PHILADELPHIA and DUBLIN, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY) the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announces results for the three months to March 31, 2009.

Financial Highlights

Q1 2009 (1) Product sales $756 million +20% Product sales (excluding ADDERALL XR) $460 million +24% Product sales growth (excluding ADDERALL XR) at constant exchange rates (2) +32% Non GAAP operating income $327 million +70% US GAAP operating income $226 million +39% Non GAAP diluted earnings per ADS $1.28 +73% US GAAP diluted earnings per ADS $1.16 +70% Cash provided by operating activities $184 million +180%

(1) Figures compare Q1 2009 results with the same period in 2008.

GENEVA and REDMOND, Washington, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- WISeKey today announced its partnership with Microsoft to deploy its Identity Semantics Suite with Microsoft's Citizen Services Platform (CSP). The combination makes it easy for local, regional and national governments to deal with the complexity of identity systems and identity credentials that they are or will be required to accept as part of, for example, the European Services Directive (requiring a one-stop-shop treatment for businesses through electronic means). Citizens and enterprises will be able to use existing or new electronic identity credentials that are legally accepted, to transact across borders with governments.

PARIS and NEW DELHI, April 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- JV Will Manage Airtel's Migration to Next Generation Networks (NGN) to Offer Advanced Services Like High-Speed Internet, Triple Play, Media-Rich VAS, MPLS, VPN for Both Retail and Business Customers

- First Managed Services Partnership for Broadband and Telephone Services in India

AMSTERDAM, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- SynCo Bio Partners B.V. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), the cGMP manufacturer of clinical and commercial biopharmaceuticals, has won the Vaccine Industry Excellence (ViE) award for Best Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) 2009. This award was presented to SynCo at the Washington World Vaccine Congress on the 22nd of April and is a recognition of the excellent work by SynCo's scientists and manufacturing staff on behalf of its clients over the last 9 years.

SynCo was nominated by a panel of judges from the industry and selected over 5 other finalists in the Best CMO category, according to a wide range of criteria including:

TOKYO and HSIN-CHU, Taiwan, April 30 /PRNewswire/ --

Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced that they will collaborate on leading-edge process technology production for the manufacturing of Fujitsu Microelectronics' products. Under an agreement between the companies, Fujitsu Microelectronics will expand its 40-nanometer generation logic IC business with production at TSMC's fabs.

LUXEMBOURG, April 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- EU Compliance Power Pack

MACH, the leading provider of solutions to simplify and accelerate the creation and operation of the mobility supply chain, today announced its EU Compliance Power Pack, a range of solutions which offset the impact on operator roaming revenues of the recent EU pricing regulations.

DARESBURY, England, April 30 /PRNewswire/ --

Vesternet has developed two core products: Zigbox - a compact ZigBee Ethernet gateway Zigbytes - a web-based user interface

Together they form the backbone of any network: Zigbox gathers sensor data... Zigbytes presents it online.

Users can then plug-in multi-vendor ZigBee sensors to build up their own unique solution. These could be power sockets, thermostats, door sensors, appliances and more.

ASCOT, England, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Talent FQ(TM) is a free, new and innovative web-based assessment that enables organisations to determine how capable their management population are in giving performance enhancing and developmental feedback.

Using our Talent Spotter(R) assessment technology, users are asked to face a number of challenging feedback situations and to identify effective and ineffective strategies from those given. Debbie Hance, Head of Business Psychology at Head Light Communications says 'we have identified and profiled the underpinning competences possessed by those who are very skilled at giving feedback. This has enabled us to construct an assessment with solid and evidence-based foundations'.

Many people, perhaps most, hate the idea that life might depend on chance processes. It is a human tendency to search for meaning, and what could be more meaningful than the belief that our lives have a greater purpose, that all life in fact is guided by a supreme intelligence which manifests itself even at the level of individual molecules? 

A previously unknown, large impact basin has been discovered by the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft during its second flyby of Mercury in October 2008. The impact basin, now named Rembrandt, more than 700 kilometers (430 miles) in diameter.

If the Rembrandt basin had formed on the east coast of the United States, it would span the distance between Washington, D.C., and Boston.