BUSINESS AGREEMENT...
SINGAPORE, LONDON and NEW YORK: muvee, the pioneer and
leader in Instant Personal Video, and global music content
company, Warner Music Group Corp. has announced a strategic
business agreement that gives users a quick, easy and legal way
of weaving their personal video clips and photos into original
artist music videos, tour footage and behind-the-scenes concert
reels.
www.everythingtori.com
www.muveemix.com
www.muvee.com
ROYAL CARIBBEAN...
MIAMI: Royal Caribbean International is combining its
signature active cruising experience with crocodiles, kangaroos
and koala bears, when the cruise line returns to the land of
'down under' for the 2007/8 season. Rhapsody of the Seas will
sail a series of new itineraries to the South Pacific,
Australia and New Zealand as she heads for her recently
announced Far East adventure.
www.royalcaribbean.com
www.cruiseco.com.au
DRUG DEVELOPMENT...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California: Pharsight Corporation, a leading
provider of software and strategic services for optimizing
clinical drug development, announced that Daniel Weiner, Ph.D.,
Senior Vice President, Software Products, will speak to leading
academics, regulators, and members of the Japanese
pharmaceutical industry attending the 7th Kitasato
University-Harvard School of Public Health Symposium. The
symposium will be held at the ANA Tokyo Hotel on October 24-25,
2006.
www.pharm.kitasatou.ac.jp
www.pharsight.com
www.pharm.kitasatou.ac.jp/biostatis/Khsympo_program2006.html
INTERNET RADIO...
NEW YORK: SIRIUS Satellite Radio has announced the launch of
SIRIUS Internet Radio (SIR), a CD-quality, Internet-only
version of its rapidly growing satellite radio service. SIR
delivers more than 75 channels of SIRIUS programming, without
the use of a radio, for the monthly subscription fee of
US$12.95.
www.sirius.com
www.sirius.com/howard
www.howardstern.com
CVRD ANNOUNCES...
RIO DE JANEIRO: Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) announces
that it is extending the expiry time of the offer to acquire
all of the outstanding common shares of Inco Limited (Inco) for
C$86.00 in cash per share from 8:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on
Monday, October 16, 2006 to midnight (Toronto time) on Monday,
October 23, 2006.
www.cvrd.com.br
www.sedar.com
www.sec.gov
REDESIGNED WEBSITE...
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colorado: A cleaner, better organized,
easier to navigate Web site for the RE/MAX Caribbean and
Central America region was unveiled at their 2006 regional
conference in Miami on October 5.
www.remax.com
www.remax-caribbeanislands.com
www.remax-centralamerica.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae announces US$3 billion new issue
5-Year benchmark notes.
www.fanniemae.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal
amount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$107
million on October 25, 2006 at a redemption price equal to 100
per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued
interest.
www.fanniemae.com
FEATURE FILM...
LOS ANGELES, California: Fresh on the heels of acquiring
worldwide film rights to its hit manga series, Lament of the
Lamb, a gut-wrenching horror story of a young man who
shockingly discovers he may be the last in a bloodline of
vampires, TOKYOPOP has chosen the property to launch the
company's first foray into independent film production.
www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20061012/LATH002
ROCHE FILES...
BASEL: Roche has announced the submission of a Marketing
Authorisation to the European Medicines Agency for Herceptin
(trastuzumab) as treatment for advanced HER2-positive and
hormone receptor-positive breast cancer.
www.roche.com
www.gene.com
www.roche.com/mboncology-e.pdf
www.health-kiosk.ch/start_krebs
www.thenewsmarket.com
KIDNEY FOUNDATION...
WELLINGTON: The New Zealand Kidney Foundation has issued a
reminder to New Zealand healthcare professionals and consumers
today about the potential risks associated with the Triple
Whammy where people with high blood pressure who are taking ACE
inhibitors with diuretics increase their risk of kidney failure
by simultaneously taking a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug
like ibuprofen.
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