GameHouse, a trusted name for over a decade among people who love to play casual games, announced today it released a free-to-play title called GameHouse Casino on Facebook. Also, the Company announced today that GameHouse Slots is available as a free iOS app download through the iTunes App Store, in addition to Facebook. These titles mark a new tidal wave of innovation for social casino games – a category that has gained tremendous popularity among players across Facebook, iPhones and iPads.

GameHouse Casino and GameHouse Slots Takes A Very Hot Young Gaming Category Forward
GameHouse Casino offers more than a dozen games, including a variety of slot games, video poker, blackjack and roulette – all tied together with captivating graphics, animations and social gameplay experiences. The themed slot machines within GameHouse Casino have been carefully designed to give players a world-class casino experience. In addition to slots, GameHouse Casino delivers an unparalleled video poker experience that holds six different machines, and plays up to 25 hands at a time. GameHouse’s video poker machines also feature side bets, double-or-nothing jackpots, and high/low plays to increase the odds of winning. For those looking to hit a hot streak at the tables, GameHouse Casino also features 3-hand or 6-hand Black Jack as well as American and European Roulette.

GameHouse Casino offers more than just a growing collection of games. GameHouse designed its latest casino offerings for people who want to play with friends and have real social gaming experiences. This new title marks another major step forward for GameHouse towards bringing players even more innovative social gaming experiences to Facebook. Players will find a highly dynamic lobby inside GameHouse Casino where they can instantly discover game tables, video poker, and slot machines recently played by their friends. Players can even jump-in on the fun – just like a real Vegas-style casino – through a unique Party Play feature that easily shows what games friends are playing. Another social perk inside GameHouse Casino is the Mystery Friend Multiplier, which sends a free gift to a player’s friend of choice, and gives the player a bonus game multiplier of up to five times the winnings.

The launch of GameHouse Casino on Facebook comes after the success of GameHouse Slots, which already has a growing fan-base of more than a million players on Facebook. Now available on iTunes, GameHouse Slots for iPhone and iPad can be played virtually anywhere — giving players the chance to win big, increase their score, unlock new games, and invite friends to come join the fun. Already, the game is one of the top casino and card games in the U.S. on iTunes.

GameHouse Builds On Growing Momentum In The Social Casino Games Market
These two titles underscore GameHouse’s commitment to deliver casual and casino gameplay experiences that people love to play. Social games have already become a cultural phenomenon, due in large part to the emergence of casino-based experiences in recent years. In fact, Morgan Stanley Research projects annual revenues for social casino games to hit $2.5 billion by 2015, thus making it one of the fastest growing gaming categories today.

“GameHouse has created casual games for more than a decade. Now more than ever – thanks to social networks, smartphones and tablets – consumers in the millions have access to video games that they never had access to before.” said Matt Hulett, President of GameHouse. “We see the social casino space as a big opportunity for the company since this category of gameplay is so popular on every platform. Vegas-style gaming is a real interest for millions of people around the world and we’re excited to be building an experience for consumers across all of their devices, anytime everywhere.”

To check out GameHouse’s entire social games portfolio, please visit: http://www.gamehouse.com/facebook-games.

About GameHouse:
GameHouse develops and distributes games that people love to play and share –all across the widest mix of channels including social, smartphone, tablets, and download. Today more than 50 million players enjoy GameHouse games, a number that grows daily through a diverse business model that includes direct-to-consumer websites, social game development, and cross platform publishing, licensing, and technology. For more information, please visit www.gamehouse.com or for a list of Facebook titles, visit: http://www.gamehouse.com/facebook-games.

During the first two months of the fall 2012 semester alone, Blackboard Mobile™ Learn was downloaded an average of 7,000 times per day with students logging in over 70 million times. Blackboard Mobile™ Central helped students, alumni and others keep track of the college football season and other news with over 10 million user checks of game scores, articles and schedules.

“The continuous adoption of mobility in education confirms that this ‘trend’ has truly become an expectation of today’s college-bound students,” said Kayvon Beykpour, General Manager of Blackboard Mobile. “The use of mobile devices in education is not an experiment. Rather, mobile has become a mission-critical channel of communication for everything from course delivery to university marketing and recruitment.”

