Oracle to Acquire ATG; ATG Reports Third Quarter 2010 Financial Results

Art Technology Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARTG), the leading provider of eCommerce software and related on demand commerce optimization applications, today announced that it has agreed to be acquired by Oracle Corporation for $6.00 per share in cash, or approximately $1.0 billion. The transaction is subject to stockholder and regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions and is expected to close by early 2011.

ATG’s eCommerce software platform is the industry’s top-ranked cross-channel commerce solution and is highly complementary to Oracle’s CRM, ERP, Retail, and Supply Chain applications, as well as its portfolio of middleware and business intelligence technologies. Together Oracle and ATG expect to help businesses grow revenue, strengthen customer loyalty, improve brand value, achieve better operating results, and increase business agility across online and traditional commerce environments.

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Moneta Drills Best Grades And Widths Ever Intersected In Southwest Zone; 5.85 G/t Over 20.00 Metres, Including 9.05 G/t Over 9.75 Metres

Moneta Porcupine Mines Inc. (TSX: ME / OTC: MPUCF / XETRA: MOP) ("Moneta") announces results from the ongoing 2010 drill program on the Southwest Zone, within the 100% owned Golden Highway Project ("GHP"), located along the prolific Destor-Porcupine Fault Zone, approximately 100km east of Timmins, Ontario.

Drill hole wedge MSW10-267B ("267B") was drilled approximately 25 metres (80 feet) to the east and 15 metres above hole MSW10-267 ("267") which resulted in the discovery of the 267 Zone with 3.43 g/t Au over 36.09 metres (press release August 26, 2010).  267B intersected quartz veins up to 5.5 metres in width and returned 5.85 g/t Au over 20.00 metres, including 9.05 g/t Au over 9.75 metres, within a significant broader mineralization corridor of 3.93 g/t Au over 36.37 metres.  These results are particularly notable as they show strong continuity in grade throughout the mineralized intervals.

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October 27 2010 - Publishing Technology plc (LSE: PTO), the largest provider of software and services to the publishing industry, today announced the launch of three new pub2web websites: PierOnline (for Sunmedia), the World Bank eLibrary, and the OECD iLibrary.

One of Publishing Technology’s core brands, pub2web provides custom web platforms, tailor-made to any business model and any type of content. Louise Tutton, Chief Operating Officer of Publishing Technology's Scholarly Division, comments: “This trio of launches carries significant strategic importance for pub2web and represents the vast range of content types and functionality supported via the platform.

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Seagate Technology Announces Preliminary Interest Regarding a Going Private Transaction

Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ:STX) announced today that it has received a preliminary indication of interest regarding a going private transaction. The company is in discussions with the party from whom it received the indication of interest, and its board of directors is evaluating the indication of interest and other strategic alternatives. The company has retained Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated and Perella Weinberg Partners LP to provide financial advice and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Arthur Cox as legal counsel. There is no assurance that the company will receive a formal offer or that any transaction will take place.

Neither the company nor its representatives will be providing any additional comments regarding the preliminary indication of interest.

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Active Power Chosen to Support The University of Texas at Austin in Creating Green Data Center

Large enterprise data centers and colocation providers are not the only ones focused on ways to increase energy and space efficiencies within their power and cooling infrastructure. In the education market, data centers that support universities are implementing green initiatives to tackle some of the toughest pain points in their mission critical facilities while at the same reducing carbon emissions and operating costs on campus.

The University of Texas at Austin recently completed its new university data center (UDC) to meet the growing IT and business needs of the school’s academic and administrative units. The $32 million mission critical facility was built with a strong focus on the use of extremely efficient power and cooling technologies.

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