FM Global Study Reveals Most Large Companies Exposed to Natural Disasters but Many Underprepared : 2008 Natural Disaster Business Risk Study findings uncover potential business oversights   A new survey of financial executives representing the largest corporations in North America reveals almost all companies are exposed to natural disasters, yet many of those firms are not well-prepared for such catastrophes and are not overly concerned about the potential business impact. 2008-08-06

eBillme™ and Forrester Research to Host a Webinar on the Current State of the Economyfor Online Retail : Leading Forrester Retail Analyst, Sucharita Mulpuru, will discuss the impact of the economy on eCommerce and the opportunity for merchants to capture sales with cash payments   Today eBillme, the alternative payment provider that brings online banking to the eCommerce checkout, has announced that it will host an industry Webinar featuring Forrester Research Retail Analyst, Sucharita Mulpuru, who will discuss the opportunity offered by alternative cash payments for eCommerce checkout, with timely analysis based on the current economic downturn. The Webinar, which will be held on Tuesday, August 26, at 1:00 p.m. EST, is an opportunity for merchants and industry executives to receive a leading analyst’s report of the current state of the industry, and to learn about the role of alternative payment options for retailers to capture sales during today’s economic climate. 2008-08-06

Toshiba and Orange County Innovation Seek Entries for Green Innovation Award : Local Companies and Organizations Encouraged to Enter Products and Activities for 2nd Annual Green Innovation Award   A leader in creating innovative mobile computing technologies, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., Digital Products Division, along with Orange County Innovation (OCI), today announced its open call for submissions for the 2nd annual Toshiba Green Innovation Award in Orange County. Held in conjunction with the 2008 Innovation and Globalization in Green conference, the Toshiba Green Innovation Award recognizes Orange County-based businesses, institutions and organizations for their “green” products, services, technologies, processes, or activities, based on their innovative commitment to the environment. 2008-08-06

Blue Earth Solutions Announces New Foam Recycling Contract   Blue Earth Solutions, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BESN) Receives contract from WM Recycle America, L.L.C. a division of Waste Management (NYSE: WMI) the largest waste company in the United States. This contract is a one location pilot program where WM Recycle America will send all foam to Blue Earth Solutions. 2008-08-06

Close the Educational Opportunity Gap for College-Bound Foster Youth   It is back-to-school time and many young people are saying goodbye to their families and heading off to college. Others, however, are making the journey alone: thousands of foster care teens who have “aged out” of the system. For many of these youth, education has been the one promising constant in their lives – and now, at the threshold of adulthood, it is a struggle to find financial and emotional support to sustain their educational and career goals. 2008-08-06

Steven Anello of CFA Capital Partners 'CFA' On the Challenge of Closing a Multimillion Dollar Mezzanine Loan In 9 Business Days   A leading developer of office buildings in Manhattan needed $6.2 million for the closing of his next venture. The challenge: he needed it in less than 2 weeks. A massive multimillion dollar prepayment penalty prevented the implementation of a recorded mortgage. With time running out and money hard in escrow, the deal had to close on time to avoid the potential loss of over $2 million. CFA Capital Partners was contacted with 11 business days remaining until the expiration of the contract. 2008-08-06

Fathead® Launches Direct to Young Consumers New Product Category with NFL : Fathead Tradeables® Hits Retail as Back to School MUST HAVE in 2008   Fathead®, the fast-growing sports and entertainment brand best-known for its official life-size images of NFL players, helmets and logo wall graphics, unveils direct to retail, a new product category, Fathead Tradeables™. Always innovating, Fathead® now offers fans something else to get excited about, Fathead Tradeables™ are a 5x7 inch variation of the originals and will feature NFL athletes and helmets from the Real.Big. Fathead® roster along with additional NFL players not featured in the Real.Big. line. Fathead is expanding its dominance of more than just walls. Fathead Tradeables debuted at the Pro Football Hall of Fame this weekend to frenzied fan reaction. 2008-08-06

Dell Helps Customers Manage the Data Explosion with Microsoft SQL Server 2008   Dell continues its long-standing work with Microsoft on the release to manufacture of Microsoft SQL Server 2008. SQL Server 2008 delivers a complete data platform that is designed to help customers maximize the benefit of the next generation of data-driven applications. Following a successful free beta offering of SQL Server 2008 earlier this year through Maximum ASP, a provider of infrastructure and hosting services for Microsoft solutions, Dell will soon be selling SQL Server 2008 as a worldwide OEM provider via Dell Software and Peripherals and select OEM channels. In addition, the free trial supported by Maximum ASP www.sqlserverbeta.com will remain available to customers for several more months to assist with the adoption and integration of SQL Server 2008. 2008-08-06