Branded for each institution, Blackboard Mobile Central is an LMS-agnostic suite of applications within a single mobile app that includes course catalogs, event calendars, university news, sports schedules, directories, interactive maps and custom campus tours. The number of institutions with an active Blackboard Mobile Central app in use for marketing, recruitment and campus life purposes has doubled since 2011. Some institutions have developed and launched their apps in as little as three months.

Blackboard Mobile Learn allows students to access documents in multiple formats, post announcements, create threaded discussion posts, create and upload content and much more. Since the introduction of personal license downloads earlier this year, over 120,000 students and faculty have purchased Blackboard Mobile Learn directly from the App Store or Google Play.

Blackboard Mobile apps are available as native applications for all major device platforms, including Android™ and iOS^®, as well as the mobile Web for all other Web-enabled devices.

For more information about Blackboard Mobile, please visit www.blackboard.com/mobile or follow @Bb_Mobile on Twitter.

About Blackboard Inc.
Blackboard Inc. is a global leader in enterprise technology and innovative solutions that improve the experience of millions of students and learners around the world every day. Blackboard’s solutions allow thousands of higher education, K-12, professional, corporate, and government organizations to extend teaching and learning online, facilitate campus commerce and security, and communicate more effectively with their communities. Founded in 1997, Blackboard is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

More than 400,000 online and mobile visitors use AppAdvice every day to help discover interesting and new iOS apps to use. It helps novice and experienced smart device owners find relevant new apps and reviews by personalizing content based on hobbies, industry verticals, and other relevant themes.

Early on, AppAdvice knew that relational SQL databases would not be a good fit for the variably structured data in their app catalog, so they followed the NoSQL path with Apache CouchDB-based Cloudant. In 2010, they started with a free account using Cloudant’s multi-tenant database as a service, which they found to be more scalable and reliable than standard CouchDB. Plus, it was hosted and managed for them so they didn’t have to worry about database administration. In 2012, they graduated to a dedicated Cloudant cluster, hosted on the SoftLayer cloud platform, to handle their next phase of growth.

“Cloudant was an important part of our success,” said Mahmoud Hafez, founder of AppAdvice.com. “It enabled us to develop an innovative service and was free to use during the early growth of our business. And the Cloudant team takes great care of us around the clock; I’ve seen database issues arise late at night that get resolved in a few minutes.”

With the proliferation of mobile devices, smartphones and tablets, the App Store has transformed the business model for app development and delivery, which has led to an explosion of available consumer and business apps. In fact, Apple reported in July 2012 that iOS device owners alone have now downloaded in excess of 30 billion apps (since the service opened in July 2008) and 5 billion in the last three months, highlighting the importance of App Store visibility and third-party reviews and recommendations.

“AppAdvice provides users with the information necessary to navigate a marketplace that will be nearing or exceeding a million apps by year’s end,” said Cloudant CEO Derek Schoettle. “As the number of iOS device users and iOS apps continues to rise, AppAdvice’s data management situation gets exponentially more difficult to support. Cloudant handles the complexities of scalability for them so their developers can stay focused on improving the user experience — and not on administering their database.”

About AppAdvice.com

AppAdvice is the ideal resource on the Web for people looking to discover iOS apps. It thoroughly filters through the 700,000+ apps in the App Store to keep users up to date on relevant news regarding apps, as well as providing detailed app reviews. The focus of AppAdvice.com is not to provide the same monotonous content found all over the Web, but rather aggregate it in a useful way making it easy to figure out which apps users should download, while also providing updates on the latest iOS news, reviews, and iDevice accessories. From its custom AppLists to instantaneously updating its AppsGoneFree app to inform users of discounts on apps, AppAdvice aims to be the one stop shop for everything iDevice-related. For more information visit: http://appadvice.com/appnn.

About Cloudant

Cloudant provides developers of large or fast-growing Web and mobile applications with the world’s first globally distributed “data layer as a service” for loading, storing, analyzing, and distributing application data. The Cloudant Data Layer is a managed service that helps developers to eliminate the delays, costs, and distractions inherent in working with databases and their administrators, while providing unmatched scalability, availability, and performance. This capability accelerates time-to-market and time-to-innovation, because it frees developers from the mechanics of data management so they can focus exclusively on creating great applications. Cloudant is privately held and backed by top-tier investors including Avalon Ventures, In-Q-Tel, and Y Combinator. For more information, visit https://cloudant.com/.

