SYDNEY--20 Jan--AsiaNet/ InfoQuest
LENDING TECHNOLOGY...
NEW YORK: BondLend, the automated technology platform for the Fixed Income
community, announced today that BNP Paribas is the first broker dealer to use
Straight-Through Processing for their Fixed Income Mark-to-Market service.
http://www.bondlend.com/
http://bit.ly/epaWIN
PRODUCT OFFERING...
LONDON: FxPro Financial Services Ltd (FxPro), an award-winning global retail
broker in FX and CFDs, today announced its strategic intent to continue its
exceptional growth of 2010, with further expansion of its geographic reach and
core product offering in 2011.
http://www.fxpro.com/
http://bit.ly/gkHV83
CLOUD-BASED SERVICE...
TOKYO: NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) announced on January 19 a
new cloud-optimized network service for enterprises, called Universal One, that
customers will use for comprehensive cloud services linked directly to their
private networks.
http://www.ntt.com/index-e.html
http://bit.ly/dJ13Ql
RETURN OF THE KING...
NEW YORK: As part of the revival of the world's most legendary soccer club,
The New York Cosmos today announced that iconic footballer Eric Cantona has
been persuaded to come back into the game as Director of Soccer with overall
responsibility for all soccer-related matters, which will include the proposed
first team.
http://www.newyorkcosmos.com/
http://bit.ly/hYopLb
PRESIDENT AND CEO...
NEW YORK: Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) announced today that it has
appointed Robert Bakish to the newly created position of President and CEO of
Viacom
International Media Networks.
http://www.viacom.com/
http://bit.ly/gIYmfj
LOGO REDESIGN...
MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: With news of the Starbucks Coffee 40th Anniversary
logo redesign making headlines around the world, top graphic design
crowdsourcing website, http://www.DesignContest.com asks its designers, "Could
you do it better?"
http://bit.ly/ff62Pk
SUMO SERVICE...
KIEV, Ukraine: President of Ukraine Victor Yanukovych awarded Koki Naya
(Taiho) - prominent Japanese sumo wrestler of Ukrainian descent with the Order
of Merit III Degree for developing Ukrainian-Japanese humanitarian relations
and promoting the image of Ukraine.
http://bit.ly/f3iVHS
FINDINGS RELEASED...
REGINA: The Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC), on behalf of the
IEAGHG Weyburn-Midale CO2 Monitoring and Storage Project, today released an
assessment of the Petro-Find Geochem Ltd. report ("Geochemical Soil Gas Survey:
A Site Investigation of SW30-5-13-W2M Weyburn Field, Saskatchewan"), which
claims that CO2 is leaking from the Weyburn oil field onto the Kerr family farm
located at the southern limits of the oil field.
http://www.ptrc.ca/
http://bit.ly/gwbpIH
FIRESCOPE UNIFY...
SYDNEY: FireScope, a leading developer of Business Service Management
solutions, announced today that Suncorp, one of Australia's largest diversified
financial services groups, is now utilizing FireScope Unify(TM) to manage IT
operations to ensure optimal business outcomes.
http://www.firescope.com/
http://bit.ly/fBWr0r
INVITING YOU!...
CALHOUN, Ga.: In conjunction with Mohawk Industries, Inc. (NYSE: MHK) 4th
Quarter 2010 earnings release on Tuesday, February 22, 2011, you are invited to
listen to its conference call that will be broadcast live on Wednesday,
February 23, 2011 at 11:00 am ET.
http://bit.ly/dMRSaO
NEW VP...
SINGAPORE: mig33, the world's largest mobile-first community, today
announced the appointment of Chris Chandler as vice president, business
development.
http://www.mig33.com/
http://bit.ly/hlQ5Zx
NEW HIRE...
NEW YORK and HONG KONG: Paul Capital, a leading global investment firm
focused on the private equity secondary market, today announced the recent
hiring of Todd Miller as a New York-based Principal on the firm's Secondary
Investments team.
http://www.paulcapital.com/
http://bit.ly/eJvwtr
GLOBAL SATELLITE CONSTELLATION...
MISSISSAUGA, ON: Microsat Systems Canada Inc. (MSCI) (formerly the Space
Division of Dynacon Inc.), Canada's designer and builder of the Multi Mission
Microsatellite Bus(MMMB) and Commercial Microsatellite Bus (CMB), is pleased to
announce the development of COMMStellation(TM), a polar communications
constellation comprised of 78 microsatellites that will orbit the Earth at
1,000 km, providing backhaul capacity while connecting remote regions of the
Earth to the Internet.
http://www.commstellation.com/
http://www.mscinc.ca/
http://www.reactionwheel.com/
http://www.commstellation.com/
http://bit.ly/e47T7o
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