SYDNEY--16 Mar--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
ACADEMIC PROGRAM…
LONDON: Hult International Business School has launched an innovative
academic program in which qualified students can earn both Bachelor and
Master degrees in just four years.
http://www.hult.edu
AIRPORT CITIES…
BEIJING: Airport City Development, Ltd. (ACL) announced today that it will host
the 10th Airport Cities World Conference and Exhibition (ACE 2010) in the China
World Hotel Beijing from April 21 to 23, the first time the highest-level event
in the airport city industry will be held in mainland China.
http://www.airportcities.info
TESTOSTERONE SOLUTION…
INDIANAPOLIS and MELBOURNE,: Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) and Acrux (ASX:
ACR) announced today that they have entered into an exclusive worldwide license
agreement for the potential commercialization of Acrux's experimental underarm
testosterone solution (proposed tradename AXIRON(TM)).
www.acrux.com.au
www.lilly.com
IPHONE APP…
ZURICH: DataInherit.com, the world's leading online bank for private password
and document storage, announced today the launch of its free iPhone
app, DataInherit Password Safe.
http://www.datainherit.com
TGA APPROVAL…
MASCOT: Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announces that it
received Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) approval for its
PROMUS(R) Element(TM) and TAXUS(R) Element(TM) Stent Systems, the Company's
third-generation drug-eluting stent (DES) technology.
http://www.bostonscientific.com
FOUNDATION AWARD…
NEW YORK and BANGALORE: ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery)
http://www.acm.org announced today that Eric Brewer, a professor at the
University of California Berkeley, has been named the recipient of the 2009
ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences for his contributions to
the design and development of highly scalable Internet services.
http://www.acm.org
ISO CERTIFICATION…
CINCINNATI: Kendle (Nasdaq: KNDL), a leading, global full-service clinical
research organization, today announced its affiliate in China, Beijing
KendleWits Medical Consulting Company Ltd. (KendleWits), has obtained ISO
9001:2008 certification from the International Organization for
Standardization, validating the quality and consistency of its operations in
this growing region.
http://www.kendle.com
SECURITIES REDEMPTION…
WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) will redeem the principal amounts indicated
for the following securities issues on the redemption dates indicated below at
a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed, plus
accrued interest thereon to the date of redemption:
MARLEY BRAND…
CHICAGO: Working together for a better world, reggae musician Bob Marley's
Family, along with HoMedics, introduced The House of Marley in Chicago last
night.
www.thehouseofmarley.com
SOFTWARE AUDITS…
SAN FRANCISCO: Coverity, Inc., the software integrity market leader, today
announced that it will provide software integrity audits to qualified Global
2000 companies with safety-critical software concerns.
http://www.coverity.com
PATIENT META-ANALYSIS…
SAN DIEGO: Accumetrics, Inc., a privately-held developer and marketer of the
VerifyNow(R) System, the first rapid and easy-to-use point-of-care system for
measuring platelet reactivity to multiple antiplatelet agents, announced the
presentation of a 2,000 patient meta-analysis examining patient response to
antiplatelet therapy after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
www.accumetrics.com
MOBILE PERSONALIZATION…
SAN DIEGO: Bridgewater Systems (TSX: BWC), the mobile personalization company,
today announced its participation in the Global MultiService Forum (MSF)
interoperability testing event over the next two weeks at Vodafone's Centre for
Test and Innovation in D?sseldorf and the China Mobile Research Institute Lab
in Beijing.
www.bridgewatersystems.com
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