Axcient brought home IT Nation’s most prestigious award, Best in Show, after Axcient CEO Justin Moore presented at ConnectWise’s annual IT Nation conference in Orlando, Florida, earlier this month. More than 1,600 IT professionals attended the show and voted; Axcient also received the Biggest Buzz award.

Also, in the November issue of CRN, CEO Justin Moore was named one of CRN’s Top 100 Executives of 2012 in the Top 25 Disruptors category. Under Moore’s leadership, Axcient sales have grown 2,462% in the past three years, ranking Axcient as the 7^th fastest growing company in Silicon Valley and as an Inc. 500 company. CRN’s Top 100 Executives list was based on nominations from solution providers, who ranked executives based on channel influence, effectiveness and visibility, along with business and sales impact.

In addition, Axcient won the People’s Choice Award from attendees of the Cloud and Infrastructure event hosted by SF Beta on November 15. This event combined live demos and interactive competition with an audience of leading San Francisco Bay Area technology influencers, hackers and entrepreneurs.

Last month, Axcient was named the backup and disaster recovery (BDR) category winner in SMB Nation’s 1^st Annual Hot Shot Awards, which recognizes the positive impact that Axcient has made for VARs, MSPs and IT consultants in the SMB IT space. Winners were announced during SMB Nation’s Fall Conference in Las Vegas.

“This recognition by important industry leaders is an honor, as well as a testament to Axcient’s ability to resolve significant pain points for businesses,” said Justin Moore, Axcient CEO. “Downtime costs businesses billions every year, but it doesn’t have to. Axcient’s cloud platform can continuously protect, replicate and restore critical business assets, from systems to applications to data. Axcient continues to build its platform toward a future where millions of businesses globally have zero downtime and zero critical data loss.”

About Axcient
Axcient offers a unified cloud platform that eliminates downtime and data loss, and replaces legacy systems for backup and disaster recovery. Axcient protects and provides instant access to the information and systems that keep a business up-and-running always, from anywhere. By enabling such business continuity, Axcient customers can focus on business opportunities, rather than IT risks. Learn more at www.axcient.com.

The report, In-Stream and Digital Video Advertising: 2012 – 2015 presents a systematic, data-driven study of this flourishing market sector by format and platform.

The ecosystem’s twin pillars, in-stream and in-page formats, own a combined 86.7% share of the sold market. Third-party video ad networks cleared a 21.4% piece of the $2.5 billion in-stream total.

Research data explains notable adjustments being made to available in-stream inventory (pre/mid/post-roll), and corresponding media spend specifically, by site, network, channel and service.

Expansion of mid/post-roll inventory supporting premium broadcast network properties, cable channel sites, allocated inside Hulu and YouTube (the latter seen across all themed and partner channel content) has been pronounced.

As a result, in-stream insertion frequencies have increased over the past year, and now stand at 1-to-1.04 (or 1-to-2.72 when including YouTube), up from 1-to-1.6 in 2011.

A detailed data portrait of YouTube’s monetization strategies over the past three years examines insertion frequencies across themed content and partner channels, deployment of TrueView inventory, including the mobile platform, and likewise enthusiast content areas where ad skip technology is less prominent or absent.

In-page impressions continue to pace the market, capturing 53.5% of total video spend in 2012. However, emerging platforms and environments (mobile, social and OTT/VOD billings) are forecast to generate 23.4% share by 2015, up from 10.3% today.

Mobile/tablet in-stream video advertising is surging, advancing 235% in 2012, with inventory cleared directly, and also effectively though mobile ad networks.

YouTube, its brand marketer and agency partners, in particular, have teamed to deliver a sophisticated mobile app and in-stream advertising opportunity.

Inventory formats (in-stream, in-page, overlay), growth rates, sellout, pricing (CPM, CPC, CPV, CPCV) and platform related spend (online, mobile, social, OTT/VOD) is included in this report. Overlay placements more than doubled in 2012 to 189 billion impressions.

AccuStream Research (http://www.accustreamresearch.com) produces investor grade reports spanning digital video, audio, subscription media services, in-stream and digital video advertising, video advertising networks, mobile advertising networks, CDN and integrated video platforms.

