eBay (EBAY) acquired the New York-based startup Hunch on Monday, which could help it solve the sites issues with consumer recommendations while gaining a foothold in the Big Apple. The purchase price was not disclosed.

The San Jose-based online marketplace will use Hunch technology and its team to integrate more advanced recommendations into its website, eBay Chief Technology Officer Marc Carges said in a telephone interview.

We sell a lot of very unique items that dont have bar codes or UPC codes, they might be one-off collectibles, but we also sell things like telephones, iPhones and tablets, Carges said. So the challenge is to have a recommendation system that takes advantage of this breadth and wealth of inventory.

Enter Hunch, which was co-founded in New York City by CEO Chris Dixon, who also co-founded and managed SiteAdvisor until it was purchased by McAfee in 2006 and has also been a venture investor on his own and with Menlo Park-based Bessemer Venture Partners.

Dixon and his fellow co-founders started Hunch in 2009 to use machine learning, which applies statistical methods to large data sets, in order to better understand peoples online habits and interests. The company uses information from a site such as eBay as well as data from the Web and other sources to build

ATLANTA, Nov 21, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Cbeyond

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small businesses, announced that two members of its senior leadership
team have been awarded prestigious honors within the Atlanta technology
community.

Senior Vice President and CIO Carrie Wheeler has been named the 2011
Woman of the Year by Women in Technology (WIT), an Atlanta-based
organization that fosters opportunities to develop and promote women for
success in technology.

WIT’s annual Woman of the Year program commemorates the achievements of
women who drive opportunities to shape the next generation of female
technology leaders both within their companies and the local community.
Wheeler was chosen among three finalists in the mid-market and
medium-sized business category, which evaluates candidates from
companies with 251-2,500 members. In addition to receiving the award,
Wheeler will participate in a discussion panel with fellow finalists
during the December WIT Forum meeting to discuss prominent issues women
face in today’s technology climate.

“It’s an amazing honor to receive an award from such a prestigious
organization as WIT, and I believe it illustrates the efforts of our
team at Cbeyond — those people I have the honor of working with each
day,” said Wheeler. “Atlanta is fortunate to have a strong support
network for technology professionals and WIT’s influence on empowering,
mentoring and supporting women is a powerful combination. Being a leader
in technology, male or female, is about developing and exuding the
confidence to solve problems, and I am fortunate to have the opportunity
each day to exchange new ideas with both my peers at Cbeyond and within
the local community.”

Wheeler’s selection was the second prestigious Atlanta technology
recognition for the Cbeyond team. Joe Oesterling, executive vice
president of network and technology at Cbeyond, was honored with a
Professional of the Year Award by the Association of Telecom
Professionals (ATP).

Oesterling was one of five local leaders to receive a 2011 ATPY Award,
earning the group’s Industry Leadership Award. Each year, the ATP, a
nonprofit organization dedicated to the continued professional
development and network growth of the telecommunications community,
honors exceptional leadership and innovation through its awards program.

Oesterling’s team at Cbeyond provides engineering and development
associated with Cbeyond’s customer network, customer applications, cloud
services, internal applications, and shared infrastructure. In addition,
his team oversees billing operations, supply chain management, cost
management, and facilities.

“Delivering the exceptional service and big business solutions that our
small business customers expect requires a collective effort, and I am
honored to work with an organization where there truly is no ‘I’ in
team,” said Oesterling. “Only through an open and free-flowing exchange
of ideas can we continue to enhance our award-winning IT offerings, and
I look forward to continuing to contribute to Cbeyond’s ongoing growth.”

For more information on WIT’s Woman of the Year Awards, visit
http://www.mywit.org/signature-events/women-of-the-year-presented-by-grant-thornton/2011-women-of-the-year/honorees .
For more information on the ATP’s Atlanta Telecom Professional of the
Year Awards, visit
http://www.atpconnect.org/news/val-rahmani-ceo-damballa-named-2011-atlanta-telecom-professional-year-four-other-telecom-and-te .

For more information on Cbeyond, visit
http://www.cbeyond.net/ .
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communications services to 60,000 small businesses in the U.S. Serving
growing entrepreneurs, Cbeyond offers more than 30
productivity-enhancing applications including local and long-distance
voice, broadband Internet, mobile, BlackBerry(R), voicemail,
email, Web hosting, fax-to-email, data backup, file-sharing, and virtual
private networking. In addition, Cbeyond’s Cloud Services division
offers virtual and dedicated servers and cloud PBX to small businesses
worldwide. The Cloud Services division won Microsoft’s Hosting Partner
of the Year Award for 2009 and 2010 in connection with Microsoft’s
Hyper-V Server product. Winning more than 60 awards for product
innovation, growth and a quality customer experience, Cbeyond continues
to focus on helping small businesses succeed and grow through
high-performance technology, superior services and world-class support.
For more information on Cbeyond, visit
www.cbeyond.net
and follow Cbeyond on Twitter:
www.twitter.com/Cbeyondinc .

