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September 25, 2014 14:00

GSMA Announces Clinton Global Initiative Commitment for GSMA Connected Women Programme

The GSMA today announced its Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action, Connected Women: Accelerating the Female Mobile Economy, at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York City.

September 25, 2014 13:40

ExxonMobil Announces New Projects to Expand Specialty Hydrocarbon Fluid Production

ExxonMobil Chemical (http://goo.gl/uq7hAp) is increasing production of its high performance hydrocarbon fluids (http://goo.gl/I1MfQQ) by about 10 percent through expansion projects at its Singapore an

September 25, 2014 11:50

Toshiba Launches Low Power Consumption ICs for Bluetooth® Smart Communication Devices with NFC Tag functions

Toshiba Corporation (http://goo.gl/UDmjza) (TOKYO:6502) today announced the launch of “TC35670FTG”, a low power consumption dual function IC that supports both Bluetooth® Low Energy (LE)[1] communicat

September 25, 2014 11:00

Murata’s Robot Cheerleaders Achieve Highly Synchronized Dancing

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (www.murata.com), a global leader in advanced electronic components and solutions, today unveiled its latest innovation, the Murata Cheerleaders, a team of small robots

September 25, 2014 10:35

Toshiba Announces Business Vision for Southeast Asia

Mr. Hisao Tanaka, the President and CEO of Japan’s Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502), today announced Toshiba’s comprehensive strategy for expanding its business in Southeast Asia, including investing

September 24, 2014 22:00

ZTE Welcomes Withdrawal of Patent Claim Before UK Court

Vringo Inc. has withdrawn another infringement claim against ZTE Corporation before the UK High Court of Justice Chancery Division court. The patent in question (EP (UK) 1 808 029), relating to mob

September 24, 2014 19:00

Call for Applications: Mills College Women in Public Service Project Institute

Mills College announces a call for applications for the Women in Public Service Project Institute (http://goo.gl/MxnGW1), which will be held on the Mills campus, in Oakland, California, April 11-20, 2

September 24, 2014 18:00

MetLife Charts Its Progress on Environmental, Social and Governance Issues

MetLife, Inc. (NYSE:MET) released the company’s latest corporate responsibility report today highlighting the positive impact it makes on society while achieving its core business goals of managing ri

September 24, 2014 17:50

Asia Pulp and Paper signs New York Declaration on Forests at UN Climate Summit to help tackle climate change

Mr. Teguh Ganda Wijaya, Chairman of Asia Pulp and Paper Group (APP) (www.asiapulppaper.com), today joined a number of companies, governments and NGOs to sign the New York Declaration on Forests at an

September 24, 2014 17:40

GSMA Celebrates 20 Years of Global Mobile Awards

The GSMA today announced that the Global Mobile Awards 2015 are now open for entry. The 2015 awards, which mark 20 years of honouring excellence, achievement and innovation across the mobile industry,

September 24, 2014 17:20

Fuel Raises $3.5 Million from Middle East Venture Partners and Rising Tide Fund

Fuel (www.fuelpowered.com), the world’s leading platform for creating highly engaging connected experiences on mobile games, today announced it has raised $3.5 million in financing from Middle East Ve

September 24, 2014 16:30

SMRT Subsidiary Singapore Rail Engineering and Toshiba Establish JV to Market and Supply Energy Efficient Propulsions System to Mass Transit Operators Globally

Singapore Rail Engineering Pte. Ltd. (SRE) and Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) have decided to setup a joint venture to market and supply propulsion systems using Toshiba’s Permanent Magnet Synchron

September 24, 2014 15:55

CAAC Grants NetJets® Business Aviation Limited a Certificate for Business Jet Operations in China

NetJets Business Aviation Limited announced today it has obtained its CCAR-135 operation certificate from the Civil Aviation Administration of China, allowing the company to begin offering private air

September 24, 2014 13:00

Equities First Holdings LLC Acquires London-Based Meridian Equity Partners Limited

Equities First Holdings (EFH) is pleased to announce that the firm has acquired Meridian Equity Partners Limited in the United Kingdom (FCA no. 605564). Its operations will continue under the name Equ

September 24, 2014 11:45

Collaborative Aviation Climate Action Takes Flight

The aviation sector joined other business and government groups at the United Nations Climate Summit today to announce a commitment on climate action between the International Civil Aviation Organizat

September 23, 2014 16:20

Media Advisory: NetJets® Business Aviation Limited to Make Significant Announcement via Conference Calls

NetJets Business Aviation Limited: WHAT: NetJets Business Aviation Limited will host two conference calls for media - one in Mandarin and one in English - on which the company will give details of

September 23, 2014 15:45

New GSMA Report Sees North America Leading Mobile Investment and Innovation in the Developed World

The North American mobile market is one of the most advanced and successful in the world, according to the latest report in the GSMA’s Mobile Economy series. The study, “Mobile Economy North America 2

September 23, 2014 15:25

United States Driving Global Innovation in M2M with 41 Million Connections This Year, Finds New GSMA Report

The United States is one of the largest and most advanced machine-to-machine (M2M) markets in the world, with M2M representing one in 10 of all mobile connections in the region, compared with one in 2

September 23, 2014 15:15

Allianz Worldwide Care Enters Life and Disability Market

Allianz Worldwide Care has today announced the launch of a new product range that will offer life and disability cover alongside international health, giving corporate clients access to an enhanced po

September 23, 2014 15:00

Merck to Acquire Sigma-Aldrich to Enhance Position in Attractive Life Science Industry

Merck, a leading company for innovative and top-quality high-tech products in the pharmaceutical, chemical and life science sectors, and Sigma-Aldrich today announced that they have entered into a def

September 22, 2014 22:15

General Cable Announces $250 Million Private Offering of 5-Year Senior Notes

General Cable Corporation (NYSE: BGC) (the “Company”) today announced that, subject to market conditions, it intends to offer $250 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2019 (the “Not

September 22, 2014 22:00

New GSMA Study Highlights Major M2M Market Opportunity

Cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) communications will account for at least 10 per cent of the global mobile market by 2020, according to a new study by GSMA Intelligence, the research arm of the GSMA.

September 22, 2014 22:00

XPRIZE Announces Its Next Moonshot: Bringing Literacy to 250 Million Children Around the World

XPRIZE (www.xprize.org) Chairman and CEO, Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, will today announce the launch of the $15M Global Learning XPRIZE (http://learning.xprize.org) during a presentation at the Social Goo

September 22, 2014 21:40

General Cable Updates Third Quarter and Full Year Outlook

General Cable Corporation (NYSE:BGC) announced today third quarter and full year adjusted operating income are expected to be at or around the low end of management’s previously communicated range of

September 22, 2014 21:00

MHL Ecosystem Surpasses 650 Million Products Worldwide

MHL, LLC (www.mhltech.org) today announced that more than 650 million MHL® products have shipped worldwide since the first MHL-enabled products were released in 2011. The world’s leading consumer elec

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