NOVATO, California and LA JOLLA, California, July 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Nasdaq-Listed Biopharmaceutical Company Focusing on Improved Drug Targeting and Reformulation of Existing Therapeutic Compounds to Benefit Underserved Patient Populations

LONDON, July 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Tightening budgets, smaller staffs and fewer resources are driving worldwide demand for options like SaaS-deployed OnBase OnLine (OBOL)

LONDON, July 29 /PRNewswire/ --

IntercontinentalExchange(R) (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of regulated global futures exchanges, clearing houses and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, announced that ICE Clear Europe(R) has introduced clearing for European credit default swaps (CDS), beginning with iTraxx contracts, effective this week. ICE's CDS clearing operations are designed to address the operational and risk management needs of the credit market, as well as calls by regulators and policy makers for transparency, standardization and systemic risk reduction. The U.K. Financial Services Authority (FSA) has completed its regulatory review of ICE Clear Europe's CDS clearing operations, risk management and governance.

BERLIN, July 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- Palomar5 is Looking for Visionaries to Help Design Tomorrow's Working World

- Lateral Thinkers of Any Background May Apply Until August 15th

- Participants' Flights, Meals and Accommodation Will be Fully Financed

LONDON, July 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Frost Sullivan to Host Analyst Briefing on European Pneumatic Actuators Market on Tuesday, 4 August 2009, at 14.00 BST

European pneumatic manufacturers are finding sustainability and profitability increasingly difficult to maintain in competitive market conditions exacerbated by the global economic crisis. Plummeting demand in the framework of general market uncertainty forces participants to focus more on innovation and value addition. Since demand for custom pneumatic solutions remains promising, participants are expected to instigate alliances to enhance their product and geographical coverage.

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AMSTERDAM, July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consultancy, design, engineering and management services company, today announced it has named Lance K. Josal FAIA as President and CEO of ARCADIS subsidiary RTKL Associates Inc., the international planning, design and engineering firm. Josal succeeds RTKL's current President and CEO, David C. Hudson AIA, who is retiring from the firm. The changes will take effect on 1 September 2009.

PARIS, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Orolia SA (NYSE Alternext Paris - FR0010501015 - ALORO), group specialized in high-precision timing, positioning and synchronization electronics systems, announced today the signing of an agreement with Airtek Capital Group to acquire Kannad SAS, a key global supplier of maritime, aeronautical and land-based distress positioning beacons. Headquartered in Guidel, France, Kannad is a market leader in positioning systems for severe environments and with pro-forma sales of 17.7 MEUR in 2008 (excluding the scientific instrumentation business divested in late 2008), it is one of the world's largest providers of COSPAS-SARSAT locator beacons.

PARIS, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) announced today that it has acquired Velocix, a leading global provider of Content Delivery Network (CDN) infrastructure and services to Internet and broadband service providers and media and entertainment companies.

CDNs optimize digital distribution over the Internet by replicating popular video and rich media content to geographically dispersed networks of delivery servers. This allows user requests for content to be served more rapidly and reliably from these local delivery servers rather than from a single source.

GUILDFORD, England, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Surrey and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have signed an agreement to collaborate on the delivery of a GBP10m programme to translate the results of research into innovation that makes a real-world difference. The collaboration is supported by a GBP4m Knowledge Transfer Account (KTA) from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) with an additional GBP6m funding from industrial partners and the University of Surrey.

The joint Surrey/NPL team will focus on three specific areas of technology, each with the potential to create transformational benefits for the UK economy and society. The areas are: