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Updates on: Pearson, Lagardere, McGraw-Hill Companies, Tribune Co., Thomson Corp.

Pearson VUE, the electronic certification and licensure testing business of Pearson, announced that it has signed an exclusive multi-year contract with Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation (ONCC) to provide test development and test delivery services for ONCC’s certification programs. — Yahoo

Arnaud Lagardere, chief executive of Lagardere SCA, denied there was insider trading in the publishing company’s sale of shares in European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co. two months before EADS announced production delays at Airbus’s A380, the world’s biggest passenger plane. — Bloomberg

The Board of Directors of The McGraw-Hill Companies approved a regular quarterly cash dividend on the Corporation’s common stock. The dividend of $0.205 is payable on December 12, 2007 to shareholders of record on November 28, 2007. — Yahoo

Tribune Co.reported third-quarter profit that fell less than analysts estimated, easing investor concern that Sam Zell will have trouble financing an $8.2 billion buyout of the second-biggest U.S. newspaper publisher. — Bloomberg

Thomson Corp., the financial-information provider buying Reuters Group Plc, said third-quarter profit jumped on proceeds from the sale of education divisions and higher revenue from its remaining units. — Bloomberg