Jun. 29, 2017 17:45

TNT Express Operations Disrupted

FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX) today announced that the worldwide operations of its TNT Express subsidiary have been significantly affected due to the infiltration of an information system virus. While TNT Express operations and communications syst...

Jun. 29, 2017 17:30

GSMA Announces Winners of 2017 Asia Mobile Awards

The GSMA announced the winners of the 2017 Asia Mobile Awards, which were presented this evening at the AMO Awards Ceremony and Dinner Reception, held at DaGuan Theatre in Pudong, Shanghai. The awards, which were hosted by news anchor Jason He, ho...

Jun. 29, 2017 17:20

Mirka and Cafro Join Forces to Expand in the Field of Superabrasives

The world leading abrasives and power tools manufacturer Mirka Ltd. announces the acquisition of 100 % of the shares of the Italian superabrasive wheels and tools manufacturer Cafro S.p.A. Mirka is part of the Finnish family owned KWH Group and of...

Jun. 29, 2017 16:50

MPEG LA Introduces License for EVS

MPEG LA, LLC today announced the availability of the EVS Patent Portfolio License providing efficient access to technologies underlying the EVS (Enhanced Voice Services) standard. Designed to operate ubiquitously over packet-switched mobile and fi...

Jun. 29, 2017 16:40

Toshiba Memory Corporation Announces 96-Layer 3D Flash Memory

Toshiba Memory Corporation, the world leader in memory solutions, today announced that it has developed a prototype sample of 96-layer BiCS FLASH™ three-dimensional (3D) flash memory with a stacked structure[1], with 3-bit-per-cell (triple-level c...

Jun. 29, 2017 16:30

Toshiba Memory Corporation Develops World's First QLC 3D Flash Memory

Toshiba Memory Corporation, the world leader in memory solutions, today announced development of the world’s first[1] BiCS FLASH™ three-dimensional (3D) flash memory[2] with a stacked cell structure. The newest BiCS FLASH™ device is the first to d...

Jun. 29, 2017 16:00

Machine Learning Comes to Tour De France

Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), organisers of the Tour de France, and Dimension Data, the Official Technology Partner of the Tour de France, today announced the introduction of machine learning technologies at this year’s Tour de France to giv...

Jun. 29, 2017 14:00

YuppTV Collaborates with Fox Star Studios to Offer the Most-Awaited Collection of Movies on YuppFlix for Expat Community

World’s largest player for South-Asian content, YuppTV, announced its partnership with Fox Star Studios, one amongst the leading production houses of today. As part of the non-exclusive association, YuppTV is set to feature an admirable collection...

Jun. 29, 2017 13:55

Toshiba Memory Corporation to Invest in Manufacturing Facilities for Fab 6 at Yokkaichi Operations

Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced that its board of directors, meeting today, has agreed upon a FY2017 investment program for its wholly owned subsidiary, Toshiba Memory Corporation (TMC), that will channel approximately 180 billion...

Jun. 29, 2017 13:50

Egis to Launch Latest Fingerprint Sensor at 2017 Mobile World Congress in Shanghai

2017 Mobile World Congress -- Egis Technology Inc. (TWO:6462), a leading fingerprint sensor provider, will announce at 2017 Mobile World Congress (Booth W5.F100, Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC), held from June 28 to July 1) another ...

Jun. 29, 2017 13:45

Toshiba Files Lawsuit Against Western Digital Corporation

Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) and Toshiba Memory Corporation (“TMC”) today filed a petition with the Tokyo District Court against Western Digital Corporation, a U.S. company, and its subsidiary Western Digital Technologies, Inc. (collectively, ...

Jun. 29, 2017 13:35

Alibaba Increases Stake in E-Commerce Platform Lazada

Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA) announced today that it will invest approximately USD1 billion to increase its stake in Lazada Group, the leading e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia, from 51% to approximately 83%. This transaction dem...

Jun. 28, 2017 18:10

SES and MDA Announce First Satellite Life Extension Agreement

SES (Euronext Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) and MDA, a global communications and information company, announced today an agreement for an initial satellite life extension mission using an on-orbit refuelling vehicle being built by SSL, a US based subsid...

Jun. 28, 2017 17:20

China and India to Account for Half of All New Mobile Subscribers Added by 2020, Finds New GSMA Study

China and India will account for almost half of all new mobile subscribers expected to be added worldwide by the end of the decade, according to a new GSMA study. The 2017 edition of the GSMA’s ‘Mobile Economy: Asia Pacific’ report, published toda...

