QuinStreet Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering

QuinStreet Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering

QuinStreet, Inc., a leader in vertical marketing and media on the Internet, announced today that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to a proposed initial public offering of shares of its common stock.

Foster City, CA (PRWEB) November 19, 2009 – QuinStreet, Inc., a leader in vertical marketing and media on the Internet, announced today that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to a proposed initial public offering of shares of its common stock. It is expected that all shares of the common stock to be sold in the offering will be offered by the company. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet been determined.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, BofA Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. are acting as joint book-running managers and underwriters for the offering. Qatalyst Partners LP is acting as financial advisor to QuinStreet in connection with the proposed offering.

The offering will be made only by means of a prospectus. When available, copies of the preliminary prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained from Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Prospectus Department, One Madison Avenue, 1B, New York, NY 10010, Phone: (800) 221-1037; BofA Merrill Lynch, 4 World Financial Center, New York, NY 10080, Attn: Preliminary Prospectus Department or email Prospectus.Requests at ml dot com; or J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Attention: Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, New York 11717, or by telephone at (866) 803-9204.

A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the SEC, but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

About QuinStreet

QuinStreet is a leader in vertical marketing and media on the Internet. The company provides a strong set of capabilities to engage Internet visitors with targeted media and connects its marketing clients with their potential customers online. QuinStreet is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

Contact:

Kenneth Hahn

QuinStreet, Inc.

(650) 578-7700

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Contact Information Kenneth Hahn

QuinStreet, Inc.

http://www.quinstreet.com/

650-578-7700

ABCTE Offers Cyber Monday Discount for Aspiring Teachers

ABCTE Offers Cyber Monday Discount for Aspiring Teachers

Non-profit ABCTE will offer a $150 discount to those who enroll in the organization's teaching certification program on Cyber Monday -- November 30, 2009. The special ABCTE discount code for this offer will be posted on the ABCTE website that day.

Washington, D.C. (Vocus) November 19, 2009 -- Cyber Monday takes place the Monday following Black Friday and is known as the biggest online shopping day of the year—and it’s not just about saving big money on product purchases. Thanks to the non-profit American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence (ABCTE), aspiring teachers will have the opportunity to save $150 as they get started toward their new career.

For the second year in a row, ABCTE will offer a Cyber Monday discount (http://www.abcte.org/cyber-monday-discount) on November 30, 2009, providing $150 off for anyone who enrolls in the ABCTE teaching certification program that day. The program normally costs $975 for most certifications.

Founded in 2001, ABCTE is a non-profit organization, dedicated to recruiting, preparing, certifying and supporting dedicated professionals to improve student achievement through quality teaching. The organization offers an innovative, online teacher preparation and certification program for highly knowledgeable individuals who want to change careers and become a teacher (http://www.abcte.org). The program includes over 250 hours of content and pedagogy to ensure teachers are ready to help increase student achievement.

ABCTE has issued over 2,000 certifications to date, with a focus on mid-career professionals. ABCTE offers certification in ten subjects including the high-need areas of math, science and special education. The program is currently accepted by nine states for public schools: Florida, Idaho, Missouri, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Utah. Many charter schools and private schools in other parts of the country also accept ABCTE certification.

“Cyber Monday was a big success for us last year and we thought we’d bring the promotion back again, so more people can take advantage of the discount. This is a great opportunity for those who have been thinking about pursuing a career in teaching. Our program is already very affordable compared to most of the alternatives and this discount makes it even more accessible,” said ABCTE COO Bonnie Zuckerman.

For more information on ABCTE, call 877-669-2228 or visit www.abcte.org.

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Contact Information Mike Holden

ABCTE

http://www.abcte.org

202-261-2636

Allvoices Launches "Provoices" Professional Journalists Network

Allvoices Launches "Provoices" Professional Journalists Network

Platform for news offers global outlet and compensation for professionals.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) November 18, 2009 -- Allvoices, Inc. (www.allvoices.com (http://www.allvoices.com/)), the leader in citizen reporting, is today announcing a program to provide journalists a new way to get their reporting published--and to get paid for it. Allvoices is augmenting its tens of thousands of global citizen reporters by building a professional network of journalists to cover key beats and cities around the world.

"We recognize that these are tough times for many journalists as news organizations downsize," Allvoices CEO Amra Tareen said. "We're providing a platform for the best of these journalists to continue to cover their beats, communicate with a global audience and earn money doing it."

Allvoices will pay up to $250 per story to qualified journalists who are selected for the Provoices program--and may pay much more for certain high-traffic stories. The Allvoices platform provides instant worldwide distribution of content in multiple forms, including text, photos and videos, and the optimization and enhancement of content through search and social media.

