Surfect Holdings Inc. Rated 'Speculative Buy,' Target Price $1.80 by Beacon Equity Research (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

PNC Equity Management Corp. said Wednesday it acquired Bacharach Inc., a 98-year-old New Kensington-based manufacturer of testing equipment for air quality and gas detection.
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Emerging markets focused funds poised to beat last year’s total (The Star Online)

LONDON: Emerging market private equity funds raised US$21.5bil in capital in the first half of 2007, in line to beat the 2006 total of US$33.2bil, the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association said yesterday.

JAKKS Pacific Appeals to Little Girls' 'Inner Nancy' With a New Line Based on Fancy Nancy, the New York Times ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

JAKKS Pacific, Inc. announced today a licensing agreement with HarperCollins and United Media to develop and market a stupendous line of dolls, girls' role play and dress-up, and craft and activity items based on Fancy Nancy, the New York Times bestselling children's book series by Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser.

Bayer says its Campath leukemia drug get US approval as first-line treatment (Sharewatch)

FRANKFURT (Thomson Financial) - Bayer AG said the US Food and Drug Administration approved an expanded use of its Campath leukemia drug. Doctors can now prescribe the drug as a first-line treatment of the leading form of adult leukemia, the German drugmaker said in a statement today.