NEW YORK, November 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Industry Veteran Brings A Wealth Of Experience And Innovative Thinking To Brand Asset Digital Following The Launch Of P2Pwords(TM)

Brand Asset Digital, the distributed technologies company with a focus on P2P search marketing and efficient LIVE streaming technology, announced today that Jim Caparro, founder and former CEO of EDC, Chairman/CEO of Island DefJam and Warner Music Group's WEA, has joined the company's Board of Advisors. Caparro is renowned as one of the entertainment industry's foremost distribution visionaries with a keen focus on technological evolution and consumer behavior.

LONDON, November 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Lewis Hamilton is now the youngest ever Formula 1 World Champion, and to prepare for his triumph in Brazil, Hamilton spent time last week lapping the Interlagos circuit in a racing simulator 6,000 miles away in Woking. His McLaren team have invested over GBP60million into the software, using technology pioneered by the military, giving him the equivalent of years of Formula 1 experience in just a few weeks. In the similar high-adrenaline high-performance world of financial trading, successful traders are copying this secret weapon using simulator software from Tradernomics, a UK-based trader education company.

SUNNYVALE, California, November 3 /PRNewswire/ --

Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Stretton Scientific Limited, a privately held distributor of scientific diagnostic, measuring and monitoring equipment based in Stretton, England. Stretton Scientific currently distributes Cepheid's SmartCycler(R) System, among other diagnostic and life science products, to a broad group of medical customers including the National Health Service (NHS), medical universities and commercial customers.

PHILADELPHIA, November 3 /PRNewswire/ --

Electronic Ink, the leading design consultancy dedicated to improving the way people interact with technology, their environments, and one another, recently launched a complete redesign of The Philadelphia Orchestra's website http://www.philorch.org.

RISHON LEZION, Israel, November 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Runcom Technologies Ltd. was announced today as the fastest-growing high-tech company in Israel for the year 2008. The announcement was made by Deloitte, the global accounting firm, in its annual Technology Fast 50 program in Israel. Runcom is the world's pioneer of OFDMA and a market leader of OFDMA solutions complying with the IEEE802.16e-2005 standard for WiMAX applications.

LONDON, November 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Financial Tsunami Sends Flood of Traffic to Business Finance Sites

- Facebook Displaces BBC Sites as the U.K.'s Fifth Largest Property

comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its September rankings of the largest and fastest-growing Internet properties and site categories in the U.K. based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service.

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CALGARY, Canada, November 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Addax Petroleum Corporation (TSX: AXC and LSE: AXC) (Addax Petroleum or the Corporation) will announce its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2008 on Monday, November 10, 2008, and will discuss its financial results in a conference call on Monday, November 10, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time/4:00 p.m. London, U.K. time. Mr. Jean Claude Gandur, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. James Pearce, Chief Operating Officer, and Mr. Michael Ebsary, Chief Financial Officer, will discuss the Corporation's most recent financial and operating results.

HELSINKI, November 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Biohit is extending its range of diagnostic tests for gastrointestinal diseases with ColonView Hb and Hb/Hp quick tests, which are intended to aid early diagnosis and prevention of colorectal cancer. ColonView testing can be used for simple and cost-effective identification of patients with fecal occult blood, which is a well-known marker for colorectal cancer and pre-cancerous large adenomas. ColonView testing can also give information on possible other disease of the gastrointestinal tract that is associated with bleeding.

ColonView Hb test detects human hemoglobin (Hb) from red blood cells, and ColonView Hb/Hp test detects hemoglobin/haptoglobin complex (Hb/Hp).

SYDNEY, November 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Australia's 2002 Wimbledon champion Lleyton Hewitt is conducting a month long fund-raising charity auction during November on website http://www.eswap.com with proceeds going to Cure Our Kids, which helps kids with cancer and their families.

LONDON, November 3 /PRNewswire/ -- AboveNet Communications UK Ltd., a leading provider of fibre optic connectivity solutions for business and carriers and a subsidiary of AboveNet Inc., has been named a Gold Award recipient in the City of London's annual Considerate Contractor Scheme (CCS) for the second year in a row. The awards ceremony was held on Friday 31st October 2008, at Plaisterers Hall in London.