Author: Brian Johnson

BANGALORE, INDIA–(Marketwired – Mar 2, 2014) – TMP Worldwide Advertising & Communications, LLC, a global, tech-enabled talent acquisition company, announced today that its team in India has relocated to a newly designed office space in Bangalore’s business district. Under the leadership of Pramod Chaganti, general manager, TMP India has experienced rapid growth as more employers throughout India seek the company’s solutions to connect with top talent and meet their recruiting objectives. The move to a state-of-the-art facility will ensure continued success as the team delivers TMP’s innovative software and digital, social and mobile talent acquisition solutions to a greater number…

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HONG KONG, CHINA–(Marketwired – Mar 1, 2014) – Reliance Globalcom today announced the appointment of Lorain Wong as Chief Marketing Officer of its three offshore businesses, comprising FLAG, Yipes and Vanco. Ms Wong joins the company with over 25 years of marketing, communications and media experience, most recently as Vice President of Global PR, Corporate and Internal Communications at HTC. Earlier she served nine years as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Pacnet where she established and built the company’s corporate identity across Asia Pacific, leading to key industry recognitions. “Lorain’s extensive experience in marketing and communications within…

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HONG KONG, CHINA–(Marketwired – Feb 28, 2014) – Reliance Globalcom today announced the appointment of Wilfred Kwan as Chief Operating Officer of its three offshore businesses, comprising FLAG, Yipes and Vanco. With more than 25 years of senior management experience in telecoms operation, software development, integrated circuit design, product development and network planning, Mr. Kwan joins Reliance Globalcom from Pacnet where he served as Chief Technology Officer for more than ten years. A seasoned engineering and operations professional, Mr. Kwan successfully led key strategic projects ranging from implementing network expansion to launching new products and managing post merger integrations of…

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – Feb 28, 2014) – InsideView®, Inc. will showcase astounding customer momentum with strategic partner Microsoft, at the annual Microsoft Convergence conference taking place March 4-7 in Atlanta. Since entering into a strategic OEM agreement with Microsoft last October whereby InsideView for Sales™ was integrated into Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and made available to all Microsoft Dynamics CRM users, the companies have seen demand for the product, known as Social Insights, skyrocket. Thousands of users leverage Social Insights powered by InsideView to engage prospects, win deals, and grow their accounts. Social Insights is powered by the InsideView…

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SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwired – Feb 28, 2014) – Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced that it will participate in the following events with the financial community during the month of March. The events will be webcast. Interested parties can view these events on Cisco’s Investor Relations website at investor.cisco.com. JMP SecuritiesJMP Securities Technology Conference March 3, 2014 San Francisco, CA 11:00a.m.-12:00p.m. PT Soni Jiandani, SVP Corporate Marketing Piper JaffrayPiper Jaffray Technology, Media, & Telecommunications Conference March 11, 2014 New York, NY 8:30-9:00a.m. ET Ish Limkakeng, Vice President of Product Marketing, Insieme Business Unit, Cisco About CiscoCisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide…

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READING, PA–(Marketwired – Feb 28, 2014) – 401! Creative, a division of Weidenhammer, recently contributed to the Lehigh Valley IronPigs new uniform and marketing campaign, a campaign that has generated interest throughout the United States. Impressed by 401! Creative’s work and reputation throughout Eastern Pennsylvania, the IronPigs sought out the 401! Team when the time came to unveil their logos and uniforms. Centering on the baseball theme, “Every Pitch Tells a Story,” 401! developed a corresponding microsite, with custom photography by the 401! Creative team. The microsite features a “Smell the Change” concept that is brought to life in the IronPigs…

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TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – Feb. 28, 2014) – VersaPay Corporation (TSX VENTURE:VPY) (“VersaPay”), a leading provider of cloud-based payment solutions, announces it has received conditional approval from the TSX Venture Exchange (“TSX-V”) for a grant of 158,000 common shares (the “Shares”) to its Chief Executive Officer, Craig O’Neill as part of his compensation package. VersaPay is required to obtain disinterested shareholder approval before granting the Shares to Mr. O’Neill, which it intends to seek at its upcoming annual general and special meeting to be held in May of 2014. Once this and the final approval of the TSX-V have been obtained,…

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PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwired – Feb 28, 2014) – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that Raghu Raghuram, VMware’s executive vice president, software defined data center and Ramin Sayar, VMware’s senior vice president and general manager, management business unit will both present as keynote speakers at the Piper Jaffray Technology, Media & Telecommunications Conference in New York, NY on Tuesday, March 11th, 2014 at 9:00 a.m. PT/ 12:00 p.m. ET. A live webcast will be available on VMware’s Investor Relations page at http://ir.vmware.com. The replay of the webcast will be available for two months. …

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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired – Feb. 28, 2014) – Brisio Innovations Inc. (CSE:BZI) (the “Company”), today announces that it intends to complete a non-brokered private placement financing (the “Financing”) of up to 833,333 units (each, a “Unit”) at a price of $0.30 per Unit for gross proceeds of up to $250,000. Each Unit will consist of one common share of the Company (each, a “Share”) and one-half of one share purchase warrant (each, a “Warrant”). Each whole Warrant will entitle the holder thereof to purchase one additional Share at a price of $0.45 per Share for a period of one year…

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SILICON SLOPES, UT–(Marketwired – Feb 28, 2014) – New research released today from InsideSales.com, the global leader in cloud-based sales acceleration technologies and solutions, shows that North American companies spent $12.8 billion on sales acceleration technology last year. The 2014 Sales Acceleration Technology Market Size Study defines the total market size of the emerging sales acceleration category, which bridges the gap between established categories, such as marketing automation and customer relationship management (CRM). The study is the first of its kind to reveal how much companies are spending on technology in this category by type of rep, industry, geography, close…

