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Golden Predator Mines Inc. Announces Early Release of Escrow Shares

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - May 14, 2008) - Golden Predator Mines Inc. (TSX:GP - News) announces that 1,538,125 common shares of the Company owned by principals of the company have been released from escrow. The shares were originally subject to escrow under a modified National Policy 46-201 escrow agreement pursuant to the requirements of the Toronto Stock Exchange, and represent the balance of the shares subject to escrow. Pursuant to the modified escrow agreement, the shares would be released from escrow if the Company's market capitalization reached $100,000,000 based on a volume weighted average trading price of the Company's common shares during the first five days of trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The Company and the Exchange have confirmed that the market capitalization exceeded the $100,000,000 threshold an

HFA Holdings shares released from escrow

HFA Holdings decreased its interest in its own shares from 182,457,487 shares (39.70%) to 106,783,803 shares (23.23%) after 75,673,684 shares were released from escrow

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Maxygen Shares Plunge On Possible Patent Infringement Litigation From Rival Amgen

June 16, 2008 (FinancialWire) Shares of Maxygen Inc. (NASDAQ: MAXY) plunged 28 percent Friday, after the company said it may be open to patent infringement litigation from rival Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN). Maxygen said Amgen received a patent which appears to cover the company's drug MAXY-G34, which treats a common chemotherapy-induced blood disorder known as neutropenia. The drug is not yet on the market. Maxygen said that it believes the patent will eventually be invalidated in court, it does give Amgen grounds to sue Maxygen, just as MAXY-G34 approaches marketing. Maxygen shares fell $1.36, or 28 percent, to $3.49 on 10 times average daily volume. Shares of Amgen rose 75 cents to close at $43.97 Friday. FinancialWire is a fully independent, proprietary news wire service of Investrend Information (a division of Investrend Communications,

ADR Report: Sony shares charge up 10%; BHP up on China stake talk

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- U.S.-listed shares of overseas companies rose Wednesday, led by a surge in shares of Sony Corp. and by shares of BHP Billiton on speculation that China is mulling the purchase of a stake in the mining heavyweight.

ImpediMed has 9.7m shares out of voluntary escrow

ImpediMed Ltd's voluntary escrow agreement with 9 companies on 9,695,383 shares expired on April 24, decreasing from 53,105,298 shares (65.8%) to 43,409,915 shares (53.7%).

Schroder sells 3.6m Downer EDI shares

Schroder Investment Management sold 3,553,650 Downer EDI shares between April 17 and May 1, decreasing from 24,474,591 shares (7.53%) to 20,920,941 shares (6.43%).

AXA buys 5.2m Downer EDI shares

AXA Asia Pacific bought a net 5,235,748 Downer EDI shares between August 17 and June 6, increasing from 23,400,038 shares (7.29%) to 28,635,786 shares (8.81%).

Mercator Transport Group Corporation announces that its shares are now eligible for coverage obligations under the Quebec SME Growth Stock Plan

LAVAL, QC, May 26 /CNW Telbec/ - Mercator Transport Group Corporation ("Mercator") (TSX-V : GMT), is pleased to announce that it has received an advance tax ruling from Le Ministère du Revenu du Québec confirming the eligibility of its shares under the Quebec SME Growth Stock Plan. Mercator's shares have also been added to the list of eligible shares maintained by the Autorité des Marcheés Financiers.

Mercator Transport Group Corporation announces that its shares are now eligible for coverage obligations under the Quebec SME Growth Stock Plan

LAVAL, QC, May 26 /CNW Telbec/ - Mercator Transport Group Corporation ("Mercator") (TSX-V : GMT), is pleased to announce that it has received an advance tax ruling from Le Ministère du Revenu du Québec confirming the eligibility of its shares under the Quebec SME Growth Stock Plan. Mercator's shares have also been added to the list of eligible shares maintained by the Autorité des Marcheés Financiers.

Electronic Arts further extends tender offer for Take-Two

(RTTNews) - Video game maker Electronic Arts Inc. (ERTS) said Monday morning that it has extended its tender offer to acquire all the outstanding common shares of rival Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (TTWO) until June 16, 2008. The extension of the tender offer by the company for the third time comes even as shares of Take-Two trade higher than the offer price and the number of Take-Two shares tendered to the offer has declined. In response to Electronic Arts' announcement, Take-Two said that the recommendation of its board of directors to stockholders not to tender their shares to the offer remains unchanged. Take-Two, the publisher of the "Grand Theft Auto" series, has been resisting the hostile $2 billion buyout.

