SYDNEY--6 Feb--AsiaNet/InfoQuest CORENET SUMMIT... SINGAPORE: CoreNet Global, the world's leading associationrepresenting the corporate real estate industry, has announcedthat Singapore's Minister of State for National Development,Ms. Grace Fu, will deliver the official opening remarks at the2007 CoreNet Global Asia Summit to be held at The Ritz-CarltonMillenia Singapore on March 27-29, 2007. http://www.corenetglobal.org TELIRIS INVESTMENT... NEW YORK: Teliris, the leading provider of telepresencesolutions, announced on Tuesday that it has received a $40million majority equity investment led by Fidelity Ventures andco-lead Columbia Capital. http://www.teliris.com . http://www.fidelityventures.com STAR COMBINES... BOURNEMOUTH and TAIPEI: STAR combines an innovative,flexible and comprehensive eco-platform with SiliconLaboratories' AeroFONE single-chip phone, providing the mostcost-effective and best time-to-market solution for terminaldevelopers creating GPRS modems, and handsets from ULC tohigh-end. http://www.ccww.co.uk http://www.winity.com.tw CURRENCIES DIRECT... LONDON: The Board of Directors at Currencies Direct; thespecialists in foreign exchange and international payments, hasannounced the appointment of Yogesh Shetty as their GroupManaging Director effective 1st February 2007. http://www.currenciesdirect.com EMERGENCY SERVICES... PRINCETON: Assist America has announced that its globalemergency services are now available in the People's Republicof China through a licensing agreement with China Assist, aChinese company based in Beijing. http://www.assistamerica.com PEPSICO CPO... PURCHASE: PepsiCo announced on Tuesday that Cynthia M.Trudell will succeed Margaret D. Moore as Senior Vice Presidentand Chief Personnel Officer when Ms. Moore retires in Junefollowing 33 years with the nearly $33 billion globalconvenient food & beverage company. http://www.pepsico.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of one securities issue amounting to a total of US$250million on February 15, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. http://www.fanniemae.com PEPSICO ELECTS... PURCHASE: PepsiCo's board of directors announced on Tuesdaythat it has elected Indra K. Nooyi, 51, Chairman of the Board,effective when Executive Chairman Steven S Reinemund, 58,retires on May 2, as he announced last August. http://www.pepsico.com HEMOPHILIA THERAPIES... MADISON: As part of its ongoing commitment to provideadvanced therapies for hemophilia, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, adivision of Wyeth, announced the signing of a researchcollaboration with MediVas, LLC, a San Diego, California,biomaterials company specializing in improved delivery ofbiologics. http://www.wyeth.com FXDD LAUNCHES... NEW YORK: FXDD, a global leader in online foreign currencyexchange, is pleased to announce the launch of FXDDAuto, anautomated currency trading platform based on Tradency's forexplatform. http://www.fxdd.com http://www.fx-auto.com ATMEL JOINS... ROUSSET: Atmel Corporation, a global leader in thedevelopment and fabrication of advanced semiconductorsolutions, announced on Mondat that it has joined the MIPIAlliance as an Adopter Member. http://www.atmel.com http://www.mipi.org FUNDING CLOSED... ATLANTA: MFG.com, Inc., the largest global onlinemarketplace for the manufacturing community, has announced theclosing of a round of funding by European Founders Fund, basedin Munich, Germany. http://www.mfg.com http://SourcingParts.com/ TECHNOLOGY AGREEMENT... PRINCETON, N.J. and SLOUGH, England: BioWa, Inc. and UCB,announced on Monday that they have entered into an agreementwhich provides UCB with access to BioWa's patented POTELLIGENTtechnology platform for the development of antibody-dependentcellular cytotoxicity enhanced antibodies. http://www.biowa.com http://www.ucb-group.com RESEARCH COLLABORATION... MADISON: Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth, andNautilus Biotech in Evry, France, have announced the signing ofa research collaboration and license agreement to discover anddevelop novel recombinant Factor IX proteins for the treatmentof hemophilia B. http://www.wyeth.com REPORT RELEASED... AUSTIN: The Wi-Fi Alliance, in partnership with TonseTelecom, has released a new 60-page report entitled "The Futurefor Wi-Fi in India: Opportunities and Challenges." http://www.wi-fi.org/ (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)