Sydney--24 Aug--AsiaNet/InfoQuestSANTOS PROFIT... ADELAIDE: Santos has announced the strongest first halfproduction, revenue, profit and cash flow in the company'shistory. http://www.santos.com . KASENNA HIRES... SUNNYVALE: Kasenna, The IPTV Company, a leading provider ofvideo-on-demand content and MPEG-4 ready IPTV applications forTriple Play services over broadband networks, announced that ithas hired Sanjay Mehta as its vice president of engineering todrive the company's engineering efforts. http://www.kasenna.com TATA INVESTS... MUMBAI and WHITESTONE: The Tata Group, India's mostrespected business conglomerate, and Glaceau, the maker ofvitaminwater, have announced that they have signed a definitiveagreement whereby Tata will invest US$677 million in Glaceau topurchase the stake previously held by TSG Consumer Partners andprovide additional growth capital. http://www.glaceau.com EMULATOR AVAILABLE... DUBLIN: dotMobi, the company behind the first and onlyInternet address created for mobile phones, has announced theavailability of the .mobi mobile emulator. http://dotmobi.mobi/registrar http://dotmobi.mobi http://blog.mobi SYMBOL APPOINTS... HOLTSVILLE: Symbol Technologies, Inc., The EnterpriseMobility Company, has announced the appointment of Sanford(Sandy) Preizler as vice president of worldwide channels. http://www.symbol.com EURAND APPOINTS... MILAN, and VANDALIA: Eurand, a specialty pharmaceuticalcompany, announced that Mr. John Fraher has been appointedChief Commercial Officer. http://www.eurand.com CHINA NETCOM... HONG KONG: China Netcom Group and China Netcom HK havecompleted the sale of their entire 100 per cent ownership ofAsia Netcom to an investor group led by Ashmore InvestmentManagement Limited, Spinnaker Capital Limited and ClearwaterCapital Partners. http://www.china-netcom.com htpp://www.asianetcom.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)