BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, France, January 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Non-Renewal of Exceptional Advertising Expenditure - Disposal of Chinese Operations

MEETIC (FR0004063097 - MEET), Europe's leading player in online dating, today announced that it will focus on profitability in 2009.

Objective: EBITDA margin of between 20% and 25% in 2009

- Non-renewal of exceptional advertising expenditure

As announced at the start of the year, MEETIC allocated around EUR15 million of exceptional advertising expenditure in 2008, mainly spent on offline branding. The aim was to increase the profile of the Group's brands in the strategic markets of the UK (DatingDirect), Germany (newly acquired Neu.de), and of its new matchmaking service MeeticAffinity.

Salon has an interview with Stuart Kauffman, a biologist who has written multiple fascinating books about complex systems. Kauffman has a new book, Reinventing the Sacred, in which he argues that we need to toss out scientific reductionism and take a new, holistic approach to science and rename it God. But how bad is the problem really?

Laplace famously claimed that if we knew the initial position and momentum of all the particles in the universe, we could confidently predict the future of the universe - that is, the universe is completely deterministic. Quantum mechanics seems to indicate that it is not - there is a graininess to the universe at a fundamental level (unless there are so-called 'hidden variables' determining the quantum behavior of particles).

LAS VEGAS, January 5 /PRNewswire/ --

Vanguard Integrity Professionals' CEO, Ronn Bailey, announced today that Vanguard Integrity Professionals will be sponsoring French racer, Eric Vigouroux, in the 2009 Dakar Rally, which runs from January 3 to January 18 through the deserts and mountainous regions in Argentina and Chile. Vanguard Integrity Professionals, which is sponsoring Team Dakar USA, provides security software and consulting to many government agencies and Fortune 500 companies around the world.

CALGARY, Canada, January 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Shelton Canada Corp. (Shelton or the Company) (TSXV symbol STO) is pleased to provide an operational update on its projects in Ukraine.

SHENYANG, China, January 5 /PRNewswire/ --

Neusoft Corporation (600718.SH), the largest offshore software and service provider in China, announced today that Klaus Zimmer, former Chairman CEO of SAP North Asia, has officially joined Neusoft Corporation, holding the offices of Vice President and European President for enhanced local presence in the European market.

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MILPITAS, California, January 5 /PRNewswire/ --

California Micro Devices (Nasdaq: CAMD) has been awarded Electronic Products magazine's 2008 Product of the Year award for the CM1233-08DE, the first product to incorporate the innovative PicoGuard XS(TM) architecture. The CM1233-08DE is the industry's first product to provide both outstanding signal integrity and robust electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection for high speed differential signals such as HDMI(TM) and DisplayPort. By integrating inductors with the ESD diodes, the CM1233-08DE provides matched differential impedance, eliminating the need for board designers to compensate for diode capacitance in their layouts.

BOZEN, Italy, January 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Robotics today announced that the European Union (EU) Commission and eTen have made available the first results of the SafeChemo Project it sponsored at three of its pharmacies. The EU's SafeChemo objectives were to scientifically and independently establish if CytoCare(TM) (the world's first and only automated robotic system for the safe preparation of hazardous patient-specific IV medications) could improve patient safety for Oncology patients, eradicate injuries and contamination risks associated with handling Oncology IVs, and reduce costs as compared to manual compounding of cancer drugs.

LONDON, January 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- This is a reissue of a previously killed release from December 30th 2008. The source client has given permission to use the contents of this release.

Leading Child Trust Fund provider, The Children's Mutual (http://www.thechildrensmutual.co.uk) is encouraging all parents who decide to give up smoking as their New Year's resolution to consider putting the money that they will save towards their children's futures.

SAN FRANCISCO, January 5 /PRNewswire/ --

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), the world's largest wholesale datacentre provider, has been recognised for Innovation in an Outsourced Environment by the prestigious Datacentre Leaders' 2008 Awards. Digital Realty Trust received the honor for a Turn-Key Datacentre(TM) that Digital Realty Trust delivered to IBM to support growth of the company's hosting business in France.