World News Releases

June 30, 2014 11:00

Pala Investments Leadership Changes

Pala Investments is pleased to announce that Michael Barton will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer of Pala, succeeding Jan Castro who has resigned from the role, with immediate effect. Ove

June 30, 2014 10:10

Bacardi Limited Names New Regional Presidents for Asia Pacific and Middle East & Africa

Bacardi Limited, the largest privately held spirits company in the world, today announces the internal appointments of two new regional presidents. Effective immediately, Jon Grey, 52, assumes respons

June 30, 2014 09:55

Panasonic's AV & Security Solutions Active at the Stadiums in Brazil

Panasonic do Brasil (PANABRAS) has provided Arena Pantanal Stadium, one of the stadiums to be used in the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil, with Panasonic's wide variety of AV and security solutions. The

June 30, 2014 09:10

Philip Morris International Seeks Judicial Review of EU’s Tobacco Products Directive

Subsidiaries of Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI) (NYSE/Euronext Paris: PM) today filed papers seeking review of the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (2014/40/EU) by the Court of Justice of the Eu

June 30, 2014 09:00

Gigaphoton Develops World's First Helium-Free Purge Process for ArF Immersion Lasers

Gigaphoton Inc. (www.gigaphoton.com), a major lithography light source manufacturer, announced today that it has succeeded in the development of an innovative purge process, one that does not use the

June 29, 2014 13:28

Fairchild Semiconductor Announces Conference Call for Second Quarter 2014

Fairchild Semiconductor (Nasdaq:FCS), a leading global supplier of power semiconductors, will hold its second quarter financial results conference call on Thursday, July 17th at 9:00 a.m. ET. The comp

June 29, 2014 13:14

NASDAQ Closing Cross Calculates U.S. Russell Indexes for the Eleventh Consecutive Year for Russell's Annual Reconstitution

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced the NASDAQ Closing Cross was used for the eleventh consecutive year to rebalance NASDAQ-listed securities in the entire family of U.S. Russell

June 29, 2014 12:45

No Reservations…New Survey Shows Business and Leisure Travelers Alike Have Time, Money and Freedom to Book

Sociomantic Labs(https://www.sociomantic.com/), the leader in programmatic advertising solutions for travel marketers, today announced initial findings from a new study on business and leisure travele

June 29, 2014 12:15

IPSO Alliance Announces CHALLENGE 2014 Winners

The Internet Protocol for Smart Objects (IPSO) Alliance(http://www.ipso-alliance.org/) today announced the Top 3 winners of the IPSO CHALLENGE 2014(http://www.ipso-alliance.org/challenge) during an aw

June 28, 2014 05:05

Hilton Worldwide Completes $2.3 Billion Secondary Offering

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. (“Hilton Worldwide” or the “Company”) announced today the completion of a secondary offering of 103,500,000 shares of Hilton Worldwide common stock by certain selling st

June 27, 2014 12:00

“Sekai Menu”, Multilingual Menu Display and Ordering Service for Smartphones, Officially Begins Service with Free “Self Plan”

“Sekai Menu”, a smartphone-based service targeted at restaurants and accommodations with foreign customers, began trial service in April 2014. The service, which allows customers to display translated

June 27, 2014 09:50

Isola Introduces Ultra-Low Loss Materials for 100 Gigabit Ethernet Applications

Isola Group S.à r.l.(http://www.isola-group.com/), a market leader in copper-clad laminates and dielectric prepreg materials used to fabricate advanced multilayer printed circuit boards (PCBs), today

June 26, 2014 22:00

Afton Chemical Breaks Ground for Its State of the Art Facility on Jurong Island, Singapore

Afton Chemical Corporation will expand its global supply network with the addition of a new chemical additive manufacturing facility on Jurong Island, Singapore. Designed and located to support the gr

June 26, 2014 18:05

Fund Helps Belize Shrimp Farms in Bid to Meet ASC Standard

Thanks to funding from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB, http://www.iadb.org/en/inter-american-development-bank,2837.html) and the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH, http://www.idhsustainablet

June 26, 2014 17:05

Nutanix’s Rapid Growth in Asia Pacific Leads to First Partner Summit in the Region

Nutanix, the leading provider of hyper-efficient, massively scalable and elegantly simple datacenter infrastructure solutions, is hosting its inaugural partner summit in Asia Pacific, reflecting the s

June 26, 2014 15:35

Score Preview Added to Graduate Management Admission Test

Prospective business students taking the Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®) exam will now be able to preview their unofficial scores before deciding whether to report or cancel them, the Grad

June 26, 2014 13:27

SolarWinds(R) Products Named “Solution of the Year,” Receive 5-Star Ratings, Among Others by IT Community and Publications

SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI, http://www.marketwired.com/news_room/stock?ticker=SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software(http://www.solarwinds.com/?CMP=PUB-PR-SWI-prq214_SW_

June 26, 2014 11:10

Preston Rowe Paterson Selects Yardi Voyager 7S

Yardi announced today that Australian property management and services company Preston Rowe Paterson, Sydney has selected Voyager® 7S (http://goo.gl/Gsi49V), a browser-independent, mobile-enabled plat

June 26, 2014 10:40

South Korea’s MEGABOX Selects MasterImage 3D as 3D Digital Cinema Partner

MEGABOX, one of South Korea’s largest cinema chains, today will debut the first MI-HORIZON3D system in South Korea for the opening of Transformers: Age of Extinction. Following the successful installa

June 26, 2014 10:15

Emerging Trend Identified in the Evolution of Men’s Style as Almost Half of Men Globally Take Up Body Grooming

Gillette® (NYSE: PG), the world’s leading male grooming brand, today unveils a video that shows the evolution of men’s style over the last century. In just sixty seconds, the video uses the perspectiv

June 26, 2014 10:00

ZTE Issues Update on Global Patent Invalidation Action Against Vringo

ZTE Corporation announced that the Patent Re-examination Board of the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China is reviewing applications from the company to invalidate 32 p

June 25, 2014 22:00

With U Introduces Licensees to the Characters of Popular Gaming App “Happy Ningels”

With U Co., Ltd. (http://wizyou.co.jp/en/company.html) will introduce global visitors to Happy Ningels (http://goo.gl/Ws5IXI) main character Molly and her Ningel buddies at Licensing Japan (www.licens

June 25, 2014 21:30

NASDAQ OMX Launches REIT Benchmark Index Family

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) and ETRE Financial, LLC (ETRE) today announced a new partnership in the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) benchmark index space, with the launch of 12 co-bra

June 25, 2014 18:00

China to Host World’s Largest Integrated Health Industry Event “tHIS” in 2015

Reed Sinopharm Exhibitions, the leading healthcare event organizer in China, announced Wednesday the launch of The Health Industry Summit (tHIS, www.thishealthsummit.com) in Shanghai. This new event,