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This open approach, combined with a programming API that hasspawned thousands of third-party applications using the Twitter platform, hascaused prolific growth of this tool. As of March 2009, the latest numbers fromNielsen Online indicate that Twitter grew 1,382% year-over-year in February,registering a total of just more than 7 million unique visitors in the US forthe month.According to Twellow , an online Twitter directory, there areover 16,000 Twitter users that are affiliated with recruiting and HumanResources."Until Twitter, people had to use a listing service or a job board to connectwith each other," said JobCircle's President, Joe Stubblebine. PTV has an active investmentapproach, supplying capital, knowledge and experience, and a network of contactsenabling companies to grow to global category leaders. IPDIA has acquired a unique passive integration technology, and weare very excited to be in the position to support the company in the comingyears on its growth path." Jean-Philippe Stefanini, partner at Emertec Gestion, adds: "Franck Murray andhis team are of excellent quality and we have full confidence that they willdevelop IPDIA into a category leader on a global scale." About Prime Technology VenturesPrime Technology Ventures (PTV) is a Venture Capital fund which invests acrossEurope in all of the major technology sectors. Agraduate from L`Ecole Centrale de Paris, he was most recently Director ofTechnology for NXP Semiconductors France. Franck won the prestigious GeneralFerrie Award in 2004 for his work on integrated passive components processes. According to Jelto Kromwijk Smits, partner at Prime Technology Ventures: "Thetechnology developed in Caen has great potential and can be used in multipleend-markets.
Franck hasmore than 25 years of experience working in the semiconductor industry. IPDIA has planned to enter into close R&D partnerships with CEA-LETI andCNRS-LAAS to strengthen its technological position. Franck Murray, one of the founding directors, becomes CEO of IPDIA. IPDIA aims to transform the Cote de Nacre facilityinto a European center of excellence thanks to a unique 3D silicon fabricationprocess enabling the production of extremely small electronic components inresponse to the needs of the medical, energy, aerospace and defense markets. IPDIA`s investors consist of the following companies:* Prime Technology Ventures * Emertec Gestion * Masseran Gestion * NCI Gestion * CEA Investissementtogether with* the founding directors of the company * and NXPIPDIA will focus on two main activities: the production of LED bases andintegrated passive devices.
"This agreement is a positive outcome which enables us to create jobs andmaintain a unique know-how as well as an innovative technology in the Caenarea," declared Jean-Yves Muller, President and General Manager of NXP France."This marks the first culmination of the réindustrialisation efforts undertakenby NXP for its Cote de Nacre facility." The initial staff will consist of 90 people, the majority of which will berecruited among NXP`s laid-off employees IPDIA will be launched in June thisyear. CAEN, France--(Business Wire)--NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today announcedthat a new company, named IPDIA, has been created to re-industrialize thecompany`s Cote de Nacre facility (near Caen in Northwest France). IPDIA, who issupported by the French Ministry of Economy, Industry & Labor and localauthorities, and from a capital investment of more than 5 million Euros raisedby a consortium of investors including NXP, is purchasing some of the assetsfrom the Cote de Nacre plant (IP, patents and equipment) and is hiring a portionof the staff. LA JOLLA, Calif., May 13 (Reuters) - BP (BP.L) CEO TonyHayward said on Wednesday solar power technology was unlikelyto ever be competitive with more conventional energy sources.(Reporting by Robert Campbell; writing by Matthew Robinson;Editing by David Gregorio) Stocks | Global Markets Stocks Global Markets. Seven differentScholastic Book Clubs reach over one million teachers each month,providing the most sought-after titles at affordable prices for childrenin classrooms nationwide. Over 80% of all elementary school teachers inthe United States participate in Scholastic Book Clubs.