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AUSTIN, Texas, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- HCB Health, one of the top 25 independent healthcare communications agencies in the U.S., has been selected by the Thyroid, Head and Neck Cancer (THANC) Foundation to create a specialized website for head and neck cancer patients and their families. THANC is the nation's largest private funder of research for these types of cancer. The HCB assignment centers on developing a website that will serve as a resource for patients, caregivers...

VANCOUVER, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Focus Ventures Ltd. (TSX-V: FCV.V) is pleased to announce that Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. (NYSE: BVN, "Buenaventura") and Focus have signed a binding Letter of Intent whereby Buenaventura will acquire Focus' remaining 25% interest and royalty in the Minas Chanca project for US$2.5 million. Additionally, Buenaventura will subscribe for 3.75 million common shares of Focus via a private placement at a price of CDN$0.40 per share,...

WALTHAM, Mass., April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanbolic®, a market leader in distributed data management, today announced support for System Center 2012. System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager is available today, and System Center Operations Manager and System Center Orchestrator support will be available by the end of Q2. Sanbolic Melio(TM) can be used both to manage storage for Windows Server Hyper-V, and to manage application data for physical or virtual Windows Server...

AUSTIN, Texas, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- VaraLogix® , the leading provider of automated application deployment, application management and configuration management - in one solution, today announced expanded support for application deployment to private clouds, public clouds and virtual environments. This latest release of their flagship product, VaraLogix Q, includes new, out-of-the-box functionality for dynamic resource creation and release with building blocks supporting...

ARLINGTON, Va., April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Workers in the private sector likely will see little or no change in the pace of annual wage growth in the coming months, according to the final first quarter Wage Trend Indicator(TM) (WTI) released today by Bloomberg BNA, a leading publisher of specialized news and information. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120110/DC33627LOGO) The index declined to 98.42 (second quarter 1976 = 100) from 98.56 in the...

BEIJING, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- New Oriental Education and Technology Group Inc. (the "Company" or "New Oriental") (NYSE: EDU), the largest provider of private educational services in China, today announced its unaudited financial results for the fiscal quarter ended February 29, 2012, which is the third quarter of New Oriental's fiscal year 2012. Highlights for the Third Fiscal Quarter Ended February 29, 2012 Total net revenues increased by 31.7%...

"The giant social networks have morphed into advertizing companies and data brokers. They track everything. Then, they sell and trade what they know about everyone -- like a commodity, no different from soy beans or silver," says UmeNow founder, Evelyn Castillo-Bach. Pembroke Pines, Fl (PRWEB) April 15, 2012 UmeNow is aggressively pursuing its Occupy Privacy campaign by promoting the message "Smart People Want it," referring to the services offered by UmeNow which include no...

Organizations play important role in efforts of employers to improve health care quality, safety, value, and health and well being of American population WASHINGTON, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Arizona Business Coalition on Health and the Greater Philadelphia Business Coalition on Health are the two newest members of the National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH), a non-profit, membership organization of 56 purchaser-led business and health coalitions,...

Listing (TSXV = LO Frankfurt = LE2A) ROUYN-NORANDA, QC, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - LOUNOR EXPLORATION INC. is pleased to announce the closing of a private placement for a total amount of CDN $62,000. The placement consists in 248,000 common shares at a price of $0.05 per share representing $12,400 and 826,666 flow-through shares at a price of $0.06 per share representing $49,600. Each share is accompanied of one half (½) of a share purchase warrant to subscribe for one...

Drivers and Monitors for Summerville's Dorchester District 2 Unite for Respect WASHINGTON, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- School bus drivers and monitors with Durham School Services in Summerville, S.C., have voted to join Teamsters Local 509, uniting for respect and fair treatment in their workplace. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100127/IBTLOGO) The 165 drivers and monitors, who transport school children for Dorchester County School District 2, were...