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Department of the Interior Awards $53M Contract to The IQ Business Group, Inc. for the Provision of an Enterprise Cloud-based Records/Content Management and Electronic Archiving Solution Washington, DC (PRWEB) June 21, 2012 The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) today awarded a $53 million contract to provide a Department-wide records management and electronic archiving solution—the Enterprise eArchive System (EES)—to The IQ Business Group, Inc....

HOUSTON, Minn., June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 175 seniors have graduated from three Minnesota K-12 online public schools over the last two weeks. To celebrate the students, the schools - Minnesota Virtual Academy, Insight School of Minnesota and iQ Academy Minnesota - distributed diplomas not through a virtual chat room, but at traditional, in-person graduation ceremonies. Many of the graduates have been accepted by colleges and universities from across the country....

As we grow up, traits such as height, weight and IQ are strongly influenced by the environment we live in, according to a new study that pits nature (genes) against nurture (environment). But the researchers, from King’s College London, said the strength of environmental factors, compared with influence of DNA, differs greatly across the country. To determine whether nature or nurture played a bigger role, Dr. Oliver Davis and colleagues studied 45 childhood characteristics in 6,759...

The extent to which our development is affected by nature or nurture – our genetic make-up or our environment – may differ depending on where we live, according to research funded by the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust. In a study published today in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, researchers from the Twins Early Development Study at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry studied data from over 6,700 families relating to 45 childhood characteristics, from IQ...

NEW YORK, June 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Capital IQ, a leading provider of multi-asset class data, research and analytics, today announced the integration of Standard & Poor's Credit Ratings within Xpressfeed, the firm's enterprise data feed management solution. Xpressfeed provides users access to qualitative and quantitative content from S&P Capital IQ, including public and private company information, S&P Indices, third-party content and now Standard &...

NEW YORK, June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TROW: $55) has been picked by S&P Capital IQ as its Focus Stock of the Week. TROW carries S&P Capital IQ's highest investment recommendation of 5-STARS, or Strong Buy. "The company has a solid reputation, along with a household-familiar brand name, low investment professional turnover, relatively stable and consistent management fees, and attractively priced products," said Sonia Parechanian, equity...

Brains that maintain healthy nerve connections as we age help keep us sharp in later life, new research funded by the charity Age UK has found. Older people with robust brain 'wiring' – that is, the nerve fibers that connect different, distant brain areas – can process information quickly and that this makes them generally smarter, the study suggests. According to the findings, joining distant parts of the brain together with better wiring improves mental performance, suggesting...

NEW YORK, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CVS Caremark Corporation (NYS: CVS: $44) has been picked by S&P Capital IQ as its Focus Stock of the Week. CVS carries S&P Capital IQ's highest investment recommendation of 5-STARS, or Strong Buy. "We believe CVS Caremark is well positioned to benefit as an operator of both one of the largest retail drugstore chains and one of the largest pharmacy benefit management (PBM) business in the U.S.," said Joseph Agnese, equity analyst at...

NEW YORK, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With an eye towards providing clients with a significant edge for enhancing their data infrastructure, S&P Capital IQ today announced the launch of its CRM Data Suite, a robust new data management tool powered by S&P Capital IQ's in-house award-winning data and records collection capabilities. The new CRM Data Suite enables master account level roll-ups, accumulation of ongoing business intelligence and, upon request, access to S&P...

NEW YORK, May 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In advance of Facebook Inc.'s highly anticipated initial public offering scheduled to take place next week, around Friday, May 18, S&P Capital IQ's Internet equity analyst, Scott Kessler, has written "Facebook Pre-IPO Report: Significant Growth, Significant Risks." "Among Facebook's many strengths are a well-established global brand, large and engaged constituencies, leadership in the social segment, and a strong balance sheet, to list a...