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December 28, 2015 14:00
Takeda Provides Further Information about Its New Business Venture with Teva
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TOKYO: 4502) and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE: TEVA) (TASE: TEVA) today made the below follow-up announcement regarding the overview of their new bu
December 28, 2015 11:20
Furukawa Electric: Recycled Plastic Cable Trough Has Been Officially Approved by the UK Railway Network
”Green Trough®”, a recycled plastic cable trough developed by Furukawa Electric (TOKYO:5801)(ISIN:JP3827200001), has been officially approved by the UK railway network. Green Trough® contributes to th
December 24, 2015 13:55
Moody’s Honored with Top Industry Awards Throughout 2015
Moody’s Corporation (NYSE:MCO) has again been recognized as an industry leader by several top-tier journals around the world in 2015, receiving almost double the number of awards it did last year. Mo
December 24, 2015 13:35
Weiler Corporation Acquires SWATYCOMET from Avtotehna
Weiler Corporation, a leading provider of power brushes, abrasives and maintenance products for surface conditioning, announced today the acquisition of SWATYCOMET d.o.o. (SWATYCOMET), one of Europe’s
December 24, 2015 10:50
ACE Announces Future Leadership Team for Asia Pacific’s Property & Casualty Business
ACE Group announced today the future commercial property and casualty leadership team for the new Chubb Group in Asia Pacific. These appointments will take effect upon completion of the acquisition of
December 23, 2015 15:40
High Profile Japanese Video Series “Dancing in the Four Seasons of Fukushima” Launched in 3 Languages!
Under its slogan, “Future From Fukushima,” the governmental departments of Fukushima Prefecture have been primarily using Facebook as their information-sharing platform, providing a forum for anyone i
December 23, 2015 15:15
Samruk-Kazyna announces six agreements totaling US$4bn at 3d meeting of Kazakhstan-China Business Council
Samruk-Kazyna, the sovereign wealth fund of the Republic of Kazakhstan, today announced memorandums of understanding and agreements for five projects totaling US$4bn around the 3d meeting of the Kazak
December 23, 2015 14:50
Panasonic Large Screen Solutions -Enhance the Fan Experience
Panasonic released a video featuring large-screen solutions for gold standard venues of sports and entertainment in North America to enhance the fan experience. The video highlights the reasons Panaso
December 23, 2015 11:50
UNESCO and Panasonic Launch Educational Support Programs for the Next Generation in Off-Grid Communities in Myanmar
UNESCO and Panasonic Corporation signed a project agreement for Myanmar in November 2015 to promote educational support aimed at sustainable development for the next generation of young people living
December 23, 2015 10:55
Boehringer Ingelheim Invests in Europe: Pharma Company Expands Biopharmaceutical Production at Vienna Site
Boehringer Ingelheim will make a significant investment in biopharmaceutical production at its Vienna (Austria) site. There the research-driven pharmaceutical company will establish a new large-scale
December 23, 2015 10:30
Merck and Pfizer Advance Clinical Development Program with Two Additional Phase III Trials of Avelumab
Merck and Pfizer today announced the opening of trial sites for an international Phase III study of avelumab*, an investigational fully human anti-PD-L1 IgG1 monoclonal antibody, in patients with plat
December 22, 2015 17:50
Panasonic Announces the Acquisition of Hussmann, a U.S.-Based Refrigerated, Freezer Display Case Manufacturer
Panasonic Corporation today made an announcement regarding its acquisition of Hussmann Corporation (“Hussmann”), a Missouri-based manufacturer of refrigerated display cases and systems. Panasonic has
December 22, 2015 17:15
Panasonic Presents 360° OBSERVATION CAM - Neymar Jr.'s Crazy Skills in 360-degree Real Footage!
