BOSTON, October 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Supports Brokers, Financial Institutions' Requirements for Reporting Publicly Traded Securities

Eagle Investment Systems LLC, a leading provider of financial services technology and a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon, today announced that its investment accounting solution supports the new provision requiring brokerages to report cost basis for any stocks traded in a public arena. This new mandate was included in the 2008 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (also known as the bailout bill), which was finalized earlier this month.

BEND, Oregon, October 20 /PRNewswire/ --

Bend Research Inc. announced today that it will independently offer unique drug-delivery expertise and technologies to outside firms in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

Bend Research will continue its 23-year collaboration with Pfizer but will also be free to work with outside firms using proprietary technologies developed jointly by the two firms.

These technologies include the spray-dried dispersion (SDD) technology (which increases the oral bioavailability of low-solubility compounds), controlled-release, multiparticulate, and pulmonary delivery platforms.

LONDON, October 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Further semiconductor device manufacturers, service software developers and financial services firms reinforce the global appeal of the Symbian Foundation platform

On the first day of the 2008 Symbian Smartphone Show, the ten initial board members of the Symbian Foundation (ATT, LG Electronics, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, Samsung Electronics, Sony Ericsson, ST-NXP Wireless, Texas Instruments and Vodafone) have welcomed the latest supporters of the Symbian Foundation initiative.

MANCHESTER, England, October 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Kooth, the pioneering advice and support service for 11-25 year olds, received the Local Government IT Excellence Award for Service Transformation at the Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm) Annual Conference last week in Newport.

The Kooth service helps vulnerable young people deal with a wide range of problems from alcohol and drug misuse through to bullying and depression. The free, confidential and anonymous service is staffed by a team of specially trained counsellors and advice workers, who also fully moderate the site checking the suitability of all the user-created content to make sure Kooth.com remains a safe site for young people to use.

LONDON, October 20 /PRNewswire/ --

Ventyx(R) today announced two company-sponsored workshops scheduled just prior to the E-Mart Energy event in Geneva, Switzerland. These two interactive, half-day workshops are complimentary and will be held at the Geneva Palexpo on the morning and afternoon of 28 October, 2008.

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The workshops are designed to provide the company's industry-leading, in-depth analysis of key energy industry issues and offer practical solutions for meeting growing challenges in the industry. The two workshops include:

AMSTERDAM, October 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Permanent Growth of DKV Leads to Professional Risk Management

- Overdue Payments Automatically Redirected to Atradius

- All Debts in Europe are Insured Against Insolvency

Atradius Collections, a business unit of credit insurer Atradius, provides DKV, market leader in Europe of international service cards in transports, with an international and automated debt collections system. DKV has installed an integrated order to cash solution, where all invoices more than 90 days overdue are subcontracted automatically to Atradius Collections. To manage the customer default risk DKV has insured the pan European portfolio with Atradius Credit Insurance.

NEW YORK, October 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Empowering Brands to Target Connect directly to over 450 Million consumers via P2P by Leveraging 45 Billion P2P searches a month

Brand Asset Digital announces the public beta of the world's first and only Search Engine Marketing platform for P2P Search called P2Pwords(TM). The platform, which is the first pay-per-click for P2P Search, gives top advertisers the unique ability to target and connect their branded content directly to consumers via P2P Search.

HOUSTON, October 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- More than 50 Leading Companies Confirmed to Participate

PennWell Corp. and Oil Gas Financial Journal (OGFJ) announces presenters for the Houston Energy Financial Forum, November 18 - 20, 2008 at The Houstonian. This will be the first opportunity for industry executives, analysts, and institutional investors to hear third quarter results from presenters.

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, October 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Former Interim CEO of McAfee to Play Active Role in Growing AVG's Consumer, Small Business and Channel Customers in 167 Countries

AVG, a global anti-virus and Internet security software provider with over 80 million users in 167 countries, announced today that it has expanded its board of directors with the appointment of Dale Fuller.