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PRESS RELEASE: SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Holding AG: SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Holding AG appoints Dr. Kay Michel as new Chairperson of the Executive Board (CEO)

DGAP-News: SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Holding AG / Key word(s): Change of Personnel SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Holding AG: SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Holding AG appoints Dr. Kay Michel as new Chairperson of the Executive Board (CEO)

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SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Holding AG appoints Dr. Kay Michel as new Chairperson of the Executive Board (CEO)

Unterneukirchen (Germany), January 28, 2014. In its meeting of today, the Supervisory Board of SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Holding AG appointed Dr. Kay Michel (57) as Chairperson of the Executive Board (CEO). Dr. Kay Michel will take over the chairperson function effective April 1, 2014 from Ines Kolmsee, who will leave the company at the end of March 2014 with the expiration of her contract and after transferring the business affairs.

Dr. Kay Michel commands a long-standing track record in leading positions in industrial operative management as well as in an international efficiency improvement context. In the last 20 years, he has held central roles in complex business challenges, as well as in the strategic development of international companies. From 2003 to 2007, Dr. Kay Michel was instrumental in building the German business of the international consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M). Before that, he held leading positions at Philipp Holzmann AG, Krone AG, and Asea Brown Boveri AG.

Dr. Kay Michel, with a tertiary degree in business and engineering, began his career at Krupp Group where he worked at company, divisional and finally at group level.

Titus Weinheimer, Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Holding AG, said: 'With Dr. Michel, we secured for SKW Metallurgie a known expert for the strategic realignment of SKW Metallurgie. Under his leadership, the further internationalization of SKW Metallurgie as well as the conquest of new markets shall be significantly enhanced.'

'The Supervisory Board thanks Ms. Kolmsee explicitly for her outstanding merits in the interest of the company. Ms. Kolmsee contributed a decisive part to the successful IPO, and under her leadership, SKW Metallurgie developed into a leading specialty chemicals company,' said Mr. Weinheimer.

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27.01.14 09:57 Dow Jones Newswires

PRESS RELEASE: Allgeier expands competencies in the automotive sector: WK EDV GmbH joins Allgeier Group

DGAP-News: ALLGEIER SE / Key word(s): Acquisition Allgeier expands competencies in the automotive sector: WK EDV GmbH joins Allgeier Group

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Munich, January 27, 2014 - Xiopia GmbH, a subsidiary of Allgeier SE, took over WK EDV GmbH based in Ingolstadt/Neuburg a.d. Donau effective as of January 1, 2014.

WK EDV GmbH is specialised in custom software solutions for optimising business processes at large companies and SMEs. The portfolio focuses on IT solutions for complex audio-visual information systems, device management for mobile and fixed devices, mobile services as well as on the development of mobile software. The company is able to draw on strong competencies in the automotive sector.

WK EDV employs around 130 employees at its sites in Ingolstadt and Neuburg a.d. Donau. The company has grown continuously in terms of revenue and income over the last few years.

Contact: Allgeier SE Corporate Communications & Investor Relations Dr. Christopher Groe Wehrlestrae 12 81679 Munich Tel.: +49 (0)89/998421-0 Fax: +49 (0)89/998421-11 E-mail: pr@allgeier.com Web: http://www.allgeier.com

Allgeier SE is one of the leading IT companies for Business Performance today: Allgeier combines the advantages of an international provider with the merits of medium-sized companies with a growth strategy oriented consistently to innovations and future trends, and an integrative business model. Six operating divisions, each with their individual specialist or sector-related focal points, work together for more than 2,000 customers from almost all sectors. With more than 4,400 salaried employees and over 1,300 freelance IT experts, Allgeier, as a one-stop shop, offers customers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions and services. Allgeier's customers include globally operating groups as well as innovative medium-sized operations that wish to secure strategic advantages through high-performing IT solutions, intelligent software and flexible personnel services. This high-growth company, which is based in Munich, Germany, operates at more than 100 sites in the German-speaking region, and at further locations in the rest of Europe, as well as in India, Mexico and the USA. Allgeier generated EUR 423 million of revenue in 2012. Allgeier SE was ranked first in the Lnendonk(R) List 2013 of 'Leading German medium-sized IT consulting and system integration companies'. The Allgeier Experts Division ranks among the top three IT personnel service-providers in Germany according to the Lnendonk(R) 2013 market segment study 'The market for recruiting, mediating and managing IT freelancers in Germany'. The company is listed on the regular market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in the General Standard segment (WKN 508630/ISIN DE0005086300). Further information is available on the company's website at: http://www.allgeier.com.

