SYDNEY--28 Mar--AsiaNet/InfoQuest COMSCORE RELEASES... TOKYO - comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digitalworld, Friday released its February 2008 rankings of thelargest and fastest-growing Internet properties and sitecategories in Japan, based on data from the comScore WorldMetrix audience measurement service. http://www.comscore.com GLOBAL ANNOUNCES... ATLANTA - Global Payments Inc. Thursday announced resultsfor its third quarter ended February 29, 2008. www.globalpaymentsinc.com IRG EYES... MANILA - Pacific Internet Limited, a Pacnet company,Thursday announced the signing of a Letter of Offer from IRG tobuy Pacnet's entire stake in its Philippine joint venture,Primeworld Digital Systems, Inc. http://www.pacnet.com KPMG REPORTS... TORONTO - All of the developed countries have lost groundrelative to the United States in terms of business operatingcosts, due to the dramatic weakening of the U.S. dollar,however, it is the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, and the UnitedKingdom that have seen the greatest increases in costs relativeto the U.S., according to KPMG's 2008 Competitive Alternativesstudy that compares business costs in 136 cities in 10countries in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. www.competitivealternatives.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$393million on April 6, & 10, 2008 at a redemption price equal to100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. http://www.fanniemae.com TRUE SELECTS... RA'ANANA - NICE Systems Ltd., a leading global provider ofadvanced solutions that enable organizations to extract Insightfrom Interactions to drive performance, Thursday announced thatThailand's leading and only fully-integrated telecommunicationsservice provider, TRUE Corporation has selected NICESmartCenter for its VoIP contact centers. http://www.nice.com http://www.truecorp.co.th PACNET OFFERS... SINGAPORE - Pacnet Limited (formerly known as ConnectHoldings Limited) (the Offeror) together with its principalshareholder and ultimate control persons wishes to announce thevoluntary cash general offer (the Offer) for all the issuedordinary shares of Pacnet Internet (S) Limited (formerly knownas Pacific Internet Limited) (PIL) other than those alreadyowned by the Offeror (the PIL Shares). MOTOROLA BRINGS... SINGAPORE - Motorola, Inc. Thursday made it easier forbusinesses to get a complete, integrated mobile computingsolution by making Good Mobile Messaging 5 available toenterprises in Asia. http://www.motorola.com NTT OFFERS... TOKYO - NTT Communications announced Thursday the launch ofits Global Unified Threat Managed service, which will provideArcstar Global IP-VPN customers with integrated services forplanning, constructing, managing and implementing effectiveprotection against network security threats. www.ntt.com SOROUH STRIKES... ABU DHABI - Sorouh Real Estate, one of the largest realestate developers listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Marketwith a market cap close to AED 24 billion (US$$6.5 billion),Thursday announced it has signed an agreement withMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. and Rubicon, Inc. to explorethe development of entertainment opportunities within Sorouh'sreal estate portfolio. http://www.mgm.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.