OFFER RAISED...
SINGAPORE: Connect Holdings Limited has raised the price of its voluntary
conditional cash general offer to acquire all the issued shares of
Nasdaq-listed Pacific Internet Limited toUS$11.00 net in cash per share,
without interest.
http://www.sec.gov
COO APPOINTED...
NEW YORK: Cushman & Wakefield, the world's largest privately held commercial
real estate services firm, has announced the appointment of Franklin L. Lavin
to Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Cushman & Wakefield
Investors Asia.
http://www.cushmanwakefield.com
GENERAL MANAGER...
MOUNTAIN VIEW: Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in multi-service
optimization solutions for mobile data networks, has announced the appointment
of Nobuhiko Tsuji as vice president and general manager, Japan.
http://www.bytemobile.com/
VALUE LEADERSHIP...
STATE COLLEGE: Frost & Sullivan, the world's leading growth consulting
company, has named Minitab Inc. the recipient of its 2007 Customer Value
Leadership of the Year Award in the quality compliance, manufacturing
productivity and statistical process control market.
http://www.minitab.com
http://www.awards.frost.com
WORLD HEADQUARTERS...
CAMBRIDGE: Nuvera Fuel Cells, Inc. announced on Wednesday that it will move
its world headquarters, currently located in Cambridge, MA, to Billerica, MA on
Friday, June 8, 2007.
http://www.nuvera.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae priced on June 6, new issue 10-year benchmark notes
worth US$3 billion
http://www.fanniemae.com
TAKEOVER APPROVED...
MOSCOW and TORONTO: OJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel has announced that it has
received notice that Norilsk Nickel's proposed acquisition of control of
LionOre Mining International Ltd. has been approved by the Swiss Competition
Commission under the applicable Swiss merger control laws.
http://www.nornik.ru/en
NEW OFFICE...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK: Quintiles Transnational Corp. has announced that it
plans to build a new office near Edinburgh that will be the Scotland home for
its Product Development business, including Quintiles Laboratories, and its
NovaQuest group.
http://www.quintiles.com
SUPPORT RESOLUTIONS...
HONG KONG: Safe Harbor Master Fund L.P., a fund managed by Safe Harbor
Investment Ltd., the largest shareholder of SNT Corporation, has issued proxy
materials to SNT's shareholders urging them to support Safe Harbor's
resolutions at the 76th Annual General Meeting on 28 June 2007.
http://www.safeharbor-investment.com
DISCLOSURE TABLE...
EL SEGUNDO: Computer Sciences Corporation has issued the following statement
in response to requirements of the UK Panel on Takeovers and Mergers, which has
added CSC to its Disclosure Table as a potential offeror for iSOFT Group plc.
http://www.csc.com
SHARES ACQUIRED...
PARIS: In a management buyout, AXA Private Equity has acquired the majority
of the shares of Welcome Real-time, a global provider of payment software for
financial institutions and payment networks.
http://www.axaprivateequity.com
http://www.welcome-rt.com )
RECORD JACKPOT...
LONDON: Brian Somers, a 39-year-old self employed landscape gardener from a
council estate in Sunderland, UK, is celebrating after raking in a record
PartyCasino.com jackpot of US$1,092,957.68 (GBP551,000) from an 18 cents
spin(9p)
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070606/259898-a
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DEVELOPMENT COMPLETE...
TOKYO: Aloka Co., Ltd. announced that it had completed
development to make its ProSound Alpha 10 compatible with the
latest ultrasound gastrovideoscope manufactured by Olympus
Medical Systems Corp. and has released the product for
market.
SOLUTIONS SHOWCASED...
HSINCHU: Edge-Core, the professional networking solution provider, actively
showcases its next generation Metro Ethernet solutions, including WiMAX series
and Metro Access Switches, at Taipei 101, 36F Room B from June 5th to 9th,
2007, the Computex Taipei period, under a real-time triple play scenario.
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