SYDNEY--11 Jul--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
BESSEMER VENTURE...
MUMBAI - Bessemer Venture Partners announced today that its
India operation has formed an Advisory Group.
www.bvp.com
PERMANENT PRIVACY...
LONDON - Permanent Privacy announces the world's first
practical data encryption system that is absolutely
unbreakable. And is offering a US$1,000,000 challenge to anyone
who can crack it.
www.permanentprivacy.com
ENERGYIP SOFTWARE...
SAN MATEO, California - eMeter, a global leader in clean
energy technology, has announced that its EnergyIP software has
reached a major milestone with the introduction of EnergyIP
version 6.0.
www.emeter.com
ASARCO BUYERS...
WASHINGTON - Two leading U.S. House Judiciary Committee
members -- Rep. John Conyers, Jr., chairman of the House
Judiciary Committee and Rep. Lamar Smith, ranking member of the
House Judiciary Committee have asked U.S. Attorney General
Michael B. Mukasey to have the Department of Justice focus its
attention on the environmental records of Vedanta/Sterlite and
other companies seeking to gain control of U.S. copper miner
ASARCO.
http://216.250.243.12/ConyersSmithletter.pdf
MICROCREDIT SUMMIT...
NUSA DUA - The Microcredit Summit Campaign have issued a
press release regarding their upcoming summit in Indonesia.
www.microcreditsummit.org
TISSUE EXHIBITION...
NICE - Tissue World 2009, the biggest and most important
event in the Tissue World series, will take place on March
23-26, 2009 in Nice. It is the original meeting place which has
developed since 1993 to become the world's biggest event
dedicated specifically to the soft tissue paper business.
www.tissueworld.com
TISSUE AMERICAS...
MIAMI - Tissue World Americas, the leading conference and
trade show for the North and South American tissue businesses,
was very successfully held during March 11-14, 2008 in sunny
Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
www.tissueworld.com
IMAX JV...
MISSISSAUGA - IMAX Corporation and Hoyts Cinemas Ltd., one
of the largest exhibitors in Australia, today announced a joint
venture agreement to install four IMAX theatres in the cities
of Perth, Melbourne and Sydney.
SINGAPORE EXCHANGE...
SINGAPORE - Deputy Chairman of the Monetary Authority of
Singapore and Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Lim Hng Kiang
was the Guest of Honour at the Global Financial Market Summit
2008 where plans were announced to set up Singapore Mercantile
Exchange, a new international commodity derivatives exchange in
Singapore.
www.ftindia.com
www.smx.com.sg
MICROSOFT WISEKEY...
GENEVA, and HOUSTON, Texas - Microsoft Corp. and WISeKey
today announced that they were selected by the Regional
Government of Biscay for the delivery of a comprehensive
e-Government Citizen Services Platform.
www.wisekey.com/csp/biscaytik.htm
GAMELOFT APPLE...
NEW YORK - Gameloft, a leading developer and publisher of
mobile and console games, announced six games now available on
the Apple App Store launching today.
www.gameloft.com
XML CERTIFICATION...
TOKYO - The XML Technology Certification Committee today
announced the worldwide release of the "XML Master Professional
Database Administrator" exam, certifying technical
professionals in XQuery and XML DB.
www.xmlmaster.org/en/
www.prometric.com
VALEO AWARD...
PARIS - Valeo announces that it has received the Global
Innovation Award from Nissan Motor Co. for its contribution to
their Lane Departure Prevention system.
PROGNOSIS SERVERS...
DENVER - Following HP's launch of the industry's first
fault-tolerant blade server running HP NonStop, Integrated
Research today announced that its PROGNOSIS performance
monitoring software is ready to support the needs of customers
adopting this new server technology.
www.prognosis.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal
amount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$4
million on July 20, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 per
cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
KORN/FERRY SURVEY...
LOS ANGELES - An uncertain global economy and labor market
are not significantly affecting hiring plans for new graduates,
according to survey results released today.
www.kornferry.com
WS DOMAINS...
SEOUL - While the head office is located in the U.S.,
California, Global Domains International, Inc holds exclusive
authority over the domains of Western Samoa.
http://gdikorea.ws
FOOD INGREDIENTS..
MUMBAI - CMP India and CMP Information, The Netherlands, is
once again organizing Fi India 2008, a two-day International
Exhibition and Conference on Food Ingredients in Mumbai on
October 3-4th, 2008.
www.fi-events.com
www.cmpasia.com
www.ubmindia.com
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