SYDNEY--8 Feb--AsiaNet/InfoQuest HUDSON RESULTS... NEW YORK: Hudson Highland Group, Inc., a leading provider ofpermanent recruitment, contract professionals and talentmanagement services worldwide, has announced financial resultsfor the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2006. http://www.hhgroup.com HEIDRICK SPONSORS... SHANGHAI: Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc., theworld's premier executive search and leadership consultingfirm, has sponsored a Benchmarking Corporate Governance inChina study based on 15 months of research conducted by FudanUniversity in Shanghai. http://www.heidrick.com BACKGAMMON COMP... GIBRALTAR: www.PartyGammon.com is pleased to announce thatthe richest weekly tournament in online backgammon hasarrived. http://www.PartyGammon.com MARVELL ANNOUNCES... SANTA CLARA: Marvell(R), the leader in storage,communications, and consumer silicon Solutions, and its partnerASUS, has announced the shipment of the first marvell-basedASUS 3G smartphones. http://www.marvell.com COMPTON PRESENTS... PURCHASE: PepsiCo, Inc. announced on Wednesday that JohnCompton, chief executive officer of PepsiCo North America, willpresent at the Consumer Analyst Group of New York Conference inScottsdale, Arizona, at approximately 10:45 a.m. Mountain Time/12:45 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, February 22, 2007. http://www.pepsico.com MOBILE PARTNERSHIP... DUBLIN and WASHINGTON: dotMobi, the company behind the firstand only internet address designed specifically for mobilephones, announced on Wednesday a partnership with AkminTechnologies ( http://akmin.mobi ) to publish the .mobi SiteBuilder, a tool to be made available exclusively to .mobiregistrars around the world. http://www.dotmobi.mobi http://akmin.mobi http://www.mobisitegalore.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of two securities issues amounting to a total of US$80million on February 17 and 20, 2007 at a redemption price equalto 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. http://www.fanniemae.com CARICOM VISA... PORT-OF-SPAIN: Just days after the start of the SingleDomestic Space on February 1, 2007, news has come that in justone month, 7,000 applications were received for the SpecialCARICOM Visa, which is required by nationals of certaincountries to visit 10 Caribbean countries as the world preparesto flock to the region for the ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC)2007. http://www.caricomvisa.com http://www.caricomimpacs.org CARITOR ACQUIRES... SAN RAMON: Caritor, Inc., a global provider of IT services,and Keane, Inc, a leading business process and IT servicesfirm, have announced that they have entered into a definitiveagreement for Caritor to acquire Keane for an all-cash purchaseprice of approximately $854 million. http://www.keane.com CAMERAS REPLACED... BAD KREUZNACH: The photography sector is facing anotherupheaval: Towards the end of the 1990s, digital cameras startedreplacing analog models. Now there is a new trend to replacedigital cameras with cell phones with camera capabilities. http://www.schneiderkreuznach.com http://www.bartenbach.de QTECH SELECTED... MOUNTAIN VIEW and HYDERABAD: QTech Inc. announced onWednesday that the company was selected as a DEMOgod at theDEMO 07 conference in Palm Desert, Calif. http://www.demo.com/ http://www.qtechinc.com/index.htm/ INDIAN LICENSE... BASKING RIDGE and MUMBAI: Verizon Business announcedWednesday that its newly-formed joint venture in India with theVideocon Group, Verizon Business India, has applied for alicense to provide international long-distance services. http://www.verizon.com http://www.verizonbusiness.com http://www.videoconindustries.com HONG KONG: SICPA, a leading global provider of ProductSecurity solutions, demonstrated its commitment to Asia'stobacco industry by participating in the recently-concluded2007 Tobacco Asia Expo, held in Hong Kong from January 17-19,2007. http://www.sicpa.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)