SYDNEY--20 Sep--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
MOBILE PAYMENTS PLATFORM...
LONDON: Mobile payments are now truly a reality as Luup today launches the
first universal mobile payments platform.
http://www.luup.com/
http://bit.ly/rptSSC
SPONSORSHIP DEAL...
ABU DHABI, UAE: German football club, TSV 1860 Muenchen, has signed the
British sports car manufacturer Aston Martin as its new main sponsor.
http://bit.ly/pkhqFV
JAKARTA OFFICE...
SHANGHAI: Wison Engineering Ltd. has officially opened the doors to its
brand new overseas representative office in Jakarta, Indonesia.
http://bit.ly/pevNcH
MEGA SHOW...
HONG KONG: MEGA SHOW Part 1, October 20-23, 2011 and MEGA SHOW Part 2,
October 27-29, 2011 will take place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition
Centre. Kenfair is proud to announce MEGA SHOW Part 1 celebrates its 20th
anniversary in October 2011 and thank all the exhibitors and buyers who have
shown their support over the past 20 years.
http://www.mega-show.com/
http://bit.ly/r40WTZ
http://bit.ly/o9V8tD
TREADING WATER...
WASHINGTON: The economy appears to be on a cusp, flirting with another
economic downturn after more than two years of tepid recovery from the most
severe recession in the post World War II era.
http://www.fanniemae.com/
http://bit.ly/nWvSMB
WINNERS ANNOUNCED...
AMSTERDAM: SSI announced the winners of its second annual SSI QUEST(TM)
Awards -- honoring companies for creating the most engaging research
experiences -- at last night's Welcome Reception for the 2011 ESOMAR Congress
in Amsterdam.
http://www.surveysampling.com/
http://bit.ly/mPs2fx
MESSAGING DEVELOPMENT...
TORONTO: Today at SIBOS 2011, Microsoft Corp. announced it recently became
the first corporate treasury to implement Extensible Markup Language (XML)
standard ISO 20022, camt.052 and camt.053 version two, the new international
standard for cash management financial messaging.
http://bit.ly/oDUe91
MISSION-CRITICAL OPERATIONS...
TORONTO: Today at SIBOS 2011, Microsoft Corp. announced that a growing
number of financial services customers are benefiting from the significant
gains in agility, operational efficiency and cost savings achieved by moving to
the high-performance Windows Server
[ http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/default.aspx ]
operating system and Microsoft SQL Server
[ http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/product-info.aspx ] database.
http://bit.ly/q23Wmj
FANNIE MAE 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/qI3cSw
AIRSPORTS EXPO CHINA...
BEIJING: Gathered via Aero Sports Federation of China, 2011 AirSports Expo
China is launching in Laiwu, a tourism city in China.
http://bit.ly/pp6Fj2
ONLINE REPAIR SERVICE...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.: OfficeRecovery, a long-standing leader in corrupted
data repair technologies, has announced a breakthrough cloud-based online
service that significantly cuts the time from encountering a file corruption
disaster to complete recovery.
https://online.officerecovery.com/
http://bit.ly/oxRn3u
PROPULSION SYSTEM CONCEPTS...
BEIJING: The industry-leading integrated propulsion system (IPS) concepts
being developed by Nexcelle, some of which are to be implemented on COMAC's
C919 twin-engine jetliner, will be demonstrated for the first time in China as
the company brings its functional IPS scale model to this month's Aviation
Expo/China 2011 exhibition in Beijing.
http://www.nexcelle.com/
http://bit.ly/omhULd
IPO REGISTRATION STATEMENT...
NEW YORK: FX Alliance Inc. ("FXall"), today announced that it has filed a
registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "SEC") relating to the proposed initial public offering of its
common stock. The number of shares to be sold and the price range for the
proposed offering have not yet been determined.
http://bit.ly/pLJnXB
AUCTION (REOPENING)...
