company's stock option practices during the period from 2002 through the first quarter of 2004, the company's board of directors has established a...

Articles 2008-06-06

Viacom Names Philip Jenner Vice President, Government Relations - Europe

WASHINGTON, June 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Viacom Inc. today announced the appointment of Philip Jenner to the new position of Vice President, Government Relations - Europe. Mr. Jenner, who joins Viacom from Discovery Communications, will be based in London and report to DeDe Lea, Viacom's Executive Vice President...

Articles 2008-06-05

xif communications Develops and Deploys Environmentally Friendly Online Portal for Discovery Communications to Showcase Programming to Emmy(R) Award Voters

xifcommunications , inc., a leading interactive and software developmentfirm, worked with Discovery Communications to develop and launch an online portal for voting members of The Academy ofTelevision Arts & Sciences to view Discovery Channel , Animal Planet and TLC programming for Emmy® nominationconsideration. Every...

Articles 2008-06-05

SENOMYX TO WEBCAST CORPORATE PRESENTATION AT THE SEVENTH ANNUAL NEEDHAM & COMPANY, LLC BIOTECHNOLOGY AND MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE

SAN DIEGO, CA, June 4, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Senomyx, Inc. , a leading company focused on using proprietary taste receptor technologies to discover and develop novel flavor ingredients for the food, beverage, and ingredient supply industries, announced today that the Company's Executive Vice President of Discovery & Development and...

Articles 2008-06-04

Discovery Holding Company Enters Into Definitive Agreement With Advance/Newhouse to Combine Stakes in Discovery Communciations

Advance/Newhouse to Receive Shares in New Holding Company ENGLEWOOD, Colo., and NEW YORK, June 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Discovery Holding Company ("DHC") and Advance/Newhouse Programming Partnership ("Advance/Newhouse") announced today that they have signed a definitive agreement pursuant to which DHC and Advance/Newhouse will combine their stakes in...

Articles 2008-06-04

Roche NimbleGen and BioDiscovery Form Strategic Alliance to Enhance CGH Microarrays, Software and Services

MADISON, Wis. -- Roche NimbleGen Inc., a company of Roche Applied Science, announced today that it has formed a strategic alliance with BioDiscovery, Inc. to offer complete solutions to comparative genomic hybridization CGH microarray customers. The new high-density 2.1 million probe (HD2) arrays of Roche NimbleGen combined with industry-leading proprietary...

Articles 2008-06-03

Wiley selects LibreDigital's Internet Digital Warehouse solution

TELECOMWORLDWIRE-2 June 2008-Wiley selects LibreDigital's Internet Digital Warehouse solutionC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc (NYSE:JWa/JWb) has announced that it has selected technology developer LibreDigital's Internet Digital Warehouse solution to provide eBook, custom content and discovery tools to its customers, partners and users. ...

Articles 2008-06-02

Johns Hopkins University Selects Collexis Expert Profiling System as the Translational Research Platform for Over 2,800 Medical Researchers

University Signs Subscription Agreement with Collexis after Successful Pilot Project COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Collexis Holdings Inc. (OTCBB:CLXS), a leading developer of high definition search and knowledge discovery software, announced today that Johns Hopkins University has become the next institution to sign onto Collexis Expertise Profiling System for their...

Articles 2008-06-02