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Vancouver's Gemcom Software International (TSX:GCM) reported a 51% increase in revenue and a similar increase in profit for its fiscal year ending March 31, 2008. Annual revenue jumped to $54.2 million from $35.8 million a year earlier.

Pyng Medical Corp. (TSX-V:PYT) has completed its acquisition of selected assets from California-based Bio Cybernetics International. Pyng bought the trauma-related medical device assets from Bio for US$2.4 million.

Ten-digit dialling in B.C. is on its way. Starting June 23, the transition to 10-digit dialling for all local calls will begin across the province.

Richmond's International Technologies Corp. (TSX-V:ITI) reported a 65% drop in revenue during its first quarter ending March 31, 2008, due to production and supplier delays. First-quarter revenue fell to $1.1 million from $3.1 million.

Vancouver's Silvercorp Metals Inc. (TSX:SVM) has completed its $61.95 million purchase of Yangtze Gold Ltd., a private company that owns a silver, lead and zinc mine in China's Guangdong province.

International Beryllium Corp. (TSX-V:IB) plans to buy a U.S. beryllium product manufacturer for an undisclosed sum after the Vancouver company signed a letter of intent to buy the private company, whose name was not disclosed.

A subsidiary of Vancouver's FirstGrowth Exploration & Development Services Corp. (TSX-V:FGC) has signed its largest contract thus far with a private Saskatchewan potash exploration company. FirstGrowth's Calgary-based Kinetex Inc.

Vancouver's Westport Innovations Inc. (TSX:WPT) has received its largest commercial order of its heavy-duty liquefied natural gas engines.

One of Vancouver's oldest commercial printers has decided to wind up operations after 97 years in business. Broadway Printers, which has been in the Blockberger family for four generations, has been sold to Thunderbird Press.

Richmond's MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX:MDA) has received a $3.6 million contract extension to replace the air command and control system for NATO in Europe.