Jun. 28, 2017 17:10

New Study from GSMA and CAICT Forecasts That China Will Be the World’s Largest 5G Market by 2025

Chinese operators are on track to launch commercial 5G networks by 2020 and are expected to establish China as the world’s largest 5G market by 2025, according to a new study by GSMA Intelligence and the China Academy of Information and Communicat...

Jun. 28, 2017 16:55

Primax and ImmerVision Introduce New 360 Module for High Definition Cameras

ImmerVision, worldwide specialist in 360 imaging technology, announced today that Primax Electronics, a world class technology company specializing in camera design and electronic manufacturing is launching their first 360° panomorph lens camera m...

Jun. 28, 2017 14:00

Robots to Enhance, not Replace Humans in most Jobs: ARM Survey

Consumers who believe AI will lead to rampaging, job-taking robot chaos are in the minority according to an ARM-commissioned independent global survey of nearly 4000 consumers. When considering a future where Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increa...

Jun. 28, 2017 13:50

Rimini Street Recognized Again as a “Top Workplace” by Bay Area News Group

Rimini Street, Inc., a global provider of enterprise software products and services, and the leading independent support provider for Oracle and SAP products, today announced that it has been named one of the 2017 Bay Area “Top Workplaces” by the ...

Jun. 28, 2017 13:30

Takeda and Seattle Genetics Announce Positive Results from Phase 3 ECHELON-1 Clinical Trial Evaluating ADCETRIS® (brentuximab vedotin) in Frontline Advanced Hodgkin Lymphoma

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE:4502) and Seattle Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SGEN) today announced that the Phase 3 ECHELON-1 clinical trial met its primary endpoint of a statistically significant improvement in modified progression-free s...

Jun. 28, 2017 11:20

Andersen Tax Debuts in Switzerland

Andersen Tax announces its entry in Switzerland this week as MDR Advisory Group formally adopts the name ‘Andersen Tax.’ Andersen Tax in Lugano is one of three Andersen Global member firms in Switzerland. The international association of member fi...

Jun. 28, 2017 10:20

New Olympus Ultra-Portable EPOCH® 6LT Flaw Detector Provides Comprehensive Flaw Detection Capabilities for Rope Access and High Portability Inspections

Optimized for single-handed operation, the EPOCH 6LT flaw detector combines a leading-edge ergonomic design with powerful ultrasonic functionality in an instrument built specifically for rope access and high portability applications. The design of...

Jun. 28, 2017 09:00

VeriSilicon Unveils Vivante 2 Teraflop “MESH” Architecture Compute IP Cores for Embedded Devices

VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. (VeriSilicon), a Silicon Platform as a Service (SiPaaS®) company, today announces Vivante CC8000, a dedicated IP series based on highly parallel, scalable MESH (Memory Efficient Shader) processor architecture with th...

Jun. 27, 2017 21:00

BPU Provides Improved Social Dialogue and Big Data Analytics for South Korean Election

Sentiment Symposium—Validating investor trust in its recent raise of $60 million in the fourth largest crowdfunding event in history, BPU Holdings Corporation (BPU) of Seoul, South Korea, (BPU International) today details its success as Social Str...

Jun. 27, 2017 17:55

SES Restores Capacity from AMC-9 Satellite

SES (Euronext Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) announced that it has been able to draw on its global satellite fleet of over 50 geostationary satellites to rapidly restore customers capacity following a significant anomaly affecting the AMC-9 satellite on ...

Jun. 27, 2017 14:00

Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. Completes Share Acquisition of FW Energie B.V.

With reference to Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. (SHI) announcement of 26th June, 2017 (attached), SHI completed the share acquisition of FW Energie B.V. culminating in the combination of SHI and Amec Foster Wheeler’s fluidized bed business to be...

Jun. 27, 2017 13:55

Dole Food Company, Inc. Announces the Commencement of a Consent Solicitation for Its 7.25% Senior Secured Notes Due 2025

Dole Food Company, Inc. (“Dole”) announced today the commencement of a consent solicitation regarding certain amendments (the “Amendments”) to the Indenture, dated as of April 6, 2017, among Dole, DFC Holdings, LLC (“Holdings”), as a guarantor, th...

Jun. 27, 2017 13:35

2017 EHL Student Business Projects: a Resounding Success

Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) is happy to announce that the 2017 Student Business Projects (SBP) have now officially come to a close, marking the last milestone in the curriculum of the senior students who chose to service one of the 40 client...

