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Thomson Reuters today acquired Round Table Group, a leading provider of expert witness consulting services to litigators. Round Table Group will be aligned with the litigation businesses within the US Core Legal division, and will be led by Allison Guidette, vice president and general manager of Litigation.

NVIDIA Corp. (Nasdaq: NVDA) today announced an extension of its existing stock repurchase program, under which it may purchase up to $2.7 billion of its common stock through May 2013.

Thomson Reuters today launched 7500 new equity sector-level indices covering a broad range of regions and sectors unique to Thomson Reuters. These include full lines of Emerging Market and Asia Pacific sector indices in addition to the first line of Iberian sector and NAFTA sector indices, as well as indices for new and relevant sectors such as Water, Renewables, and Diversified Media.

The Journal of Family Business Strategy publishes research that contributes new knowledge and understanding to the field of family business. The journal is international in scope and welcomes submissions that address all aspects of how family influences business and business influences family.

BASF creates measurable value for employees, shareholders, customers and society with its products and solutions, as shown in the Report 2009 published by BASF tomorrow (March 11). The report combines economic, ecological and social aspects.

Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) enters the decade with an upstream portfolio of major capital projects that uniquely positions the company for future growth, executives said today at a meeting with financial analysts in New York.

As a result of this transaction, which is in line with Philips’ communicated strategy to dispose of its remaining non-core shareholdings, Philips now holds 63 million shares in TPV, which represents a stake in the company of just below 3%.

Together with several prominent German universities and the SAP® Education organization, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) has developed a postgraduate study program as part of its SAP® University Alliances program that culminates in an internationally recognized master’s degree.

Under the terms of the five year agreement, BT will provide a managed services solution for Deutsche Post DHL’s telecommunications infrastructure in 15 countries and over 1,000 sites across Asia Pacific.

Acclaimed developer of multi-million selling LittleBigPlanet(TM) joins Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios

As previously announced, Woodrow Whitlow, Jr., the Glenn center director, has been named the associate administrator for Mission Support at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Ray Lugo, the deputy director at Glenn, has been named acting director.

Four SAS customers will highlight the many ways SAS technology improves K-12 education at next week’s Consortium for School Networking annual conference.

Under the terms of the agreement, Rolls-Royce (the “offeror”) will offer ODIM ASA shareholders NOK 45 per share, representing a total consideration of approximately NOK 1.4bn (circa £154m), to be settled in cash from the Group’s existing resources.

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V), the world's largest retail payments network[1], and Travelex, the world's largest international foreign exchange and international payments specialist, today announced the launch of the first Visa Money Transfer service in Australia.

IBM ( IBM) today announced that four of its leading technologists have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) — one of the highest professional distinctions that can be awarded to an engineer.  IBM engineers Irene Greif, Laura M. Haas, William P. Pulleyblank and Mark N. Wegman are among the academy's 68 new members which NAE President Charles M. Vest announced earlier this week.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) today named Mr. Kenichiro Yamanishi as the company’s new president & CEO, and is scheduled to assume his new position on April 1, 2010. Mr. Yamanishi will be replacing Mr. Setsuhiro Shimomura, who will then be appointed to the new position of Chairman.

As part of the relationship, Deutsche Bank will fund course design and teaching for risk management and financial regulation at the doctoral level within the School’s Finance Department.

BP will be a sponsor of the 2010 and 2012 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Teams, as well as the 2011 U.S. Pan American Team.

Our proposal offers a best-value supply chain solution to the Defense Logistics Agency that will provide fast, reliable services at a consistently high quality" said Jason Frei, Boeing program manager of Land & Maritime DLA Support Programs.

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