RING OPERA...
HAMBURG: Simone Young, Music Director and General Manager of
the Hamburg State Opera presented Friday her plans for a new
"Ring"-production.
ACQUISITION COMPLETE...
ST. PAUL: Merrill Corporation, a leading global provider of
technology-enabled services for the legal, financial, real
estate and other corporate markets, announced on Friday that
WordWave International Pty Ltd, its wholly-owned subsidiary,
has completed the acquisition of ComputerReporters.
http://www.merrillcorp.com
http://www.computerreporters.com
K-SWISS TENNIS...
WESTLAKE VILLAGE: K-Swiss has been a leading brand in the
tennis category for over forty years, and it was alive and well
at the Australian Open.
http://www.kswiss.com
TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION...
SAN DIEGO: Qualcomm Incorporated, together with Huawei
Technologies Co., Ltd., has announced that the world's first
demonstration of Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS)
mobile TV technology will be at 3GSM World Congress 2007 in
Barcelona, Spain.
http://www.qualcomm.com
http://www.huawei.com
SUPPLY CHAIN...
DALLAS: Supply chain management companies handle one or
more, but not all, of the following components of SCM:
strategy, sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, and returns.
http://www.winnowinc.com
WHITE PAPER...
LONDON: "Abuse of State Authority in the Russian
Federation," a new White Paper issued yesterday by Robert
Amsterdam, Mikhail Khodorkovsky's international defense
counsel, says the United States and Western European
governments have failed to effectively protect and advance
their own values and foreign policy interests in Russia.
http://www.robertamsterdam.com
ENERGY JV...
ROCHESTER HILLS and TIANJIN: Energy Conversion Devices, Inc.
(ECD Ovonics) has announced that United Solar Ovonic, its
wholly owned subsidiary, has entered into an agreement to form
a joint venture with Tianjin Jinneng Investment Company (TJIC)
to establish a 30-megawatt (MW) photovoltaic (PV) module
assembly facility in Tianjin, the People's Republic of China.
http://www.ovonic.com
http://www.uni-solar.com
VIRGIN PARTNERSHIP...
BUFFALO: Synacor, a leader in the development and delivery
of internet tools and portals for the cable and telecom
industries, announced its partnership with Virgin Media,
enabling the company to provide a completely new user
experience for its broadband customers.
http://www.virginmedia.com
http://www.synacor.com
EURAND APPOINTS...
MILAN and DAYTON: Eurand, a specialty pharmaceutical
company, has announced the appointment of Manya S. Deehr as
Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel.
http://www.eurand.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal
amount of eight securities issues amounting to a total of
US$315 million on February 18 and 20 at a redemption price
equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus
accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
PEPSICO APPOINTS...
PURCHASE: PepsiCo announced on Thursday that Derek Yach,
former Representative of the Director General at the World
Health Organization, has been appointed the company's Director
- Global Health Policy, a new position to direct the company's
global health and wellness policy.
http://www.pepsico.com
SPIRIT REPORTS...
WICHITA: Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc reported fourth
quarter revenues of $852 million, up 53 per cent from the same
period last year.
http://www.spiritaero.com
SONUS EXHIBITS...
WESTFORD: Sonus Networks, Inc., a leading supplier of
service provider Voice over IP (VoIP) infrastructure solutions,
announced on Thursday that the company will be exhibiting at
the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 11-15,
2007.
http://3gsmworldcongress.com
http://www.sonusnet.com
PEPSICO REVENUE...
PURCHASE: PepsiCo reported a continued strong performance in
the fourth quarter of 2006, reporting a 3 per cent rise in net
revenue.
http://www.pepsico.com
MICREL LAUNCHES...
SAN JOSE: Micrel Inc., an industry leader in analog, high
bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, has
launched the MIC2810, a highly efficient, flexible power
management IC that provides three output voltages and a power
on reset in a tiny 3mm x 3mm MLF(R)-16 package.
http://www.micrel.com
WINDOWS SUPPORT...
OBERURSEL: Utimaco - The Data Security Company adds support
for Windows Vista BitLocker Drive Encryption with Utimaco's
security suite SafeGuard Enterprise [US-Version: at the RSA
Conference in San Francisco] [EU-Version: at CeBIT Fair in
Hanover, Germany].
http://www.utimaco.com
http://www.secureitalliance.org
ULTIMACO SAFEGUARD...
OBERURSEL: Utimaco will be launching its SafeGuard
Enterprise security suite at CeBIT 2007 (March 15th - 21st).
http://www.utimaco.com/products
VANTRIX CEO...
MONTREAL: Vantrix Corporation is pleased to announce that
Manish Jha, a veteran mobile media executive, has joined the
company as Chief Executive Officer.
http://www.vantrix.com
ARROW PROMOTES...
HONG KONG: Arrow Asia Pac Ltd. has announced a franchise
distribution agreement in India where Arrow will promote
Luminary Micro's award-winning 32-bit ARM(R)
Cortex(TM)-M3-based Stellaris family of microcontroller
products to the rapidly growing India market.
http://www.arrowasia.com
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