COSTA MESA, California, October 8 /PRNewswire/ --

Tickets.com, a leading worldwide provider of integrated ticketing solutions, has launched ProVenue(R), its new, innovative full-service ticketing platform. Developed and rigorously tested by Tickets.com, ProVenue is a turnkey solution and the industry's most technologically advanced and sophisticated ticketing services product. It officially went live on September 13, 2008, flawlessly enabling the inaugural on-sale day for fifteen major shows comprising the opening season of the newly renovated Wellmont Theatre in Montclair, NJ.

PARIS, October 8 /PRNewswire/ -- After 9 months of intensive beta testing using a pool of 9,000 servers created by over 4,000 individual customers, Gandi.net, the largest ICANN-accredited registrar in France, announces the grand opening of its unparalleled hosting service.

ZUG, Switzerland, October 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Naspers - Acquisition of the Auction Web Site vatera.hu

MIH Internet Europe is pleased to announce its acquisition of vatera.hu, Hungary's leading auction Web site. MIH Internet Europe, a subsidiary of the South African print and online media company Naspers (JSE: NPN) now holds 100% of the share capital of vatera.hu.

LANCASTER, England, October 8 /PRNewswire/ -- A new survey has found that 83 percent of businesses believe their websites are failing to convert enough visitor traffic into actual sales or enquiries, report online consultancy Backbone IT Group.

In a poll of one hundred UK companies, only 15 percent expressed a high level of satisfaction with the amount of business being generated by their websites. Companies also feared that less than half of potential online sales were currently being achieved.

The survey, carried out by Backbone IT Group with assistance from Lancaster University, also highlights a lack of awareness in the wider business community of some of the more recent online marketing practices.

LONDON, October 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Schools are responsible for looking after their students. It is a teacher's job to zip up coats, wipe away tears, and teach children the things they need to know. There are procedures in place to make sure that students are looked after while they are under the school's care, but what about a student's personal data? Are British Schools keeping their students' data safe?

LONDON, October 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Majority of Men Prefer the Boyish Figure of Keira Knightley to the Over-Enhanced Curves of Pamela Anderson.

With the average bra-size now ballooning from a 34B (Anna Kournikova) ten years ago to a 34E (Kelly Brook) in 2008*, you'd think that most single men would be in seventh heaven - but not so according to a new survey by PARSHIP.com Europe's largest serious online matchmaking service. When it comes to relationships, 31% of single men would prefer not to try getting closer to a busty woman, so anything above a "D" cup will reduce a woman's chances of finding a partner by as much as a third.