SAN FRANCISCO, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that it has been named a winner of Hitwise's Top 10 Award for the quarter ending September 2008. During this period, http://www.blinkx.com ranked 7th Web site in the Hitwise Entertainment-Multimedia industry category.

Each quarter, Hitwise, the leading online competitive intelligence service, awards the 10 most popular Web sites in over 160 Hitwise categories. Top 10 Web site Awards are based on popularity according to the market share of user visits a Web site receives compared to other Web sites in their industry during a specific period. blinkx's high traffic earned it a top spot on Hitwise's list for Web sites of its kind.

NOVATO, California, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

Raptor Pharmaceuticals Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: RPTP), today announced that senior management will present a corporate overview and clinical pipeline updates at two upcoming healthcare investor conferences:

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ATHENS, Greece, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Hiring Managers Share the Most Common Resume Mistakes and Offer Tips for Creating an Effective Resume

Is your resume more fact or fiction? While only 11 percent of workers in Greece admit they have lied on a resume, more than two-thirds (68 percent) of employers say they have caught a lie on a resume according to a new Kariera.gr survey of employers and workers in Greece. Of those employers who caught a lie, 42 percent automatically dismissed the applicant, 50 percent still considered the candidate, but did not hire him/her and only 7 percent went on to hire the candidate.

The most common lies Greek employers say they find on resumes include:

SAN FRANCISCO, California, October 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Herring Magazine announced today that Manthan Systems has been short listed forerunners of the Red Herring 100 Asia 2008 awards. The 100 winners will be announced at the Red Herring 100 Asia event in Hong Kong, on December 2-3, 2008.

The 200 finalists are based in 16 countries/regions including China, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Australia and Vietnam. The 200 finalists we selected from across 16 countries and regions are all excellent contenders, said Joel Dreyfuss, Editor-in-Chief of Red Herring. They are exceptional companies who thrive on innovation and strongly define the important role of technology in Asia's economy and throughout the world.

LONDON, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

LONDON, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

Unite the union is to ballot 176 members today (Wednesday) at French IT company Steria in Manchester and Skelmersdale, in a bid to prevent compulsory redundancies and the transfer of their work to India.

The workers, most of whom were outsourced from the Co-op's financial services arm to Steria in 2007, were told in the summer that a third of their IT support work for the Co-op was being off shored, with a loss of 90 jobs.

As too few workers volunteered for redundancy, Steria is now proposing to make over 30 workers from Arndale House in central Manchester compulsorily redundant.

LONDON, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Report Reveals the Positive Influence of Online and Offline Social Networking on Business

Business can become more resilient to the effects of economic downturn by introducing more networked working practices, according to a report published today by the think tank Demos.

The report, which was produced together with Orange, says that encouraging employees to build more relationships with colleagues across the company and utilising networking technology tools to build closer links with potential customers and partners, can help businesses become more adaptable to dealing with today's challenging economic climate.