ReleaseWire

Slated for May, VoicED will offer students a way to stand out and succeed with public speaking workshops structured to bring out a healthy self-image.

We are happy to inform you that Champion School, the only school team invited from the San Francisco Bay Area to compete in a worldwide Computer Science tournament in New Jersey, achieved a Fourth Place Finish in one of the most prestigious as well as one of the oldest global competition in Computer Science.

Champion Oil, a major player in development and manufacturing of racing motor oils and engine builder lubricants, announced today the addition of AndysAutoSport.com as a new on-line retailer for Champion Performance and Racing Products. andysautosport.com/

Intilop, Inc. a pioneer and a recognized leader in providing complex networking Mega-IP building blocks and full systems, today announced delivery of a full FPGA based System Platform powered by their new Ultra Low latency 4th Gen 10G Nano TOE and Ultra Low latency Media Access controller. It integrates Ultra-Low Latency PHY available in Altera Stratix-V FPGAs. Full System Platform is on an Altera Stratix-V FPGA board from BittWare. This extends their leadership of more than 3 years in providing series of full TOEs and systems powered by them. Their mature, network proven series of TOE's have been deployed in hundreds of networks worldwide including blue-chip companies, financial institutions and major world stock exchanges enabling trade executions in record 1 us. The new platform is bound to shatter this record by yet another few hundred Nano seconds! It is also removing major traffic bottlenecks in Networks around the world.

With an aim to liberalize documentation requirements, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has raised the limit for foreign exchange remittance for miscellaneous purpose without documentation process to US$25000 from US$5000.

Array Networks Inc.,a global leader in application delivery networking, has been named ‘Application Delivery Controller Vendor of the Year’ by Frost & Sullivan India ICT. This award reflects the relentless efforts of the Array Networks team to deliver exceptional business performance throughout 2011.

Monitis Inc., the enterprise-grade web and cloud systems monitoring company, today announced the release of its free offering, Monitor.Us, in both German and Brazilian Portuguese language versions. Monitor.Us customers can now monitor their web and cloud systems from the same cloud-based dashboard in their native language; enhancing their user experience of the free product.

Leading provider of design & verification IPs will showcase IP portfolio integrated with Axiom’s high-performance MPSim simulator at DAC 2012

Druva, a leader in unified enterprise solutions for endpoint backup, enterprise mobility and data loss prevention, today announced that it has been named a “Cool Vendor” in the Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies*, 2012, report by Gartner Inc. The report highlights five emerging private vendors that provide innovative storage capabilities and/or contain the costs associated with storage and storage management. The Druva inSync solution solves the problem of intrusive laptop backups, which are a major obstacle to productivity, while its new mobile-data protection capabilities make InSync the first solution to offer a single point of control across all endpoint devices, including smartphones and tablets.

[24]7 today announced that it has closed the transaction related to Microsoft’s interactive self-service assets, announced on February 7, 2012. This has resulted in the merging of clients, people and technologies into [24]7, and also includes an R&D partnership, long-term IP licensing, and Microsoft taking an equity stake in [24]7.

In order to reduce public deficit this year, the Spanish government has introduced provisional measures to the Corporate Income Tax. Read the complete Press release to know more about the introduced provisional measures.

The YWCA Silicon Valley will host its YWCA Silicon Valley 22nd Annual Luncheon event on Tuesday, October 2, 2012 from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The event serves as a major fundraiser with proceeds going to support the programs and services of the YWCA Silicon Valley. Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Six-time Olympic Medalist, Motivational Speaker and Founder, Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation, will be the keynote speaker at the event. “We are delighted to have Ms. Joyner-Kersee speak at this year’s luncheon,” said Keri Procunier McLain, CEO of the YWCA Silicon Valley. “We are pleased to present a woman who channeled her talents into becoming a world class athlete, then channeled her commitment to others to become a leader in the philanthropic community.”

The Indian Ministry of Finance has proposed certain amendments to the Union Budget 2012-13, which introduced certain provisions to check tax evasion.

India’s plans to introduce amendments to its tax laws that include powers to retroactively overturn recent court rulings has sparked off a new contention between the government and Vodafone with the telecommunication company challenging the new retrospective tax legislation.

NextPlane, Inc., the market leader in cloud-based federation services for unified communications (UC), has just launched a new service to federate video and voice across disparate enterprise UC networks. The first stage of the new voice/video Federation-as-a-Service (FaaS) solution will provide voice and video federation between Microsoft (Lync and OCS) and Google Apps.

Microsoft-qualified APV Series appliances optimize and scale unified communications for any user, anywhere on any device

New changes to the social security contribution for Brazilian employers may take effect from August 1, 2012, subject to Congress' approval.

A Brazilian Supreme Court ruling declared that a taxpayer can be charged with criminal charges even if the tax debt is not confirmed by the administrative courts. This is a major shift from its earlier stand where criminal charges could be filed against a defaulting taxpayer only on confirmation of the actual debt.

The Brazilian government introduced changes to transfer pricing rules which includes a range of fixed profit margins for various industry sectors

The Brazilian Government has introduced new amendments to the regulations on financial transactions tax (IOF) imposed on foreign exchange transaction with effect from March 1, 2012.

Intilop extends their lead by delivering ‘Game Changing Nano TOE Hardware Technology’ that is 1000 X faster than Software and is revolutionizing the Financial, HFT, HPC, Cloud Servers, wireless base stations, Storage, defense and other networking markets today.

A federal court ruling involving employee termination in Australia demonstrated that following the right procedures and maintaining proper records related to long-term employee issues including workplace rights and absence from work, can protect the employer when facing an adverse action claim.

UK has introduced changes to its immigration rules which would affect foreign nationals residing or entering the UK on employer-sponsored visas as well as the employers.

Australia will soon launch the National Business Names Register which will enable companies to use a single form to register a business name across all Australian states and territories.

The Australian Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) law recently underwent a series of changes, violations of which could result in fines of up to $600,000 and/or imprisonment of up to five years for corporate as well as individual executives.

Forty-one outstanding executive women from Silicon Valley will be honored by the YWCA Silicon Valley, May 10, 2012 at the 28th Annual Tribute to Women (TWIN) Awards Program at the San Jose Fairmont. The YWCA Silicon Valley’s TWIN Awards Program honors not only women who demonstrate excellence in executive-level positions, but also the companies that employ these women. “I continue to be amazed at the extraordinary contributions and impact that these executive women have in their organizations and thus in our community. The talent of women executives is second to none. We are privileged to honor these 41 inspirational women and to have so many supportive sponsors investing in the YWCA.” said Dr. Keri McLain, Chief Executive Officer of the YWCA Silicon Valley.

IndiaNIC, a complete software solution company, unveiled a new logo. Through the new logo, the company intends to revitalize its corporate identity, strengthen brand identity, and increase brand recall.