SYDNEY--13 May--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
NEW OFFICE...
JAKARTA: Crown Worldwide Group, a worldwide leader of global mobility,
relocation services, transportation, storage and logistics, Wednesday announced
the opening of its new office and warehouse facility in Jakarta, Indonesia.
http://www.crownworldwide.com
MUSIC FESTIVAL...
NEW YORK: The 2009 Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto, a popular classical music
festival created by world-famous Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa, will take
place from August 17
September 9 in Matsumoto, Japan.
www.saito-kinen.com/e/
CRUDE MARKER...
LONDON and SINGAPORE: IntercontinentalExchange, Inc., a leading operator of
regulated global futures exchanges and over-the-counter (OTC) markets,
Wednesday announced the introduction of a one minute tradable marker facility
for ICE Brent Crude futures and the ICE Gasoil futures contracts during the
Asian trading day.
www.theice.com
HOTEL PACKAGES...
SINGAPORE: plentyRooms.com, the fast growing discount hotel booking and
travel planning service, is offering irresistible hotel deals for the inaugural
Asian Youth Games in Singapore to be held between June 29 and July 07 in
Singapore.
http://www.plentyrooms.com
ONLINE DOCUMENTARY...
PARIS: "Artprice or the Art Market Revolution", a 23-minute documentary
(E.Perrone) in HD format, is now available in Chinese, German and Spanish
versions. Already online are English and French versions. The documentary
describes the extraordinary human adventure of the birth in France of the world
leader in art market information, Artprice, which grew out of a twenty year
search for perfection in a global quest to make an Alexandrian library
available to the world on Internet.
http://www.artprice.com
http://web.artprice.com/video
FDA APPROVAL...
NERVIANO: The FDA has approved an Investigational New Drug (IND) application
by Nerviano Medical Sciences to begin a phase I clinical study with its
selective PLK-1 small molecule inhibitor for the treatment of cancer.
BENCHMARK NOTES...
WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae will offer a new issue 5-Year Benchmark Notes which
will mature on May 15, 2014.
http://www.fanniemae.com
MOBILE BROADBAND...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: In spite of the economic slowdown, mobile broadband
adoption will continue to grow relentlessly across Europe, boosted by the
introduction of 3G+ and 4G, expanding device selection and usability, and the
gains mobile networks are making in affordability and pricing, according to a
new report from Pyramid Research, the telecom research arm of the Light Reading
Communications Network.
www.pyr.com
www.lightreading.com
ATERAS ANNOUNCES...
DALLAS: ATERAS, a leading provider of solutions for legacy migration and
modernization, announced Wednesday the general release of eavRPM (for Rapid
Program Modernization).
www.ateras.com
LIVE WEBINAR...
SAN JOSE, Calif.: NXP Semiconductors will hold TechOnline Webinar on
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 11:00am EDT (8:00am PDT, 15:00 GMT) to introduce its
new LPC1700 Cortex-M3 Microcontroller.
http://seminar2.techonline.com/registration/distrib.cgi?s=1380&d=2958
www.nxp.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of 11
securities issues on May 22, 2009 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent
of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
IOIMAGE OPENS...
HERZLIYA: ioimage, the pioneer of intelligent video appliances designed for
simplicity, announced Tuesday that it has opened an office in Beijing to
support growing demand of its products and to better support partners and end
users in China.
http://www.ioimage.com
OCCLUTECH OBTAINS...
JENA: Occlutech, the leading European developer of septum occluders, Tuesday
announced that it has obtained CE mark approval for its new generation ASD and
PFO occluders, the Figulla Flex.
WATER AWARD...
HOUSTON: Water Standard, a global vessel-based water desalination company,
was honored with the "Desalination Deal of the Year" award at Global Water
Intelligence's Global Water Awards Ceremony held Monday, April 27, 2009 in
Zurich, Switzerland.
www.waterstandard.com
TELNIC ANNOUNCES...
LONDON: Telnic Limited, the registry operator for the new
communications-focused .tel top level domain (TLD) nominated for the 2009 World
Technology Awards and the InfoCommerce Group Models of Excellence 2009, Tuesday
announced that it will be present at the International Trademark Association
Annual Conference in Seattle later this month to showcase .tel services and
related technologies.
http://www.telnic.org
http://www.INTA.org
FINALISTS NAMED...
LONDON: Details were announced Tuesday of the finalists for Light Reading's
prestigious Ethernet Expo Europe awards, which will be judged by a panel of
Carrier Ethernet industry experts and presented at Ethernet Expo: Europe 2009,
on Thursday, May 14, at the ExCel Conference Centre in London.
http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com
http://techweb.com/aboutus
www.lightreading.com
www.ethernetexpoeurope.com
CO-DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT...
MUMBAI: SYSTIME, a leading global consulting and IT services provider, and
Oracle Tuesday announced a co-development agreement to build Oracle Application
Integration Architecture (AIA) Process Integration Packs for Oracle's Agile
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne.
http://www.SYSTIME.net
http://www.oracle.com/applications/oracle-application-integration-architecture.html
http://www.oracle.com/applications/agile/index.html
http://www.oracle.com/applications/jdedwards-enterprise-one.html
UNIVERSITY RANKINGS...
LONDON: Top Asian universities have been evaluated in the first regional
ranking from QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd, the compilers of the Times Higher
Education - QS World University Rankings.
http://www.topuniversities.com
FUND DONATES...
TEL AVIV and SHANGHAI: Infinity I-China, the largest Israel-China fund and
the second Israel-China fund of the Infinity Group, celebrated Israel's 61st
anniversary on Tuesday by announcing a collective contribution of 100,000 RMB
to select organizations throughout China including in Chengdu, Suzhou and
Shanghai.
http://www.infinity-equity.com
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