TORONTO, January 29 /PRNewswire/ --

Dyadem, the market leader in Quality Lifecycle Management and Risk Lifecycle Management solutions, today announced that it achieved record growth in 2008. Fueled by key customer wins in the oil gas, medical device and pharmaceutical industries, Dyadem achieved year-over-year revenue growth of 44%.

LONDON, January 29 /PRNewswire/ -- MyThings (http://www.MyThings.com), the global provider of product-related content for retailers and OEMs, announced today the acquisition of product review aggregation solution ViewScore.

MyThings will integrate with ViewScore's proprietary text analysis technology, which enables analysis and aggregation of many product reviews into one product score. ViewScore.com, which launched in 2006, is one of the most comprehensive product review databases available today.

NEW YORK, January 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Sales were up 35 percent and business expanded last year

BuzzBack Market Research, a leading Internet consumer research and marketing firm, today announced record results for 2008.

Sales were up 35% over one year ago, with increases in profits as the company saw a global expansion of its business. BuzzBack also added more than a dozen new clients to its portfolio of Fortune 100 consumer product companies and now works with six of the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies.

Due to the increase in business, BuzzBack added new employees in 2008 and moved to a new larger headquarters in New York City, as well as expanded its year-old London office to meet growing European business demand.

LONDON, January 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- One Third of European Mobile Social Networking Users Access Social Media Exclusively

comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, reports that social networking is drawing new users into the mobile Web. In November, 34 percent of mobile phone owners in Western Europe who visited social networking sites accessed social media exclusive of all other mobile Web content.

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ARNHEM, The Netherlands, January 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- International Top Manager Will Lead Human Inference

Human Inference, the European leader in data quality solutions, has announced that Sabine Palinckx will be joining the company on March 1st as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Sabine Palinckx joins the company from SAP where she was Vice President responsible for the small and medium-size business (SMB) in South EMEA. She will report to the Human Inference board of directors, which is led by former Oracle executive Loek van den Boog.

Dumping tires in the water to create an artificial reef sounds either inspired or crazy.  It turned out to be crazy but there was a scientific hypothesis to it.  You just had to buy into their chain of logic.

There was also a lesson.   Not everything needs to be done in a large experimental setting but the justification to go ahead and do it is always cost and the protecting the environment right now.   'You care about the environment, right?'   I can't think of a single time a question has been phrased that way that someone hasn't tried to sell me something.  And the cost savings are always framed to be immediately practical, though in the case of the artificial reef made of tires, the cost to clean up was 5000 times as much as it was supposed to save.

DELFT, The Netherlands, January 29 /PRNewswire/ -- TASS-safe (http://www.tass-safe.com), a leading provider in advanced software solutions to enhance human safety, announced today the addition of the MADYMO software suite to the Altair (http://www.altair.com) HyperWorks Enabled Community (HWEC). MADYMO is the worldwide standard software for vehicle safety analyses and design optimization.

LONDON, January 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- User Analytics Study Reveals That 84% of Consumers Prefer the HD Image Quality of AmberFin's iCR Software When Compared to a Leading Competitor

In a recent study by independent research house User Analytics, 84% of consumers surveyed stated that the HD image quality of files transcoded by AmberFin's iCR software tools were far superior to that of a leading competitor. The study took a selection of SD source material and up-converted it to HD content using iCR and a leading competitor's solution. Results of the up-conversion were compared based on consumer perception of the image quality.

GENEVA, Switzerland, January 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Based in Geneva, AIM was established in cooperation with corporate and civil society partners to enable the private sector to act directly and effectively on the major economic, social and humanitarian challenges of human mobility.

Manpower Inc. and WISeKey, two of AIM's founding partners, have played a lead role in the Labour Mobility Index to be launched at the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos.

CHARENTON-LE-PONT, France, January 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- A New Year of Growth in 2008

- Revenue Up 9.7% Excluding the Currency Effect

- Higher Earnings Expected

Essilor International, the world leader in ophthalmic optics, today announced consolidated revenue of EUR3,074.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2008, representing a reported 5.7% increase on the previous year. Excluding the currency effect, growth for the year was a strong 9.7%.