PURE Receives Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) from A.M. Best : High Net Worth Insurer Demonstrates Solid Financial Strength   Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (PURE) today announced it has received a financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) from A.M. Best Company, a global leading insurance company rating organization. PURE provides coverage for high value homes and other personal insurance needs of successful individuals and families. As a reciprocal insurer, PURE is owned by its policyholders (members). 2008-08-06

Storm Exchange Releases Early Autumn 2008 Weather Risk Outlook : Cool Autumn Weather to Boost Retail Sales; Corn Yield to Remain Below Average; Energy Prices Subject to Increased Volatility; Likelihood of Above Average U.S. Hurricane Season Now 92%   Storm Exchange, Inc., a market leader in weather-risk management services, today released its Early Autumn 2008 Weather Risk Outlook, a 90-day projection of the impacts of the weather on businesses in the agriculture, retail and energy industries. Based on a combination of atmospheric climate trends, advanced computer-driven seasonal prediction models and analog forecasts, the Storm Exchange Early Autumn 2008 Weather Risk Outlook provides businesses with statistical probabilities of adverse weather conditions on a regional basis. 2008-08-06

MyBizHomepage Launches New Platform to Help Small Businesses : New Features Include Web 2.0 Technology, Email and Cell Phone Notifications of Cash Status   MyBizHomepage (www.MyBizHomepage.com)—a web-based small business—today launched a new free online financial tool that will enable entrepreneurs and other small businesses to view their QuickBooks data on an easy-to-read dashboard. 2008-08-06

Toyota Sequoia Takes Top Spot in 2008 Motorist Choice Awards : - Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge Brands off Winners List since 2006 -
SOURCE INTERLINK MEDIA’s (NYSE:SORC) IntelliChoice.com, the online source for automotive ownership cost and value analysis, and AutoPacific, the industry source for owner satisfaction rankings, today announced the results of their third annual Motorist Choice Awards for model year 2008. With better than expected insurance costs, the Toyota Sequoia scored highest of any vehicle, a position bolstered by its standing as best in ownership costs and best in retained value. Most surprisingly, this year’s list of winners does not include vehicles from Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge or Mini Cooper. 2008-08-06

Free Seminar on Internet and Telephone Entry Requirements Offered by ACH Direct and UMACHA to be Held August 12   The sixth in a series of free webinars on automated clearing house (ACH) topics, hosted by ACH Direct and the Upper Midwest ACH Association (UMACHA), is scheduled for Tuesday, August 12, on “WEB and TEL Entries.” 2008-08-06

Dr. Robert N. Butler Appointed to Board of Directors of BioTime, Inc.   BioTime, Inc. (OTCBB:BTIM) announced today that Robert N. Butler, M.D., has been elected to BioTime’s Board of Directors. Dr. Butler is the founder, Chief Executive Officer, and President of the International Longevity Center-USA, a non-profit international research, policy, and education organization formed to educate individuals on how to live longer and better, and advise society on how to maximize the benefits of today's age boom. Dr. Butler received his B.A. degree from Columbia College in 1949 and a M.D. Degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in 1952. He was the founding director of the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health, and from 1975-1982 he led that institute educating the nation about the need for innovative therapies for Alzheimer’s disease. At the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, he founded the nation’s first department of geriatrics where he is Professor of Geriatrics and Adult Development. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and of the National Academy of Social Insurance. He was a member of the Physician Payment Review Commission, an agency of the U.S. Congress, from 1986-89. He is a founding Fellow of the American Geriatrics Society and vice chairman of the Alliance for Aging Research. He served as Chair, Advisory Committee, 1995, for the White House Conference on Aging. He was a member of the Advisory Committee for the Project on Death in America by the Open Society Institute. He has been a consultant to the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, the Commonwealth Fund, the Brookdale Foundation, the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation and numerous other organizations. He has served on the National Advisory Committees of the Physicians for Human Rights, the National Women's Health Resource Center and the Mildred and Claude Pepper Foundation, among other organizations. He also served as medical editor-in-chief of Geriatrics, a journal for primary care physicians, for 14 years and has authored approximately 300 scientific and medical articles. Dr. Butler won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Why Survive? Being Old in America. His latest book is The Longevity Revolution. 2008-08-06

KLA-Tencor Declares Regular Cash Dividend for First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2009   KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ:KLAC) today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.15 per share on its common stock payable on September 2, 2008 to KLA-Tencor stockholders of record as of the close of business on August 18, 2008. 2008-08-06

