California Business News - Page 95

SAN DIEGO, CA – Mar. 29 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — California ferret enthusiasts launched a new website in the latest attempt to legalize ferrets in California, one of only two states where they remain illegal. The new website for California Legalization Initiative for Ferrets is legalizeferrets.org.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark and MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Mar. 24 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Napatech today announced the investment of $5 million from Ferd Venture, Northzone Ventures and DTU Innovation. Napatech is the leader in programmable high speed Ethernet network adapters. The investment coincides with Napatech’s acquisition of the network adapter business of storage solution leader Xyratex.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark and MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Mar. 24 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Napatech today announced the acquisition of key intellectual property and business access from Xyratex, a leading provider of enterprise data storage subsystems and network technology, listed on Nasdaq.

LOS ANGELES, CA – Feb. 21 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Scott G, who records as The G-Man), has released his 5th full-length CD entitled MOTION POTION with a cover design that some church groups find suggestive and disturbing.

TORRANCE, CA – Feb. 15 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Neotrope(R) Hosting today announced it will be moving all of its Web server hardware out of the co-location facilities located within the state of Texas, and specifically, Dallas County, due to an alleged ‘extortion tax’ on companies who co-locate computer equipment with hosting facilities in that state, after receiving a ‘property tax’ bill for 2005 which amounts to 8% of the value of the hardware simply for the pleasure of the machine sitting in a rack in Dallas County.

TORRANCE, CA – Jan. 6 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Neotrope(R), a leading California advertising, PR, and Internet Marketing firm established 1983, today announced it has been chosen by a holistic pet care and pet health supplement firm, Ask Ariel Your Pet Nutritionist (www.askariel.com), to provide promotion and brand development for their company and Website.

LOS ANGELES, CA – Jan. 2 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Radio listeners become a cancer cell inside a human body as part of the new public service announcement created by G-Man Music & Radical Radio for the American Cancer Society.

LOS ANGELES, CA – Dec. 1 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — TechGenii, Inc., an industry leader in mobile marketing and interactivity, today announced that it will re-launch its website to provide greater support for entertainment and media companies in their quest to build interactivity and mobilize content.

SAN JOSE, CA – Nov. 28 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Engate(TM) Technology Corporation, the premier supplier of next generation reputation-based connection management solutions, today announced the general availability of Engate MailSentinel(TM) to solution providers and original equipment manufacturers of routers, firewalls and email gateways.

SEASIDE, CA – Nov. 11 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Tellus Venture Associates, in collaboration with Coast2Coast Technologies, completed a study for the City of Folsom, California that determined that a citywide WiMAX system is financially and technically feasible, and would help drive economic development.

TORRANCE, Calif. – Nov. 7 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Neotrope(R), a leading advertising, PR, and Internet Marketing firm established 1983, today announced it has been chosen by SamuraiBaby.com, to act as the agency of record for the company’s PR and marketing efforts. As part of the agreement, Neotrope will help market the new book ‘Way of the Baby: A Book of Five Grins’ (ISBN: 0595358853) written by SamuraiBaby’s Brian Hutchins, and related ‘Samurai Baby’ customized art and gift items, and act as media liaison.

DANA POINT, CA – Oct. 19 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Ask Ariel Your Pet Nutritionist announced today the launch of their new website AskAriel.com designed to help pets live longer and healthier lives through holistic pet care using nutrition and natural pet supplements.

DANA POINT, Calif. – September 30 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Ask Ariel Your Pet Nutritionist announced today the launch of their new website AskAriel.com designed to help pets live longer and healthier lives through diet and nutrition. Proceeds from AskAriel.com will help fund Ariel Rescue, a charity founded by Susan Davis that saves death row dogs from high kill shelters.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Marinello Schools of Beauty, the proven leader in beauty education and training since 1905, is proud to host the Takayama Schools of Beauty Team from Tokyo, Japan, for the ‘Second Annual International Beauty School Student Hair Competition.’ The event will be held on Saturday, October 1st at the recently renovated, state-of-the-art Marinello campus located in the Puente Hills Mall at 1600 Azusa Avenue, #244, City of Industry, Calif.