With this innovative solution, MSB and Pictometry will give insurers the ability to perform a detailed visual inspection of a property within their policy quote workflow, including 360 degree viewing of the structure and its surroundings. Thanks to Pictometry’s patented process for delivering aerial imagery at an oblique angle, properties can be viewed from a more natural and intuitive perspective than is possible via satellite or other aerial capture processes. The seamless integration within the RCT Express platform provides users with the view of the property and surrounding neighborhood that enables them to collect and verify more accurate property characteristics and identify potential exposures without having to leave their workflow, allowing them to provide more efficient and effective customer experience.

“Our decision to partner with MSB, the leader in their segment, is in perfect alignment with our strategy of integrating our imagery and tools within a workflow that insurance professionals are already accustomed to using.” said Jim Smyth, Pictometry’s Chief Marketing Officer. “Bringing two innovative products together to enable a more accurate and effective policy quote and issuance process will make a significant difference in helping insurance organizations, with customer service being the number one advantage.”

About Marshall & Swift/Boeckh (MSB)
Marshall & Swift/Boeckh (MSB), a Decision Insight Information Group company, is the leading provider of building cost information, residential and commercial analytics solutions and book of business management services for the property insurance companies, financial services organizations and government entities. MSB offers the industry’s most extensive and validated underwriting and claims property data. Throughout their eight decades of experience, they have compiled a strong track record of consistently developing innovative property solutions, analyzing our clients’ operations and providing them with the assistance needed to dramatically improve their business results. This track record continues today as they serve as the hub for all of their client’s property needs and work tirelessly to help them maximize their profitability and achieve a competitive advantage.

About Decision Insight Information Group
Decision Insight Information Group, located in the U.S., Canada and Europe, delivers a comprehensive range of information, infrastructure and decision support products and services for financial and legal professionals. Operating at the heart of the property industry, Decision Insight Information Group manages complex information solutions and provides clarity on decision making for buying, selling, conveyancing, financing and insurance. Decision Insight companies include MSB and DataQuick in the U.S., Access Point Information Canada, SearchFlow, xit2 and Decision Insight Hub in the UK, Millar & Bryce in Scotland, Rochford Brady Group in the Republic of Ireland, and Wertweiser, a joint venture with HVB Bank, in Germany. Decision Insight has 1,100 employees in 16 offices. For more information, visit www.decisioninsightgroup.com. Decision Insight Information Group is a TPG Capital portfolio company.

About Pictometry
Since inventing geo-referenced aerial oblique imaging in 2000, Pictometry International Corp. has defined the global standard for visual-centric data analytics, integration and reporting. Professionals in multiple government agencies, assessment, insurance, construction, oil & gas and other industries use Pictometry’s patented technologies daily, overlaying GIS data and integrating existing systems to enhance productivity, gain unique insights, and change lives. With over 35 million images added annually to its cloud-accessible servers, the company’s unparalleled library now contains more than 210 million images– each mapped to the individual pixel. To learn more, visit pictometry.com or follow @Pictometry.

“We’re excited to work with Amazon for their new Redshift offering,” said Karl Van den Bergh, Jaspersoft Vice President of Product and Alliances. “We believe that working with Amazon Redshift will be an extremely appealing solution for the fast-growing Big Data analytics market. It combines beautiful visualizations with an ultra-fast analytic data service that can handle large volumes of data – all delivered with the ease of use and cost advantages of the cloud. Plus, the fact that it can be embedded inside of applications or run standalone makes for an extremely flexible solution.”

“Jaspersoft’s reporting and analytics platform provides an additive element to Amazon Redshift,” said Sundar Raghavan, GM of Relational Database Services at Amazon Web Services. “By using them together, customers can take advantage of Redshift for their data warehouse and big data analytics needs.”

Learn more about how Jaspersoft integrates with Amazon Redshift!

Interested individuals can visit www.jaspersoft.com/amazon for more information, including a demo video that shows how the two tools work together to provide a complete Big Data analytics solution.

