TWO CHINESE INVESTMENT FIRMS SIGN COOPERATIVE DEAL.The Intermost Corporation (BULLETIN BOARD: IMOT IMOT Israel Ministry of Tourism ) , a leading electronic online equity exchange service provider in China, announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, the Chinae.com Investment Consultant (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Chinae.com Investment), has entered into an agreement with the ZLYY Investment Consultant (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (ZLYY Investment). The two parties will cooperate in business, namely that to provide consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" to investment and stock exchange listings, among others. ZLYY Investment boasts abundant client resources and well-rounded experience in investment consulting. It has provided successful investment proposals and consulting services to many companies and projects, including the Haier Group, the 999 Group and the Shenzhen Science & Industry Park Corporation. "The cooperation offers complete access to the advantage of both parties," said Mr. Louise Liu, Website Content & Operation Department Manager of the Chinae.com Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. "Chinae.com Technology has developed the China Equity Exchange Platform (http://www.chinae.com), where numerous non-listed companies and financing projects are available. As a sister company, Chinae.com Investment possesses easy access to this resourceful database. Chinae.com Investment and ZLYY Investment will elect listing-eligible enterprises to provide investment consulting services to, and assist these companies to raise funds through listings on the stock exchanges." Mr. Xiangxiong Deng, acting CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of the Intermost Corporation was delighted with the cooperation and said, "The collaboration with a mature investment consultancy indicates the Intermost Corporation's market power and leading position. It is also a wonderful opportunity to utilize the rich resources of the China Equity Exchange Platform, and to attract more investors and equity projects. It paves the way for deeper cooperative relations." "We are anticipating win-win partnerships with more capital entities in China and aboard. We will accelerate the growth of Chinae.com Investment and develop more value-added services A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. for the China Equity Exchange Platform," added Mr. Deng. About Intermost Corporation Founded in the USA in September 1998, Intermost Corporation was the first Chinese Internet company listed on the US OTC Bulletin Board OTC Bulletin Board An electronic quotation listing of the bid and asked prices of OTC stocks that do not meet the requirements to be listed on the NASDAQ stock-listing system. (stock symbol: IMOT) in December 1998. Intermost Corporation has focused its services on the booming Equity Exchange Market in China, including equity-related solution development, equity quotes and information provision, electronic online equity exchange services, consulting services for small and medium enterprises financing through overseas listings, and equity portal website (http://www.chinae.com), and otherwise. For more information, visit http://www.chinae.com. >TI NUTRISYSTEM'S ONLINE BUSINESS GETS HELP FROM FOUNDRY >TX Foundry Networks Foundry Networks is a network system vendor selling high-end managed ethernet switches and routers. The company was founded in 1996 by Bobby R. Johnson, Jr. and is based in Santa Clara, California, USA. (r), Inc. (Nasdaq:FDRY), Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif., a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, has announced that NutriSystem (Nasdaq:NTRI NTRI NCP/Token Ring Interconnection (Cisco) NTRI Narrowband Telecommunications Research, Inc. NTRI Ncp Token Ring Interconnection ), a leading provider of weight management products and services, selected Foundry's ServerIron(r) high- performance application acceleration and switching solutions to efficiently deliver online weight loss management tools and ordering to hundreds of thousands of health conscious customers. Foundry's application delivery solutions allowed NutriSystem to cater to the demands of its rapidly growing customer base by implementing a scalable and high-performance online application for order entry. Today, more organizations rely on the Internet and online Web-based applications See Web application. to conduct business as end-user demand for Internet-based commerce continues to rise. NutriSystem quickly recognized their customers' online needs to provide privacy for people to manage their personal weight loss issues. In order to support innovative ways of business, NutriSystem determined they needed to upgrade and redesign their existing online business infrastructure with a solution that will scale with their rapidly growing customer base and enable advanced personal Web-based weight management tools with a highly resilient, future-ready networking solution. "NutriSystem has been helping Americans achieve healthy weight loss for over 30 years now," said Brendon Perero, chief technology officer for NutriSystem. "However, in recent years we've experienced an overwhelming demand for more online services and applications. We selected Foundry Networks' ServerIron 850 application switches for their performance record." The ServerIron switches accelerate Web-based applications and eliminate downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. caused by server and application failures. They are built with business-critical resiliency features and can be customized for specific performance and feature requirements, including hardware-based SSL acceleration SSL acceleration is a method of offloading the processor-intensive public key encryption algorithms involved in SSL transactions to a hardware accelerator. Typically, this is a separate card that plugs into a PCI slot in a computer that contains one or more co-processors able to to meet diverse application and data center infrastructure needs. Purpose-built with a modular architecture for superior performance and scalability, the switches can be expanded to meet growing traffic demands with ultimate investment protection for a number of years. To help protect NutriSystem's infrastructure and minimize customer impact, the ServerIron switches provide line-rate Denial of Service A condition in which a system can no longer respond to normal requests. See denial of service attack. (DoS) protection. As NutriSystem grows its online business and customer base, it is inevitable that more performance will be needed in the infrastructure to handle additional traffic. Foundry's ServerIron 850 systems can be easily upgraded with more processing power on-demand in the future to meet new business requirements while fully protecting the investment. "We are pleased NutriSystem has continued to be a valuable Foundry customer," said Bob Schiff, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Business Unit, Foundry Networks. "NutriSystem is an excellent example of one of our target customers, a business whose ability to generate customer growth and revenue relies heavily on its network reliability and application performance. Foundry's application switches are purpose-built for these types of environments where online application availability, performance and scalability are critical to the success of the business." About NutriSystem, Inc. Founded in 1972, NutriSystem (Nasdaq:NTRI) is a leading provider of weight management products and services. The company offers a weight loss program based on portion-controlled, lower Glycemic Index gly·ce·mic index n. An index that measures the ability of a given food to elevate blood sugar. glycemic index, n prepared meals. The program has no membership fees and provides free online and telephone counseling telephone counseling The provision of advice and verbalized moral support to a person with a particular need by a group of either volunteers or a paid staff with some level of experience and/or expertise in the area of interest; TC may include crisis . About Foundry Networks Foundry Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:FDRY) is a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing, security and Web traffic management solutions, including Layer 2/3 LAN switches A network device that cross-connects clients, servers and network devices. Also known as a "frame switch," stand-alone LAN switches are common in all Ethernet networks. A four-port switch is also typically built into a wired or wireless router for homes and small business (see wireless , Layer 3 Backbone switches, Layer 4-7 application switches, wireless LAN A local area network that transmits over the air typically in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz unlicensed frequency band. It does not require line of sight between sender and receiver. Wireless base stations (access points) are wired to an Ethernet network and transmit a radio frequency over an area and access points, access routers See edge router and remote access router. and metro routers. Foundry's 10,400 customers include the world's premier ISPs, metro service providers, and enterprises, including e-commerce sites, universities, entertainment, health and wellness, government, financial and manufacturing companies. For more information about the company and its products, call 1.888.TURBOLAN or 408/207-1332 or visit http://www.foundrynetworks.com. |
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