Nov. 01, 2018 11:15

Western Union and Amazon to Launch New Way to Pay

The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU), a leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement, today announced it is has been engaged by Amazon to launch a new payment option that allows international shoppers to pay in person, in local currency w...

Nov. 01, 2018 11:10

Toshiba Adds New 4-channel High-Efficiency Linear Power Amplifier for Car Audios Featuring Maximum 45W Output

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”) today announced the launch of “TCB702FNG,” an addition to its 4-channel high-efficiency linear power amplifiers that meet current market requirements for high efficiency. Sample shipment...

Nov. 01, 2018 11:00

Tabirai Japan, Releases a Rental Car Accident Prevention Page for Korean Travelers to Japan

Tabirai Japan, a travel site for foreigners operated by Pam, Inc., aims to prevent traffic accidents among the increasing number of foreign travelers visiting Japan so that they can enjoy a safe trip to Japan, and has established a traffic acciden...

Nov. 01, 2018 10:50

Fraser Suites Top Glory, Shanghai Celebrates 10th Anniversary in Shanghai

Fraser Suites Top Glory, Shanghai held a celebrating event in Shanghai for its 10th anniversary on October 28th and extended its gratitude to the guests and staff for their long-lasting support. The glamorous event was attended by 260 guests, staf...

Nov. 01, 2018 10:30

ExaGrid Provides Quick Recovery of 100% of Data After Virus Hits Servers at Medical Center

ExaGrid’s hyper-converged secondary storage for backup system was put to the ultimate test by Cheshire Medical Center, which had selected ExaGrid for backup protection and data loss prevention. Cheshire Medical Center is an affiliate of the Dartmo...

Oct. 31, 2018 21:10

Business Wire Names Pascal Rosier General Manager of the Asia Pacific Region

Information industry executive Pascal Rosier has joined Business Wire as Asia Pacific general manager, it was announced today. Rosier will be responsible for Business Wire’s offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Sydney, and will work closely with the n...

Oct. 31, 2018 18:35

Ferring Announces Retirement of Michel Pettigrew, President of the Executive Board and Chief Operating Officer

Ferring Pharmaceuticals today announced that Michel Pettigrew, President of the Executive Board and Chief Operating Officer, will retire from his operational activities effective December 31, 2018. Per Falk, Chief Science Officer, will assume addi...

Oct. 31, 2018 17:35

Thomas Bunn Joins BCW to Lead U.S. Consumer Marketing Practice

BCW (Burson Cohn & Wolfe), a leading global communications agency, today announced that Thomas Bunn has joined as Executive Vice President, Global Brand and Integrated Solutions. Bunn will be responsible for leading and growing BCW’s consumer prac...

Oct. 31, 2018 17:15

Quanergy Completes Series C Financing with a Valuation Surpassing $2 Billion

Quanergy Systems, Inc., a global leader in the development and manufacture of LiDAR sensors and smart sensing solutions, today announced it has secured Series C funding at a valuation exceeding $2 billion, with a global top-tier fund as the lead i...

Oct. 31, 2018 16:00

PotNetwork Holdings, Inc. Announces Diamond CBD to Pursue FDA Product Registrations

PotNetwork Holdings, Inc. (OTC Pink: POTN)(the “Company”) announced today that, as the U.S. CBD market grows and expands, the Company is aggressively developing new products and moving forward on its strategy of exploring and initiating FDA regist...

Oct. 31, 2018 15:45

Presidents, Prime Ministers, and AI Sensation Sophia the Robot to Gather at the 12th Global Residence and Citizenship Conference in Dubai

More than 400 delegates from over 40 countries are expected to attend the 12th annual Global Residence and Citizenship Conference, which takes place next week (4-6 November) in Dubai. Hosted by leading international citizenship and residence advis...

Oct. 31, 2018 15:25

Terns Pharmaceuticals Completes $80 Million Series B Financing to Advance Pipeline of Drugs to Treat NASH and Cancer

Terns Pharmaceuticals Inc., a global biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing molecularly targeted, oral, small-molecule drugs to treat NASH and cancer, today announced the closing of an $80 million Series B financing. “Sinc...

Oct. 31, 2018 14:45

Leading Mobile Operators Join GSMA Partnership Programme to Create the Largest IoT Community in Asia Pacific

The GSMA today announced that fourteen mobile operators across the Asia Pacific region, including Celcom, Dialog, DTAC, M1, Maxis, Ncell, Optus, Robi, Smart, Smartfren, Singtel, True, XL and Xpand have joined the GSMA APAC IoT Partnership Programm...

