Mastek Launches ElixirAsia for India and Asia Pacific Markets

September 9th, 2009 SINGAPORE and LONDON - Telecom executives, investment bankers, law firms and professional intermediaries are gathering in Singapore on November 5-6 at TMT Finance and Investment Asia (www.tmtfinance.com/asia), the global content and networking rich forum. The forum features the Telecom Leadership Round Table chaired by Booz & Co with CEOs and CFOs from the leading international telecom operators; M&A Advisers Panel with Clifford Chance LLP, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, and HSBC and National Broadband Networks, hosted by KPMG.

August 30th, 2009 SINGAPORE - - New GM Focuses on Growth and Business Development in Asia by Extending Acision's Market Reach Acision, the world's leading messaging company, today announces the appointment of Mark Williams as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Asia-Pacific region. Based in Acision's Singapore office, Williams will take responsibility for aggressively driving growth in the region.

August 13th, 2009 HERZLIYA, Israel - Logia Group, a leading global provider of innovative mobile entertainment services, announced the launch of Mo-Tip (www.mo-tip.com), a smart personal mobile alert service that matches publishers with end consumers. Mo-Tip is the first service that enables publishers to create and manage personal SMS programs without going through any integration challenges or red tape.

August 12th, 2009 BANGALORE, India - Total Environment Building Systems Private Limited, a real estate design & construction firm from India has won 2 prestigious awards at the CNBC Asia Pacific Residential Property Awards 2009. 'Windmills Of Your Mind' by Total Environment was adjudged Winner in Best Residential Architecture for Asia Pacific Region and also the Best Development in India.

August 11th, 2009 MUMBAI, India - - A Platform for Life Insurance Carriers That Will Enable New Carriers `Go Live' With Their Businesses in 90 Days - ElixirAsia Will be the `Platform of Choice' for Insurance Carriers Pursuing Aggressive Growth - Mastek Expects to be the Leader in the Fast Growing Indian Market Mastek Ltd, a leading IT solutions player with global operations in providing new technology and IP-led enterprise solutions to insurance, government and financial service organizations worldwide, announced the launch of ElixirAsia, a platform for life insurance carriers that will enable new carriers 'go live' with their businesses in three months. An out-of-the- box platform with ready to deploy pre-configured products, interfaces and reports, backed by a proven implementation methodology, ElixirAsia helps insurance carriers go live with their business in 90 days.

July 5th, 2009 NEW YORK - Domainmonster.com & the DotAsia Registry today launched their promotion to give away 2GB micro USB flash drives with every new .asia domain name (www.domainmonster.com/domain-name/asia/) purchased for two years or more. Measuring just 15 x 25 x 4mm deep, the Domainmonster.com branded USB drive is only a fraction larger than a quarter dollar or 50 Euro cent coin, making it ultra portable.

June 14th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Sumitomo Heavy Industries Marine & Engineering (SHI-ME) Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd., has successfully delivered the first ship yard designed using AVEVA Marine. SHI-ME is one of Japan's leading shipyards and has been building ships for over 110 years.

June 7th, 2009 MUMBAI - After nearly one and a half years of association, IIFL and Auerbach Grayson have mutually decided to part ways. The partnership will terminate with effect from 10th of June, 2009.

May 26th, 2009 TEL AVIV, Israel - New Mumbai Subsidiary to Leverage Heavy Ongoing 2G Growth, Impending 3G Network Rollouts, Support Existing Indian Clients, and Spearhead Push Into Asia-Pacific Region TEL AVIV, Israel, May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Celtro, the leading supplier of innovative mobile backhaul switching solutions, today announced the opening of the company's Indian subcontinent headquarters and newest subsidiary office in Mumbai, India. As part of Celtro's ongoing global expansion, and in the wake of growing interest in Celtro's mobile backhaul switching solutions in emerging markets worldwide, the newest Celtro office will spearhead Celtro's sales and support on the Indian subcontinent, and also lead current and future activities in the Asia-Pacific region.

April 20th, 2009 NEW YORK - New site features multi-page report that provides an in-depth guide to India's fixed and mobile markets, including a snapshot of all the service providers, the key trends, and a map of India's service areas, or 'circles' A new seven-page report, "A Guide to India's Telecom Market," has been published to inaugurate the launch of Light Reading Asia ( www.lightreading.com/asia), which provides Light Reading's readers with a single point of reference for its coverage of the Asia/Pacific region. The report is timely and relevant to Light Reading's global readership.

July 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Citibank has named a three-person team to replace Ajay Banga, who held the title of Asia-Pacific CEO and left the firm June 19 to become president and CEO of MasterCard. Shirish Apte,56, and Stephen Bird, 42 have been made CEOs for Asia-Pacific, while Shengman Zhang has been named chairman of the firm in the region, effective immediately, Indian American Vikram Pandit led bank announced Monday.

January 21st, 2009 KOLKATA - Car manufacturer Fiat India is likely to double sales by 2010, a top company official said here Thursday. 'We are anticipating more than 40,000 sales in the current year (2009) and we hope to double it by 2010,' Rajeev Kapoor, president and chief executive officer of the company said on the sidelines of the launch of Fiat Linea - a sedan with diesel and petrol variants.

February 15th, 2009 BANGKOK - More than 11 countries, including India, are expected to participate at a meeting in Manila in Philippines to discuss the responses to the current economic crisis. Ministers of labour and finance, senior UN and government officials, workers and employers' representatives from Asia and the Pacific will meet in Manila from Feb 18-20 for the forum titled 'Responding to the Economic Crisis - Coherent Policies for Growth, Employment and Decent Work in Asia and the Pacific', a press statement issued by the International Labour Organisation said Monday.

June 19th, 2009 MasterCard names Citi Asia Pacific exec COONEW YORK — MasterCard says its new president and chief operating officer will be Ajay Banga, the former CEO of Citigroup's Asia Pacific division, beginning Aug. 31. Banga, 49, replaces Robert W.

July 6th, 2009 Citi names 2 senior execs to lead Asia operationsHONG KONG — Citigroup Inc. said Monday it was naming two senior executives to lead its Asia Pacific operations after the previous head of the region resigned.

February 21st, 2009 CHENNAI - Car manufacturer Ford India that plans to roll out a small car on an outlay of $500 million, is currently studying overseas markets to finalise its engine and transmissions capacity expansion plans. 'We are working on the demand estimates of our export markets in the Asia Pacific and African regions.

January 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Auto manufacturer Fiat India Friday launched its luxury sedan Fiat Linea in India. The car will be available in both diesel and petrol versions.

May 20th, 2009 LONDON - Rejecting Australian Defence White Paper's claims that the US supremacy is fading in the Asia-Pacific region, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the US did not see the rise of China as "a zero-sum game" which would inevitably leave America weakened. Speaking to the foreign press corps in Washington DC overnight, Clinton rejected that the economic rise of China and other nations in the region would inevitably mean that US power would decline after 2030 - and that Australia needs to prepare for that world.

August 13th, 2009 Obama to attend APEC conference in SingaporeWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will attend a meeting of Asian and Pacific leaders in Singapore in November. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs announced the trip Thursday.

June 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharti Airtel, one of India's leading telecom service providers, has been adjudged the best service provider in the Asia-Pacific region by telecom research and consultancy firm Frost and Sullivan. The company has bagged top honours for overall service quality and has been adjudged the service provider of the year in the "Best of the Best" category, Airtel said in a statement Tuesday.