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July 16th

B/E Aerospace Receives Antitrust Clearances for HCS Acquisition; Comments on Record 2008 Second Quarter Financial Results; Schedules Earnings Conferen

B/E Aerospace, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAV), the world\'s leading manufacturer of aircraft cabin interior products and the leading aftermarket distributor of aerospace fasteners, today announced that it has received regulatory approval for its acquisition of Honeywell’s Consumables Solutions distribution business (HCS) and that it expects to close the transaction before the end of the third quarter.

The company expects to report record second quarter earnings per diluted share in excess of consensus estimates. In addition, the company announced that it expects to report record quarterly bookings, backlog, revenues, operating earnings and net income.

The company will release its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2008 prior to the opening of the NASDAQ Stock Market on Tuesday, July 29, 2008, and will hold a conference call to discuss the results at 9:00 a.m.

Published: 16 July 2008

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July 16th

Asyst Technologies Announces Receipt of Unsolicited Expression of Interest to Acquire Company

Asyst Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASYT) today announced that the Company received an unsolicited letter from Aquest Systems Corp. expressing an interest in exploring a potential acquisition of Asyst for $6.50 in cash per share. Consistent with its fiduciary duties, Asyst’s Board of Directors is reviewing the expression of interest in consultation with its financial and legal advisors.

As part of its review, the Board has requested information from Aquest to substantiate a potential acquisition, including the availability and sources of committed financing. In addition, the Asyst Board is seeking to better understand the relationship disclosed in the letter between Aquest, The Gores Group and Riley Investment Management (Riley).

Published: 16 July 2008

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Dan Reicher, the Director for Climate Change and Energy Initiatives at Google.org, explains Google’s interest and investments in renewable energy

POINT ROBERTS, Wash., Delta B.C., July 16, 2008 - InvestorIdeas.com, one of the first online investor resources providing in-depth information on renewable energy, greentech and water, is pleased to provide interested investors a recent audio interview with Dan Reicher, the Director for Climate Change and Energy Initiatives at Google.org.

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Published: 16 July 2008

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It is naïve to believe that green can be achieved overnight

16th July 2008 – As energy costs spiral and energy consumption increases, companies are starting to review how this is impacting their business, including IT strategies and usage.

Over the last few weeks there have been a number of incidents of companies suffering from power loss in their data centres. Some companies are taking action, including Dresdner Kleinwort, which has recently announced it is moving out of Docklands for this very reason. But a move like that takes months if not years of planning and can’t be achieved overnight. So what are the options?

Published: 16 July 2008

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Talklets service brings an added dimension to the Internet with automatic conversion of text to streaming audio

Maidenhead, UK – Textic Limited, the text to speech solutions specialist, today announced the commercial launch of Talklets, the Web 2.0 service that ‘voice enables’ text-based Web content. Talklets allows companies and organisations to offer website visitors the option to have text ‘read’ to them immediately in a range of natural voices, or converted to an MP3 file for consumption at another time, and on any compatible device.

Unlike first generation text to speech (TTS) implementations that require users to download a software application, Talklets is the industry’s first commercial software as a service (SaaS) model for TTS.

Published: 16 July 2008

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