NextPage today announced company executives Darren Lee, president and chief executive officer; Tom Ngo, chief technical officer; and Cydni Tetro, vice president of products and marketing, were recognized among their peers for the third year in a row in the 2007 class of the vSpring Capital Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs, also known as the v|100. The v|100 was created in 2004 by vSpring Capital, and it acknowledges top professionals who are most likely to lead a successful startup venture in the next five to seven years in the IT (information technology) or biotech industries in a chief executive or chief technical officer role. Members of the v|100 become part of a community of entrepreneurs that fosters collaboration and provides advantages in building and growing companies.

The v|100 are selected by their peers after first being nominated by b...

Diego Gomez, AEC Holdings, Corp.'s (PINKSHEETS: AECH) CEO, announced today a significant move into the South American market by signing a joint venture agreement with Sistemas Ecuasistemas S.A. of Ecuador. Ecuasistemas is the largest provider of data storage and mining in Ecuador, South America. Mr. Gomez stated, "This partnership opens the market for us in South America and further strengthens our bid into the high-tech market in Ecuador. We have been working with local companies to provide complete technological solutions to the private and public sectors in South America, and Ecuador is a great entry point." Ecuador is located between Colombia and Peru and is the only country in South America that uses the U.S. Dollar as its official and sole monetary unit.

AEC Holdings Corp., through its wholly owned subsidiaries and strategic partnerships, is involved...

Maestro Ventures Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: MAP) is pleased to announce that it has signed an option agreement with Genesis Gold Corp. of Salt Lake City, Utah, to earn a 100 percent interest in four mineral exploration properties in Nevada. The property package consists of 800 acres of unpatented mineral claims in north to north-central Nevada. Exploration activities on these properties will be supervised by John Zimmerman of Genesis Gold Corp. of Salt Lake City, Utah.

Pursuant to terms of the agreement, Maestro agrees to pay Genesis USD$5,000 per property ($20,000 total) and 50,000 shares per property (200,000 total) on the date of exchange approval. Maestro also agrees to the following payments: on the first anniversary USD$5,000 and 75,000 shares per property retained; on the second anniversary USD$5,000 and 100,000 shares per property retained; on the third an...

Best-selling soul star Brian McKnight will hit the road in April for a U.S. tour supporting his current album "Ten," which was released by Warner Bros. Records in December. The tour, which is sponsored by VH1 Soul, begins April 25th in San Diego, California, and features support from multi-platinum R&B crooner Joe and gold-selling R&B songstress Sunshine Anderson.

McKnight will showcase tracks from "Ten," the Grammy-nominated singer, composer, and producer's tenth album overall. The album, which is McKnight's debut for Warner Bros. Records, has spawned two Top 5 singles at Urban AC radio, "Find Myself In You" and "Used To Be My Girl," with a third, "What's My Name," also climbing the Urban AC chart.

McKnight has sold more than 16 million records worldwide since his platinum self-titled debut was released in 1992. As a songwriter and producer, the Buffalo, New York, native has recorded and written with some of the music industry's biggest stars, including Mariah Carey, J...

Phoenix Associates Land Syndicate (PINKSHEETS: PBLS), a holding company with assets and/or interests in aviation, sand & gravel, soil products, land development, oil and natural gas, commodity brokering, trucking, contract hauling, construction, swimming pool construction and construction related industries, today released the following comments relating to its Murphy Sand & Gravel (MS&G) business unit.

Phoenix has become aware of a great deal of concern being expressed by many of its shareholders about the Phoenix MS&G mining operation in Pearl River, Louisiana. MS&G is located on Honey Island and is accessed via bridges from the north and the south. The operation has been, but is not currently a profit center for Phoenix since the Louisiana Department of Transportation has severely curtailed the truck load limits that can be carrie...

Hyatt Place, Global Hyatt Corporation's rapidly growing select service brand, celebrated the openings of three additional hotels today. With the openings of Hyatt Place Scottsdale/Old Town, Ariz.; Hyatt Place Atlanta Airport-South; and Hyatt Place/Perimeter Center, Ga., Hyatt Place is bringing a new type of hospitality experience to the south and southwest. By reflecting the comfort, flexibility, technology and taste people incorporate into their daily lives, Hyatt Place is the first hotel brand designed to let guests stay like they live.

"We did extensive research before beginning development on Hyatt Place and what stood out most to us was the fact that people are now leading blended lives but even though their lifestyles have changed, the select service hotel experience had remained stagnant," said Jim Abrahamson, senior vice president for Hyatt Corporation. "Based on those findings, we saw an opportunity to create a hotel experience that understands the way people are living...

IFinix Corporation (PINKSHEETS: INXR) announced today that it has integrated a leading-edge IP Video Technology into its Phoenix platform.

"Through the introduction of our new IP video technology we will be able to offer our users intra and inter-office video conferencing, client video communication, news and financial information, all on their desktop screens as a separate window. This will empower our users to have increased productivity equating to increased revenue for all parties concerned," commented IFinix Chairman, Drew Budhu.

IFinix Corporation seeks to become a leader in the ever-evolving market for real-time and on-demand video solutions for trading platforms both enterprise and Web-based. IFinix now has the ability to provide video and audio CODEC development and implementation, building fully customizable, software-only-based solutions to...

Victoria Resource Corporation (TSX VENTURE: VIT) ("Victoria", the "Company"), is pleased to announce that it has commenced an initial drill program at its Cove-McCoy property in north-central Nevada with two diamond drill rigs. The property currently consists of 388 unpatented mineral claims covering an area of approximately 32 square kilometers including the Cove mine, which together with the nearby McCoy deposit, reportedly produced over 3.5 million ounces of gold and 115 million ounces of silver from open pit and underground high grade mining over an 18 year period ending in 2004.

The large property position and the target-rich environment provides Victoria with a unique opportunity to further explore in greater detail one of the largest mineralized gold systems in north-central Nevada. The Cove mine is at the southern end of the property, and is 16 mil...

ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX: ATY)(NASDAQ: ATYT) today issued a reminder that it will hold a Special Meeting of Shareholders with respect to a plan of arrangement relating to the proposed acquisition of ATI by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD). The meeting materials, including the Notice of the Meeting, Management Information Circular and form of Proxy, were mailed to shareholders of record as at September 1, 2006, and are also available at www.sedar.com and www.sec.gov.

The meeting will be held at 9:00 a.m. Toronto time on Friday, October 13, 2006 at ...

StubHub, the fan's ticket marketplace, is pleased to announce that it is fast approaching the five millionth ticket sale since its founding in 2000. To appropriately commemorate this significant upcoming milestone, StubHub will reward the buyer and seller of the five millionth ticket each with $5,000 StubHub gift certificates. These certificates can be used to purchase tickets to any of the thousands of sports, concert, theater or exclusive entertainment events on www.stubhub.com.

"The StubHub team has worked tirelessly innovating and advocating on behalf of sports, concert and theater fans over the past six years, and the fans have rewarded us with their trust," said Jeff Fluhr, founder and CEO of StubHub. "We have worked hard to provide fans choice and convenience, and this milestone is validation that StubHub and our open marketplace model clearly is the fans' choice."

With the fall sports season in overdrive and popular artists like the...