The Provoices program will complement Allvoices' global community of more than 200,000 registered citizen contributors, reaching more than 4 million monthly visitors. Allvoices is the largest user-generated news site in the world, providing news coverage and opinion on a wide range of topics on a local, national and global scale.

Provoices offers an open-source platform for professional reporters looking for another outlet for their reporting. Consolidation and downsizing in the news industry has created an immediate need for experienced professionals to bring their talents to a new distribution platform optimized for the web. "Allvoices provides the largest credible source of citizen reporting from hyperlocal to global feeds," Tareen said. "We're looking for journalists to cover important beats in key cities around the world and to supplement our growing base of citizen contributors."

Allvoices will select journalist participants with an eye toward building a worldwide network of correspondents in key cities and on important beats. These journalists will become regular contributors to the site, adding top-quality work to Allvoices' citizen content. Allvoices will enhance each story by building a package of contextual and related information around it through its proprietary software. Each story will be at the center of a package surrounded by other relevant news, blogs, videos and images and optimized for a worldwide audience through search and social media.

Award-winning journalist Lynda Gorov will oversee the Provoices program as Chief of Correspondents. Gorov has been a correspondent for The Boston Globe and a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, and has reported from Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Afghanistan, and throughout the United States.

Interested journalists can join Allvoices (http://www.allvoices.com/incentive), create a profile and start posting alongside other contributors. To be considered for the Provoices paid journalist program, they must also email journalist@allvoices.com, and include a resume and clips for consideration. The number of journalists selected to participate is limited based on available beats and geographies.

About Allvoices, Inc.

Allvoices' mission is to create a global community for sharing news, videos, images and opinions from multiple points of view that invoke an emotional connection between individual perspectives from around the world. A community of diverse, engaged and globally minded citizens serves as news reporters, opinion leaders and publishers to share with the world the realities on-the-ground. Allvoices.com brings together context, insight and diversity of opinions around a broad range of topics and issues on the global, national and local levels. Allvoices is one of the largest global communities offering unedited and relevant news and perspectives in one place. Using a set of proprietary algorithms, Allvoices utilizes professional and online news sources, blogs, images and videos to determine relevancy, foster credibility and maintain openness with each contribution made to the site.

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Contact Information Amra Tareen

Allvoices

http://www.allvoices.com

415-713-0023

ActiveState Introduces Firefly, a New Hosted Project Management and Collaboration Solution for Software Development Teams

ActiveState Introduces Firefly, a New Hosted Project Management and Collaboration Solution for Software Development Teams

Leader in developer solutions makes teams even more productive with turn-key source code hosting, project management, issue tracking, collaboration.

Vancouver, BC (PRWEB) November 18, 2009 -- Today, ActiveState (http://www.activestate.com/), the dynamic languages company, launched Firefly (http://www.activestate.com/firefly), a hosted project management and collaboration solution for managing commercial software development projects. As a turn-key solution, Firefly comes pre-configured with integrated source code revision control and code hosting, project management, issue and time tracking, and collaboration tools like wikis, blogs and forums. Firefly eases administrative pain that goes hand-in-hand with software development and makes it easy to share information between team members and customers.

With Firefly, software and web development teams in large enterprises and small-to-medium sized businesses can become more productive, more efficient and deliver higher quality software projects on time. Firefly simplifies project management with built-in systems to track and manage features, bugs and team tasks. Managers can set clear priorities, understand dependencies and gain visibility into project status and progress.

“Putting a project management system in place can be challenging for small development teams,” said Shane Caraveo, Firefly Product Manager. “Nearly 20% of small development teams report they do not use a solution for source code hosting, project management or collaboration according to a recent survey. Free solutions can take significant time, knowledge and effort to install and configure while commercial solutions may lock you in. As a commercial solution built on the open source Trac system, Firefly gives you the best of both worlds providing you with a reliable, easy to use solution without any contract."

Caraveo added, "With a system like Firefly in place, developers can focus on what they need to do, rather than spending precious time configuring and maintaining system necessary for their work. Firefly provides the management infrastructure that helps developers keep the correct focus during their projects."

Built with small development teams in mind, Firefly is a hosted, centralized and secure environment where development teams can work on projects anytime, anywhere, and simultaneously without conflict. Firefly standout features include:

•    Pre-configured and ready to use; easy permissions management and privacy for team members

•    Integrated source code hosting, revision control, issue tracking, and version control with Subversion and Mercurial

•    Project management tools for tracking time, workflow, project progress, milestones and team work activity

•    Collaboration tools including wikis, blogs and forums

•    Visibility into project status at a glance for managing milestones effectively

Firefly offers peace of mind with enterprise-grade security and continuous data backup using Amazon’s secure EC2 datacenters and encrypted communications via SSL. Firefly also integrates with a development team’s current toolset, including IDEs, third-party wiki editors and other applications with the XML-RPC and JSON API.

