Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTU) will be giving a presentation at the ROTH Capital Partners 22nd Annual OC Growth Stock Conference. The company’s President and CEO, Pete Cittadini, and Senior VP Operations and CFO, Dan Gaudreau, will host their presentation.

The conference is being held in Dana Point, CA at The Ritz Carlton Hotel. The company is scheduled to deliver their presentation at 12:30pm (PT) on March 15, 2010. A webcast of the presentation will be made available through the company’s website.

Actuate founded and continues to co-lead the Eclipse BIRT open source project. BIRT is the premier development environment for Rich Information Applications that present data in compelling and interactive ways via the web on any device.

Recon Technology, Ltd. (NASDAQ: RCON) has received around $1.2 million in 4 new equipment and chemical orders from China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).

Recon received about a $219,000 order from the CNPC Changqing Sulige Gas Field in Inner Mongolia. This order includes gas and oil field chemicals, including gas well cleanup additive, clay stabilizer, crosslinking agent, foaming agent and bactericides.

The company also received approximately a $333,000 order from CNPC Tuha Oilfield and a $254,000 order from the CNPC for the First Extraction Plant of Huabei Oilfield.

Lastly, Recon was awarded a $348,000 order from CNPC for the 4th and 5th Extraction Plants of Huabei Oilfield for burners and horizontal furnaces.

Recon Technology, Ltd. has been providing leading Chinese oil and gas companies with automation services that increase efficiency and profitability in exploring, extracting, producing, processing, refining and transporting petroleum products for over 10 years.

Nova Energy, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: NVAE) has appointed Philip Verges as its Interim CEO. Mr. Verges is the Founder and Chairman of NewMarket Technology, Inc. Nova has sadly informed the public that last week, Ret. Major General Hugh G. Robinson passed away last week at his home in Desoto, TX.

General Robinson graduated from West Point in 1954 and became the first ever African-American Army Officer to serve as a Presidential Advisor. He was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson as a military aide. He earned a bronze star in Vietnam, where he served as a Battalion Commander. General Robinson served as Vice Chairman and later as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Nova Energy, Inc. has launched an updated corporate strategy to pursue several business lines in the growing economy of East Africa, initially in Kenya. Nova has already begun several initiatives in the region to include initiatives in the Technology, Utility, Housing and Health products industries.

Friendly Energy Exploration (Pink Sheets: FEGR) has formed a wholly owned subsidiary, Friendly Energy Drilling Inc. The company will be the operating and production unit of the parent company. The company has entered a dry lease for a pulling rig and a work over rig.

Friendly Energy is an exploration, development and production company in the Oil and Gas Exploration Industry. The Company is focusing on low cost oil and gas recovery in the State of Texas and Oklahoma.