HAMBURG, Germany, October 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Office Opened in Hamburg, Germany; VP of EMEA Appointed to Manage Region

Brightcove Inc., the leading online video platform, today announced the expansion of its operations in Europe with the appointment of Vanessa Wade as vice president of EMEA and a new office in Hamburg, Germany. The German operation is backed by a full complement of staff in Germany that includes sales, engineering and technical consultants.

BEACHWOOD, Ohio, October 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Sean Stack to Head Up Corporate Development and Strategy;

- Kevin Brown Joins Company as Chief Financial Officer

Aleris International, Inc. announced today that Sean M. Stack, currently Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has been elected Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy, and Kevin L. Brown has been elected Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, both effective October 16, 2008.

In just 3 years of community activism that rivals Sarah Palin's political climb, Teens for Safe Cosmetics (TFSC) from Marin County, California has waged a national campaign to educate and inspire elimination and disuse of chemical toxins and environmental pollutants for healthier living. The passionate crusade recently earned two representatives from TFSC a meeting with Nobel Laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the Peace Jam Global Call to Action Conference in Los Angeles. Campaign members, Kate Smith and Emily Rose, were among 3,000 youths from around the world assembled to hear wisdom offered by six Nobel Peace Prize winners and to present their project for making of a better world.

SAN FRANCISCO, October 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Kenshoo Inc. Team Grows as Geoffrey Shenk Becomes Managing Director and Chad Baldwin Joins as Director of Strategic Accounts

With a rapidly growing customer base, Kenshoo Inc. continues to boost its US presence and expand their San Francisco office. Significant wins and big plans for the US Market have helped Kenshoo Inc. attract a top team to lead their efforts to dominate the local market. Geoffrey Shenk joins as Managing Director of North American operations and Chad Baldwin will be the Director of Strategic Accounts. Both have years of experience in the search engine industry and bring a wealth of knowledge and energy to the company.

We are advised by Kenshoo that journalists and other readers should disregard the news release "Google/DoubleClick's Team Lead DART Search of North America and Former Head of Coremetrics Join Kenshoo Inc. as They Ramp up US Presence", issued earlier today over PR Newswire, as it contained some erroneous information.

Contact: Alon Sheafer, VP Products & Marketing, marketing@kenshoo.com, +1-415-287-4101

CARPINTERIA, California, October 13 /PRNewswire/ --

A deployable reflector system made by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) successfully deployed on-orbit Aug. 28 aboard the Inmarsat 4 F3 satellite.

An image accompanying this release is available at: http://media.primezone.com/noc

The third in the Inmarsat 4 series, the telecommunications satellite completes the constellation, providing worldwide coverage for Inmarsat's Broadband Global Area Network, with the exception of polar regions.

WASHINGTON, October 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- 'New Class' of Stent with Polyzene(R)-F Surface Treatment Maximizes Endothelialization; Reduces Restenosis, Thrombogenicity, Need for Long-Term Dual Antiplatelet Therapy

Clinical investigators at today's "Innovative Devices and Futuristic Therapies" session during the 20th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium, sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, presented 12-month follow-up data from the ATLANTA Trial. The results include zero percent thrombosis in patients discontinuing dual anti-platelet therapy after only 30 days.

REDMOND, Washington, October 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Microsoft announces new rich Internet applications development and streaming media features; company outlines plans for supporting Windows, Mac and Linux tools for developing Silverlight applications.

Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Silverlight 2, one of the industry's most comprehensive and powerful solutions for the creation and delivery of applications and media experiences through a Web browser. Silverlight 2 delivers a wide range of new features and tools that enable designers and developers to better collaborate while creating more accessible, more discoverable and more secure user experiences.

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LONDON, October 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Unite, the UK's largest union, will ballot its members in Steria, a leading French IT firm, following the company's announcement of plans to make over 30 compulsory redundancies among Manchester IT staff supporting the company's Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) account.

The jobs are being lost among staff transferred under TUPE from CFS to Steria last year, and are the result of a decision made at the time of the transfer to cut costs by off-shoring work to India.

In today’s world, advances in science and medicine happen almost daily. Few of those discoveries prove to be a revolution in current scientific thought. This is one of those breakthroughs.

Recently, the Nobel Committee announced that it would award the Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology to German professor Harald zur Hausen, who discovered the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) was the cause of cervical cancer. According to the Committee, his discovery “went against current dogma,” when in the 70s and 80s he strove to prove that the papillomaviruses were the cause of cervical cancers. “He thus laid the foundations for better prevention and treatment of this form of cancer, which has become the third most common form to affect women,” says Professor Matthias Kleiner, President of the German Research Foundation.

“I am, of course, completely surprised and it is a great pleasure for me,” expressed zur Hausen in an interview with Adam Smith from nobelprize.org. He credits his dedication and personal conviction to his discovery, working in a direction thought to be completely wrong by many of his contemporaries. “I was an unwelcome and lonely voice,” notes zur Hausen.