Additional Resources

• Follow @Jaspersoft on Twitter to stay up-to-date on all of the company’s latest news and product information
• Visit http://community.jaspersoft.com for more information about the Jaspersoft open source community

About Jaspersoft
Jaspersoft empowers millions of people every day to make faster decisions by bringing them timely, actionable data inside their apps and business processes. Its embeddable, cost-effective reporting and analytics platform allows anyone to quickly self serve and get the answers they need and scales architecturally and economically to reach everyone. Thanks to a community that is hundreds-of-thousands strong, Jaspersoft’s commercial open source software has been downloaded millions of times and is used to create the intelligence inside hundreds of thousands of apps and business processes. Jaspersoft is a privately held company with offices around the world. For more information visit http://www.jaspersoft.com and http://community.jaspersoft.com

The Best Holiday Gifts Hub 2012 is a crafted guide of Amazon holiday gifts specifically chosen for the XO Group Inc. (TheNest.com parent company) millennial audience in key lifestages, from engaged to expecting. Slideshows and video segments from the live shopping event, featuring more than 180 gifts in 10 categories, include items for fashionistas, foodies, DIY decorators, techies, kids, pets, coworkers, parents and in-laws, beauty addicts and those looking to spend under $25. While browsing the guides, visitors can click directly to Amazon.com to purchase their favorite gifts.

“From planning weddings to settling into new homes and planning for their first baby, we know our audience is busier than ever,” said Carrie Reynolds, vice president of sales and custom solutions for XO Group. “We’re thrilled to team up with Amazon.com, who has the largest variety of gift options in one place, to create a one-stop, no-brainer gift guide that makes holiday shopping easier than ever for everyone on our members’ shopping lists.”

Available on TheNest.com/holidays, The Best Holiday Gifts Hub 2012 will be live until December 31, advertised on the XO Group family of websites and promoted on Facebook.com/thenest, Twitter.com/thenest and in a storefront on Amazon.com.

About The Nest
The Nest (www.thenest.com) is the only brand focused exclusively on young nesters setting up homes and navigating new lives together, reaching millions of couples each year through TheNest.com, The Nest books, The Nest Home Design Handbook and The Nest Newlywed Handbook (published by Clarkson Potter). The popular offshoot of The Knot takes a hip how-to approach to all things “grown up”—merging finances, buying and decorating homes, cooking and entertaining, family relationships and more—through expert Q&As, an online community and interactive tools. The Nest is a part of XO Group Inc. (NYSE: XOXO; http://www.xogroupinc.com), a global media and technology leader devoted to weddings, pregnancy and everything in between, providing young women with the trusted information, products and advice they need to guide them through the most transformative events of their lives.

Nexus 7′s new 32GB model, now available at Currys and PC World, and priced at just £199.99, features a stunning 7″, 1280 x 800 high-definition display, bringing all manner of apps, games, books, and movies to vivid life. In addition, new ASUS TruVivid technology improves colour clarity and brightness, while the model’s IPS panel (In-Plane Switching technology for LCD screens) delivers extremely crisp and detailed visuals.

The Nexus 7 is extremely practical. With scratch-resistant ‘cornering fit glass’ and a textured chassis design that prevents hand-slippage, the tablet is incredibly robust and meets the demands of busy 21^st century consumers on the go.

The Nexus 7 has also been designed with gaming in mind. Coming equipped with a NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, the Nexus 7 is a super-fast tablet allowing for a smoother, more responsive experience. A 12-core GeForce GPU even allows for advanced graphics, while the patented 4-PLUS-1 CPU design gives maximum operating performance.

Gaming is extremely fun with the Nexus 7 32GB. Not only does the device posses a responsive 10-finger multi-touch screen, but there are also gyroscope and accelerometer sensors allowing users to barrel roll, tilt, touch, and tap their way to the top of mobile gaming leaderboards! With over 600,000 apps to explore on the Google Play market, the Nexus 7 is sure to keep all gamers happy.

The Nexus 7 is perfectly tailored for Google Play. This puts all of the entertainment that you love right in your hands, as the Google Play store boast the world’s largest collection of eBooks, millions of songs, thousands of movies and TV shows, along with a growing selection of magazines.

Users can enjoy their favourite Google Apps with the Nexus 7 – Chrome, Google+ and YouTube are instantly available, the Nexus 7 easy to use and automatically synced to your Smartphone and home desktop or laptop.

Put simply, the new Nexus 7 32GB model brings together the best Google software in one streamlined, seriously striking and high-performing device.

For more information on the Nexus 7, and to view a great range of tablets and computing devices, visit the Currys and PC World websites

About Currys and PC World:
Currys and PC World are part of Dixons Retail plc. With over 1,200 stores and online services spanning 28 countries, Dixons is widely acknowledged as one of Europe’s leading specialist electrical retailing groups. Dixons employs over 38,000 people and provides top quality training to ensure their personnel can provide amazing customer service on products ranging from televisions to ovens to computers and dishwashing machines. In addition, if you need someone to help you with your computer or laptop, Currys and PC World specialists can help.

