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SAUSALITO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 11/24/09 -- As predictions of the recession's end rise, questions remain as to how this holiday season will be impacted, and if consumers are ready to open their pocketbooks just yet. According to a recent survey of 2,257 adults conducted by Harris Interactive®(1) on behalf of career website Glassdoor.com, holiday plans vary but appear to be influenced not only by obvious things like employment status, but also recent employer actions such as layoffs in the past six months even if the employee survived, as well as gender and age. For many, the purse strings are staying tight. In fact, even employed adults are planning to cut back in several areas compared to a typical holiday season: -- 40% plan to cut back on budget for gift purchases -- 36% have lower expectations for gifts received from others -- 35% will do less exchanging of gifts with family and friends -- 28% will do ...

6Waves, Cie Studios, Cyberstep, GameDuell, IGG, King.com, NHN USA (ijji), NTREEV, Outspark, PerfectWorld, Snap Interactive and Zoosk Join the Growing List of Game Developers Enjoying Increased Revenues and Global Coverage with BOKU SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- BOKU, Inc., the mobile payments provider, today announced partnerships with twelve leading game developers, offering casual, social and multi-player online gamers the simplest means possible for purchasing virtual goods using their mobile phone. With these new partners, BOKU provides mobile payments coverage across nearly 100% of the top applications for virtual goods and ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Engine Yard, the leader in Ruby on Rails automation and management technologies, today announced that JRuby is being chosen by organizations in a broad range of industries, such as astronomical research facilities, airport fueling systems, and open source project collaboration platforms. JRuby is a fast Ruby implementation that runs on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM), so developers get the benefits of developing in Ruby on Rails while leveraging the power of the Java platform for enterprise systems integration and interoperability with legacy Java code. One of the most powerful features of JRuby is the ability to call out to any Java library as if it were Ruby code. The release of JRuby 1.4.0 contains support for Ruby 1.8.7, the best features of the JVM including high performance, real threading, and a vast array of libraries, as well as platform independence. Organizations developing and deploying applications in ...

AMERICAN FORK, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Move Networks, a global provider of comprehensive "television over the Internet" and IPTV solutions, today announced Steven Cox is joining the company as Executive Vice President, Strategy and Business Affairs, reporting to Move's CEO and President Roxanne Austin. Cox will focus on the development and execution of Move's strategic plan, including developing new initiatives to monetize Move's end-to-end video delivery capability, supporting the negotiation of key customer agreements and securing content distribution rights for the Move platform. "Steve is ...

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