AsiaNet Daily Summary - Press Releases for Friday April 9, 2010

Friday 09 April 2010 16:05
AUSTRALIAN LEADER...

SYDNEY - Freelancer.com has experienced exponential growth in traffic,

registered users and number of jobs being posted. According to Alexa, on April

2nd, Freelancer.com overtook news.com.au and ninemsn.com.au to be the largest

website served by an Australian owned company.

http://www.freelancer.com

THAI FAIR...

BANGKOK - The Thai Department of Export Promotion, in cooperation with

Lifestyle Product Federation, is scheduled to present the 29th Bangkok

International Gift Fair and Bangkok International Houseware Fair (BIG+BIH)

during 20-25 April 2010 at the heart of Asia's design hub.

www.bigandbih.com

SUPPLY AGREEMENT

WARRENDALE - Medrad Interventional(TM)/Possis(R) today announced the

initiation of a supply agreement with ev3 Inc. (Nasdaq: EVVV). Under terms of

the agreement, MEDRAD will make available the Cotavance(TM) peripheral

drug-eluting balloon angioplasty catheter with Paccocath(R) technology for

study in combination with ev3's SilverHawk(R) and TurboHawk(TM) Plaque Excision Systems

for use in the DEFINITIVE AR European pilot study for treating lower extremity

peripheral arterial disease (PAD).

http://www.medrad.com

PUMA RACES...

HERZOGENAURACH and BOSTON, PUMA(R) announced today it will participate in

the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-2012 after placing 2nd second overall in the

2008-2009 competition. The race, known as the "Everest of sailing," begins in

October 2011 in Alicante, Spain and ends in Galway, Ireland in June 2012.

http://www.puma.com

LIGHTING AWARDED...

Pioneer of LED lighting OPTILED today won a Design Plus powered by

Light+Building award for its ARRAY product series. Chosen for its design

quality, innovation and ecological quality, ARRAY is targeted at the retail

sector. The award was presented at the Light+Building exhibition, one of the

world's most important trade fairs for architecture and technology.

http://www.OPTILED.com

POWER SAVER...

Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a global leader

in application-optimized server solutions, announced that its new line of 94

per cent+ Platinum Level power efficiency server solutions are in volume

production.

http://www.supermicro.com

SEMICONDUCTER WEBINAR...

Energy Star recently released SSL requirements for Integral LED lamps. These

requirements pose many challenges which must be addressed on a system level.

The independent selection of an LED array (light engine) and a drive(power

supply) is no longer an effective way to meet Energy Star's performance

criteria. During this webinar you will learn about the key parameters

comprising the Energy Star specification and see a solution from NXP's SSL

application portfolio.

http://www.nxp.com

BROADBAND MD...

M2B World Asia Pacific Pte Ltd has announced on 3rd April 2010 the

appointment of Mr. Percy Chua Soo Lian as new Managing Director & CEO. He has

been a Business Advisor to M2B in 2008 and then as Director of M2B World since

April 2009. M2B World Asia Pacific, a subsidiary of US-Based Amaru Inc (AMRU),

is Asia's leading broadband entertainment provider.

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