Maybank is pleased to announce that it has today entered into a conditional sale and purchase agreement (“SPA”) to acquire up to 100% of Sorak Financial Holdings Pte Ltd (“Sorak”) for a cash consideration of approximately USD1.5 billion (RM4.8 billion) paving the way for Malaysia’s largest financial services group to be the controlling shareholder of Bank Internasional Indonesia (“BII”). The transaction price was agreed on a willing-buyer and willing-seller basis.
Sorak is 75%-owned by Financial Fullerton Financial Holdings Pte. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited, and 25%-owned …

Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) today announced it has sold 24 million shares of common stock in LG Display Co., Ltd. (NYSE: LPL, KRX: 034220) to investors in a capital markets transaction. This transaction represents 6.7% of LG Display’s issued share capital and reduces Philips’ holding to 13.2%.
The transaction, which closed today, will provide Philips with net proceeds of approximately EUR 680 million, and is expected to result in a non-taxable gain of approximately EUR 95 million in the first quarter of 2008, which …

Automated ‘Google Hacking’ Software for Unearthing Data on Other Sites Triggers Security Fears. It’s called “Google hacking” — a slick data-mining technique used by the Internet’s cops and crooks alike to unearth sensitive material mistakenly posted to public Web sites.
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Appointment of Dato’ Sri Abdul Wahid Omar As Successor
Maybank Group wishes to announce the retirement of its President and Chief Executive Officer, Datuk Amirsham A. Aziz, aged 57, effective …

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Taking and making god is everything
Of all these mistakes we can only live
Lying beside you a massive differance
And i will it be that i still care for you
And i feel denied
All perished again
And all i ask for another day
Never could leave this pain i own
Hooo…
Never mistaking we can it change a thing
Suprise as almost no one knew my time
On the outside tide does it whisper …

It is unfortunate that Yahoo! has not embraced our full and fair proposal to combine our companies. Based on conversations with stakeholders of both companies, we are confident that moving forward promptly to consummate a transaction is in the best interests of all parties.
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REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 11, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) today issued the following statement in response to the announcement by Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) that its Board of Directors has rejected Microsoft’s previously announced proposal to acquire Yahoo!:
It is unfortunate that Yahoo! has …

High availability is a system design protocol and associated implementation that ensures a certain absolute degree of operational continuity during a given measurement period.
Availability refers to the ability of the user community to access the system, whether to submit new work, update or alter existing work, or collect the results of previous work. If a user cannot access the system, it is said to be unavailable. Generally, the term downtime is used to refer to periods when a system is unavailable.
Planned and unplanned downtime
A distinction needs to be made between …

In a move to beef up its cross platform offerings for mobile phones and desktop applications, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced Monday that it will acquire software platform and frameworks developer Trolltech for $153 million. Nokia said the Norwegian firm’s Qtopia software technology it will help in the spread of its Ovi Web portal. It also said the company software is used in several thousand applications including Skype, Google Earth, and Adobe Photoshop Elements.
“Trolltech’s deep understanding of open source software and its strong technology assets will enable both Nokia and …

Kuala Lumpur, January 21, 2008 – Economists have long recognized the important role information technology (IT) can play in a country’s development.  To better understand that role, and to quantify the direct benefits to local economies from IT, in 2007 International Data Corporation (IDC) conducted a study of the economic impact of IT in 82 countries.
From that study, IDC reports that Malaysia’s IT sector is expected to generate more than 98,000 new jobs from 2007 to 2011 and account for the creation of more than 800 new IT companies within …

Kuala Lumpur, 19 December2007- In recent years, Malaysia has grown to earn its place on the world map as an emerging information technology (IT) hotspot in the region, ranking in AT Kearney’s recent Global Services Location Index 2007 as the world’s third most popular IT outsourcing hub.
The expansion of the country’s IT industry is largely due to a number of factors including the increased presence of foreign companies in Malaysia and the local government’s vision to elevate Malaysia as an IT hub, producing quality resource and generating intellectual property assets …