About Women in Technology (WIT)

WIT’s mission is to serve as passionate advocates for advancing women in
Georgia’s technology community. Each year, more than 1,000 thought
leaders and professionals attend WIT Forums, WIT’s leadership and
networking series. Through “Careers in Action”, WIT delivers
professional development programs such as Executive Readiness,
Leadership Foundations, and Success by Design, created to enable women
to hone their leadership skills and achieve visibility within the
business community. WIT’s philanthropic and educational programs, known
as Girls Get IT, collaborate with the business, education, and nonprofit
communities to inspire girls of all ages to pursue careers in science,
technology, engineering, and math (STEM). WIT has two annual premier
events, WIT Connect: Connecting for a Cause (our annual fundraiser) and
WIT’s Women of the Year in Technology Awards honoring the women who
successfully lead Georgia’s technology community. WIT is a founding
society of the Technology Association of Georgia, an umbrella membership
organization that serves the Georgia technology community. For more
information on WIT and the WIT Foundation, WIT’s philanthropic arm,
visit
www.mywit.org .

About the Association of Telecom Professionals (ATP)

Association of Telecom Professionals (ATP) is a nonprofit organization
dedicated to the continued professional development and network growth
of the telecommunications community. ATP was created for the purpose of
providing an environment for networking, exchanging important industry
information, and the recognition of excellence within the international
telecom community. Each month ATP meets the professional development
needs of our members by drawing upon telecom and communications thought
leaders to share their knowledge and experiences. It is through this
exchange of ideas that we provide an avenue for networking to our
members in the wireline, wireless, media, technology, and enterprise
communities. To join ATP or for more information on the many benefits
associated with ATP membership and a full calendar of ATP events, please
visit the web site at
www.atpconnect.org .

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SAN MATEO, CA, Nov 21, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –
Star Analytics, Inc., the leader in application process automation
and integration software, today announced that it has entered into a
reseller agreement with Data Technology Ltd., a prominent UK-based
provider of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions. Data Technology
will demonstrate Star Analytics solutions at the QlikView Business
Discovery World Tour in London on Nov. 22, 2011.

Under the agreement, Data Technology will offer Star Integration
Server and Star Command Center. Star Analytics provides a fully
automated, code-free solution to extract data, metadata and security
from Oracle Essbase, Oracle Hyperion Financial Management and Oracle
Hyperion Planning applications in an open and standards-based format
that is easily consumable by QlikView.

“We are excited about the opportunity to work with Data Technology
given its wealth of BI expertise and strong footprint in the UK
market,” said Barbara Eelens, director of Channels & Operations, Star
Analytics. “A large number of Fortune 500 companies successfully use
our technology to reduce the cost and complexity of running complex
BI environments. This partnership will bring these benefits to a much
larger community worldwide.”

“By offering Star Analytics’ technology, we can extend the value of
our customers’ BI investments with a fully automated, code-free
solution that is easy for line of business users to implement and
maintain without the need for scarce IT resources,” said Gus Machado,
director, Data Technology. “We see great value for our customers to
leverage Hyperion data and take full advantage of QlikView’s Business
Discovery capabilities.”

Star Command Center and Star Integration Server combine integration
and automation into a single, cohesive solution that provides
self-service automation for end-users with real-time data refreshes.
Star Integration Server’s patented methods for data extraction
deliver high performance in a format that ensures components, such as
Hyperion “drill-paths,” are accurately rendered in QlikView. Star
Integration Server also preserves “Time” and “Accounting”
intelligence and other application logic.

See Star Analytics demos and request a free trial at

www.staranalytics.com . Join the discussion about automation and
integration at
www.twitter.com/staranalytics .

About Star Analytics

Star Analytics is the leader in application process automation and
integration software, offering enterprises a cost-effective way to
automate and integrate disparate financial and operational
applications for better business decisions. Fortune 1000 companies in
all major industries use Star Analytics to improve business planning
and analytics and reduce the burden on IT by automating the
integration and management of financial processes and data. Star
Analytics is certified Microsoft partner. Other partners include
QlikTech, Informatica, interRel Consulting, IBM Cognos, SAP
BusinessObjects, and Oracle. Headquartered in San Mateo, California,
Star Analytics is a privately-held company backed by Hummer Winblad
Venture Partners and LightSpeed Venture Partners. Visit

www.staranalytics.com .

