SYDNEY, Aug. 4 -- AsiaNet NEW COO... SAN JOSE: Komag, Incorporated, a leading independentsupplier of thin-film media for disk drives, today announcedthe promotion of Ali Dabier to Chief Operating Officer, a mediastatement said. www.komag.com PIZZA AWARDS... ANN ARBOR, Mich.: Domino's Pizza, the recognized worldleader in pizza delivery, recently presented MasterFranchisees, Don Meij and Grant Bourke, with the most covetedhonor given by Domino's Pizza - the Chairman's Circle Award -at its inaugural Red Carpet Awards in Dearborn, Michigan, amedia statement said. www.dominos.com SINGAPORE E-BUSINESS... HOUSTON, Texas: The Infocomm Development Authority ofSingapore awarded Elite its prestigious E-Business IndustryDevelopment Initiatives designation for the company's advancedGlobal Logistics Management System, according to a pressrelease. www.eliteint.com H1 RESULTS... SAO PAULO: Banco Itau Holding Financeira S.A. said today itsconsolidated net income totaled R$1.8 billion during the firsthalf of 2004, a media statement said. www.itau.com TRAVEL JV... ORLANDO, Fla.: Global Experts in Travel, a single-brandedglobal travel management joint venture with more than $1.8billion in annual airline sales, was launched today at theNational Business Travelers Association Convention and TradeShow, a media statement said. FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of two securities issues amounting to a total ofUS$171.777 million on August 13 at a redemption price equal to100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. www.fanniemae.com PRODUCTION REPORT... RIO DE JANEIRO: Companhia Vale do Rio Doce continued toincrease the production of its main products in the secondquarter of 2004 in response to the strong growth in globaldemand for ores and metals, with the volume of iron oreproduced the largest in the Company's history, a mediastatement said. www.cvrd.com.br COMPUTER SOLUTIONS... SANTA CLARA, Calif.: NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwideleader in visual and media processing solutions, yesterdayannounced that its top-to-bottom family of PCI Express graphicsprocessing units are now being offered with the industry'sleading PCI Express motherboards from AOpen Inc., ASUSTeK,Gigabyte Technology and MSI, according to a press release. www.nvidia.com GAMES DEVELOPER... LONDON: Gizmondo Europe Ltd, subsidiary of Jacksonville,Florida-based, Tiger Telematics Inc., announced yesterday theacquisition of a European leading games developer, IndieStudios, according to a press release. www.gizmondo.com www.tigertelematics.com TECHNOLOGY RELEASE... GRENOBLE: Atmel Corporation announced today the release of anew 10-bit Digital-to-Analog Converter featuring an extremelyhigh clock frequency of 1.2 Gsps, a media statement said. www.atmel.com Q2 RESULTS... PLANO, Texas: Perot Systems Corporation yesterday announcedthat it posted revenue of $434 million for the second quarterof 2004, an increase of 20% year-to-year, according to a pressrelease. www.perotsystems.com CHINA MOTORCYCLES... HONG KONG: Global Sources Ltd. yesterday released its MarketIntelligence Report - Motorcycles: Supplier Capability inChina, which indicates that the rising cost of raw materialsand price wars sparked by illegal manufacturers flooding themarket with low-quality products, are factors promptingconsolidation within the industry, a media statement said. www.globalsources.com TECHNOLOGY AWARDS... HONG KONG: Nominations are now open for the 3rd annualDeloitte Asia Pacific Technology Fast 500 program, a regionalranking of the fastest growing technology companies, bypercentage revenue growth in the Asia Pacific, a mediastatement said. www.fast500asiapac.com Q2 RESULTS... TAIPEI: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc., theworld's largest independent provider of IC packaging andtesting services, yesterday reported unaudited consolidated netrevenues of NT$20,290 million for the second quarter of 2004,up 59% year-over-year and up 18% sequentially, according to apress release. www.aseglobal.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)--InfoQuest (PP)--