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Redwood Shores, Calif. (Map) - Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) today announced an exceptional year for Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware, a new leader in middleware. Today, a majority of the world's leading organizations use Oracle Fusion Middleware to run, secure, adapt and expand their businesses, including: 90 of the Fortune 100 companies and 29 of the 30 companies making up the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

During Oracle's most recent fiscal year, Oracle Fusion Middleware gained market share as a result of significant customer adoption; was recognized as a "Leader" by independent analyst firms; and received numerous independent accolades and awards. Additionally, Oracle enhanced a number of components of Oracle Fusion Middleware including Oracle Enterprise Content Management and Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition through internal development and strategic acquisitions and delivered new products -- Oracle WebCenter, Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite, Oracle Communication and Mobility Server and Oracle Data Integrator -- while expanding its Oracle Identity Management, Oracle SOA Suite and developer offerings, including Oracle JDeveloper.

Factiva SalesWorks from Dow Jones Offers New JavaScript-based Web Service Capability

NEW YORK, July 25 -- Dow Jones & Company (NYSE:DJ) announced today a new platform capability that offers a range of flexible integration options for Factiva SalesWorks(TM), a comprehensive collection of company, industry and executive news and information designed specifically to help salespeople increase productivity. The improved integration options are currently available in beta to Factiva SalesWorks customers. Organizations will benefit from shortened development cycles and the ability to quickly configure business information to deploy to a portal, intranet or CRM, or as a widget, to meet their specific business requirements. The new simplified integration capability leverages Web 2.0 technologies, which allow organizations to focus less on complex Web Services development and more on implementing critical sales intelligence throughout the enterprise.

Sage 200 Business Management Suite Launched

Sage (UK) Limited today announces the launch of the Sage 200 business management software suite.

Sage 200 helps companies manage a complete range of business processes with a single suite of integrated business software.

Sage 200 has been developed to support growing mid- sized organisations across every part of their business, including sales, finance, marketing, customer service and support, and spans a number of industries, including distribution, construction and services.

The foundation of the new Sage 200 Suite is the Sage 200 Platform, which comprises both the Sage 200 Financials and Sage 200 CRM (Customer Relationship Management) modules. The introduction of CRM to the suite underpins a number of business processes, including sales, marketing, customer and supplier relationships.

Cerberus: Inside the Wall Street power-house

They're already taking the "Daimler" off the DaimlerChrysler signs at headquarters in Auburn Hills, Mich. It's happening at the big Fenton, Mo., plants where the company makes pickup trucks and minivans, and at other plants across North America. The new corporate stationery is ready. Chrysler dealers nationwide are sending out invitations, filling balloons with helium, and ordering chicken wings for the parties they're going to throw. The occasion: Chrysler is becoming American again, being bought from its German parent by Cerberus Capital Management, a buyout firm that it's safe to say most of Chrysler's employees, dealers, and customers had never heard of until the agreement was announced a few months ago.

The historic deal (which closed Friday) vaults Cerberus to a new level of fame and prominence in the U.S.

Assassination exposes Japan's underworld / Mob's operations in spotlight after gangster kills mayor

For all the trouble he had caused, Nagasaki gangster Tetsuya Shiroo had atoned by cutting off half a little finger and the tips of two others.

And things were not looking up.

The code of the yakuza, or organized crime syndicate, calls for troublesome members to perform the joint-by-joint amputations when they upset the bosses. Shiroo was an old-style gangster, a man who believed in the rituals.

But yakuza life was hard and getting harder for Shiroo. Everyone knew he had money troubles. His bosses expected him to kick about $3,000 a month their way in homage, and it was tough coming up with the cash in a city where business had been so bad for so long. Even worse, the once- lucrative option of skimming money from public-works projects was dying now that the Japanese government had turned off the geyser of public money.

"Corporate Strategies with Tim Connolly" to Feature Live Interview With Clifford Lerner, CEO of eTwine Holdings on ...

Clifford Lerner, CEO of eTwine Holdings, Inc. (OTC BB:ETWI.OB - News), which owns an operates free online dating site IamFreeTonight.com, will appear on "Corporate Strategies with Tim Connolly," Friday, August 10, 2007 at 10:00 am ET. Turnaround Partners, Inc. is the lead sponsor of the Corporate Strategies Radio Show, (www.corporate-strategies.net). Listeners may call in with questions live and toll free at 800-336-2225. Previous guests of the show have included CNBC "Mad Money" Host Jim Cramer, U.S. Senator John McCain, former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt, Enterprise Products CEO Dan Duncan, Celgene's CEO John Jackson, Landry's CEO Tilman Fertitta, Mario Gabelli, former Compaq CEO Eckard Pfeiffer, Money Manager Louis Navellier, and many others. The Business Talk and Cable Radio Network Show may be heard on WSBR AM 740 in Boca Raton, Florida, and on over 400 affiliate stations nationwide listed at CRN1 www.cableradionetwork.com, or on the Internet at www.turnaround-partners.com.