GENEVA, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Merck Serono and its US affiliate EMD Serono, Inc., both part of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announced today a planned expansion of EMD Serono's US presence with an anticipated investment of $50 million at its Billerica facility northwest of Boston, Massachusetts. The company anticipates that this investment will create more than 100 new jobs in Massachusetts.

The investment will support the construction of a center of excellence in discovery, creating critical mass in research with a common goal of finding new treatments for unmet medical needs.

VALLETTA, Malta, April 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Award Recognizes the 100 "Most Promising" Companies Driving the Future of Technology

Red Herring today announced that Conduit (http://www.conduit.com), a leading provider of website syndication solutions for web publishers, is a recipient of the Red Herring 100 Europe, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region each year.

WASHINGTON, April 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Industry supports hundreds of programs helping millions in the developing world and is looking for new partners

The worldwide pharmaceutical industry today launched Global Health Progress, an initiative to bring research-based biopharmaceutical companies, global health leaders and policymakers together to build on current partnerships to improve health in the developing world.

Serving as a convening point for the industry and its partners, Global Health Progress will facilitate interaction between the private sector, NGOs and governments to share research and best practices; raise awareness of global health challenges; and build partnerships to improve global health.

DUSSELDORF, Germany, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The Blackstone Group has today informed us that it has decided to sell its close to 25% stake in Gerresheimer AG, held by BCP Murano II S.à.r.l. with immediate effect. In the course of the transaction, led by Credit Suisse, 7.8 million shares will be sold to a variety of institutional investors. Blackstone has thus decided to exit its Gerresheimer investment after Gerresheimer's IPO in June 2007. Dr. Axel Herberg, CEO of Gerresheimer AG: "Blackstone made a successful IPO possible and afforded us enormous growth opportunities. With this exit, our free float rises substantially, making our shares even more attractive to the investment community."

The risk of illegal information access, notably in money transactions, requires more and more advanced cryptographic techniques against criminals and the occasional mischevious teenager.

Quantum cryptography has been regarded as 100-percent protection against attacks on sensitive data traffic but a research team at Linköping University in Sweden has found a hole in even this advanced technology.

When an encrypted message needs to be sent over a computer network, the most difficult problem is how the key should be transmitted. One way is to literally send it by courier (which has its own security risks) or, if it's in your budget, attached to the wrist of James Bond.

SINGAPORE, April 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Performance Monitoring Now Includes SingTel Partners' Network

- Convenient Access to Network Performance via Online Portal

Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) announced today the launch of the Global Delivery Platform (GDP). It is the first managed Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network (IP VPN) platform in the world to provide full end-to-end network performance monitoring for corporate data services across multiple partners' networks.

With GDP, customers can now have comprehensive network performance assurances and faster fault restoration. In addition, they enjoy convenient round-the-clock access to real-time network performance statistics via an online portal provided by SingTel.

'S-HERTOGENBOSCH, The Netherlands, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Quintiq, a leading provider of Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) solutions, today announced that Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), one of the world's largest independent providers of factory to dealer logistics services for automakers and high & heavy rolling equipment manufacturers, has selected Quintiq to provide a planning solution to cover its global planning activities. The Quintiq solution will bring more transparency to WWL's supply chain, enable WWL to optimize vessel space according to available and forecasted cargo, cargo priority and revenue projections, and improve performance against contract commitments.

LONDON, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Global DataCenter Management (GDCM) today announces the release of nlyte Workflow(TM) v2.1. The new release is immediately available for GDCM's global data center commercial customers, as an upgrade to its nlyte workflow solution v1.1.

Data center personnel are facing enormous problems managing IT changes, overheating, power costs and usage levels, as well as maintaining the information necessary to predict the physical impact of implementations, consolidations and the retirement of IT assets. nlyte solves complex problems related to managing physical capacity, delaying capital expenses and reducing operational cost related to power, cooling, space and human capital.

LONDON, April 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Zoomix Accelerator is the Only Solution Available for the Automated Classification, Standardization and Matching of Millions of Complex Customer and Financial Instrument Data Records, Without the Need for any Manual Rule or Script Development

Zoomix, a leading provider of advanced enterprise master data management solutions, today announced that Brewin Dolphin Ltd., the UK investment firm managing portfolios worth GBP21.6 billion for over 120,000 clients, selected Zoomix's self-learning data management software, Zoomix Accelerator. Brewin Dolphin is implementing Zoomix Accelerator to automate the matching, standardization and classification of hundreds of thousands of customer and financial data records.

ST. JULIANS, Malta and LONDON, April 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Award Recognizes the 100 "Most Promising" Companies Driving the Future of Technology

Red Herring today announced that Extricom is a recipient of the Red Herring 100 Europe 2008, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region each year.

"This year's impressive list of winners demonstrates Europe's emergence as a major player in the global technology sector," said Red Herring editor-in-chief, Joel Dreyfuss. "The exceptional accomplishments of European technology companies and entrepreneurs are a testament to the rapid advancements being made in building the European innovation ecosystem."