MedeFile International, Inc. announced this morning that it has launched its new Community Outreach Program (“COP Initiative”) to provide local emergency medical first responders with the information crucial to making life-saving treatment decisions on a community-wide scale. The company also hopes that the new initiative will play a key role in offsetting local law enforcement agencies’ critical budgetary shortfalls caused by federal and state funding cuts.

“MedeFile is very proud to launch the COP Initiative – a truly innovative program created to reach an even broader audience of potential MedeFile members, while also providing the means to help local law enforcement purchase the policing technologies they require to enhance public safety in the communities they serve,“ stated the company.

With the coordination of participating departments, local municipal authorities and community leaders, MedeFile will be hosting and supporting educational classes at local public venues (such as public libraries, community centers,

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On June 10th, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) called a public meeting of its Energy Markets Advisory Committee to address continually exponentiating oil prices.

Representatives from major investment banks such as Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley fielded questions regarding their banks’ roles in the oil futures market for the first time under the public eye. Many groups have raised suspicion as to whether the banks are using investors’ funds to bid up oil prices, while at the same time issuing predictions that prices will rise.

Donald Casturo, managing director of Goldman Sachs, stated: “There is a clear separation between our research and trading departments…The firm is acting within the terms of the law.”

Still, organizations like Industrial Energy Consumers of America remain skeptical of the truth in this statement. The CFTC announced the launch of an investigation to be conducted by a special panel consisting of Federal Reserve, SEC,

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ideaEDGE Inc. (OTCBB: IDAE) develops prepaid gift card programs utilizing highly popular social sites such as MySpace and Facebook, which have a combined audience of more than 170 million users. It’s an audience that keeps growing as users from all over the world, from every walk of life, and of every age jump on the social networking bandwagon.

ideaEDGE today announced it has secured $1.2 million of new equity funding, which will allow the company to rollout its Social Network Enable (SNE) Group Gift Card platform in late 2008. “Our industry partners are excited about the potential of our SNE Group Gift Card platform,” Jim Collas, ideaEDGE’s CEO stated in the press release. “We expect to have an impressive network of industry partners and gift card merchants for our planned launch this fall.”

With the economy’s weak condition, money is tight for everyone, and shopping with a gift card should make anyone

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This week, Joytoto USA, Inc. announced the launch of its first online game to be available for download in the US, “Pang Pang Terrible”. It is one of the first online, first-person shooter games to allow character customization, and has a ‘cartoon’ feel to appeal to younger players.

Joytoto has had several successful game launches in Korea, and will now attempt to capture the attention of American gamers. This is part of the company’s ongoing expansion strategy, which has been progressing rapidly in 2008. The game will be available through Joytoto’s distribution portal, playolive.com.

Regarding the release of the new title, CEO Michael Cho states: “We are very excited about our first downloadable online game release, as it demonstrates our commitment to the US online gaming market and the growing demand of the US consumer. The company continues to commit a substantial amount of time and resources

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Due to increase sales in Mexico and new distributors in the North American market, ForeverGreen, a manufacturer and distributor of all natural whole foods, announced today that they are expansion distributions.

While Mexico is still in the pre-launch stage and leadership and distribution continues to be established in the region, the Mexican market is growing monthly and has recently become the company’s fourth largest sales market. To officially launch ForeverGreen in Mexico, the company plans on hosting opening events later this summer as well as introduce the company’s energy drink ElectriFire™.

According to the company, ElectriFire™ is an exclusive combination of safe energy and natural health products that utilizes ForeverGreen’s patent-pending technology to take natural plant concentrates and render them water-soluble, making them instantly absorbed. These proprietary blends contain natural, safe, clean and organic ingredients for instant energy that lasts for hours and is felt throughout your whole body.

The company

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Elysium Internet Inc. (OTCBB: USBF) (Pending name change), an emerging direct navigation Internet media company, with a diversified domain portfolio and proprietary directory and local search platforms. Today the company announced it will launch its proprietary Local Search Platform by July 1. The new search channel is expected to boost directory brands and strengthen its advertising relationships.

“Our majority owned subsidiary Dice Ventures Inc. has built a state of the art platform able to monetize local search traffic by generating search engine optimized, expandable landing pages in seconds,” Elysium CEO Scott Gallagher stated in the press release. “We plan to launch the platform over 50 geo domains as city directories by July 1. The local search channel will become our second significant revenue stream, allowing us to further leverage our directory brands for our ad partners.”

Elysium also announced plans to roll out its second subscription-based Internet directory, brand

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ETF provider WisdomTree (WSDT.PK) and Dreyfus Corporation announced the launch of four currency income ETFs yesterday based on the Chinese Yuan (CYB), Indian Rupee (ICN), Brazilian Real (BZF) and the Euro (EU), with a Japanese (JYF) one in the pipeline. Investing in these funds would be similar to investing in money market funds in these countries. As discussed in the recent Fortune article titled Is Your Money Fund Safe?, most money market funds maintain a constant share price like $1 and the firms running these funds go to great lengths to ensure that the share price does not drop. Unlike money market funds, these WisdomTree funds may not maintain a constant value on account of the investment instruments they are using to simulate money market like returns. With Brazil's ...

I got an email today from American Stock Exchange that I wanted to pass along:

AMERICAN STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF FIXED RETURN OPTIONS (FROs) ON THURSDAY MAY 8, 2008

New York , May 1, 2008 – The American Stock Exchange® (Amex®) announced today the launch of Fixed Return OptionsSM (FROsSM), which will begin trading on May 8. FROs are “binary” options on popular equities and exchange traded funds (ETFs), including QQQQ, SPDRs and Google that will pay a fixed, cash amount of $100.00 upon settlement “in-the-money.” Fixed Return Options are offered in two forms: “Finish High” – each long contract returns $100.00 if the underlying security settlement value is above the strike price at expiration and “Finish Low” – each long contract returns $100.00 if the underlying security settlement value is below the strike price at expiration. FROs will settle at expiration based on Amex. FRO Settlement Index that will ...

No, it’s not the CNG you think it is.
Amid the recent high food inflation and record prices of rice, it is a relief to find some businesses in Singapore that do not raise prices but attempt to sell more in place of thinning profits. (薄利多销）。

Today I came across the Straits Times and saw an article on the launch of a community website, www.ekampong.com.sg ; in particular, the article zooms in on