MOBILE BANKING...
WASHINGTON - A new report from the global microfinance body
CGAP predicts that, with the right market conditions, mobile
banking could reach large numbers of poor people who are
outside the formal financial system.
www.cgap.org
DOMAIN NAMES...
NYON - The most beautiful domain name on the Internet,
America.com, is to be auctioned off through GreatDomains.com
and Sedo.com from May 22 to 29, 2008.
www.america.com
www.greatdomains.com
www.sedo.com
SAXO BANK...
SYDNEY - In a strategic move, Danish investment bank Saxo
Bank A/S, a global leader in on-line trading, has entered a
Memorandum of Understanding with Tricom Holdings Limited,
Babcock & Brown and ANZ Group with a view to acquiring a 35 per
cent holding in the Sydney based broking house.
www.saxobank.com
www.tricom.com.au
www.saxobank.ch
www.saxobank.dk
www.saxobank.co.uk
www.saxomarkets.com.sg
www.saxotrader.es
www.saxosoft.com
3-D FILM...
LOS ANGELES - Singapore has been named the host city of the
world's first fully 3-D based film and entertainment technology
festival taking place November 19 - 23, 2008.
www.mda.gov.sg
www.stb.gov.sg
ALISON NELSON'S...
DUBAI - Alison Nelson's Chocolate Bar, the New York-based
chain of cutting-edge gourmet cocoa emporiums, is set to launch
10 stores in India and Pakistan through a partnership with
Dubai-based HFK General Trading.
MICROSOFT YAHOO!
REDMOND, Washington - Microsoft Corp. today announced that
it has withdrawn its proposal to acquire Yahoo! Inc.
www.microsoft.com
DALAI LAMA...
LONDON - Heads of State and the international media should
be aware of the facts on the Tibet Issue in order to manage
their expectations over the proposed meeting between the
Chinese government and the top envoy of His Holiness the Dalai
Lama.
www.ltbfoundation.org
www.creativeleadershipsummit.org
www.Forbes.com/
BLUESTREAK TECHNOLOGY...
MONTREAL - Bluestreak Technology is excited to see Adobe's
initiative to open the Flash format. Bluestreak's own MachBlue
Player runs Flash files as Rich Media applications, such as
Mobile TV, and Man-Machine Interfaces, such as Homescreens.
www.bluestreaktech.com
SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS...
WICHITA, Kansas - Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. President and
Chief Executive Officer Jeff Turner will speak at the Merrill
Lynch Global Markets & Investment Banking Conference on
Wednesday, May 7, at approximately 6:30 a.m. Eastern Time.
www.spiritaero.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal
amount of MTN, MTNR, FINP securities issues on May 12, 13 and
14, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the
principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
ATMEL AWARD...
SAN JOSE, California - Atmel Corporation was recently
recognized for its development of the FingerChip fingerprint
sensor technology at the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Southeast Asia
Industrial Technologies awards presentation in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia.
www.atmel.com
www.frost.com
REDPACK INDIA...
HAMBURG - The German packaging design agency, REDPACK Brand
Design, is opening up an office in Bangalore, offering its
international packaging expertise to the growing consumer goods
market in India.
www.red-pack.com
FOOD REGULATION...
MELBOURNE - Health warnings on packaged alcohol and a draft
standard on nutrition, health and related claims were among the
issues discussed at the 11th meeting of Australia and New
Zealand Food Regulation Ministerial Council held in Melbourne
Friday, chaired by Senator Jan McLucas, Commonwealth
Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Ageing.
PROGRESS SOFTWARE...
SINGAPORE and MALAYSIA - Progress Software Corporation a
global supplier of application infrastructure software used to
develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications,
today signs a distribution agreement with KM Enterprise Systems
Sdn Bhd to distribute the Open Edge suite of products in
Malaysia.
www.kingslake.com
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