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Asia tourism to withstand downturn: industry group (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Asia's tourism industry will be hurt by a U.S. slowdown but the medium-term outlook remains strong, an industry association said on Wednesday.

Industry sources say SingTel will launch iPhone in S’pore in Sep (Channel NewsAsia via Yahoo! Singapore News) - SINGAPORE: Industry sources said Apple’s iPhone will be launched in Singapore by SingTel this September, but the telco has neither confirmed nor denied this.

Automaker CEOs have bearish outlook for economy, industry (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) - The heads of Ford and Chrysler on Wednesday both provided rather gloomy outlooks for their industry and the economy. Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Alan Mulally says the automaker can handle it even if U.S. auto sales drop to the low 15 million vehicle range this year.

Expert says tourism industry should continue to stay agile (Channel NewsAsia via Yahoo! Singapore News) - SINGAPORE: Singapore’s tourism industry has been given the thumbs up by industry forecasters, but they said the challenge ahead is to stay nimble and alert to global travel trends.

Manmohan Singh Assures Textile Industry Of Alleviating Hardships To Promote Growth, Competitiveness (Nasdaq) - (RTTNews) - The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, while addressing the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry on Tuesday, assured the textile industry that the government would pay closer attention to alleviate problems currently plaguing the textile industry, including hardships faced due to rupee appreciation, by devising suitable strategies to further ...

CRUISE LINERS ANOTHER POTENTIAL SECTOR FOR M'SIAN TOURISM INDUSTRY (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News) - PORT KLANG, March 19 (Bernama) -- Malaysia's increasing popularity among cruise liners as their port of call, augurs well for the money-spinning tourism industry, Tourism Malaysia director-general Datuk Mirza Mohammad Taiyab said today.

Ad Industry Roundup: GM; DailyCandy; Heavy; EA-Massive; Yahoo; YuMe; Right Media-Fox; Steak (CBS News) - -- GM to move $1.5 Billion ad budget to digital: General Motors, the number three U.S. ad spender will shift $1.5 billion - half of its $3 billion ad budget - into digital and one-to-one marketing within the next three years. GM is considered an industry bellwether. Autos, the top ad spending category, pushed $9.42 billion into total advertising in 2007. Last year, GM spent $197 million in ...

NEWRI brings researchers closer to water and environment industry (Channel NewsAsia) - SINGAPORE : Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is expanding its research efforts in environmental and water technologies. To do this, it is getting researchers to work even more closely with industry partners.

Indian Govt. Urges Industry To Cut Prices To Reign In Inflation (Nasdaq) - (RTTNews) - Wednesday, the media reported that the rise in inflation rate during the previous weeks has made the Indian Government and industry take the opposite stand.

GDC 08 IGDA Summit Tackles The -Ization Of The Industry (Gamasutra) - At GDC 2008's IGDA Summit, games industry members came together and asked, "What challenges does the games industry face short and long term?" Drawing on his own experience and audience contribution, Gamelab's Eric Zimmerman tackled the question with interesting results. Zimmerman launched right into his presentation by providing a general overview of where the game industry might be headed. ...