PALO ALTO, California, May 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Passive Investment Includes Stake in Preferred Stock, Common Stock and Support for Facebook's Continued Global Growth

Facebook today announced that Digital Sky Technologies (DST), one of the leading internet investment groups globally with significant stakes in Eastern European and Russian internet businesses, has made a US$200 million investment in Facebook in exchange for preferred stock, representing a 1.96 percent equity stake at a US$10 billion valuation.

BOSTON, May 26 /PRNewswire/ --

RISI, the leading information provider for the global forest products industry, today announced the establishment of a partnership agreement with the Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC), whose mission it is to advance the use of biomass for heat and other thermal energy applications. As part of this partnership, BTEC members will receive a discount on RISI's Wood Biomass Market Report, the only comprehensive source of market information and wood biomass feedstock pricing for the North American biomass market.

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STOCKHOLM and PARSIPPANY, New Jersey, May 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Interoperable Solution Enables Secure SIP Trunking for Legacy PBX and Contact Center Environments

LONDON, May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Man Utd star Danny Wallace is helping to shine the spotlight on the condition that ended his career early by joining together with the MS Society to support World MS Day.

The first coordinated world-wide initiative to highlight the proliferation of multiple sclerosis (MS) is being launched tomorrow (Wednesday 27 May) with more than 200 events in 61 countries in a concerted effort to raise global awareness of the disease.

World MS Day coincides with the football Champions League final, where Danny's former team take on FC Barcelona in Rome.

NORCROSS, Georgia and LONDON, May 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- S1 Enterprise Establishes 'Banking Relationship Score'

- Outlines Steps Required to Rebuild Trust and Confidence

Results of a new survey released today by S1 Enterprise confirm that troubles in the banking sector have taken a toll on customers' relationships with their financial institutions - and provide insights on how banks can rebuild trust and confidence. Fielded among more than 1,200 European and U.S. consumers and 54 large corporate banking customers in April 2009, the survey finds that only nine percent of consumer respondents in Europe and the U.S. are currently confident in financial institutions.

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, May 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Wared Transport Provides Specialized Truckload Transportation Services

Wared Logistics, the world-class provider of logistics and transportation services for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, announces that it has secured significant new business for its Damascus, Syria-based Wared Transport (Specialized Truckload) operation. As a result of this new business, Wared Logistics has dramatically increased the size and capabilities of this operation.

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Major new customers for Wared Transport in Syria include Premco, a manufacturer of pre-cast concrete and steel beams, the Bahra Steel Company, and the United Arab Aluminum Company.

BETHESDA, Maryland, May 26 /PRNewswire/ --

New Health Sciences Inc. (NHSi) has won a two-year award of US$1.9 million from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a groundbreaking blood-storage system.

The project aims to develop the Hemanext Anaerobic Storage Platform, which delivers higher quality blood for transfusion therapy and extends the shelf life of blood for transfusion.

NHSi has demonstrated that this new technology can deliver higher-quality, more physiologic blood, with an improved capacity to deliver oxygen and more deformable red blood cells for better capillary perfusion, and extend by 50 percent or more the shelf life of stored red blood cells.

BILLERICA, Massachusetts, May 26 /PRNewswire/ --

Businesses are drowning in a sea of audit log data from their IT systems, which must be tracked to mitigate the risks of security threats, legal exposure and regulatory compliance. Vertica is working with Italian IT security specialist, Integra, to offer these businesses the world's fastest log warehouse for managing never-ending volumes of audit data.

HAMBURG, Germany, May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The fact that successful viral advertising doesn't always have to come from the USA or England has been impressively demonstrated recently by the Hamburg ad agency GrabarzPartner for its client Bontrust. Two weeks ago the agency uploaded a 75-second spot for the investment consulting firm on the video sharing website YouTube. The lavishly produced film shows a world that is completely made of banknotes, and in which the Abraham Lincoln immortalized on dollar bills falls head over heels in love with a female banknote and fathers children with her. Ending: Make your money multiply with us.

SAN JOSE, California, May 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- maXTouch represents the market's most advanced Touchscreen Technology for Mobile Phones, Netbooks and other Electronic Devices

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today a new fully integrated capacitive touchscreen technology - maXTouch(TM) - providing touchscreen performance which significantly exceeds today's leading edge solutions. Atmel's patented capacitive touch technology combined with an optimized and touch-sensing enabled AVR(R) microcontroller provide unlimited touch capability, the fastest response times and the highest acquisition precision.