SYDNEY--6 May--AsiaNet/InfoQuest MOBILE BANKING... WASHINGTON - A new report from the global microfinance bodyCGAP predicts that, with the right market conditions, mobilebanking could reach large numbers of poor people who areoutside the formal financial system. www.cgap.org DOMAIN NAMES... NYON - The most beautiful domain name on the Internet,America.com, is to be auctioned off through GreatDomains.comand Sedo.com from May 22 to 29, 2008. www.america.com www.greatdomains.com www.sedo.com SAXO BANK... SYDNEY - In a strategic move, Danish investment bank SaxoBank A/S, a global leader in on-line trading, has entered aMemorandum of Understanding with Tricom Holdings Limited,Babcock & Brown and ANZ Group with a view to acquiring a 35 percent holding in the Sydney based broking house. www.saxobank.com www.tricom.com.au www.saxobank.ch www.saxobank.dk www.saxobank.co.uk www.saxomarkets.com.sg www.saxotrader.es www.saxosoft.com 3-D FILM... LOS ANGELES - Singapore has been named the host city of theworld's first fully 3-D based film and entertainment technologyfestival taking place November 19 - 23, 2008. www.mda.gov.sg www.stb.gov.sg ALISON NELSON'S... DUBAI - Alison Nelson's Chocolate Bar, the New York-basedchain of cutting-edge gourmet cocoa emporiums, is set to launch10 stores in India and Pakistan through a partnership withDubai-based HFK General Trading. MICROSOFT YAHOO! REDMOND, Washington - Microsoft Corp. today announced thatit has withdrawn its proposal to acquire Yahoo! Inc. www.microsoft.com DALAI LAMA... LONDON - Heads of State and the international media shouldbe aware of the facts on the Tibet Issue in order to managetheir expectations over the proposed meeting between theChinese government and the top envoy of His Holiness the DalaiLama. www.ltbfoundation.org www.creativeleadershipsummit.org www.Forbes.com/ BLUESTREAK TECHNOLOGY... MONTREAL - Bluestreak Technology is excited to see Adobe'sinitiative to open the Flash format. Bluestreak's own MachBluePlayer runs Flash files as Rich Media applications, such asMobile TV, and Man-Machine Interfaces, such as Homescreens. www.bluestreaktech.com SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS... WICHITA, Kansas - Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. President andChief Executive Officer Jeff Turner will speak at the MerrillLynch Global Markets & Investment Banking Conference onWednesday, May 7, at approximately 6:30 a.m. Eastern Time. www.spiritaero.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN, MTNR, FINP securities issues on May 12, 13 and14, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of theprincipal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com ATMEL AWARD... SAN JOSE, California - Atmel Corporation was recentlyrecognized for its development of the FingerChip fingerprintsensor technology at the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Southeast AsiaIndustrial Technologies awards presentation in Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia. www.atmel.com www.frost.com REDPACK INDIA... HAMBURG - The German packaging design agency, REDPACK BrandDesign, is opening up an office in Bangalore, offering itsinternational packaging expertise to the growing consumer goodsmarket in India. www.red-pack.com FOOD REGULATION... MELBOURNE - Health warnings on packaged alcohol and a draftstandard on nutrition, health and related claims were among theissues discussed at the 11th meeting of Australia and NewZealand Food Regulation Ministerial Council held in MelbourneFriday, chaired by Senator Jan McLucas, CommonwealthParliamentary Secretary for Health and Ageing. PROGRESS SOFTWARE... SINGAPORE and MALAYSIA - Progress Software Corporation aglobal supplier of application infrastructure software used todevelop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications,today signs a distribution agreement with KM Enterprise SystemsSdn Bhd to distribute the Open Edge suite of products inMalaysia. www.kingslake.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.