SYDNEY--3 Apr--AsiaNet/InfoQuest WISEKEY JOINS... GENEVA and VALENCIA - WISeKey is honoured to join Alinghi for the 32ndAmerica's Cup Campaign and to bring its high security digital identificationsolutions to secure its key assets. http://www.wisekey.com http://www.alinghi.com http://www.presseportal.ch/de/story.htx?firmaid=100006027&lang=2 G2E ASIA... MACAU - The organizers of Global Gaming Expo Asia (G2E Asia) announced asold-out show floor and an 80 percent increase in exhibitor participation forthe inaugural event over last year's Asian Gaming Expo, which the G2E brandacquired in June 2006. http://www.G2EAsia.com LIVING STANDARDS... SINGAPORE - The 2007 Worldwide Quality of Living Survey by Mercer HumanResource Consulting has revealed that Zurich again ranks as the world's topcity, with a rating of 108.1. www.imercer.com/qolpr NIDO PETROLEUM... PERTH - Nido Petroleum is very encouraged by the preliminary interpretationof new seismic data from Service Contracts 54 and 58 in the offshore North WestPalawan Basin. www.nido.com.au AIRBORNE SYSTEMS... PENNSAUKEN, N.J. - Airborne Systems Group, which has combined the world'sleading parachute brands specializing in aerial delivery, rescue and survivalequipment, and engineering services announced the organizational realignment ofits operation centers. http://www.airbornesystemsgroup.com INFOR ACQUIRES... TORONTO, Ontario - Workbrain Corporation announced that it has reached adefinitive agreement with Infor Global Solutions European Finance, S.A.R.L.under which Infor will acquire all of Workbrain's outstanding common shares ata price of CDN$12.50 per share in cash pursuant to a statutory plan ofarrangement. www.sedar.com www.workbrain.com . www.infor.com MINITAB OPENS... STATE COLLEGE, Pa., and SYDNEY - Minitab Inc., the leading global providerof software and services for quality improvement and statistics education,announced the opening of Minitab Pty Ltd, its new subsidiary in Australia. http://www.minitab.com.au ATMEL INTRODUCES... SAN JOSE, Calif. - Atmel Corporation announced the industry's lowest power32-bit Flash microcontrollers. Based on Atmel's AVR(R)32 UC core, the UC3ASeries has 512K bytes Flash and feature an embedded 10/100 Ethernet MAC, afull-speed (12 Mbps) USB 2.0 with on-the-go capability and an SRAM/SDRAMexternal bus interface. http://www.atmel.com/products/AVR32 http://www.iar.com http://www.freertos.org http://www.expresslogic.com http://www.micrium.com http://www.sics.se/~adam/lwip REAL SOFTWARE... AUSTIN, Texas - REAL Software, provider of REALbasic, cross-platform thatreally works, announced that REALbasic 2007 Release 2 is shipping on April 2. http://www.realsoftware.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C. - Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of asecurities issue amounting to a total of US$50 million on April 12, 2011 at aredemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plusaccrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com MARVELL SEMICONDUCTOR... SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Marvell Semiconductor, Inc., a subsidiary of MarvellTechnology Group Ltd., was named a recipient of Intel Corporation's PreferredQuality Supplier (PQS) award for outstanding performance in providing productsand services deemed essential to Intel's success. http://www.marvell.com http://supplier.intel.com/quality/ CREDITO Y CAUCION... AMSTERDAM and MADRID - Shareholders of Compania Espanola de Seguros yReaseguros de Credito y Caucion, S.A. (Credito y Caucion) and of Atradius N.V.agreed to the terms of the combination of the two businesses. Under the termsof the agreement, Credito y Caucion, based in Madrid, will become part of thenew Atradius Group. http://www.atradius.com PUBLICIS GROUPE... PARIS - Publicis Groupe announced the acquisition of a majority stake inChengdu-based Yong Yang, a leader in field force logistics and retail andpromotional marketing. www.publicisgroupe.com www.finance.publicisgroupe.com SPORTS MAGAZINE... LAS VEGAS - The latest issue of Legends Sports Magazine towers over thecompetition with its feature story on the NBA's tallest player, the HoustonRocket's Yao Ming. http://www.LSMsubscriptions.com ALTABLUE ADHESIVE... DAWSONVILLE, Ga. - AltaBlue Series adhesive melters from Nordson Corporationoffer a choice of 15-, 30- and 50-liter melter tanks and key-to-linefunctionality. http://www.nordson.com W.P. STEWART... HAMILTON, Bermuda - W.P. Stewart & Co., Ltd. issued a correction to therelease dated 29 March, 2007 regarding the April dividend payment date andrecord date of its common shares. http://www.wpstewart.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.