To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click: http://www.multivu.com/mnr/56761-zte-engage-smartphone-exclusively-available-at-cricket

The ZTE Engage is a full-featured, multimedia powerhouse based on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), equipped with a 4.0″ capacitive touchscreen, a 1.4GHz CPU and an 8.0 megapixel camera with LED flash. With Android 4.0, Cricket customers will benefit from a range of improved features that offer an exceptional, interactive experience – from multitasking, customizable home screens to Swype predictive text. The ZTE Engage also features Cricket’s innovative Muve Music service. Muve Music subscribers have access to unlimited downloads of their favorite music and access to exclusive artist commentary, music and video through Muve Music’s Muve First and Muve Headliner featured artist programs. With millions of songs at their fingertips, customers will never pay per song and no contracts are required.

“The ZTE Engage is an exciting smartphone with enhanced functionality from Android 4.0 OS and will be available with Cricket’s new value-rich no-contract smartphone service plans,” said Matt Stoiber, senior vice president of devices for Cricket. “Impressive at any price, the ZTE Engage will be a WOW device for Cricket customers and is a great new addition to the higher-end smartphone line-up that Cricket is turning on this year.”

The ZTE Engage features:

• 4.0″ WVGA TFT capacitive touchscreen
• Qualcomm MSM8655T Scorpion – 1.4GHz
• Dual-Facing Cameras: Rear (8.0MP) w/LED Flash & Front (VGA)
• MUVE Music Ready with 4GB Muve Music SD Card included
• Removable MicroSD Memory Card (up to 32GB)
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
• Lithium Ion 1900 mAh battery

Pricing and Availability:

The ZTE Engage will be available at Cricket company-owned stores, dealers and at www.mycricket.com beginning Tuesday, October 2, 2012 for $249.99 (MSRP). Customers can choose from three Cricket no-contract smartphone plans for the ZTE Engage. The rate plans start at $50 for unlimited talk, text and 3G data plus 1GB of full-speed data per month. The $60 smartphone plan contains 2.5GB of full-speed data per month and the $70 smartphone plan offers 5GB of full-speed data per month. Both the $60 and $70 plans include the ability for customers to tether their device to power additional wireless devices.

For more information about Cricket’s dynamic service and newest device lineup, visit www.mycricket.com. To follow Cricket’s recent news and updates online, visit Facebook at www.facebook.com/cricketwireless and Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/cricketnation.

About Cricket

Cricket is the pioneer and leader in delivering innovative value-rich prepaid wireless services with no long-term contracts serving approximately 6 million customers. Cricket offers nationwide wireless voice and mobile data services over high-quality, all-digital wireless networks. Cricket’s innovative products and services, including the award-winning Muve Music^® – the first music service designed for a wireless phone, are available nationwide at Cricket branded retail stores, dealers, national retailers and at www.mycricket.com. For more information about Cricket, please visit www.mycricket.com.

About ZTE USA

ZTE USA is a subsidiary of ZTE Corporation (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions. ZTE USA is dedicated to making quality communications technology accessible to all. The company draws on more than 25 years of experience and research investment to deliver smart, affordable, quality choices for infrastructure and mobile data device customers nationwide. For more information, visit www.zteusa.com and follow @ZTE_USA.

About ZTE

ZTE is a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions with the most comprehensive product range covering virtually every telecommunications sector, including wireless, access & bearer, VAS, terminals and professional services. The company delivers innovative, custom-made products and services to over 500 operators in more than 140 countries, helping them to meet the changing needs of their customers while growing revenue. In 2011, ZTE’s revenue increased by 29 per cent to USD13.7 billion. Its overseas operating revenue grew 30 per cent to USD 7.4 billion during the period, accounting for 54.2 per cent of overall operating revenue. ZTE commits 10 per cent of its annual revenue to research and development and has leadership roles in several international bodies devoted to developing telecommunications industry standards. ZTE is committed to corporate social responsibility and is a member of the UN Global Compact. The company is China’s only listed telecom manufacturer that is publicly traded on both the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ). For more information, please visit www.zte.com.cn.

But what are the most expensive Google keywords? Well it seems that plenty of them belong to the finance industry.

