Sydney--24 Oct--Asianet/InfoQuest AGREESHIP LAUNCHES... TOKYO: Agreeship, an affordable online prenup and relationship consultation service for couples, is expected to serve more than 4 million couples worldwide. www.agreeship.com www.gaisen.jp/pressroom/2007/press1.html FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$50million on November 2, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. Fannie Mae will also redeem FINP securities issues on the same date. www.fanniemae.com SYCHIP INTRODUCES... PLANO, Texas: SyChip, Inc., a leader in Radio Frequency Chip Scale Modules and a subsidiary of Murata Manufacturing Co.,Ltd., has announced the launch of its High-Speed Secure Digital Input/Output (HS-SDIO) driver for Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices. www.sychip.com/products.html COLLABORATION ANNOUNCED... LONDON: PLUS Markets Group plc has announced a collaboration with PR Newswire, the world's leading disclosure and corporatenews distribution service, which will provide companies listed or quoted on the PLUS market access to PR Newswire's disclosureand investor communications services. www.prnewswire.com www.prnewswire.co.uk CARDIOVASCULAR EVENTS... LONDON: Data from two observational studies of over 470,000 patients taking statins in routine clinical practice investigating the incidence of cardiovascular events in patients taking CRESTOR (rosuvastatin) and other statins were presented at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 10th Annual European Congress inDublin. www.astrazeneca.com www.AstraZenecaPressOffice.com NIKE ACQUIRES... BEAVERTON, Oregon: NIKE, Inc. announced that it has reached agreement on an all-cash offer to acquire Umbro plc, a leadingUnited Kingdom-based global football (soccer) brand with more than 70 years of experience in the world's No. 1 sport and theworld's biggest football market. www.nikebiz.com www.NikeBiz.com/invest OXIANA REPORTS... MELBOURNE: Oxiana Limited quarterly report for the three months ending 30 September 2007. www.oxiana.com.au NUMEREX ANNOUNCES... ATLANTA: Numerex, a leading single-source provider of solutions and networks for Machine-to-Machine applications, hasannounced the commercial release of the OrbitOne SX1 solution, a breakthrough in satellite-based asset monitoring and trackingtechnology. www.nmrx.com AKT LAUNCHES... SANTA CLARA, California: AKT, an Applied Materials company, has expanded its solutions for TFT-LCD flat panel display (FPDmanufacturing, with the launch of its breakthrough AKT-PiVot 55KV PVD system for depositing metal and TCO* materials on Gen8.5 (5.5 square metres) glass substrates. www.appliedmaterials.com VOEVEO LAUNCHES... WELLINGTON: The launch of voeveo.com in the UK gives freedom of choice for the first time for musicians to manage globaldistribution of their own work to mobile markets. KAZANJIAN DIAMOND... LONDON: The Kazanjian Red Diamond is thought to be the world's finest red diamond and Garrard are privileged to beoffering it for private view at their locations in Japan and Hong Kong later this month and in early November. www.garrard.com ALLIANCE ANNOUNCED... PLANO, Texas and PETALUMA, California: Perot Systems Corporation and innovative annuity marketer Legacy MarketingGroup have announced a strategic alliance. www.perotsystems.com www.legacynet.com www.sec.gov INNOVATION AWARD... ABBOTT PARK, Illinois: Abbott has received a 2007 Chicago Innovation Award for its m2000 molecular diagnostic instrumentand the Abbott RealTime HIV-1 viral load test, the most sensitive test of its kind capable of detecting and precisely measuring all known strains of the human immunodeficiencyvirus. www.abbott.com www.pathvysion.com http://humira.com MARVELL ANNOUNCES... SANTA CLARA, California: Marvell, a leader in storage, communications and consumer silicon solutions, announced that it has joined the Climate Savers Computing Initiative at the sponsor level as part of its commitment to taking an active part in advancing the development of electronic products with increased energy efficiency. www.marvell.com www.climatesaverscomputing.org WEST CLINIC... MEMPHIS, Tennessee: West Clinic, a recognized leader in cancer care, has announced the opening of West ClinicInternational Shanghai. www.westclinic.com www.westclinicasia.com www.westclinicshanghai.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN securities issues on November 1, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. Fannie Mae will also redeemMTNR securities issues on the same date. www.fanniemae.com NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS... BURLINGTON, Massachusetts: Nuance Communications, Inc., a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, and Nexidia,a leading provider of speech analytics solutions, announced their partnership to incorporate Nexidia's phonetic search and analysis capabilities into the newly launched Nuance CareAnalytics offerings. www.nuance.com www.nexidia.com ARROW ASIA... HONG KONG: Arrow Asia Pac Ltd., a business unit of Arrow Electronics, Inc. announced that it will provide consignmentvendor-managed inventory (VMI) service and a Web-based supply-chain tool, CARES (Customer Automated ReplenishmentSystem), for the Likom group of companies. www.arrowasia.com ENERGY DEVELOPMENT... BEIJING: The InterAcademy Council has released a report commissioned by the governments of Brazil and China identifyingand detailing the scientific consensus framework for directing global energy development. www.interacademycouncil.net MOBILE TICKETING... SAN FRANCISCO: ITN International, a leading event data management provider and bCODE, a mobile ticketing technologyprovider, announce their partnership to launch "mobile ticketing" services for the trade show and conference industry. www.bcard.net www.bcode.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. 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