SYDNEY--25 Feb--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
AMERICAN GREETINGS...
CLEVELAND: American Greetings Corporation Wednesday announced it has
completed its acquisition of Recycled Paper Greetings, Inc.
http://corporate.americangreetings.com
NEKTAR REPORTS...
SAN CARLOS, Calif.: Nektar Therapeutics Wednesday reported its financial
results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2008.
http://www.nektar.com
GIVEX COMPLETES...
SYDNEY: Givex, a leading global gift card and loyalty transaction processor,
Wednesday announced it completed an integration to PC-Eftpos, the leading
Integrated EFTPOS payment solution in Australia.
www.givex.com
MARKETING AUTHORISATION...
PARIS: The European Commission has granted marketing authorisation for
Servier's Valdoxan /Thymanax (agomelatine), the first melatonergic
antidepressant for the treatment of adult patients with major depressive
episodes.
LICENSING AGREEMENT...
INDIANAPOLIS: PDS Biotechnology Wednesday announced that the company has
obtained an exclusive license from Merck Eprova AG to utilize Merck Eprova's
proprietary chiral lipid DOTAP Chloride in Versamune(TM)-HPV and other products
in development based on the Versamune technology.
www.pdsbiotech.com
www.merckeprova.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of two
securities issues amounting to a total of US$343.517 million on March 6, 2009
at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed
plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
CHINA 3G...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: Despite an overall economic contraction, network operator
spending on telecom equipment in the Asia/Pacific region will rise slightly
over the next 24 months, driven primarily by deployment of 3G networks in
China, according to a new report from Pyramid Research, the telecom research
arm of the Light Reading Communications Network.
http://www.pyr.com
http://www.lightreading.com
http://techweb.com/aboutus
http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com
PLUG COMPUTING...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.: Marvell Tuesday announced its Plug Computing initiative
to make high-performance, always on, always connected, and environmentally
friendly computing readily available for developers and end-users.
http://www.marvell.com
TANKEBLUE'S BREAKTHROUGH...
BEIJING: Tankeblue Semiconductors Co. Ltd., a Beijing-based semiconductors
company devoted to the mass production of the quality SiC wafers, Tuesday
announced an important breakthrough in the growth technique of SiC single
crystals.
http://www.tankeblue.com
NEW STUDY...
ZURICH: Insurers are increasingly using scenario analysis to evaluate
multiple risks, but the industry could do more to fully exploit
state-of-the-art approaches, according to Swiss Re's new sigma study.
ELCOTEQ MARKS...
ESPOO: Elcoteq SE, a leading electronics manufacturing services (EMS)
company in the communications technology industry, marks the ten year
anniversaries of its Dongguan high-volume manufacturing plant and its Hong Kong
management support office in China.
http://www.elcoteq.com
http://www.elcoteq-blog.com
NEXT DIRECTOR...
MELBOURNE: The Board of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) has
announced that Professor Doug Hilton will be the Institutes next Director.
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP...
MIAMI: Barcelo Hotels & Resorts, one of the world's top hospitality and
travel companies with 34 all-inclusive hotels and more than 10,000 guestrooms
in Latin America and the Caribbean, and AboutAnywhere.com, operator of the
world's only free online distribution network for the hotel industry, have
entered into a strategic partnership for online distribution in the Americas.
http://www.Barcelo.com
http://www.AboutAnywhere.com
NEPTUNE INTRODUCES...
MELBOURNE: Tabcorp Holdings Ltd, Australia's leading gambling entertainment
group, and The Neptune Group Limited, a Hong Kong Stock Exchange listed
company, Tuesday announced an agreement designed to attract visitors to
Tabcorp's leading casino properties.
ZTE ANNOUNCES...
SHENZHEN: ZTE Corporation, a leading global provider of telecommunications
equipment and network solutions, Tuesday announced another technological
breakthrough by achieving the world's first EV-DO Revision B (Rev.B) VoIP Call
on its CDMA2000 system, marking the first time in the industry that a CDMA
vendor achieves an impressive 9.3 Mbps download rate and 5.4 Mbps upload rate.
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