LONDON, December 12 /PRNewswire/ -- PureCircle, which develops and manufactures natural food ingredients for the global food and beverage industry, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with a Korean food ingredient company, for the supply of its co-product SWETA range of high intensity sweetener ("HIS") into the Korean market. PureCircle considers the Korean market to be strategically important for SWETA as well as offering significant growth prospects given the extent to which stevia-derived HIS products are already being consumed.

LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany, December 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- The New Edition of BASF's Innovation Podcast "Chemistry of Innovations" Talks About Printable Electronics.

We still have got a bit to go before we will have electronic newspapers. But still, with the help of printing technology, it is already possible today to produce not only newspapers but even electronic circuits. This allows an amazingly wide range of products and applications - from heated insoles for your shoes to complex circuits and even transistors. Electrographic Ink without color pigments but with very special liquid synthetic materials, so called polymers, enables to print electronics. So theoretically you could even print out electronics elements with a normal inkjet printer.

LONDON, December 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Acquisition of Multimap will help Microsoft deliver new, expanded services on the web.

Microsoft Corp has acquired Multimap, one of the UK's top 100 technology companies and one of the leading online mapping services in the world. The acquisition gives Microsoft a powerful new location and mapping technology to complement existing offerings such as Virtual Earth, Live Search, Windows Live services, MSN and the aQuantive advertising platform, with future integration potential for a range of other Microsoft products and platforms. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina, December 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- NetBoss to Help du Ensure Highest Levels of Customer Satisfaction in Advanced Services Delivered by its Fixed, Mobile and Next-Generation Network

HERTEN, Germany, December 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Early in 2008 Germany's Aqua Society GmbH will be launching the Europe-wide sale of a unique new energy module which enables efficient generation of sustainable electricity. Interested parties are invited to demonstrations at the corporation's research centre in Herten, Germany.

Aqua Society's energy module represents ground-breaking technology which generates CO2-free electricity from waste heat at temperatures from 80(degrees)C, accordingly making a decisive contribution to achieving climate targets.

Sustainable electricity from waste heat at 80(degrees)C

SEOUL, South Korea, December 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- SaviTrak(TM) Enables Real-Time Management of the Location, Security and Condition of Global Shipments, Including LCD Flat Screens

PNL Networks Co., Ltd. (PNL), the technology arm of global logistics service provider PNL Group, today announced it has contracted with Savi Networks to enable PNL to offer its customers advanced logistics services, based on wireless monitoring technology. The contract calls on Savi Networks to provide the SaviTrak(TM) information service to monitor, in real-time, container shipments filled with products such as liquid crystal display (LCD) television screens that are transported across more than two dozen tradelanes spanning the globe.