ASCOT, England, November 24 /PRNewswire/ -- E6 Ventures has agreed to participate in the next round of funding in Diamond Hard Surfaces Ltd. Set up in 2005 by its chief technical officer, Sergey Aleksandrov, Diamond Hard Surfaces is a high technology company that has developed a low temperature process to create thick amorphous diamond-like carbon coatings applicable in a broad range of wear-related applications in a number of industrial sectors.

LONDON, November 24 /PRNewswire/ --

The European autoimmune disease diagnostics market has demonstrated sustained growth due to advances in detection technology and automation. Active consolidation is occurring in the market, promoting technology and product integration. However, the lack of clarity with regard to reimbursement policies for autoimmune diagnostic tests persists, posing a challenge to market expansion.

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New analysis from Frost Sullivan (http://www.drugdiscovery.frost.com), European Autoimmune Disease Diagnostics Market, finds that the market earned revenues of $513.5 million in 2008 and estimates this to reach $722.0 million in 2015.

NOTTINGHAM, England, November 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile search engine, Taptu (http://taptu.com/), enables rapid content sharing via SMS thanks to specialist communications provider, Esendex. Taptu is a new search engine designed specifically for mobile devices and mobile users. Content searches, such as music videos, blog entries or news stories, can now be shared simply and quickly via text message across the Esendex SMS network.

HAIFA, Israel, November 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- Break-even third quarter with 24% increase in EBITDA YoY

- Net income of $73.5 in 9 months 2008

- Improvement in all operating parameters and net refining margin

- Lower net income in Q3 due to sharp decrease in fuel prices

- Board of Directors declares NIS 200 million dividend

Oil Refineries Ltd. (TASE:ORL.TA) (Oil Refineries or the Company) announced today its financial results for three and nine month periods ending September 30, 2008.

Third Quarter HIGHLIGHTS (Compared to third quarter 2007)

MOSCOW, November 24 /PRNewswire/ --

Platts, a leading global provider of energy and commodities information and a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), today announced it is joining forces with Interfax Information Services Group, a leading source of real-time business news from Russia and the CIS, to launch EnergoScan-Interfax Platts (http://www.energoscan.ru), a new Russian-language publication serving the needs of Russia's energy, business, and financial communities.

The Milagro collaboration, comprised of scientists from 16 institutions across the United States, has discovered two nearby regions with an unexpected excess of cosmic rays.   This is the second finding of a source of galactic cosmic rays relatively near Earth announced in the past week. In the November 20 issue of Nature, ATIC an international experiment led by LSU scientists announced finding an unexpected surplus of cosmic-ray electrons from an unidentified but relatively close source.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, November 24 /PRNewswire/ -- 'MegaFon-Moscow', a mobile communications operator, has presented the new 'Kaleidoscope' service to subscribers. It is based on the i-Cell solution supplied by Bercut Ltd. The first months of commercial operation revealed wide popularity of the service among subscribers.

'MegaFon' is the first mobile operator that introduces advanced technologies and services to Moscow citizens. In collaboration with Bercut Ltd., we managed to create an original and useful service that enables subscribers always to keep abreast of events, Denis Irz, the Director of the Department of New Technologies and Projects of the 'MegaFon-Moscow' network, said.

SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France and LUND, Sweden, November 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Open-Plug Software Suite for Mobile Phones Will be Rolled out in Large Numbers Across Europe and Asia

Open-Plug, the specialist in software development environments for mass-market mobile phones, announces today that its ELIPS application suite is embedded in Sony Ericsson's J132 mobile phone. The J132 is a talk and text phone with FM radio and stereo hands free kit.

We are very proud to be cooperating with Sony Ericsson, one of the top leaders in the mobile phone industry, said Eric Baissus, CEO of Open-Plug. This is an additional demonstration of the maturity and performance of our ELIPS solution.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, November 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Swedish researchers at Taurus Energy, SEKAB, Chalmers Technical University and the University of Lund have signed an agreement on development and large scale implementation of a new improved bio-technical process for production of ethanol from lignocellulose feedstocks. The development is based on Taurus' yeast technology for fermentation of both six- and five-carbon sugars.

Ethanol based on lignocellulose is a second generation bio-fuel. It is the most efficient fuel in terms of reducing dependence on fossil-fuels as well as the impact on environment without affecting food supplies.

LONDON, November 24 /PRNewswire/ --

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