[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Citibank Korea (CEO Ha, Yung Ku, www.citibank.co.kr) was awarded as ‘the Best bank in Korea for 2012’ in Triple A Country Awards for achievement for 2012 which were announced by Asset Magazine. It won the award 10 times during the last 10 years and for 10 consecutive years. In its editorial on the awards, the Asset said “Citi Korea boasts a strong franchise, offering a full suite of corporate and consumer banking products and solutions. Having one of the largest corporate banking operations in the country, it has the depth and breadth in terms of expertise. Leveraging its
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Effective 15 January 2013 subject to the approval of the anti-trust authorities the internationally operating logistics provider Dachser is to acquire the Spanish logistics provider, Azkar S.A. Dachser has held a 10 percent stake in its Iberian logistics partner since 2008. Azkar is one of the biggest Iberian logistics providers and market leader in the Spanish groupage segment. The company generated revenue of EUR 367 million in 2011 with a staff of over 3,000 working in 91 branch offices. Additionally, the company is supported by some 2,000 external drivers. Following t
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]American Wave Machines, Inc. (AWM), the leader in artificial wave technology for surf parks, announces three technological breakthroughs for PerfectSwell™, an innovative approach to generating large waves with the emphasis on wave quality and surfing. PerfectSwell is the next generation of artificial wave pools with its patent pending PerfectSwell Wave App™, patented Reflecting Wave Generator and Phased Array Control System, providing the opportunity for surfing outside of the ocean. Production of PerfectSwell is underway in Sochi, Russia, site of the 2014 Olympics. The 3
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Thomson Reuters to acquire the Investor Relations, Public Relations and Multimedia Solutions businesses, which provide insight, analytics and communications solutions to more than 7,000 clients worldwide. Upon completion of the transaction, these complementary businesses will be integrated into NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions. The combination would create a global corporate services portfolio, with more diversified and comprehensive offerings to sell to NASDAQ OMX's listing
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Bursa Malaysia (BURSA:MK) and NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ), today announced that Bursa Malaysia has selected NASDAQ OMX to power its securities market trading through NASDAQ OMX's industry leading technology, X-Stream INET. The new platform will handle trading of equities, fixed income, ETF, funds and issuer warrants for Bursa Malaysia. X-Stream INET's system robustness and speed will drive exchange innovation for Bursa Malaysia to attract a variety of market participants and create innovative products and services to match international demand. The deployment is
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:MU), one of the world‘s leading providers of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the addition of a new product to its Phase Change Memory (PCM) portfolio. With high-volume shipments of its 45-nanometer (nm), 1-gigabit (Gb) PCM-based multichip package (MCP) solution for mobile devices well underway, the company is now sampling a 512-megabit (Mb) PCM plus 512Mb LPDDR2 MCP that offers greater flexibility in terms of application requirements. The company also announced that it has been shipping 1Gb PCM to one of the world’s leadin
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) and Micrel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRL), an industry leader in high performance linear and power, clock and timing and LAN solutions, today announced the world's first fully interoperable IEEE 802.3 standard-compliant Ethernet PHY for in-vehicle networking. The two companies successfully demonstrated the technology at the recent Nikkei Electronics Symposium, which took place September 5, 2012 in Tokyo, Japan. With this newly proven solution, the automotive industry now can leverage the existing ecosystem of Ethernet networking applications for use in the ne
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Micrel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRL), an industry leader in high-performance linear and power solutions, LAN, and timing and communications solutions, announces ClockWorks Fusion, a revolutionary clock generation product family that integrates the crystal, frequency synthesizer and fan-out buffer to deliver the industry‘s highest level of integration. The MX85 is the first in a series of devices aimed at simultaneously meeting the ultra-low jitter (less than 200fs) and integration requirements of 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet, PCIe 2.0/3.0, Fibre Channel, SAS/SATA, and high speed ref
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Micrel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRL), an industry leader in high performance analog and high-speed mixed signal, LAN, and timing and communications solutions, announced a new highly configurable dual PLL clock generator optimized for ultra-low jitter, excellent crosstalk isolation and enhanced power supply noise rejection. The SM803xxx family achieves less than 200 femto-second (fs) RMS phase jitter with twelve differential or single-end outputs for frequencies up to 850MHz. FLEX2 supports very demanding applications requiring numerous frequencies, high fan-out, and ultra-low jitt
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Webtrends, the global leader in digital intelligence, announced today the debut of Webtrends Streams™, a groundbreaking new digital intelligence solution that, for the first time, provides enterprises with the ability to transform their online business in real time. Webtrends Streams harnesses rich visitor-level data, as-it happens, across all digital properties, including web sites, mobile, and social channels; configurable live streams of real-time online customer activities power extensive ‘as-it-happens’ views of a company's online business that is unprecedented in te