Tapping into growth in Asia and in renewable energy, GE (NYSE: GE) unit GE Energy Financial Services announced today it has loaned US $50 million to Indonesia’s biggest geothermal power producer, a 220-megawatt emissions-free plant set in a volcanic region of tea and quinine plantations. The loan for the Wayang Windu plant — [...]

Efficiently Serves a widely Dispersed Population of Unbanked Consumers
Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, today announced it will deploy its Dexxis Instant Issuance solution in Indonesia to enable on-the-spot delivery of secure microprocessor–based banking cards. Gemalto is working with local partner SAI (Smart Aplikasi Indonesia), an affiliate of leading [...]

iPhone continues to dominate smartphone ebook usage, Blackberry reduces the gap to the front
Wattpad, the world’s most popular ebook community, provides insight on ebook market penetration in its Q3 2009 Global Ebook Metrics Report. This comprehensive report covers both country and handset/manufacturer data based on ebook usage of subscribers of over 600 mobile operators in [...]

Opera Mini crosses 35 million users, processes 2 petabytes of data per month according to newest State of the Mobile Web report
No need to fear the monthly mobile bill anymore: consumers in the top ten countries save approximately 8.1 billion USD per year using Opera Mini, according to Opera’s State of the Mobile Web report [...]

The TUV Rheinland Group is pleased to announce that it has further expanded its service portfolio for the Hospitality & Tourism industry.
Recent international incidents have changed the attitude and expectations of those who travel and therefore the way the tourism sector operates. In light of this TUV Rheinland has developed new services that [...]

Pall Corporation (NYSE: PLL), a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, today announced that two Pall mobile military water treatment systems supplied to the Australian Army as part of a fleet of eighteen systems, have been deployed as part of “Operation Padang Assist”, the Australian government’s humanitarian response to the recent earthquakes in Indonesia. [...]

Magazine and Newspaper Publishers now get SaaS based hosted Model and an effortless, intuitive, multi language self-publish product to expand digital consumer’s base at a very compelling price along with 1 year hosting
Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, October 08, 2009,: ePublishing innovator, Pressmart Media (www.pressmart.com) today announced the availability ‘eMag Lite’ a first of its kind [...]

ESPN STAR Sports (ESS), Asia’s biggest sports content provider, announced today that it has secured exclusive rights to broadcast the Barclays Premier League (BPL) on multiple platforms in India. As a part of this arrangement, for the first time, all 380 BPL matches will be available to be shown live across multiple platforms including Television, [...]

Inaugural Competition Encourages Creativity Among Students in the Asia Pacific Region
INDIA — September 15, 2009 — Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that starting September 15, 2009, the company will begin accepting submissions for the first Adobe® Asia Pacific School Innovation Awards, open to all 14-19 year old students in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, China, [...]

A unique scheme on the occasion of Independence Day that spells profits for all
New Delhi, August 13, 2009: Simmtronics Semiconductors, one of the leading brands in memory module, motherboards and VGA cards business; ranked amidst Top 5 memory companies in the world and also ranked as No. 1 memory module company in Asia-Pacific besides a [...]