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July 01, 2014 10:40
Toshiba and GDF SUEZ Complete NuGen Deal Europe's Largest New Nuclear Energy Project
Toshiba Corporation (http://goo.gl/m782j) (TOKYO:6502) and GDF SUEZ (www.gdfsuez.com/en) have completed a deal that will boost development of the Moorside new nuclear power project on the West Cumbria
June 30, 2014 23:00
InCoax Networks Joins MoCA
Networking equipment provider, InCoax Networks has joined MoCA as a Contributor member. InCoax Networks uses the free capacity in existing in-building coaxial cables to enable high-speed internet a
June 30, 2014 17:55
MITRE-CAAS Air Traffic Management Research and Development Centre Takes Shape in Singapore
The MITRE Corporation (MITRE) and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) signed a seven-year contract today, with an option for a further three-year extension, to enable MITRE to establish a
June 30, 2014 17:40
Edwards’ Dry Pumping Vacuum Technology Provides a Clear Edge for Major Steel Contractors
Edwards has partnered with two major steel contractors to supply dry pumping vacuum technology for vacuum degassing (VD). Edwards is one of the most experienced suppliers in the market for dry vacuum
June 30, 2014 13:50
MSCI Completes Factor Indexes Research Study for World’s Largest Pension Fund
MSCI Inc. (www.msci.com) (NYSE:MSCI), a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, announced today that it has completed a research mandate for Japan’s Government Pension Investm
June 30, 2014 13:33
Ooyala Powers Fusion's Cross-Device Digital Video for the 2014 World Cup
Ooyala, the leading innovator in premium video publishing, analytics and monetization, today announced it is powering multi-screen digital content from the 2014 World Cup for Fusion‘s World Cup site S
June 30, 2014 13:25
Arkadin Awarded Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Collaboration Service Provider of the Year
Arkadin, an NTT Communications company, and one of the largest and fastest growing providers of Collaboration(http://www.arkadin.com/sg) and Unified Communications(http://www.arkadin.com/sg/solutions/
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
The new indexes, available now, include
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,
Sequential Brands Group Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Galaxy Brand Holdings
June 25, 2014 18:00
Sequential Brands Group Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Galaxy Brand Holdings
Sequential Brands Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:SQBG) (“Sequential” or the “Company”) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Galaxy Brand Holdings, Inc. (“Galaxy”) for $100 million
June 25, 2014 15:40
Micron Technology, Inc., Reports Results for the Third Quarter of Fiscal 2014
Micron Technology, Inc., (Nasdaq:MU) today announced results of operations for its third quarter of fiscal 2014, which ended May 29, 2014. Revenues for the third quarter of fiscal 2014 were $3.98 bill
June 25, 2014 15:25
NTT Communications to Offer 100MB/Day Prepaid SIM
NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT (NYSE: NTT) Group, announced today a fast, convenient LTE prepaid data service, “OC
June 25, 2014 14:15
DVDO Introduces iScan Mini™ 4K Ultra HD Video Enhancement System
DVDO®, Inc. (www.dvdo.com), an award-winning provider of high-quality, high-definition (HD) video processing, switching and connectivity solutions, today announced the iScan Mini (www.dvdo.com/iscanmi
June 25, 2014 14:14
Ooyala and Basefarm Seal New Partnership; Launch Multi-Screen Video and Analytics for Ziggo
Ooyala, a leading innovator in multi-screen video streaming and analytics, today announced it is providing a comprehensive video solution for the website of Ziggo, the largest cable operator in the Ne
June 25, 2014 13:45
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art to Call Chicago Home
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (LMNA) today announced its intention to become a member of Chicago’s vibrant cultural arts scene by locating on the city’s Museum Campus. LMNA will be a gathering pla
British American Tobacco plc
June 25, 2014 11:50
One in Ten Cigarettes Consumed in the EU in 2013 Were Illegal; Dramatic Rise in Consumption of ‘Illicit Whites’
One in every ten cigarettes consumed in the European Union in 2013 were illicit, 33% of which were “illicit whites”, an emerging type of illegal, branded cigarettes manufactured for the sole purpose o
June 25, 2014 11:25
ADEA to Host 5th International Women’s Leadership Conference along with International Workshop, Sept. 14-16, 2014
The American Dental Education Association (ADEA, www.adea.org), the premier association serving the dental education community, is hosting two meetings for today’s globally-minded dental education and
June 25, 2014 10:25
Hilton Worldwide Prices Secondary Offering
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. (“Hilton Worldwide” or the “Company”) announced today the pricing of a secondary offering of 90,000,000 shares of Hilton Worldwide common stock by certain selling stockh
June 25, 2014 10:10
OT and V3D Partner to Help Mobile Operators Enhance Customer Experience
