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Modest start into 2013 in a difficult economic environment

- Sales of EUR 43.1 million representing a decrease of 6,4 %

- EBITDA of EUR 2.9 million, reflecting 6,6% EBITDA margin

- Net earnings of EUR 3.2 million (against EUR -2.7 million in Q1 2012)

- Strong start in Q2

Luxemburg, May 13, 2013 - exceet Group SE, a leading international provider of intelligent electronics and security solutions, posts consolidated sales of EUR 43.1 million (EUR 46 million in Q1 2012) for the first three months of the current business year. Organically the group's sales declined by 16.5 % in comparison to an exceptional strong Q1 2012. The first quarter showed a cautious ordering behaviour of several key customers, which have requested postponed deliveries. However, exceet estimates that the order situation will recover during the running year. The very positive start in Q2 confirms the overall expectations for 2013.

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DGAP-News: exceet Group SE: Modest start into 2013 in a difficult economic environment

Everyone's laughing at Newt Gingrich because he made a video saying he and his staff had puzzled for weeks that we don't have a new word for cell phones that do the Internet. People used the term "horseless carriage" for a while until they came up with a better word, and Gingrich thinks the same thing will happen to these pocket computer that no one really uses to call people. "The one term that didn't seem to occur to Newt and his staff over those weeks was 'smartphone,'"Fortune's Dan Mitchell says. "Note how Gingrich manages to make a play for the attention of Web-savvy youth by both using the term 'horseless carriage' and by slaughtering his pronunciation of Wikipedia," Slate's Josh Vorhees writes. But as Gingrich tweeteda couple timeson Monday, lots of people have said smartphone is a dumbterm for the devices. You all mock Newt at your own peril. Gingrich been better at envisioning The Future than most of us. Let's review his innovations.

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In 1994, Katie Couric was asking, "What is the Internet?"Todayshow co-host Bryant Gumbel puzzled how to say URLs out loud. How do you pronounce @? You know what Gingrich was doing in 1994? Putting Congress on the Internet. It was clear the Associated Press didn't expect the rest of us to understand what a searchable database was, because it described the THOMAS system, launched in January 1995, as "a Congressional online public access information system that people from across the country and around the world can get access to Congressional information via the Internet."

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Did Newt Gingrich pioneer the self-Google? Here he is in 1996, showing the Associated Press his website.

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Clearly, the Internet was new to the AP, because the caption says, "The page includes a biolgraphy of Gingrich, information on how to contact his Marietta and Washington offices, a list of constituent services and a photo gallery."

Here's Gingrich in June 1995, introducing "the first conservative Internet community 'Town Hall.'" Did Gingrich invent getting old people to forward emails by promising that if they sent them to 20 friends, a precious angel would make their wish come true?

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MAPUTO, May 13 (BERNAMA-NNN-AIM) -- The Mozambican Medical Association (AMM), which represents the country's doctors, has accused the government of failing to comply with the memorandum it signed with the AMM in January which ended a nine-day doctors' strike.

In the memorandum, it was agreed that doctors and trainee doctors would suffer no reprisal for joining the strike action, a differentiated wage scale for public sector workers would take effect from April this year and a Statute of Doctors be approved in the first sitting in 2013 of the Mozambican Parliament, the Assembly of the Republic.

Addressing a Maputo press conference here Friday following an AMM extraordinary general meeting on Wednesday, AMM director of programmes Liliana Pinto accused the government of violating all these points.

Reprisals had been taken against trainee doctors, she said, referring to the decision by Maputo's Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) to fail medical students who had joined the strike on the grounds that they had not complied with their academic obligations.

The AMM also accuses the government of introducing an article into the draft Statute of Doctors which would oblige any doctor or dentist trained in Mozambican public universities to work for the National Health Service for a period equal to or longer than their training period.

Pinto said this article should be included in the regulation on scholarships, so that only those medical students who obtained scholarships would be obliged to work in the National Health Service.

Asked if there could be a second strike by doctors, Pinto said: "We are consulting with our colleagues in the provinces and districts. We will make an announcement on this matter shortly."

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The word Nixonian is going to get quite a workout this month.

First, there was news that the Internal Revenue Service had been targeting conservative non-profits with the words patriot or tea party in their names. Now comes word that the U.S. Justice Department secretly obtained two months of phone records for reporters and editors at The Associated Press.

The records, which showed incoming and outgoing calls and the length each call, were for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters as well as general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, the APs attorneys said.

The records covered 20 separate phone lines used over two months.

There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters, AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt said in a letter of protest to the Justice Department.

You got that right.

These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to APs newsgathering operations, and disclose information about APs activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know, Pruitt said.

Worse is that the government will not say why it seized the records, though officials have previously said they were conducting a criminal investigation into who leaked information about a foiled terror plot in Yemen that the AP reported on in May of 2012. The story disclosed details of a CIA operation that stopped an al-Qaida plot to detonate a bomb on an airplane headed for the U.S.

While prosecutors have sought phone records from reporters before, but the clandestine seizure of such a broad array phone records which included AP offices, general switchboard numbers and an office-wide fax line is unprecedented.

It would be one thing for the Justice Department to spy on government employees to try to determine where leaks are, but it is quite another thing to secretly pull months of phone records of a news organization, records that could reflect lots of calls with lots of sources on many different topics, just to try to plug a leak.

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Press release on the quarterly report

Lotto24 AG starts nationwide marketing

- Rising revenues at low level

- Earnings dominated by start-up investments

(Hamburg, 13 May 2013) Lotto24 AG today published figures for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2013. After receiving the all-important advertising permit on 13 March, the company immediately launched marketing activities via the Internet. In a first step, an online display campaign and an affiliate programme were initiated.

Petra von Strombeck, CEO of Lotto24 AG, states: 'Although we were only able to begin marketing at the end of the quarter, the initial figures look promising. In the second quarter, we plan to expand our advertising activities. Our targets are to raise the number of registered customers and validate our key performance indicators.'

As the advertising permit was only granted in mid March, no significant revenues were generated in the first quarter of 2013. With 44 thousand registered customers, billings were raised year on year from EUR 25 thousand to EUR 2.04 million, while revenues increased from EUR 2 thousand to EUR 195 thousand and the gross margin improved from 6.7% to 9.6%. Earnings were further dominated by start-up investments: due to comparatively modest revenue streams and higher costs for staff, marketing and the further development of the IT platform, EBIT fell from EUR -551 thousand last year to EUR -1.38 million.

In addition to the expansion of its advertising activities, Lotto24 also expects business to be positively influenced by price and product changes introduced by the German lottery operator 'Deutscher Lotto- und Totoblock': as of May 1, one field of the lottery ticket '6aus49' costs one euro instead of the current 75 cents. At the same time, a ninth prize division was introduced. Due to higher odds, jackpots are expected to grow more quickly.

The complete quarterly financial report is published on the website of Lotto24 AG in the Investor Relations section: http://www.lotto24-ag.de.

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