[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]New estimates released by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) today to mark World Diabetes Day 2012 show that 371 million people have diabetes and 187 million are still to be diagnosed. The high number of undiagnosed diabetes cases means that millions of people are at risk of costly and debilitating diabetes complications, including nerve and kidney disease. Previous estimates from the IDF Diabetes Atlas in 2011 put the number of people with diabetes at 366 million and number of deaths at 4 million. The 2012 figures show that the upward trend will continue. By the
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Kiyang Metal Industry Co., Ltd. (CEO Myeong Jik Bae, www.goldmeister.co.kr), a company specialized in plating processing, revealed on November 14 that it signed MOU for business tie-up with Youngshin Knife Co., Ltd (CEO Jae Suh Jung, www.ysknife.com), a manufacturer specialized in kitchen appliances. “Both companies signed a mutual agreement in a co-development effort to recreate the recently released golden knife into a wave knife that can be utilized semi-permanently without sharpening,” the official of Kiyang Metal Industry Co., Ltd. explained. Youngshin Knife Co., Ltd
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Micrel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRL), an industry leader in high-performance analog and high-speed mixed signal solutions, LAN and timing and communications solutions, today introduced the MIC5019, a tiny high-side MOSFET driver with integrated charge pump designed to switch an N-Channel enhancement-mode MOSFET in high-side switch applications. The device is ideal for load switches, solenoid drivers and motor driver applications. The MIC5019 is currently available in volume, and pricing starts at $0.48 for 1K quantity. Samples can be ordered at: “In many high-side configurations,
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Courts Asia Limited (“Courts Asia” and together with its subsidiaries, “the Group”) (阁室亚洲有限公司), one of the leading electrical products, IT products and furniture retailers in Singapore and Malaysia, delivered strong financial performance in its maiden quarterly results report, less than a month after its October 15 trading debut on the Mainboard of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited. Net profit surged 45.5% to S$15.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2012 (“2Q 2013”), compared to S$10.9 million in the last corresponding period (
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]KOSTEC Co., Ltd., (CEO: Oh-Sung Kwon, www.n-kostec.co.kr) a company specialized in medical monitor, newly released the standard type “Calibration on demand” model as expanding the line-up of the decoding monitor “D213 series”. “The existing decoding monitor ‘D213 series’ have established the premium line-up as being exported in premium products to Western Europe, North America, Latin America, etc. as the target markets. But we have additionally released the standard class products in order to respond to price competitiveness required in the markets of Russia, the Asia-Pac
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Adbiotech Co., Ltd.(CEO Hong-Gul Jung, www.adbiotech.com), a Korean life science biotech company, released “REVERDIR FGF & EGF Concentrated Ampoule (hereinafter referred as to REVERDIR Ampoule)”, which cares the reduction of cell growth factors in the skin. “REVERDIR” is the French word of REJUVENATION, whose meaning is to get younger and rejuvenated; thus, it is the brand name to imply the origin of the women who wish to live always in a young and romantic life. The most important feature of “REVERDIR Ampoule” is a high rate of skin absorption for the raw materials of FG
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]With the industrial wave from the late 1960s, the domestic valve manufacturing companies started producing plastic valves with the benefits of the strength against water pressure and possibly opening and closing all types of tanks such as hot water, cool water, chemicals, etc. and reducing the production unit cost to only half. However, there was a limitation that they were developed by joint ventures or technical tie-up with the developed countries. A-SUNG Co., LTD., (CEO, Hyung Soo Kim, www.asungvalve.com) which is located in the Banwol national industrial complex of An
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Datapipe, a global provider of cloud hosting and infrastructure for outsourced IT, today announced the company is highlighted in a recent Gartner report, “Competitive Landscape: Enterprise Cloud IaaS Services in China and India.” The research outlines the strategies of several leading companies as they address the cloud infrastructure markets in China and India. The report details the emerging Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market and the key competitive forces influencing the marketplace in China and India. The analyst group also outlines significant opportunit