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Zillow 'humbled' by real estate industry (San Diego Daily Transcript via Yahoo! News) - SAN FRANCISCO -- The creators of online home-valuation service Zillow learned the same lesson that many innovators and entrepreneurs before them have learned: Real estate is difficult, it's local and it's not the travel industry.

Film industry gives Blue Shield starring role (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - The Motion Picture Industry Health Plan has picked Blue Shield of California to cover its more than 95,000 indemnity plan participants, including union members such as cinematographers, art directors, musicians, painters and plumbers, Blue Shield said Monday.

Thai tourism industry urges stronger action against bird flu (Channel NewsAsia) - BANGKOK : Thailand's tourism industry Tuesday urged the government to wipe out the latest outbreak of bird flu before October, when peak season begins for the US$12 billion business.

TAIWAN CEPD TO EARMARK US$14 MLN TO HELP YACHT-BUILDING INDUSTRY (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance) - Transport The Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) decided Monday to earmark NT$450 million (US$13.74 million) to improve facilities at two docks in Kaohsiung Harbor to help Taiwan's yacht-building industry enhance its competitiveness in the world market.

Taiwan CEPD To Earmark US$14 MLN To Help Yacht-Building Industry (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News) - The Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) decided Monday to earmark NT$450 million (US$13.74 million) to improve facilities at two docks in Kaohsiung Harbor to help Taiwan's yacht-building industry enhance its competitiveness in the world market.

OSTA And Ecma Join Forces To Establish Industry-Wide Optical Disc Archival Testing Standard (FiberOpticsOnline) - The Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) announced that it has signed an agreement with Ecma International to work together to finalize an industry-wide archival-grade optical disc specification. The purpose of this initiative is to address end user needs calling for established practices in media archive life testing and classification...

No industry support, no softwood vote: Emerson (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News) - International Trade Minister David Emerson said he won't bother sending the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber trade deal to the House of Commons if he doesn't have enough support from provinces and those within the industry.

Biotech industry needs a boost (Canadian Business) - A reader emailed me recently with his self-proclaimed "soap box" on all that is wrong with the Canadian biotech industry.

All industry eyes will be on N.L.'s Orphan Basin oil exploration (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News) - Next month's exploration of the Orphan Basin could mean the beginning of a new and potentially lucrative phase of Newfoundland and Labrador's offshore oil industry.

Supercom, Inc. Expands its Emergency Command and Control Systems to the Oil and Gas Industry (SYS-CON Media) - SuperCom, Inc., the Virginia-based subsidiary of SuperCom, Ltd. (OTCBB:SPCBF.OB; Euronext::SUP), a worldwide leading provider of smart-card and electronic identification solutions, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with H.M.S. Telecom, LLC, a leading oil and gas industry consulting group from Houston, Texas to represent and market SuperCom's IRMS (Incident Response Management