- „Facebook for Companies" will start Crowdfunding on 29th of July - swabr to partner with innovative Auction-Platform Innovestment - Funding for Mobile Applications and Premium Version On Sunday, 29th of July 2012, the crowdfunding of swabr will start on the Innovestment platform. The founders of the enterprise microblogging service want to take the next step with the help of micro-investors to continue develop and release new features. Innovestment is a new crowd-investing platform for startups. Innovestment offers the possibility to present innovative ideas ...

From vivid tie-dye hues to friendly knitted patterns, the bold new colors and designs of Maggie's footie socks are giving everybody something to crave this holiday season. Available for ages 5 to adult, these vibrant footies make it easy for anyone to liven up their outfit and brighten up their step. And since they maintain the same organic, fair trade and US-made standards as all of Maggie's socks, you'll feel even better about treating your feet to these cozy, colorful creations! Footies are the latest sock style of choice for everyone from young children to teens ...

Driven by initiatives such as big data, customer data and the merging of diverse external data sources, the overall business analytics spend is estimated to increase more than 13-percent in 2012.* For most firms, that additional investment is built on a foundation of legacy enterprise reporting with an unquantified value. "Firms are spending more on analytics, but in some cases getting less strategic value from their investment," said Michael Hoffman, director of business analytics. "By our estimates, a minimum of 20 percent of analytics investment is ...

A biocidal product is a substance or a mixture with the intention of destroying, deterring, rendering harmless, preventing the action of, or otherwise exerting a controlling effect on any harmful organism by any means other than mere physical or mechanical action. Through this regulation, biocidal products and their active substances are separated in 4 groups and in 22 product-types (PT). Group 1: Disinfectants Product-type: PT 1: Human hygiene PT 2: Disinfectants and algaecides not intended for direct application to humans or animals PT 3: Veterinary hygiene PT ...

The Chef's Academy (http://www.thechefsacademy.com), the Culinary Division of Harrison College, a 110-year-old, nationally accredited institution that offers 40 degree programs in five schools of study, has announced that the school's Tournate Society, a student group dedicated to refining advanced culinary skills, will host a fish fry fundraiser on Saturday, July 28. The fundraiser will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will be located on the school's campus at 644 East Washington Street. Event proceeds will fund the Tournate Society's trip to attend the World Culinary Olympics ...

The Reality Tour is the national project of the non-profit organization, CANDLE, Inc. The tour is divided in to four main segments: dramatic scenes narrating a 'life & death' of a teen on drugs, coping skills for parents and children to adopt, law enforcement speaking about trends and protection measures for the community, and recovery addict sharing their consequences and that drug abuse is never the right choice. The Reality Tour is able to remain current with drug trends as they emerge, and law enforcement plays a critical role ensuring that in the presentation. ...

SkyDox, a leading provider of cloud-enabled file sharing, synchronization, storage, and collaboration tools, announced today that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has launched a new portal for its public-facing HUDOC portal that is based on the SkyDox search user interface (UI). The HUDOC portal, which hosts rulings made by ECHR, fulfils the Court's legal obligation to make all judgments publicly available. The redesigned portal enhances the accessibility of these documents by combining the latest search and Web 2.0 technologies for a more efficient and intuitive ...

Imperial Systems, Inc., a dust collection and air pollution control equiment manufacturer is ensuring growth for their business by incorporating video testimonials into their marketing plan. The second customer video testimonial was released on Monday. The second video features Chad Kauffman of Creative Pultrusions, Inc speaking about his turnkey CMAXX dust collection system. Please visit http://www.isystemsweb.com to view the new video testimonial. "Within the last few years whenever OSHA started enforcing the NFPA standards on combustible dust, we were forced ...

SPLICE Software, the global leader in provisioning human voice messaging and interactive voice solutions, today announced President and CEO Tara Kelly has been named a finalist for the Prairies Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Anyone who knows Tara Kelly will tell you she's a powerhouse on a mission and is revolutionizing customer communications through digital channels. In 2001 she saw a need in the industry and worked tirelessly to fulfill it. Today Tara is the president and CEO of SPLICE Software, an enterprise that created and owns the intellectual ...

Andree LaRoche's expressive paintings pulse with a dramatic energy as, like Kandinsky, she brings an often musical symphony to her canvases. An exploration of the emotional responses to various color compositions is what drives this self-taught artist. A true colorist, LaRoche invokes a connection to nature in her large works that is deceptive in its apparent abstraction. Andree LaRoche has exhibited extensively in her native Canada. Viewers of her works invariably relate to her mesmerizing ability to capture harmony and nature in a schematic eruption of color and light. ...

Operation: Coming Home (http://operationcominghome.com), a joint volunteer project by the Triangle Veterans Association, Home Builders Association of Raleigh-Wake County (HBA), and Royal Oaks Building Group, among others, has announced that the 2012 Victory for Vets Sunset Ride, hosted in coordination with the Triangle Victory Riders (TVR) and Triangle Veterans Association (TVA), raised $5,500 for the nonprofit organization. All proceeds from the second annual ride were donated to Operation: Coming Home in its efforts to build its fourth Hero Home for a disabled military ...

The Carolina Designer Craftsmen Guild (http://www.carolinadesignercraftsmen.com) has announced that Tracy Adams of Adams & Events has been named as the new show manager for the 2012 43rd Annual Fine Designer Crafts Show held at North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh. The event, a showcase of fine crafts for every taste and budget, will run from Friday, November 23 until Sunday, November 25. Adams will be responsible for overseeing the planning and coordinating of the show and its details. The Fine Designer Crafts Show, a North Carolina tradition since 1970, ...