The most expensive keyword, according to Google, is “insurance”. With plenty of financial service companies, banks, and even supermarkets offering us a variety of insurance options, it is little wonder that this term can fetch up to $54.91 Cost Per Click (CPC) on Google. It is also interesting to note that 24% of the top 10,000 keywords were insurance related.

Three other financial terms make up the top five most expensive Google keywords. These are “loans”, “mortgage”, and “credit”.

Small businesses that require PPC help may be unable spend a lot of money on a monthly campaign, but they will still need a professional agency to look after their PPC activity. Don’t worry, as a PPC campaign may be more affordable than you think.

So if your company is looking for a paid search audit, a cost effective PPC package from Search Catalyst can give you the power to drive higher customer acquisition and sales through effective search engine advertising.

A PPC campaign can benefit businesses of all sizes, as it can greatly increase the chances of your website being visited. This is because there is an immediate exposure of your business to the great number of people surfing the internet, particularly if your Google ads are placed in the top positions. However, the best positions will certainly cost you more.

Small businesses can also create a PPC campaign to target specific groups or individuals who may already have an interest in your product or service. In addition, Search Catalyst recommends selecting unique keywords related to your product in order to catch the attention of major search engines, as this will help to improve your website’s overall ranking.

Stream TV’s relationships with Konka and BOE are indicative of the company’s global growth strategy, which prioritize China given its status as the largest consumer market for 3D media. Both Konka and BOE rank among the top 10 technology companies in China, where Konka is considered a tier one consumer electronics brand and BOE is a leader in the display industry. Together, they will give Ultra-D massive presence in retail across China.

“Their retail firepower will enable Ultra-D television sets to reach most parts of mainland China,” says Mathu Rajan, CEO of Stream TV Networks. “More than 38% of the TVs sold in China this year have been 3DTVs, and the introduction of a world-class autostereoscopic technology like Ultra-D is expected to further that trend.”

Over the next few months, several high profile events including the 2012 Olympic Games will be broadcast in with glasses 3D, which can be autoconverted into 3D without glasses real-time using the Ultra-D technology. Stream TV Networks will be placing prototypes at high traffic venues in metropolitan areas so consumers can view these 3D events using Ultra-D. In the US, the first venue to showcase Ultra-D will be Blondies Sports® (www.blondiessports.com) in New York City located at 212 West 79th St. Ultra-D will be available at Blondies by July 2012. Additional consumer viewing locations for Ultra-D technology will be announced in the coming weeks and will include additional venues in New York, Philadelphia, London and various locations throughout China.

The Ultra-D technology is the only 3D without glasses technology that has eliminated viewing angles. The SeeCube Conversion Box seamlessly autoconverts 2D and 3D stereoscopic (with glasses) into autostereoscopic (glasses-free) 3D format in real-time. Ultra-D supports nearly every kind of video feed including cable, Blu-ray™, DVD, XBOX®, PS3®, PC games, stereoscopic 3D TV channels and online video. Most recently the technology has also been optimized for the iOS®, Macs and the Android® operating system for enhanced connectivity to peripheral devices.

“We have received overwhelmingly positive feedback that Ultra-D is the only 3D without glasses developed to date that is ready for the consumer market,” adds Rajan. “We’re glad to be launching with such reputable partners and will be announcing more partnerships in the months to come so it certainly is a very exciting time for the company.”

For more information about Stream TV Networks or the Ultra-D TV please visit www.StreamTVNetworks.com.

About Stream TV Networks
Stream TV Networks, Inc. is a Philadelphia-based new media company founded in 2009 to enhance entertainment and communications experiences through superior quality devices with unlimited accessibility. Through its brands and products, Stream TV Networks intends to create a media landscape that supports on-demand access to content anytime and anywhere and nurture interactive user feedback, creative participation and community formation around media content. The company’s mission is to redefine new media so that it reaches its true dynamic potential and real-time interactive relationship with the media consumer. For more information, please visit www.StreamTVNetworks.com.

“The public cloud holds the potential for true workload mobility, where users can move data, applications and operations between clouds as needed, ensuring the right mix of price and performance,” said Christopher Brown, CTO, Opscode. “To realize this potential, public cloud providers need to eliminate barriers to mobility and Google Compute Engine is doing just that by creating an open, easily accessible cloud platform. By leveraging Opscode Chef to build their applications, customers are able to easily migrate their explications from other virtual machine services to Google Compute Engine with a single command, or vice versa.”

