SYDNEY--11 Dec--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
AMERICAN GREETINGS...
CLEVELAND - American Greetings Corporation today announced
the elimination of approximately 275 positions as part of a
cost reduction effort. The positions being eliminated are
located primarily at the Company's headquarters.
http://corporate.americangreetings.com
OPEC OUTPUT...
LONDON - Platts - The 13 members of the Organization of the
Petroleum Exporting Countries pumped an average 31.38 million
barrels per day of crude oil in November, according to a Platts
survey of OPEC and oil industry officials just released.
www.opec.platts.com
www.platts.com
www.mcgraw-hill.com
CVSDUDE INC...
ROBINA - CVSDude, Inc. - a pioneer in web-based source code
management solutions - today announced that gDev, FZ-LLC has
become the first customer for the CVSDude Enterprise Edition
collaboration and software revision control platform at http:/
www.cvsdude.com.
www.cvsdude.com
PAPER CONFERENCES...
BOSTON - The 11th European Pulp and Paper Outlook Conference
will take place March 29 - 31, 2009 at the Grand Hyatt in
Berlin, Germany. The 10th annual Asian Pulp and Paper Outlook
Conference will occur June 8 - 10, 2009 at the Four Seasons
hotel in Shanghai, China.
www.risiinfo.com/euroconf
www.risiinfo.com/asiaconf
UROLOGY SYMPOSIUM...
DETROIT - Henry Ford Hospital is sponsoring the 2009
International Robotic Urology Symposium (IRUS) at The Bellagio
Resort, in Las Vegas, Jan. 12-14, 2009.
RESCUE-PACKAGE...
LONDON - Following the attack on Mumbai, constitutional
lawyer and WW2 naval officer, William Dunmore, has updated the
suggested UN Security Council Resolution in his Anti-Causal
Plan For Rescuing The Young From The Dire Peril.
www.anti-causal4thr.org
www.supra-democracy.org
www.theuniversalsupra-democracyparty.info
www.mid-eastroadmap2.info
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal
amount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$820
million on Dec 19, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 per
cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
MGM MIRAGE...
LAS VEGAS - MGM MIRAGE Hospitality, a wholly owned
subsidiary of MGM MIRAGE, announced today the formation of MGM
MIRAGE Global Gaming Development, a new division principally
focused on MGM MIRAGE's international gaming expansion into new
markets.
www.mgmmirage.com
GLASS LEWIS...
SAN FRANCISCO - Glass Lewis & Co., LLC, a leading
independent research and proxy advisory firm, today announced
the incorporation of Institutional Voting Information Service's
remuneration analyses into their Proxy Paper Research
Reports.
NETSUITE JAPAN...
TOKYO and SAN MATEO, California - NetSuite Inc., a leading
vendor of on-demand, integrated business management software
suites for mid-market enterprises and divisions of large
companies, today announced NetSuite Release J, the first
available Software as a Service enterprise resource planning
suite for the Japanese market.
http://columbia.jp
www.ondemandcd.jp
www.sixapart.com
www.netsuite.com
www.sec.gov
TECHINSIGHTS ACQUISITION...
SAN FRANCISCO - TechInsights, the global leader in media and
marketing solutions for the electronics industry today
announced the creation of TechInsights Services, Data and
Market Intelligence, a separate business unit dedicated to
providing technical and market intelligence data services,
intellectual property life-cycle consulting services and
supporting proprietary software tools to the global electronics
industry.
www.sanguine.com.cn
www.techinsights.com
REAL SOFTWARE...
AUSTIN, Texas - REAL Software, creator of REALbasic, a
cross-platform development environment for Windows, Mac OS X
and Linux developers, began shipping REALbasic 2008 Release 5
today.
www.realsoftware.com/download
TRAVEL TIPS...
TORONTO - As economies around the world slow or worsen, the
travel market is also expected to take a hit as fewer people
may be traveling this year. Here are some traveling tips to
save you time and money.
www.RoadTripHelper.com
FROST & SULLIVAN...
MUMBAI - Frost & Sullivan, a global growth partnership
company, on the eve of its recently held Manufacturing Summit,
hosted the India Manufacturing Excellence Awards 2008, at The
Leela Palace, Bangalore.
www.frost.com
COMPTEL AWARD...
HELSINKI - Comptel Corporation, the leading vendor of
dynamic Operations Support Software, today announced that it
has won the OSS Vendor of the Year award in the Telecom Asia
Readers' Choice Awards.
www.telecomasia.net/static.php?section=readerawards08
www.comptel.com
CAS RATING...
KAISERSLAUTERN, SYDNEY and ATLANTA - CAS AG, the leading
global provider of demand side management solutions for the
consumer products industry, today announced it has received a
"Strong Positive" rating in Gartner's "MarketScope for Sales
Force Automation in the Consumer Goods Industry."
www.gartner.com
www.casrealresults.com
CIVIL SECURITY...
MUMBAI - Frost & Sullivan research indicates that the total
homeland security spending in the Indian market under all the
eight major threat domains will amount to an estimated total of
$9.7 billion by 2016.
www.aerospace.frost.com
www.frost.com
FRIENDSTER PATENT...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California - Friendster, Inc., a top 20
global website based on traffic and the #1 social network in
Asia, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
has awarded the social networking pioneer a new U.S. Patent,
titled "Compatibility Scoring of Users in a Social Network".
www.friendster.com
HOTELSCOMBINED.COM TRAVELOCITY...
SYDNEY - The world's leading hotel price comparison search
engine HotelsCombined.com today announced their new supplier
agreement with Travelocity.
www.HotelsCombined.com
www.travelocity.com/guarantee
CLEANTECH SOLUTIONS...
STOCKHOLM - Sweden is a world leader in bioenergy and
renewable vehicle fuels, and is the fastest growing windpower
market in Europe. There are excellent investment opportunities
for Indian investors, as Sweden can offer innovative and
sustainable cleantech solutions for the future.
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