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Miami, FL October 10, 2006

Blogging Systems, the leading provider of blog services to the real estate industry, has developed a blog for participants at the upcoming Connect High Net event in Miami October 15-17, 2006.

The Connect HIGH NET Blog is a forum for attendees, staff and speakers to collaborate and network online pre and post event.

Inman News’ Connect HIGH NET is a one-of-a-kind conference connecting luxury property, wealth management, financial analytics and metrics, technology, video and cutting-edge marketing tools.

Richard Nacht, founder of Blogging Systems, has over 20 years of experience in the real estate, finance and technology industries. He started the blogging ball rolling with a post to introduce participants to the benefits of collaborating online.

“The event blog is a unique concept because it doesn’t limit conversations between event participants to the number of days they are all in the same geographic space,” said Richard Nacht, CEO of Blogging Systems. “The blog allows participants to network, discuss, ask questions and share ideas long before arriving making the event a larger success for everyone.”

As participants sign up for the event, they will be directed to the blog and given username and password information.

Event Details:

Connect HIGH NET: Mastering Property, Wealth & Technology

When: October 15-17, 2006

Where: Mandarin Oriental, Miami

Register at: https://secure.inman.com/connect-miami.aspx

Learn more about Blogging Systems’ real estate blog platform by visiting: http://www.bloggingsystems.com/Promotions/gen-lp.asp

About Blogging Systems

Blogging Systems provides real estate blog platforms that produce a low-cost, high results tool for Community networking (both offline and on the internet), effective communication and collaboration, competitive marketing, sales and customer relations.

Blogging Systems provides turn-key Community blog networks which are the ultimate real estate marketing tool. Ours is a “soup to nuts” approach with experienced blog professionals who guide clients through the process step-by-step. Not only do we provide the most robust real estate blog platform on the market today, we back it up with training and technical support. Clients receive a turn-key system and the training and knowledge needed to use it as a complete real estate marketing system.

For more information about how to add a blog to your real estate marketing tools, visit: www.BloggingSystems.com or call: 800-985-BLOG (800-985-2564)

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Mclean, Va. July 17, 2007

Today Precursor President Scott Cleland hosted a virtual press conference to discuss the release of his 35-page white paper, entitled “Googleopoly: the Google-DoubleClick Anti-competitive Case.” In “Googleopoly” Cleland strongly warns the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Congress that approving a merger between internet search and content giant Google and online advertising giant DoubleClick would enable Google to effectively dominate the online advertising market and by extension — the business model of the Internet.

“The big takeaway here is that the more one learns, the more concerned one becomes about this merger,” Cleland said.

“The facts and evidence will prove that a Google-DoubleClick merger would effectively combine the #1 and #2 Internet: user audiences, content provider networks and advertising client bases — enabling Google to effectively “corner” the online advertising market for consumer click data, ad-performance tools, ad-brokering and ad-exchanges,” Cleland predicted.

To put in perspective the extraordinary proposed concentration of the Internet advertising market, Cleland compared it to Wall Street capital markets.

Cleland explained, “To equal Google-DoubleClick’s level of market concentration, one single financial services company would have to own:

– The top ~15 Wall Street banks/asset managers;

– ~60% of the hedge fund and private equity industries;

– The New York and London Stock Exchanges;

– The two leading providers of financial analytic tools: Bloomberg and Factset;

– Two of the three national providers of credit profiles: Experian and Equifax; and

– ~60% of the Federal Reserve’s and U.S. Census Bureau’s raw market and consumer data.”

Companies most affected: include Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and DoubleClick.

An executive summary and Cleland’s full 35-page analysis of the Google-DoubleClick merger and Google business practices are now available on www.googleopoly.net.

Precursor is an industry research and consulting firm, specializing in the converging techcom sector. Precursor offers rare forward-looking expertise and national credibility at the nexus of: capital markets, public policy and techcom industry change, in order to help companies better exploit emerging opportunities and guard against emerging risks. www.precursor.com

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. January 10, 2006

TCG (The Communications Group) and FRS Belgium N.V. have signed an agreement by which TCG has acquired the rights to sell and support the Financial Reporting & Analysis Solutions from FRS in Slovakia.

