April 10/PRNewswire-AsiaNetROBUST WAR CHEST... HONG KONG: First Ecom Inc, developer of electronic payment processing technology, today posted its 2000 year-end financial results, revealing a robust war chest that will bode the company well in its future growth.SOHU.COM HELPS CHINA... BEIJING: SOHU.com, the Internet portal, today said it will help Chinese companies improve "efficiency, productivity and connectivity" by joining Software Inc's Alliance Partner Program.WIRELESS LAN ANALYZER... WALNUT CREEK: WildPackets Inc will join its Japanese distributor, DIT Company Ltd, in developing a wireless LAN analyzer, the company said today.FIRST LITHOGRAPHY SOFTWARE... SAN DIEGO: Cymer Inc, the excimer light sources supplier to the semiconductor sector, today launched its new, industry-first lithography performance monitoring software, CymerOnLine.MARCH SALES RESULTS... TAIPEI: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc, today released its March 2001 sales figures. PROPANE-FUELLED CARS... DETROIT: Quantum Technologies Inc and Propane Promotion Consortium Inc are manufacturing propane-fuelled General Motors Savanna and Express passenger and cargo vans, the two companies said today.VOICE-RECOGNITION PRODUCTS... DEARBORN: Visteon Corp said today that it has bought a suite of speech-recognition technology products from L&H Holdings USA Inc, to enhance its current automotive product range and facilitate the company's entry into the cellular phone and PDA markets. SAN PLATFORM... BROOMFIELD: McDATA Corp, the open storage network provider, today promoted its latest SAN platform, Fibre Channel Galaxy-Class Director. ALCAN MEDIA SESSION... MONTREAL: Alcan Inc today invited the media to attend a session on the company's first quarter results, which will address market demand and supply, the industry outlook and a merger integration status report. MCDATA DEAL... BROOMFIELD: McDATA Corp, in a separate press release, said that Hewlett Packard Co, the global computing and imaging solutions provider, will sell and distribute the company's SAN infrastructure product, the ED-6064 Director. GLOBAL FIBRE-OPTICS... NEWPORT: Next Generation SONET and SDH equipment claimed 4 per cent of the 2000 entire market, according to KMI Corp report on the global fibre-optics market.ONLINE JOB MARKET... BAD HOMBURG: jobpilot AG, Europe and Asia's online job market, today announced the launch of five new sites to service Australia, Hong Kong, Korea, India and the Middle East.PEPSICO SELLS STOCK... PURCHASE: PepsiCo Inc today said it would sell 13.2 million shares of its Capital Stock so that its planned merger with The Quaker Oats Company would qualify as a "pooling of interests".CIBC RETAINED... CALGARY: Gulfstream Resources Canada Ltd has taken another step to resist RocOil's unsolicited acquisition offer, by appointing financial advisor, CIBC World Markets, to advise on strategic alternatives. BIG FIVE SCORE COUP... TOKYO: MPEG-4 Internet content is one phase closer to uniformity, after three key IP developers today agreed to the format jointly proposed by Toshiba, NEC, Oki Electric Industry, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation.JAPAN STANDARD TIME... TOKYO: Four Japanese telco's and Internet companies today tested the use of Japan Standard Time on the Internet for the first time. (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated press releases for worldwide clients. Contact: www.asianet.com.au for full-text versions).