May 30/PRNewswire-AsiaNetASIA-PACIFIC CRM SEMINARS... CAMBRIDGE: Pegasystems Inc today said it will hold four seminars this month for fund managers, brokers and custodians on rules-driven automation technology and customer relationship management (CRM) in myriad cities across Asia.ADVANCED IMAGING PRODUCT LAUNCHED... ANN ARBOR: Genomic Solutions Inc, provider of automated systems for the genomic and proteomic research sectors, today launched a high-resolution imaging product for detecting "microarrays".AUTOMOTIVE DEVELOPMENT DEAL... DEARBORN: Visteon Corporation and Dow Automotive have jointly announced a development deal to manufacture a range of products to improve temperature control and reduce vehicle weight together with noise levels inside their cars.BIOMEDICAL BOOSTER... HOPKINGTON: HTS Biosystems, a portfolio extending the technologies, chemistry and bioinformatics sectors, has retained biomedical business development expert, Masaako Sasajima, to spearhead its swelling Asian operations from a headquarters in Yokohama, Japan. GLOBAL AUTOMOTIVE STRATEGIC ALLIANCE... PARIS: Providata Automotive, the automotive intelligence and consulting company, and Mavel S.A, the consultants and providers of automotive benchmarking and forecasting, have formed a global strategic alliance integrating their operations, products and services.CHAIRMEN ANNOUNCED... HAMILTON: Investment reseach and portfolio management company, W.P Stewart & Co., today named Robert L. Rohn and Harry W. Segalas as the company's co-chairmen.MOVIE ROLLS CASH... LOS ANGELES: DreamWorks Pictures' latest-release comedy, "Shrek", featuring Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and John Lithgow, has scooped $US 55.2 million over the American Memorial Day weekend, the company's head of distribution, Jim Tharp, said today.STD IN LIMELIGHT... WELLINGTON: Genital wart-causing HPV, Australia's most common sexually-transmitted disease, is the focus of a new public health campaign being conducted by a medical advisory board of general practitioners, specialists, family planners, nurses and psychotherapists, according to a press release circulated today.GENITAL WARTS GENERATE CONCERN... WELLINGTON: Genital warts (HPV), visible or otherwise, affect 75 per cent of the sexually active population, and can be a precursor to cancerous cells, say doctors involved with the Australasian HPV project. SHAREHOLDERS MILKED ON DAIRY ISSUE... WELLINGTON: Shareholders will be asked to vote on the formation of a Global Dairy Company, a proposed 100 per cent New Zealand-owned multinational spawned from The New Zealand Dairy Group and Kiwi Co-operative Dairies - on Monday 18 June, John Roadley, Chairman of Global Dairy Company, announced today.NEW LANGUAGE ENDORSED... DETROIT: Covisint today gave its imprimatur to ebXML, the specifications underpinning the technological architecture of e-business processes, following a "proof-of-concept" demonstration in Vienna. (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).