FRS FinancialAnalytics® is the product of choice for more than 600 financial institutions in over 25 countries, including 55 of the global 100 and 37 of the Top 50 European Banks.

Together with a major financial institution, FRS and TCG will launch the FRS Regulatory Reporting Solution in Slovakia per January 1, 2006. The product will be fully localised for the Slovak market and will include the latest reporting requirements from The Slovak National Bank.

During 2006 standard add-on products such as Basel II and IFRS reporting will be added to the product offering.

TCG’s foot print has increased dramatically during the recent months. Besides the offices in the Czech Republic, Kazakhstan and Russia; TCG now also has offices in The Netherlands, France Romania and Spain.

By entering into the Distributor Agreement with FRS Belgium, TCG will further expand its office network into Slovakia in order to provide local support.

According to Rudolf Fontijn, TCG’s CEO, the new office in Bratislava will provide the perfect platform to further extend the FRS FinancialAnalytics® usage within Slovakia. Since FRS is the market leader in Europe for Regulatory Reporting, and its products suite is now fully localised for the Slovak market, TCG has great expectations of increasing the customer base.

Market leading

Besides FRS FinancialAnalytics® TCG offers a number of market leading software products to its customers.

TCG is partner of CityNetworks that has supplied systems for Accounts Reconciliation and Confirmation Matching to more than 500 financial institutions.

TCG also represents ai Corporation – the developers of RiskNet, the well known Visa certified system for fraud detection and prevention in use by major Cards Issuing and Acquiring institutions in Europe and the USA.

Recently TCG also increased its dealings with NetSupport to supply the award winning NetSupport Manager system to a wider range of countries.

TCG further offers financial institutions the Document Management Solution DataStore from Hitec Laboratories, as well as the well known products Rumba and OnWeb from NetManage.

TCG is working for major International Financial Institutions in the fields of Consulting, Software Sales & Support and Outsourcing.

TCG can be reached by phone: Alena Glasová +421-2-63827101 or +421-910-946669 or by email: alena.glasova@tcg-net.com.

FRS is the leading provider of global financial reporting, analytics and expertise to more than 900 financial institutions in over 25 countries, including 55 of the Global 100 and 37 of the Top 50 European Banks. FRS serves local and multi-national customers with leading-edge software and specialized knowledge, supported by local teams with global insight.

FRS has been delivering regulatory reporting and financial intelligence worldwide — through software and consulting services — for more than 15 years.

With FRS solutions you can:

Increase Management Control: With automated regulatory reporting and a consistent foundation for Basel II and IAS compliance.

Reduce Costs: By keeping pace with evolving industry standards, centralizing cross-boarder regulatory reporting, and leveraging existing technology investments.

Gain Timely Business Insight: Through consistent management information, accurate reporting and flexible analysis integrating regulatory and risk data across the extended global enterprise.

Mitigate reputation risk: by automating the process of data collection, validation and delivery within an auditable management framework for open and clear disclosure to investors and regulatory bodies.

FRS is a subsidiary of S1 Corporation (Nasdaq: SONE), a leading global provider of enterprise software solutions to more than 4,000 banks, credit unions, insurance providers and investment firms. FRS has 12 offices around the globe, and is dual headquartered in Brussels, Belgium and Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Related Financial Analytics Press Releases

Vancouver, BC March 31, 2008

QuIC Financial Technologies Inc., a leading global solutions provider of risk management, pricing and financial analytics solutions, today announced the appointment of Robert MacKenzie to the position of Senior Sales Executive in QuIC’s global sales efforts.

MacKenzie comes to QuIC with more than 18 years of sales leadership experience in the finance, risk management and technology industries. He has held senior sales leadership positions with global Fortune 1000 companies such as Algorithmics, SunGard and JP Morgan. MacKenzie will be responsible for developing and directing global sales initiatives and growing QuIC’s market leading position.