Panasonic Corporation released a new web content, “360° OBSERVATION CAM (https://goo.gl/GWSdDF),” on Monday, December 21, 2015 at 10:00 (Japan Time), where users can view the 360-degree footage of Ney
December 22, 2015 15:20
Mannaso Bangawoyo, South Korea! Shake Shack® is Seoul Bound in 2016
Shake Shack Inc. (“Shake Shack” or the “Company”) (NYSE:SHAK) is movin’ East to shake up the capital of South Korea. Shake Shack® is thrilled to announce that together with its Korean licensee it will
December 22, 2015 13:30
Panasonic to Start Production of Heat-Resistant Phenolic Molding Compounds for Automotive Parts in Ayutthaya, Thailand
Panasonic Corporation’s Automotive & Industrial Systems Company will launch a production line for heat-resistant phenolic molding compounds [1] for use in automotive parts at Panasonic Manufacturing A
December 22, 2015 11:15
ZTE USA and the Houston Rockets Complete Third Annual Season of Giving
ZTE USA, the fourth largest smartphone supplier in the U.S. and second largest in the no-contract market*, and the Houston Rockets concluded their third annual Season of Giving by wrapping up the thir
December 21, 2015 19:15
Boehringer Ingelheim 3rd-generation EGFR TKI, BI 1482694, receives FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation in lung cancer
Boehringer Ingelheim today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD) for its novel, 3rd-generation, epidermal growth factor receptor (
December 21, 2015 15:45
Oral REVLIMID® Plus Dexamethasone Granted Approval for Treatment of Patients with Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma in Japan
Celgene International Sàrl, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ:CELG) today announced that REVLIMID® (lenalidomide), a cancer medicine that is administered orally, has been grante
December 21, 2015 11:50
Boehringer Ingelheim presents strong lung cancer portfolio and long-awaited head-to-head data of afatinib compared to gefitinib at ESMO Asia 2015 Congress
Boehringer Ingelheim today announced that the latest data from its oncology portfolio will be presented at the ESMO Asia 2015 Congress in Singapore (http://goo.gl/7U6Olz), 18-21 December 2015. New dat
December 21, 2015 11:30
Televisa Inks New Capacity Deal with SES
SES S.A.(NYSE Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), announced today that Televisa, the leading Mexican multimedia company, has contracted capacity on SES’s AMC-9 satellite at the orbital position of 83 degrees Wes
December 21, 2015 10:35
ZTE Launches 6-Inch AXON MAX and Global VIP Passport Service for Chinese Users
ZTE Mobile Devices today announced the launch of the newest and final model of its high-powered AXON flagship series, the AXON MAX. At the same time, the company has announced its special “Global VIP
December 21, 2015 09:55
World’s Largest Oil Expo cippe to Gather Top 10 Oil Giants Next March in Beijing
The 16th China International Petroleum & Petrochemical Technology and Equipment Exhibition (cippe 2016) will be held on March 29-31, 2016 at New China International Exhibition Center. With an exhibiti
December 18, 2015 18:50
Hilton’s New Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Hotel Has Landed
Hilton Hotels & Resorts (http://goo.gl/yQ6MqE), pioneer of the world’s first airport hotel in 1959, today opens the new Hilton Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (http://goo.gl/4RxYqV), the latest vision for
December 18, 2015 18:20
Retired U.S. Senator Tom Harkin Joins Masimo’s Board of Directors
Masimo (www.masimo.com) (NASDAQ: MASI), a global innovator of noninvasive patient monitoring technologies, announced today that retired Senator Tom Harkin, former five-term U.S. Senator and former Cha
December 18, 2015 17:45
Analogix’s SlimPort Port Controller and High-Speed Switch ANX7428 Achieves USB Power Delivery Certification
Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. today announced that its ANX7428 achieved USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) certification for USB Power Delivery (USB PD), receiving the Product Test ID 10970042. The ANX74X
December 18, 2015 17:25
Voxeljet Expands to India
The German manufacturer of industrial 3D printing systems established voxeljet India Pvt. Ltd. in December 2015. The new voxeljet subsidiary is located in Pune, a large automotive and manufacturing ce
December 18, 2015 16:55
ADK YouTube Video Series Entitled “Meet the FURUSATO” Introduces Regional Cultures from Around Japan
ASATSU-DK (www.adk.jp/en) (TOKYO:9747)(ADK), one of Japan’s leading advertising agencies and headquartered in Tokyo, has launched a series of videos on YouTube introducing the various highly diverse c
December 18, 2015 15:55
Toshiba Launches DMOS FET Transistor Arrays with Industry's First 1.5A Sink-Output Driver
Toshiba Corporation (http://goo.gl/UDmjza)'s (TOKYO:6502) Semiconductor & Storage Products Company today announced the launch of a new generation of highly efficient transistor arrays, the TBD62064A s
