Companies featured in this edition of the newsletter: ACTC, CHIP, CUR, CVM, ENZ, IMUC, IWEB, SRCO, SVUL, XSNX

Markets finally snapped their winning streak last week, as weakness in housing markets and durable goods orders led to broad-based declines in all of the major indices. All told, the Dow surrendered 155 points on the week to close at 9665, down 1.6% on the week but up 10.1% on the year. The Nasdaq lost 2.0% on the week to close at 2090, up 32.6% on the year, while the S&P 500 and Russell 2000 posted losses of 2.2% and 3.1% respectively, paring their yearly gains to 15.6% and 19.9%.

Unexpectedly poor data from the housing sector was the big economic story on the week as both new and existing August home sales failed to live up to expectations. New home sales increased modestly to 429,000, falling short of estimates calling

Veramark Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of Telecom Expense Management (TEM) solutions, announced that its VeraSMART(R) Communications Management Suite has received the 2008 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC).

Providing an environment for full product lifecycle telecommunications expense management, VeraSMART helps organizations gain visibility into their communications networks and reduce expenses associated with their voice, data, and wireless services and infrastructure. The management suite provides a holistic view of all telecom and IT expenses and gives organizations the technology needed to control those costs more effectively.

“Telecom Expense Management is a services market and VeraSMART is one major differentiator for Veramark as compared to other TEM service providers,” stated Denise Chapman, Veramark’s Director of Marketing. “It enables Veramark to provide better, faster, and more cost-effective TEM services. In addition, ease-of-use features and industry-leading support and services offer customers the option to license the software

EDGAR Online and Zephyr Financial Intelligence announced that they have formed a strategic alliance that will bring a suite of XBRL 2.0 analytical tools to market. Through this partnership, Zephyr will design, build and deliver an assortment of custom analytical tools powered by EDGAR Online’s robust database housing 10+ years of financial statement data in XBRL format from more than 12,000 companies.

Bryan Feinberg, CEO of Zephyr, stated, “EDGAR Online’s unparalleled XBRL data and Web-based platform enables us to build state of the art solutions for our clients. XBRL is actually an enabling technology for all investors - from the person who dabbles in the capital markets through their 401K plan to the analyst who works at the equities desk for an institutional investment company. XBRL allows users to slice and dice data as they choose and holds the potential to unleash new views of risks and opportunities to the user.”