SYDNEY--31 Mar--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
REDUCING COSTS
WELLINGTON: Datasquirt (ASX: DSQ) and hampsta, the Christmas savings
programme that helps you save for a guilt-free Christmas spend-up, today
announced that by using CONTACT, hampsta has dramatically increased its
customer numbers, while at the same time reducing its customer acquisition and
management costs.
www.hampsta.co.nz.
SPECIAL RATES
SYDNEY: Thrifty CEO Australia/New Zealand Bryn McGoldrick today announced
the signing of an agreement with the Virgin Blue Airlines Group and a
partnership that will offer guests of Virgin Blue, V Australia and Pacific Blue
special rates across all their local and global destinations.
NEW APPOINTMENT
LONDON and SINGAPORE: Tullett Prebon, one of the world's leading
inter-dealer brokers, today announces that Rob Bilsland has been appointed as
Head of Electronic Broking, Asia Pacific. This appointment is with effect from
5 April 2010.
http://www.tullettprebon.com
NEW PARTNERSHIP
MUMBAI: Hexaware Technologies, a leading global provider of IT & BPO
services and consulting, today, announced a global partnership with eBaoTech, a
leading provider of a complete suite of new generation core application
software and services for life and general insurance industries.
http://www.hexaware.com/boilerplate.htm
MOBILE CONGRESS
SAINT-PETERSBURG: The largest Eastern European mobile advertising
conference, Mobile Advertising Congress Bucharest, was held under the aegis of
The Marketer magazine and the Romanian branch of Vodafone Holdings at the end
of February. The event, which featured a varied program with a wide variety of
speakers from across the sector, focused heavily on geotargeting.
http://www.mobilecongress.ro
FEBRUARY SUMMARY
WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae's (NYSE: FNM) February 2010 Monthly Summary is now
available at www.fanniemae.com/ir/monthly. The monthly summary report contains
information about Fannie Mae's monthly and year-to-date activities for our
gross mortgage portfolio, mortgage-backed securities and other guarantees,
interest rate risk measures, and serious delinquency rates.
CHEMICALS CONFERENCE
PRINCETON, N.J.: Informex Show Management today announced the keynote
speaker for the inaugural Informex Specialty Chemicals Conference, to be held
in Houston, Texas on May 11th, will be Lee E. Mikles*, President and CEO of
FutureFuel Corp., the leading US manufacturer of biofuels and specialty
chemicals.
www.informex.com .
DOMAIN NAMES
LONDON: Telnic Limited (http://www.telnic.tel), the Registry Operator for
the award-winning communications-focused .tel top level domain (TLD), today
announced that the date for the upcoming launch of Internationalized Domain
Names (IDNs) in sixteen languages would be Tuesday, 15th June 2010.
http://telnic.org
PHARMACEUTICAL ACQUISITION
LAKE FOREST, Ill.: Hospira, Inc. (NYSE: HSP), the world leader in generic
injectable pharmaceuticals, today announced it has completed the acquisition of
the generic injectable pharmaceuticals business of Orchid Chemicals &
Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (BSE: 524372, NSE: ORCHIDCHEM), a leading Indian
pharmaceuticals company, for approximately $400 million.
www.hospira.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.
RADIOTHERAPY AWARENESS
LONDON: Former England Rugby World Cup winner Matt Dawson today launched the
'Because Life is for Living' campaign to raise awareness about brachytherapy, a
very precise(1) and highly effective(2) form of radiotherapy to treat cancer.
http://www.nucletron.com/
NEW CERTIFICATION
STOCKHOLM: TCO Certified, the worldwide eco- and performance label for ICT
products, announces the release of a new certification for desktop computers:
TCO Certified Desktops 3.0. Dell's OptiPlex 980 is the first desktop in the
world to be awarded with the new TCO Certified designation for environmental
and high performance design.
http://www.tcodevelopment.com .
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