SYDNEY--9 เม.ย.--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
EVOLVING LANDSCAPE...
KUALA LUMPUR: Asia's mobile subscriber total is expected to surpass 2
billion subscribers by 2012 when 63 percent of the regions' residents are
expected to own a mobile phone.
www.frost-mobile.com
http://www.frost.com
AUCKLAND RESIDENT...
BRISBANE: Mission Bay (Auckland) resident, Mrs Jones* has just been
announced as the latest winner in the Australian RSL Art Union.
www.rslartunion.com.au
CAMPARI ACQUIRES...
MILAN: Gruppo Campari announces it has signed an agreement to acquire Wild
Turkey from Pernod Ricard, marking the largest acquisition in Campari's history
and cementing its position as a leading company in the US and international
premium spirits markets.
http://www.camparigroup.com/en/press_media/main.jsp
MADAME TUSSAUDS...
HONG KONG: On loan for the next four months from Madame Tussauds London,
Amitabh Bachchan will take his place at the "World Famous Home of the Famous"
at The Peak alongside other movie stars such as Jackie Chan, Johnny Depp, and
Angelina Jolie.
http://www.madametussauds.com/hongkong/
BIOWA ANNOUNCES...
PRINCETON: BioWa, Inc. announced Wednesday that it has entered into a
license agreement with sanofi-aventis (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY), providing
the global healthcare company with access to BioWa's POTELLIGENT Technology
platform for the research, development and commercialization of their antibody
therapies with enhanced antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC).
www.biowa.com
MERGERMARKET JAPAN...
HONG KONG: Far East Energy Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: FEEC) announced
Wednesday that it has achieved critical desorption pressure (CDP) in a portion
of the 1H Pilot Area in its Shouyang Block in Shanxi Province, China.
WIPRO NAMED...
BANGALORE: Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro
Limited (NYSE:WIT) Wednesday announced that it was named a leader in global IT
Infrastructure Outsourcing in the recently published market assessment report
"The Forrester Wave): Global IT Infrastructure Outsourcing, Q1 2009" (March
2009).
http://www.wipro.com
FORTIFY ACQUIRES...
SANTA CLARA: Fortify Infrastructure Services, a leading provider of IT
services, announced its acquisition of California-based Wide Area Management
Services, an end-to-end Network Service provider.
www.wams.com
www.FortifyIS.com
HONDURAS TELECOM...
CAMBRIDGE: 3G subscriptions in the Honduras telecommunications market will
surge to 30 percent by 2014, up from 2 percent Wednesday, according to a new
report from Pyramid Research, the telecom research arm of the Light Reading
Communications Network.
www.pyr.com
www.lightreading.com
http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com
MORE EXECUTIVES...
LAS ANGELES: Buoyed by a sustained stock market rally, executive attitudes
about the state of the global economy ticked up in March, though the majority
still feel we are in the midst of a "severe recession" according to results
from the latest Executive Quiz released Wednesday by The Korn/Ferry Institute.
www.kornferry.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN
securities issues amounting to a total of US$25 million on April 18, 2009 at a
redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus
accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON: The following is being issued by Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM):
2-Year
Pricing Date April 8, 2009
Settlement Date April 9, 2009
Maturity Date April 28, 2011
Issue Size $6 billion
Coupon 1.375%
Price 99.759
Yield 1.495%
Payment Dates Each April 28th and October 28th, beginning April 28, 2009
Spread +60 basis points / 0.875%
03/31/11 U.S. Treasury
CUSIP 31398AWQ1 Listing Application will be made to list the securities on
the EuroMTF market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange
http://www.fanniemae.com
BANK OF AMERICA...
NEW YORK: Bank of America Merrill Lynch Thursday announced that Bryan
Weadock will join the company's Global Markets group as head of Americas Fixed
Income Sales in July 2009.
www.bankofamerica.com
NEWLY PUBLISHED...
INDIANAPOLIS: Phase III data, published online this week in the Journal of
Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, showed that arzoxifene, an investigational
selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) being developed by Eli Lilly and
Company (NYSE: LLY), significantly increased lumbar spine and total hip bone
mineral density (BMD) in postmenopausal women with normal or low bone mass,
versus placebo.
www.lilly.com
HULT INTERNATIONAL...
BOSTON: Hult International Business School, the world's first global
business school, introduces the first in a series of innovative "Pocket MBAs":
short, intensive business seminars on current business challenges designed for
professionals, executives and companies.
http://www.hult.edu/
INTERNET USERS...
PODGORICA: How would you use a .ME domain? This personalized domain has
exploded in popularity on the Internet over the last year.
http://www.Domain.ME
JETBRAINS RESHARPER...
PRAGUE: JetBrains, the creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing
development tools, announced Thursday the release of ReSharper 4.5, the
company's award-winning productivity tool for Microsoft Visual Studio.
http://www.jetbrains.com
ASIAN GAME...
SHANGHAI: Think Services' 2009 Game Developers Conference (GDC) recently
hosted more than 17,000 game industry professionals of which 1,000 delegates
traveled from Asia to San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center for a week of
learning, networking and inspiration.
www.think-services.com
www.tsgamegroup.com
(ISC)2(R) SEEKS...
HONG KONG: (ISC)2(R) ("ISC-squared"), the not-for-profit global leader in
educating and certifying information security professionals throughout their
careers, Thursday announced the opening of nominations for its third annual
Asia-Pacific Information Security Leadership Achievements (ISLA) Program.
https://www.isc2.org
JAPANESE INTERNET...
TOKYO: comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital
world, today released a report on the top entertainment sites in Japan based on
data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service.
www.comscore.com/companyinfo
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