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PRESS RELEASE: Dialog Semiconductor Plc.: Dialog Semiconductor's Bluetooth Smart Device Enters Volume Production

DGAP-News: Dialog Semiconductor Plc. / Key word(s): Miscellaneous Dialog Semiconductor Plc.: Dialog Semiconductor's Bluetooth Smart Device Enters Volume Production

27.01.2014 / 07:59

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DIALOG SEMICONDUCTOR'S BLUETOOTH SMART DEVICE ENTERS VOLUME PRODUCTION

World's smallest and lowest power SmartBond(TM) Bluetooth v4.0 Smart SoC, targeting wearable, sport & fitness, medical and computing applications now qualified and available for design-in.

London, UK, 27 January 2014 - Dialog Semiconductor plc (FWB: DLG), a provider of highly integrated power management, AC/DC, solid state lighting and short-range wireless technologies, today announced that the DA14580 SmartBond(TM) System-on-Chip (SoC), the world's smallest and lowest power Bluetooth Smart device, is now in production.

The DA14580 SmartBond(TM) SoC, more than doubles the battery life of an application-enabled smartphone accessory, wearable device or computer peripheral in comparison to competing solutions on the market. In combination with a variety of analog and digital interfaces and including an embedded ARM Cortex M0(TM) processor, the DA14580 has the lowest power available with less than 15mW active, 600 nA standby current, and with the smallest package sized at 2.5x2.5x0.5mm, is half the size of competing solutions.

The DA14580 has also successfully passed the Bluetooth Qualification process. Customers can now design with this device fully confident in the knowledge that it passes the requirements of the Bluetooth v4.0 specification, which ensures customers have access to quality products that interoperate with each other across the Bluetooth ecosystem. The DA14580 is now officially listed on the Bluetooth SIG site as a certified Bluetooth controller subsystem and host. The Qualified Design ID (QDID) is used by end customers as part of their product listing when putting a product on the market. The qualification allows Dialog customers to leverage Dialog's QDID status to simplify their own qualification process.

SmartBond(TM), is designed to enable consumers to use innovative new apps on their smartphones and tablets that can easily connect with watches, fitness- bands and monitors, medical, sporting remote control, computer peripherals and a vast and fast growing number of other applications.

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27.01.14 08:55 Dow Jones Newswires

PRESS RELEASE: Hypoport AG: EUROPACE generated its first-ever transaction volume in excess of EUR30 billion in 2013.

DGAP-News: Hypoport AG / Key word(s): Quarter Results Hypoport AG: EUROPACE generated its first-ever transaction volume in excess of EUR30 billion in 2013.

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Volume of transactions in 2013

Berlin, 27 January 2014: The total volume of transactions processed on the EUROPACE financial marketplace in 2013 grew by roughly 9 per cent year on year to EUR31.6 billion. Personal loans, which constitute the smallest product segment, achieved the strongest growth in relative terms (22 per cent). Building finance increased by 13 per cent, underlining the substantial appeal of this product. Mortgage finance, which grew by 7 per cent year on year, once again made the largest contribution to the total volume of transactions in absolute terms. The number of EUROPACE partners rose by roughly 22 per cent over the same period.

'This transaction volume of more than EUR30 billion demonstrates the considerable influence that the EUROPACE financial marketplace and its partners now exert over the German mortgage finance market,' commented Thilo Wiegand, Chief Executive Officer of Europace AG. 'The continued low level of interest rates, our optimised sales processes, and the fact that the number of our partners has risen from 200 to its current level of almost 250 contractual partners have all contributed to this result on an annualised basis.' The latest figures published by the Bundesbank show that the German mortgage finance market overall grew only modestly in 2013. The rising numbers of transactions generated on EUROPACE therefore resulted from the increasing automation of business processes in Germany. The pressure for change triggered by Basel III and Solvency II is considerably enhancing the appeal of a flexible marketplace solution for more and more banks and financial institutions.

Tougher market conditions in the fourth quarter of 2013 meant that EUROPACE's strong performance for the year as a whole was slightly dented in the final three months. Following impressive results in the second and third quarters, the marketplace's growth in mortgage finance products was weaker than in previous quarters owing to persistently sluggish interest rates.

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Is "strong" losing its strength?

Presidents of both parties have long felt compelled to sum up the state of the union with a descriptive word or two in their State of the Union addresses. Mostly the same word.

For many years now, "strong" has been the go-to adjective.

Here's President Barack Obama a year ago: "Together, we have cleared away the rubble of crisis, and we can say with renewed confidence that the State of the Union is stronger."

In the earlier years, he went with "getting stronger" or just plain "strong."

George W. Bush liked the one-two punch of "confident and strong."

His president-dad, George H.W. Bush, paired up "sound and strong" in 1990.

Bill Clinton in 2000 promoted the union to "the strongest it has ever been."

It wasn't always this way.

Dwight Eisenhower skipped the quick sum-up. With the nation in recession and millions out of work in 1975, Gerald Ford dared suggest all was not well.

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A tired tradition? Defining the union in a word