FONX mentioned here too:
COMTEX) B: ASIANET SUMMARY FOR THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2000
Press releases distributed by AsiaNet to, 2000 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- today:
ELECTRONIC JOURNALS....... NEW YORK:
A press statement announced today the creation of the Elsevier ScienceDirect
OnSite China Consortium, "China's first partnership with a commercial publisher
to deliver full-text electronic journals."
The three-year contract would enable the consortium's 11 top Chinese educational
and research institutions to expand their digital libraries, providing users
with access to over 1,100 full-text scientific journals through the major
information hubs of Tsinghua University, Beijing, and Shanghai Jiaotong
University.
SESAME ENGLISH....... NEW JERSEY:
Berlitz International, Inc. announced today the rollout of its new Sesame
English programme, "teaching young children around the world, through live
instruction, how to speak English." The company said it would launch the
programme in Japan this month, Germany and Austria in May and Hong Kong, Korea,
Thailand and Israel in July.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE....... WASHINGTON:
A press statement said today Guam had been awarded over $USM1.2 " to enhance
criminal justice efforts to combat crime and violence" at the state and local
level under the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance
Formula Grant Programme administered by the (US) Bureau of Justice Assistance.
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT....... SALT LAKE CITY:
Fonix Corporation announced today an agreement with Japan-based Kyushu
Matsushita Electric Co." best known in the U.S. by the Panasonic brand products
it produces," to integrate Fonix speech technologies into Panasonic consumer and
commercial electronic products."
JAPANESE RELEASE....... CALIFORNIA:
Collaborative manufacturing commerce solutions provider, Agile Software
Corporation, today announced the "release and general availability" of Agile
Anywhere 6.0, Japanese version. The company said this offered its installed base
of Japanese electronics manufacturers and the market as a whole "the ability to
communicate and collaborate with their entire outsourced supply chain, not only
in internet time but also in their native language." Agile also named Mr Eiichi
Majima as head of its operations in Japan.
SOFTWARE PACKAGE....... HONG KONG:
Internad Limited today launched ProfitMaker, a software package which allowed
enterprises "to build and bring quickly to market " e-commerce websites. Sales
and marketing director Mrs Madeleine Fan said "customers will be able to sell
their products online, accept credit card payments, manage customer information
and most importantly, manage a large product inventory, all via the web."
FINANCIAL INFORMATION....... HONG KONG: A press statement said today Hong
Kong-based online financial information provider, E-Finet.com, had launched
Finet Market Express, "a real-time Hong Kong..... product aimed at the mass
retail investor market." Features included continuous auto-refreshing stock
quote teletext screens with full brokers' queue using "push" technology to
provide direct Market Data Feed (MDF) information from the Stock Exchange of
Hong Kong.
INDEX CHANGE....... NEW YORK:
Standard & Poor's said today it would make a change to the S&P/TOPIX 150 Index,
covering the Japanese market, after the close of trading on Thursday, April 27
(US).
The Investible Weight Factor for Nikko Securities would be changed from .76 to
.66.
EARNINGS RESULTS....... PENNSYLVANIA:
Vishay Intertechnology CEO Dr. Felix Zandman announced today that net earnings
in the first quarter of 2000 were a record $US74,271,000 or $0.84 per share on
sales of $538,894,000. Sales increased 27% compared to the first quarter of 1999
and 15% from the fourth quarter. CALIFORNIA:
Callaway Golf Company reported net sales of $M206.6 for the first quarter, an 11
per cent increase over last year's comparable period. The company said it had
achieved a new record level of sales. Net income increased 26 per cent to $M16.2
and diluted earnings per share were up 22 per cent to $0.22.
STRATEGIC MERGER....... CALIFORNIA:
Komag, Incorporated and HMT Technology Corp. today announced that they had
agreed to a strategic merger of equals "to create the world's leading supplier
of high-performance thin-film disks to manufacturers of high-capacity hard disk
drives."
ACQUISITION OFFER....... LONDON:
Lincoln Electric Holdings announced today that it had made an offer to acquire
Charter plc, a London-based multinational industrial corporation, pending
approval of regulatory agencies. The company said it was offering 500 pence for
each of the 94.5 million outstanding shares.
SENIOR APPOINTMENTS...... HONG KONG: Pan Asia internet solutions provider,
iAsiaWorks, said today it had recruited former White House technology adviser,
Brad Kofoed, to manage its operations across the Asia-Pacific region.
MICHIGAN:
Visteon Corporation said today it had named Barbara Quilty director of global
compensation planning. She would be responsible for developing and launching
Visteon's global human resources compensation and benefits strategy.
PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT....... CALIFORNIA:
Data communications industry company, Network Peripherals, today announced an
OEM partnership with "a U.S. networking product manufacturer." The company said
it supplied Layer 3/4 Ethernet switches on an OEM basis to "other
industry-leading manufacturers."
POWER SAVINGS....... PENNSYLVANIA:
Tyco Electronics Corporation's Fibre Optic Division today announced that its
recently introduced AMP Gigabit Ethernet SFF MT-RJ transceivers, or AMP Fibre
Channel SFF MT-RJ transceivers, when combined with Vitesse Semiconductor
Corporation's family of complementary Gigabit four-channel "quad"
serialiser-deserialiser (SerDes) IC chips, offered a Physical Layer power
savings of up to 30 per cent per port.
FIJI PRODUCTION....... SYDNEY:
The Fiji Islands government today announced Cabinet approval of legislation
designed to establish the islands as "the best location in the world for
production and distribution of film, television, music, computer software and e
commerce."
HEAVYWEIGHT BETS....... LONDON:
Bookmakers William Hill said today punters around the world were being offered
the opportunity to place bets on the outcome of this weekend's World Heavyweight
Title clash between undisputed champion Lennox Lewis (2/7) and his opponent
Michael Grant (5/2) via the internet site willhill.com.
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