Availability & Pricing

Firefly is now available in four editions to suit development teams and independent developers: Team ($39/month), Professional ($19/month), Solo ($9/month), and Community (free). For more information about Firefly and the editions, visit www.activestate.com/firefly (http://www.activestate.com/firefly/).

About ActiveState

ActiveState, established in 1997, creates and provides professional business solutions and industry-recognized tools for corporations and developers who use dynamic languages including Perl, Python, and Tcl. Its open source language distributions - ActivePerl, ActivePython and ActiveTcl - are renowned for their quality and relied upon by companies and developers worldwide. ActiveState is owned by its employees and Pender Financial Group, a private merchant bank focused on technology in British Columbia. For more information, visit www.activestate.com (http://www.activestate.com).

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Contact Information Liliya Apostolova

ActiveState

http://www.activestate.com

778.786.1134

Cheapflightsfinder.com Launches New Meta-Meta Search Engine for Flights

Cheapflightsfinder.com Launches New Meta-Meta Search Engine for Flights

New flight comparison site compares multiple flight aggregators with one user query comparing over 650 travel sites in the process.

London, UK ( PRWEB ) November 17, 2009 -- Cheapflightsfinder.com officially relaunched its website today with a new search tool that compares 16 flight comparison sites with one single user query performing what it claims is the world's first meta-meta search for flights. The new search engine enables consumers to compare prices from top online aggregators including Kelkoo, Kayak, Dohop, Skyscanner, Mobissimo, Momondo, Cheapflights.co.uk, Travelmarket.co.uk, Fly.com, Wego, Bing travel, Easyvoyage.co.uk, Globaltravelmarket, Tripadvisor, Travelfusion and Travelgrove.

"The future of flight finding belongs to meta-meta search" said Shahab Siddiqui, CEO and founder of Cheapflightsfinder.com. "A perfect flight aggregating method still eludes the meta search engines due to numerous uncontrollable factors when collating flight prices. A virtual concensus still exists amongst leading travel journalists that consumers need to compare prices from multiple flight comparison sites and other travel providers directly in order to find the cheapest flights."

The relaunch comes on the back of a recent report featured in Which? Holiday's consumer magazine which undertook a study comparing 12 of the leading flight comparison sites. The aim of the study was to ascertain which comparison sites are most efficient at finding the cheapest flights online. After analysing the results of two distinct flight routes the study confirmed that no particular comparison site will find the lowest fare every single time. They concluded the report by saying that consumers should continue to compare multiple flight comparison sites and other flight providers directly in order to find the best deals.

Cheapflightsfinder.com acknowledged this problem a while ago and now presents the first flight search engine to compare over a dozen aggregators with one simple search, eliminating the need to tediously enter the same details in different sites over and over again.

For more information please visit www.cheapflightsfinder.com

About Cheapflightsfinder.com

Cheapflightsfinder.com is the first website to compare 16 flight comparison sites with 1 single user query comparing over 650 travel sites. Cheapflightsfinder's unique meta-meta search allows consumers to quickly compare prices from top online aggregators including Kelkoo, Kayak, Dohop, Skyscanner, Mobissimo, Momondo, Cheapflights.co.uk, Travelmarket.co.uk, Fly.com, Wego, Bing travel, Easyvoyage.co.uk, Globaltravelmarket, Tripadvisor, Travelfusion and Travelgrove.

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Contact Information SHAHAB SIDDIQUI

Cheapflightsfinder.com

http://www.cheapflightsfinder.com/

+44 (0)7957 191 342

Central Desktop Announces Zoho as Online Spreadsheet Partner

Central Desktop Announces Zoho as Online Spreadsheet Partner

Key Features Available Include the Ability to Publish Charts to the Web

Pasadena, Calif. (Vocus) November 16, 2009 -- Central Desktop, a leading Software-as-a-Service-based social technology platform for next-generation business teams, today announced a partnership with Zoho as its new online spreadsheet provider. Zoho’s online spreadsheet Zoho Sheet is now fully integrated into Central Desktop, allowing users to create, edit and share online spreadsheets in real-time with additional key features and enhancements.

“When considering the options for online spreadsheet partners, Zoho Sheet stood out for its performance, stability and robust feature set,” said Isaac Garcia, CEO and co-founder of Central Desktop. “Many of our customers rely on online spreadsheets for tracking data and building reports. We’re happy to introduce Zoho Sheet’s extended platform and capabilities to further establish Central Desktop as the most comprehensive online collaboration software (http://www.centraldesktop.com) solution for the small and medium-sized business market.”