Oct. 31, 2018 11:55

AXA XL Launches Cyber Insurance for Small & Mid-Size Businesses on Slice ICS

Slice Labs Inc., a leading on-demand insurance cloud provider, and AXA XL, a division of AXA, today launched a new cyber insurance policy specifically designed for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). Powered by Slice’s Insurance Cloud Services (I...

Oct. 31, 2018 11:35

Janssen Presents Positive Long-Term Efficacy and Safety of SYMTUZA®▼ (D/C/F/TAF) in Treatment-Naïve Adults with HIV-1

The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today unveiled 96-week results from the pivotal Phase 3 AMBER study of SYMTUZA® (darunavir 800 mg, cobicistat 150 mg, emtricitabine 200 mg and tenofovir alafenamide 10 mg (D/C/F/TAF)) at HI...

Oct. 31, 2018 11:25

Toshiba Releases Bluetooth® 5 IC for Automotive Applications

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”) has added “TC35681IFTG”, a new IC for automotive applications, to its line-up of ICs compliant with Bluetooth® low energy (LE)[1] core specification v5.0. The new device is suited to use...

Oct. 30, 2018 21:35

Nordson EFD Introduces Dial-A-Dose and Posi-Dose Animal Health Dosing Syringes

Nordson EFD, a Nordson company (NASDAQ: NDSN) and the world’s leading precision fluid dispensing systems manufacturer, announces its entry into a new market with the introduction of a comprehensive line of disposable dosing syringes for animal hea...

Oct. 30, 2018 15:40

NEC and Transgene Announce a Collaboration in the Field of Individualized Cancer Immunotherapy, Leveraging NEC's AI and Transgene’s myvac™ Platform

NEC Corporation (NEC)(TOKYO:6701) and Transgene (Euronext Paris:TNG) today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a strategic collaboration aimed at the treatment of solid cancers. The companies will cooperate in clinical...

Oct. 30, 2018 13:55

Aon and Guidewire Launch Cyber Scenario for a U.S. Dam Attack

Aon plc (NYSE:AON), a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement, and health solutions and Guidewire Software (NYSE:GWRE), provider of the industry platform Property and Casualty (P&C) insurers rely upon,...

Oct. 30, 2018 11:25

NTT and FURUNO ELECTRIC: GPS Time Synchronization with World-Class Accuracy Using a Few Selected Satellites

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (TOKYO: 9432) (NTT, Head office: Chiyoda-ku Tokyo; President & CEO: Jun Sawada) and FURUNO ELECTRIC CO., LTD. (TOKYO: 6814) (FURUNO, Head office: Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, President: Yukio Furuno) ha...

Oct. 30, 2018 10:45

EMQ Wins the Prestigious Red Herring Top 100 Global Award

EMQ, a leading financial settlement network across Asia, has been honored as a winner of the prestigious 2018 Red Herring Top 100 Global award. The award recognizes the innovations and technologies of the leading startups from North America, Europ...

Oct. 30, 2018 10:35

Mitsui Chemicals and Chitose Group Launch Novel Open Innovation Initiative to Foster Businesses and Talents

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (TOKYO:4183)(President & CEO: Tsutomu Tannowa) and Chitose Group (CEO: Tomohiro Fujita), a group of biotechnology startups, have jointly launched the “0 to 1 Project” as a novel open innovation initiative to foster "business...

Oct. 29, 2018 17:29

Hyosung Chairman Cho Hyun-Joon Leads Next-gen Power Tech with World's Largest STATCOM

Hyosung Heavy Industries held a ceremony on Oct. 25 to mark the completion of installation of a 400-Mvar STATCOM (Static Synchronous Compensator) in each of the Shinyoungju and Shinchungju substations of Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO). It is t...

Oct. 29, 2018 15:00

2018 Busan One Asia Festival Winds Up 9-day Feast of K-Content

The 2018 Busan One Asia Festival (BOF 2018), Asia’s No.1 Hallyu festival, wrapped up its nine-day run with the closing concert on Oct. 28. The BOF 2018 ended in great success, attracting 273,300 visitors. It is the largest number of visitors to th...

Oct. 29, 2018 14:10

RTA Unveils Finalists of Dubai World Challenge for Self-Driving Transport

HE Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), announced that the participation in the Dubai World Challenge for Self-Driving Transport had exceeded the target by...

