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SHANGHAI, July 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- STAR China Media Ltd and Puji Capital Limited have entered a joint venture partnership for the investment and development of international TV content for the STAR platform in China and other investment opportunities. The joint venture is to be named Puji Star Media Co., Ltd. based in Shanghai, China.

The venture will invest in internationally inspired TV content and advertising with particular interest in the Americas/Hollywood, Europe, Japan, Korea, and among others tailored for the local Chinese viewers onto the STAR TV's platform including various types of content made for TV and produced for the Chinese market. It shall also invest in opportunities to enhance the profile and value chain of STAR China in China and worldwide.

Mr. Tian Ming, CEO of STAR China, said, "Puji's vast experience in value creation for shareholders coupled with their strong international media network and platforms allows us to be well positioned to the tremendous opportunity that lies ahead for us in the China media market."

Mr. Michael Chien from Shanghai and Mr. Jotaro Nonaka from Japan, Managing Partners of Puji Capital said in a joint statement, "We are honored to partner with Tian Ming and his team who has turned STAR TV to a profitable company within a short time with his creativity and solid understanding to capture the passion of Chinese viewers and its commercial value. STAR China is a very distinctive TV platform that enjoys many content and distribution advantages over its competitors for China market. We believe that Puji Star Media will provide a very unique 'One Stop Gateway' for those who wish to optimize and maximize their business through STAR TV's vast coverage in the China market."

In the announcement of industrial statistic in 2011 by the State Administration of Radio, Film and TV, China's TV market experienced tremendous growth over the past years, with broadcasting revenues increasing US$15 billion in 2005 to US$37 billion in 2010 and enjoyed a 22% increase in 2011. The Chinese media, specifically television content, is growing at annual rate of 27% and producing US$19 billion dollars in 2011 of advertising.

ABOUT STAR CHINA MEDIA

STAR China Media, owned by powerful Chinese media investment fund - China Media Capital and News Corporation, is the only foreign channel that has the right to broadcast directly in China. Based on the international resources, STAR TV is tailor made to more than 100 million Chinese audience with mainly entertainment shows. It is broadcasting 24 hours a day in Mandarin Chinese.

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ABOUT PUJI CAPITAL

Puji Capital is a Shanghai based investment and asset management firm with a focus in lifestyle, media, property, and consumer industries. Puji's unique and agile investment platform with control of strong capital resources via longstanding relationships with rich list Asian families, high net worth individuals, and institutional partners provides Puji as a valued strategic investment partner.

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All it takes is a mouse click or two to enhance the business prospects of the social media-savvy company or land it in hot water.

As the use of social media increases, so do the ethical and legal pitfalls of information control. That was illustrated by the passage this spring of a new Maryland law prohibiting employers, with rare exceptions, from asking for personal account passwords from job applicants or employees.

But other legal dangers of social media use are becoming increasingly evident. Businesses struggle to balance their embrace of social media with the potential for misuse. And for many, they rely on oral guidelines, rather than documented policy.

We consider ourselves as a business to be at the forefront of engaging social media to present a comprehensive image to the public, said Eric Vermeiren, communication manager for Clean Currents, an alternative energy company in Silver Spring.

Besides having a corporate presence on major social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube, Clean Currents encourages its employees to use social media to keep up with company events and promote the company. Although Clean Currents lacks defined restrictions on employees use of social media, the company discourages oversaturating the cyberspace with too much or irrelevant information, Vermeiren said.

Clean Currents has 22 employees.

Were in the middle of fleshing out a longer social media strategy, Vermeiren said, adding that there is a bit of a back door when it comes to employees switching between the companys and their personal accounts.

One danger is the potential for employees to take a companys social media followers with them should they change jobs, said Susan Stobbart Shapiro, a partner with Council, Baradel, Kosmeri & Nolan in Annapolis. At a recent seminar for the Chesapeake Regional Tech Council, Shapiro presented the case of Phone Dog in South Carolina, in which an employee had used his personal Twitter account to promote Phone Dog. But once he left Phone Dog, that account and its many followers went with him, leaving Phone Dog in the lurch.

The old-school non-compete language needs to be revised to address this new medium, Shapiro said, adding that social media legal concerns have cropped up more within the last three years.

The Golden RuleStandard Solar, a solar power company in Rockville, applies a Golden Rule approach in allowing employees to use social media, said marketing manager Marisa Hartman.

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OTTOBRUNN, GERMANY--(Marketwire -07/03/12)- EXTEDO, a key eRegulatory Affairs solutions provider for life sciences firms, today announced that the Medicines Control Council (MCC) of South Africa has selected a new solution based on EURS is Yours for its reviewing and validation project called ERES.

The EXTEDO solution will validate, import, and review electronic submission information sent by pharmaceutical companies on electronic media such as CDs or DVDs. A number of industry customers in South Africa have already started using the EXTEDO submission management solution for creating eCTD, NeeS, and paper-based submissions.

The selected solution is based on the EXTEDO EURS is Yours Solution (European Reviewing System), which has been deployed at the European Medicines Agency and many other European regulatory authorities. Regional requirements of MCC South Africa have been jointly worked out and are adopted within the new EXTEDO solution.