SO. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – August 16 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — IO2 Technology today announced the release of its Heliodisplay(TM) projector, which projects video onto thin air. IO2 Technology creates and commercializes next-generation display technologies, and the Heliodisplay(TM), is the first such device released by the company. This revolutionary technology displays any video source in full, high-resolution color in free space, without need for a screen.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – July 15 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Epeius Biotechnologies Corporation, announced today that a Phase I clinical trial has opened at Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Rochester, Minnesota to test the safety of Rexin-G(TM), the first tumor-targeted gene therapy vector to gain Orphan Drug designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of pancreatic cancer. The clinical protocol has passed the rigorous reviews of the FDA, the NIH/Recombinant Advisory Committee, and the Institutional Review Board of Mayo Clinic.

FRESNO, Calif. – June 20 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Kaizer Diamonds International, Inc., an industry leader in quality wholesale diamonds and diamond jewelry, today announced that they are beginning another Mystery Auction on eBay (eBay user ID – kdi-inc) to benefit research into new treatments for Primary-Progressive MS. The hidden treasure chest, prepared by Kaizer Diamonds, is guaranteed to contain items worth at least $100,000. All mystery items will be accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity as well as an appraisal.

LONG BEACH, Calif. – June 15 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Vanity Tel Corp. (www.vanitytel.com) today announced the launch of their new online service, designed to connect people who have valuable and desirable telephone numbers with the people, professionals or corporations who want to buy them.

FRESNO, Calif. – June 14 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Today the Pacific Housing & Finance Agency, joining with City Councilmember Cynthia Sterling, congratulate 11 Fresno families who took a major step toward home ownership during the past year through the Public Lease-Purchase program Sterling launched in Fresno last June.

FRESNO, Calif. — June 10 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Kaizer Diamonds International, Inc., an industry leader in quality wholesale diamonds and diamond jewelry, today announced that it will begin holding mystery auctions on eBay to benefit MS research. The hidden treasure chest, prepared by Kaizer Diamonds, is guaranteed to contain items worth at least $100,000.00.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Marinello Schools of Beauty, the leader in cosmetology education and training since 1905, announces the grand opening of its expanded educational facility, located in the Puente Hills Mall at 1600 Azusa Avenue, Suite 244, in the City of Industry, Calif. The Grand Opening celebration will take place on Thursday, June 16th, 2005, beginning at 1:00 pm.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – June 3 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — OnlineBootyCall.com, a division of Mobeze, Inc., today announced that it will become the first online dating destination to hold a virtual bikini contest on their site. A panel of OBC judges will review each contestant who registers for the OBC Bikini Calendar contest, and then choose a pool of initial finalists, from which OnlineBootyCall.com members will choose the hottest twelve contestants to adorn the pages of OnLineBootyCall’s 2006 Bikini Calendar.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Internet casino GoldenPalace.com scored prime exposure with their latest eBay purchase, by winning a $2,225 auction for advertising space on the rear of Brazilian JuJitsu champion Gazzy Parman’s shorts for her historic competition in an elite submission grappling tournament that has never before included women.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Epeius Biotechnologies Corp. announced today that a Phase I clinical trial has opened in New York to test the safety and efficacy of Rexin-G, the leading tumor-targeted gene delivery system (vector) developed for the treatment of metastatic colon and pancreatic cancer.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Epeius Biotechnologies Corporation (www.epeiusbiotech.com) announced today that a Phase I clinical trial has opened in New York to test the safety and efficacy of Rexin-G, the leading tumor-targeted gene delivery system (vector) developed for the treatment of metastatic colon and pancreatic cancer. In 2003, Rexin-G gained FDA approval as an Orphan Drug based on clinical demonstrations of the medical utility of Rexin-G as an effective treatment for pancreatic cancer.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. /Send2Press Newswire/ — Neotrope(R), a brand identity and marketing firm established Jan. 1983, is donating $22K in free public relations and newswire services to worthy non-profit and charitable organizations to celebrate its 22nd anniversary. Neotrope previously donated $25K worth of services in 2000, and has provided discounted or free services to various non-profits for more than 20 years. Organizations may apply for this program starting Jan 28.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA /Send2Press Newswire/ — Computers and Laptops donated this holiday season to Computer Recycling Center’s (C.R.C.) End-Of-the-Year Drop-Off event will go to the ‘Hundred for One-Hundred’ project. 100 computers in 100 days will be refurbished for reuse and used by community nonprofits and public school teachers around the Bay Area. C.R.C. is a 501-c-3 nonprofit organization.