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<title>Leading Chinese Fast Food Franchise Improves Security and Productivity With Juniper Networks (Busiwire)</title>
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<description>Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced that Ajisen (China) Holdings Limited, the sole franchisee of Japan's Ajisen Ramen for Hong Kong, Macau and Mainland China, has boosted its organizational security and productivity with a Juniper Networks high-performance network infrastructure.</description>
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<title>Small business needs rate cut now: ACCI (AAP)</title>
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<description>Shanghai-based online entertainment and video site Hupo.tv with over 40 million unique monthly visitors and part of BroadWebAsia's network of entertainment and video sites that reach over 70 million unique visitors per month (OTC: BWBA), announced that BroadWebAsia's Hupo.tv selected by CCTV to be a partner in Olympic broadcasting alliance to broadcast videos of the game's opening and closing ceremonies and event videos sourced from CCTV.COM.</description>
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<description>CDC Software, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CDC Corporation (NASDAQ: CHINA) and a provider of industry-specific enterprise software applications and business services, announced today that it has added two new partners from Chile and Brazil to its growing and diversified Franchise Partner Program, that now totals seven companies.</description>
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