Key Features of Zoho Sheet for Central Desktop

•    Publish Charts – Ability to publish charts from online spreadsheets into Central Desktop online documents, wiki pages, or any external Web sites such as blogs. Data in online spreadsheets will also be automatically updated and reflected in the published pages.

•    Macros and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Editor – Zoho Sheet supports VBA, the programming language used to write macros. Users can now create new macros to automate or do a variety of tasks in Zoho Sheet.

•    Better Remote Data Range Support – Ability to pull remote data into a single cell as well as update an entire range of cells with table data every 15 minutes.

•    Microsoft Office 2007 Support – Support for Excel 2007 file (.XLSX) imports.

•    3D Charts – Upgraded chart views including new 3D charts.

•    Embed Images – Ability to upload and insert images directly into spreadsheets from a local computer.

“We’re excited to work with Central Desktop to provide its customers with the most feature-rich online spreadsheet available,” said Ian Wenig, Senior Director, Strategic Alliances for Zoho. “Our API makes it simple for partners to integrate Zoho Sheet – with its powerful capabilities, designed specifically for businesses so Central Desktop’s customers are the perfect target users.”

Zoho Sheet is available immediately within Central Desktop. Current Central Desktop users have automatically been upgraded to Zoho Sheet from the previous spreadsheet provider, EditGrid.

About Central Desktop

Central Desktop delivers a pure Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) social technology platform that allows next-generation business teams to communicate and collaborate more efficiently. Easy to implement and scalable for small and medium-sized businesses, Central Desktop’s collaboration software solution allows business teams to interact, share and manage their daily work activities from anywhere at any time. Key Central Desktop customers include the Humane Society, CBS, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Avid Technology, Omniture, Gymboree, InterContinental Hotels Group and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Founded in 2005, Central Desktop is a privately-held company with headquarters in Pasadena, California. For more information about the company, visit http://www.centraldesktop.com.

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Contact Information Jenny Chai

Central Desktop

http://www.centraldesktop.com

626-381-9313

Job Seekers Get Paid Cash to Post Resumes with Resumark.com

Job Seekers Get Paid Cash to Post Resumes with Resumark.com

A popular new service (www.resumark.com) is offering Job Seekers $1 each time their resume is downloaded by an employer.

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) November 16, 2009 -- A popular new service (www.resumark.com) is offering Job Seekers $1 each time their resume is downloaded by an employer. In today’s economy job seekers are embracing this concept of getting paid while looking for a job.

With the U.S. unemployment rate topping 10%, job seekers are turning to Resumark.com for new innovative job search strategies and to make extra cash while looking for a job.

“Job seekers are now realizing that major job websites have been making millions off of their resumes and they don’t like it,“ says Andrew Kucheriavy, the founder of Resumark.com. “With the traditional model, job websites get resumes for free and then sell them to employers. With our model, employers actually pay job seekers for their resumes. All job seekers have to do is post resumes (http://www.resumark.com/). We handle the rest.”

Of course, not everyone is happy. Resumark.com has caused some controversy by shedding light on other job board’s scams and ploys to get cash-strapped job seekers to pay for extra services. “Running a job website is a big business,” says Andy Sauter, previously employed by a major job board and now a consultant for Resumark.com. “Often jobs websites resort to questionable practices like resume 'upgrades' or resume 'enhancement' services that all have very little effect and are designed to take advantage of job seekers’ emotional state and desperation while promising instantaneous results.”

“Job seekers’ privacy is becoming a real concern on the Internet,” says Andrew Kucheriavy. “We’ve heard of cases where posted resumes in open format were sold to telemarketers or even to identity thieves. Our model helps protect privacy because a job seeker’s contact information is only available to pre-screened, verified employers who actually paid the job seeker for their resume.”

Resumark.com has been getting a lot of attention from employers who are invited to post jobs for free (http://www.resumark.com/post-jobs-for-free.html). With this performance-based model, employers pay only to download resumes that interest them so the service inherently has no risks for them.

Resumark.com has become one of the fastest growing job websites on the Internet. With thousands of new job seekers joining, Resumark.com may soon become another household name similar to Twitter or Facebook.

For more information on how the service works or to post resume (http://www.resumark.com/post-resume.html) visit: http://www.resumark.com.

Media Contact: Andrew Kucheriavy

847-970-6190 Ext. 114

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Contact Information Andrew Kucheriavy

Resumark.com

http://www.resumark.com

847-970-6190