SYDNEY--22 Mar--AsiaNet/InfoQuest PONY CEO... SAN DIEGO: Pony International LLC Thursday announced the appointment ofKevin Wulff as its Chief Executive Officer. NAVTEQ APPOINTS... CHICAGO: NAVTEQ, a leading global provider of digital maps for vehiclenavigation and location-based solutions, Thursday announced the appointment ofBrent Stafford as Business Development Manager, Australia. http://www.navteq.com COURT ORDER... NEW YORK: A multi-national notification program began Thursday, as orderedby the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, toalert investors, brokers, financial institutions, and other nominees who boughtthe common stock and/or bonds of Parmalat Finanziaria S.p.A. and itssubsidiaries and affiliates from January 5, 1999 through and including December18, 2003 about a US$50 million partial settlement of a U.S. class actionlawsuit about the prices paid for Parmalat common stock and bonds. http://www.ParmalatSettlement.com CONVERTIBLE NOTE... SAN JOSE, Calif.: Komag, Incorporated Thursday announced that it intends tooffer, subject to market and other conditions, approximately $200 millionaggregate principal amount of convertible subordinated notes due 2014 throughan offering to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under theSecurities Act of 1933, as amended. http://www.komag.com UPDATED OUTLOOK... SAN JOSE, Calif.: Komag, Incorporated, a leading independent supplier ofthin-film media for disk drives, is updating its business outlook for the firstquarter of 2007. http://www.komag.com JAL SELECTS... CHARLOTTE, N.C.: Japan Airlines (JAL) has selected Goodrich Corporation tosupply wheels and electrically-actuated brakes for the Boeing 787 Dreamlineraircraft it is adding to its fleet. http://www.goodrich.com EARNINGS GUIDANCE... NEW YORK: PR Newswire's Disclosure Advisory Board, a 15-person council ofleaders in the corporate, regulatory, investor, reporting and academiccommunities, expressed concern that recommendations about earnings guidance bythe U.S. Chamber of Commerce are too narrowly focused. http://www.prnewswire.com PEPSICO CONFERENCE... PURCHASE, N.Y.: PepsiCo, Inc. Wednesday announced that its first-quarter2007 earnings conference call and slide presentation for financial analysts andinvestors will be webcast live over the internet on Wednesday, April 25, 2007at 11 a.m. (ET). http://www.pepsico.com GLOBAL FOOTPRINT... BASKING RIDGE, N.J.: Verizon Business is enhancing and deepening its alreadyexpansive Private IP global footprint to meet the global and in-regionnetworking communications requirements of large multinational businesses. http://www.verizon.com http://www.verizonbusiness.com http://www.verizon.com/news TOP HONORS... BASKING RIDGE, N.J.: Frost & Sullivan, a leading global growth consultingcompany, has named Verizon Business tops for global network services tolarge-business and government customers. http://www.verizon.com http://www.awards.frost.com http://www.verizon.com/news COMPLIANCE SOFTWARE... SYDNEY: Raiffeisen Zentralbank Osterreich AG (RZB), one of Austria's leadingbanks and a major industry player with operations across 16 Central and EasternEuropean markets, has adopted financial crime and compliance software fromNorkom Technologies to support its enterprise-wide compliance strategy. http://www.norkom.com http://www.rzb.at http://www.ri.co.at AVS ENCODER... SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.: Demonstrating its ongoing dedication to theChinese market and the production of the highest quality encoding solutions forvideo convergence from mobile to HD, Envivio Inc. Wednesday announced theworld's first telco-grade encoder that supports AVS for Broadcast and IPTVdeployments. http://www.envivio.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.