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The Bevo Media Exchange has built a tracking option for their users to track their campaigns without a redirection. This technology makes Bev Media's platform the fastest keyword tracker in the affiliate marketing space. The tracker is set up in a cloud environment, allowing it to handle unlimited amounts of traffic and reports stats faster than ever before. Technology, speed and user friendliness were the key factors in the development of the new Bevo Media Exchange. (PRWEB) April 26,...

The Bevo Media Exchange has introduced a comprehensive mobile tracking solution for the performance marketing industry. Not only does Bevo Media offer a solution to minimize click loss, but now Bevo Media users are able to breakdown exactly which carrier, phones and operating systems are converting for each tracking report. (PRWEB) April 23, 2012 The Bevo Media Exchange has introduced a comprehensive mobile tracking solution to the performance marketing industry. The goal during...

AUSTIN, Texas, April 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital identity experts from Verizon Enterprise Solutions will present at ID360: The Global Forum on Identity, a conference sponsored by The Identity Center at the University of Texas at Austin, April 23-24. Dr. Peter Tippett, Verizon's vice president of enterprise innovation and the company's health IT practice group, will deliver the conference's opening keynote address, and Paul Donfried, Verizon managing director of identity...

PITTSBURGH, April 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Works by famed industrial landscape artist Aaron Gorson are visual reminders of the 1940s, when Pittsburgh was the nation's steelmaking center. Surprisingly, new research from Carnegie Mellon University shows that today's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are as low as those of that gritty decade. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20020422/CMULOGO ) CMU researchers recently published the first-ever study estimating long-term...

Seed size is controlled by small RNA molecules inherited from a plant's mother, a discovery from scientists at The University of Texas at Austin that has implications for agriculture and understanding plant evolution. "Crop seeds provide nearly 70 to 80 percent of calories and 60 to 70 percent of all proteins consumed by the human population," said Z. Jeff Chen, the D.J. Sibley Centennial Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics at The University of Texas at Austin. "Seed production is...

Study suggests that racial quotas for college admissions remain the most efficient way to diversify campuses Changes to college admission policies in Texas have been detrimental to Hispanics, according to Dr. Angel Harris and Dr. Maria Tienda from Princeton University in the US. Their work shows that despite popular claims that the “top 10 percent law” has restored diversity to Texas'  flagship universities, Hispanics are more disadvantaged relative to whites under this policy. The...

LOS ANGELES, April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Calvin Berman of Beverly Hills, California, will be honored Sunday, April 15, 2012, by The University of Texas at Austin College of Communication's annual Honors Day Convocation. "Each year, the College of Communication recognizes college and distinguished scholars and recipients of college-wide scholarship awards at the Honors Day Ceremony," says a University website dedicated to the event, which is set to take place at The Frank Erwin...

AUSTIN, Texas, April 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Texas Book Festival's board chairman, Ron Weiss, announced today that Lidia Agraz has been named its Executive Director. Agraz will be the fourth executive director to lead the non-profit since its founding in 1995. "The Texas Book Festival Board of Directors is thrilled to have Lidia Agraz become a part of the Texas Book Festival as the new Executive Director," said Ron Weiss. "Bringing more than 15 years of executive level...

AUSTIN, Texas, April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Community business leaders can access the knowledge and experience of ten internationally acclaimed leaders by attending the 2012 Chick-fil-A Leadercast: "The Choices You Make Define the Leader You Become" at The University of Texas at Austin on May 4, 2012. NFL quarterback Tim Tebow, CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien and best-selling author John Maxwell are among the featured speakers during this one-day leadership training event being broadcast...

Chemists from the University of Texas at Austin have developed a new origami-inspired paper sensor that can reportedly test for malaria, HIV, and other diseases and costs less than a dime per unit. According to Gizmag reporter Ben Coxworth, the device is known as the origami Paper Analytical Device (oPAD) and was invented by university researchers Hong Liu and Richard Crooks. The oPAD is folded together by the user and was inspired by both the traditional Japanese art of paper folding and...