AsiaNet Daily Summary - Press Releases for Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Wednesday 16 July 2008 17:19
SYDNEY--16 Jul--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
CASTING DIRECTOR...
LOS ANGELES: TVI Actors Studio, America's largest acting school and resource
center for actors, brings Los Angeles Casting Director, Nick Anderson from the
six time Emmy award-winning Hollywood casting offices of "Desperate Housewives"
and "Prison Break" to Auckland on Saturday, July 26th.
http://www.tvistudios.com
BONDING WIRES...
TOKYO: Tanaka Denshi Kogyo K.K. (Tokyo), the top manufacturer of bonding
wires, will substantially expand the production of copper bonding wires with
excellent electrical conductivity and mechanical properties at bonding, all at
a much lower price, to meet increasing demand as a substitute for gold bonding
wire, prices of which have been rising with the prices of gold bullion.
ALGORITHMIC TRADING...
SINGAPORE: Progress Software Corporation, a provider of application
infrastructure software to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business
applications, Wednesday announced that Korea's Leading Investment & Securities
has become the country's first Korean-based securities firm to provide
algorithmic trading capability to its international clients through its
adoption of Progress Apama.
http://www.leading.co.kr
http://www.progress.com/asia
ADDINTOOLS RELEASES...
HAINAN: Addintools Technology Ltd Wednesday announced the release of Classic
Menu for Office 2007, an add-in for Microsoft Office 2007 Suite to provide
easier upgrade experience and smoother learning and training curve to the users
of previous versions of Microsoft Office.
http://www.addintools.com
XBRL CONFERENCE...
WASHINGTON: XBRL International and XBRL US Wednesday jointly announced "The
Ultimate Client: Business Reporting for Investors, Government and Citizens", a
global conference that will explore how improved business and financial
reporting through interactive data will affect investor communications,
governance, risk and compliance as well as government reporting.
http://www.xbrl.org/us
http://conference.xbrl.org
http://xbrl.us/pages/us-gaap.aspx
OPEC OUTPUT...
LONDON: The 13 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
(OPEC) pumped an average 32.47 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil in
June, an increase of 230,000 b/d from the May level of 32.24 million b/d,
according to the latest Platts survey of OPEC and oil industry officials.
http://www.platts.com
http://www.opec.platts.com
TITAN ACHIEVES...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.: TITAN Technology Partners, a global provider of hosted and
managed industry solutions, Wednesday announced it has achieved two
certifications from SAP AG and is now an SAP-certified provider of application
management services in the United States and a certified SAP hosting partner.
EMETER JOINS...
SAN MATEO, Calif.: eMeter, a global leader in clean energy technology,
Wednesday announced it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP)
program.
http://www.emeter.com
TRAVEL INVESTMENT...
LONDON: Travel Investment Forum, organized by TTG and ttgbusiness, will be
taking place in London on the 18th of September 2008. Owners, chief executives
and senior directors of travel operators and agencies will gather for this
all-day event, focusing on subjects such as private equity funding, legal
issues surrounding acquisitions, and how to fine-tune long-term growth and
investment strategies.
http://www.ttglive.com/tif
PATIENT CARE...
BALTIMORE: Physicians and patients of community-based medical practices in
Nevada and SW Utah will benefit from a new partnership between Physicians
Practice, America's Leading Practice Management Journal and Nevada Cancer
Institute (NVCI).
http://www.PhysiciansPractice.com
http://www.nevadacancerinstitute.org
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of two
securities issues amounting to a total of US$64.155 million on July 25, 2008 at
a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus
accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
NEW PRODUCT...
SAN JOSE, Calif.: Micrel Inc., an industry leader in analog, high bandwidth
communications, and Ethernet IC solutions, Tuesday added an Ultra-Low Voltage
CML product family to its growing portfolio of high performance interface
products.
http://www.micrel.com
PETRONAS RESULTS...
KUALA LUMPUR: The financial year ended 31 March 2008 was yet another highly
challenging year for the PETRONAS Group as it continues to strive to generate
value amidst an increasingly volatile and uncertain global oil and gas industry
environment beleaguered with escalating cost and an acute shortage of
experienced personnel as well as equipment.
PALME INDIA...
MUMBAI: PALME India 2008 has attracted some of the biggest names in the
professional audio visual industry driven by the growth in the colossal Indian
film industry and burgeoning live event and night club scene.
http://www.palme-india.com
http://www.smc-pr.com
EXPEDIA ACQUIRES...
SEATTLE and ROME: Expedia, Inc. Tuesday announced that it has entered into
an agreement to acquire Italy-based Venere Net ApA (http://www.venere.com) from
Advent International and the founding partners.
http://www.expedia.com
TOP RATING...
MAHWAH, N.J.: The Creating Wellness Alliance (CWA), experts in designing
custom wellness programs for consumers and corporations, has been awarded the
top rating for their nutritional supplement Vitalize.
http://www.creatingwellness.com
http://www.comparativeguide.com
NEW PARTNERSHIP...
LONDON: Celltick, the pioneer of mobile idle screen marketing solutions,
Tuesday announced a new partnership with San Francisco-based Greystripe, the
leading ad-supported mobile games and applications distributor.
http://www.celltick.com
http://www.gamejump.com
http://www.greystripe.com
AHF PARTNERS...
NEW DELHI: India's Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and AIDS
Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the US largest HIV/AIDS organization, which
operates free AIDS treatment clinics in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean
and Asia (including two clinics in India -- Delhi and Mysore), Tuesday
announced the formation of a new partnership through which AHF India Cares will
work closely with the University to promote and implement training and
education programs for people working in the field of HIV/AIDS.
http://www.aidshealth.org
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