SYDNEY, Nov. 17 /AsiaNet/InfoQuest LUNCH BID... NEW YORK: Bill Zanker, the Founder and President of TheLearning Annex cast the winning bid for lunch with media mogulRupert Murdoch in an eBay auction to benefit the JerusalemCollege of Technology. He outbid all other bidders online forthe privilege of having lunch with the media baron. www.learningannex.com PEPPERCON INTRODUCES... ZWICKAU: Peppercon AG, Raritan's OEM division and a leadingvendor of embedded KVM-over-IP solutions, has announced theKIRA100 - the industry's first single chip solution forhigh-quality platform control and remote server access tocombine KVM-over-IP technology with all the key platformmanageability access methods. www.raritan.com www.peppercon.com BUSINESS LOCATION... KYOTO: Over 82 per cent of firms in Singapore agree the cityis currently a very advantageous business location, accordingto preliminary findings from a study of Singapore'scompetitiveness by Professor Edmund R Thompson, Graduate Schoolof Management, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan. www.apu.ac.jp/~thompson/?id=20 MARKETING LOCATION... KYOTO: Australia is the Asia-Pacific's least attractivesales and marketing location, according to 858 foreignmultinational firms surveyed in an international study byProfessor Edmund R Thompson, Graduate School of Management,Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan. www.apu.ac.jp/~thompson/?id=10 STEM CELLS... KYOTO: PrimeGen Biotech has announced the presentation ofpreliminary data on their human pluripotent stem cell platformat the 1st International Symposium on Germ Cells, Epigenetics,Reprogramming and Embryonic Stem Cells, currently being held inKyoto, Japan. www.primegenbiotech.com APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED... LEICESTER: Strategic land investment group The ProfitablePlot Company has appointed Mark Felton business developmentmanager for its Professional Associates division. BAX GLOBAL... RICHMOND: The Brink's Company has announced the signing of adefinitive agreement to sell its BAX Global operating unit forapproximately US$1.1 billion in cash to Deutsche Bahn AG. www.brinkscompany.com www.baxglobal.com MOTOROLA INDIA... NEW DELHI: Motorola, Inc. has announced a series ofimportant firsts to help drive the company's growth in India.Specifically, Motorola announced the C115, one of the company'shottest-selling handsets, will now have a "Made in India" label- a first for the company. www.hellomoto.com www.motorola.com DIGITAL IDENTIFICATION... TUNIS: As part of its support to the World Summit onInformation Society, WISeKey in cooperation with Microsoft andthe OISTE Foundation will be providing a Digital IdentificationInfrastructure designed to support a network of 20,000Certification Authorities. www.wisekey.com/wsis/digitalid.htm EURAND APPOINTS... MILAN: Eurand, a specialty pharmaceutical company, hasannounced the appointment of Dr. Costantinos Efthymiopoulos tothe position of Chief Scientific Officer. www.eurand.com SORGHUM PROJECT... JOHANNESBURG: One of Africa's greatest challenges - the twinproblems of limited scientific infrastructure and humancapacity - is being addressed by the Africa BiofortifiedSorghum project, which is supported by the Grand Challenges inGlobal Health initiative. www.supersorghum.org (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)