JETSTAR FARES...
MELBOURNE - Australia's low fares airline Jetstar is ready for take off with
direct flights between Kuala Lumpur* and Sydney from 9 September 2007
commercially launching its flights in Malaysia with a market leading web fare
offer from MYR 88# one way at Jetstar.com.
www.Jetstar.com
ARROW ASIA...
HONG KONG - Arrow Asia Pac Ltd., a business unit of Arrow Electronics, Inc.
announced that it received the "Asia Best Distributor Gold Award" by NXP.
http://www.nxp.com/
EURAIL GROUP...
UTRECHT Eurail Group, the provider of Eurail Passes for flexible rail travel
around Europe since 1959, hails Railteam as a revolution in European train
travel.
http://www.railteam.eu
http://www.EurailGroup.com
ASIAN CUP...
HONG KONG - ING, Official Sponsor of the 2007 AFC Asian Cup, announced that
as part of its sponsorship agreement, it will award USD25,000 to the most
valuable player of the 2007 AFC Asian Cup tournament.
http://xprnnews.xfn.info/ING/20070724/HK076926.htm
http:///www.ingafc.com
MENICON ACQUIRES...
NAGOYA - Menicon Co., Ltd. acquires flat pack technology, including all
intellectual properties and other related assets, from 1800CONTACTS and
ClearLab International.
http://www.menicon.com/
STARPHARMA PRESENTS...
MELBOURNE - Starpharma Holdings Limited will present results of a clinical
trial indicating that 3% SPL7013 Gel (VivaGel) was well-tolerated in men, and
suitable for further development as a topical microbicide for the prevention of
HIV and genital herpes.
http://www.starpharma.com/data/070724%20Presents%20positive%20results%20of%20male%20study.pdf
www.starpharma.com
NAVINI ANNOUNCES...
RICHARDSON, Texas and PANAMA CITY, Panama - Navini Networks announced a true
milestone as it marks the first commercial implementation of its 802.16e Mobile
WiMAX software with beamforming.
http://www.navini.com
NOVARRA TO...
CHICAGO - Novarra, the leading provider of next-generation mobile Internet
platforms and services, announced that Yahoo! has selected Novarra's Vision
server version 6.5 platform to provide web transformation for Yahoo!'s
oneSearch service.
http://www.novarra.com
PEPSICO REPORTS...
PURCHASE, N.Y. - PepsiCo reported a 15% increase in second-quarter earnings
per share to $0.94.
http://www.pepsico.com
STARTECH ENVIRONMENTAL...
WILTON, Conn. - Startech Environmental Corporation, a fully reporting
company, announced that EnviroSafe Industrial Services Corporation of Puerto
Rico plans to produce methanol and various synthetic fuels from the wastes it
will be processing in the Startech Plasma Converter Systems in the EnviroSafe
Recycling Facility in Puerto Rico.
http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/113537.html
http://www.startech.net
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of a
securities issue amounting to a total of US$150 million on August 3, 2007 at a
redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus
accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
PEROT SYSTEMS...
PLANO, Texas - Perot Systems announced the appointment of Raj G. Asava as
vice president to lead the company's newly-created Enterprise Planning Group
and head new business development for its Consulting and Application Solutions
(CAS) Group.
http://www.sec.gov
http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/122686.html
http://www.perotsystems.com
POLAND REALBASIC...
AUSTIN, Texas - REAL Software, Inc. provider of REALbasic, cross-platform
that really works, announced that the Poland Ministry of Education and Science
has purchased additional REALbasic software licenses to teach programming in
schools across Poland.
http://www.realsoftware.com/users/education/curriculum.
http://www.realsoftware.com/download.
http://www.realsoftware.com
LIQUIDNET SETS...
NEW YORK - Liquidnet, the top brokerage firm for global trading, announced
its second quarter 2007 results today, posting record performance in the United
States, Europe, and Canada.
http://www.liquidnet.com
GALE INTERNATIONAL...
NEW YORK - Gale International announced that Jones Lang LaSalle has been
selected as the exclusive leasing agent for the Northeast Asia Trade Tower, the
first commercial office tower to be built in the International Business
District in New Songdo City, Incheon, South Korea.
http://www.NewSongdoCity.com
http://www.joneslanglasalle.com
ANADIGICS ANNOUNCES...
WARREN, N.J. - ANADIGICS, Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor
solutions in the rapidly growing broadband wireless and wireline communications
markets, reported record quarterly second quarter 2007 net sales of $53.9
million, an increase of 8.7% compared with net sales of $49.6 million in the
prior quarter, and an increase of 37% compared to net sales of $39.3 million in
the year ago quarter.
http://www.anadigics.com
UNIQUE QUANTUM...
GOLDEN, Colo. - Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National
Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), collaborating with Innovalight, Inc., have
shown that a new and important effect called Multiple Exciton Generation (MEG)
occurs efficiently in silicon nanocrystals.
http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/doilookup?in_doi=10.1021/nl071486l
http://www.nrel.gov and http://www.innovalight.com.
http://innovalight.com
http://www.nrel.gov
FIX8 PARTNERS...
KYOTO - Red Herring Japan -- fix8, a new media company that provides rich,
interactive media tools for user-generated content, and Stickam Japan, the
Internet's most powerful video communications player, today announced at Red
Herring Japan a joint partnership bringing fix8's interactive avatar creator to
Stickam Japan's groundbreaking live video broadcast technology.
http://www.fix8.com
http://www.Stickam.jp
GLOBAL SOCIAL...
SINGAPORE - Dr Lynelle Kerr, winner of the inaugural XL Global Social
Entrepreneur Award, has launched her new foundation -- the All One Foundation.
Created to provide ongoing healing support for children and women who have
suffered abuse and violence from the sex trade in countries where limited
rehabilitation services exist, the foundation will initially focus on two
shelters in Cambodia.
DATASQUIRT LAUNCHES...
AUCKLAND - Auckland-based contact centre software company Datasquirt Limited
has launched a public offering on the ASX, underwritten by Bell Potter
Securities Limited, to raise a minimum of $A10 million at $0.90 per share.
www.datasquirt.co.nz
REGULATORY COMPLIANCE...
SEOUL - Serena Software, Inc., the leading global independent software
company focused solely on application lifecycle management (ALM), released the
results of its 2007 Asia-Pacific (APAC) CIO survey.
www.serena.com
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