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Business bankruptcy filings in South Florida slowed slightly in May compared to the prior month and last year, according to preliminary statistics released Monday by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Palm Beach County's Clerk & Comptroller's Office is cutting 66 employees to meet a state-mandated $7.1 million, or 18 percent, reduction in the office's budget by July 1, county clerk Sharon Bock said in a news release.

Estimates for economic data to be released in European trading hours on Tuesday, June 2, 2009:

INTERNATIONAL. Following last year's record-breaking cereal harvest, the 2009 crop is set to be the second highest documented yield, according to a new UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report released today.

The SanDisk pSSD P2 and S2, the flash memory card makers next generation of solid-state drives for netbooks, have begun shipping. Additionally, wanting to emphasize the importance of SD cards to netbooks, SanDisk is shipping 8- and 16-GB cards in netbook-geared packaging. - SanDisk, the worlds largest flash memory card maker, has begun shipping its next-generation flash memory?based solid state drives (SSDs) for netbooks, the pSSD P2 and S2 in 8-, 16-, 32- and 64-gigabytes. Additionally, it is shipping newly packaged 8GB and 16GB SDHC (secure digital high capacity) ...

At its CommunityOne event here, Sun Microsystems introduced a new version of its OpenSolaris operating system, the OpenSolaris 2009.06 operating system. - SAN FRANCISCO -- At its CommunityOne event here, Sun Microsystems introduced a new version of its OpenSolaris operating system, the OpenSolaris 2009.06 operating system. The new version delivers new features in networking, storage and virtualization, along with significant performance enhancements ...

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - June 1, 2009) - Pacific Lottery Corporation ('Corporation') (TSX VENTURE:LUK) (FRANKFURT:PCF) announces the release of its March 31st, 2009 Consolidated Financial Statements and Management Discussion and Analysis report (MD&A). Among the highlights of these statements is the continued quarter over quarter growth in revenues from the Corporation's exclusive Vietnamese on-line lottery technology supply and services contract. Gross lottery turnover for the 1st Quarter totalled US$462,146, an increase of 6 % from the previous 4th Quarter total. This quarterly growth was accomplished with almost a week of less operational days than the previous Quarter due to statutory closures of businesses during a traditional February holiday festival period in Vietnam. Furthermore, the Corporation is pleased to advise that interim results for gross lottery turnover for April and May have continued this growth trend and expanded almost 20% more so far in the 2nd Quarter of

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - June 1, 2009) - Exceed Energy Inc. (TSX VENTURE:EX.A) today announced that it has filed its 1st quarter unaudited financial statements and management's discussion and analysis for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009 as well as its NI 52-109 CEO and CFO Certificates... This press release is meant to be read in concurrence with the above filed documents. Copies of these documents are available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. In accordance with National Instrument 51-1-2 released by the Canadian Securities Administrators, the Company discloses that its auditors have not reviewed these unaudited interim statements as at and for the interim periods ending March 31, 2009 and 2008.

Red Hat has expanded its offerings to give customers value, choice and flexibility with its set of new Java application platform products. - SAN FRANCISCO -- Red Hat has expanded its offerings to give customers value, choice and flexibility with its set of new Java application platform products. In a dueling press conference, which was held at the same time as Sun Microsystems' keynote during its CommunityOne event just down the street ...

HIGHLIGHTS: - CanTung production up 29% (74,206 metric tonne units (mtu's)) over Q2 2008 - Recoveries averaged 76.5% versus 69.5% in Q2 2008 - Gross operating margin increased to $0.8 million from a loss of $3.5 million in Q2 2008 - Net loss (after future income tax recovery) of $0.3 million compared to a net loss of $5.5 million in Q2 2008