Oberthur Technologies (OT) a world leader in digital security solutions for the mobility space and V3D, the independent QoS and QoE software editor for mobile networks, announced today their strategic
June 25, 2014 09:45
Oral-B® SmartSeries™ Electric Toothbrush with Bluetooth® Connectivity Now on Sale
After making headlines worldwide with its groundbreaking debut at Mobile World Congress in February, the wait is over for the Oral-B interactive SmartSeries electric toothbrush with Bluetooth 4.0 conn
June 25, 2014 09:15
Guinness World Records: Nine Titles Awarded to Rare Gemstone Collection, The Ophir Collection
Containing the world's largest gemstones, the Ophir Collection (http://www.OphirCollection.com), owned by Ophir Collection LLC, has been awarded nine GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® titles. A photo accompa
June 24, 2014 18:00
StreamWIDE Launches Enterprise Mobile Messaging App “Team on the Run” Maximizing the Efficiency of Group Communication
StreamWIDE (Paris:ALSTW) (FR0010528059 - ALSTW), the Next-Generation Mobile Value Added Service expert, announced today the launch of Team on the Run (TOTR), a secure and reliable white label instant
June 24, 2014 17:45
Ferring Pharmaceuticals and Roche collaborate to develop personalised infertility treatment
Ferring Pharmaceuticals and Roche have announced a collaboration to combine diagnostic testing technology from Roche with Ferring’s human cell line derived recombinant follicle-stimulating hormone (hu
June 24, 2014 16:00
“Project Last Mile” Expands to Improve Availability of Life-Saving Medicines in Additional Regions of Africa
The Coca-Cola Company and its Foundations, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today
June 24, 2014 15:00
ZTE Wins Wind Telecom Contract to Build First 4G TD-LTE Network in Dominican Republic
ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment, network solutions and mobile devices, announce
June 24, 2014 14:00
Kwong Yew Weng Realty Selects Yardi Voyager 7S in Malaysia
Yardi announced today that Malaysian property company Kwong Yew Weng Realty has selected Yardi Voyager 7S as its new property and financial management platform. Voyager 7S (http://goo.gl/y57u8t) is
June 24, 2014 12:00
Hilton Worldwide Announces Secondary Offering of 90,000,000 Shares of Common Stock
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. (“Hilton Worldwide” or the “Company”) announced today that certain selling stockholders affiliated with The Blackstone Group L.P. have commenced a secondary offering of
June 24, 2014 11:40
Mavenir™ adds mobility to Voice over Wi-Fi
Mavenir Systems (http://goo.gl/T1JsFL) (NYSE: MVNR), a leading provider of software-based network solutions for mobile services, today announced the availability of its Evolved Packet Data Gateway (eP
June 24, 2014 10:30
Quintiles Named a Best IT Workplace by Computerworld
Quintiles, the world’s largest biopharmaceutical services provider and a Fortune 500 company, has been named one of IDG Computerworld's 100 Best Places to Work in IT 2014 (www.computerworld.com), the
June 24, 2014 09:05
Micron Collaborates With Intel to Enhance Knights Landing With a High Performance, On-Package Memory Solution
Micron Technology, Inc.(http://www.micron.com/) (Nasdaq:MU), one of the world‘s leading providers of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced an ongoing collaboration with Intel to deliver an
June 24, 2014 08:58
Vital Introduces VitreaExtend™ to Vitrea® Enterprise Suite
Vital Images, Inc. (“Vital”), a Toshiba Medical Systems Group Company, is pleased to announce the global release of VitreaExtend™, an advanced visualization solution that supports up to three simulta
June 23, 2014 17:30
Growth: Stronger Than You Think
Global economic performance has been weaker than expected; nevertheless, financial markets were relatively unfazed by these developments, as central banks’ policies remain highly accommodative. “After
June 23, 2014 11:55
Schlumberger Hosts 2014 Investor Conference
Schlumberger Limited (NYSE:SLB) announced today that it is hosting its 2014 Investor Conference on June 24 and 25, 2014. Executive management presentations will be available on the company’s websit
June 23, 2014 10:35
Global Invacom: New tvLINK™ HD Coax and WiFi Products Cost-Effectively Upgrade SD Sports Bars and Digital Signage Networks to HD
Global Invacom (Singapore STX.ST), a leading innovator and manufacturer of technology to the global satellite industry, has launched tvLINK™ HD which uses unique patent pending technology enabling fas
June 22, 2014 11:38
Social@Ogilvy Taps Sysomos as Global Partner to Enhance Effectiveness of Digital Creative Campaigns
Sysomos, a premier provider of social intelligence and social monitoring solutions, today announced a global partnership with Social@Ogilvy, a digital consultancy from Ogilvy & Mather. The agreement e
June 20, 2014 17:30
New Pradaxa® clinical study to explore practical management of patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing ablation
For media outside of the U.S., the UK & Canada only Boehringer Ingelheim today announces a new study of Pradaxa® (dabigatran etexilate) in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). The RE-CIRCUIT™ st
June 20, 2014 11:35
Quintiles and Modern Marketing Concepts Collaborate to Launch Innovative Marketing Analytics Platform
