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TSX Venture Symbol:  CFL CALGARY, Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - CERF Incorporated ("CERF Inc.") is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement to purchase 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of TRAC Energy Services Ltd. ("TRAC"), a private oilfield equipment rental company based in Nisku, Alberta which also has offices in Calgary.  The purchase price for the acquisition is $17,813,300, subject to working capital and other normal closing adjustments, payable by...

TSX Venture Symbol: CFL CALGARY, April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - CERF Incorporated ("CERF"), is pleased to announce that on April 20, 2012, it completed the acquisition of all, or substantially all, of the assets used in the business of The Bin Company Inc. ("Bin Company") through CERF's wholly owned subsidiary, The Smart-Way Disposal & Recycling Company Ltd. ("Smart-Way").  Bin Company's business involves waste collection, reduction and disposal in and around the Edmonton,...

TSX Venture Symbol: CFL CALGARY, March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - The board of directors of CERF Incorporated ("CERF Inc.") announces that they have approved a cash dividend to the shareholders of $0.06 per share for the first quarter of 2012. This dividend, if continued on a quarterly basis for the remainder of 2012, represents $0.24 per share annualized. Payment will be made on or about April 13, 2012, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on March 31, 2012....

Vinton Gray “Vint” Cerf contends that internet access should be seen as a tool for human rights, not as a human right in and of itself. The internet has shown itself useful as a communication tool in recent history. Cerf says in his New York Times op ed, “From the streets of Tunis to Tahrir Square and beyond, protests around the world last year were built on the Internet and the many devices that interact with it.” The protesters got the word out to each other using Twitter or...

TSX Venture Symbol: CFL CALGARY, Dec. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - The board of directors of CERF Incorporated ("CERF Inc."), successor to Canadian Equipment Rental Fund Limited Partnership (the "Partnership" or "CERF LP"), announces that they have approved a cash dividend to the shareholders of $0.06 per share for the fourth quarter of 2011. This dividend plus the distributions of the processor Partnership represents $0.24 per share on an annualized basis. Payment will be made on or...

TSX Venture Symbol: CFL (formerly CLF. UN) CALGARY, Oct. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Further to its press release of August 30, 2011, Canadian Equipment Rental Fund Limited Partnership ("CERF LP") and CERF Incorporated ("CERF Inc.") announce the results of the special meeting of the holders ("Unitholders") of limited partnership units ("Units") of CERF LP to approve the plan of arrangement under Section 193 of the Business Corporations Act (Alberta) (the "Arrangement") with CERF GP Corp....

CALGARY, Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Canadian Equipment Rental Fund Limited Partnership ("CERF LP" or the "Partnership") (TSX Venture:  CFL.UN) announced today that it has entered into an arrangement agreement (the "Arrangement Agreement") with CERF GP Corp. (the "General Partner"), the general partner of CERF LP, and CERF Incorporated ("CERF Inc."), a wholly-owned subsidiary of CERF LP, relating to a proposed arrangement (the "Arrangement") under Section 193 of the Business...

TSX Venture Symbol: CFL.UN CALGARY, June 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Mr. Wayne Wadley, President of CERF GP Corp., the general partner of Canadian Equipment Rental Fund Limited Partnership ("CERF" or the "Partnership"), is pleased to announce the results for the three months ended March 31, 2011. Full details of the Partnership's results, in the form of the unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements and notes thereto for the three months ended March 31, 2011 and...

TSX Venture Symbol:  CFL.UN CALGARY, March 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - CERF GP Corp., the general partner of Canadian Equipment Rental Fund Limited Partnership ("CERF LP" or the "Partnership"), is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement for the purchase of 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of Maplethorpe Contractors Ltd. ("MCL") a private integrated waste management company based in Wetaskiwin, Alberta.  The purchase price for the acquisition is...

Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the web, said that the world will soon run out of Internet addresses, blaming himself for the coming shortfall of the some 4.3 billion addresses, the Sydney Morning Herald reported on Friday. "I thought it was an experiment and I thought that 4.3 billion would be enough to do an experiment," Cerf, who is Google's vice president and "Chief Internet Evangelist," was quoted as saying in an interview with the Australian news source. "Who the hell knew how...