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85 Cents Offer to Acquire HealthAxis, till 31st December Business Editors (INO News)
(AP:ATLANTA--) (BUSINESS WIRE) _ Nov. 19, 2008-- Ebix, Inc. (NASDAQ:EBIX), a leading international developer and supplier of software and e-commerce solutions to the insurance industry, today, announced it has decided to extend the validity of its 85 cents offer to acquire HealthAxis, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAXS).

HL:The Canadian Press Business News Budget for Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008@ (INO News)
BUSINESS EDITORS:@ Here are Canadian Press Business budget lines as of 10 p.m. ET. Plans may change as circumstances warrant. To contact Canadian Press Business by e-mail, send messages to business(at)thecanadianpress.com.

The Canadian Press Business News Budget, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008@ (INO News)
BUSINESS EDITORS:@ Here are Canadian Press Business budget lines as of 7 p.m. ET. Plans may change as circumstances warrant. Queries should be addressed to business editor John Valorzi at 416-507-2146 or to Dave Paddon on the business desk at 416-507-2138 or Craig Wong at 613-231-8631.

HL:Business staffing plans for Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008@ (INO News)
BUSINESS EDITORS:@ Here are Canadian Press Business staffing plans as of 4:30 p.m. ET. Plans may change as circumstances warrant. Queries should be addressed to business editor John Valorzi at 416-507-2146 or to Dave Paddon on the business desk at 416-507-2138 or Craig Wong at 613-231-8631.

Nigeria: ITAN Picks Hole in Galaxy Backbone's Monopoly in ICT Services (AllAfrica.com)
The current monopoly in the provision of Internet Access services to MDAs by the Galaxy Backbone has been faulted by the National Council of the Information Technology (Industry) Association of Nigeria (ITAN).

how to handle global financial mess: the Chinese way (cmi valparaíso)
Is global financial and economic crisis reshaping world politics, finance, banking, trade and outsourcing? Profiting from rising Chinese trade, yuan and stock market? How do over a half million international companies make profits in China?

Meltdown impact: 'It was over in five minutes' (Express India)
Hit by Wall St crisis and US slowdown, the Indian outsourcing hub is learning to live with the pink slips.

Juval Lowy explains Service-Orientation (O'Reilly Media)
Juval Lowy's Programming WCF Services is considered to be the most definitive treatment of Microsoft's WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) available. In it, Juval provides both the guidance and insight needed to master the skills for building maintainable, extensible, and reusable WCF-based applications. Juval's talent as a teacher—that for tackling vast subjects and making them easy to ...

Banking and Financial (Mondaq)
The agenda for the SEC's open meeting scheduled for Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. includes consideration of whether to adopt its "Summary Prospectus" proposal, which will (i) revise the disclosure requirements for the statutory prospectus currently used by registered open-end management investment companies ("mutual funds") and (ii) create the new Summary Prospectus for use in ...

HP Touchsmart TX2 Laptop is a 12-inch Multitouch Wonder [Multitouch] (Gizmodo)
HP's Touchsmart tx2 is awesome because its the first consumer-oriented convertible notebook to feature a multitouch technology built into the display. The 12.1-inch screen uses a capacitive...