About Data Technology

Data Technology is a provider of Business Intelligence and B2B
solutions with deep domain knowledge of Data Integration, Business
Intelligence and Visualization. Data Technology helps organizations
gain significant competitive advantage by empowering them to access,
integrate, simplify, visualize and trust their information assets –
turning data into useful and useable asset or intelligence. Customers
include leaders such as Aggregate Industries, Camelot, Courtaulds,
Comet, Sky, Siemens, HMV, Waterstones, Premier Foods, Tyco, Yazaki
and several other global organizations. Data Technology’s commitment
to customers is to deliver value by sharing risks. Data Technology
will deliver fixed price outcomes and support them at a fixed price
for their lifetime. Visit
http://www.datatechnology.co.uk .

Star Analytics is a registered trademark and the Star Analytics logo
is a trademark of Star Analytics. All other names mentioned herein
may be trademarks of their respective owners.

This press release is for informational purposes only and no offer to
buy or solicitation of an offer to sell any securities is made
hereby. Certain information contained in this news release is
forward-looking and is subject to unknown risks and uncertainties.
The actual results, performance or achievements of the company may
differ materially from the results, performance or achievements of
the company expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.

Media contact

Joanna Rustin
Rustin Communications for Star Analytics
866-496-8028
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The California Pioneers of Santa Clara County may be committed to preserving the countys history, but that doesnt mean the group wont use modern methods to do it.

On Wednesday, the Pioneers had a ceremony at San Joses Calvary Catholic Cemetery to commemorate the installation of grave headstones for 19th century prune king Louis Pellier and his nephew, Louis P. Pellier. The headstones had been lost for decades before being recovered by the Pioneers In Grave Danger team.

But in addition to the headstones, the group installed a small plaque with details about Louis Pellier and a quick-response code that lets smartphone users download the historical info to their handhelds.

It is a perfect blend of Old World remembrance: headstones meeting cutting-edge remembrance technology, said Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Paul Bernal, the Pioneers president and San Joses official city historian. With smartphones, a fountain of information will be attached to each cemetery marker. We honor those who came before us by employing modern communication methods.

He predicts that the Pioneers have started a trend thatll spread to cemeteries across the country or even the world. Innovations launched in Silicon Valley have a way of doing that.

VALLEY GUY: Applied Materials CEO Mike Splinter is a 30-year veteran of the semiconductor industry, but hes not sure that qualifies him for

LAKE CHARLES, La. Scam artists are targeting elderly Lake Charles area residents by impersonating their grandchildren and seeking transfers of thousands of dollars.

The American Press reported that the scammers are using technology to shield their identities from would-be victims and avoid detection.

The scammers appear to be using Google Voice, an Internet based telephone service, to call potential victims in southwest Louisiana. Google Voice is available for public use and is free or, for people who make international calls, low-cost.

Carmen Million, president of the local Better Business Bureau, said that while the scam recently affecting Lake Charles is classic, the technology that permits greater anonymity is a new wrinkle.

Jay Nancarrow, a Google spokesman, said the Internet giant is mindful of fraudulent activities that can occur using its technology.

Google does not tolerate abuse of our services. We will disable accounts for verifiable violations of our policies, including this type of voicebased scam, Nancarrow said. We will also review law enforcement requests that we receive through valid legal process.

The BBB often sends reports of scams to the US Secret Service, which investigates financial crimes. But the agency, which is more famous for its role protecting the nations leaders, is undermanned, Million said.

For every person they arrest, theres probably 10 more that have probably used the same scam, she said.

Million said cons seek out the elderly as victims because they are frequently at home during the day and often answer the phone.

The scams, Million said, can prove lucrative.

The reality is that they may call 100 people, but if they scam five people, it may very well be worth it because they can get as much as $3,000 from each, she said. Theyll just rotary call until they get somebody.

Nancarrow said Google urges caution when accepting calls from Google Voice.

Million said consumers should seek to verify the circumstances of any call with other family members or should ask detailed family questions to establish the callers identity.

There is only one 100 percent guaranteed way to stop this: Dont get involved, Million said. If you dont send them money, they cant exist.

We live in an age celebrated for its remarkable global connectivity of instant contact between individuals who might literally be a world apart.

Miraculous communication, but what has happened to our community? Todays social media may be state-of-the-art but the world it has opened up is almost prehistoric, defined by groups of hunter-gatherers and vicious, unforgiving attitudes toward anyone considered to be outside the tribe.

