Press Release Distribution

The Board of Directors of the parent company of Kinetic Concepts, Inc. and LifeCell Corporation today announced that Ronald A. Matricaria has joined the Board of Directors and will serve as its Chairman. Matricaria will oversee the implementation of a new manageme[...](More)

Silicon Line GmbH, a leading provider of ultra-low power analog ICs, today announced that it has brought to market the SL82728 and SL82718 ICs targeted at notebooks, ultrabooks and tablets using the latest VESA based Embedded DisplayPort standard. The ICs are used[...](More)

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (GWI) (NYSE: GWR) today provided the following update on the status of the restoration of the Edith River Bridge in Australias Northern Territory following the December 27th derailment of a Genesee & Wyoming Australia Pty Ltd (GWA[...](More)

Sims Metal Management (the Company) has been designated as one of the Global Top 100 Most Sustainable Corporations for the fourth year in a row. The list, compiled by sustainable business publication Corporate Knights, was announced at the 2012 World Economi[...](More)

eSecLending, a leading global securities lending agent, announced today that it has launched a new service called ProxyValue, designed to help institutional investors maximize income generated from the lending of securities while ensuring proxy voting fiduciary[...](More)

Pantene, the worlds leading haircare brand, today announced it will support 11 elite female athletes as its newest beauty ambassadors. The group will be featured in Pantenes first global marketing campaign to support the Olympic Games. The athletes will prov[...](More)

ANCILE Solutions, Inc., a global provider of best-in-class[...](More)

nivio today announced beta registration for a fully functional Windows desktop from the Cloud. On nivio, users have access to an App-Store where they can rent applications, such as the complete Microsoft productivity suite, and take advantage of 10GB of upgradeabl[...](More)

Covidien plc (NYSE: COV) today reported results for the first quarter of fiscal 2012 (October-December 2011). First-quarter net sales of $2.90 billion increased 5% from the $2.77 billion reported a year ago. Foreign exchange rate movement had no impact on the quar[...](More)

The following releases focus on Corporate Social Responsibility and moved during the week of January 18, 2012 January 25, 2012.

Follow the CSR Circuit newsfeed on (More)

FOR NON-US MEDIA ONLY

Boehringer Ingelheim announced today the initiation of two phase III clinical trials, LUX-Head & Neck 1 and LUX-Head & Neck 2. These trials evaluate afatinib* in patients with metastatic and recurrent head and [...](More)

Leading online financial services and trading group Ava [...](More)

Greenlight Capital, Inc. (Greenlight) announced today that the U.K.s Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Greenlight and David Einhorn for inadvertently engaging in market abuse in connection with Greenlights trading of Punch Taverns plc [...](More)

BIOTRONIK, a worldw[...](More)

The Michael Jackson Estate will be joined by Michael Jackson's three children, Prince, Paris and Blanket, who will use their father's famed sequined glove and shoes to make the cement impressions in the famous forecourt of the theatre joining the likes of Cary Gra[...](More)

Americas Styrenics LLC (AmSty), the joint venture between Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP (Chevron Phillips Chemical) and Styron, today announced the appointment of Bradley Crocker as Chief Executive Officer, effective January 30, 2012.

[...](More)

ZELTIQ Aesthetics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZLTQ), a medical technology company focused on developing and commercializing products utilizing its proprietary controlled-cooling technology platform, and the charitable trust of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) initiated a p[...](More)

Reputation.com, the leader in online privacy and (More)

This week, the Photon Laboratory announced that REC modules ranked first in the 2011 module field performance test, producing 6 percent more energy than competing modules.

Oriflame (STO:ORISDB), the international beauty company selling direct, has announced the launch of its 45^th anniversary celebrations at its Diamond Conference in Rio de Janeiro. Over 1,000 participants including Oriflames top Leaders have gathered f[...](More)

ebrary®, a ProQuest business and leading provider of e-books and research technology, made several key announcements last week including:

• A new dedicated app for the iPad®, iPhone®, and iPod touch®. Available [...](More)
  
  

Sims Metal Management Limited (ASX CODE: SGM) (NYSE SYMBOL: SMS) will release its FY12 half year results to:

• Australian Securities Exchange on the morning of Friday, 17 February 2012; and
(More)

Tano Capital, LLC (Tano Capital), an Asia focused alternative asset management firm, announced today the final closing of the Tano India Private Equity Fund II (TIPEF-II) on $111.3 million of committed capital. TIPEF-II is the successor fund to the $100 mill[...](More)