Google Compute Engine provides a highly reliable, open, cost-effective compute infrastructure that enables any developer or business to run large scale computing workloads on the same infrastructure that runs Google search, Gmail, and ads. Google’s world-class data centers and infrastructure technology provide unparalleled performance and value, and its architecture is optimized for predictability, scalability, security, and flexibility.

Opscode Chef combines with Google Compute Engine to enable the creation and management of cloud resources directly from the command line, ensuring infrastructure is consistent and easily scalable. With Chef, Google Compute Engine users can automate the full compute stack, from server provisioning all the way through application deployment. Opscode Chef provides recipes – re-usable configuration templates – for everything from rebuilding environments to configuring resources, ensuring a seamless, enterprise-grade experience. In addition, the open source Chef community features 13,000 registered users, 750 individual contributors, 135 corporate contributors and 500 cookbooks, providing a rich ecosystem of support for Google Compute Engine customers looking to make the most of their investment in the cloud.

“In order to help our customers get the most out of our cloud platform products,” explains Shailesh Rao, Director of New Products and Solutions for Google Enterprise, “we have worked closely with technology partners to integrate complementary offerings and with services firms to enable them to build powerful new cloud-based solutions that help customers accelerate their success and innovation.”

Google Compute Engine partners include services firms, such as systems integrators, developers, and IT consultants, and technology firms, such as software vendors, platform companies, and management and tools vendors. These partners offer complementary services, solutions, and technologies that have been integrated to provide customers with powerful new solutions using Google Compute Engine. For more information on Opscode and its solutions integrated with Google Compute Engine, please visit http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Community+Plugins, and to learn more about the Google Compute Engine, please go to http://cloud.google.com.

About Opscode Chef

Opscode’s pioneering software, Chef, is an open-source systems integration framework built specifically for automating the cloud. No matter how complex the realities of business, Chef makes it easy to deploy servers and scale applications throughout an entire infrastructure. Through a combination of configuration management and service-oriented architectures, Chef, Hosted Chef and Private Chef make it easy to create an elegant, fully automated infrastructure while simplifying systems management.

About Opscode
Opscode is the leader in cloud infrastructure automation. Opscode helps companies of all sizes develop fully automated server infrastructures that scale easily and predictably; can be quickly rebuilt in any environment; and save developers and systems engineers time and money. Opscode’s team is comprised of web infrastructure experts responsible for building and operating some of the world’s largest websites and cloud computing platforms. More information can be found at www.opscode.com.

“Our team is focused on delivering a cool, fan-friendly experience for buying tickets on all kinds of devices. Our new Ticketmaster app is the definitive way for fans to find and purchase tickets for events using their iPhone,” said Kip Levin, executive vice president of eCommerce, Ticketmaster. “It is a must-have for every fan of live events.”

The Ticketmaster app for iPhone scans users’ iTunes music library to understand music preferences and users can choose to have the iPhone’s built-in location services activated to automatically recommend relevant upcoming local events. Fans can further personalize the recommended shows by using more than 40 preset filters.

The app also offers deep social media connections, allowing fans to easily Tweet and Facebook® during the discovery phase, after purchasing tickets and check in on Foursquare during the event, helping to extend the fun and excitement of the event beyond the event itself.

Fans can download the free app on the App Store at: http://m.ticketmaster.com/app

About Ticketmaster:

With operations spanning 19 countries, Ticketmaster is the world leader in event ticketing and ranks among the top five eCommerce sites globally. Ticketmaster is a division of Live Nation Entertainment. Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment and eCommerce company, comprised of four market leaders: Ticketmaster.com, Live Nation Concerts, Front Line Management Group and Live Nation Network. Ticketmaster.com is the global event ticketing leader and one of the world’s top five eCommerce sites, with almost 27 million monthly unique visitors. Live Nation Concerts produces over 22,000 shows annually for more than 2,300 artists globally. Front Line is the world’s top artist management company, representing over 250 artists. These businesses power Live Nation Network, the leading provider of entertainment marketing solutions, enabling nearly 800 advertisers to tap into the 200 million consumers Live Nation delivers annually through its live event and digital platforms. For additional information, visit www.livenation.com/investors.