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Mercent, a leading technology company that enables retailers to profitably reach and convert more shoppers online, and Moontoast, a leading provider of social activation applications and analytics, today announced a partnership that integrates Moontoasts Social Activation Engine with Mercent Retail. Through the partnership, Mercent and Moontoast will provide leading brand name retailers with the ability to drive online sales and profits through robust social media, interaction and commerce.

Moontoasts Social Activation Engine will be integrated with the award-winning Mercent Retail platform, enabling leading retailers to drive lead generation, email acquisition, and product sales through social networks, ad networks, and affiliate websites.

Mercent is a trusted, leading technology company that enables retailers to profitably reach and convert more shoppers online, said Blair Heavey, CEO of Moontoast. We are pleased and excited to help Mercent customers to be able to seamlessly use Moontoasts Social Activation Engine and social apps to improve their social reach and engagement while delivering meaningful customer acquisition and sales through social networks, including sites such as Facebook, ad networks, and affiliate sites.

According to Mercent CEO Eric Best, Were excited to partner with Moontoast to offer Mercent clients a dynamic, proven and revenue-generating social media platform. This partnership expands channel reach and product capabilities Mercent offers to its portfolio of brand name retailers and we look forward to driving even greater revenue and profits for this growing base.

Moontoasts platform is based on four stages of fan activation discovery, interaction, transaction, and endorsement to give fans relevant content while giving online marketers the ability to interact and transact with consumers through a series of powerful apps distributed to engage users on social networks, ad networks and websites. Moontoasts Social Analytics provides online marketers rich intelligence on the relationships between social reach, engagement and transactions with fans, enabling marketers to achieve meaningful business results. Retailers will have direct access to Moontoasts patent-pending Social Analytics Suite, which provides rich data that ties social activity to interaction and revenue, improving social performance and measuring Return on Fan. Moontoast Social Analytics delivers critical insights to help better understand relationships, relevancy, and results.

Mercent optimizes retail product and offers visibility across leading shopping destinations that include online marketplaces Amazon.com and eBay; paid search platforms Google AdWords and Microsoft AdCenter; product ad platforms Google Shopping, Google Product Listing Ads (PLA) and Amazon Product Ads; comparison shopping engines (CSEs); affiliate networks; and social and mobile shopping channels. The Mercent Retail platform complements product ad placement with deep retail analytics and business intelligence tools that highlight the products, categories, brands, promotions, ads, and channels contributing most to online performance and ROI. Mercents proprietary tools allow retail marketers to take action on these real-time insights.

Moontoast and Mercent are attending and exhibiting at Booths #132 and #529 respectively, speaking and blogging at the worlds largest eCommerce tradeshow in the nation - Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition (IRCE), which is being held at the McCormick Place West in Chicago June 5-8, 2012.

To learn more about Mercents complete product portfolio, or for an in-person demo of Mercent Retail for Google Shopping at IRCE, please contact Mercent at206-832-3900or hello@mercent.com. Information regarding Mercent Retail shopping feed management technology, Mercent Performance marketing services, and the complete list of online marketing channels in the Mercent Shopping Network is also available atwww.mercent.com.

To see Moontoast in action or schedule an in-person demo of the Social Activation Engine and Social Analytics Suite at IRCE, contact Moontoast at sales@moontoast.com. To learn more about how Moontoast helps brands activate their fans, please visit http://www.moontoast.com or contact Mercent.

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PHOENIX, AZ--(Marketwire -06/06/12)- In 2012, the business benefits of social marketing have, to a large extent, been well-documented. Most business owners, of companies big and small, are at least aware of some of the potential perks that come from maintaining a strong presence on Facebook, Google+, and Twitter. Even so, new uses of social marketing avenues are being discovered all the time; a recent Huffington Post article cites one surprising example, specifically noting the ways in which a social media presence can attract the attention of more traditional media outlets, leading to a wealth of positive publicity. Despite the myriad uses of social networks, however, many owners of small businesses struggle to use social networks effectively -- but an educational company called Logix9 is seeking to change that.

Logix9 is a company devoted to providing educational services to small business owners, typically in the form of Web-based tutorials and videos. The company has long provided a wealth of tutorials, all focusing on different facets of digital marketing technology. As Facebook, Google+, and Twitter become more and more prevalent in the marketing community, however, Logix9 is focusing more of its tutorials on the savvy implementation of social marketing practices.

The company has just unveiled a new set of classes, solely devoted to the use of Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ for small business purposes. The classes are designed to teach small business owners how to efficiently and strategically use social networking to boost their sales and improve their bottom line, while simultaneously enhancing their online image.

Though Logix9 is focusing much of its attention on social marketing principles, it has not abandoned the other tutorials that have proven so essential to its curriculum. Logix9 clients can still obtain lessons in Web design and HTML. They can also learn about affiliate marketing, e-mail marketing, forum marketing, and more.

Logix9 is a company with small business owners as its core demographic, and as such the company seeks to make its services accessible to small business owners. The online tutorials can be taken according to the small business owner's own schedule.

Additionally, the new social marketing classes are designed to be beginner-friendly. The company has long prided itself in being accessible to novices, and the same holds true with its latest round of tutorials. Even those with no prior experience in online marketing can benefit from these new Logix9 offerings.

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An Internet-based educational resource, Logix9.com provides instruction to small business owners. This program offers a variety of videos that individuals can view on their own time, allowing them to fit learning into their already busy schedules. The training modules presented cover a variety of topics, including web design, Internet marketing (including social media marketing), ecommerce, and more. To benefit users, each skill presented by the Logix9.com system is developed in an effort to improve the bottom line of small businesses.

