Alfa CTP said it signed a dealer partnership agreement with Fuji for distribution of Fuji plates in Latin America. Newstech Co., a division of Rovinter Inc., will handle the sales out of its Florida office. The agreement includes Presteligence workflow software.

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CCI Europe said it will sell and support Escenic’s Web content management capabilities as part of CCI NewsGate.

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Advanced Publishing Technology released PinPoint, the latest addition to its online software suite. PinPoint is a tool newspaper salespeople can use to attract new advertisers and small businesses, APT said.

PinPoint lets users identify all subscribers and advertisers by account number, name, address, phone number and e-mail, and all of that information is displayed using different color-coded map points.

APT said the product is part of a new lineup of products the vendor will roll out this year. The app is powered by APT’s technology and uses Google interactive maps to let users zoom down to the street level to identify the exact location of potential customers.

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Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA Inc. announced plans to merge its Konica Minolta Printing Solutions USA Inc. with its Business Solutions unit in a bid to unify the units into one organization.

The new business unit will be able to offer customers complete solutions, according to Jun Haraguchi, president and chief executive officer, who will remain in his position.

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The Nexnews Group in Malaysia installed a second Asset editorial system from Televisual for The Sun, Malaysia’s first national free daily tabloid, Televisual said. Nexnews prints and distributes 265,000 copies of The Sun daily in and around Kuala Lumpur. Nexnews also uses Asset for editorial workflow at its properties The Financial Daily, and The Edge, a weekly business newspaper.

Meantime, Televisual is continuing the rollout of an Asset editorial system at Asharq al Awsat, a pan-Arabic daily newspaper located in Saudi Arabia, and recently completed installation and training on software for more than 200 users at a new daily newspaper in Doha, Qatar, for which publication will commence in September.

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Tribune Co. said it expects to settle its appeal of a 2005 Tax Court decision that disallowed a tax-free reorganization of Matthew Bender, a former legal publishing unit of Times Mirror Co.

Under the proposed settlement, Tribune said it will receive a refund of $350 million in federal and state taxes and interest resulting from a $1 billion payment it was ordered to make after it acquired Times Mirror — and its pre-existing tax dispute — in 2000. Tribune said it will provide further information about the settlement this fall.

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