You dont have to look very far or very hard to come up with glaring examples of unhealthy obsession, bully-like behavior and cruelty that have been fed and furthered by tools like instant messaging, Facebook, Twitter and so on.

Far too many young people end up using high-tech tools for low ends: anonymous attacks, slanderous whisper campaigns and worse criminal harassment, victimization, abuse, assault and murder. These are children and teenagers, and often adults as well who are apparently numb to conscience and immune to consequence. And we have become all too aware of the lethal effects of their poison. Hardly a week goes by without news of their victims, bright and loving young people whose lives have been lost to fatal despair and the overwhelming if misguided belief that it will not get better.

One study has suggested about one in 12 Canadian teenagers is bullied on a weekly basis; those odds are apparently almost identical for students in grades 4 to 7, where 1 in 13 are targeted by bullies weekly. Another study found that 41 per cent of all students in grades 4 to 7 were involved in bullying monthly, whether as bully or victim. A 2007 study suggested that Canada has the worlds ninth highest rate of bullying among 13-year-olds. Reports like these point to a growing epidemic, but offer few solutions.

If we are going to reverse this trend, we will need better strategies than pessimism and panic.

We must all do our part to create a safe environment for children, particularly at school. Encouraging students to recognize and report bullying will reduce bullying and similar bad behavior in their school. Adult awareness and involvement is also critical. Adults in the students life (whether at home or at school) must become fully aware of the extent of the bullying/victimization problems in the school. Empathy and intervention on the part of adults, who may affect the kind of positive outcomes that children and young people especially those suffering bullying feel powerless to make. We should remain resolutely focused on early, long-term intervention and engage students in this approach.

We have taken the problem seriously, but maybe not seriously enough. Behaviour in Ontario schools is governed by the Safe Schools Act, passed in 2000, which standardized codes of behaviour and punishment across all Ontario school boards. Those boards have since adapted the act to existing regulations, including previous zero tolerance policies.

Shortly afterward, in 2003, a brother and sister in Burlington filed a $550,000 suit against the Halton District School Board, several school officials and three bullies in response to years of continuous torment, which was allegedly allowed to continue despite complaints to school administrators. The case spotlighted the fact that policies that are not put into practice are, in the end, just empty intentions.

To varying degrees, we can all own this tragic failure. The longer we tolerate these trends, the more it becomes societys norm. Do those characteristics embody our highest potential as human beings, or is it just the animal behaviour that outwardly anonymous people exhibit when they feel immune to reprimand or the judgment of society? Is it really an incurable epidemic, or is that just a convenient excuse used by policymakers to avoid having to address the root problems?

Are we really expected to believe that the outsize creative minds that made this technology possible are such failures when it comes to integrating it into human lives in a humane fashion? Just as the scientists who gave us the atomic bomb felt compelled to dedicate the second act of their lives to peace, the programming community that has engineered these tools should bear some measure of responsibility for the world it creates.

If new technology makes it easier to be a stalker, rapist or abusive ex-partner; if it made it possible to slander or smear the innocent; if it gave immature youths the power to issue threats, the leverage to drive children into spirals of depression that ended in institutions, hospitals or morgues, is that not something of concern, even from a bottom-line profit standpoint?

I dont know the answer to that. But I am asking technology designers to join hands with us to make a difference. Children are driven by rewards, just as adults are. How can we make a difference to stop bullying? How can we see it stopped on Facebook?

We have to start somewhere if we hope to make a difference, to make a better world both online and in real life, two worlds that grow more entangled and more complex day after day.

Jane McKenna is MPP for Burlington.

High Yield Technology Stocks With Big Return On Equity by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet stocks from the technology sector with a dividend yield of more than 5 percent as well as a return on equity of more than 25 percent. 11 stocks from the sector fulfilled these criteria. Roughly 45 percent of the results come from the wireless communication industry.

Here are the 3 top stocks by return on equity:

Cellcom Israel Ltd. (CEL) has a market capitalization of $2.14 billion. The company employs 4,681 people, generates revenues of $1,818.73 million and has a net income of $352.44 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $726.73 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 39.96 percent (operating margin 29.09 percent and the net profit margin finally 19.38 percent).

The total debt representing 71.06 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 1,249.56 percent. Due to the financial situation, the return on equity amounts to 361.12 percent. Finally, earnings per share amounted to $3.29 of which $3.78 were paid in form of dividends to shareholders.

Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 6.52, Price/Sales 1.16 and Price/Book ratio 23.02. Dividend Yield: 16.02 percent. The beta ratio is 0.71.