December 18, 2015 15:25
GSMA Welcomes Mobile Industry Agreement on Technology Standards for Global Low Power Wide Area Market
The GSMA today announced that the mobile industry has agreed on technology standards for the emerging Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) market and these standards have been accepted by 3GPP. Industry alignme
December 18, 2015 14:30
Tommy Hilfiger Announces Gigi Hadid as Global Brand Ambassador for Tommy Hilfiger
Tommy Hilfiger, which is owned by PVH Corp. [NYSE: PVH], announces that internationally renowned supermodel Gigi Hadid will appear as the brand ambassador for Tommy Hilfiger women’s beginning Fall 201
December 18, 2015 13:35
Philip Morris Asia Limited Comments on Tribunal’s Decision to Decline Jurisdiction in Arbitration Against Commonwealth of Australia Over Plain Packaging
Philip Morris Asia Limited (PMAL), a Hong Kong company that is the parent of Philip Morris Australia, said today that an arbitral tribunal has declined jurisdiction to hear the merits of PMAL’s case a
December 18, 2015 13:15
Allianz Worldwide Care assigned A+ Superior rating by A.M. Best
Allianz Worldwide Care S.A. has welcomed today’s designation of a financial strength rating of A+ (Superior) and an issuer credit rating of “aa-” by A.M. Best. The outlook assigned to both ratings is
December 18, 2015 11:55
Premiere of Revolutionary Medical Refrigerator with Cooltech Applications at Medica 2015
Cooltech Applications, the world’s leading magnetic refrigeration development company, presented, at MEDICA (Dusseldorf, November 16-19), at its partner’s booth (Kirsch), a pre-series medical fridge r
December 18, 2015 01:05
The Estée Lauder Companies Completes Investment in Dr. Jart+
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE:EL) announced today that it has completed its investment in Have & Be Co. Ltd., the South Korean company behind skin care brands Dr. Jart+ and Do The Right Thing.
December 17, 2015 22:05
Andersen Global Establishes a Presence in Chile
Andersen Global is proud to announce a new presence in Santiago, Chile, with the addition of Landa Consultores. Landa Consultores will adopt the name Andersen Tax - Landa, making it the fourth member
December 17, 2015 19:35
SES and Viasat Extend Partnership for TV Distribution
SES S.A. (NYSE Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) announced today that Viasat, a direct broadcast satellite television broadcaster and pay TV operator, owned by the Swedish media and entertainment group Modern T
December 17, 2015 18:45
Jefferies Reports Fiscal Fourth Quarter 2015 Financial Results
Jefferies Group LLC today announced financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter 2015. Highlights for the three months ended November 30, 2015, with adjusted amounts excluding the operating resu
December 17, 2015 18:00
Huber to Strengthen Fire Retardant Additive Portfolio While Expanding Global Reach with Acquisition of Albemarle’s Martinswerk Chemical Businesses
J.M. Huber Corporation, through its Huber Engineered Materials division, has reached an agreement to acquire the Martinswerk mineral flame retardants and specialty chemicals businesses of Albemarle Co
December 17, 2015 17:50
DreamWorks Studios, Participant Media, Reliance Entertainment and Entertainment One Form Amblin Partners, a New Film, Television and Digital Content Creation Company
Steven Spielberg, Principal Partner, DreamWorks Studios, Jeff Skoll, Chairman, Participant Media, Anil Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Group and Darren Throop, President and Chief Executive Officer, Entert
December 17, 2015 17:05
Smartmatic’s i-voting and e-voting Empower Citizens in Chile
Smartmatic, the world’s leading election technology and services provider, empowered Chilean citizens during a three-day election in the Commune of Maipu last weekend. Using Smartmatic’s multi-chan
December 17, 2015 15:55
Hilton Worldwide Sets Sail in Bournemouth
Hilton Hotels & Resorts (http://goo.gl/yQ6MqE) today announced the opening of its newest property in the UK, Hilton Bournemouth (http://goo.gl/cAvGzk). The new hotel joins 67 hotels within the Hilton
December 17, 2015 14:45
Limelight’s Latest ‘State of Online Video’ Report Shows Consumers Increasingly Watch Online Video Content on Their Own Terms
The shift in consumer online video viewing habits is changing rapidly, according the latest survey of more than 1,200 consumers from Limelight Networks, Inc. (www.limelight.com), (Nasdaq:LLNW), a glob
December 17, 2015 13:45
First Patients Enrolled in the Gore RELINE MAX Clinical Study
W. L. Gore & Associates (Gore) (www.goremedical.com) announces that the first patients are now enrolled in the Gore RELINE MAX Clinical Study, a post-approval study to continue to evaluate the GORE® V
December 17, 2015 13:35
BitFury Announces Mass Production of Fastest and Most Effective 16nm ASIC Chip in the World
