ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, January 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- New research shows Microsoft-related businesses make more than US$15 for every US$1 Microsoft earns.

NEW YORK, January 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Aveda(TM), the maker of plant-derived hair care, skin care, makeup and lifestyle products and a global leader in corporate environmental sustainability, is building on the breakout success of its Spring/Summer 2008 Green Fashion program with an enhanced eco-friendly platform for the Fall/Winter 2008 New York shows. Once again, Aveda has engaged New York's most talented and highly influential designers to raise the industry's collective environmental conscience.

SAO PAULO, Brazil, January 25 /PRNewswire/ --

A report called "Deadly Brew," aired on Thursday, Jan. 24 by Bloomberg Television, is a dangerously misleading and out-of-context representation of Brazil's sugar and ethanol industry, according to the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA).

"The report relies on isolated incidents, flawed data and unsubstantiated allegations. Not surprisingly, it arrives at unbalanced and inappropriate conclusions that bear no resemblance to the industry as it is today," says UNICA President and CEO Marcos Jank.

COLOGNE, Germany, January 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Sedo, the leading online market place for buying and selling Internet domain names and websites, has announced that sport.co.uk has sold for GBP135,000.

The Internet domain name, sport.co.uk, was sold through Sedo by one of its customers to Media Corporation plc, an Internet media and advertising company. It will develop sport.co.uk during the first quarter of 2008 with the aim of it becoming a worldwide provider of comprehensive sports statistics and information. All facts and figures on matches, athletes, teams, results, competitions tournaments, stadiums and sponsors will be provided in what eventually aims to be one of the world's largest sports information websites.

LONDON, January 25 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to research from Oxford University, published in The Lancet, calling for the oral contraceptive pill to be made available to women over-the-counter, Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) Director of Practice & Quality Improvement, David Pruce, said:

"The RPSGB would support a proposal to reclassify oral contraceptives from prescription only medicines to over-the-counter medicines.

WARRINGTON, England, January 25 /PRNewswire/ --

Martin Dawes Systems, an international provider of billing, customer care and revenue assurance solutions, today announced its appointment as a supplier to UK mobile operator O2 of billing systems for O2 business, corporate and SME subscribers.

This follows the successful implementation of an upgraded billing system based on the company's dise3G solution. Martin Dawes Systems will work with O2 on developing new software features and functionality to continue to deliver improvements in billing & CRM functionality.