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* Certiport makes 60 percent of sales outside N.America

* Top customers include Microsoft, Adobe, HP

* Presence of 12,000 testing centres in 150 countries

LONDON, May 16 (Reuters) – British education and publishing
group Pearson has bought Certiport, which provides
testing and certification services for leading IT companies, for
$140 million in cash from Spire Capital Partners, it said on
Wednesday.

Pearson, which owns the worlds biggest education business
as well as the Financial Times and Penguin Books, said the move
would expand the product range and geographical reach of its
professional testing business.

US-based...

The fast-paced and hyper-competitive gaming industry isnt exactly known for its stability.

??In fact, its collapsed quite a few times throughout its history, sometimes abruptly, without a gradual drop off, like when Atari had its biggest period in the early eighties, then seemingly went down the toilet overnight.

With economy in a shambles, the gaming biz has gone through more subsequent ups and downs, which is certainly to be expected.

However, Variety recently reported that in spite of the business being in a slump, there are some definite profits out there, with digital dollars boosting bottom lines.

As Marc Grasser points out, Ubisoft made a profit of close...

HITACHI, Japan, May 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Kinbasha Gaming International, Inc. (the “Company”) (pink:KNBA), owner
and operator of retail gaming centers in Japan, today announced that it
has filed Form 10 with the SEC, releasing its audited financial results
for the past two fiscal years — 2011 and 2010. In conjunction with
Kinbasha’s filing, the company’s CEO discusses Kinbasha’s future
business...

Cup final day memories? Dalglish could fill a book with those which have surfaced in one form or other down the years. The punter who got into the team bath after the 1986 victory over Everton, shouting I dont give a monkeys. Come and take me away now (and apparently, no-one ever did). The fans chanting Shankly that same day; the plane home, shared with Everton; Dalglish encountering Paul Bracewell in a chippy after the open-top bus tour which involved both sides.

Such are the joys of the Cup – and you could probably say that tomorrow brings the moment Dalglish had in his minds eye, nine days short of a year ago, when having been presented as the clubs permanent manager, he quipped...

The Big Shot 2012: Seabreeze Amusement Park was the site of RITs 2012 Big Shot . Video by Annette Lein

May 4, 2012 

BEIJING (AP) — China agreed Friday to let foreigners own bigger stakes in its securities firms and promised to limit export subsidies after a high-level dialogue with the United States went ahead despite a standoff over a Chinese legal activist.

China’s government also said it was implementing an earlier commitment to expand access to its auto insurance market and would allow greater foreign investment in Chinese stocks and bonds. It promised to pursue reforms of its controversial exchange rate controls but gave no timeline.

This...

Doc: Golf is torture disguised as amusement

Updated Tuesday at 5:15 pm ET: A top US housing regulator failed to implement a plan to cut loan principal balances for millions of underwater homeowners even though a pilot program showed two years ago it could save taxpayers money, two House Democrats said Tuesday.

Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which overseesmortgage giantFannie Mae,apparently ha(s) been withholding from Congress documents showing the potential benefits of the program to taxpayers and homeowners, according to Reps. Elijah Cummings of Maryland and John Tierney of Massachusetts. The two Democrats, in a letter to DeMarco that was released to msnbc.com, said they obtained...

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Hyatt Hotels Corp. (H), the chain
controlled by the Pritzker family, named Gebhard F. Rainer as
its new chief financial officer as part of a reorganization.

Rainer, currently managing director of Europe, Africa and
the Middle East, will replace Harmit J. Singh on Aug. 15,
Chicago-based Hyatt said today in statement. After exiting the
CFO post, Singh will serve as an executive vice president
through Dec. 31, then leave the company, Hyatt said.

The reorganization includes the formation of a new real
estate and capital strategy group to focus on buying and selling
hotels and manage finances to further the company’s expansion.
Steve Haggerty,...