“I am very pleased to add Robert to our global sales team. He brings extensive sales expertise and his proven track record of establishing market dominance will greatly benefit our current expansion plans,” said Nigel Sirett, Sales Director EMEA for QuIC Financial Technologies. “Robert has proven capabilities in developing strategic sales pipelines, increasing customer satisfaction, and closing major accounts. We are confident that his experience will be a positive addition to our team as we grow our market share in 2008.”

Before joining QuIC, MacKenzie was most recently Regional Director with MKS concentrating on compliance and change management solutions. Prior to MKS, MacKenzie served for four years as Regional Director for Southern Europe with Algorithmics, where his sales leadership helped the company achieve market dominance in Spain, Italy and France. Before joining Algorithmics, MacKenzie held various roles at SunGard, concluding as a Regional Sales Manager for Europe and North America for Financial Trading, Risk and Energy. He also held positions at global financial institutions such as JP Morgan and TD Bank. MacKenzie holds a Bachelor of Arts from Carleton University.

“It’s an exciting time to be joining QuIC, a growing company with a proven track record of success, a dynamic management team and a world-class suite of innovative products and services that have truly changed the landscape of risk management,” said MacKenzie. “I look forward to contributing to QuIC’s sales efforts with the vision of making the company the global leader in risk management and financial analytics solutions.”

About QuIC Financial Technologies Inc.

QuIC is a global solutions provider for risk management, pricing and financial analytics. The QuIC Engine™ provides speed, flexibility and scalability for pricing and risk calculations regardless of volume or complexity. QuIC technology delivers scalable, dynamically extensible and user-customisable solutions to multiple recipients throughout the enterprise. The QuIC Product Suite™ easily integrates with in-house, partner and third-party applications & systems and operates in diverse environments, from a single laptop to large distributed grids.

For more information please visit www.quic.com.

Press Contact

Julie Zuzek

Marketing and Communications Manager

QuIC Financial Technologies Inc.

Tel: +1 604 648 1107

Fax : +1 604 689 1361

julie.zuzek @ quic.com

Trademarks

QuIC, the QuIC logo, and QuIC Analytic, QuIC Analytics – XL, QuIC Analyzer, QuIC Engine, QuIC Functions, QuIC Integration, QuIC Links, QuIC Mechanics, QuIC Network Engine, QuIC Platform, QuIC Product Suite, QuIC Publisher, QuIC Script, QuIC Simulation Framework, QuIC Run, QuIC View, and QuIC Workbench product names are trademarks of QuIC Financial Technologies Inc. or a licensor in Canada, the United States and/or other countries.

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More Financial Analytics Press Releases

Vancouver, BC December 19, 2007

QuIC Financial Technologies Inc., a leading global solutions provider of risk management, pricing and financial analytics solutions, announced that it has partnered with Intel for testing of Intel’s new Harpertown quad core 45Nm processors.

QuIC’s thorough testing of Intel’s new Harpertown processors showed promising double digit performance improvement results in client risk management and simulation trials.

Said Nigel Cairns, QuIC’s President and CEO “Industry leaders like QuIC and Intel rely on speed and innovation in our respective industries. For QuIC clients, billions of precise calculations on extremely large portfolios are involved, and time is ultimately money. The double digit percentage improvements QuIC has seen with Intel’s Harpertown are clear evidence of Intel’s chip technology success in the low latency race.”

Intel’s UK Director of Financial Services, Nigel Woodward stated that “Our focus on financial services at Intel is all about targeting the functions that require ever increasing levels of performance. Risk management in the front and middle office is key – both for speed and depth in pre trade and the massive datasets across the enterprise. We see QuIC as leaders in this field and hence look to them to ensure that QuIC solutions can take full advantage of the features of IA (Intel Architecture)”

Tony Coppellotti, QuIC’s Chief Technology Officer added “We had expected a moderate performance improvement from the new Intel Xeon 5400 – but infact the new Intel chip represents a huge performance leap forward. With the cutting-edge performance of Harpertown, we can deliver breakneck calculation speed and solutions for PFE (Potential Future Exposure) and run times on our client risk management and portfolio calculations.”

QuIC’s testing also found that in using it’s latest generation of 45nm quad-core Intel®Xeon® processors, Intel has managed to deliver ultra-low latency and significant performance increases in algorithmic trading, direct market access, and market data delivery.

