Natus Medical Incorporated today announced that it has set up a contract to acquire privately held SonaMed Corporation.

HP today announced that it has been awarded a five-year Blanket Purchase Agreement with the United States Air Force to deploy a breadth of HP single function and multifunction printers, services, supplies and management software.

A center fielder in Major League Baseball, Curtis Granderson, has signed a 5-year contract with the Detroit Tigers.

In 2007, IBM Australia grew three times faster than the local market and saw strong double digit revenue growth. Today's announcements indicate that IBM's strategic focus on delivering technology and services to growth markets is gaining momentum.

Commission signs Contract of Confidence with Portugal to reinforce joint responsibility for control of Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund
Danuta Hübner, Commissioner for Regional Policy, and, Mr Fernando Teixeira dos Santos, Portuguese Minister of Finance, today sign a Contract of Confidence which guarantees the quality of the Portuguese authorities' audit work on Structural Fund programmes for 2000-2006. The signing will take place in the margins of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council in Brussels.

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) today announced a three-year contract with AAA Cooper Transportation (ACT) to host the leading transport company's network services.

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) has announced a new contract to provide voice and data network services to Bruce Foods Corp., one of America's largest privately owned food manufacturers. With headquarters in Louisiana, Bruce Foods employs more than 1,200 employees and operates four manufacturing plants throughout Louisiana, North Carolina and Texas.

Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) announced today that since July 1, its North American Public Sector business unit has signed 123 previously unannounced contracts and subcontracts during its fiscal 2008 second quarter, which ended Sept. 28.

China Agritech, Inc. (“China Agritech”, the “Company”), a leading liquid fertilizer manufacturer in China, announced that it has signed a contract with Sinochem Fertilizer Co., Ltd. (Sinochem Fertilizer) to deliver a minimum of 1,000 metric tons of its liquid organic fertilizer “Green Vitality” over the next twelve months.

Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) announced today that it is one of 16 firms selected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide information technology (IT) services for its Enterprise Systems Development program. The total ceiling value of the indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for all 16 firms, which has a one-year base period and nine one-year options, is $4 billion.

Siemens’ Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD) Group has been awarded a contract by the Spanish network operator Red Eléctrica de España to connect the Balearic Islands to the Spanish mainland’s power network.

AT&T Government Solutions, a business unit within AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), has announced a $13.8 million contract with the U.S. Marine Corps to re-engineer the Marine Corps Manpower Modeling System. Under the terms of the contract, AT&T will provide IT and software engineering services to integrate the legacy Marine Corps manpower modeling and forecasting subsystems into a single manpower modeling system.