LONDON, October 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Unite, the UK's largest union, has condemned Hewlett Packard's (HP) decision to cut 3,400 jobs from its UK workforce following the company's recent announcement that it intends to shed 24,600 staff globally in a re-structuring programme.

Unite will have an ad van circling the roads outside Ascot race track where up to 1,000 staff will be attending a meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) with Mark Hurd, HP's worldwide CEO, between 8am and 11am. Unite's message to the CEO is to see full consultation, no compulsory redundancies and redeployment and reskilling. Photos will be available after 12pm.

DALLAS, October 21 /PRNewswire/ --

Texert, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise risk management (ERM) solutions for global customers, announced that it has secured a three million dollar Series A investment from New Venture Partners LLC that will be used for product development, expanding sales and marketing efforts, and launching the company's go-to-market strategy. In conjunction with this investment, Daniel Deeney and Harry Berry, partners at New Venture Partners, will join Texert's Board of Directors.

PORTLAND, Oregon, October 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Organization showcases first public device solution demo; adds Dossia and Google to membership; and welcomes new Executive Director

The Continua Health Alliance, an organization dedicated to enabling interoperable healthcare products and solutions worldwide, today announced the first demonstration of seamlessly connected Continua pre-certified products and solutions. In addition, illustrating strong momentum and support of the organization's mission to establish an ecosystem of connected personal health products and services, Continua also announced the addition of Dossia and Google to its membership and welcomed healthcare veteran Charles Parker as its new Executive Director.

SUNNYVALE, California, October 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Non-surgical intervention cures 96% of patients with advanced esophagus condition

CAMBRIDGE, England and LONDON, October 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- ARM Profiler for Symbian OS Empowers Developers to Deliver High Performance and Reduced Power Consumption for Symbian OS-Based Mobile Phones

READING, England, October 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- T-Impact to Propel Transition to Visual Orchestration Systems for SOA Application Development in UK Enterprises

Active Endpoints, Inc. (www.activevos.com), the inventor of visual orchestration systems (VOS), today announced that it has appointed Reading- based CRM and billing business integrator T-Impact (www.t-impact.com) as its UK reseller. T-Impact will use ActiveVOS in its expanding services-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) consulting engagements to deliver to its telecommunications, retail and banking clients cost-effective business process orchestrations which maximise investments in legacy applications.

LONDON, October 21 /PRNewswire/ -- World-Check, the leading global provider of risk intelligence, and eSum Technologies Inc, a leading e-business solutions provider in South Korea, have announced a strategic alliance that will offer a seamless solution for customer and identity authentication screening against the World-Check risk intelligence database.

eSum Technologies Inc. will market, implement, and support the integration of the World-Check database locally to deliver an effortless screening process for financial and non-financial institutions seeking to enhance their existing Know Your Customer (KYC), Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) verification processes.

HALIFAX, Canada, October 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Proving Bigger Really is Better

Ocean Nutrition Canada Limited (ONC), supplier of MEG-3(R) brand Omega-3 EPA/DHA from fish oil to the food and dietary supplement industries is pleased to announce their capacity expansion. The US$19 million investment secures ONC's position as the largest fish oil manufacturer in the world.

The expansion of their world class molecular distillation plant in Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, Canada means a 100% increase in MEG-3(R) concentrate capacity. Through their joint venture collaboration with Alicorp Corporation in Peru, to build a second fish oil manufacturing plant, they have realized a 200% capacity increase in their MEG-3(R) 30% fish oil.

PORTSMOUTH, England, October 20 /PRNewswire/ --

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Down Syndrome Education International has been awarded a grant by the Big Lottery Fund to test a structured language and reading teaching programme in UK primary schools. This targeted teaching approach offers new opportunities for young people with Down syndrome to further improve their language and reading skills.

The Big Lottery Fund has awarded a GBP481,000 grant to investigate the effectiveness of a focused and practical classroom intervention. The study, lasting 4 years, will be conducted by Down Syndrome Education International working in partnership with the Centre for Reading and Language, at the Department of Psychology at the University of York.

SANDVIKA, Norway, October 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- REC has entered into a long-term take-or-pay agreement for the supply of fine particulate silicon - or 'silicon powder' - from the FBR-process. The contract has a value in excess of USD 500 million (~NOK 2.9 billion).

REC has entered into a long-term take-or-pay agreement with a PV-company based in Asia for the supply of fine particulate silicon from the FBR-process, so-called silicon powder. Silicon powder has traditionally had low or negative value, due to storage and land-filling requirements. REC has developed technology to capture and package these fine silicon materials, which opens valuable commercial opportunities.