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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
December 11, 2015 13:35
Russell Reynolds Associates Announces Office Opening in Dubai
Russell Reynolds Associates has opened an office in Dubai, located at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). The global leader in assessment, recruitment and succession planning for chief ex
December 11, 2015 10:15
Schlumberger Announces Issuance of Senior Notes
Schlumberger Limited (NYSE:SLB) announced today that Schlumberger Holding Corporation (“SHC”), its wholly-owned subsidiary and the holding company for its U.S. operations, will issue five tranches of
December 11, 2015 10:00
SES-9 Arrives at Cape Canaveral for Mid-January Launch
SES S.A. (NYSE Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) announced today that SES-9 has safely arrived at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and is being processed for a mid-January 2016 launch on board SpaceX’s newly upgraded F
December 10, 2015 18:10
NTT Com Receives License to Launch Network Services in India
NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group (NYSE: NTT), announced today that it has been granted National Long Distance
December 10, 2015 14:00
MX.3 INNOVATION: Getting Ready for Basel III SA-CCR
Murex, the leading provider of Trading, Risk management and Processing solutions, announces a packaged solution for the Standard Approach for Counterparty Credit Risk (SA-CCR) under Basel III. The
December 10, 2015 13:55
Merck and Pfizer Initiate Two Phase III Studies of Investigational Immunotherapy Avelumab in Advanced Gastric and Gastro-esophageal Junction Cancers
Merck and Pfizer today announced the initiation of two Phase III studies of avelumab*, an investigational, fully human anti-PD-L1 IgG1 monoclonal antibody, in treating advanced or metastatic gastric/g
December 10, 2015 13:50
Yahoo Provides Update on Planned Spin Off of Remaining Stake in Alibaba Group
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) today announced that its Board of Directors, after careful review and consideration of how to best drive long-term value for shareholders, has unanimously decided to suspend
December 10, 2015 13:45
OT Strengthens Its Portfolio in Austria with Debit Cards Integrating the Local Quick Electronic Purse
Oberthur Technologies (OT), a leading global provider of embedded security software products, services and solutions today announced the strengthening of its portfolio for the Austrian debit market by
December 10, 2015 13:25
NTT Communications Launches New Hong Kong Data Center to Accelerate Enterprises' Digital Transformation
NTT Communications (www.hk.ntt.com/en/index.html) today announced the opening of its Tier IV ready[1] FDC2 (http://goo.gl/NFqVxf) - the second phase of its Hong Kong Financial Data Center. FDC2 marks
December 10, 2015 10:00
VeriSilicon and NextG-Com Announce Joint Partnership for Developing Next Generation Cat-0/Cat-M Reference Platform
VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. (VeriSilicon) and NextG-Com Limited (NextG-Com) today announced a joint partnership to develop next generation Cat-0/Cat-M reference platforms. The joint partnership wil
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