AsiaNet Daily Summary - Press Releases for Wednesday April 7, 2010

Wednesday 07 April 2010 17:06
COMSCORE RELEASES...

SINGAPORE: comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world,

Wednesday released its latest report on social networking activity in the

Asia-Pacific region (excluding China) based on data from its World Metrix

service.

http://www.comscore.com/companyinfo

W RETREAT...

KOH SAMUI: W Hotels Worldwide, the hotel category buster and industry

innovator, has announced that W Retreat-Koh Samui, the first W Retreat in

Southeast Asia, will open in summer 2010.

http://www.whotels.com/kohsamui

MUSIC FESTIVAL...

AUCKLAND: The promoters of We Love Sounds Wednesday announced that

Australia's largest winter music festival will be coming to Auckland, New

Zealand for the first time ever on Friday 4th June (Queen's Birthday Long

Weekend) at The Trusts Stadium Arena.

www.welovesounds.co.nz

CLEAN ENERGY...

NEW YORK and WASHINGTON: The Board of Directors of the Overseas Private

Investment Corporation (OPIC) Wednesday approved up to $250 million to support

ContourGlobal Solutions' energy-efficiency project which will enable a major

Coca-Cola bottler to significantly reduce its carbon dioxide emissions while

also reducing energy consumption and costs.

http://www.opic.gov

KONFTEL LAUNCHING...

UMEA, Sweden: Konftel, Europe's leading and world's fastest growing

manufacturer of conference phones is now launching the Konftel 250.

http://www.konftel.com

UL NAMED...

NORTHBROOK, Ill.: Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a global leader in safety

testing and certification, was recently named the exclusive Nationally

Recognized Testing Laboratory for The EV Project, a groundbreaking study of

electric vehicle (EV) charging station infrastructure.

www.theevproject.com

http://www.ecotality.com

http://www.ul.com/electricvehicle

PV MODULES...

LUXEMBOURG and DONGYING, China: CNPV Solar Power SA, a leading integrated

manufacturer of solar photovoltaic products from the production of ingots,

wafers and cells to the assembly of PV modules that designs, manufactures and

supplies highly efficient and cost effective crystalline solar photovoltaic

modules, Wednesday announced that its polycrystalline PV modules were ranked

among the top two in China and top six in global PV modules based on

performance and defects comparison rating in a test conducted by Oko-Test

consumer magazine in Germany together with the testing laboratory of another

journal called Photon.

http://www.cnpv-power.com

http://www.oekotest.de

AIRLINE CAPACITY...

WASHINGTON: Global airline capacity and frequency will grow in all regions

of the world except North America in April 2010, which sees declining capacity

and frequency within the region, when compared to the same month last year,

reports OAG, the global leader in aviation intelligence, in its monthly report

on trends in the supply of airline seats and flights.

www.ubmaviation.com

www.oagaviation.com

AWARD WINNER...

OAKVILLE: Canada India Foundation Tuesday announced that the winner of the

2010 CIF Chanchlani Global Indian Award is the legendary entrepreneur and

philanthropist Mr. Ratan N. Tata.

www.canadaindia.org

AWARD RECIPIENTS...

ENOLA, Pa: The National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) Wednesday

announced the recipients of the 2010 Visionary Voice Award.

www.nsvrc.org

WIPRO SIGNS...

BANGALORE: Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro

Limited, Tuesday announced that the company has signed a partnership agreement

with Philips to offer Blu-ray middleware and solution development services

around Philips' developed Blu-ray technology.

http://www.wipro.com

FANNIE MAE...

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of three

securities issues on April 16, 2010 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent

of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.

http://www.fanniemae.com

ACCUMETRICS ANNOUNCES...

SAN DIEGO: Accumetrics, Inc., a privately-held developer and marketer of the

VerifyNow System, the first rapid and easy to use point-of-care system for

measuring platelet reactivity to multiple antiplatelet agents, Tuesday

announced that it has completed the enrollment phase of its landmark clinical

trial, GRAVITAS (Gauging Responsiveness with A VerifyNow Assay Impact on

Thrombosis And Safety).

www.accumetrics.com

AACSB ACCREDITATION...

TAMPA, Fla.: AACSB International Tuesday announced that National Taiwan

University has earned accreditation for its College of Management.

www.aacsb.edu

REGAL BELOIT...

BELOIT, Wis.: Regal Beloit Corporation Tuesday announced that the Company

has acquired CMG Engineering Group Pty. Ltd. (CMG) headquartered in Melbourne,

Australia.

SAVVIS SIGNS...

TOKYO: Savvis, Inc., a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT

solutions for enterprises, Tuesday announced that Savvis has signed a contract

to provide managed services for 70 of All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. corporate

Web sites.

www.savvis.jp

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