SYDNEY--5 Apr--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
100 COLOURS...
SINGAPORE: On Sunday 3 April 2011, Singapore permanent resident, Nishant Kasibhatla, broke the Guinness World Record(TM) by memorizing 100 colours shown in random sequence.
http://bit.ly/fYVq5q
INDUSTRY TRANSFORMATION...
HANNOVER: New technology advancements available in a digital infrastructure, such as cloud computing and social computing, are transforming manufacturing industry value chains, according to a Microsoft Corp. survey released today at HANNOVER MESSE 2011 in Hannover, Germany.
WHISKY SECRETS...
GLASGOW, Scotlandp: Whyte & Mackay has successfully recreated the century-old whisky buried under the Antarctic ice by famous explorer Ernest Shackleton.
http://bit.ly/hzOHvo
REVENUE EFFECTS...
BEIJING: iSoftStone Holdings Limited ("iSoftStone," NYSE: ISS), a leading China-based IT services provider, today announced estimated effects on its revenues from the March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and damaged nuclear power plants in Japan. iSoftStone reconfirmed its previous guidance.
http://www.isoftstone.com/
http://www.sec.gov/
http://bit.ly/i145Bz
GLOBAL HAWK...
CANBERRA, Australia: Ten years ago this month, Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE: NOC) Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS) entered the Guinness Book of Records for the longest nonstop unmanned flight when it flew from Edwards Air Force Base in California to RAAF Base Edinburgh in South
Australia.
http://www.northropgrumman.com/
http://bit.ly/gvDR0S
GOOD VYBRATIONS...
ORLANDO, Florida: Miltenyi Biotec today announces the worldwide release and availability of the MACSQuant(R) VYB, a compact, benchtop flow cytometer featuring violet, yellow, and blue lasers, and detection of 10 optical parameters.
http://www.miltenyibiotec.com/
http://bit.ly/eK2mkk
SECURITIES REDEMPTION...
WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae (OTC Bulletin Board: FNMA) will redeem the principal amounts indicated for the following securities issues on the redemption dates indicated below at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed, plus accrued interest thereon to the date of redemption.
http://bit.ly/eCEoEe
NEW FACE...
BASEL, Switzerland: Jacob & Co. announced last week at Baselworld the new face of their advertising global campaign is internationally renowned actress and model, Milla Jovovich.
http://www.jacobandco.com/
http://bit.ly/fYzrHz
EHEALTH PLATFORM...
TEL AVIV, Israel: eWaveMD, a leading provider of software solutions for the healthcare industry, will unveil its new eHealth platform at Med-e-Tel, the official event of the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth.
http://ewavemd.com/
http://bit.ly/eazE91
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE...
NEW YORK: Company invites investors and analysts to attend interactive real-time virtual conference.
http://www.retailinvestorconferences.com/
http://bit.ly/h1q4E1
MARKET PRESENCE...
NEW YORK: BY LISSONI (http://www.bylissoni.com), a full-service strategy, design and project management firm, announces a strategic partnership with RIOS ICP (http://www.riosicp.com), forwarding the design and brand advisory company's continuing efforts to expand and extend its global reach to Brazil and beyond.
http://bit.ly/fr2MxE
RESEARCH INITIATIVES...
KOLKATA, India: Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the world's authority for chemical information, announced today that TCG Lifesciences Limited, a leading contract research services and informatics company based in India, has signed a three-year contract to provide its scientists and researchers with unlimited access to SciFinder.
http://www.cas.org/
http://www.tcgls.com/
http://bit.ly/hoTWSg
DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES...
ORLANDO, Fla.: Berg Diagnostics, a member of the Berg Pharma, Inc group of companies with Berg Biosystems and Cytotech Labs, is a Boston-based molecular diagnostics company that officially launched its molecular diagnostics services and products at AACR meeting from April 2nd - 6th in Orlando, Florida.
http://bit.ly/hKTjzZ
HALLMARK INSIGHTS...
ORLANDO, Fla.: Cytotech Labs, a Boston based pharmaceutical company and member of the Berg Pharma, Inc. group along with Berg Biosystems and Berg Diagnostics today presented groundbreaking insight into seminal work performed by Nobel Laureate, Otto Warburg.
http://bit.ly/hCHjPl
UNIVERSITY RANKINGS...
LONDON: The first ever QS World University Rankings(R) by Subject shows MIT to be the world's leading university in computer science and four areas of engineering, based on employer reputation, academic reputation and research quality.
http://www.topuniversities.com/
http://bit.ly/hw6E1E
PETROVIETNAM HQ...
HANOI, Vietnam: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects (http://www.pcparch.com) will design a new headquarters for Vietnam's national oil and gas company, creating a landmark development in Hanoi.
http://english.pvn.vn/
http://bit.ly/f712Rq
INDIAN OFFICE...
MUMBAI, India: RTS Realtime Systems Group, a leading global trading solutions provider, announced that it is preparing to open its first office in India with a sales and support staff in Mumbai to service a growing client base in the country.
http://www.rtsgroup.net/
http://bit.ly/gryzJ9
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