OLSOFT releases AnalyzerXL package version 6.1.37 and announces great New Year Discounts till January, 15! In this version: - Issues with data download from Yahoo!Finance were fixed. - Small bugs were fixed OLSOFT announces New Year holidays 30% discounts which will last till January, 15. AnalyzerXL package allows downloading real-time and historical stocks, options, futures, mutual funds, dividends and currencies data into Microsoft Excel and provides with 165 technical analysis functions that can easily be calculated using built-in wizards. AnalyzerXL ...

Laboratory Testing Inc. (LTI) has added Fracture Toughness Testing to the list of materials testing services performed by the laboratory to ensure the safety, reliability and integrity of materials. The fracture toughness test is performed on a specimen with a pre-existing crack to determine resistance to further crack extension. Fracture toughness testing measures the conditions under which an existing crack in a material will lengthen when under prescribed loading conditions. LTI performs Fracture toughness tests to ASTM standards E399 and E1820. Fracture toughness is ...

Dot Com Infoway (DCI), a premier IT company providing offshore IT outsourcing solutions to businesses across the globe, has been recognized by the research firm SourcingLine as a leading Web development company, for its high caliber Web application development services. DCI continues its streak of high rankings and proves itself again as a reputed Web developer, through this achievement. SourcingLine's Leaders Matrix for Web Development Companies ranks top services firms and graphically depicts each developer's areas of focus versus their ability to deliver quality ...

XTEL, the leading European provider of sales automation solutions to the consumer goods industry, today announced that PepsiCo, the world's second largest food and beverage company, enlisted XTEL to provide mobile applications to its sales teams in France and in the UK. By the middle of 2013, the XTEL sales force automation solution will be rolled out to field representatives in both countries. PepsiCo offers a wide portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including Pepsi, Quaker, Tropicana, Frito Lay and Walkers, and its commercial activities span different ...

Orbana Healthy Energy drink is delighted to announce that it is being used by Samurai International Sevens Team for their international rugby tournaments for the 2012/13 season. Samurai International are globally recognised as the most prestigious, successful and feared team on the International circuit. "The Samurai management have been looking for a premium energy drink partner for some time. We have found what we believe to be the perfect partner in Orbana and can be assured that our athletes will be enjoying all the benefits of one of the best energy drinks ...

Bay Area hair restoration surgeon, Sara Wasserbauer, M.D., will perform a pro bono hair transplant on a young man who battled a brain tumor eight years ago. The surgery will be broadcast live on TheBaldTruth.com on July 30, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. PST. Carlos Cabrera was just 18 years old when he was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor called ganlioglioma. He underwent surgery and four months of radiation when other kids his age were thinking about prom and college. Although he now enjoys a clean bill of health, the combined surgery and radiation caused uneven hair loss and ...

Recurring mobile operator billing enables online, app and game developers to monetize their users on a daily, weekly or monthly basis on any platform. Fortumo's subscription payments are first on market to support all key platforms -- from online web and mobile web to HTML5 and in-app purchases. Fortumo has already started rolling out the service with a number of games and dating sites. "Subscription payments deepen customer loyalty and have shown to increase developer revenue by at least 30%" says Rain Rannu, co-founder of Fortumo. "Recurring mobile ...

SalesPortal (http://www.salesportal.com), the first partnership marketing network for enterprises with contact centers, today announced its customers can receive real-time sales lead information generated by their marketing partners. SalesPortal enables companies with contact centers to present their customers with relevant offers from marketing partners at the end of sales and service calls, generating new revenue streams in the process. Interested customers are live-transferred to the partnering companies, providing these partners with a new low-cost, high-quality ...

"While most people have a pretty solid awareness of what a cataract is, many do not realize the very widespread incidence of cataracts across the world nor do they realize the options and positive results we achieve with lens implants for vision correction after cataract surgery," remarked Maine Cataract Surgeon Bruce Cassidy, M.D. of Eyecare Medical Group in Portland. Cataracts are the leading cause of blindness worldwide. About 20.5 million Americans age 40 and older have cataracts and more than half of all Americans develop cataracts by age 80. A cataract ...

Respected pediatrician and medical educator, Edward McGookin, M.D., has been named as the first Chief Medical Officer at Coastal Medical. McGookin has been in practice with Coastal Medical Waterman Pediatrics since 1998, and has acted as Coastal Medical's Pediatric Medical Director since March, 2011. In his new role as Chief Medical Officer, McGookin will be responsible for the oversight of all clinical activities at Coastal Medical. He will continue to improve the PCMH practice transformation process, maintain and expand the group's standards of care; as well as collaborate ...

There are countless products on the market that claim to offer solutions for women seeking to rejuvenate, or re-grow, lost or thinning hair. While at first this diversity of products may seem like a benefit to the consumer, it can actually prove to be a hindrance. There are simply so many hair re-growth products available that determining the best combination of treatments can be challenging, and because many of these products are sold individually, purchasing them can become expensive. A hair care brand called Keranique is endeavoring to change all of this, marketing its ...

Dr. William Boothe, a noted cornea specialist, knows how difficult diagnosing eye problems can be, as every patient can present a unique set of problems that need to be corrected. While he is trained to easily determine the source of vision or eye health problems, he explains that it is not always as simple for physicians in other fields, especially those acting in emergency situations. A recent article from Reuters Health discusses such difficulties and how triage doctors are now using advanced smartphone technology to obtain a quick diagnosis of eye complications in emergency ...

While the topic of national debt has loomed large over American's political landscape in recent years, many American individuals and families are more immediately concerned with their own, personal debt. The Huffington Post relays a story of a couple desperate to pay off their massive debt. The couple worked diligently, taking on multiple jobs, buying only used products, and taking no vacations or eating at any restaurants until the debt was paid off. The Huffington Post notes that these dramatic debt-reducing exercises represent "the kind of hard work we applaud in ...