The island nation of Singapore welcomes millions of first-time visitors each year, and the month of September will be especially busy as it plays host to the world-famous 2010 FORMULA 1 SINGTEL SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX. The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has partnered with SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) to build an online service combining Twitter feeds and geo-tagging on YourSingapore.com, the STB’s online one-stop visitor information center. ..

IBM and Netezza Corporation  today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire Netezza, a publicly held company based in Marlborough, Mass., in a cash transaction at a price of $27 per share or at a net price of approximately $1.7 billion, after adjusting for cash.  Netezza will expand IBM's business analytics initiatives to help clients gain faster insights into their business information, with increased performance at a lower cost.

The acquisition, which is subject to Netezza shareholder approval, applicable regulatory clearances and other customary closing conditions, is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2010..

Pentaho Corporation open source business intelligence (BI) leader, today announced that Power Costs, Inc., (PCI) the leading global provider of energy supply management software has successfully deployed the Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition integrated with QlikView at three energy companies. The joint solution allows Power Costs' customers to mine massive amounts of data quickly to help improve their Day Ahead and Real-Time operational Profit and Loss (P&L).

Power Costs provides asset optimization solutions to many of the leading power generation and trading companies in the world. The PCI GSMS (Generation Supply Management System) generates 5-10 GB of data a month for each customer which is critical to monitoring their P&L. Prior to using the Pentaho and QlikView business Intelligence solution, Power Costs found it difficult to analyze the large amounts of data and quickly respond to user needs of ad-hoc vertical and horizontal data drilling to find root causes of P&L leakage....

- La Fundación Lealtad, institución independiente y sin ánimo de lucro, que tiene como misión fomentar la confianza de la sociedad española en las ONG para lograr un incremento de las donaciones, así como de cualquier otro tipo de colaboración con las ONG, ofrece a los donantes una serie de consejos para ayudarles a seleccionar la ONG con la que colaborar en la emergencia de Pakistán.

Numerosas ONG han lanzado campañas de captación de fondos para atender a las víctimas de las inundaciones en Pakistán. Una vez más se necesita de la colaboración de los ciudadanos para que las organizaciones puedan realizar su trabajo en el terreno...