SPEAKERS PROVIDE...
SYDNEY - A highly impressive group of leading international
speakers will provide valuable insight into the latest
economic, technological, human resource and sustainability
trends impacting the corporate real estate industry at the
annual CoreNet Global Summit, to be held June 29 - July 1, 2008
at the Sheraton on the Park in Sydney.
http://www.corenetglobalausnz.com
NYSE/EURONEXT TEAMS...
SINGAPORE - Progress Software Corporation and NYSE Euronext
Advanced Trading Solutions, a unit of NYSE Euronext Wednesday
announced a partnership that enables NYSE Euronext Advanced
Trading Solutions to offer its customers new complex event
processing capabilities for algorithmic trading, real-time risk
management, and smart order routing, which will be provided by
the Progress Apama CEP platform.
http://www.nyse.com/tradingsolutions
http://www.progress.com/asia
NEWSLETTER PUBLISHES...
SALEM - Top United States investment advisory Cabot China &
Emerging Markets Report Wednesday published a Special Issue
dedicated entirely to Indian stocks traded on the Bombay or
National Stock Exchange of India.
http://www.cabot.net
BOARD RECOMMENDS...
NEW YORK - The Disclosure Advisory Board -- a 15-person
council of leaders in the corporate, regulatory, investor,
reporting and academic communities that was organized by PR
Newswire -- announced Wednesday its recommendations for
incorporating non-tangible, "hidden assets" into investor
communications to improve corporate disclosure and help enhance
stock valuation.
http://www.prnewswire.com
http://www.thedisclosureadvisoryboard.com
QUALITY WINS...
SYDNEY - The Quality Hotel Cambridge of Sydney, Australia
has been named the International Hotel of the Year by worldwide
lodging franchisor Choice Hotels International, Inc.,
franchisor of the Quality brand.
http://www.choicehotels.com.au
http://www.choicehotels.com
DELEGATES ATTEND...
LONDON - 50 Chinese delegates, lead by the China Department
of Audio & Video and Internet Publication, attend the 4th
London Calling, June 19-20, 2008.
http://labels.a-peer.com/ssceg
INDUSTRY DESCENDS...
LONDON - LONDON CALLING 2008 (19-20 June, Earls Court,
London) is the UK's largest music industry trade exhibition and
conference, in association with AIM, WIN and Impala.
www.londoncalling2008.com
VALE APPROVES...
RIO DE JANEIRO - Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Vale) hereby
discloses that its senior management approved on May 26, 2008
and will submit to the Board of Directors a proposal of a
public offering of common shares and preferred class A shares,
with a maximum value of US$15 billion, including the offering
and any exercise of the underwriters' over-allotment option.
http://www.cvrd.com.br
http://www.vale.com
PEPSICO CONFIDENT...
PURCHASE - In comments during meetings next week with
investors in London and at The Deutsche Bank Global Consumer
and Food Retail Conference in Paris, PepsiCo's CFO Richard
Goodman will express confidence in the Company's business
outlook and confirm its full-year 2008 guidance.
http://www.pepsico.com/
SPBBACKUP SAVES...
ST. PETERSBURG - Spb Software House, the leading Windows
Mobile applications vendor, releases Spb Backup 2.0 - a tool
for making reserve copies of personal data and system settings
for Windows Mobile phones.
www.spbsoftwarehouse.com
ENDEAVORS ANNOUNCES...
IRVINE - Endeavors Technologies, the pioneer in application
streaming and virtualization technology, and its parent
company, Tadpole Technology plc, Tuesday announced a
distribution agreement with TCB Technologies.
http://www.endeavors.com
http://www.tadpoletechnology.com
http://www.tcbtech.co.jp/english
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal
amount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$300
million on June 20 & 24, 2008 at a redemption price equal to
100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued
interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal
amount of FINP securities issues amounting to a total of
US$21.364 million on June 20, 2008 at a redemption price equal
to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued
interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
RIIS SIGNS...
COPENHAGEN - Riis Cycling and Saxo Bank, the leading online
investment bank, have signed an agreement that will let Saxo
Bank become a co-sponsor of Team CSC together with CSC.
http://www.saxobank.com
GM PICKS...
TORONTO - Dyadem Tuesday announced that General Motors has
selected Dyadem's Stature platform to manage quality across its
engineering and manufacturing divisions globally.
http://www.dyadem.com
http://www.gm.com
SOMATIC GAINS...
CINCINNATI - Somatic Digital announced Tuesday that it
gained a significant U.S. Government contract to provide NASA
Goddard Flight Center with a Custom Solution Provider Partner
Program and an unspecified number of eTouchBooks embedded with
the Touch User Interface technology.
http://www.somaticdigital.com
BNY MELLON SELECTED...
SHANGHAI - BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, the global leader in
securities servicing, has been selected as Overseas Custodian
for Fortune SGAM Fund Management Co's first QDII, entitled the
CCB Fortune SG Overseas Growth Equity Fund.
http://www.bnymellon.com
EXPERTS CALL...
REYKJAVIK - Nearly 1,000 of the world's leading experts in
infectious diseases and vaccines are meeting during the 6th
International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal
Diseases (ISPPD-6) this week to call for renewed and urgent
action by governments to protect their citizens against
pneumococcal disease, a leading killer of children and adults
worldwide.
NORKOM REPORTS...
DUBLIN - Norkom has announced a 64 per cent increase in
revenues and a 59 per cent improvement in EBITDA for the year
ending 31st March 2008 (2008).
NATURE OFFERS...
LONDON - Nature Publishing Group Tuesday announced the
launch of a new English language editing service, Nature
Publishing Group Language Editing.
http://www.nature.com
STUDIES REVEAL...
JAKARTA - New studies, presented this week at the 6th
International Symposium on Pneumococci & Pneumococcal Diseases
(ISPPD) investigates the burden of pneumococcal disease (PD)
among Indonesian children.
FINDINGS REVEAL...
JAKARTA - A study presented Tuesday at the 6th International
Symposium on Pneumococci & Pneumococcal Diseases (ISPPD) in
Reykjavik, Iceland indicates that routine childhood vaccination
with the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) could
prevent a considerable proportion of this disease in vaccinated
children, as well as unvaccinated adults.
I.TECH LAUNCHES...
HONG KONG - i.Tech Dynamic proudly announces Tuesday that it
is launching i.VoicePRO Bluetooth Headset -- the first headset
in the market with dual microphone using Bluetooth Profile v2.1
to deliver the professional voice quality.
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