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AsiaNet Daily Summary - Press Releases for Wednesday 1 July 2009
SYDNEY, July 1 /AsiaNet/ --
TETCO-VOXPILOT LAUNCHES...
COURBEVOIE - Already present in the VoiceXML platform market with Open
Media Platform, Tetco-Voxpilot, is launching Videofy studio, a software
suite which enables both professional video creation, in any format, and
its incorporation into interactive video broadcasting systems.
DIGI ANNOUNCES...
MINNETONKA, Minn.- Digi International (Nasdaq: DGII) today introduced a
comprehensive Smart Energy product family, including the industry's first
ZigBee Smart Energy ready modules and certified Energy Service Portal (ESP)
gateways built on these modules.
ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING...
TOKYO - Fortent, a provider of risk and compliance technology and
information, today announced that Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking
Corporation (President: Kinya Okauchi), a major wholly-owned subsidiary of
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (President & CEO: Nobuo Kuroyanagi),
has selected the Fortent Monitor anti-money laundering software for the
firm's Japanese domestic operations.
NEVERBLUE AND EHARMONY..
VICTORIA - Neverblue, a premier global lead generation network, has
signed an exclusive agreement with eHarmony, the online service that uses
relationship science to match singles seeking long-term relationships, to
expand its performance marketing in Australia.
STARWOOD HOTELS...
SINGAPORE and WHITE PLAINS, New York - Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Worldwide, Inc (NYSE:HOT) and Tata Communications, a leading provider of
the new world of communications, today announced a partnership agreement as
part of an ambitious plan to roll out public Telepresence rooms worldwide.
WEDO TECHNOLOGIES...
LISBON - Hosting the fourth meeting of its worldwide user group, WeDo
technologies announced its findings that the current economic downturn has
revealed a clear requirement for the implementation of Business Assurance
systems. The company have proposed a Business Assurance methodology,
supported by adequate systems, to monitor and control business operations
and prevent risk.
NTT COMMUNICATIONS ANNOUNCES...
TOKYO - NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the wholly-owned
subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, and Integralis
AG, a leading international provider of IT security services, announced
June 30 the signing of a Business Combination Agreement.
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN
securities issues amounting to a total of US$275 million on July 10, 2009
at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount
redeemed plus accrued interest.
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of FINP
securities issues amounting to a total of US$18.306 million on July 10,
2009 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount
redeemed plus accrued interest.
IPTV ROLLOUTS...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.- Despite the massive investments necessary in
Asia/Pacifics IPTV market, both in technology and content procurement,
telecom operators must invest to gain subscriber market share according to
a new report from Pyramid Research (the telecom research arm of the Light
Reading Communications Network
EESTECH JETWATER...
SYDNEY - Impulse Hydro, which is the licensee for the EESTech Inc.
(EESH.PK) JetWater Thermal Desalination System, was a sponsor of the recent
'Optimising CSG Production & Utilisation Forum' held in Brisbane.
ENIGMA DIAGNOSTICS ANNOUNCES...
PORTON DOWN - Enigma Diagnostics Limited, the decentralised and point-
of-care molecular diagnostics company, announced today successful
independent testing for bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) by the Veterinary
Laboratories Agency to evaluate the performance of the Enigma FL (Field
Laboratory).
DSWISS LAUNCHES...
ZURICH - DSwiss AG, the Internet data banking specialists, announced
today the launch of DataInherit, a new and innovative global Internet
service offering a high security data safe with a unique digital
inheritance feature.
FOOD INGREDIENTS LAUNCH...
SAO PAULO - The Health ingredients (Hi) South America Summit, was held
for the first time on June 15-16, 2009 at Sao Paulo's Novotel Centre Norte.
The international conference and tabletop exhibition welcomed over 1000 key
decision-makers in the food industry, in this, its inaugural edition.
CROWN EXPANDS...
PHILADELPHIA - Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (Crown), a leading
supplier of packaging products worldwide, announced today that its
subsidiary, CROWN Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd has acquired a beverage can
production facility located northeast of Ho Chi Minh City in Dong Nai
Province, Vietnam from Interfood Shareholding Company (VNSE: IFS).
Interfood will retain a minority investment interest in the plant.
SCUDERI ENGINE...
WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - The Scuderi Engine cleared another major
development hurdle last week after engineers successfully fired the engine
for the first time, achieving the split-cycle engines revolutionary concept
of firing after top dead center.
WESTINGHOUSE JAPAN...
PITTSBURGH and TOKYO - Westinghouse Electric Company ("Westinghouse")
today announced the formation of Westinghouse Electric Japan, a new
organization that will provide a single focal point for all Westinghouse
products and services manufactured, sold or procured in Japan. Westinghouse
also announced that it has appointed Jack B. Allen, currently senior vice
president of Westinghouse Electric Company, as president and CEO of the new
entity.
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