99Bill and NetEase Launched Online Prepaid Card Payment Platform.

BEIJING, Aug. 12 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- 99Bill Corporation ( http://www.99bill.com/ ), the first company in China offering email and mobile phone number based online payment platform and services, and NetEase.com, Inc., one of the leading portals in China, announced today that the two companies have reached an agreement to jointly establish online NetEase prepaid card payment platform. Under the agreement, 99Bill launched the new online payment service to let the NetEase's prepaid online game card users to pay for the third party online products and services, and enable the Internet and wireless service providers to accept the prepaid card payment online.

NetEase is a leading portal in China providing a wide variety of content and online services, including online game, email, personal homepage, search and other products. NetEase has established nationwide distribution channels in more than 100 cities in China for selling online game prepaid card to tens of millions of online game users, and the prepaid card has become the well adopted form of payment for the online game services. With 99Bill's new payment services, NetEase prepaid card users will be able to purchase and pay for products and services offered by third party providers, in addition to NetEase products and services. By leveraging 99Bill's online payment platform, any internet and wireless service providers will be able to accept NetEase prepaid card as a cost-effective form of payment, and get instant access to tens of millions of prepaid card users across the country as potential customers.

''99Bill commits to provide convenient and innovative online payment services to our users. The launch of NetEase prepaid card payment platform allows us to serve the Internet community that currently do not have or do not use bank cards online. The new service significantly increases our demographic and forms of payments coverage in China, and also will provide additional product and service options to the current NetEase prepaid card user. We believe this partnership will prove to be successful and rewarding for both parties,'' says Oliver Kwan, Chief Executive Officer of 99Bill.

''Customers are our most valuable asset. It is our ultimate goal to provide value-added online services to ensure best-in-class customer experience. As a result, making the right partnership for our prepaid card system becomes very critical and significant. We look forward to a fruitful cooperation with 99Bill,''says Ted Sun, Chief Executive Officer of NetEase.

The total transaction volume of Internet products and services, as well as wireless value added services in China, reached USD 2.8 billion in 2004. However, most of these transactions were conducted through legacy and high cost payment means, such as C.O.D, postal wire, and bill collection service by mobile operators. To meet the growing market demand for comprehensive and integrated online payment solutions, 99Bill officially launched its online payment services in China early this year. Now, anyone or any business with a verified email address or a mobile number can accept debit card and credit card payment in real time, and send and receive payments easily, securely and promptly on 99Bill platform without the need to expose recipient's personal information such as bank account, name and address. In addition, Internet users and business customers can choose from 99Bill's diversified product portfolio and innovative merchant tools to meet their personal and business needs. 99Bill has established direct debit card and credit cards processing capacity with leading domestic banks in China, enabling any online user and business to receive debit and credit payment covering over 2.7 billion international and domestic issued bank cards. The company is committed to develop innovative and high value-added services to serve the growing market demand for fast, secured and convenient online and wireless payment solutions in China.

About NetEase

NetEase.com, Inc. is a leading China-based Internet technology company that pioneered the development of applications, services and other technologies for the Internet in China. Our online communities and personalized premium services have established a large and stable user base for the NetEase websites, which are operated by our affiliate. As of June 2005, the NetEase websites had more than 546 million average daily page views, making us one of the most popular destinations in China and on the World Wide Web. In particular, NetEase provides online game services to Internet users through the licensing or in-house development of massively multi-player online role-playing games, including Westward Journey Online II, Fantasy Westward Journey and Fly for Fun. NetEase also offers online advertising on its websites which enables advertisers to reach our substantial user base. In addition, NetEase has paid listings on its search engine and web directory and classified ads services, as well as an online mall, which provides opportunities for e-commerce and traditional businesses to establish their own storefront on the Internet. NetEase also offers wireless value-added services such as news and information content, matchmaking services, music and photos from the Web, which are sent over SMS, MMS, WAP, IVR and Color Ring-back Tone technologies. Other community services which the NetEase websites offer include instant messaging, online personal ads, matchmaking, alumni clubs, personal home pages and community forums. NetEase is also the largest provider of free e-mail services in China. Furthermore, the NetEase websites provide more than 20 channels of content. NetEase aggregates news content on world events, sports, science and technology, and financial markets, as well as entertainment content such as cartoons, games, astrology and jokes, from over one hundred international and domestic content providers.

About 99Bill

99Bill Corporation is the first company in China offering email and mobile phone number based online payment platform and solutions. The Company's founding members are seasoned entrepreneurs in China's Internet industry and have extensive experience in product development, technology innovation, marketing and capital financing. The company's products and services aspire to provide secured, integrated and confidential payment platform, as well as innovative payment and merchant tools to e-commerce operators, Internet and wireless service providers and individual users. 99Bill's payment services currently cover over 2.7 billion domestic and international debit and credit cards, as well as support bank wire, postal wire and pre-paid card transactions. 99Bill is currently partnering with leading domestic and international Internet companies to enable payment collections for various Internet and wireless applications and will continue to introduce new products and services to the market in the near future. For further information, please visit http://www.99bill.com/ .

   For more information, please contact:    Ms. Olive Zhou / Janet Mu,   99Bill Corporation     Suite 7J, Oriental Kenzo Plaza,    48 DongZhiMenWai Street,    Beijing, China,    100027     Tel:   +86-10-8454-9510 x802/809    Fax:   +86-10-8454-9515    Email: ozhou@99bill.com or jmu@99bill.com    Mr. Wang Zhao / Zeng Mingxuan,   Beijing Proway-Consulting Information Service Co.     Suite E20A, Majestic Blue Building,    6 BeiSiHuanZhong Road,    Beijing, China,    100029     Tel:   +86-10-8284-5139/37 x213/215    Fax:   +86-10-8284-4520    Email: zeng@proway-consulting.com  

CONTACT: Ms. Olive Zhou or Janet Mu, both of 99Bill Corporation, +86-10-8454-9510 x802/809, or fax, +86-10-8454-9515, ozhou@99bill.com or jmu@99bill.com

Web site: http://www.99bill.com/

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The Net result is a good dram.

EVERYONE has heard of the pub with no beer but in the case of David Bremner's business - it is an off-licence with no whisky. He plans to sell whisky around the world by computer - through a Whiskynet page he has set up on the Internet at his home in Kingston, Moray.

He is arranging with suppliers to deal with any orders and although there is no need for bottled stock his lawyer advised him to apply for an off-license. David, 31, an estate manager, thinks Internet surfers in Japan and America will be his biggest market.

Rick Baran Named EVP/Chief Financial Officer for Clear Channel Radio.

Clear Channel Radio announced that it has named Rick Baran as EVP/Chief Financial Officer. In this role, Baran will oversee all financial and administrative operations for Clear Channel Radio as well as oversee the CCR Strategic Initiatives Office and its Business Affairs division. He will be part of the company's senior management team and report directly to Clear Channel Radio President and CEO John Hogan.

"Rick's track record is one of strong financial leadership in the media and entertainment sector, and he has the experience, the skills, and the relationships we need to take Clear Channel Radio to the next level," said Hogan. "We have a very aggressive business strategy, including accelerating the development and growth of the next generation of Clear Channel's popular and successful iHeartRadio digital products. Rick will help ensure we lead the way in providing an unparalleled radio experience to all our audiences and on every platform."

Baran, who has been with Clear Channel since 2010, previously served as Senior Vice President of Finance Operations for the company's corporate office. He joined Clear Channel from CBS Corporation, where his tenure included serving as Executive Vice President and CFO for CBS TV Stations, responsible for the financial performance and tactical execution of all CBS-owned and operated stations.

"I'm looking forward to my new role at Clear Channel Radio as the company moves quickly to seize opportunities in the digital radio space while maintaining its strong leadership position in radio," Baran said. "This is an exciting time, as technology changes the dynamics of the radio industry, and I look forward to working with John and the team to capitalize on our opportunities going forward."

Clear Channel Radio is a leading radio company focused on serving local communities across the U.S. with 894 radio stations in 150 markets and an audience of more than 110 million listeners choosing Clear Channel Radio programming each week. The company's content can be heard on AM/FM stations, HD digital radio channels, on the Internet, at iHeartRadio.com and on the iHeartRadio mobile application on mobile devices including iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and Windows 7, and used via navigation systems from TomTom, Garmin and others. The company's operations include radio broadcasting, the Premiere Radio Network syndication services and independent media representation firm Katz Media Group. Clear Channel Radio is a division of Clear Channel Communications, Inc. (OTCBB:CCMO), a leading global media and entertainment company. More information on the company can be found at www.clearchannel.com.

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This article was prepared by Electronics Newsweekly editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2011, Electronics Newsweekly via VerticalNews.com.

We are used to brushing our teeth, or gulping down tea, while listening to the news that the planet we live on has creaked, or cracked, or bubbled up and that thousands of people who were brushing their teeth, or gulping down tea, now aren't.

We are used to brushing our teeth, or gulping down tea, while listening to the news that the planet we live on has creaked, or cracked, or bubbled up and that thousands of people who were brushing their teeth, or gulping down tea, now aren't. Sometimes, when we hear this, or see the images of towns destroyed, or villages washed away, we find it quite hard to think that the people now wailing at what they've lost are people like us.

Their lives are terrible now, but they were often terrible before. We didn't want to know about their terrible lives before.

What we could do was reel off a credit card number, thinking that it might at least help to build a new shack.