Quintiles (www.quintiles.com) and Modern Marketing Concepts (MMC, Inc., www.mmcweb.com) today announced the launch of a new marketing analytics platform that enables Quintiles to optimize sales and ma
June 20, 2014 10:40
Moody’s Secures Majority Equity Ownership Stake in ICRA
Moody’s Corporation (NYSE:MCO) announced today that it has secured a majority equity ownership stake in ICRA Ltd., a leading provider of credit ratings and research in India, increasing its stake from
June 20, 2014 10:20
KIRARITO, a MIRAISHONEN Company, Starts a Crowdsourcing Web Site “graphicker”, Specialized in Graphic Design Jobs in 4 Languages in August, Which Enables Global Job Matching Between Graphic Designers and Game Developers
KIRARITO, a MIRAISHONEN company, one of Japan’s biggest game graphic solutions provider, headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, announced that it would start graphicker (http://graphicker.me), a crowdsourci
June 20, 2014 10:05
First-of-a-Kind Global Centre of Excellence to Advance Internet Voting
Smartmatic, world leader in the automation of elections, and Cybernetica, the Estonian R&D lab that built the original Internet voting system used in Estonia, have created a first-of-a-kind Centre for
June 20, 2014 09:00
Micron‘s Daniel Skinner Receives JEDEC’s Most Prestigious Honor - The Award of Excellence
Micron Technology, Inc.(http://us.micron.com/), (Nasdaq:MU) today congratulates Daniel Skinner, Director, Mobile DRAM Architecture, on receiving the prestigious JEDEC Award of Excellence(http://www.je
June 20, 2014 08:55
Video Interview: Santiago Seage, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Abengoa Yield [ABY]
Veteran business journalist Kelsey Hubbard joins Santiago Seage, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Abengoa Yield [ABY] to discuss the company's industry, strategy, financials and positioning. C
June 19, 2014 17:15
Angola Cables and DE-CIX Announce Long-Term Strategic Partnership for African Continent
Angola Cables(http://angolacables.co.ao/en/home/), a leading Angolan operator of fiber-optic submarine cables, announces a strategic partnership with DE-CIX(http://www.de-cix.net/), the world's leadin
June 19, 2014 15:50
Markit Upsizes and Prices Initial Public Offering
Markit, a leading global diversified provider of financial information services, today announced the upsizing and pricing of its initial public offering (IPO) of 53,472,353 common shares at a price of
June 19, 2014 14:00
Strategic Partnership Between Genscape and The Petrochemical Standard (TPS) Leads to Fundamental Shift in Petrochemical Pricing
Faced with dramatic shifts in supply and demand, an uncertain regulatory environment, and increasingly complex global petrochemical markets, participants are exposed to increasing benchmark risk witho
June 19, 2014 13:25
Kemppi releases the Kemppi ARC System 3 solution and announces the acquisition of Weldindustry AS
Management of welding procedures, welder qualifications and welding equipment fleet results in high welding production performance, EBIT growth, cost competitiveness and a reduction in lead time. Kemp
June 19, 2014 12:00
ZTE Files Antitrust Complaint With European Commission Against Vringo
ZTE Corporation has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission, requesting it to investigate the licensing practices of Vringo Inc. and its subsidiaries in light of concerns that these
June 19, 2014 11:50
Ace Appoints Cassie Chen as Asia’s Regional Property & Terrorism Underwriting Manager
(EON: Enhanced Online News, http://goo.gl/mQAKT0)-- ACE Group announced today the appointment of Cassie Chen as Regional Property & Terrorism (http://goo.gl/KqEFnk) Underwriting Manager for Asia. She
June 19, 2014 11:25
HKNet Delivers New Point of Presence (PoP) to Accelerate Business Networking in Taiwan
HKNet Company Limited (www.hknet.com/en/), a subsidiary of NTT Communications (http://goo.gl/tM6FjT), has strengthened its Asia network with the launch of a new Point of Presence (PoP) in Taiwan. The
June 19, 2014 10:50
Visa Everywhere Travel Report: International Travelers to Brazil Spent $27M on Visa Accounts During Opening Weekend of 2014 FIFA World Cup BrazilTM
Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), the leader in global payments, today released the Visa Everywhere Travel Report for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil, which analyzes travel data and cross border spend on all Visa pr
June 19, 2014 10:35
Gustavo Eiben Joins The Rohatyn Group as Managing Director
The Rohatyn Group (“TRG”), an independent investment firm focused on emerging markets, today announced that Gustavo Eiben has joined TRG as a Managing Director. Based in the firm’s New York office, Mr
June 19, 2014 10:00
Regus Provides Investment Boost to Bangladesh Economy
Regus, the global flexible workplace provider, has expanded its network to an unparalleled 103 countries, adding Bangladesh to its network. To maximise the convenience for businesses, it has entered t
June 19, 2014 00:05
ViewSonic Enters into MPEG LA’s MPEG-2 and ATSC Licenses
MPEG LA announced today that ViewSonic Corporation (alternatively named ViewSonic Display Co.) (“ViewSonic”) has become a Licensee to MPEG LA’s MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License (“MPEG-2 License”) and A
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