HABBO (www.habbo.com), a leading global online virtual world for teenagers, announced today that celebrity guest Rachael Leigh Cook will be visiting the community to interact with fans.

The actress will be in the HABBO Theaterdome today, June 13 at 3 p.m. (PDT)/6 p.m. (EDT). Fans are invited to interact with Cook and ask questions about her upcoming film projects including - Nancy Drew, The Final Season, and Blonde Ambition (co-starring Jessica Simpson and Luke Wilson).

For the opportunity to meet Cook, log in to HABBO or join for free by going to www.habbo.com and clicking on the "Register Now" button. To hear the exclusive live discussion with celebrated HABBO DJs Whimsy and RubbeeRED, tune into HABBO's Internet Radio Stream, Bobba Music (www.bobbamusic.com).

27 year old Tiara King a former New Orleans resident and survivor from Hurricane Katrina now relocated back in her hometown of Baltimore, Maryland, has been pegged for a role in the off Broadway production that is touring in Baltimore from January 19th To January 21st at the Rognel Heights Cultural Center located at 1200 Wicklow Road, Baltimore, Maryland 21229-1548.

Said Tiara: "I am happy to be back up on stage doing what I love, dancing and acting." The show times are 1/19/07 Friday 8 PM, 1/20/07 Saturday 1 PM "Special Youth show" reduced cost tickets for under 18, 1/20/07 Saturday 8 PM 1/21/07 Sunday 4 PM Special Dinner Theater/Fundraiser Tickets $50. Tickets can be purchased at Theatermania.com or by calling 866-811-4111 Ticket prices $20 To $30 except on 1/20/07, Special Youth rates at 1 PM show. Special dinner/fundraiser show on 1/21/07. Groups call 917 716-6635.

Web 2.0 startup PimpMyNews.com announced today at Macworld the debut of the world's first "talking social news application" designed specifically for iPhones and iPod touch devices. The application has received Apple's prestigious "Staff Pick" designation and can now be accessed from any iPhone or iPod touch at www.PimpMyNews.com/m or through Apple's web app directory.

The PimpMyNews web app features key functionality from the PimpMyNews full site, which launched in December at www.PimpMyNews.com. The web app scours the Internet for breaking text stories from the most popular news and blog sites and converts them to near-human sounding audio that users of iPhones, iPod touch devices and other mobile devices can listen to wherever they happen to be. Users can also share audio versions of stories with friends, or post them to other social sites including Facebook, Digg, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Mixx and more.

KnotWear will donate 15% of its net profits to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

Sam Minster, co-owner of KnotWear explains, We chose this charity because they help children who have been infected with life-threatening diseases. Its simply heart breaking to see children contract any illness before they have a chance to experience life. The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation is really working hard at eradicating pediatric AIDS and other serious pediatric illnesses."

In speaking about their partnership, Sherry Vrooman of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation says, We are extremely pleased that KnotWear has chosen to donate to our organization. We also feel that KnotWears fun designs show that people who lead different lifestyles can work together to make the world a better place for children everywhere."

Balanced Alternative Techniques ry ("B.A.T. ry"), an award-winning Finnish organization dedicated to the development of massively multiplayer online games (MMO) announced today that it sees a gradual growth in players adapting to its flagship game ("BatMUD", http://www.bat.org/) through its official game client, Batclient; available as a free digital download.

BatClient

Batclient (v1.61) is an excellent showcase on how BatMUD, one of the oldest MMO's and MUDs in existence is renewing its profile within the online gaming community. Batclient is a graphical fast-to-learn, customizable and lightweight game client with excellent features and solid development, possibly the most advanced MUD client in existence.

FreeRateSearch.com announces the launch of the first website that allows consumers to anonymously search multiple mortgage loan programs and compare the best rates available for their specific loan requests. The new service searches thousands of lender programs every day, from perfect credit to non-prime credit, and displays the best rate available from most of the major lenders for various types of mortgages, including fixed and adjustable rate loans. Searches are free, unlimited and anonymous.