Partner Communications (PTNR) has a market capitalization of $1.75 billion. The company employs 6,068 people, generates revenues of $1,822.00 million and has a net income of $339.34 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $672.95 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 36.93 percent (operating margin 26.91 percent and the net profit margin finally 18.62 percent).

The total debt representing 66.04 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 593.61 percent. Due to the financial situation, the return on equity amounts to 96.06 percent. Finally, earnings per share amounted to $1.87 of which $2.14 were paid in form of dividends to shareholders.

Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 6.04, Price/Sales 0.97 and Price/Book ratio 10.36. Dividend Yield: 17.39 percent. The beta ratio is 0.89.

Telular Corporation (WRLS) has a market capitalization of $90.61 million. The company employs 83 people, generates revenues of $47.35 million and has a net income of $38.12 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $4.51 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 9.52 percent (operating margin 7.10 percent and the net profit margin finally 80.50 percent).

The total debt representing 0.00 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 0.00 percent. Due to the financial situation, the return on equity amounts to 69.12 percent. Finally, earnings per share amounted to $2.51 of which $0.10 were paid in form of dividends to shareholders.

Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 2.39, Price/Sales 1.87 and Price/Book ratio 1.16. Dividend Yield: 6.83 percent. The beta ratio is 0.96.

Take a closer look at the full table of high yield stocks with big return on equity. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 8.4 while the forward P/E ratio is 8.4. The dividend yield has a value of 9.2 percent. Price to book ratio is 6.3 and price to sales ratio 1.3. The operating margin amounts to 24.3 percent.

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A new device that combines two microimaging technologies can reveal both the detailed anatomy of arterial linings and biological activities that, in coronary arteries, could indicate the risk of heart attacks or the formation of clots in arterial stents. In their report receiving early online release in Nature Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators describe using an intra-arterial catheter combining both optical frequency-domain imaging (OFDI) and near-infrared fluorescence (NIRF) imaging to obtain simultaneous structural and molecular images of internal arterial surfaces in rabbits.

The ability to measure both microstructural and molecular information from the same location in the artery wall could provide a much better diagnostic tool for assessing vascular pathology, information that is highly relevant for diagnosing coronary artery disease, vulnerable plaque and evaluating stent healing, says Gary Tearney, MD, PhD, of the Wellman Center for Photomedicine and the MGH Pathology Department, co-senior author of the article.

Developed at the Wellman Center, OFDI utilizes a fiberoptic probe with a constantly rotating laser tip to create detailed molecular images of interior surfaces such as arterial walls. While OFDI can be used to guide procedures like coronary artery angioplasty and to confirm the correct positioning of metal stents inserted to keep cleared arteries open, its ability to determine important details of stent healing is limited. Properly healed stents become covered with endothelium, the same tissue that normally coats the arterial surface; but stents can become coated with the clot-inducing protein fibrin, which may put patients at risk for stent thrombosis – a clot that blocks bloodflow through the stent – and OFDI cannot determine the molecular composition of tissue covering a stent.

Intravascular NIRF technology was developed in the MGH Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC), in collaboration with colleagues at the Technical University of Munich, and uses special imaging agents to detect cells and molecules involved in vascular processes like clotting and inflammation. Recognizing the potential advantage of combining both technologies, the Wellman researchers worked with the MGH-CVRC team, led by Farouc Jaffer, MD, PhD, of the MGH Heart Center to develop an integrated OFDI-NIRF imaging system incorporated in the same intravascular probe used for OFDI alone.

The team first confirmed that the system could provide detailed structural images of a stent implanted in a cadaveric human coronary artery and could accurately identify the presence of fibrin on the stent. In a series of experiments in living rabbits, the OFDI-NIRF system was able to detect fibrin on implanted stents – including areas where it was not detected by OFDI alone – and to identify the presence of both atherosclerotic plaques and enzymatic activity associated with inflammation and plaque rupture. The enzyme signal detected by NIRF was not uniform throughout the imaged plaques, indicating biological differences that could be relevant to prognosis and treatment planning.

At present we are not able to predict which patients may develop stent thrombosis, but integrated OFDI-NIRF can assess many key factors linked to the risk of clot formation, says Jaffer, co-senior author of the Nature Medicine report. If OFDI-NIRF is validated in clinical studies, patients at risk for stent thrombosis could undergo a stent checkup to determine how well the stent is healing. Patients with unhealed stents could be advised to take or continue taking specific anti-clotting medications. Patients with well-healed stents, on the other hand, could potentially discontinue anti-clotting medications, which can cause excess bleeding. Clinical adoption of the integrated technology will require FDA approval of the molecular contrast agents used in NIRF.