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DALLAS, TX–(Marketwired – Feb 28, 2014) – ProTek Capital/ Luxuriant Holdings (OTC Pink: PRPM) (“the Company”) announces today Changes to the Board of Directors; and Reporting on Progress. Luxuriant Holdings today made the following changes to its Board of Directors. Mr Vakser officially resigned his position as chairman to focus on expanded operations at his other companies. The company has appointed Mr. Michael Ronchetti as our new Chaiman, effective immediately. All update have been submitted to otc markets and will be reflected within 48 hrs. “We greatly appreciate all that Mr. Vakser has done for our company and wish him the best with the expanded…

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PARIS, FRANCE–(Marketwired – Feb 28, 2014) – Sofialys, a leading international mobile advertising and marketing company, today announced the appointment of Hani Ramzi as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer. In his capacity as CEO Ramzi will also serve on the board of directors. Hani Ramzi brings a recognized track record in global expansion as well as an in-depth knowledge of the Mobile industry. He will be responsible for driving the company’s vision, strategy and growth worldwide. Mokhtar Bouchelaghem, Executive Chairman of Sofialys, said: “It is a great pleasure to welcome Hani Ramzi to Sofialys and we look forward to…

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NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwired – Feb 28, 2014) – Flyby is the first mobile consumer platform that lets people connect social messages to objects in the world around them. Built on next generation technology, Flyby’s new free app is changing how people communicate and share, letting people leave digital messages on real world objects to create deeper context and more control over who gets to see what — and how. The result is a powerful new user experience that brings the physical world to life. “Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp proves that mobile and social messaging has penetrated the global consumer market,…

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LOS ANGELES, CA–(Marketwired – Feb 28, 2014) – GumGum CEO Ophir Tanz has joined the lineup of prestigious speakers slated to present at OASIS: The Montgomery Summit. OASIS — an invitation-only event featuring top entrepreneurs and investors; senior level media and technology executives; and leading industry visionaries — will be held March 5-6, 2014 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica. Other OASIS speakers include BlackBerry interim CEO John Chen, bestselling author Deepak Chopra, tech legend Paul Maritz, Ashish Thakkar, named World’s Best Young Entrepreneur by the World Entrepreneurship Forum, and Brazilian mining billionaire Bernardo Paz. Presenting at OASIS…

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NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwired – Feb 28, 2014) – SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME), a holder of a USAPTO issued patent covering the use of SmartCards (EMV Cards) that are used to make connections to a network and the developer of an in-card biometric fingerprint reader that is used to activate the cards surface mounted EMV chip, welcomes the growth forecasts as presented in a recent published report for the global biometrics industry, stated SmartMetric CEO Chaya Hendrick. The 563-page report by Wintergreen Research, Inc. says, “The global biometrics market is at $5.2 billion in 2012 anticipated to reach $16.7 billion by…

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NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwired – Feb 28, 2014) – Worldwide Internet, Inc. (OTC Pink: WNTR) announced today that it has formed Green Company Holdings, Inc., a Colorado Corporation (www.thegreenfund.us) for a diversified portfolio of investments in the hemp and medical marijuana sectors. The company has made an initial $1,000,000 investment through its Series C Preferred Shares and intends to add at least an additional ten companies to the fund from the 90 potential companies that would form the basis of a diversified portfolio. Once the fund is completed the company intends to list The Green Fund as a separately publicly trading…

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BRANFORD, CT–(Marketwired – Feb 28, 2014) – Westbrook Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of enterprise content management (ECM) software, today announced new releases of its Fortis (2.6) and FortisBlue (2.2) software. Both releases add new features, improve performance, and offer even greater ease of use for administrators and end users. With powerful electronic capture, storage and organization of documents, data and content, Fortis and FortisBlue provide a cost-effective solution for going paperless and automating business processes. “The enhanced functionality of our Fortis and FortisBlue product lines will help organizations keep pace with the demands for greater efficiency, more rigorous data and…

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ATLANTA, GA–(Marketwired – Feb 28, 2014) – Nebo, Atlanta-based digital marketing agency, has been selected as a finalist in six categories for the 2014 Atlanta Marketer of the Year Awards (AMYs) hosted by Atlanta AMA, securing more nominations than any other firm. The winners will be announced on Thursday, March 13. Nominations include: Web & Interactive Marketing – Brand Awareness: LiviRae Lingerie Visual Branding & Identity: Choose ATL Search Marketing – Paid Search: Internap Search Marketing – Paid Search: PGA TOUR Superstore General Market – Digital Advertising: GA Tech Full Time and Evening MBA Search Marketing – SEO: Bluefin Payment…

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CALGARY, ALBERTA–(Marketwired – Feb. 28, 2014) – NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES Cortex Business Solutions Inc. (TSX VENTURE:CBX) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced short form prospectus offering (the “Offering”) of common shares in the capital of the Company (“Common Shares”) for aggregate gross proceeds of $10,000,000. The Offering was led by Cormark Securities Inc. and included Wolverton Securities Ltd. (collectively, the “Underwriters”). Under the Offering, a total of 100,000,000 Common Shares were issued at a price of $0.10 per Common Share (the…

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DALLAS, TX–(Marketwired – Feb 28, 2014) – HousingWire announced today that it has published the 2014 HW TECH100™, the media company’s annual look at the most innovative technology firms in the U.S. housing economy. The full list, featured in the March 2014 issue of HW Magazine, looks at technology companies that offer solutions focusing on one or more of the following industry sectors: residential mortgage lending, residential mortgage servicing, residential mortgage investments, and/or residential real estate. Collectively, these four sectors represent the U.S. housing economy — a definition unique to HousingWire, and to the HW TECH100™. “Technology is accelerating change…

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