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BOSTON, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ — Aquent’s On Demand division, a provider of web-based tools for creative and marketing professionals, has released a new website for its industry-leading marketing project management solution, RoboHead.
“We know people’s time is valuable and want to respect that when they visit our site,” said Patrick Campbell, vice president of Aquent’s On [...]

(Reuters) – Tiger Woods finished strongly at the Barclays tournament Sunday, a four-under 67 clinching a spot in the second FedExCup series event next week.
The world number one, yet to win this season, had to be in the top 50 to remain in the lucrative playoffs and qualified with ease as he closed with a [...]

PARIS, Aug. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Sanofi-aventis (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) announced today that it has submitted a non-binding proposal to acquire Genzyme (Nasdaq: GENZ) in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $18.5 billion.
Under the terms of the proposed acquisition, Genzyme shareholders would receive $69 per Genzyme share in cash, representing a 38% premium over [...]

SAN CARLOS, Calif.–(Business Wire)–
MarkLogic® Corporation, the company revolutionizing the way organizations
leverage unstructured information, today announced that John Pomeroy has joined
the company as vice president, Europe. Pomeroy brings more than 20 years of
sales experience to MarkLogic, with expertise in building the European presence
of U.S. software companies.
Pomeroy joined MarkLogic from the Sword Group, where he served [...]

BEIJING, June 3 (Reuters) – A Chinese-born Australian activist, who changed his name to get round a ban on his return, has been missing for more than a day after making a one-man protest in Shanghai, a campaign organiser said on Thursday.
Zhang Xiaogang, originally from China’s southern province of Guangdong, is a computer engineer who [...]

London, September 20 (ANI): Spreading altruism through social networks can make people across the world kind to one another, says an expert.

Nicholas Christakis, of Harvard Medical School in Boston, has observed in a study that one’s kindness can turn a friend kind to someone else he/she knows.

To demonstrate this, Christakis designed a cooperation game [...]

London, Sep 14 (ANI): Britons keep almost 90 million unused phone handsets at home after they upgrade to new models, according to a countrywide survey.

The research revealed that 52 per cent keep unused phones at home in case a current handset is stolen, lost or broken.

In fact, more than two third Britons (68 per cent) [...]

London, Aug 31 (ANI): British scientists have developed a novel pill that would provide natural heart-protecting benefits of a Mediterranean diet.

Ateronon is believed to be the world’s first compound to provide the natural heart-protecting antioxidant properties of the Mediterranean diet in a form that can be reliably absorbed by the human body.

Doctors from Cambridge [...]

Washington, Aug.28 (ANI): US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, has said that even though the allied forces have challenged Al-Qaeda and its allies in Afghanistan for eight years, the Taliban- Al-Qaeda alliance has now become [...]

Washington, Aug. 28 (ANI): US President Barack Obama and the First Lady, who are holidaying at an island of Martha’s Vineyard, will travel to Boston on Friday evening to attend Senator Edward Kennedy’s funeral.

Obama is scheduled to deliver a eulogy on Saturday morning.

The change in [...]

Washington, Aug. 27 (ANI): Senator Edward M. Kennedy maintained a very good quality of life after he was diagnosed with brain cancer.

He continued speaking in front of Congress and making public appearances almost up until the time of his death on Wednesday morning at his home on Cape Cod.

“For a man in his 70s, [...]

London, Aug 26 (ANI): Britney Spears recently took her two babies on a rickshaw ride for a sightseeing tour of New York.

A bodyguard accompanied the singer and her kids, Jayden James and Sean Preston.

The ‘Womanizer’ hitmaker toured the Big Apple’s most famous sights, reports The Sun.

She later performed at Madison Square Garden, as part [...]

Washington, Aug 24 (ANI): Smoking increases the risk of developing active tuberculosis (TB) disease, according to a new study.

The research analysed data from nearly 17,000 individuals in Taiwan as part of Taiwan’s 2001 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS).

“In this prospective cohort study we found a two-fold increase in the risk of active TB in current [...]

Nevada (US), Aug.18 (ANI): “We Are All Hindus Now”-headlines the article in the upcoming edition of prestigious newsmagazine “Newsweek”, saying “U.S. Views on God and Life Are Turning Hindu”.

Written by its religion editor Lisa Miller, it says, “…recent poll data show that conceptually, at least, we are slowly becoming more like Hindus and less like [...]

Washington, August 17 (ANI): In a new analysis, scientists have found traces of cocaine in up to 90 percent of paper money in the United States, particularly in large cities such as Baltimore, Boston, and Detroit.

This is the largest, most comprehensive analysis to date of cocaine contamination in banknotes.

The scientists found traces of cocaine [...]

London, Aug 15 (ANI): Victoria Beckham is a style icon for many, but her recent appearance as the judge on ‘American Idol’ has left many thinking otherwise.

The usually immaculately dressed star left fans shocked when she reportedly looked downright awful on her arrival for filming the talent show.

Posh was [...]

Boston (US), Aug.14 (ANI): The US government is covertly testing technology in China and Iran that will allow citizens to by-pass internet censorship set up by their governments.

The Telegraph quoted a senior official at the Broadcasting Board of Governors, an independent US government agency, as saying : “We have [...]

Washington, Aug 12 (ANI): Taking aspirin on a regular basis after being diagnosed with colon cancer has been found to reduce the chances of dying from the disease, reveals a new study.

Numerous prospective, observational studies have shown that regular aspirin use is linked to a lower risk of colorectal adenoma (a benign tumour) or cancer. [...]

Washington, August 4 (ANI): Children in houses wherein three generations of a family live together are likely to be economically more sound than those who live in a two-generation household, according to a study.

Researchers at the University of Southern California and the University of Massachusetts, Boston, have found that children living in single-mother families [...]

Washington, Aug 4 (ANI): Nearly 50 percent of mothers of young children in Bangladesh suffer violence at the hands of their husbands, which, in turn, increases the risk of respiratory infections and diarrhoea in their kids, according to a study.

The study underlined that despite substantial improvements in childhood survival in the previous decade, 77 per [...]