CARLSBAD, California, April 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- PREPARES FOR LAUNCH OF 'NEST-3' ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE CLINICAL TRIAL

PhotoThera, Inc., the developer of transcranial laser therapy (TLT) designed for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke within 24 hours of stroke onset, announced today that it has closed a US$50 million Series D round of financing led by Warburg Pincus, a leading global private equity firm, to fund a planned follow-on phase III 'NEST-3' (NeuroThera(R) Effectiveness and Safety Trial) clinical study. The Company previously announced that NEST-3 would build upon the results of its NEST-2 trial, which revealed a statistically significant treatment effect for patients with moderate to moderately severe ischemic strokes using a post-hoc data analysis.

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ALLEROED, Denmark, April 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- Completed-Scans-Per-Hour Specification Exemplifies Best-in-Class

Contex - the world's leading wide format scanner manufacturer -announced today the inclusion of a new standard for measuring the productivity of its Contex and Vidar award-winning scanners. This new standard measures productivity by number of completed scans in a specified period of time. While inches-per-second is still the accepted standard for large format scanners, many scanner users appreciate a more practical measurement regarding the scanner's productivity. Contex's completed-scans-per-hour provides a more accurate representation of scanner speed and productivity.

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BIRMINGHAM, England, April 30 /PRNewswire/ --

Providing an international panel of speakers, the IFSEC Conference hosts timely debate and provides practical solutions to the most critical challenges facing security professionals in uncertain times.

Taking place alongside the annual IFSEC exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham on 11-13 May, the modular conference provides 9 bundles of information, helping delegates to focus on their specific interest areas.

SANTA CLARA, California, April 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- EDN Hosting 'Designing with LEDs Workshop 2009' in Santa Clara

California Micro Devices (Nasdaq: CAMD) will be showcasing its innovative LuxGuard(TM) family of total turnkey solutions for ESD (electrostatic discharge) protection and thermal management for high power, ultra high brightness LED (light emitting diode) lighting applications at EDN's Designing with LEDs Workshop 2009 in Santa Clara, California, on April 30. A pioneer in the development of ESD protection circuits for high power ultra high brightness (UHB) LED applications, CMD has shipped more than 300 million units to customers since 2001.

LuxGuard Protection for UHB LEDs

ATLANTA, April 30 /PRNewswire/ --

Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN), a leading provider of electronic transaction processing solutions, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of ZAO United Card Service (UCS) in a stock purchase transaction. Under the terms of the agreement, Global Payments will pay a total of US$75 million in cash to acquire UCS.

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Global Payments' Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Paul R. Garcia said, Russia continues to be one of the world's fastest growing payments markets. UCS provides us with a direct merchant acquiring platform for long-term growth in Russia and a foundation for other direct acquiring opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe.

TEL AVIV, Israel, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Zohar Zisapel announced today that he is commencing today a tender offer to purchase 5.0% of the outstanding ordinary shares of RADVISION Ltd. (Nasdaq: RVSN) (currently, 971,394 RADVISION shares) for $6.30 per share, net to the seller in cash, less any required withholding taxes and without interest. In the event that more than the maximum number of shares offered to be purchased in the tender offer are tendered, Mr. Zisapel will purchase shares on a pro rata basis.

Arrayit Corporation, a manufacturer of products and services for disease prevention, treatment and cure, announced today that it is developing a microarray-based diagnostic test to detect the H1N1 swine flu virus.

The Arrayit test will allow researchers and clinicians to detect the presence of the virus in infected patients and livestock and to distinguish the threatening mutated strain from less harmful variants in humans and swine. Using its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, Arrayit plans to begin mass production of its test kits over the next several weeks.

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.