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When you refresh yourrsum for the new year, why not also refresh (or create!) your online presence? An online portfolio highlights you in a whole new way. Portfolios arent just for artists writers, teachers, architects, graphic designers, and more can use portfolios to share their work. If what you January7,2014

With 2013 behind us, we can now take a look at our communitys incredible accomplishments over the past year. Heres the year that was on WordPress.com. 13,704,819 new blogs in 2013 Thats a 36% increase from 2012, during which you created 10 million new blogs. 489,281,136 posts in 2013 Thats January6,2014

Publishing a blog can be tons of fun, and a great way to make friends and create opportunities. Starting one couldnt be easier: sign up, pick a theme, and off you go. But maintaining one and building an audience? That takes a little more work publishing regularly and engaging January1,2014

Many of you use WordPress.com as a daily or weekly outlet to develop your craft (as seen in our popular writing and photography challenges on The Daily Post),or as a platform to chronicle your own post-a-day and year-long projects.Some projects are ongoing from year to year, while others have defined December31,2013

One of the best free customization tools on WordPress.com is the ability to upload a custom header image. Using a custom header is a great way to showcase your style and personality on your blog. When readers visit your blog, its header is what pops out first and introduces visitors December24,2013

On November 2, 2013, Seth Smith hit publish on an article entitled Marriage Isnt ForYou. Within a few hours, his self-hosted WordPress site couldnt handle the tens of thousands of visitors reading the post. He moved his article and then his entire site over toWordPress.com, where theWordPress.com team did some December23,2013

This week, our editors dove into the archives to find and rediscover notable posts published this year on WordPress.com, from nonfiction to poetry, and photography to illustration. These posts have been especially resonant to us and the community, and represent the diversity of voices of our users all over the December20,2013

This week we have a roundup of no less than five new themes now available on WordPress.com. Happy holidays! Photolia Photolia by UpThemes is a responsive, single-column theme perfect for organizing photos, galleries, videos, and much more. The header area supports a widescreen custom header image and offers three default December19,2013

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DGAP-News: Hengeler Mueller / Key word(s): Acquisition/Mergers & Acquisitions Hengeler Mueller heads up M&A league tables 2013

09.01.2014 / 14:57

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Hengeler Mueller was in 2013 once again ranked first for national M&A transactions. Together with the 'Best Friends' law firms, Hengeler Mueller also heads up the M&A ranking 2013 for European Deals.

In the recently published league tables by mergermarket covering announced transactions with any German involvement, Hengeler Mueller takes the top spot for legal advisors in terms of value of transactions. Hengeler Mueller advised on a total of 38 major transactions in 2013, with a total transaction value of more than EUR32bn. Hengeler Mueller was involved in eight of the ten biggest transactions last year.

Among others, in 2013, Hengeler Mueller advised:

- Kabel Deutschland on the takeover by Vodafone Group plc

- Haniel on the sale of its Celesio shares to McKesson Corporation as well as on the tender offer for all the Celesio AG shares by McKesson Corporation

- GSW on the Deutsche Wohnen tender offer

- Private equity group EQT on the sale of the scientific publisher Springer Science+Business Media to BC Partners

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DGAP-News: CASSONA SE / Key word(s): Drilling Result CASSONA SE: CASSONA successfully produces crude oil

09.01.2014 / 16:03

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CASSONA starts to successfully produce crude oil on its oil field in Alberta (Canada). Since 6 January 2014 the first well achieves a production of 220 barrels per day.

Frankfurt (9 January 2014) - CASSONA SE (COE) reports that the prospection and exploration of crude oil on CASSONA's oil property in the Canadian Province of Alberta have been successful. Since 6 January 2014 they achieve a production of 220 barrels per day on the first well.

'We are excited that we can celebrate the successful beginning of our crude oil production', exclaims the CEO Guido Quadri.'Our boys have been working without a break during Christmas and New Year at these frigid temperatures of 40 degrees below zero!' CASSONA owns an oil field in the Red Earth Area in the Province of Alberta in Canada. The company has started the oil production on the first well in one of the nine sections of the oil property.

The production license enables a total of up to 72 wells on the property. The first well has started production with vertical drilling. 'That means we have not yet switched to the much more profitable horizontal drilling', states Quadri. 'Our Experts still are projecting the total production volumes we can achieve on our property.'

CASSONA is an investment corporation for targets of the business sectors natural resources, mining and infrastructure. CASSONA is a European corporation with domicile in Frankfurt Main. The shares are listed at the regulated market of GXG Markets and they are traded at the Open Market of Frankfurt Stock Exchange FWB and at Berlin Stock Exchange (ISIN DE000A1C6T63).

CASSONA SE Schubertstr. 14 60325 Frankfurt Main Germany ir@cassona.de http://www.cassona.de

This announcement contains forward-looking statements that are based on current assumptions and forecasts of the management of CASSONA SE. Known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors could lead to material differences between the forward-looking statements given here and the actual development, in particular the results, financial situation and performance of our company. The company assumes no liability to update these forward-looking statements or to conform them to future events or developments. (c) 2014 CASSONA SE is a European corporation in the legal form societas europaea (SE) with headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, country of origin Germany and first quotation at the Danish stock exchange GXG Markets A/S in the EU regulated market segment GXG Official List.

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DGAP-News: Gerry Weber International AG / Key word(s): Miscellaneous/Miscellaneous GERRY WEBER Retail back on the growth track

09.01.2014 / 07:45

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GERRY WEBER Retail back on the growth track

- Retail revenues rise to EUR 104 million in Q4 2012/13

- Like-for-like Retail revenues in Q4 2012/13 up 3.1% on previous year

- Positive trend of the fourth quarter 2012/13 continues in November and December 2013

- E-shop starts the new fiscal year with 18.4% growth

(Halle/Westphalia, 9 January 2014) According to preliminary figures, the Retail segment of GERRY WEBER International AG generated sales revenues of EUR 104 million in the fourth quarter of 2012/13 (Q4 prev. year: EUR 85.2 million), giving impressive proof of its role as the growth driver of the GERRY WEBER Group. This represents an increase of approximately 22% on the previous year. The rise in sales revenues was attributable not only to the newly opened company-managed Retail stores but also to the established Houses of GERRY WEBER. Like-for-like Retail revenues were up by 3.1% in Q4 2012/13 on the previous year, thus outperforming the German fashion market as a whole, which, according to a panel of Germany's leading magazine for the textiles sector, reported like-for-like growth of +1% in August 2013 and of +/-0% and -3% for September and October 2013, respectively.

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