Will Extend Range of PPD Service Offerings in China to Meet Growing Biopharmaceutical Demand
PPD, Inc. (NASDAQ:PPDI) announced it has signed an agreement to acquire BioDuro LLC, a drug discovery outsourcing company that provides a broad range of integrated services to biopharmaceutical companies. The acquisition will expand PPD’s drug development capabilities in China.
Founded [...]

Numo Solutions (former Mobile Nordic) launches its mobile search platform for global reach. The award winning interactive mobile number and name search is now Numo Finder (formerly 118 Mobile). More Numo products, operator deals and handset manufactures partnerships will be announced in the coming months.
Mobile Asia Congress 2009, Hong Kong – November 19, 2009. Numo [...]

Quarterly Sales of US$4.1 billion Operating Profit of US$43 million (excluding restructuring costs/one-off items) Restructuring Charge of US$3 million Profit Attributable to Equity Holders of US$53 million Basic EPS of 0.59 US cent, or 4.57 HK cents Net Cash Reserves of US$1.8 billion (as of September 30, 2009)
Lenovo Group today reported results for [...]

In Partnership with International Council of Graphic Design Associations, Student Competition Attracts 3,300 Global Entries
INDIA. — Oct. 26, 2009 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the winners of the ninth annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA), recognized as one of the world’s most prestigious student design and film competitions. The awards, which took place [...]

Tilera Leads the “Many-Core” Era, Opening up New Possibilities in Networking, Multimedia, Wireless and Cloud Computing
Tilera® Corporation, developer of the breakthrough TILE™ family of high-performance multicore processors, today announced its new TILE-Gx™ family — four new processors from Tilera including the world’s first 100-core processor: the TILE-Gx100™. The TILE-Gx100 offers the highest performance of any [...]

elliquence, LLC., a leading medical device designer and manufacturer based in Oceanside, New York, and Bonovo Orthopedics, Inc., a premier developer, manufacturer and distributor of orthopedic and neurosurgical products to the Chinese community, have partnered to distribute elliquence products in China. Headquartered in the United States, Bonovo maintains operations in Beijing, Shanghai and [...]

ePlanet Ventures (www.eplanetventures.com), a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, London, Bangalore, Beijing and Seoul was selected as the Asia Venture Capital Firm of the Year 2009, recognizing the firm’s commitment to the growing economies of Asia. The award was presented in Mumbai by Global M&A Network, in a year that saw [...]

Citi Global Banking has appointed Jing Zhao and Simon Yoo as co-heads of Citi’s Financial Institutions Group (FIG) in Asia Pacific. Both will report to Farhan Faruqui, head of Asia Pacific Global Banking and be based in Hong Kong.
Jing is currently Chairman of China Investment Banking and she will also continue in [...]

The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) will begin its 15th Annual Asia Fair tour in Tokyo on October 25, make stops in seven other cities across Asia, and conclude in New Delhi on November 14.
The fairs are designed for students and their families who are interested in attending a U.S. or Canadian college [...]

International law firm Sidley Austin LLP has announced that it recently advised Sinotruk (Hong Kong) Limited, one of the largest manufacturers of heavy trucks in China, in its cooperation project with MAN SE, a German industrial group. This transaction, which involved an equity deal and a technology licensing arrangement, was announced, with all definitive agreements [...]