BIRMINGHAM, England, April 30 /PRNewswire/ --

Providing an international panel of speakers, the IFSEC Conference hosts timely debate and provides practical solutions to the most critical challenges facing security professionals in uncertain times.

Taking place alongside the annual IFSEC exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham on 11-13 May, the modular conference provides 9 bundles of information, helping delegates to focus on their specific interest areas.

SANTA CLARA, California, April 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- EDN Hosting 'Designing with LEDs Workshop 2009' in Santa Clara

California Micro Devices (Nasdaq: CAMD) will be showcasing its innovative LuxGuard(TM) family of total turnkey solutions for ESD (electrostatic discharge) protection and thermal management for high power, ultra high brightness LED (light emitting diode) lighting applications at EDN's Designing with LEDs Workshop 2009 in Santa Clara, California, on April 30. A pioneer in the development of ESD protection circuits for high power ultra high brightness (UHB) LED applications, CMD has shipped more than 300 million units to customers since 2001.

LuxGuard Protection for UHB LEDs

ATLANTA, April 30 /PRNewswire/ --

Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN), a leading provider of electronic transaction processing solutions, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of ZAO United Card Service (UCS) in a stock purchase transaction. Under the terms of the agreement, Global Payments will pay a total of US$75 million in cash to acquire UCS.

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Global Payments' Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Paul R. Garcia said, Russia continues to be one of the world's fastest growing payments markets. UCS provides us with a direct merchant acquiring platform for long-term growth in Russia and a foundation for other direct acquiring opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe.

TEL AVIV, Israel, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Zohar Zisapel announced today that he is commencing today a tender offer to purchase 5.0% of the outstanding ordinary shares of RADVISION Ltd. (Nasdaq: RVSN) (currently, 971,394 RADVISION shares) for $6.30 per share, net to the seller in cash, less any required withholding taxes and without interest. In the event that more than the maximum number of shares offered to be purchased in the tender offer are tendered, Mr. Zisapel will purchase shares on a pro rata basis.

Arrayit Corporation, a manufacturer of products and services for disease prevention, treatment and cure, announced today that it is developing a microarray-based diagnostic test to detect the H1N1 swine flu virus.

The Arrayit test will allow researchers and clinicians to detect the presence of the virus in infected patients and livestock and to distinguish the threatening mutated strain from less harmful variants in humans and swine. Using its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, Arrayit plans to begin mass production of its test kits over the next several weeks.

PHILADELPHIA and DUBLIN, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY) the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announces results for the three months to March 31, 2009.

Financial Highlights

Q1 2009 (1) Product sales $756 million +20% Product sales (excluding ADDERALL XR) $460 million +24% Product sales growth (excluding ADDERALL XR) at constant exchange rates (2) +32% Non GAAP operating income $327 million +70% US GAAP operating income $226 million +39% Non GAAP diluted earnings per ADS $1.28 +73% US GAAP diluted earnings per ADS $1.16 +70% Cash provided by operating activities $184 million +180%

(1) Figures compare Q1 2009 results with the same period in 2008.

GENEVA and REDMOND, Washington, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- WISeKey today announced its partnership with Microsoft to deploy its Identity Semantics Suite with Microsoft's Citizen Services Platform (CSP). The combination makes it easy for local, regional and national governments to deal with the complexity of identity systems and identity credentials that they are or will be required to accept as part of, for example, the European Services Directive (requiring a one-stop-shop treatment for businesses through electronic means). Citizens and enterprises will be able to use existing or new electronic identity credentials that are legally accepted, to transact across borders with governments.

PARIS and NEW DELHI, April 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- JV Will Manage Airtel's Migration to Next Generation Networks (NGN) to Offer Advanced Services Like High-Speed Internet, Triple Play, Media-Rich VAS, MPLS, VPN for Both Retail and Business Customers

- First Managed Services Partnership for Broadband and Telephone Services in India

AMSTERDAM, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- SynCo Bio Partners B.V. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), the cGMP manufacturer of clinical and commercial biopharmaceuticals, has won the Vaccine Industry Excellence (ViE) award for Best Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) 2009. This award was presented to SynCo at the Washington World Vaccine Congress on the 22nd of April and is a recognition of the excellent work by SynCo's scientists and manufacturing staff on behalf of its clients over the last 9 years.

SynCo was nominated by a panel of judges from the industry and selected over 5 other finalists in the Best CMO category, according to a wide range of criteria including:

TOKYO and HSIN-CHU, Taiwan, April 30 /PRNewswire/ --

Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced that they will collaborate on leading-edge process technology production for the manufacturing of Fujitsu Microelectronics' products. Under an agreement between the companies, Fujitsu Microelectronics will expand its 40-nanometer generation logic IC business with production at TSMC's fabs.