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OTTAWA Defence department censoring of crucial internal documents is impeding the search for the truth of why a young Canadian veteran killed himself, the chairman of a federal military inquiry said Tuesday.

In his first, albeit brief, public criticism of DNDs repeated blocking of documents related to the 2008 suicide of Afghan veteran Cpl. Stuart Langridge, Glenn Stannard said the censorship flies in the face of seeking the truth.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay has refused to allow the release of documents though has not publicly stated why.

Military Police Complaints Commission lawyer Mark Freiman echoed Stannards comment as the thorny issue of solicitor-client privilege and redacted documents sparked another round of testy sniping between inquiry lawyers.

I want to note how awkward and artificial ... extraordinarily artificial ... what we are doing is, said Freiman toward the end of his questioning of military police Sgt. David Mitchell, an investigator with the National Investigation Service (NIS).

Freiman, who has clashed several times over the redaction issue with federal lawyer Elizabeth Richards, said advice Mitchell sought from military lawyers during his investigation was key.

We are looking to see whether a reasonable investigation was conducted, said Freiman. A key element in that investigation has to do with legal conclusions that were formed in the course of the investigation, and we are not able to look at anything to do with that key element.

Richards has repeatedly told Stannard that Parliament has given his commission limited power and says he has no right to see documents that fall under solicitor-client privilege.

MacKay is legally the client of DND lawyers and the only person who can waive the privilege.

Parliament in its wisdom has seen to exclude from the oversight of this commission the ability to look at the legal advice that was sought and received by military police.

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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA--(Marketwire -06/05/12)- Media Sentiment, Inc. (MSEZ) http://www.mediasentiment.com MSEZ management is of the opinion that the following affiliate and or equity financial arrangement warrant a public announcement. MSEZ a company focused on algorithm and prediction pattern of trading has reached an agreement in principle with a finance company focused on the secondary markets financing and hybrid wrap around financing.

The secondary markets financier company intends to finance MSEZ to about $500,000 and or to become approximately 8.5% stake holder with MSEZ over the next 180 - 270 days. In return MSEZ will share its technology with the new stakeholder in aim of creating an on line portal that will focus on providing similar services to other companies seeking to broaden their shareholder base.

MSEZ's CEO Marian Munz stated: "The financing arrangement for MSEZ is a complex one and hard to explain. In simple terms I can best describe it as a lease buy back. This relationship comes on a heels of OTC Markets just recently announcing their entry and approval in the ADS Markets. (An Alternative Trading System) http://www.otcmarkets.com/news/otc-press-release?id=600 For MSEZ our whole industry is in the middle of a transformation. For example this arrangement will give us a head start ahead of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpstart_Our_Business_Startups_Act Simply put, In April 2012, Congress, in a bipartisan effort, took a giant step to "jumpstart" businesses in the United States by enacting the JOBS Act (Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act). The JOBS Act is good news for entrepreneurs; it is intended to eliminate costly SEC regulatory barriers to accessing capital markets in order to make it easier for middle market, small and start-up companies to raise capital and grow. The plan is simple: with easier access to capital markets, businesses will grow and boost employment nationwide."

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By Saksith Saiyasombut

A media monitoring group set up by Thailands opposition Democrat Party in order to flag news coverage deemed too favorable to the current government recalls the hawkish tendencies towards state media control during their rule between 2009-2011, further fueled by the history of the leader of this media monitoring group.

Satit Wongnongtoey, Democrat Party MP and former Minister to the Office of the Prime Minister of Thailand. (Picture by The Official Site of The Prime Minister of Thailand Photo 2009, licensed under CC)

The Nation reported on Tuesday:

The Democrat Party has set up a media-monitoring group to be led by Trang province MP Sathit Wongnongtoey. He urged the public to monitor changes closely at Channel 9 and television hosts such as Sorrayuth Suthasnachinda of Channel 3, as well as newspapers, for what he claims is biased reporting in favour of the Pheu Thai-led government.

Sorrayuth failed to explore the details of the national-reconciliation bills in his reporting, while Channel 9 had continually attacked the Constitution Courts order to delay the House deliberation on constitutional amendment, Sathit said.If the party finds a media organisation that is not reporting well-rounded information, it will provide that organisation with information and ask it to disseminate it, he said.

Democrats to monitor pro-Pheu Thai media coverage, The Nation, June 5, 2012

Furthermore, another Democrat MP cites the changes at MCOT, a state-owned media organization that owns dozens of radio stations and the Modernine TV channel (formerly Channel 9). Its president was sackedover poor performance in October last year and replaced by Chakrapan Yomchinda, a former MP of Thaksins Thai Rak Thai Party. He then moved aside last May to pave the way for current president Premkamon Tinnakorn Na Ayutthaya, who reportedly hasclose ties to Thaksin.

The fact that this media monitoring group, established to keep an eye on any news that is not in their favor, is headed by none other thanSathit Wongnongtoey, is somehow revealing about the mindset of some, if not many, in the opposition party. During his tenure as Minister to the Office of the Prime Minister under the administration of Abhisit Vejjajiva, Sathit left a trail of knee-jerk reactions and gaffes behind him as he interfered with Thailands media landscape.

Since the Minister to the PMs Office also oversees the state media outlets of MCOT and NBT, the government has some vital tools to get their message across the airwaves. Ever since the political crisis of recent years, these outlets have essentially become propaganda machines for whoever is government. Sathit went all out in 2009 to use this to counter everything by Thaksin and the red shirts, while already establishing a total disregard for media freedom early on.

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