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By Colm Heatley - Wed Mar 07 00:00:01 GMT 2012

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Stormont Parliament buildings in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Stormont Parliament buildings in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Photographer: Peter Muhly/AFP/Getty Images

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A ferris wheel is seen by City Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

A ferris wheel is seen by City Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Photographer: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

For Belfast clothing retailer Michael Hamilton, power is money.

The owner of the Bureau, a store in downtown Belfast selling handcrafted Alden leather shoes at 600 pounds ($952) and designer jeans for 300 pounds, wants Northern Ireland to wrest control from the U.K. over taxes levied on companies and align them with Ireland to the south. The 46-year-old reckons it would attract employers and enrich the local population.

Trading is brutal, Hamilton said at his shop on Howard Street in the Northern Irish capital. Getting corporation tax cut and attracting high-end jobs would be brilliant for us. It would be great if those people were living in Belfast.

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Northern Irish Freedom Fight Turns Into Taxing Battle for U.K. Government

Westpac has confirmed plans to send 119 technology jobs overseas to cut costs.

A Westpac spokesman said staff working in the affected parts of the bank were told last week their jobs would go.

The decision to axe those roles, which supported IT development and systems maintenance, came after a review that started in November 2011.

Those affected would be offered retraining for redeployment into roles in other parts of the bank, if possible, or receive their full benefits and entitlements.

"We are committed to retaining our core highly skilled technology workforce in Australia," Westpac head of group media relations Paul Marriage said.

"But some IT roles can be more efficiently done by external specialists like IBM."

Mr Marriage said these 119 technology jobs, as well as seven positions in the collections area of the bank, was separate to Westpac's announcement in February of plans to cut more than 400 jobs and send up to another 150 offshore as part of a restructure.

Mr Marriage said Westpac had found 1500 new roles for staff in the past eight months as a result of internal changes.

The job cuts were first raised by the Finance Sector Union (FSU) on Tuesday morning, and national secretary Leon Carter said the decision was completely unjustified.

"The only reason they are losing their jobs is because our most profitable bank thinks it can now get the job done more cheaply offshore," Mr Carter said in a statement.

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Union says Westpac to cut staff

DGAP-News: IMMOFINANZ AG / Key word(s): Real Estate IMMOFINANZ AG becomes the first real estate company to join the ATX five

07.03.2012 / 14:55

The ATX committee meeting on 6 March 2012 officially approved a step that was signalled mathematically several days before: as the first company in the real estate branch, IMMOFINANZ AG successfully completed the leap into the ATX five Index. The IMMOFINANZ share was first added to the leading index of the Vienna Stock Exchange in March 2011.

Yesterday evening, the ATX committee confirmed the adjustment of the ATX five: The IMMOFINANZ share replaces Telekom Austria and represents the first property company in the Austrian top five. During the last five trading days (at the end of February) IMMOFINANZ AG outpaced Telekom Austria and thereby met the respective stock exchange requirements. The new composition of the index will take effect on 19 March.

Only one year after inclusion in the ATX, we have now joined the ATX five - which further underscores the importance of IMMOFINANZ AG for the Austrian financial market. This will give us greater visibility and strengthen our position in the leading index - and should also have a positive effect on the share development, commented Eduard Zehetner, Chairman of the Executive Board of IMMOFINANZ AG. The IMMOFINANZ share now joins OMV, Erste Group, Voestalpine and Andritz as one of the five largest stocks in Vienna.

The ATX five is a price index that is weighted by market capitalisation, and comprises the five ATX shares with the highest weighting. The calculation is based on the ATX and takes place in real time. The ATX representation and fundamental factors are also used for this calculation, with the weighting of the individual shares identical to their standing in the ATX. The last change in the composition of the ATX five was made in December 2010. The ATX committee meets quarterly at the beginning of March, June, September and December.

On IMMOFINANZ Group IMMOFINANZ Group is one of the five largest listed property companies in Europe and is included in the leading ATX index of the Vienna Stock Exchange. Since its founding in 1990, the company has compiled a high-quality property portfolio that now comprises more than 1,600 standing investment properties with a carrying amount of approx. EUR 8.7 billion. The core business of IMMOFINANZ Group covers the acquisition and management of investment properties, the realisation of development projects and the sale of objects. IMMOFINANZ Group concentrates its activities in the retail, office, logistics and residential segments of eight regional core markets: Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Poland and Russia. Further information under: http://www.immofinanz.com.

Contact: For additional information contact:

INVESTOR RELATIONS

Stefan Schnauer Head of Corporate Finance & Investor Relations IMMOFINANZ AG M +43 (0)699 1685 7312 investor@immofinanz.com

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DGAP-News: IMMOFINANZ AG becomes the first real estate company to join the ATX five

NEW YORK, March 7, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reis, Inc. (Nasdaq:REIS - News) ("Reis" or the "Company"), a leading provider of commercial real estate market information and analytical tools, announced that it will release its fourth quarter 2011 results on Thursday, March 8, 2012. The complete release will also be available directly at either of the following web pages:

http://www.reis.com/investors

http://www.reis.com/pressreleases

The Company will host a conference call. This call is for the benefit of existing and prospective stockholders, stock analysts, and other interested parties to discuss the third quarter results and other matters.

Date: March 8, 2012

Time: 4:30 PM ET

Listen via Internet: http://investor.reis.com/

Dial-in number (U.S. and Canada): (877) 390-5537 Dial-in number (outside U.S. and Canada): (760) 666-3763 Conference ID: 59680037 or "Reis"

Toll-free: 877-390-5537 International: 760-666-3763 Access code: 59680037

A replay of the conference call will be available from shortly after the conference call through midnight (ET) on March 22, 2012 by dialing (800) 585-8367 from inside the United States or Canada or (404) 537-3406 from outside the United States and Canada, and referring to the conference ID: 59680037. An audio webcast of the conference call will also be available on Reis's website at http://www.reis.com/events and will remain on the website for a period of time following the call.

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Reis, Inc. to Announce Fourth Quarter 2011 Results on Thursday, March 8, 2012

Most new gTLD applicant do not necessarily want to earn money from their domain name extension!

.BRANDS, for example, will be using their domain names for themselves and they will not earn money from the sale of domain names.

So, who are these new gTLD applicants who do not want to earn money from selling domain names and who do not want to spend money in an application? Who are these applicants who can have the benefit of applying "for free" and acquire the visibility of launching a new domain name extension?

Applying for a ."French city", is a nightmare as it has to go through the long process of a Call For Tender. A city cannot just select service providers and apply. This is not allowed in France. I believe many French cities won't have applied mainly because of this reason, but not only:

So how does a city acquire its own Top-Level Domain, avoiding costs and most of what is in the list above?

There are strong organizations specialized in the process of acquiring a Top-Level Domain with ICANN and who will apply for a city TLD in exchange of a letter of support (or a letter of non objection) and a little communication.

Such organizations provide:

Such organizations are the ones who can make a profit from selling the city's domain names.

In exchange, the city acquires:

Such cities may earn a representative seat on the board but do not own the Top-Level Domain.

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A New Generic Top-Level Domain Can Be Free