SYDNEY--16 Dec--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
LEASE AGREEMENT...
SYDNEY: StayWell Hospitality Group (SWHG), owner and operator of the Leisure
Inn and Park Regis brands, Monday announced it had signed a long term lease
agreement for a property in Auckland, which will be its first hotel in New
Zealand.
RED HERRING...
SILICON VALLEY: Award Recognizes the 100 'Most Promising' Asian Companies
Driving the Future of Technology Red Herring has announced that ProGenTech
Limited was a winner of the Red Herring 100 Award, a selection of the 100 most
innovative private technology companies based in Asia.
http://www.redherring.com
BIG BRANDS...
SINGAPORE: Telnic Limited, the Registry Operator for the new .tel top level
domain-driven directory service, announced yesterday that it had received
thousands of applications from leading brands for the new, mobile-optimized
contacts directory on the internet within the first hours of opening
registration period for trademark owners.
http://www.telnic.org
WATERLOGIC INTRODUCES...
LONDON: Waterlogic Monday launched its striking new "Waterlogic 4" water
cooler, significantly advancing the company's renowned product range and
forever changing the way the world perceives water coolers. The new model
combines unrivalled looks with the most impressive water dispensing technology
and performance available to date.
http://www.waterlogic.com
ANTI-TERROR EXPERT ...
HOD HASHARON: Developed After 9/11, Escape Rescue System's revolutionary
multi-tiered, external emergency evacuation platform provides unprecedented
fight and flight capabilities in the event of an emergency, such as a terror
attack, fire or hostage-taking scenario in a high-rise building.
http://www.escaperescue.com
AIR CHINA...
BEIJING: From December 15th 2008, Air China will fly passengers from four
cities in Mainland China; Tianjin, Hangzhou, Chengdu and Chongqing, to Taipei
directly. They will join Beijing and Shanghai, who have offered direct flights
to Taipei since July 2008.
NEW ELEVATORS...
HELSINKI: KONE will release a range of elevator offerings during 2009 which
will reduce energy consumption by 30 per cent, compared to its current volume
models. Furthermore, KONE targets a 50 per cent energy consumption cutback in
its elevator offering by the year 2010, compared to its previous offering.
http://www.kone.com
SUPERMICRO UNVEILS...
SAN JOSE: Super Micro Computer, Inc., a leader in application-optimized,
high performance server and workstation solutions, Monday introduced its new
server/storage solutions truly optimized for small office, home office (SOHO)
environments.
http://www.Supermicro.com.
PHANTOM ENTERTAINMENT...
TAMPA: Phantom Entertainment Monday launched its highly anticipated online
game store, located at gamestore.phantom.net. The game store features an
impressive catalog of over 2,600 PC games including top sellers like Fallout 3
and Far Cry 2.
www.phantom.net
DNA JEWEL...
GENEVA: Swiss-based http://www.dnartistic.com's first piece of DNA luxury
jewellery will be sold at 1 million CHF and some of the proceeds will be used
to finance the anti-aging services and life extension research of sister
company http:/ www.inneova.com.
http://www.dnartistic.com's
NEW CEO...
NEW YORK: Jim Heekin, Chairman and CEO of Grey Group, Tuesday announced that
Nirvik Singh has been appointed Chairman and CEO of Grey Group Asia Pacific,
responsible for Grey and G2 in the region, effective January 1st 2009. Singh
succeeds Mike Amour who has held the top post in Asia Pacific since 2005.
www.grey.com/asiapacific/
FOOD POLICY...
PARIS: At the request of the French permanent delegation to the Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO), momagri's representatives addressed the
ambassadors of about thirty member nations in Rome on November 9, 2008 and
presented strategic proposals for an international agriculture and food policy.
http://www.momagri.org
COMSCORE RELEASES...
TOKYO: comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, Tuesday
released its rankings of the largest and fastest-growing Internet properties
and site categories in Japan for October 2008, based on data from the comScore
World Metrix audience measurement service.
http://www.comscore.com/boilerplate
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