RACO Card Solutions http://www.racocard.com has been a dynamic division of RACO Industries for more than 10 years. RACO Card Solutions excels at meeting customers' employee identification needs, visitor and student identification as well as membership, loyalty and gift card solutions. "We want to make it simple for our customers to do business with us by providing them with online assistance," said Patti Jones. "By adding a library of product training and trouble shooting videos to our website and including live chat with RACO Card's certified team members, we will make sure our customer's experience exceeds their expectations. We also wanted to personalize that experience by including a video introduction to RACO Card."

Limeade, Inc., an employee wellness company, today announced its Donut-Back Guarantee (all rights reserved), an industry first.

Limeade VP of sales and service Chris Dickinson explained: "If our customers are not 100 percent satisfied with the Limeade service, we will refund their most recent three months of prepaid service fees - in donut form." The Limeade online wellness service costs just under four donuts a month per employee by today's exchange rates of approximately $0.50 per donut - making the offer worth a dozen donuts per employee. The offer is good for a year on sales closed through June 30, 2009.

Titan Poker (http://www.titanpoker.com), one of the fastest growing online poker rooms, has improved and expanded its VIP Club with a new VIP Level and higher monthly cash bonuses.

Titan Poker's benefits to its top players, already considered among the best in the online poker industry, have greatly improved with the launch of the poker room's sixth, top tier Diamond VIP Level. The Diamond VIP Level will be reserved for the best and most active online poker players. Diamond VIP players will receive all of Titan Poker's current benefits and the highest cash and reload bonuses. Each month until June, Titan Poker will be rewarding one Diamond VIP player with an all expenses paid entry to the World Series of Poker 2007.

A new article on Business-Programs.com offers useful advice for capitalizing on online consumers as a unique new marketing channel. Business Program columnist Francine L. Huff highlights some of the major benefits of marketing via social networking Web sites in her article, "Web Marketing: Social Networking Pays Off" (http://www.business-programs.com/articles/web-marketing-social-networking-pays-off.html).

Business-Programs.com provides educational resources about online business programs. It is also an excellent online guide for marketing students who want to stay updated on the latest marketing strategies and technological trends for competing in today's business world.

"The popularity of social networking Web sites -- think: Myspace, Facebook, and Linkedin -- offers a wide open frontier for companies to launch new Internet marketing and sales strategies," Huff explains in the article.

Marketing Director David Leivesley explains, "In the current climate all businesses are interested in cost saving tools. Using Clean & Match 2009 can potentially help every business that has a list or database, whether its through the removal of duplications or by cleaning, correcting and standardising information. With Clean & Match 2009 organizations worldwide can dramatically improve their data quality, so they can cut costs and make substantial savings on their everyday operations.

Clean & Match 2009 now contains fuzzy matching logic capabilities amongst its wide array of powerful data deduplication, data quality and data cleansing features, David Leivesley continues, "The data deduplication process on Clean & Match 2009 has been taken to a whole new level now, more of a human level than of a computer level.

Winner Enterprises, LLC today unveiled the newly upgraded ComparisonShop.com, a first of its kind website which accesses results from multiple comparison shopping engines. This user-friendly resource provides a shortcut to the best bargains by sparing consumers the tedious process of going from one comparison shopping engine to another and repeatedly 00004000 typing in the same query. Simply enter the desired product one time, and the program does the rest.

Consumer advisers have long recommended using several comparison shopping sites at once to find the best bargains. To that end, ComparisonShop.com "cues up" the Top 10 - each featuring millions of products from thousands of sellers - and provides immediate access to results from each corresponding site. Users can then compare those results and locate the "best of the best" in terms of prices, reviews and seller ratings.

A newly launched Web site, LENDLeaders.com, is a mortgage lender filtering company providing those seeking mortgage loans with a fast, effective way to find a reliable mortgage broker.

Designed for consumers and professional real estate agents seeking mortgage loans, LENDLeaders.com offers a national listing of pre-filtered mortgage lenders, banks and brokers, all of which meet the site’s strict standards.

In short, LENDLeaders recommends only lenders or brokers that have the ability to offer consumers the best opportunity to obtain the best rates, terms and solutions for purchase, refinance, home equity, and debt consolidation loans.

Cvent, the leading provider of online web survey tools and event management solutions, announced the launch of Cvent Professional Services Group, a turnkey consultation program designed to optimize survey campaigns and generate improved business intelligence for Cvent clients. Cvent is now offering service packages to assist clients in strategic data collection and feedback management.

