SYDNEY--4 Dec--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
NEOSTEM PLACEMENT...
NEW YORK - NeoStem, Inc. (NYSE Alternext US: NBS), which is pioneering the
pre-disease collection, processing and long-term storage of adult stem cells
for future medical need, today announced that it has completed an above market
financing for $500,000 with a strategic investor of units priced at $1.25 per
unit with each unit consisting of one share of common stock and a warrant to
purchase one share of common stock at $1.75 per share.
www.neostem.com
WYETH SUBMISSION...
COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. - Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE: WYE),
announced today that it has submitted a marketing authorization application
(MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) for approval to market its
investigational 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) for infants
and young children.
MICROSOFT SELECTION...
WALLED LAKE, Mich. - Paramount Technologies, the leading provider of
middle-market Employee Workforce Automation solutions and a Microsoft Gold
Certified Partner, announced today that it has been selected by Microsoft as a
High Potential Managed Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner in the U.S.
AERCAP AIRBUS...
AMSTERDAM - AerCap Holdings N.V. ("AerCap", NYSE: AER) today announced that
it has taken delivery of the first Airbus 330-200 of its total order of 30 new
A330s. This aircraft is the first of ten A330s that AerCap has agreed to lease
to Aeroflot. AerCap also took delivery of a new A320-200 as part of an order
placed by its joint venture company AerVenture.
CELGARD CONTRACT...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Celgard, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Polypore
International, Inc. (NYSE: PPO), and a leading global supplier of material for
lithium-ion batteries, has received a $2.3 million contract from the United
States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC) to develop separator technology for
lithium-ion batteries for hybrid-electric (HEV) and plug-in hybrid-electric
(PHEV) vehicles.
CELONOVA BIOSCIENCES...
NEWNAN, Ga. - CeloNova BioSciences, Inc., announced today that it has
expanded the areas in which it is commercializing the CATANIA(TM) Coronary
Stent System with NanoThin Polyzene(R)-F -- a stent system that has not had any
stent thrombosis in clinical studies. It is CE Marked and available for
purchase throughout Europe and now some Middle Eastern countries with
aggressive world-wide expansion ongoing.
www.celonova.com.
AVANTOUCH AWARD...
HONG KONG - Singapore-based Avantouch Software ("Avantouch") emerged today
proud recipients of the "Red Herring Asia Top 100" award, following the awards
ceremony that was held at the JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong on December 2, 2008.
MOBILE WEB...
NUREMBERG - The mobile Web provides the opportunity to uniquely interact
with people away from their PC web browser. More than 1.3 billion worldwide use
mobiles and PDA to access the web and demand for browsing the Web on the go is
dramatically increasing.
http://www.internetpartnership.de
TIBOTEC COLLABORATION...
COUNTY CORK - Tibotec Pharmaceuticals today announced that it has signed a
royalty-free, non-exclusive license agreement with Emcure Pharmaceuticals
Limited of India to distribute the protease inhibitor darunavir (DRV) in India.
www.emcure.co.in
ACISION SEARCH...
SINGAPORE - Acision, the world's leading messaging company and Seeker Wireless,
one of the leading location-based service (LBS) technology companies and a
member of the Acision Innovation Network, have partnered with SPH Search, a
subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), Singapore's leading media
company, to launch the nation's first mobile search marketing solution called
Rednano Locate.
http://www.sph.com.sg/
SMART CARD MARKET...
SINGAPORE - Frost & Sullivan's Smart Cards Practice in Asia Pacific
(http://www.smartcards.frost.com) will host an analyst briefing via webinar on
Asia Pacific Contactless Smart Card Market: What will keep it going in 2009?
on December 17th 2008, at 11:00 hrs (GMT+08:00hrs) Singapore time.
http://www.frost.com
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