The worlds first and largest cone-shaped aquarium with an inner glass aquarium elevator debuted at the new Morocco Mall in Casablanca. Aquadream, the 9.3 meter tall acrylic aquarium designed and built by International Concept Management, Inc. (ICM[...](More)

Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE:AGO) (together with its subsidiaries, Assured Guaranty) announced today that Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. (AGM) has entered into an agreement to reassume $12.9 billion of par it had previously ceded to Radian Asset Assur[...](More)

Covidien (NYSE: COV), a leading global provider of healthcare products, today announced that one-year results on the use of its EverFlex stent for superficial femoral artery stenting were presented here during the (More)

Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), the revenue grow[...](More)

Hilton Worldwide has become the fastest growing major hot[...](More)

Vaxiion Therapeutics, Inc., the industry leader in minicell-based targeted therapeutics, received official notification from the United States Patent and Trademark Office that the company has been issued another key patent in the U.S.

The re[...](More)

99designs, the largest online marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design services, today announced it has doubled the number of monthly design contests held on its site year over year, hired key staff and executives to meet growing demand, and expects significant[...](More)

Labcyte Inc., the developer of acoustic liquid handling, and QIAGEN, the leading global provider of sample and assay technologies, announced today that QIAGEN FlexiPlate siRNA reagent libraries are now available in Labcyte Echo® qualified microplates. These micro[...](More)

IMS Health has acquired PharmARC, an India-based company specializing in commercial analytics and services for the life sciences industry. The acquisition adds significant scale to a world-class services delivery platform, strengthens IMSs business process outs[...](More)

DotComGuys MSP Tech-Support software as a service that reduces computer/employee downtime, cuts costly computer repair bills and changes the way people manage their IT support for their Home and Business computers is now available for free downloads at (More)

Independent live testing of NovelSats 3G-Sat modulation technology, NS3 has shown that, for the first time, broadcasting data via satellite can be accomplished at fibre level costs. The testing was conducted in collaboration with the leading satellite compan[...](More)

Aspera, Inc., creators of next-generation software technologies [...](More)

EPAM Systems, Inc. (the Company) today announced the launch of its initial public offering of 7,400,000 shares of common stock. Subject to market and other conditions, the Company expects to sell 1,517,647 shares of common stock and the selling stockholders [...](More)

International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), a wholly owned subsidiary of American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG), announced today that it will establish offices in Beijing and Singapore in 2012. In addition, the company has named David A. Nixon as Senio[...](More)

Acrobits, the worlds leading Mobile VoIP Applications development company has released its new combined Voice and Video application with SmoothFlow video technology for Apples iPhone.

Jiri Kral, Acrobits CTO/CEO stated, SmoothFlow pe[...](More)

LifeSize, a division of Logitech (NASDAQ:LOGI)(SIX:LOGN), today introduc[...](More)

Fremont, California-based Hurricane Electric, the worlds largest IPv6[...](More)

Covidien (NYSE:COV), a leading global provider of healthcare products, today released the results of the DEFINITIVE Ca⁺⁺ study. DEFINITIVE Ca⁺⁺ assessed the safety and effectiveness of the SilverHawk LS-C/TurboHawk Peripheral Plaque Exc[...](More)

HighQ is pleased to announce that leading Australian law firm Clayton Utz has chosen HighQ Collaborate to provide an innovative new extranet and collaboration platform to its clients.

HighQ Collaborate provides a unique set of capabilities to[...](More)

AGCO, Your Agriculture Company (NYSE: AGCO), a worldwide manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment, today held its first ever AGCO Africa Summit in Berlin. The Summit is a joint initiative of AGCO, Bayer CropScience and DEG Deutsche Investitions- [...](More)

Ascom Wireless Solutions and Motorola Solutions have teamed to optimise functionality between their communication solutions. The companies have conducted joint testing on Motorola´s WLAN architecture and Ascom´s handsets to ensure superior voice quality, trouble[...](More)

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, has closed its Series C round with new investment totaling US $55.8 million led by the (More)

FINEOS Corporation, a market leading provider of core softwa[...](More)

Panduit announces the launch of its Physical Infrastructure Manager (PIM) Software Platform Version 4.4, which extends Panduits data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solution. Working with PanView iQ (PViQ) System Hardware and industry standa[...](More)

IMS Nanofabrication AG (IMS) (www.ims.co.at) announced today that Dai [...](More)

Australias premier Wagering, Gaming and Keno operator, Tabcorp (ASX: TAH), is adding key card data security functionality to its membership and account registration systems with the help of (More)

The demand for e-book accessibility, especially on mobile devices, is growing significantly. In ebrarys 2011 Global Student E-book Survey, announced today and available at (More)