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Announcing the Formation of a New Commercial Finance Platform: FirstLight Financial Corporation
The doors open this week at the newly formed commercial finance business FirstLight Financial Corporation, based in Old Greenwich, Conn. 2007-04-05

BizWorld Launches New Monthly Advisory: Technology Transfer Tactics
Professionals and administrators concerned with the practical details of successfully implementing and growing technology transfer, research commercialization, and translational research will find helpful advice in the unique, new monthly newsletter, Technology Transfer Tactics (www.technologytransfertactics.com). 2007-04-05

Reply! Inc. Receives $6 Million in Series B Funding: New Cash Infusion Brings Total Investment to $23 Million
Reply!, Inc. (www.reply.com), the leading provider of life-stage relevant services for consumers and locally targeted performance-based marketing solutions, today announced that it has secured $6 million in additional funding. The new round of financing includes a major investment from Outlook Ventures, as well as new contributions from existing backer Scale Venture Partners (formerly BA Venture Partners), and board member Debi Coleman, the former Chief Financial Officer of Apple Computer who currently serves as Chairperson of the Reply! Audit Committee. The company also announced that Randy Haykin, Managing Director, Outlook Ventures, has joined the company's board of directors as well as one of Reply!'s founders John Truchard. Mr. Haykin has previously been involved in numerous consumer Internet companies, including: Yahoo!, Overture, eCircle, eTeamz/Active Network, and Digital Chocolate. 2007-04-05

Leading Online Tuition Resources Team Up To Make Comparing Student Loans Easier And More Accessible: TuitionCoach.com Partners With SimpleTuition.com To Aid Families In Comparing Student Loans
As part of an ongoing effort to assist families to "make sense" of the ever-complex college loan options, TuitionCoach, a personalized internet-based service that provides families with professional guidance through the financial aid process, and SimpleTuition, a company dedicated to helping students and parents make sense of education financing choices, announced today that they have entered into a strategic partnership to provide families with a simple-to-use online comparison tool, Compare Student Loans. 2007-04-05

Press Release Experts at EON Invite You to Comment: How Much Does It Cost to WRITE a Press Release? -- PR Pros Debate the Cost of Producing a Press Release in a Recent Blog Post
As issuers of thousands of press releases weekly, Business Wire and its web-only, social media platform EON (Enhanced Online News) are constantly quizzed about the costs of sending press releases, which start at $180 for a local distribution and go up for more extensive reach. 2007-04-05

New Compensation Approach for Cancer Care Using Pay for Performance Model Advocated Today in Lead Article in Cancer Journal Oncology Issues: Los Angeles-based Aptium Oncology outlines novel strategy for policy makers as healthcare industry grapples with pay for performance compensation structure for oncology services Oncology represents the last frontier for pay for performance advocates
A novel strategy to pay for the costs of cancer care using a pay for performance compensation model, is profiled today in the lead article of the March/April edition of Oncology Issues, the journal of the Association of Community Cancer Centers. 2007-04-05

Technology Transfer Firm, Innovation Management Partners LLC, and Software Developer Scio Systems Ltd. Create Strategic Alliance to Accelerate the Pace of Contract Management Innovation: Technology Transfer Specialist Assists Commercialization of Leading Edge Contract Management Software Technology
Innovation Management Partners, LLC, a technology transfer specialist who assists organizations to grow by sourcing new technologies and intellectual property, and contract management software developer Scio Systems Ltd. announced today that they have entered into a strategic alliance agreement. Under this agreement, Innovation Management Partners will assist Scio to bring its sophisticated contract management software to market by raising operating capital and providing marketing and advisory services. 2007-04-05