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• New Advertising Campaign Promotes .eu to Transport Industry
  BRUSSELS, December 22 /PRNewswire/ --
  - Learn the Value of a .eu Domain Name at http://www.goingfor.eu
  
  EURid has launched a new advertising campaign targeting the transport and logistics sector. The campaign highlights the growing number of companies within the industry that have discovered the value of using .eu Internet address. A .eu Internet domain name helps companies cross borders on the Internet. It expresses their identity by telling the world that Europe is their home.
  
  Iltrans, a European freight forwarding and shipping agency, is one such company. It chose to use Iltrans.eu as its online identity. Notes company head Marc Ilnicki: "We registered a .eu domain name last year, due to its international character. As a result, we met many new partners throughout Europe, from England, France, Belgium and Germany."
  
  
  The advantages of .eu:
  
  - This single top-level domain reaches out to 500 million people in 27
  countries.
  
  - It shows that a company is open for business across Europe.
  
  - .eu is perceived as a trustworthy Internet address
  
  About the campaign
  
  The campaign's main message: Now is the time to register your .eu domain name. Through the end of December, the campaign is supported by advertising in European trade journals and bannering on transport and logistics websites.
  
  All online traffic is directed towards the campaign site, http://www.goingfor.eu. Via this site, visitors can check immediately whether a domain name they want is still free. It also offers links to accredited .eu registrars so that visitors can immediately register a .eu domain name if they wish.
  
  About EURid and .eu
  
  EURid is a private, not-for-profit organisation that manages the .eu top-level domain under a contract with the European Commission. With about 3 million registered .eu domain names, .eu ranks among the ten largest top-level domains in the world. For more information, visit http://www.eurid.eu.
• Humanitarian Effort Sidelined for the Holidays and Beyond by Challenge from Apple Inc.
  SAN FRANCISCO, December 19 /PRNewswire/ -- An humanitarian effort to fight world hunger, protect endangered species and counter global warming has been sidelined for the holidays - and beyond - because of a legal challenge filed by Apple Inc.
  
  The online game Glupod had been scheduled to debut November 29 - in time for the Christmas season. Instead, Glupod has been put on hold indefinitely because of Apple's claim that the use of "pod" in the game's name violates a number of Apple trademark registrations.
  
  In development for more than two years, Glupod is the first online video game that would allow players to turn in-game winnings into food for starving people in developing countries, help for endangered species and to help global warming.
  
  "We're extremely disappointed Apple has chosen to take such a hard-line attitude against an effort that has the potential to do so much good," said Ioannis Tsiokos, managing director of Something Inc., the company that developed Glupod. "No one's going to confuse Glupod with an iPod."
  
  Tsiokos and a small band of colleagues at Something, Inc. who work online from Greece, India, the United States and the United Kingdom have collaborated to get Glupod ready for launch. The game would fight poverty and help environmental causes in the real world by turning game prizes into real-life help for social and environmental causes.
  
  About Something Inc.
  
  Something Inc was founded on January 20, 2006, on the Caribbean island of Nevis. Today, it is a small company dedicated to making a big difference. Its main development office is in India, while employees also work from Greece, the United States and the United Kingdom. For more information or to request press material, contact Ioannis Tsiokos or visit http://www.glupod.com. To see a video showing how Glupod works, go to http://youtube.com/glupod or view the multimedia news release on http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/glupod/31886/.
  
  Contact:
  
  Ioannis Tsiokos, Managing Director,
  Something Inc.,
  Tel: +34-675723652,
  Fax: +1-888-845-9303.
  
  http://www.glupod.com
• WCC Smart Search & Match Announces Latest Customer in Government Employment - Arbetsförmedlingen in Sweden
  UTRECHT, The Netherlands, December 19 /PRNewswire/ -- WCC Smart Search & Match, the leading provider of high-performance search and match software, today announced that Arbetsförmedlingen in Sweden (Swedish Public Employment Service) has decided to use ELISE as the backbone of its core business process, Job matching. ELISE will support Arbetsförmedlingen job consultants in giving better advice to unemployed people about getting the right job. Arbetsförmedlingen expects to increase the quality of the matching process and get more people in the right jobs faster.
  
  ELISE is capable of searching vast amounts of data to deliver meaningful, ranked results extremely quickly. ELISE optimizes job matching using advanced technologies to search for meaningful results and then ranks these possibilities, allowing job consultants to make intelligent decisions.
  
  "We are proud to have Arbetsförmedlingen as our customer," said Peter Went, CEO of WCC. "This again proves that ELISE is the preferred choice for Job Matching in demanding, business critical applications. The experience we have with departments of labor in other countries (Germany, The Netherlands, France, UK, Italy, Belgium) will be a real advantage to Arbetsförmedlingen."
  
  About WCC Smart Search & Match
  
  WCC is a global technology leader in search and match software. Its ELISE matching system delivers the best possible job matching results using fuzzy and bi-directional search. WCC's core competencies are in HR/staffing, Identity Matching and other markets.
  
  For more information see: http://www.wcc-group.com
  
  About Arbetsförmedlingen Sweden
  
  The Public Employment Service is commissioned by Parliament and the Government. The overall task of the Employment Service is to improve the functioning of the labour market, by
  
  
  - matching jobseekers with employers wanting to recruit staff
  - making an extra effort to service individuals far from the labour
  market
  - contributing in the long term to stable and high employment rates.
  
  The Public Employment Service is to provide all parts of Sweden with services of equal quality, while at the same time adapting those services to the various conditions and needs of different regions and customers. Our activities also aim at increasing the geographic and vocational mobility of the jobseekers.
  
  The Public Employment Service is pleased to be able to enhance the quality of our services, by using ELISE in our matching processes.
  
  For more information see: http://www.arbetsformedlingen.se
• DMC Capital Funding Established to Provide Growth Financing and Advisory Services to Technology and Consumer Focused Companies
  NEW YORK, December 17 /PRNewswire/ --
  - Private Equity Firm with a 30-Year Legacy in Consumer Products, Supply Chain Management to Help Foster Mid-Market Growth Amid an Uncertain Economy -
  
  Distribution Management Consolidators, LLC today announced the launch of DMC Capital Funding, LLC a private equity growth capital firm.
  
  The firm will offer growth funding and financing to well established companies that have between US$20 million to US$200 million in annual revenue and need financing to expand their reach and market penetration. Leveraging long-standing retail relationships and decades of experience of its principals with consumer product distribution and channel marketing services,
  DMC Capital Funding is uniquely positioned to provide both capital and advisory services to a broad range of industries.
  
  DMC Capital Funding will offer existing companies financing and advisory services through multiple solutions, including:
  
  - Immediate access to credit or loan financing - DMC Capital Funding will make available bridge or longer-term loans to companies looking to finance ongoing operations, expansion of production, penetration of new markets and the like;
  - Equity participation - DMC Capital Funding may purchase a passive equity stake in companies meeting risk assessment guidelines;
  - Strategic investments - By leveraging their infrastructure and supply chain management expertise, DMC Capital Funding may offer both financing and management assistance in product development, sourcing, product design, sales, marketing, distribution and customer service operations;
  - Acquisition - DMC Capital Funding is seeking to acquire firms whose business aligns with the vision of DMC Capital Funding LLC.
  
  "The current credit crisis, as well as reduced consumer spending, has placed many established technology and consumer product companies in a pre