ADT SECURITY...
SINGAPORE - ADT Security has appointed Kelvin Lam as Vice President of
Retail and Security Products for Asia Pacific.
www.adt.com/global
GFK ASIA...
SINGAPORE - Leading market research company, GfK Asia, has launched a new
weekly tracking service for the South Korean mobile phone market in response to
the needs of this country's fast moving mobile phone industry.
www.gfkrt.com
WIRELESS WORLD...
BEIJING - FreeWave Technologies' Lee Liru to Present at Wireless World
Research Forum Meeting in Beijing.
www.freewave.com
INFINITY I-CHINA....
TEL AVIV and HONG KONG - Infinity I-China, the largest China-Israel fund and
the second China-Israel fund of the Infinity Group, established by Clal
Industries and Investments from the IDB Group, announced today that it has
exercised a partial exit from its Digital China investment for HK$85.1
million or more than US$11 million.
www.infinity-equity.com
HAMBURG INDIA...
HAMBURG - From October 23 to November 1, the northern German economic
metropolis Hamburg will host India Week for the third time. A program featuring
some 30 events provides information on current areas of activity and
developments in the Indian economy, politics and culture. It is all about
opportunities and prospects for closer cooperation between Hamburg and
India.
www.india-week-hamburg.org
www.marketing.hamburg.de
IMCOPA NOTES...
ARAUCARIA - Imcopa International Cayman Ltd. and Imcopa Importacao,
Exportacao Industria e Oleos S.A. announced today that they have called a
meeting of the holders of its US$100,000,000 10.375% Notes due 2009 on November
10, 2009, and in connection therewith has commenced a consent solicitation.
The final voting deadline for submission of electronic voting instructions is
3:00 p.m. on November 6, 2009.
POKER PRO...
DUBLIN - Full Tilt Poker pro James Akenhead will make his third final table
appearance in as many months on Poker Million, the Full Tilt Poker sponsored
tournament which airs on Sky Sports TV.
www.fulltiltpoker.com
OFS Verizon...
NORCROSS - OFS today announced that Verizon Communications Inc. will be
purchasing and installing OFS' EZ-Bend multiple dwelling unit drop cable in
their MDU FIOS applications.
www.ofsoptics.com.
K2 SOFTWARE...
LAS VEGAS - K2(R), a Microsoft Gold Certified ISV partner, today announced
planned support in its products for the upcoming releases of Microsoft Office
2010, Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server
2010.
www.k2.com
LIGHT READING...
NEW YORK - Light Reading, the leading integrated media company serving the
worldwide communications industry, today reveals its Top Picks for
communications technologies, services, and products.
www.lightreading.com
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www.unitedbusinessmedia.com
EAGLE INVESTMENT...
SINGAPORE and BOSTON - Eagle Investment Systems LLC, a leading provider of
financial services technology and a wholly owned subsidiary of BNY Mellon Asset
Servicing, today announced the opening of a new operational centre in Singapore.
www.bnymellon.com.
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN
securities issues on October 29, 2009 at a redemption price equal to 100 per
cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
BURGER KING...
CHICAGO - Premium Surge Promotions, a leader in product-based marketing,
today announced that Burger King Corp. has named it the restaurant chain's
premiums manufacturing supplier agency of record.
www.premium-surge.com
www.bk.com
MARVELL LAUNCH...
SANTA CLARA - Marvell, a world leader in storage, communications, and
consumer silicon solutions, today announced the game-changing ARMADA family of
processors designed specifically for next generation ARM instruction set
smartphones, smartbooks, consumer and embedded devices, and displays.
www.marvell.com
EXAR CORPORATION...
FREMONT, California - Exar Corporation unveiled today its new web site for
the Chinese market.
http://exarcorp.cn
www.exar.com
KELLOGG-HKUST EMBA
HONG KONG - The Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA program has surpassed all
leading institutions in the world as it has once again been ranked no. 1 by the
Financial Times 2009 EMBA global rankings.
www.bm.ust.hk
www.bm.ust.hk/khemba
APAX PARTNERS...
MUMBAI - Apax Partners, one of the world's largest private equity firms, is
today pleased to announce that Sandeep Naik and Shashank Singh have been
appointed co-heads of the India office.
DIAMOND INDUSTRY...
RAMAT GAN - On October 13, 2009 an international delegation of leaders from
the diamond world held an historic meeting with the President of Panama,
Ricardo Martinelli. The meeting was attended by Israel Diamond Institute Group
of Companies Managing Director Eli Avidar, Israeli Ambassador to Panama Yoad
Magen, the Chairman of the World Diamond Council Eli Izhakoff, and the
President of the Diamond Dealers Club of New York Moshe Mosbacher, NYDDC
Managing Director Martin Hochbaum, and President of the Panama Diamond Exchange
Erez Akerman.
PLAYSTATION MALAYSIA...
KUALA LUMPUR - Sony Computer Entertainment Hong Kong Ltd. today announced
that it will launch the new PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system,
featuring an extremely streamlined form factor with a 120GB Hard Disk Drive,
and PSP go, a new evolution of PSP handheldentertainment system, specifically
designed to suit the digital lifestyle of consumers who enjoy downloadable
content on the go in Malaysia.
http://asia.playstation.com/my/en
CONSISTEL CONTRACTS...
SINGAPORE - CONSISTEL SINGAPORE PTE LTD is pleased to announce it has won a
major Tender to design and deploy a multi-system wireless network at the
Integrated Resort in the Marina Bay area.
www.consistel.com
www.singtel.com
www.m1.com.sg
www.starhub.com
www.grid.net.sg
AEROSPACE TOKYO...
TOKYO - Tokyo Big Sight Inc. organizes "Aerospace Industry Exhibition Tokyo
2009" with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government as a co-organizer from November 4
to 6 at Tokyo Big Sight in Koto-ku, Tokyo.
www.tokyoaerospace.com/en
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