SYDNEY--26 Jun--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
NOVARTIS COMPLETES...
BASEL: Novartis announced Thursday that it completed an open offer to
acquire an additional stake in its majority-owned Indian subsidiary, Novartis
India Ltd., increasing its holding to nearly 76.4% from the previous level of
50.9%.
http://www.novartis.com
ACISION MESSAGE...
JAKARTA: Acision, the world's leading messaging company, and Telkomsel, the
leading operator of cellular telecommunications services in Indonesia, have
launched an advanced SMS service to Telkomsel's 75 million customers using the
award winning Acision Message Plus.
http://www.telkomsel.com
http://www.acision.com/moreinfo
TV5MONDE LAUNCHES...
PARIS: Aimed at French-speaking children aged 3-12, TIVI5MONDE PLUS is the
first entirely free, fun and educational Online TV station accessible in
non-French-speaking Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia and in the Arab world.
PETRONAS GROUP...
KUALA LUMPUR: The financial year ended 31 March 2009 was a difficult and
highly challenging year for the PETRONAS Group, as the global oil and gas
industry was thrust into an environment of heightened volatility and
uncertainty amidst the worst global economic crisis in more than 70 years.
ALBRIGHT STONEBRIDGE...
WASHINGTON: Stonebridge International and The Albright Group Thursday
announced their merger, creating the Albright Stonebridge Group, the premier
global strategy firm helping clients navigate the intersection between
business, finance, government and civil society in markets around the world.
www.stonebridge-international.com
www.thealbrightgroupllc.com
CHARTERED INSTITUTE...
LONDON: In its 175th anniversary year, the Chartered Institute of Building
is making a significant break with tradition with the appointment of its first
woman president.
INPLACE MEDICAL...
HOUSTON: InPlace Medical Solutions, the world's first video-telemedicine
offshore medical service, has contracted Atlas Merger SDN.BHD as its exclusive
agent for Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia.
www.inplacemedical.com
http://www.nuphysicia.com
FANNIE MAE FORGOES...
WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) Friday reported that it will not announce
issuance of Benchmark Notes on June 25, 2009, the second of two scheduled
announcement dates in June.
http://www.fanniemae.com
MALAYSIA'S MOBILE...
CAMBRIDGE: Soaring demand for mobile broadband services in Malaysia, driven
in part by intense competition, will result in higher-than-expected growth
rates for telecom operators in that nation through 2014, according to a new
report from Pyramid Research, the telecom research arm of the Light Reading
Communications Network.
www.lightreading.com
www.pyr.com
JETBRAINS RELEASES...
PRAGUE: JetBrains, creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing tools for
software developers, have announced the availability of IntelliJ IDEA 9
Milestone Release 1, an official preview of the award-winning Java IDE due for
release by the end of Fall 2009.
http://www.jetbrains.com/index.html
ACCELERATING WISDOM...
TOKYO: SQiME Inc. (Tokyo) started an "Accelerating Wisdom" Free WEB service
"SQiME" (ski:m) as public beta release at the world same time Friday, on June
26, 2009.
http://sqime.com
FIRST ELEKTA...
TOKYO: University of Tokyo Hospital has been treating patients for nearly
one year with Elekta Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT).
www.elekta.com
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