Medifocus Announces Filing of Annual Financial Statements and Applications to Have Cease Trade Orders Revoked and Trading Reinstated

Medifocus Announces Filing of Annual Financial Statements and Applications to Have Cease Trade Orders Revoked and Trading Reinstated

TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 08/19/11 — Medifocus Inc. (Medifocus or the Company) (TSX VENTURE: MFS)(OTCQX: MDFZF) announces that it has filed today its Financial Statements for the year ended March 31, 2011, related Management-s Discussion and Analysis and other related annual filings. These documents will be available for consultation under the Company-s profile on SEDAR at .Medifocus will apply for the revocation of the cease trade orders respectively issued by the Ontario Securitie

Mattson Technology to Participate in the Morgan Stanley 2011 Semiconductor & Semi-Cap Equipment Corporate Access Day

Mattson Technology to Participate in the Morgan Stanley 2011 Semiconductor & Semi-Cap Equipment Corporate Access Day

FREMONT, CA — (Marketwire) — 08/19/11 — Mattson Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MTSN), a leading supplier of advanced process equipment used to manufacture semiconductors, today announced that Andy Moring, the Company-s Chief Financial Officer, is scheduled to participate in the Morgan Stanley 2011 Semiconductor & Semi-Cap Equipment Corporate Access Day on Wednesday, August 24 at The Ritz-Carlton in Chicago. The event will consist of one-on-one and small group meetings, arranged by Morgan Sta

Sigma Designs, Inc. Schedules Conference Call to Review Second Quarter Fiscal 2012 Financial Results

Sigma Designs, Inc. Schedules Conference Call to Review Second Quarter Fiscal 2012 Financial Results

MILPITAS, CA — (Marketwire) — 08/19/11 — Sigma Designs (NASDAQ: SIGM), the world leader in connected media platforms, today announced that it will report its financial results for the second fiscal quarter ended July 30, 2011 following the close of regular trading on Wednesday, August 24, 2011.At 2:00 pm Pacific Time, Sigma-s management will conduct a conference call. Thinh Tran, chief executive officer, Thomas Gay, chief financial officer, and Ken Lowe, vice president of strategic marketing

Phostech Continues Operations Despite Negative Judgement of the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal

Phostech Continues Operations Despite Negative Judgement of the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal

ST-BRUNO, QUEBEC — (Marketwire) — 08/18/11 — Despite a decision delivered on August 17th 2011 by the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal that a process used by Phostech Lithium at its plant of St-Bruno to manufacture the P1 grade of lithium iron phosphate (LFP), Canada, violated a patent of Valence Technology Inc. there is no significant impact on the business of Phostech Lithium.As already released on July 27th 2011, Phostech is about to finalize the production capacity expansion for its new

eSilicon and TSMC Support Long-Lifecycle Products

eSilicon and TSMC Support Long-Lifecycle Products

SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwire) — 08/18/11 — eSilicon Corporation today announced that, together with TSMC, they will provide long-life process technology support for customer products, while continuing to produce products on latest generation process technologies, including 28nm. eSilicon is a member of the TSMC Value Chain Aggregator (VCA) partnership program.The TSMC VCA partnership program enables customers to more fully benefit from TSMC-s technology by leveraging VCA partner expertise to

Armtec Infrastructure Inc. Has Access to $125 Million Brookfield Financing

Armtec Infrastructure Inc. Has Access to $125 Million Brookfield Financing

GUELPH, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 08/17/11 — Armtec Infrastructure Inc. ("Armtec" or the "Company") (TSX: ARF)(TSX: ARF.DB) announced today that a Brookfield Asset Management Inc. company has advised Armtec that it has completed certain additional due diligence matters for the loan agreement announced on August 2, 2011 (the "Loan Agreement"). As a result, Brookfield has waived its due diligence condition under the Loan Agreement. The effect of this waiver is the

NXP Announces Update of Stock Repurchase Program

NXP Announces Update of Stock Repurchase Program

EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS — (Marketwire) — 08/17/11 — NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) announced today that its Board of Directors resolved to increase the number of shares to be repurchased under its stock repurchase plan as announced on July 29, 2011, from 5,000,000 shares to 8,000,000 shares.As announced on July 29, 2011, the repurchased shares will be used to cover in part employee stock options and equity rights under its long term incentive plans. NXP may repurchase shares of its co

Zarlink Board of Directors Responds to Unsolicited Bid Announcement by Microsemi Corporation

Zarlink Board of Directors Responds to Unsolicited Bid  Announcement by Microsemi Corporation

OTTAWA, CANADA — (Marketwire) — 08/17/11 — Zarlink Semiconductor (TSX: ZL) today acknowledged that Microsemi Corporation announced that 0916753 B.C. ULC, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsemi, has commenced unsolicited offers to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Zarlink for $3.35 per share and all of the outstanding convertible debentures of Zarlink for $1,367.35 per $1,000 principal amount of convertible debentures. Zarlink advises shareholders and debentureholders not to