New York, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

Editors are advised that an updated photo is available to accompany the news release, NYW052, Gwyneth Paltrow Announced as EIF Ambassador to Saks Fifth Avenue's 2008 KEY TO THE CURE Campaign, issued Wednesday, July 30, 2008 by Saks Fifth Avenue.

Caption: Gwyneth Paltrow models the 2008 KEY TO THE CURE limited edition T-shirt by Karl Lagerfeld designed exclusively for Saks Fifth Avenue in partnership with the Entertainment Industry Foundation. $35 from the sale of every T-shirt will benefit EIF's Women's Cancer Research Fund. (PRNewsFoto)

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SAN MATEO, California, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Report Finds Siperian Best-in-Class for Market Vision, Implementation & Technology Partnerships, And Advanced Feature Sets

WELLESLEY HILLS, Massachusetts, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

Joseph F. Finn, Jr., C.P.A. ("Finn") announced today that the assets of Spherics, Inc. ("Spherics") had been assigned to him on July 28, 2008 for the benefit of creditors. An Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors is a common law procedure, wherein Finn will liquidate the assets, which consist primarily of pharmaceutical IP, by means of a sealed bid auction on October 10, 2008.

Persons interested in bidding must sign a Confidential Disclosure Agreement ("CDA") obtained from Finn's office. They will then receive a bid package and access to the Spherics electronic data room.

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LONDON, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

The most valuable business asset that you and your sports and leisure facility could own this year will cost you nothing more than your time. Because a ticket to Sports Development Week (SDW, 23-25 September, Birmingham NEC), the UK's primary annual event focused on participation, infrastructure and performance in sport, is completely free when you pre-register at www.sdwshow.co.uk (and avoid the 15 pounds Sterling entry fee when registering at the show).

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AUSTIN, Texas, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Version of Software Empowers Users to Take Advantage of Multicore, FPGA and Wireless Technologies

NIWeek -- National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) today announced LabVIEW 8.6, the latest version of the graphical system design software platform for control, test and embedded system development. Building on the inherent parallel nature of graphical programming, LabVIEW 8.6 delivers new tools to help engineers and scientists take advantage of the benefits of multicore processors, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and wireless communication.

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FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

Everything Channel (formerly CMP Channel), the leader in accelerating global technology sales channels, today announced that it will name the VARBusiness Annual Report Card (ARC) award winners at an event at XChange '08 on Monday, August 18 at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in Dallas.

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LONDON, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

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Successful results and growing sales of Michelson Diagnostics Ltd's (MDL) Optical Coherence Technology (OCT) systems have encouraged investors to place a further GBP600K into the business to help develop the in vivo technology. The capital injection forms part of a new funding round of almost GBP600k into pioneering MDL, with Catapult Venture Managers investing a further GBP250k, London Seed Capital a further GBP50k and the balance of the money coming from private investors. The money will be used to complete development of its hand-held OCT probe for applications in cancer diagnosis and treatment.

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SCHIPHOL-RIJK, The Netherlands, August 4 /PRNewswire/ -- SecondFloor, a rapidly expanding IT services company based in The Netherlands will take a core role in an ambitious project to develop a risk management platform for Allianz Group. The custom built solution provides Allianz with auditable, automated, centralized and SOX compliant risk calculations on the basis of a new replication portfolio approach. SecondFloor will be responsible for the analysis, information architecture, server based implementation, testing, deployment and support, providing Allianz with a robust, reliable and auditable solution.

MANHASSET, New York, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Industry Veterans Rank Financial Engineering Programs Based on Wall Street Recruitability

TechWeb's Advanced Trading, the premiere source for objective industry-specific content for trading executives, today announced the Top Ten schools for quantitative analysts. Working closely with Wall Street veterans, Advanced Trading chose the top schools in terms of financial services recruitability. Published in the August issue, the article entitled, "The Top 10 Quant Schools, According to the Street" was written by executive editor, Cristina McEachern. The feature story can be found online at: http://www.advancedtrading.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209102204.