BitFury Group, the leading Bitcoin Blockchain infrastructure provider and transaction processing company in the world today announced mass-production of its full-custom design 16nm Application Specifi
December 17, 2015 13:30
Takeda Announces Sale of Respiratory Portfolio to AstraZeneca
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TOKYO:4502, http://goo.gl/eX9kbP) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its respiratory portfolio to AstraZeneca. In 2014 Taked
December 17, 2015 13:05
Panasonic Showcased the Latest Zero-Eco House and Hydrogen Fuel Cell at Eco-Products 2015
Panasonic showcased its innovative eco-conscious products and technologies at its booth under the theme, “A Better Life, A Better World” at Eco-Products 2015, which was held at the Tokyo Big Sight fro
December 17, 2015 11:35
HETA: Coordination among Creditor Groups
Several groups of holders of notes and other debt instruments issued by HETA ASSET RESOLUTION AG (“HETA”) and secured by an obligation of the Province of Carinthia and/or the Kärntner Landes- und Hypo
December 16, 2015 14:30
Hilton Worldwide Debuts its DoubleTree by Hilton Brand in Colombia with the Opening of DoubleTree by Hilton Bogotá - Parque 93
DoubleTree by Hilton (http://goo.gl/nxRUAi), one of Hilton Worldwide’s (www.hiltonworldwide.com) (NYSE: HLT) twelve market-leading brands, today celebrated the opening of DoubleTree by Hilton Bogotá -
December 16, 2015 13:55
P&G Releases 2015 Sustainability Report, Detailing Progress against 2020 Environmental and Social Goals
The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) released its 17th annual sustainability report (http://goo.gl/2t4AvN) today, detailing the progress it is making to reduce its environmental footprint and improv
December 16, 2015 13:50
Toshiba Launches General-Purpose System Power IC for Automotive Functional Safety
Toshiba Corporation (http://goo.gl/UDmjza) (TOKYO:6502) today announced the launch of “TB9044FNG”, a general-purpose system power IC with multiple outputs achieving functional safety[1] for automotive
December 16, 2015 13:00
President Clinton To Deliver Keynote Remarks at the 4th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (http://patientsafetymovement.org) announced today that President Bill Clinton, Founder of the Clinton Foundation & 42nd President of the United States, will del
December 16, 2015 11:25
GE Capital Aviation Services and Virgin America Sign Lease Agreement for 10 Airbus A321neo Aircraft
GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), the commercial aircraft leasing and financing arm of GE, today announced it signed an agreement with Virgin America, Inc., to lease 10 new Airbus A321neo aircraft
December 16, 2015 10:15
Moynihan to become Managing Partner of Oliver Wyman’s Financial Services Practice
Oliver Wyman, the international management consulting firm, is pleased to announce that Ted Moynihan will assume the role of Managing Partner of its Financial Services practice effective January 1, 20
December 15, 2015 21:10
SES and SOLARKIOSK Sign Agreement to Bring Internet to Underserved Villages Worldwide
SES Techcom Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of world-leading satellite operator SES, and SOLARKIOSK AG, the energy and business gateway provider to underserved communities worldwide, today announc
December 15, 2015 21:00
Sanofi and Boehringer Ingelheim Enter Exclusive Negotiations on Business Swap
Sanofi (http://en.sanofi.com)and Boehringer Ingelheim (www.boehringer-ingelheim.com) today announced that the companies have entered into exclusive negotiations to swap businesses. The proposed transa
December 15, 2015 20:00
WIN 2016 Symposium June 27-28, Paris: “Innovative Approaches to Improve Cancer Patient Outcomes”
WIN 2016 will be held in Paris, France from 27-28 June 2016. It is the 8th edition of a successful series of symposia organized by the Worldwide Innovative Networking (WIN) Consortium, dedicated to ad
December 15, 2015 18:00
Sunwave Signs Development Partnership with Star Solutions
The buzz in the DAS and Small Cell community in recent months has been about Cloud-RAN (C-RAN), but there is an equally strong case for a compact software defined Thin-RAN approach to DAS deployment s
December 15, 2015 17:40
Kyoto University's Center for iPS Cell Research Application and Takeda Launch the Joint Program for iPS Cell Applications Research at the Shonan Research Center (T-CiRA)
The Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) at Kyoto University and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (Takeda) announced today the initiation of the joint research program to develop c
December 15, 2015 17:10
Spain’s SENSAR Makes a Commitment to the Patient Safety Movement Foundation
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (http://patientsafetymovement.org) announced today a commitment from Spain’s anesthesia national incident reporting system, Sistema Español de Notificacion en Se
December 15, 2015 16:55
Analogix and Pinecone Collaborate on USB-C Technology
Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. and Beijing Pinecone Electronics Co. Ltd., today announced their licensing agreement of Analogix’s Intellectual Property (IP) for USB-C™ technology. “Working with Analo
December 15, 2015 16:20
Honestbee Brings On-Demand Grocery and Delivery Service to Japan
Honestbee, a fast-growing on-demand grocery concierge and delivery service company based in Singapore, today launches its service in Japan. The first stop of more to come, visiting tourists can now en
December 15, 2015 15:45
New $7 Million XPRIZE Competition Seeks to Usher in a New Era of Ocean Exploration
At a keynote address today during the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, chairman and CEO of XPRIZE (www.xprize.org), announced the launch of the $7M She
December 15, 2015 15:00
SES to Participate in Seed Fund with Luxembourg Government to Finance ICT Start-Ups
SES S.A. (NYSE Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) announced today the signature of a letter of commitment with the Luxembourg Government and six other partners to finance ICT start-ups. The initiative taken b
December 15, 2015 14:55
Arabic-Language TV Channel of Deutsche Welle Now Available Via Astra 19.2 East in Western Europe
SES S.A. (NYSE Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) announced today a cooperation with Deutsche Welle (DW) to transmit its Arabic language TV programme via the orbital position Astra 19.2 degrees East. The DW chan
December 15, 2015 14:50
Initiation of first multinational study to evaluate safety of OFEV® (nintedanib) with add-on of pirfenidone in patients with IPF
Boehringer Ingelheim today announces the initiation of trial 1199.222 (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02579603), a new 12 week study to assess the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of add-o
December 15, 2015 11:00
Mitsubishi Electric to Build Elevator Factory in South Korea
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (www.mitsubishielectric.com) (TOKYO:6503) announced today that it will build a new factory for Mitsubishi Elevator Korea Co., Ltd. (KMEC) in the Songdo area of the Inch
December 15, 2015 09:55
Morfis Semiconductor Unveils Family of World’s Smallest Fully Integrated CMOS Single-Die Flip-Chip Cellular RF Front-Ends at CES 2016
After two years of extensive development and testing, Morfis Semiconductor is ready to emerge from stealth mode and unleash the world’s smallest family of fully integrated CMOS, single-chip, single-di
December 15, 2015 09:00
nano tech 2016 - International Nanotechnology Exhibition and Conference in Tokyo Creating New Value Through Technology Integration
The nano tech executive committee (Chairman: Professor Tomoji Kawai) will hold “nano tech 2016 - the 15th International Nanotechnology Exhibition and Conference”, one of the world’s largest exhibition
December 14, 2015 13:00
BitFury to Launch Energy Efficient Immersion Cooling Data Center
BitFury Group, the leading Bitcoin Blockchain infrastructure provider and transaction processing company in the world, will open its third mega data center next week. This new mega data center will
December 14, 2015 11:45
Philippine Delegation Oversees Production of Vote Counting Machines in Taiwan
A delegation of Comelec representatives, lawmakers and election watchdogs visited Taiwan this week to personally observe the manufacturing process of Vote Counting Machines (VCMs). The group includ
December 14, 2015 09:35
Hyundai and Kia Sign Licensing Agreement with Paice
Paice, a pioneer in hybrid electric vehicle technology, has reached an agreement to license all of its hybrid vehicle technology to Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp. Paice has now licensed all
December 11, 2015 17:55
Registration Now Available for the 2016 COMPUTEX d&i Awards
The 36th edition of global professional ICT trade show COMPUTEX TAIPEI will take place from May 31st to June 4th, 2016 in Taipei. One of the leading ICT trade shows in the world, the show will be held
December 11, 2015 17:00
Morpho Announces Agreements to Form Business and Capital Alliance with DENSO CORPORATION
Morpho, Inc. (hereinafter, “Morpho”) and DENSO CORPORATION (“DENSO”) have entered into business and capital alliance agreements. Business alliance agreement will advance collaborative research and dev
December 11, 2015 16:55
Panasonic Introduced Its Tomato-picking Robot and Parallel Link Robot at International Robot Exhibition 2015
Panasonic took part in one of the world's largest robot exhibitions, the International Robot Exhibition 2015 (held from December 2 to 5, 2015 at Tokyo Big Sight). Panasonic proposed numerous robotics
December 11, 2015 13:55
Quintiles Launches Suite of Services to Integrate Asset Development Planning
Quintiles, the world’s largest provider of biopharmaceutical services, today announced the launch of its Integrated Asset Development Plan (IADP) offering. This new suite of services combines developm
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