Upcoming Holiday Shopping Season With a probable end in sight to a prolonged recession, American consumers are somewhat upbeat about the upcoming holiday shopping season. However, customers remain skeptical at the same time and intend to spend less, compared to previous years before the start of the recession. According to a study by A.C. Nielsen, approximately 42% of American consumers plan to spend less this holiday shopping season, representing a 7% year-over-year rise in those who intend to spend less. U.S. customers have undergone a fundamental change in how they spend their money. They are primarily focusing on value-for-money items throughout the holiday shopping season, especially traditional and essential gifts that are popular. As a result, traditional items such as toys, electronic goods and clothing are at the top of holiday shopping lists, and most consumers intend to spend more on gift cards. Consequently, ...

eDoorways Corp., a web-based consumer problem-solving gateway, lifestyle information source, and online business-to-consumer marketplace, announced today that it has exceeded 20,000 followers on its Twitter campaign. The company has plans to incorporate the use of Twitter and other social media outlets as part of its initial support strategy when the SOLVE doorway version “Beta 1.0″ is released next month.

Ann Collins, SOLVE Project Manager and Social Media Consultant for the eDoorways Corporation, said, “eDoorways has impressively surpassed the 20,000 follower mark in less than three months on Twitter. Many companies are successfully using the connections they have on Twitter to better support their customer base. However, one mistake they make — one that eDoorways is certainly attempting to avoid — is to go after quantity rather than quality when it comes to their contacts.”

Twitter is a great way to gather relevant input

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QualityStocks, a free service that collects data from hundreds of Small-Cap and Micro-Cap online Investment Newsletters into one free Daily Newsletter Report, today announces the introduction of QualityStocksTwits (“QSTwits”). Available FREE at www.QualityStocksTwits.com, the Web 2.0 site collates Twitter’s investment discussions in real-time, enabling investors to track the web’s savviest investors as well as build their own following. Social media has changed the way we research companies and how information gets processed. QSTwits gathers data from Twitter on any company, big or small.

With QSTwits, users can eavesdrop on what traders are talking about right now or contribute to the conversation and build their own reputation. It also allows anyone to search the Twitter universe for tweets relating to a particular stock and use Twitter’s features directly within the application. Investors will also be able to quickly see which stocks are being discussed most. Investors are put on the pulse

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Equifax Inc. (EFX) recently launched Equifax Social Influencer, a customer acquisition solution enhanced with the use of social media, in association with StrongMail Systems, Inc., a leading provider of online marketing solutions for email and social media.   This new solution introduced by Equifax presents a combination of StrongMail’s Influencer viral marketing solution and strategic services with Equifax's data services and analytics expertise, so that marketing through E-mail reaches a greater number of customers across different demographic profiles and socioeconomic status.   With Equifax Social Influencer, marketers can now use the contacts of their most influential and highly valued customers to increase the possibility of a favorable business outcome. This will enhance the network of direct customers and motivate existing customers to share their network through email, blogs and popular social networks like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace.   We believe that in this time of economic and financial ...

Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) is losing top executives to upcoming media and brand advertising companies. Recent announcements included the departure of Patrick Berry, Head of the connected TV group and Josh Jacobs, VP and GM of Marketing Technology and Head of Strategy and Marketing for the Yahoo! Publisher Network (YPN).   While details regarding Berry’s new pursuits were hazy, there was considerably more publicity surrounding Jacobs’ new position at New York-based Glam Media Inc. Jacobs is joining Glam as SVP of brand advertising products and marketing and will report to Jack Rotolo, President of Glam Media North America.   Jacobs’ new responsibilities involve Glam’s owned and operated properties, which include content, technology, social media and mobile advertising assets. He will be responsible for the Glam network of more than 113 million active users globally, as well as the Glam Publisher Network of 1,400 publishers, agencies and brand advertising partners. ...

Everyone has his own story to tell about the impact of the Great Recession, and the Museum of American Finance wants to use the power of social media to catalog them all. The museum has set up Recessipedia, a Wikipedia-like site that allows users to write about how the financial crisis and global recession has affected them. The idea is to gather stories and piece together a comprehensive view of the recession, much in the same way that a natural history museum would collect bones and pottery shards to flesh out the history of a bygone civilization. One of the first Recessipedia contributors, NINJA Dad (the acronym means No Income, No Job or Assets), wrote about his daughter, an unemployed recent college grad who in 2006 bought a $250,000 house with a no-money-down subprime mortgage. ldquo;She hasnt defaulted ... yet ... but periodically she calls crying her eyes out,rdquo; wrote NINJA Dad, who identified ...

Everyone has his own story to tell about the impact of the Great Recession, and the Museum of American Finance wants to use the power of social media to catalog them all. The museum has set up Recessipedia, a Wikipedia-like site that allows users to write about how the financial crisis and global recession has affected them. The idea is to gather stories and piece together a comprehensive view of the recession, much in the same way that a natural history museum would collect bones and pottery shards to flesh out the history of a bygone civilization. One of the first Recessipedia contributors, NINJA Dad (the acronym means No Income, No Job or Assets), wrote about his daughter, an unemployed recent college grad who in 2006 bought a $250,000 house with a no-money-down subprime mortgage. ldquo;She hasnt defaulted ... yet ... but periodically she calls crying her eyes out,rdquo; wrote NINJA Dad, who identified ...

eDoorways Corporation yesterday delivered a compelling demonstration of its platform as the company successfully unveiled its first doorway, “SOLVE.” With the assistance of the pleasant and witty Amy Hadley, Gary F. Kimmons, Chairman & CEO, provided eDoorways’ shareholders, Austin business owners and other interested parties a preview into the “SOLVE” doorway.

“I’m completely overwhelmed by the turn out of supporters,” stated Kimmons. “This is indeed a milestone for this company. Considering our position in early 2008 vs. where we are today, if there is any question as to the validity of our existence, simply take a look at what we have done here tonight. It’s pretty impressive.”

Inside a brilliantly decorated ball room, where the main audience seating was arranged in the shape of the company logo, spectators enjoyed food, drinks, networking and listened to Austin’s own growing sensation, T-Bird And

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Tuesday August 18, 2009

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Desert Equity LP, a Delaware limited partnership, today announced that it has commenced its previously announced cash tender offer for up to a total of 3,740,000 shares of common stock, or approximately 16.3% of the shares outstanding, of White Electronic Designs Corporation (Nasdaq: WEDC), at a price of $4.25 net per share in cash (subject to applicable withholding of U.S. federal, state and local taxes).

Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX) announced positive preclinical results with Novavax’s 2009 novel H1N1 influenza virus-like particle (VLP) vaccine. The study, conducted by scientists from Novavax and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) based in Atlanta, GA, under

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