WASHINGTON: The following is being issued by Fannie Mae (OTC Bulletin Board:
FNMA).
http://bit.ly/oPY6QJ
AUCTION RESULTS...
WASHINGTON: The following is being issued by Fannie Mae (OTC Bulletin Board:
FNMA).
http://bit.ly/nvi9MJ
EXPANDS FOCUS...
BOSTON, Massachusetts and BEIJING: Canaccord Genuity announces the expansion
of its investment banking efforts in Asia with the relocation of Jeffrey Hagan,
Managing Director, Head of Asian Technology and Sustainability & CleanTech
Investment Banking to China.
http://www.canaccordgenuity.com/
http://bit.ly/qsJxRK
INFORMATION DISPUTED...
HERNDON, Va.: The GreySide Group refutes information contained in recent
reports surrounding five of its personnel traveling through Mozambique.
http://bit.ly/ok5Hgy
INTERMEDIARY PORTAL...
GLASGOW, Scotland: CIGNA (NYSE:CI), the global leader in serving expatriates
and other globally mobile individuals, has launched the CIGNA Global
Intermediary Zone for intermediaries which will provide simple, quick and easy
information to help intermediaries service their individual client base
worldwide.
http://www.cignaglobal.com/
http://bit.ly/nR0bLb
SPONSORSHIP ANNOUNCED...
SINGAPORE: Rune, an information security firm committed to empowering the
defense of privacy, today announced its sponsorship of GovernmentWare 2011.
http://www.rune.sg/
http://bit.ly/pGSUVI
ENGLISH SUPPORT...
LAS VEGAS: FC2, Inc. has updated one of its services, FC2 LiveChat (
http://livechat.fc2.com/ ) with an English language option.
http://fc2.com/
http://bit.ly/phBKWi
http://bit.ly/poRbir
http://bit.ly/nVkzGT
Global Chapter Program...
SEOUL, South Korea: (ISC)2(R) ("ISC-squared"), the world's largest
information security professional body and administrators of the CISSP(R),
today announced the formation of the (ISC)2 Chapter Program.
http://www.isc2.org/
http://bit.ly/osyJiy
U.S., CHINA COOPERATION...
SHANGHAI: The Second U.S. - China Renewable Energy Industries Forum will be
held on September 19th-20th in Washington D.C. Underwriters Laboratories (UL) -
a member of the Energy Cooperation Program (ECP) and a world leader in product
safety testing and certification, standards development and research - and
China General Certification Center (CGC), the national center for testing and
certification for solar photovoltaic and other new energy industry, will both
participate in this forum in their capacity as technical experts.
http://www.ul.com/
http://bit.ly/ntslF7
VISIONARY COMPANIES...
UTRECHT, The Netherlands: An international study on visionary organizations,
conducted by international consultancy firm &samhoud, shows that Malaysian
organizations lead the world in creating inspiring corporate visions, and in
the implementation of those corporate vision throughout all layers of the
company.
http://bit.ly/qEFxa1
TOP TIPS...
SINGAPORE: The high growth of the biopharmaceutical market in Asia is
creating a strong need for production of biopharmaceuticals at higher qualities
and volumes, as well as developing an effective and efficient bioprocess.
http://www.downstreambioprocessing.com/
http://bit.ly/qXgq8s
FUNDRAISING CLOSED...
LOS ANGELES: CODA Holdings, a leading developer of all-electric vehicles and
advanced battery systems, announced the successful completion of its Series D
preferred investment round, totaling $147 million.
http://www.codaautomotive.com/
http://bit.ly/pdlcmn
AUDIO SOLUTION...
ZURICH: Barix Audio over IP solutions are now live at the Holiday Inn
Kandooma Resort in the Maldives Islands, distributing high-quality,
multi-lingual voice and music to its guests in nine zones.
http://www.barix.com/
http://www.ip-audio.info/
http://bit.ly/pDkbLS
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