DALLAS, October 21 /PRNewswire/ --

Texert, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise risk management (ERM) solutions for global customers, announced that it has secured a three million dollar Series A investment from New Venture Partners LLC that will be used for product development, expanding sales and marketing efforts, and launching the company's go-to-market strategy. In conjunction with this investment, Daniel Deeney and Harry Berry, partners at New Venture Partners, will join Texert's Board of Directors.

SUNNYVALE, California, October 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Non-surgical intervention cures 96% of patients with advanced esophagus condition

READING, England, October 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- T-Impact to Propel Transition to Visual Orchestration Systems for SOA Application Development in UK Enterprises

Active Endpoints, Inc. (www.activevos.com), the inventor of visual orchestration systems (VOS), today announced that it has appointed Reading- based CRM and billing business integrator T-Impact (www.t-impact.com) as its UK reseller. T-Impact will use ActiveVOS in its expanding services-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) consulting engagements to deliver to its telecommunications, retail and banking clients cost-effective business process orchestrations which maximise investments in legacy applications.

HALIFAX, Canada, October 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Proving Bigger Really is Better

Ocean Nutrition Canada Limited (ONC), supplier of MEG-3(R) brand Omega-3 EPA/DHA from fish oil to the food and dietary supplement industries is pleased to announce their capacity expansion. The US$19 million investment secures ONC's position as the largest fish oil manufacturer in the world.

The expansion of their world class molecular distillation plant in Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, Canada means a 100% increase in MEG-3(R) concentrate capacity. Through their joint venture collaboration with Alicorp Corporation in Peru, to build a second fish oil manufacturing plant, they have realized a 200% capacity increase in their MEG-3(R) 30% fish oil.

SANDVIKA, Norway, October 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- REC has entered into a long-term take-or-pay agreement for the supply of fine particulate silicon - or 'silicon powder' - from the FBR-process. The contract has a value in excess of USD 500 million (~NOK 2.9 billion).

REC has entered into a long-term take-or-pay agreement with a PV-company based in Asia for the supply of fine particulate silicon from the FBR-process, so-called silicon powder. Silicon powder has traditionally had low or negative value, due to storage and land-filling requirements. REC has developed technology to capture and package these fine silicon materials, which opens valuable commercial opportunities.

BEND, Oregon, October 20 /PRNewswire/ --

Bend Research Inc. announced today that it will independently offer unique drug-delivery expertise and technologies to outside firms in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

Bend Research will continue its 23-year collaboration with Pfizer but will also be free to work with outside firms using proprietary technologies developed jointly by the two firms.

These technologies include the spray-dried dispersion (SDD) technology (which increases the oral bioavailability of low-solubility compounds), controlled-release, multiparticulate, and pulmonary delivery platforms.

MANCHESTER, England, October 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Kooth, the pioneering advice and support service for 11-25 year olds, received the Local Government IT Excellence Award for Service Transformation at the Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm) Annual Conference last week in Newport.

The Kooth service helps vulnerable young people deal with a wide range of problems from alcohol and drug misuse through to bullying and depression. The free, confidential and anonymous service is staffed by a team of specially trained counsellors and advice workers, who also fully moderate the site checking the suitability of all the user-created content to make sure Kooth.com remains a safe site for young people to use.

AMSTERDAM, October 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Permanent Growth of DKV Leads to Professional Risk Management

- Overdue Payments Automatically Redirected to Atradius

- All Debts in Europe are Insured Against Insolvency

Atradius Collections, a business unit of credit insurer Atradius, provides DKV, market leader in Europe of international service cards in transports, with an international and automated debt collections system. DKV has installed an integrated order to cash solution, where all invoices more than 90 days overdue are subcontracted automatically to Atradius Collections. To manage the customer default risk DKV has insured the pan European portfolio with Atradius Credit Insurance.

NEW YORK, October 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Empowering Brands to Target Connect directly to over 450 Million consumers via P2P by Leveraging 45 Billion P2P searches a month

Brand Asset Digital announces the public beta of the world's first and only Search Engine Marketing platform for P2P Search called P2Pwords(TM). The platform, which is the first pay-per-click for P2P Search, gives top advertisers the unique ability to target and connect their branded content directly to consumers via P2P Search.