Orange and Nokia today announced a strategic international partnership, extending the first agreement signed by the two companies in February 2008. The two industry leaders have committed to a three year partnership, which will include the addition of ten new Nokia handsets to the Orange Signature range and the addition of music to a combined offer of games, advertising, maps and location based services.

HP announced that it has formed a strategic relationship with Omnicom Group Inc. to drive forward the global communications strategy for the company’s Imaging and Printing Group and to develop a digital print supply chain that will streamline the creation, management and printing of marketing campaign materials.

Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin hailed the development of the strategic partnership between the two countries in a telephone conversation, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Thursday.

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Orange and Nokia have signed a memorandum of understanding in order to partner on value added services such as location based services, maps, mobile advertising and gaming. There is a strong intent to follow with a strategic partnership by mid 2008.

CA Inc. and HCL Technologies announced an agreement to establish a strategic partnership in which HCL will assume all research and product development connected with CA's threat management security business. CA will retain all sales and marketing functions.

Lawson Software (Nasdaq:LWSN) and IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced an expansion of technology and reseller agreements to focus on small and midsize businesses (SMBs) in select industries in Germany.

Ford Motor Company today announced the formation of strategic academic alliances with two of China's most prestigious universities – Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) and Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU) – to increase efforts on the research and development of automotive technologies and sustainable mobility.

Siemens and the Russian businessman Alexey Mordashov have concluded an agreement on long-term strategic partnership for the modernization and further development of Power Machines. Both partners have also agreed on the principles relating to the management of Power Machines.

India and Japan have agreed to lay down a road map for giving a new dimension to a global and strategic partnership and reaffirmed their commitment to sign the comprehensive economic partnership agreement.

NEC Corporation, leading global provider of IT, network, and electron device solutions and Valista International Ltd., the leading provider of merchandizing, payments, and settlement solutions accelerating and automating digital commerce, have formed a strategic partnership to target payments solutions business opportunities in Japan with secure and flexible payments offerings.