If we were journalists, we could write about how terrible it was that the government of the country hadn't built proper buildings, or had taken bribes so that building regulations could be ignored, or that they hadn't installed proper warnings, or that they didn't seem to care about the people whose homes, and lives, had been destroyed.

But when this happens in one of the most sophisticated countries on the planet, what do we do? When we see photos of children who have died, and parents who have died, scattered among the debris of the buildings that were their homes, and when we see giant characters carved into the land which are, we're told, a plea for food, and rescue workers begging for body bags, what do we do?

Perhaps we can give our credit card number to the third biggest economy in the world but perhaps it doesn't need it. We can't really tell the Japanese government off for not building buildings that were strong enough to withstand an earthquake, because the buildings were strong enough to withstand an earthquake.

They just weren't strong enough to withstand an earthquake and a tsunami.

We can't tell them off for their warning systems, which were very good, or for their rescue operations, which are very good, or for their nuclear power stations, which were built about as safely as you could possibly have built them.

We can't really tell them off for anything. Sometimes, you can't. Sometimes, you can do everything right and everything can still go wrong.

Last week, I went to an Oxfam lunch on 'women and poverty'. Someone said they thought it would be a good idea to get a story about an Afghan woman in a magazine. When I asked why, the people round the table looked shocked.

But I didn't know how people were meant to respond to the story about the Afghan woman. Whether they were meant to urge the Government to send more soldiers to fight for a country where she couldn't be stoned to death, or talk to the Taliban so she wouldn't be bombed, or give some money to a charity so she could feed her children while they were being bombed.

I told them that I read stories about Afghan women nearly every day. We all read stories about wars, and suffering, and accidents, and disaster, every day.

Sometimes, there's hope of a happy ending, of kinds. The Chilean miners got out.

The New Zealand ones didn't. The Arab Spring looked like a happy ending, until the dictator we said was our friend, and then wasn't, started winning again, and the world didn't know what to do.

We don't know if sending some of our men to get killed there would make it a happy ending. We don't know what will make Afghanistan a happy ending. We don't know what will make Ivory Coast a happy ending, but we do know that it won't involve us.

I don't know what we do with all these accidents, and wars, and disasters. I suppose it's better that we give our credit card numbers, where it might make a difference, than that we don't, and that we try to understand about things like oil and dictators.

But I don't know what we do about the disasters where no one has done anything wrong.

In Doris Lessing's novel The Golden Notebook, the central character has a kind of breakdown. Instead of the book she's meant to be writing, she just starts collecting newspaper cuttings, and pasting them on the pages where she'd planned to write.

The character was, said Lessing in an introduction to a later edition, overwhelmed by the "problems of war, famine, poverty", and the plight of "the tiny individual who was trying to mirror them". The book was written in 1962.

Before the internet, before Twitter, and before a 24-hour news cycle which offers no release from a steady flow of gloom.

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Furmanite Corporation Conference Call to Discuss Quarter and Year Ended December 31, 2010.

DALLAS -- Furmanite Corporation (NYSE:FRM), a worldwide technical services firm, will hold a conference call to discuss its fourth quarter and year end 2010 financial results on Thursday, March 10, 2011, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time (9:00 a.m. Central). The speakers' audio will be supported by a slide presentation on the internet. The live dial in number is 800-561-2731, passcode 65927379. A replay of the conference call will be available until March 17, 2011. The replay number is 888-286-8010 using the access code 51188441. The replay will also be archived on the company's Web site, www.furmanite.com/investors.

The live call is being webcast by Thomson Reuters and can be accessed at Furmanite's Web site at www.furmanite.com/investors.

The webcast is also being distributed through the Thomson StreetEvents Network. Individual investors can listen to the call at www.earnings.com, Thomson's individual investor portal, powered by StreetEvents. Institutional investors can access the call via Thomson StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com), a password-protected event management site.

About Furmanite:

Furmanite Corporation (NYSE:FRM) is a worldwide technical services firm. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Furmanite, one of the world's largest specialty technical services companies, delivers a broad portfolio of engineering solutions that keep facilities operating, minimizing downtime and maximizing profitability. Furmanite's diverse, global operations serve a broad array of industry sectors, including offshore drilling operations, pipelines, refineries and power generation facilities, chemical and petrochemical plants, steel mills, automotive manufacturers, pulp and paper mills, food and beverage processing plants, semiconductor manufacturers and pharmaceutical manufacturers. The company recently expanded its global capabilities to deliver specialized solutions for large-scale equipment or operations through the acquisition of Self Leveling Machines International Pty Ltd. and Self Leveling Machines, Inc. (collectively "SLM") based in Melbourne, Australia, and Houston, Texas. Furmanite operates more than 75 offices on six continents. For more information, visit www.furmanite.com.