ALERIS APPOINTS...
BEACHWOOD, Ohio: Aleris International, Inc. Wednesday announced that Jimmy
Chen has joined the company's leadership team as Vice President and General
Manager, Asia Pacific.
http://aleris.com
UNIVERSITIES ACQUIRE...
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. & LONDON: Thomson Scientific, a business of The Thomson
Corporation, Wednesday announced that Kyushu University (Japan) and the
University of Melbourne (Australia) are the first universities in Asia-Pacific
to acquire a "Century of Science".
http://www.thomson.com
http://www.scientific.thomson.com
TICKERMASTER ACQUIRES...
MELBOURNE: Ticketmaster, the world's leading ticketing company, Wednesday
announced it has signed an agreement to acquire the shares in Ticketmaster7
currently held by Seven Network Limited, Australia's largest broadcast
television network.
http://www.sevencorporate.com.au
http://www.ticketmaster7.com
http://www.ticketmaster.com
WEB SITE...
CHICAGO, Ill.: Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the largest futures
exchange in the United States, Wednesday launched the Chinese version of its
Web site.
http://www.cme.com
http://www.china.cme.com
PLUSFUNDS APPOINTS...
TOKYO: PlusFunds Group, Inc. Wednesday announced it has appointed Tokyo
based Yoshiro Okawa to represent it in the Japanese market.
http://www.plusfunds.com
http://www.sp-hedgefundindex.com
FULL OWNERSHIP...
NEW YORK: Georgeson Shareholder Communications, Inc. Wednesday announced the
acquisition of the remaining 54% that it did not own of GSC Proxitalia, an
entity that was originally established in 1999 as a joint venture of Georgeson
Shareholder with partners Stefano Marini and Alvise Recchi.
http://www.computershare.com
http://www.georgesonshareholder.com
ISO REGISTRATION
RESTON, Va.: PRA International, a leading global clinical research
organization, Wednesday announced that it has received ISO 9001:2000
registration for its global, integrated management system following an
extensive and comprehensive audit by Bureau Veritas Quality International
(BVQi).
http://www.prainternational.com
DOWNLOAD MANAGER...
HAIFA: Download Accelerator Plus (DAP), the world's most popular download
manager from SpeedBit Ltd., Wednesday announced that it has reached 100 million
registered users worldwide.
http://www.SpeedBit.com
http://www.downloadaccelerator.com
RESTRUCTURING PLAN...
NEW YORK: In light of the surprising recent changes in Morgan Stanley's
strategy and governance, institutional investors have asked shareholders and
former senior executives to set forth their plan for restructuring the firm and
improving its performance.
GAMES RELEASE...
LONDON: Gizmondo Europe Ltd, subsidiary of Jacksonville, Florida-based Tiger
Telematics Inc., Tuesday emphatically stated its resolve to become a force to
be reckoned with in the games market with the announcement of a massive 89
games scheduled for release on the new Gizmondo handheld multi-entertainment
device.
http://www.tigertelematics.com
http://www.gizmondo.com
SOA STRATEGY...
WALTHAM, Mass.: NetCracker Technology, a leading provider of OSS and IT
Infrastructure Management solutions, Tuesday announced its Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA) strategy.
http://www.netcracker.com
CASCADE TECHNOLOGY...
MONTREAL, QC: ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. Tuesday confirmed the successful
scale up at 30-litre scale at Hemosol's facility following the technology
transfer of the Cascade process with significantly higher recovery yields for
plasma proteins compared to current methods.
http://www.prometic.com
MEDIA PROCESSOR...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.: NVIDIA Corporation, a worldwide leader in graphics and
digital media processors, Tuesday announced the immediate availability of the
Company's new NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Intel Edition media and communications
processors (MCPs) for Intel platforms.
http://www.nvidia.com
RESEARCH AGREEMENT...
BEIJING: InnoCentive Tuesday announced that it has signed a cooperation
agreement with the Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University.
http://www.innocentive.com
NEXT-GENERATION NETWORK...
ASHBURN, Va.: MCI, Inc. Tuesday announced that MCI is providing Cray, the
global leader in supercomputing, with an IPv6 network for interoperability
testing and product development of next-generation applications and software.
http://www.mci.com
http://www.cray.com
AZURE LAUNCHES...
LONDON: Azure Solutions, the revenue assurance company, Tuesday announced
the launch of Azure Interconnect version 9.0 at Billing Systems 2005, taking
place at Olympia, London, UK 4th-7th April 2005.
http://www.azuresolutions.com
http://www.nvpllc.com
MANAGEMENT TEAM...
BEIJING: Motorola, Inc. Tuesday announced an enhancement of its China
management team in order to drive its Seamless Mobility strategy and to realize
'one face' to customers for all products and services in China.
http://www.motorola.com
GENDER MYTH...
WACO, Texas: A new study of 3,654 Australian salesmen and 2,539 Australian
saleswomen reveals that the sales gender gap is a myth.
http://www.bsrpinc.com
http://www.baylor.edu/business/splash.php
IP TELEPHONY...
PARIS: NetCentrex, the leading enabler of converged voice-video-data
networks and next-generation services, and AOL, one of Germany's leading
Internet companies and part of the world's biggest media company Time Warner,
Tuesday announced that AOL will deliver residential broadband IP telephony
services in Germany based on NetCentrex' MyCall solution.
http://www.netcentrex.net
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