GameStop (GME) slips 5% following insider plans to sell shares

Shares of GameStop (GME: View sentiment for GMEsentiment, chart, options) are taking a bit of a hit today, and the newswires are all but mum on the reason for the decline. However, I was able dig up on the Dow Jones Newswire that "R. Richard Fontaine, an affiliate of GameStop, indicated plans to sell on April 25, 2008, 368,818 shares of company stock." The news broke when Fontaine filled a Form 144 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This type of insider selling always has a tendency to spook the herd, and investors have sent GME lower by more than 5% so far today.

Trading in shares of Emcom (08220) suspended

ET Net News Agency, 6 May 2008> Trading in the shares of Emcom International Limited (08220) was suspended pending an announcement in relation to a major and connected transaction and issue of new shares of the company. The stock was last traded at HK$0.088. (PL)

MIR Investment Management buys 19.6m Downer EDI shares

MIR Investment Management bought 19,644,996 Downer EDI shares for $137,136,423 to July 3, becoming a substantial shareholder with 19,644,996 shares (6.04%).

McAfee Director Sells 45,000 Shares

May 12, 2008 (FinancialWire) A director at Internet security vender McAfee (NYSE: MFE) (Current Market Cap: US$5.87 Bil.) exercised options for 45,000 shares of common stock, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. In a Form 4 filed with the SEC, Leslie G. Denend reported exercising the options last week for $12.92 to $16.84 apiece and then selling the same number of shares on the same day for $34.33 apiece. Open market purchases and sales must be reported within two business days of the transaction. McAfee is based in Santa Clara, California. FinancialWire is a fully independent, proprietary news wire service of Investrend Information (a division of Investrend Communications, Inc.). FinancialWire news is written by professional journalists, dedicated to pure journalistic standards.

Novell Buys $100 Million in Shares, Joins Google Summer of Code

Commercial Linux distributor Novell said last week that its board of directors has authorized the company to head on down to Wall Street with a couple of bales of cash to buy up shares of the company's stock in a effort to bolster the shares and boost per share earnings growth calculations in the coming quarters. Novell also announced that search engine giant Google is funding some openSUSE projects as part of its Summer of Code donations back to the open source community.

Mercator Lines allots 365562 equity shares on conversion of FCCBs

Mercator Lines Ltd has announced that the Committee of Board of Directors of the Company at its meeting held on April 29, 2008, inter alia, has approved allotment of 3,65,562 equity shares of Re 1/- each in lieu of surrender of Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds (FCCB's) aggregating USD 500,000/- from bond holders; at a conversion price of Rs 59/812. Consequently, the paid up capital of the Company has increased to 23,52,60,949 equity shares of Re 1/- each. With this conversion, now there are 800 FCCB's outstanding of aggregate amount of USD 8,000,000/-.

Mecom Group says chairman David Montgomery buys 120,000 shares at 24.5p each

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Mecom Group Plc. said Chairman David Montgomery bought 120,000 shares at 24.5 pence each, lifting his stake in the company to 6.02 million shares or 0.38 percent. TFN.newsdesk@thomson.com tsm/rw

Croatia: RSS raises cap to HRK 140.3 M; issues 3,650 new shares

Home savings bank Raiffeisen stambena stedionica (RSS) has increased its capital by issuing 3,650 new common shares in the nominal amount of HRK 10,000 per share, said the Central Depository Agency. The company's capital rose from HRK 106.5 million to HRK 140.3 million and is divided into 14,300 common shares.

Pfizer shares rise as Lipitor patent dispute ends

Shares of Pfizer Inc. rose Wednesday after the drugmaker settled a five-year patent dispute with India's Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd., negotiating a deal to keep a generic version of blockbuster cholesterol drug Lipitor off U.S. shelves for longer than many analysts predicted.

Tessera shares jump after patent lawsuit settlement

Shares of chip design company Tessera Technologies Inc. jumped Friday after it announced it settled a patent lawsuit against International Production Sourcing Group.

Activision Shares Jump on Strong Results

Shares in Activision leapt over 12 percent in mid-afternoon trading Friday, after the company posted record fiscal year results and optimistic guidance.

Synchronoss shares fall 44% on unlocked iPhone issues

shares plunged as much as 44% Wednesday after the communications software maker gave a weak second-quarter forecast, largely due to consumers unlocking Apple Inc.'s

Shares Of Yahoo Drop On Ending Microsoft Talks, Signing Advertising Deal With Google

(RTTNews) - Shares of Internet giant Yahoo! Inc (YHOO | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) fell Friday morning after the company ended talks with software giant Microsoft (MSFT | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) about a possible merger or partnership deal and struck an advertising deal with rival Internet powerhouse Google Inc. (GOOG | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating).

Circuit City shares fall as Blockbuster yanks bid (AP)

Shares of the Richmond, Va.-based company fell 23 cents, or 9 percent, to close at $2.32 in trading on Wednesday, after hitting a more than 17-year-low of $2.10 earlier in the day.

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