REDWOOD CITY, California, July 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Ingenuity provides state-of-the-art solution for Huntington's disease research by integrating internal knowledge and curated disease content through IPA

Ingenuity Systems, the leading provider of information solutions for life science researchers, and CHDI Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization focused on discovering and developing drugs to treat Huntington's disease, today announced a multi-year agreement for CHDI to use IPA as a platform to integrate Ingenuity-curated information relevant to Huntington's disease. CHDI researchers will be able to leverage this knowledge using the complete set of analysis tools and structured knowledge already available in IPA.

SEATTLE and ROME, July 15 /PRNewswire/ --

Expedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPE) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Italy-based Venere Net ApA (http://www.venere.com) from Advent International and the founding partners. Venere.com has established relationships with approximately 29,000 hotels and bed and breakfast properties throughout Europe and the U.S. The transaction will result in the addition of more than 10,000 incremental hotel properties in Europe, the Middle East and Africa to Expedia, Inc.'s global hotel offering. Terms of the pending acquisition were not disclosed. Closing of the transaction is subject to competition approval in Germany.

SAN JOSE, California, July 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- In its Q2 2008 Web Security Trends Report, Finjan Outlines the Latest Developments in the Cybercrime Commercialization Economy

Finjan Inc., a leader in secure web gateway products, today announced the latest findings by its Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC). In its latest trends report for Q2 2008, the MCRC identifies and analyzes the latest Crimeware business operations, and provides a first-of-its-kind insider's look at the organizational structure of Cybercrime organizations. It all makes the cybercrime more successful and profitable than ever.

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LONDON, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Serco Games Research (SGR) has developed a new service that aims to help developers predict how their game in development is likely to score in game reviews, and offer recommendations on how to improve the score.

The SGR ScoreCheck, which follows a user-centred approach, assesses the game against a number of well-defined categories to predict the likely score, and can be used with prototypes at beta. SGR also provide recommendations for improvement based on an objective analysis by its consultants.

LONDON, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Finsbury Solutions, a leading supplier of spreadsheet management and compliance software to the financial services sector, today announced that leading global alternative asset manager Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) has implemented Finsbury Solutions' advanced Spreadsheet Workbench software system.

Spreadsheet Workbench is based on the latest Microsoft technologies, including SQL Server 2005 and SharePoint 2007, and provides auditability and control over business critical spreadsheets. The system provides finance, risk and audit departments with enhanced transparency and control over the financial reporting process in accordance with the latest financial legislation, such as Sarbanes-Oxley.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands and BARCELONA, Spain, July 15 /PRNewswire/ --

Agendia BV and Ferrer inCode today announced an agreement that will give Ferrer exclusive rights to sell two of Agendia's signature cancer diagnostic services -- MammaPrint(R), a prognostic test that uses a 70-gene signature to indicate risk of breast cancer tumor recurrence, and CupPrint*, a gene expression profiling service which offers a fast and reliable method of identifying the primary tumor site in Cancer of Unknown Primary (CUP). Under the exclusive distribution agreement, Ferrer has gained rights to sell the tests in Germany, France, Italy, and Portugal, in addition to a current agreement signed in 2007 covering Spain.

PHILADELPHIA, July 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Shunra VE Desktop Improves End-User Experience by Assessing Network Impact during Each Stage of the Application Development Lifecycle

Shunra today announced the HP certification of Shunra VE Desktop for HP Software, a Windows-based solution that tests the impact of applications on networks in all developmental stages by emulating a wide area network (WAN) and detailing network conditions seamlessly during load testing. The interoperability with HP LoadRunner enables a powerful, integrated solution offering customers highly-accurate, network performance testing.

EAST GRINSTEAD, England, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Diskeeper Corporation reveals that RAID devices must be kept defragmented to ensure maximum system performance and reliability.

On this matter, Microsoft stated: "Just as with a single disk, files stored on RAID arrays can become fragmented, resulting in longer seek times during I/O operations."

Although some vendors claim that RAID arrays do not get fragmented, they refer to the metadata used for file layout within the storage system, while the fragmentation at the disk file level, i.e. NTFS, is not taken into consideration.

SAN DIEGO and LONDON, July 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Appointment of Senior Representative from MediaFLO Technologies Adds to Forum's Growing Diversity -

Qualcomm Incorporated, (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, today announced that it has been elected to the governing board of the Broadcast Mobile Convergence Forum (bmcoforum), the leading worldwide industry association for mobile broadcasting services. Luigi Ardito, technical marketing lead for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) regions for Qualcomm MediaFLO Technologies, was named Qualcomm's representative to the board at the Forum's annual plenary meeting in Berlin on 17 June 2008.

LONDON, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Moonfruit (http://www.moonfruit.com), the provider of an online website building tool kit used to build more than 1.8 million sites to date, has given away thousands of free domain name vouchers and Google Adwords vouchers to new and existing customers as part of an improvement to its subscription packs.

Subscribers are now able to benefit from a free domain name to further personalise their online web presence, and get free advertising for their site worth up to GBP50 from the Google Adwords voucher included in their pack. All domains include 5 free email mailboxes, with webmail or POP3 access.