How you are feeling has an impact on your routine economic transactions, whether you’re aware of this effect or not.

In a new study that links contemporary science with the classic philosophy of William James, a research team finds that people feeling sad and self-focused spend more money to acquire the same commodities than those in a neutral emotional state. The team’s paper, “Misery is not Miserly: Sad and Self-Focused Individuals Spend More,” will be published in the June 2008 edition of Psychological Science and will be presented at the Society for Social and Personality Psychology’s Annual Meeting on Feb. 9.

AMSTERDAM, February 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- University Uses Scopus Data to Create Management Strategy Map

Scopus(R) today announced that Kyushu University is using its data to create and test QUEST-MAP, the management strategy map it developed to plan its reorganization. The University chose Scopus for its comprehensiveness and objective data, to help capture the current state of its research activities University wide. Scopus is now playing a pioneering role in enabling metric-based analysis of the University's research output, providing Kyushu University with the information it needs to strategize for accelerated growth.

HAIFA, Israel, February 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Oil Refineries Ltd. (TASE: ORL) (the "Company"), Israel's largest oil refiner, has announced the results of the Special General Meeting held February 6, 2008, at 10:00 a.m. at the Company's offices at 7 Abba Hillel Street, Ramat Gan.

The following resolution on the agenda was approved:

To increase the compensation of the members of the Company's Board of Directors, excluding the Chairman of the Board, and external directors.

For the detailed resolution please view the highlights in the Company's press release on January 2, 2008 as well as the full Special General Meeting Notice filed in Hebrew with the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and the Israel Securities Authority on January 1, 2008.

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SAN MATEO, California, February 7 /PRNewswire/ --

NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), a leading vendor of on-demand, integrated business management software suites that include Accounting / Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Ecommerce software for small and midsized businesses and divisions of large companies, announced today that Inside CRM ranked NetSuite President and Chief Executive Officer Zach Nelson as one of the Top 5 CRM Influencers of 2007.

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Mr. Nelson, along with other industry leaders including Marc Benioff of salesforce.com and Greg Gianforte of RightNow, was recognized as one who changed the CRM software landscape in 2007.

LONDON, February 7 /PRNewswire/ -- NHS Choices (http://www.nhs.uk), the online 'front door' for the NHS, has released an updated online information resource, Health A-Z, aimed to help people find facts on more than 700 conditions and treatments.

Based on NHS accredited information, the A-Z directory (http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Pages/bodymap.aspx) tells users all they need to know on a topic in seconds, providing them with clinically approved guidance so they can become experts.

LONDON and HANOVER, February 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Technology Website heise online Launched in UK

The German publishing company Heise Media Group is taking another step in the internationalisation of its online business with the launch of heise online UK on Wednesday, 6th of February. The website at www.heise-online.co.uk features a news service covering IT, telecommunications and technology, with more channels focussing on specialised subjects: heise Security, heise networks and heise Open Source.

SUNNYVALE, California, February 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- BlackBerry, iPhone and Symbian Users Now Have Access to mywaves' Mobile Video Service

mywaves, the largest mobile video destination, announced today expanded distribution of its popular mobile video service to the BlackBerry(R) Pearl 8130 smartphone from Research In Motion (RIM), the Apple iPhone(R), Symbian S60 platform and four Palm(R) handheld devices. Additionally, Handmark(R), a global leader in the development and distribution of mobile media, will distribute mywaves' mobile videos to mobile devices through its global distribution channels.

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TORONTO, Canada, February 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Belzberg Technologies Inc. (TSX -BLZ), announced today the introduction of Deep Book(TM), the first options trading platform that sweeps the aggregate volumes of all orders and price levels, for all options contracts trading on US options exchanges. With the ever-growing list of options contracts now trading in pennies, Belzberg already has demand from customers who are eager to take delivery of the system.

"Deep Book(TM) is the only product on the market that allows traders to properly handle large orders in the new penny-increment options environment," said Sid Belzberg, CEO of Belzberg Technologies.

BOSTON, February 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Latest release offers QA and Development Teams strongest support for complex WSDLs and Schemas

Crosscheck Networks, Inc., the market-leading provider of SOA Testing Tools, today announced immediate availability of SOAPSonar(TM) v.3.5. This release enables QA and Development teams to test and validate the most complex data structures that are being generated in the most demanding of the SOA deployments.

LONDON, February 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- By Popular Demand - All Entries for the European Shared Services Excellence Awards May Now be Submitted Until 5pm GMT 7th March 2008

The application deadline for the European Shared Services Excellence Awards has just been extended by two weeks.