Oct. 29, 2018 13:30

ABB to Build the World’s Most Advanced Robotics Factory in Shanghai

Pioneering digital technology company ABB today announced a major, new US$150 million investment in Shanghai, China to build the world’s most advanced, automated and flexible robotics factory - a cutting-edge center where robots make robots. The n...

Oct. 29, 2018 13:25

Takeda Comments on Ongoing Phase 1 Review by the European Commission of the Proposed Acquisition of Shire plc

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE: 4502) (“Takeda”) today issued the following statement with regard to its discussions with the European Commission (“EC”) as part of its Phase 1 review of the proposed acquisition of Shire plc (“Shire”) a...

Oct. 29, 2018 12:00

Cloudflare Continues Growth With Record New Products in Q3 2018

Cloudflare, the leading Internet performance and security company, today announced results from the third quarter of 2018. Cloudflare announced 15 new offerings in the third quarter and is now protecting and accelerating more than 10 million domai...

Oct. 29, 2018 11:40

Yiwu Fair 2018 Concludes in Zhejiang, Highlighting New Drivers for Upgrade of Small Commodities Industry

The 24th China Yiwu International Commodities (Standards) Fair ended with success in Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, China on October 25, 2018. As the largest exhibition in Zhejiang Province, this year‘s Yiwu Fair provided 4,136 international standa...

Oct. 29, 2018 10:50

Takeda Announces Execution of Senior Short Term Loan Facility Agreement and Subordinated Syndicated Loan Agreement and Second Amendment to Bridge Credit Agreement in Connection with Proposed Acquisition of Shire plc

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE:4502) (the “Company or “Takeda”) announces that it has today entered into a Senior Short Term Loan Facility Agreement (the “SSTL”) for an aggregate principal amount of up to 500 billion Japanese Yen. The ...

Oct. 29, 2018 08:05

BPU Holdings Partners with Doctors to Use Artificial Emotional Intelligence (AEI) to Detect First Signs of Heart Attack

BPU Holdings announces joint work using Artificial Emotional Intelligence (AEI) to harness better health and prevent sudden cardiac death, as well as assist with dementia. The company’s initiative is an outgrowth of its work with the United States...

Oct. 26, 2018 18:40

Arch Mortgage Insurance dac Completes First-of-its-kind Capital Relief Transaction

Arch Mortgage Insurance dac (“Arch”) today announced it has completed a capital relief transaction on a €3 billion subset of a residential mortgage loan portfolio of ING DiBa A.G., a wholly owned subsidiary of ING Bank N.V. The deal is the first o...

Oct. 26, 2018 17:40

Cohn & Wolfe Wins Global Agency of the Year at the SABRE Awards

Cohn & Wolfe was named Global Agency of the Year at The Holmes Report’s 2018 Global SABRE Awards ceremony held last night in Washington, D.C. The global communications agency - which merged with Burson-Marsteller in early 2018 to form BCW (Burson ...

Oct. 26, 2018 17:25

Investing in the Future Conference (IIFMENA) Launches ‘Sharjah Declaration for Youth Empowerment’

In response to the challenges facing Youth in the MENA region, Sharjah, the third largest emirate in the United Arab Emirates, has called on MENA member states and international community to collectively adopt and implement the ‘Sharjah Declaratio...

Oct. 26, 2018 17:10

PotNetwork Holdings, Inc. Announces New CEO: Kevin Hagen, and Other Changes

PotNetwork Holdings, Inc. (OTC Pink: POTN) (the “Company”) announced today that Kevin Hagen, President of its subsidiary, First Capital Venture Co., owner of Diamond CBD, Inc., has been appointed as new Chief Executive Officer effective immediatel...

Oct. 26, 2018 16:25

Moody’s Selects Partners for Reshape Tomorrow, Aiming to Help Small Businesses Thrive

Moody’s Corporation (NYSE:MCO) today announced the selection of its inaugural list of partners for Reshape TomorrowTM, its innovative, global program to help owners of small and growing business overcome the challenges of expanding their enterpris...

Oct. 26, 2018 15:40

Takeda to Highlight Data in Hodgkin Lymphoma During the 11th International Symposium on Hodgkin Lymphoma

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE: 4502) today announced that the company will feature a total of six company-sponsored abstracts, including two oral presentations, at the 11th International Symposium on Hodgkin Lymphoma (ISHL), October 2...

