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Ligand
Launches Redesigned Corporate Web Site
"Ligand Pharmaceuticals, Inc launched a fully redesigned public
Web site at www.ligand.com. The site is designed around our
new business model and provides increased functionality and
interactivity.Ligand has gone through significant changes this
year, and we have expanded the content and redesigned the functionality
of the Web site to reflect our new business strategy and opportunities,said
John L. Higgins,President and CEO.
Our goal is to make this useful for investors, prospective corporate
partners and future employees,Ligand discovers and develops
new drugs that address critical unmet medical needs of patients
in the areas of thrombocytopenia, hepatitis C, cancer, hormone-related
diseases, osteoporosis and inflammatory diseases. Ligand's proprietary
drug discovery and development programs are based on its leadership
position in gene transcription technology, primarily related
to intracellular receptors" |
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CSNews Launches 2nd Annual Store Design Contest
"Following the popularity of its Store Design Contest held last
year, and featured as the cover story of the Aug. 28 issue of
Convenience Store News,the magazine is now accepting entries
for its second annual contest. Awards will be presented based
on the size of the project and overall look of the store, including
interior layout, use and effectiveness of signage and logos,
exterior, property and landscaping.
Construction and remodels must have taken place between January
2006 and June 2007. Winners will be featured in the Sept. 17
issue of CSNews. For more information, visit www.csnews.com
to see last year's winners and to download an entry form. Entries
may be submitted by a retailer or the design firm on behalf
of the retailer. Contact Don Longo, Editor in Chief, for further
information at dlongo@csnews.com" |
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New Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Company Plans Fast
Expansion
"It seems the secret is just about out of the bag. For some
time now two guys thousands of miles apart have been working
together and causing quite a stir in the world of search engine
optimisation.
They have formed a new company that is not only moving forward
at a great pace but getting the type of results most SEO companies
aspire too. The company is already planning a expansion and
open a new office in India. Presently based in London, England
the new office will initially have 6 new members and grow from
there. There will be key emphasis on research for new clients
state of the art linking strategies and web development" |
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Award-winning Branding & SEO Guru Shares Expert Do-It-Yourself
Tips with Small Businesses
"SEO Guru, Erin Ferree breaks the silence of the industry and
reveals everything small businesses need to know to do their
own SEO. Her new book, "Raise Your Ranking," provides everything
a small business needs to know and do to take over their own
search engine optimization save thousands of dollars and rise
to the top of the search engine rankings" |
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Mozilla
boss ponders Thunderbird spin-off
"The Mozilla Foundation is thinking about creating a separate
organisation to take control of its Thunderbird email application,
allowing it to concentrate on development of the Firefox Web
browser,In a blog posting, Mitchell Baker, CEO of Mozilla, a
subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, called for a new structure
to allow “the Thunderbird community to determine its own destiny”
and asked the open-source community for input.
Baker said Mozilla’s Thunderbird effort,The Mozilla executive
offered three options for a new Thunderbird structure. One could
be a new non-profit organisation similar to the Mozilla Foundation.
While providing the maximum amount of independence, this model
is also the most organisationally complex, requiring good board
members to be found and recreating the administrative load.
A second option is to create a new Mozilla Foundation subsidiary
to house Thunderbird. In this model, the foundation’s board
and personnel would remain involved in the management of the
product, but as a result, the Thunderbird effort could still
suffer from less focus and flexibility.
A third option is to release Thunderbird as a community project,
like the SeaMonkey suite of Internet applications, with a small
services company set up to support users. “Many open-source
projects use this model,” Baker wrote.It could be simpler and
more effective than a Mozilla Foundation subsidiary" |
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Click
Fraud Up, New Auction Site
"Rising click fraud rates, a new site that turns the
tables on auction sites by reversing traditional buyer and seller
roles, and a report outlining ways to maximize e-mail marketing
are making news this week in the e-commerce industry.
The overall industry average click fraud rate was 15.8 percent
for Q2 2007. This is an increase from 14.1 percent for the same
quarter in 2006 and 14.8 percent for Q1 2007. >The average click
fraud rate of PPC advertisements appearing on search engine
content networks, including Google AdSense and the Yahoo Publisher
Network, was 25.6 percent. That's up from 21.9 percent for Q1
2007 and 19.2 percent for Q4 of 2006. >Traffic from botnets
doubled from Q1 to Q2 2007 and contributed significantly to
the increase in click fraud rates. |
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Apple
Blossoms on Strong Q3
"Apple shares roared higher in after-hours trading
Wednesday following the release of the company's third-quarter
report, with shares up some 9 percent. In morning trading Thursday,
the stock was up 8.7 percent to $145.97, a new 52-week high.
Apple's profit rose 73 percent, and revenues were up 24 percent
when compared with the same period last year" |
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Microsoft
signs ad deal with Digg
"Microsoft has signed a deal with news aggregation
site Digg to bring relevant advertising to Digg's 17 million
unique monthly visitors,Under the agreement, Microsoft will
become the exclusive provider of display and contextual advertising
on Digg, supplying both the advertising technology and the salesforce.
The two companies also agreed to work together on future technology
and advertising initiatives,Our collaboration with Digg is about
bringing our advertising technology and salesforce to one of
the fastest growing sites on the web and a true innovator in
user-generated content," said Steve Berkowitz, senior vice president
of the Online Services Group at Microsoft. "We believe that
advertisers will welcome the combined strengths of Microsoft
and Digg to forge more meaningful connections online." |
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India's Reliance Scoops
Up Ethernet Firm Yipes for $300M
"The Indian telecom firm Reliance Communications announced
that it will buy San Francisco-based Ethernet services provider
Yipes for $300 million in cash. Yipes will operate as a strategic
business unit within Flag Telecom, an affiliate of Reliance.
Yipes,set up in 1999 has an annual growth rate of more than
30 percent.
"This is the largest acquisition that Reliance Communications
has ever made," Reliance Communications chairman Anil Ambani
said. He said the acquisition would significantly enhance returns
of Reliance's global business.Ambani said Reliance Communication
would spend 10 billion rupees (about $247 million) over the
next one year to extend Yipes services in 40 new markets in
Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Reliance would be
acquiring a 100 percent stake in the San Francisco-based firm
through its affiliate Flag Telecom, which provides international
network transport and data services to telecom operators, content
providers and Internet communities." |
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Capellas
to Steer First Data Toward E-Commerce
"First Data has named Michael Capellas as its new CEO.
He will take the reins following the completion of Kohlberg
Kravis Roberts & Co.'s takeover of the firm. Capellas is a former
CEO of Compaq and MCI. For the past year, he has been serving
as a consultant to private equity player, Michael Capellas,
the former CEO of PC maker Compaq and long-distance company
MCI, has been tapped to lead First Data (NYSE: FDC) after the
payment processing firm's planned private equity buyout is completed.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. plans to complete its takeover
of First Data-- valued at US$29 billion when it was announced
in April -- sometime during the current quarter. The transaction
will end First Data's run as a publicly traded company, putting
Capellas at the helm of a private concern for the first time
in his career -- though the odds are good that KKR will try
to bring the company public once again after making some changes.
Denver-based First Data, which processes billions of dollars
worth of purchases for merchants around the world, is well-positioned
to become a major player in emerging payment markets, including
both international e-commerce and mobile commerce, Capellas
said." |
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