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We are proud to be able to announce the launch of this state-of-the-art plant in Johannesburg,” said Steve Harrison, Head of Specialty Gases and Specialty Equipment, Linde. “Africa is an important growth market for our HiQ® specialty gases business and getting our production and supply capabilities nearer to our customers is critical to achieving this growth.

São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil – Mercedes-Benz do Brasil signed a contract today with the Brazilian bank Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Económico e Social (BNDES) for a loan in the amount of R$ 1.2 billion (roughly €460 million).

Worldwide identity and access management (IAM) revenue will reach $9.9 billion in 2010, an 8 per cent increase from 2009 revenue of $9.2 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner said that compliance, audit and analytics requirements continue to be the main factors influencing investments in IAM, alongside operational efficiency and better integration across IAM solutions.

Ford Motor Company is investing $155 million and adding 60 jobs at its Cleveland operations to build a new fuel-efficient V-6 engine for the 2011 Mustang, which has expected class-leading highway fuel efficiency of 30 miles per gallon on the highway and 305 horsepower.

Siemens Energy has acquired a minority stake in Britain’s Marine Current Turbines, a pioneer in the design and development of tidal current energy turbines. With the acquisition of a stake of just below 10 Percent in Marine Current Turbines, which is based in Bristol, England, Siemens is entering a new market with good future prospects and at the same time expanding its Environmental Portfolio.

HP Labs Singapore will serve as a hub for open innovation in the Asia Pacific region and represents another investment the company is making to drive its Everything as a Service vision.

AT&T* today announced the deployment of its 1,000th alternative-fuel vehicle in its corporate fleet. The deployment is part of a $565 million planned investment announced in March 2009 to replace more than 15,000 fleet vehicles with more fuel-efficient models through 2018.

The investment includes facility renovation, new machinery, equipment and special tooling to support this engine program at the three plants.

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and Open Text™ (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM), today announced the third major expansion of an already successful strategic relationship to include Open Text Digital Asset Management (DAM), a key component of the Open Text ECM Suite and a part of marketing resource management (MRM) and intellectual property management (IPM) capabilities of the SAP® Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) application.

Last year, Qualcomm invested over $2 billion in research and development and we are looking forward to showing the ongoing results of that investment in Barcelona,” said Andrew Gilbert, executive vice president of Qualcomm and president of Qualcomm Internet Services and Qualcomm Europe.

LTE is the latest step in a wireless evolution that Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) began with AT&T over two decades ago and is part of AT&T’s ongoing efforts to innovate and invest in mobile broadband.

BP today announced the launch of a major research collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Manchester. BP and the universities will work together on materials and corrosion research, as it applies to oilfield applications.

Zenverge secures funding to support production launch of industry's highest-performance transcoder integrated circuits

BT One Source allows customers to tailor their Polycom telepresence and video conferencing solutions to meet their specific business needs. It includes planning, design and implementation services as well as customer support services such as BT’s One Care Preferred “white glove” services.

Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), through its strategic investment arm, Motorola Ventures, today announced a strategic investment in TuneWiki Ltd., the award-winning provider of next-generation social media music players and related applications.

ACS is the largest diversified business process outsourcing (BPO) firm in the world. Its expertise is in automating work processes and providing BPO and IT outsourcing services that range from processing over 1 million credit card applications and 12 million student loans each year to providing HR services for more than 4.4 million employees and retirees annually.

With a capacity of 250,000 engines a year, Chennai stands poised to become a major hub for the export of both diesel and petrol engines in the next decade.

Deutsche Bank today announced that it has been named among the 'Top Companies That Care', an annual program sponsored by Jacksonville Magazine.

NASA and its international partners are looking forward to unprecedented scientific opportunities aboard the International Space Station, or ISS.

Offered through HP Financial Services, the company’s asset management services and leasing subsidiary, the new promotions provide businesses the choice to either lease or own products.