Oct. 26, 2018 14:55

Gemalto Third Quarter 2018 Revenue

Regulatory News: Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 - GTO), the world leader in digital security today announces its revenue for the third quarter of 2018. (To view the table, please visit ) Philippe Vallée, Chief Executive Officer, commented: “As exp...

Oct. 26, 2018 14:35

Universal Laser Systems Expands Its Materials Database with 3M and Angstron Materials

Universal Laser Systems (ULS) announces the addition of 3M™ and Angstron materials to its materials database, the most extensive repository of laser material processing parameters for materials in the range of 10 watts to 500 watts. The 3M and Ang...

Oct. 26, 2018 11:55

Global Switch’s latest data centre in Hong Kong achieves the prestigious LEED Platinum Certification

Global Switch, a leading owner, operator and developer of large-scale, carrier and cloud neutral, multi-customer data centres in Europe and Asia-Pacific, has announced that the first stage of its Hong Kong data centre has received a Leadership in ...

Oct. 26, 2018 11:35

Wealedger Technology Has Passed National Trusted Blockchain Test

On October 9, the Trusted Blockchain Summit 2018 was held in Beijing, jointly organized by China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), China Communication Standard Association (CCSA) and Trusted Blockchain Initiatives (TBI)...

Oct. 26, 2018 11:10

The LCA and LCX, CNIM’S New Amphibious Crafts, Increase the Operational Capabilities of Motherships

On the occasion of Euronaval 2018, CNIM announces the launch of two families of crafts: the Landing Crafts Assault or LCA, for Ground Forces projection; and Landing Crafts X-missions or LCX, a versatile, fast offshore vessel designed to fulfill Na...

Oct. 26, 2018 10:40

XYO Network Successfully Completes Fully-Integrated Local Test Network

XYO Network, the technology bringing blockchain to the real world, today announced that following months of integration testing, the team has completed a fully-integrated local test network. Whether a hardcore Developer creating your own dApps, a ...

Oct. 25, 2018 20:15

PLUS TOKEN Co-founder Leo Attended the United Nations World Digital Economy Forum and Met with Global Blockchain Technology Experts

“The United Nations 2018 World Digital Economy Forum” was held at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva. UN Secretary-General Guterres, current presidents, prime ministers, ministers and other political figures from many countries around the w...

Oct. 25, 2018 18:00

Trisymbiotic IP®, a Small Startup, Announces U.S. Patent 10,020,436 Which Surpasses in Facilities Efficiency the Fastest Supercomputers from the U.S. and China

Inventor Matteo Gravina patents three inventions for high performance computing and data center industries. With over 200 GFLOPs per watt claimed by the patent portfolio, this might be one of the greenest patent portfolios on the planet. The marke...

Oct. 25, 2018 17:50

Majid Al Mansouri President of the International Association for Falconry

His Excellency Majid Ali Al Mansouri, Secretary General of the Emirates Falconers’ Club, was elected with a great majority by the delegates as President of the International Association for Falconry and Conservation of Birds of Prey (IAF) at the c...

Oct. 25, 2018 17:45

Investment Migration Council Responds to the OECD’s Concerns over Residence-/Citizenship-by-Investment Programs

The Investment Migration Council (IMC) understands the motivation behind the OECD’s recent analysis and guidance regarding the purported circumvention of the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) in both residence-by-investment (RBI) and citizenship-by-...

Oct. 25, 2018 17:30

Algorand Secures $62M in Funding and Announces Appointment of Executive Team

Algorand, a first-of-its-kind blockchain and cryptocurrency purpose built for business, announced today the closure of a $62M equity investment and the addition of senior executive hires from leading global technology brands. Steve Kokinos, co-fou...

Oct. 25, 2018 17:25

GSMA Announces First Speakers for Mobile 360 Series - MENA

The GSMA today announced the first speakers for its Mobile 360 Series - MENA (Middle East and North Africa) conference taking place on the 26-27 November 2018 in Dubai. The two-day event, which is now in its sixth year, will take place as a standa...

Oct. 25, 2018 17:15

Eminent Scientist James Till Turned Philanthropist; Donates Prize Money to the Cause of Young Researchers

Stem cell discoverer Prof. James Till, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, Canada who was awarded the Edogawa Niche Prize 2018 , jointly by Nichi-In Centre for Regenerative Medicine (NCRM) and Jinsei-sha-Edogawa Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, has ...