About QuIC Financial Technologies, Inc.

QuIC is a global solutions provider for risk management, pricing and financial analytics. The QuIC Engine™ provides speed, flexibility and scalability for pricing and risk calculations regardless of volume or complexity. QuIC technology delivers scalable, dynamically extensible and user-customisable solutions to multiple recipients throughout the enterprise. The QuIC Product Suite™ easily integrates with in-house, partner and third-party applications & systems and operates in diverse environments, from a single laptop to large distributed grids. For more information please visit www.quic.com .

Press Contact

Julie Zuzek

Marketing and Communications Manager

QuIC Financial Technologies Inc.

Tel: +1 604 648 1107

Fax : +1 604 689 1361

julie.zuzek(at)quic.com

Trademarks

QuIC, the QuIC logo, and QuIC Analytic, QuIC Analytics – XL, QuIC Analyzer, QuIC Engine, QuIC Functions, QuIC Integration, QuIC Links, QuIC Mechanics, QuIC Network Engine, QuIC Platform, QuIC Product Suite, QuIC Publisher, QuIC Script, QuIC Simulation Framework, QuIC Run, QuIC View, and QuIC Workbench product names are trademarks of QuIC Financial Technologies Inc. or a licensor in Canada, the United States and/or other countries.

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Approva Profiled by Leading Independent Research Firm in Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Report

Approva Logo

Reston, Va. (Vocus) August 6, 2009

Approva® Corporation (http://www.approva.net), the leading provider of continuous controls monitoring software, today announced that independent advisory firm AMR Research has profiled Approva as part of a series of GRC software vendors. In the profile, AMR specifically highlights the return on investment customers realize with Approva’s software and its adoption by Big Four audit firms:

“AMR Research has spoken to several Approva customers that have built impressive IT and business process monitoring systems that both reduced risks and paid out handsome dividends, specifically in terms of reduced head count and streamlined internal and external audit costs. In fact, some Big Four external auditors have built predefined packages with Approva’s products that they use to facilitate their own audit processes.”

The profile, entitled “GRC Profile: Approva,” published June 22, 2009 and authored by John Hagerty and Dennis Gaughan, goes on to highlight Approva’s ability to identify, investigate and analyze anomalies in financial processes. Specifically it notes: “Recently, we’ve given a thumbs up for an in-context financial analytic module that allows finance process owners to investigate transaction anomalies, drilling down from one account to journals to invoices.”

The research opinion is a companion to AMR Research’s report entitled, “The Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC) Landscape, Part 2: Software’s Integral Role in GRC Automation,” written by John Hagerty, Koppel Verma and Dennis Gaughan and published October 9, 2008. In that report, AMR Research evaluated twenty five vendors against their product capabilities in key areas of compliance and risk management and ranked Approva in the “sweet spot” category for multiple capabilities including business process controls, user access controls and audit testing tools and applications. The “sweet spot” ranking designates companies that “demonstrated high expertise through customer deployment, reference quality, and heritage.”

“We are pleased to be recognized by AMR Research for the value we deliver to our customers and our continued innovation,” said John Becker, Chief Executive Officer at Approva. “Organizations are looking to squeeze out risk, waste and inefficiency more than ever before and as the report highlights, Approva’s continuous controls monitoring applications has a track record of delivering a compelling return on investment.”

A complimentary copy of both the profile and the larger research report are both available at http://www.approva.net/resourcecenter/.

About Approva

Approva® Corporation is the industry-leading provider of continuous controls monitoring software and is the industry standard at Big-4 audit firms. We enable business, finance, IT and audit professionals to automate controls across SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and other legacy ERP applications. Global companies such as Bayer, DirecTV, Discovery Communications, First Advantage, Honeywell, Pratt & Whitney and T-Mobile rely on Approva to reduce compliance risk, increase operational efficiency and flag exceptions to their business controls. Approva has certified integrations with Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, IBM and SAP to provide a holistic GRC solution. For more information, visit http://www.approva.net or call us at +1-703-956-8300.

Media Contact:

Katina Fisk

Approva Corporation

703-956-8415

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