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BOSTON, May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NFP Health & hCentive, Inc. announced today that Jeff Rich, CEO of NFP Health and Sanjay Singh, CEO of hCentive, will co-present a session titled 'How the Supreme Court Decision Will Impact Private Exchanges' at the AHIP Institute 2012 Exchange Conference in Salt Lake City, UT on June 20, 2012. NFP Health, a wholly-owned subsidiary of National Financial Partners Corp. (NYSE: NFP), a leading provider of benefits, insurance and wealth...

"CISPA outsources spying to American corporations and circumvents the 4th Amendment, which gives the people the right not to be searched in their persons, houses, papers, and effects without probable cause and a search warrant," stated Evelyn Castillo-Bach, Founder and CEO of UmeNow and known to her followers as Privacy Mom. Pembroke Pines, Fl (PRWEB) April 19, 2012 Evelyn Castillo-Bach, Founder and CEO of UmeNow, announced today, in conjunction with her Occupy Privacy...

SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Government, non-profit and private organizations celebrated Earth Day today by hosting a variety of beautification projects and recycling efforts across the Golden State. In Sacramento, representatives gathered at the State Capitol to announce their organizations' plans for the state as part of the 6th Annual Great American Cleanup(TM) campaign. Led by Keep California Beautiful (KCB), McDonald's, California Electronic Asset...

A new private space exploration company, backed by filmmaker/explorer James Cameron, is set to be unveiled Tuesday (April 24) at the Museum of Flight’s Charles Simonyi Space Gallery in Seattle, Washington, which will reveal a master plan to chart the future of space exploration. While details of the new company, called Planetary Resources, Inc., have been kept secret, officials familiar with the firm said that “the company will overlay two critical sectors — space exploration and...

The FBI's former head of cybersecurity, Shawn Henry, announced on Wednesday that he is joining CrowdStrike, a “stealth-mode security startup” that protects corporate customers targeted by hackers and foreign intelligence services. Henry will be President of CrowdStrike’s newly-formed services division, which will focus on assessing and responding to targeted threats to the intellectual property and trade secrets of major Western companies. Henry, who retired from the FBI last...

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A10 Networks(TM), the technology leader in Application Networking, today announced it has joined the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a nonprofit organization whose goal is to rethink networking and quickly and collaboratively bring to market standards and solutions. ONF's mission is to accelerate the delivery and use of SDN standards and foster a vibrant market of products, services, applications, customers and users. As an ONF...

Sponsors of the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) released the latest changes to their legislation this week, a move they hope will address the concerns of a coalition of civil liberties groups who have launched a “week of action” to protest the proposals. The bill, HR 3523, aims to broaden the means for communication between private companies and the federal government on issues of cybersecurity and national security, and gives authorities additional...

BATON ROUGE, La., April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gov. Bobby Jindal signed into law today an expansion of Louisiana's school voucher program, making it one of the largest such programs nationwide. Vouchers, which allow parents to use government funding for their children's private school tuition, were first proposed in 1955 by Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, who believed universally available vouchers were the best way to improve education. In 1990, the first voucher...

MILFORD, Mass., April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SeraCare Life Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: SRLS), a global life sciences company providing vital products and services to facilitate the discovery, development and production of human diagnostics and therapeutics, announced that, at a special meeting of shareholders held today, its shareholders voted to adopt the merger agreement with Project Plasma Holdings Corporation and Project Plasma Merger Corp., affiliates of Linden Capital Partners....

BOCA RATON, Fla., April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A $15 million club construction improvement plan commences at St. Andrews Country Club with the redesign of multiple areas including the clubhouse, two restaurants, main entry features and landscaping, and the recreation and aquatic center. The construction improvement plan is expected to take three phases of development with a target completion date of November 2014. A video of the club construction improvement plan is available at...