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Nucleus Software sets 1-for-1 bonus share ratio (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News) - MUMBAI, April 30 (Reuters) - Software services firm Nucleus Software Exports Ltd. said on Monday its board has approved issue of one bonus share for each share held.

Device sector keeps VC lead in Q1, but software takes top deal (BizJournals) - Minnesota's medical device firms continued to pull in the most venture capital during the first quarter, even as the biggest deal went to software company Gearworks Inc., according to a survey released this week.

Software causes backlog in tax office (Galveston County Daily News) - GALVESTON — Complications from a recent computer software conversion in the county tax assessor-collector’s office caused a backup of as many as 80 tax refund requests dating back to last summer, officials said.

XO sells bartering software to Bosnia (Stuff) - Bosnian debt collectors are among an eclectic bunch of international businesses that are implementing bartering software developed by Auckland firm XO, which has recently racked up deals worth tens of millions of dollars.

Software helps retailers make sure the price is right (USA Today) - Price-optimization software is often credited with boosting retail profits by a few percentage points a huge leap in an industry that lives on margins slimmer than a 25-cent pack of gum. Even so, the software is just beginning to make its mark.

Free Software Increasingly a Benefit to Business IT (Addict 3D) - Free Software Magazine: "This article provides a real world perspective into why businesses move to and stick with free software..."

Pricing software could reshape retail (Sharewatch) - After analyzing an array of variables, including sales history and competitors' prices, the software suggested cutting the middle drill to $110. That might have made the top drill seem more expensive. But drill aficionados still were fine shelling out $130. Sales of that drill didn't change.

World Leading Software Provider to Set Up ICT Academy in Liberia (RedNova) - Text of report by independent Liberian Star Radio on 29 April One of the world's leading software providers, CISCO, says it will establish an information and communications technology [ICT] academy in Liberia. CISCO says it will also set up nine computer centres across the country.

Pricing software could reshape retail (AP via Yahoo! News) - A large retail chain had a problem. It sold three similar power drills: one for about $90, a purportedly better one at $120 and a top-tier one at $130.

Report: Oracle Commands Database Software (IT Management) - The pulse of the database software market is as strong as it's ever been. Oracle ( Quote ) held 44 percent of the relational database management systems (RDBMS) market, which grew 14.3 percent from 2005 to 2006 to total $16.4 billion, according to research results from IDC.