PLEASANTON, California and LONDON, December 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Toolwire's innovative experiential distance learning solutions for on-demand, hands-on training selected for the 2009 'Innovation in Training Services' award.

Toolwire, a leading innovator of experiential distance learning solutions, announced that they have been chosen as a finalist by the Institute of IT Training (IITT) in their annual IT Training Awards. Following last year's selection as a finalist in the 2008 Training Company of the Year award, Toolwire has been recognized as a finalist for the highly acclaimed Innovation in Training Services award for 2009.

NEW YORK, December 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Private Equity Firm with a 30-Year Legacy in Consumer Products, Supply Chain Management to Help Foster Mid-Market Growth Amid an Uncertain Economy -

Distribution Management Consolidators, LLC today announced the launch of DMC Capital Funding, LLC a private equity growth capital firm.

LONDON, December 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Leading Islamic Solution to Drive Innovation in Banking

Misys (LSE: MSY), the global application software and services company, announced today that Egyptian Saudi Finance Bank (ESFB) has chosen Misys Equation 3.9 for its 11 branches across Egypt. The solution is the latest version of the widely-used retail banking solution from Misys and will help ESFB to provide better and more innovative Islamic services to its customers.

LONDON, December 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Companies Switch to NetSuite from Sage and salesforce.com to Increase Sales and Productivity

LONDON, December 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Group CEOs of 14 Leading Mobile Operators on the Board

The board of the GSMA, the global body for the mobile industry, has elected Alexander Izosimov, the Group Chief Executive Officer of VimpelCom, as its new Chairman for a two-year term. As Chairman, he will help oversee the strategic direction of the GSMA, which represents more than 750 mobile operators worldwide. Bill Hague, Executive Vice President of ATT, was elected as Deputy Chairman.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Enhanced offering unlocks value of video assets by creating accurate, consistent, rich metadata

blinkx, the world's largest video search engine, today announced the availability of an Enhanced Metadata Enrichment solution for publishers, as part of the blinkx Advanced Media Platform. Based on technology that was perfected over 12 years at Cambridge University and is protected by 111 patents, the blinkx Advanced Media Platform enables media publishers and aggregators to manage and monetize video content to its greatest potential.

WATFORD, England, December 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Improving the Overall Customer Experience of Shopping at Halfords.com and Meeting the Needs of Customers Across Halfords' Multiple Shopping Channels

Salmon Limited (Salmon), a specialist in delivering eCommerce solutions, today announces the completion of a significant programme of work for Halfords Limited, where it has seamlessly integrated corporate data, corporate I.T. systems and third party software solutions to optimise the customer experience at Halfords.com and support the needs of its cross-channel customers.

An evolutionary geneticist from the Université de Montréal, together with researchers from the French cities of Lyon and Montpellier, say a new study presented in the recent issue of Nature characterizes the common ancestor of all life on earth, and it isn't called Adam or Eve, but rather LUCA, for Last Universal Common Ancestor. The 3.8-billion-year-old organism was not the creature usually imagined.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, December 17 /PRNewswire/ --

Employees may be feeling more loyal to their own career goals instead of their employers, as more than a quarter of employees (26 percent) do not feel loyal to their current employer and 21 percent said they are likely to leave their current position to change jobs in a year or less. This is according to CareerBuilder.se's latest survey of workers and employers in Sweden.

LONDON, December 17 /PRNewswire/ --

Employees may be feeling more loyal to their own career goals instead of their employers, as 40 per cent do not feel loyal to their current employer and 23 per cent said they are likely to leave their current position to change jobs in a year or less. This is according to CareerBuilder.co.uk's latest survey of more than 250 HR professionals and hiring managers and more than 600 employees.