"Currently the drug approval process in African countries can take as long as three years," stated Tore Bergsteiner, CEO for EXTEDO. "The delays deny timely access of essential medicines to the sick. South Africa is committed to dramatically reduce registration times. It will be the first African country to start a time-effective reviewing process and accept electronic submissions instead of paper-based submissions. We are looking forward to working with the MCC to bring medicines to the South African people faster."

About EXTEDO

EXTEDO is the key software and service solutions provider in the field of Regulatory Information Management. The complete EXTEDOsuite is unique in all that it covers within eRegulatory Affairs: Product Registration Planning & Tracking, Submission Management, Pharmacovigilance Management, Labeling Management and Document Management.

EXTEDO provides configurable off-the-shelf products, as well as customized and integrated solutions. EXTEDO also provides EURS is Yours, the validation, review and approval system for the EMA and more than 25 Regulatory Authorities worldwide.

Today EXTEDO serves more than 700 customers in 57 countries ranging from small companies with less than 25 employees to large multi-national organizations. EXTEDO operates in the following markets for human, veterinary and crop protection: Life sciences, including pharmaceutical, biotech and biopharma, generics, homeopathics and medical devices, healthcare and public sector. EXTEDO is recognized as one of the worldwide leaders in each of its areas of operation.

For more information visit http://www.extedo.com.

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eyeSight, a leader in touch-free interfaces for digital devices, today announces the availability of an advanced gesture control solution for the Windows 8 user interface. eyeSights eyeCan now allows users to control windows, applications, media, the Metro UI, etc. with a flick of the wrist, and to use a virtual mouse/pointer from across the room, (eyePoint). With eyeSights technology OEMs can quickly and easily offer a unique level of convenience, fun and usability in their customers Windows 8 experience.

eyeSights software-only technology has been designed to be incredibly quick and simple to integrate, over-and-above anything else in the market. In fact, eyeSight offers a solution whereby OEMs have no need to interact with the Windows 8 code at all.

eyeSights groundbreaking eyeKeys application allows gestures to be mapped to existing keyboard shortcuts, virtual keypress events, touch events, etc. Applications such as; Powerpoint, Media, Photo gallery, web browsing, reader applications, the music player and various Metro UI applications can almost instantly be gesture enabled by simply mapping a gesture to a specific keyboard shortcut, mouse event, etc. eyeSight also offers OEMs an easy-to-use SDK, allowing OEMs to quickly integrate gesture control function into the features and applications at a code level.

eyeSights technology is designed to work even with cameras of low or varying quality. eyeSight therefore presents the best real world solution for companies looking for easy-to-integrate, cost-effective, high-performance gesture control.

The Windows 8 user-interface has been designed beautifully for touch, commented Gideon Shmuel, CEO, eyeSight Mobile Technologies, and OEMs are now hungry for a simple-to-integrate, mass market answer to touch-free control. And as hardware-based solutions incur significant costs, time and real-estate issues, software is clearly the best way to achieve this.

Other solutions require that users adapt to perform slightly stiff or fixed movements to recognize gestures. eyeSights software, on the other hand, is designed to recognize various natural ways in which users perform gestures. Customers will flock to the devices that provide the most comfortable and natural user-experience, and so we have put this requirement front-and-centre.

At Computex, Taiwan, eyeSight recently demonstrated its technology running in a broad range of devices; everything from mobile phones to portable computers, tablets to TVs - all using a standard 2D camera either integrated or connected to the device.

eyeSights technology is compatible with all major operating systems; Apples iOS, Android and Linux as well as previous Windows versions. eyeSights technology can also be developed to work on more bespoke platforms, such as automotive infotainment or navigation systems.

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The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne and MSNBC political analyst Charlie Cook debate the role of health care in the presidential race.

By M. Alex Johnson, msnbc.com

Most social media users approve of the Supreme Court's health care ruling last week but believe it will help Republicans in the November election, according to msnbc.com's computer-assisted analysis of tens of thousands of posts on Twitter and Facebook.

The court upheld nearly all of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on a 5-4 vote Thursday. The consensus in news reports and among political pundits was that the ruling was a major victory for President Barack Obama.

But among people who use social networking sites, 56 percent of those who stated a clear opinion on the decision's political impact said they thought it was more likely to energize Republican voters in November. Forty-four percent said it was likely to be more helpful for Democrats.

(Msnbc.com analyzed 175,000 Twitter and Facebook posts mentioning the ruling from midday Thursday through midday Monday. The analysis uses a tool called ForSight, a data platform developed by Crimson Hexagon Inc., which is used by many media and research organizations to gauge public opinion in new media. Crimson Hexagon reports a 3-percentage-point margin of sampling error for this type of online sentiment analysis.)

Overall, 60 percent of online commenters approved of the decision, with many of them telling stories abouthow it would have an immediate impact on their families.

Supreme Court upholds health care law Health care ruling could leave poorest Americans at greatest risk

Writing on Facebook, Cathy Weller of Cocoa Beach, Fla., described herself as "a fiscal conservative, libertarian leaning, social progressive." She wrote of losing her health insurance when she lost her job and the difficulty she had insuring herself because of her pre-existing condition cancer:

All of a sudden I found myself researching health insurance options. Imagine my surprise to find there were none. None. Not a few expensive ones, but none. It didn't matter if I was willing to pay $10,000 a month for health insurance, it was just not available to me, anywhere for any amount of money. This was the first time I personally came up against the issue of health insurance availability having worked constantly up to that point and always having employer offered insurance.

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