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HCC Medical Insurance Services, LLC (HCCMIS), a provider of international medical insurance and short-term health insurance has been announced as the recipient of the Customer of the Year award by Slingshot SEO, a company dedicated to providing digital relevance. The company is the inaugural winner of this honor as this is the first time in five years of operation that Slingshot SEO has held client and employee awards.

HCCMIS began working with Slingshot SEO in 2009 and found great success with their CLASS methodology. The strategy helped HCCMIS reach their customers easier and gain better visibility with their insurance customer services.

Since using Slingshot SEOs services, online sales for HCCMIS have grown at a rate of 40 percent, far above the industry average. We were among the first to make insurance products available online, said Mark Carney, CEO of HCCMIS. Since we began working with Slingshot SEO in 2009 we have developed four fully functional websites and have increased our site visits by 500 percent.

Slingshot SEO awarded the honor to HCCMIS because a meaningful relationship was developed. The HCCMIS team collaborates on a peer-to-peer level, often jumping into our brainstorming sessions. These are qualities we truly appreciate in a customer, said Jeremy Dearringer, co-founder and chief research officer at Slingshot SEO.

For more information, visit http://www.hccmis.com/.

About HCCMIS

HCC Medical Insurance Services LLC (HCCMIS), headquartered in the United States in Indianapolis, Indiana, is a full-service company offering international medical insurance and short-term medical insurance products designed to meet needs of consumers worldwide. HCCMIS is a subsidiary of HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: HCC - News), a leading Specialty Insurance group. HCCs major companies have a financial strength rating of AA (Very Strong) by Standard & Poors and Fitch Ratings and A+ (Superior) by A.M. Best Company.

About Slingshot SEO

Indianapolis-based Slingshot SEO was ranked #58 on the 2011 list of Incs 500 Fastest Growing Companies, and was #14 on the 2011 Tech200. Founded in 2006, Slingshot SEO provides professional SEO services to more than 150 clients across the country. The companys results are driven by a tireless passion to make deserving brands digitally relevant. For more information about Slingshot SEO and to read customer reviews, visit http://www.slingshotseo.com.

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12-03-2012 13:51 Sponsored by Lexar In this Event Space presentation Jeff Cable gives information on how event photographers can make more money and have more fun at their work. He shares many of his trade secrets to help you learn better photography and better marketing skills to build your photography business. Over the last 6 years, Jeff has developed a unique approach when shooting Bar / Bat Mitzvahs, weddings and other events. Jeff Cable Photography http://www.jeffcable.com Lexar Media's Digital Photography Tips dp.lexar.com

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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire -03/13/12)- Entertainment and sporting events seeking a new way to make money can now stream their event live on the Internet and use a paywall to sell digital tickets to their fans. Eventstream, a Toronto based startup, provides a full-service live streaming solution for events to increase their profits and exposure from a worldwide viewing audience. Eventstream's service rivals the quality of television broadcasting and is not governed by the CRTC or bound by other licensing restrictions. This freedom is exactly what event promoters are looking for and provides a welcomed change to the high cost, rigid standards, and limited markets of traditional event broadcasting.

"Event promoters need a way to retain control over their content and the revenue it generates" says Michael Dawson, president of Eventstream. "We give them the control back, and enable them to reach a worldwide market without the syndication boundaries of television".

Eventstream's service enables events to stream real-time high definition video directly to their website. The mobile and tablet enabled video player implements live chat and polling social features and can be shared across social networks like Facebook. The in-player paywall allows promoters to set the individual ticket price to watch their event and provides a detailed analytics report on viewers behavior. Also offered is mobile LTE Internet allowing HD streaming to take place wherever cell service is available. Eventstream's service is now available, and was successfully used to stream the 2011 We Day celebration in Winnipeg to more than 15,000 people around the world. For more information on the service, please visit the company's website at http://eventstream.ca.

About Eventstream

Eventstream is a full service live streaming and webcasting company producing multi-camera online broadcasts for worldwide distribution. The company, located in Toronto, focuses on sporting and entertainment events and specializes in digital ticket sales, and social media integration.

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ISSAQUAH, Wash. & MEMPHIS, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Syncronex, a leading provider of technology solutions to the publishing industry, and The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, the most visited and most read publications in the Mid-South, announce The Commercial Appeal (CA) successful deployment of Syncronex's syncAccess authentication and pay meter solution for all of the publisher's digital products.

"With syncAccess weve been able to deliver a custom digital pay model across all CA applications and websites," said Joe Pepe, President and Publisher for CA Media. "Integration with our back-end systems for authentication was seamless and we have full ownership of our subscribers.No other company was able to offer such a complete solution."

syncAccess is a fully customizable, cloud-based authentication and pay meter solution. For The Memphis Commercial Appeal, Syncronex:

syncAccess has been designed and built from the ground up for newspaper publishers - specifically to work with a publisher's existing infrastructure.

"In addition to increasing Sunday circulation, we've seen a monthly increase in digital revenue from the beginning of the syncAccess implementation," continued Mr. Pepe. "Ultimately, the cost of waiting to implement syncAccess and our mobile applications was far higher than just implementing them."

"Working with CA has been an incredible experience," said Mike Pirello, President of Syncronex. "Their vision for a connected print and digital experience and their willingness to stop at nothing to maximize their customer's experience has set a new standard for integrated news offerings. It's an honor for Syncronex and syncAccess to have been selected as an integral part of this groundbreaking solution."

To learn more about syncAccess and read a case study about the CA implementation, please visit syncronex.com.

About The Commercial Appeal

The Commercial Appeal is a one-stop resource for delivery of news, information and advertising to a broad audience in Memphis and the Mid-South. We publish numerous products across many platforms every day including The Commercial Appeal and commercialappeal.com, two of the most used news sites in the area.

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By Andrea Shalal-Esa

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Europe's leading space company, Astrium, is "generally interested" in acquiring one of two U.S. digital imagery providers, GeoEye Inc (GEOY.O) or DigitalGlobe Inc (DGI.N), and would look carefully at a deal if the price was affordable, a top Astrium executive told Reuters on Tuesday.

Evert Dudok, chief executive of Astrium Satellites, said the company's parent, Europe's EADS (EAD.PA), was actively looking for takeover targets in the United States, and either of the two companies would be a good fit with Astrium, which is ranked No. 3 -- behind them -- in the geospatial information market.

"We are generally interested, but we have to really see whether that makes any sense," Dudok told Reuters after a panel at the Satellite 2012 conference. "Should such an occasion arise at a price that is affordable, one would certainly look at it."

Dudok's comments came after Sean O'Keefe, chief executive of EADS North America, underscored the company's determination to pump up its U.S. revenues through acquisitions, alliances or mergers, especially in the services and satellites sectors.

Dudok noted that Astrium last year acquired Vizada, a Paris-based satellite communications firm, and was building a strong geo-information business that provides earth observation, radar and other data to customers around the world.

He said both GeoEye and DigitalGlobe did a great deal of work for the U.S. government, which could make an acquisition by the European company more difficult, but he said an acquisition in that area would allow Astrium to streamline market approaches and combine databases for expanded commercial sales.

GeoEye and DigitalGlobe shares have come under pressure in recent weeks amid reports that the U.S. government plans to halve or significantly scale back its expected procurement of $7.3 billion in digital imagery over the next decade.

GeoEye shares closed up $2.54, or 13 percent, at $22.34 on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange on Tuesday after a conference call with top executives on the company's 2011 earnings.

That is up from a year low of $17.98, but still well below a 52-week high of $42.38.

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