SYDNEY--12 Sep--AsiaNet/InfoQuest COMSCORE INTRODUCES... TOKYO: First Tool to Report Worldwide and Japanese SearchActivity comScore (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digitalworld, Wednesday announced that it has launched qSearch 2.0 inJapan offering the first panoramic, worldwide view of onlinesearch activity, providing granular, in-depth analysis of thesearch universe the product encompasses. http://www.comscore.com FIRMS MERGE... ZURICH: Cognosense and Boxalino, two Swiss technologycompanies, have Wednesday announced plans to merge theiroperations as part of an agreement that will see the newlycreated corporation become a leading global software andprofessional services provider. ALCAN JOINTVENTURE... PARIS: Alcan Tuesday signed a joint venture agreement withDingsheng Aluminium, a privately owned Chinese foil producer,to set up a greenfield facility in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province,in China to produce heat-treated aluminum plates for the fastgrowing aerospace and general engineering markets. www.alcan.com DOMAINS CLOSER... MARINA DEL REY: New generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are astep closer with two important developments at the InternetCorporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). http://www.icann.org CELLECTRICON COLLABORATES... GOTHENBURG: Cellectricon, a leading provider of miniaturized& cell-based screening solutions for drug discovery, Wednesdayannounced collaboration with EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federalede Lausanne, Switzerland). ARISE BEGINS... BISCHOFSWERDA: ARISE Technologies, a Canadian solar cellmanufacturer, is breaking ground on its new US$68.95 millionfacility in the Saxon city of Bischofswerda and is set toemploy up to 100 people. http://www.invest-in-germany.com PROTEST CLOSES... SEATTLE, WA.: More than 100 demonstrators shut down a majorterminal at the Port of Seattle Tuesday to protest alleged U.S.labor law violations by Seattle-based National Frozen FoodsCorporation (NFFC). http://www.jwj.org FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae announces 5-year reopeningbenchmark notes auction results. http://www.fanniemae.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae prices new issue 3-yearbenchmark notes. http://www.fanniemae.com ANADIGICS SHIPS... WARREN, N.J.: ANADIGICS Inc. announced Tuesday that thecompany is shipping production volumes of its AWL6951 WirelessLAN(WLAN) power amplifier(PA) module in support of the upcoming802.11n multi-input, multi-output (MIMO) standard to NXPSemiconductor for their WLAN module solution, MRX2000. http://www.anadigics.com/ WI-FI OFFERS... BEIJING: As part of the Global Wi-Fi Summit in China 2007,the Wi-Fi Alliance will offer a technical training course onWi-Fi technology and the industry's only certificationprograms. http://www.conference.cn/wi-fi TONGYANG ANNOUNCES... SEOUL: Computer Sciences Corporation, a leading globalinformation technology (IT) services firm, announced Tuesdaythat Tong Yang Systems, a leading Korean IT services firmspecializing in the financial services sector, has signed analliance agreement to market and deliver CSC's financialservices software to the insurance sector in South Korea. http://www.csc.com http://www.tysystems.co.kr/eng/default.htm AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.