Asia PR News

SYDNEY, Nov 29 /AsiaNet/ –

VERIZON BUSINESS…
SINGAPORE: Verizon Business has enhanced the reach and
capabilities of its network across South Asia as part of its
continued investment in, and long-term commitment to, the
Asia-Pacific region.
www.verizonbusiness.com
www.prnewswire.com/comp/094251.html

INDIVIDUAL LENDING…
NEW YORK: Women’s World Banking, one of the leading global
microfinance networks, will host a training course on
individual lending in Lucknow, India, December 6-8. The course
will be given in collaboration with Indias NABARD, a leader in
promoting sustainable and equitable agriculture and rural
development through credit support and institution building.

K2 BLACKMARKET…
REDMOND, Washington: K2 blackmarket, a code- and
solution-sharing community space, is live on K2Underground.com.
K2 blackmarket contains a wide variety of K2 user-submitted
content, such as process samples, forms, Web parts, code
snippets and other items. Any registered user can access this
content and submit new items.
www.k2.com

CLEVELAND UROLOGISTS…
CLEVELAND, OHIO: Cleveland Clinic urologists recently
performed a series of ground-breaking single-port surgeries:
laparoscopic nephrectomy, bilateral pyeloplasty, ileal ureter
replacement, and psoas hitch uretero-neocystostomy. Urologic
surgeon Mihir Desai, MD, head of endourology, performed these
surgeries, each a world first, trans-umbilically by inserting
all necessary instruments through a single access port inserted
into the patients’ bellybuttons.
www.advancedsurgical.ie

FANNIE MAE…
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal
amount of FINP securities issues amounting to a total of
US$90.87 million on December 10, 2007 at a redemption price
equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus
accrued interest.
Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of FINS
securities issues amounting to a total of US$11.815 million on
December 10, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of
the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.
Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTNR
securities issues amounting to a total of US$50 million on
December 8, 2007 and December 10, 2007 at a redemption price
equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus
accrued interest.
Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN
securities issues amounting to a total of US$1202.838 million
on December 8, 2007 and December 10, 2007 at a redemption price
equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus
accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com

AMERICAN STANDARD…
PISCATAWAY, New Jersey: Trane makes its debut today as the
new name for the company previously known as American Standard
Companies. Shares of Trane will trade under the symbol "TT" on
the New York Stock Exchange — the same shares that traded
under the symbol "ASD" when the company was known as American
Standard Companies.
www.trane.com
www.americanstandardair.com

SKUNKWORKS PERL…
ADELAIDE: Telco Perl empowers IVR telephony developers to
eliminate the typical technical restrictions of proprietary
systems to create new services in a shorter time and lower
cost.
www.skunkworks.net.au

SEARCHBOTH.COM CHARITY… LOS ANGELES: SearchBoth.com; a
tool that enables users to search both Google and Yahoo side by
side on one split screen along with any two travel sites and
any two Yellow Pages sites, will be donating 15% of its net
profits to charity
www.SearchBoth.com/Charity
www.YELLOWPAGES.travel
www.YellowPagesMessenger.com

THOMSON SCIENTIFIC… PHILADELPHIA and LONDON: Thomson
Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation and leading
provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and
business communities, today announced the results of a study
assessing trends in multiauthor papers.
www.scientific.thomson.com

COMSCORE RANKINGS…
TOKYO: comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital
world, today released its October rankings of the most visited
and fastest growing Internet properties in Japan based on data
from its comScore World Metrix service.
www.comscore.com

WIZZL PHONE…
VOORSCHOTEN: Wizzl has officially launched the beta version
of the first all-in-one virtual telephone during Gameplay 07,
the biggest game event in the Benelux. CEO Jaap Korevaar gave
an insight into the functionality of the application and
revealed future plans of the company.
www.wizzl.com
www.wizzl.com/press

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