Families Scramble to Fill the 'Gap' to Cover Fall College Costs : Good Credit Matters Now More than Ever   The first tuition bill is due any day now at most colleges and universities. As the market crunch continues to impact the student loan financing market, families are scrambling now more than ever to find the funds to cover the fall semester bill. For example, the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority (MEFA) recently announced that they will no longer offer loans of any kind – affecting more than 40,000 Massachusetts families. 2008-08-06

Close the Educational Opportunity Gap for College-Bound Foster Youth   It is back-to-school time and many young people are saying goodbye to their families and heading off to college. Others, however, are making the journey alone: thousands of foster care teens who have “aged out” of the system. For many of these youth, education has been the one promising constant in their lives – and now, at the threshold of adulthood, it is a struggle to find financial and emotional support to sustain their educational and career goals. 2008-08-06

Bruker AXS Microanalysis To Introduce New EBSD System at M&M 2008   Bruker AXS Microanalysis announced today that it plans to introduce its new QUANTAX CrystAlignTM system for SEM-based crystallographic analysis via electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) at the Microscopy and Microanalysis (M&M) 2008 Annual Meeting, starting on August 4, 2008 in Albuquerque, NM (USA). The CrystAlign system consists of an ultra-fast EBSD detector and powerful, yet easy-to-use EBSD analysis software that is seamlessly integrated with Bruker’s EDS software ESPRIT™. The combination of EBSD with Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) offers more comprehensive materials characterization capabilities in Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM) for a broad range of applications on metals, ceramics and geological samples. 2008-08-05

Finicity Pairs Mvelopes Money Management with Online Community and Money Trends Analysis : New site highlights the "Top 10 States where Household Spending has Decreased most during the Economic Downturn"   James Ooltewah nearly became a statistic to what experts say is the leading cause of divorce – fighting over finances. 2008-08-05

Flypaper Studio, Inc. Closes $3.5 Million in Venture Capital Funding : Company Will Use Funding to Expand Product Offering and Accelerate Marketing Activities Behind Popular Rich Media Application   Flypaper Studio, Inc., an innovator of rich media content creation software, today announces the company has closed $3.5 million in funding. The venture capital round comes from Sierra Ventures of Menlo Park, California, and SCF Arizona of Phoenix, Arizona. Both companies contributed to Flypaper Studios’ first round of funding, completed in February 2008, in the total amount of $3 million. 2008-08-05

SportsLine Founder Brings Online Sports Entertainment to the Open Era with the Launch of Open Sports : OPEN Sports Puts the Ball in Sports Fans' Court with Opportunity to Participate in the Design of the World's Best Sports Destination   Mike Levy, founder of CBS SportsLine.com, announced today the launch of OPENSports.com, a next-generation sports site that will re-define the sports fan's entertainment experience. OPENSports.com launched in BETA with the first set of tools and content for the 2008 NFL season. The site is a comprehensive platform of products and services that brings together breaking sports news, social media tools, user generated content and multimedia applications to create the ultimate community-oriented destination. 2008-08-05

How Wholesalers/Distributors Are Increasing Cash Flow & Reducing Taxes   If you’re a wholesaler, distributor or a company that has substantial inventory, you can improve cash flow by reducing the cost of your closing inventory value. 2008-08-05

Search Engine Strategies Names 43 Search Engine Marketers as Finalists for SEM Conference's First Annual SES Awards : 16 Winners Will Be Announced Throughout SES San Jose During Orion and Keynote Panels and Will Be Recognized in SES Awards Showcase on Search Engine Watch   Search Engine Strategies today named 43 search engine marketers as finalists for the SEM conference’s first annual SES Awards. The 16 winners will be announced throughout SES San Jose during Orion and keynote panels, which are being held August 18-21 at the San Jose Convention Center. The winners will also be recognized in an SES Awards Showcase on Search Engine Watch. 2008-08-05

Webroot Enhances Security SaaS to Combat E-Mail Spam Backscatter : Latest Release of Webroot® E-Mail Security SaaS Provides Protection Against Bounce Back Messages Generated by Spammers   Webroot, a leading provider of security software for the consumer, enterprise and SMB markets, today announced the latest release of Webroot® E-mail Security SaaS which features advanced protection against the growing threat of e-mail “backscatter.” A side effect of spam, viruses and worms, backscatter occurs when a spammer spoofs a legitimate e-mail address to send an unsolicited message to large distribution lists, causing the e-mail server to flood an unsuspecting e-mail address owner’s mailbox with hundreds or thousands of failed delivery messages or bounce backs. 2008-08-05