The Professional Services Group will support clients throughout the survey management process, offering both hands-on assistance and strategic consultation services for:

survey creation

content review and commentary

graphic design

contact list procurement

response generation techniques

data analysis and trend spotting

custom report generation

Cvent's goal in offering these services is to help clients get the meaningful data they need from surveys to make the right business decisions. Having the right survey can help companies make critical decisions about launching new products, increase customer satisfaction, and improve the products and services they offer. Cvent's experts can help clients design the right survey, ask the best questions, get the right respondents, and analyze the results in meaningful reports.

Everett, WA. August 2, 2005...Premier Purchasing Partners provides its members with a choice of leading and emerging suppliers to guarantee the highest quality products, service, and technology.

“High-level disinfection (HLD) and ReNu Medical provide a way for hospitals to reduce cost and medical waste, utilize high quality FDA compliant products and improve patient and staff safety. Hospital management will choose high-level disinfection (HLD) over sterilization because it can save their facility two to three times more money, is non-toxic and substantially reduces hospital medical waste,” said Loren Timmons, VP, Marketing, and Business Development for ReNu Medical.

Real Estate Expo, Inc., a pioneer in consumer residential real estate shows around the world, is bringing an anticipated 3,000 consumers and real estate industry insiders under one roof at the International Real Estate Expo. The only global consumer residential real estate show in the United States, the event will be held Nov. 19 and 20 at the prestigious Wynn Las Vegas.

“In the past six years, we have presented our successful real estate expos throughout Florida and are excited to bring the first International Real Estate Expo to Las Vegas,” said Paolo Sadri, president and founder of Real Estate Expo, Inc. and organizer of the Las Vegas expo. “As a worldwide center of tourism and one of the most exciting real estate markets in the country, Las Vegas is the ideal location to expand our offerings and introduce the expo to a new audience. We are giving buyers and investors from around the world the chance to get in-depth information about key properties, financing, decorating and design.”

There has never been a better time to start learning Italian, just visit www.learnitalianpod.com, download the podcasts on to your mp3 and you’re ready to go. No more sitting in classrooms on a wet Wednesday evening. You can literally learn anywhere you can use your mp3 player, on the bus or train, while commuting to work, or even at home at 3:00 in the morning, when you can’t sleep.

In the first three months since its launch www.learnitalianpod.com has enjoyed phenomenal success with over 100,000 visits a month. The amazing podcast technology allows the site to draw people who want to expand their knowledge of Italian, from the 4 corners of the world. So far they have had 260,000 people download their Learn Italian podcasts from 84 different countries.

Furfection, Inc. introduces its latest addition to the Furfection Naturals® line of premium quality pet grooming products. Kissy Face Pet Facial™, made with natural ingredients, is specially formulated for dogs and cats.

This gentle, tear-free, liquid cleanser contains moisturizers to condition and protect dogs' and cats' sensitive skin. It noticeably reduces tear- and beard stains while leaving fur and hair shiny and "kissy face" clean. The light scent is a calming mixture of coconut, vanilla and blueberry. The handy pump dispenser makes it easy to use, while the gentle facial brush provides a soothing massage for pets.

MADS, Europe's premier technology leader in delivering highly targeted mobile advertising campaigns, today announced plans to enter into a highly strategic partnership with AdMob, the world's largest mobile advertising marketplace. Through this partnership, AdMob will offer MADS European network of premium publishers and operators the ability to seamlessly monetise their inventory via the mobile marketplace.

"The AdMob-MADS strategic alliance unites two innovative, mobile advertising leaders and will help to grow the mobile advertising market," states AdMob's Vice President & Managing Director of EMEA, Thomas Schulz. "AdMob serves billions of targeted ads on the mobile Web and in applications every month and our new partnership with MADS will ensure it's even easier for advertisers to reach their target audience."

Gas prices at an all-time high are common conversation around the water cooler these days. For Dallas businesses looking to plan a meeting this summer, the Renaissance Pere Marquette is helping combat the over-the-top petrol prices with a $25 gas rebate on the first night for every room booked. This exclusive offer is available for groups of 10 rooms or more and valid for new meetings held July 7 through September 1, 2008. So, for example, a group consuming 50 rooms would receive a $1,250 gas rebate, more than enough to offset fuel costs associated with getting to the meeting.