Jun. 27, 2017 13:00

GSMA Mobile IoT Initiative Takes off with Multiple Commercial Network Launches around the World

The GSMA today announced that its Mobile IoT Initiative1 has taken off with the launch of multiple commercial rollouts of Low Power, Wide Area (LPWA) solutions by several of the world’s leading mobile operators including AT&T, China Mobile, China ...

Jun. 27, 2017 11:30

Philip Morris International Doubles Investment in Heated Tobacco Unit Facility in Italy.

Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI) (NYSE/Euronext Paris: PM) today announced a plan to invest an additional approximately €500 million to expand capacity at the company’s smoke-free product manufacturing facility in Crespellano (Bologna, Italy...

Jun. 26, 2017 16:30

SES Networks and Primacom to Deliver High Speed Broadband Connectivity to Vessels in Asia-Pacific

SES (Euronext Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) announced today it has signed a multi-year agreement with leading Indonesian satellite communications provider Primacom (PT Primacom Interbuana). Primacom will use SES Networks’ Maritime+ service to deliver th...

Jun. 26, 2017 09:55

Takeda Presents Data from Phase 1/2 Studies for NINLARO™ (ixazomib) in Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma Patients and in the Maintenance Setting

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE: 4502) today announced that data from two Phase 1/2 clinical trials evaluating NINLARO™ (ixazomib) in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma will be presented during oral sessions at the 2017 Euro...

Jun. 23, 2017 17:45

Survey Finds Majority of SAP Licensees Plan to Continue Running Their Proven ERP Release and Are Not Committed to Moving to S/4HANA

Rimini Street, Inc., a global provider of enterprise software products and services, and the leading independent support provider for Oracle and SAP products, today revealed the findings from a recent global survey of SAP licensees conducted by Ri...

Jun. 23, 2017 14:00

Racepoint Global Promotes Karen Lew Bouchard to Chief Operating Officer

Racepoint Global, an integrated global marketing agency that delivers big agency results with a small agency touch, announced today the promotion of Karen Lew Bouchard to Chief Operating Officer. Having previously served as the agency’s Chief Huma...

Jun. 23, 2017 13:40

Mavenir‘s Solutions Support T-Mobile’s DIGITS Technology

Mavenir, the leader in accelerating and redefining network transformation for Service Providers, announced today it is a key provider in delivering support for T-Mobile's DIGITS, the revolutionary new technology that breaks down the limitation of ...

Jun. 23, 2017 11:50

Confederate Fighter Creates Mayhem As Cool Motorcycle Punk, Mohawk, In Transformers: The Last Knight

Confederate Motorcycles, creator of the world’s most exotic road-going machines, has announced that its most advanced motorcycle yet, the P51 Combat Fighter, has been included in the production of Transformers: The Last Knight. The global luxury b...

Jun. 23, 2017 10:30

Toshiba's New Three-phase Brushless Motor Drivers Realize High Speed Rotation for Small Motors

Toshiba Corporation's (TOKYO:6502) Storage & Electronic Devices Solutions Company today announced the launch of the three-phase brushless motor drivers “TC78B015FTG” for 12V power supply and “TC78B015AFTG” for 24V power supply. The new ICs support...

Jun. 22, 2017 17:50

Toshiba Tec Demonstrates Sustainable Business Excellence by Achieving Product Life Cycle Assessment Verification from BSI

Toshiba Tec Corporation (TOKYO:6588) announced today that BSI (British Standards Institution) in Japan, the business standards company, has verified Toshiba Tec’s new eco-friendly multi-functional peripheral (MFP) the e-STUDIO3508LP, e-STUDIO4508L...

Jun. 22, 2017 17:35

Bledsoe Telephone Cooperative Selects Nominum to Deliver a Faster, More Secure Internet

Nominum™, the DNS-based security and services innovation leader, announced today that Bledsoe Telephone Cooperative, which provides phone, broadband internet and IPTV services to subscribers in Tennessee, has deployed the company’s industry-leadin...

Jun. 22, 2017 17:15

Bionext Launches Biosight: an Online Platform That Will Revolutionize Pharmaceutical Research

Bionext, a bioinformatics company, announces today the launch of BioSight, an online bio-simulation platform designed for efficient identification of possible side effects of potential drug treatments on the human body. As result of fifteen years ...

Jun. 22, 2017 16:40

Animal Planet, KONG, ORIJEN, Pedigree and Whiskas Among 92 Winners of the 2017 Animalis Edition of the World Branding Awards

The Animalis edition of the prestigious World Branding Awards saw 92 brands from 35 countries named “Brand of the Year” in a glittering ceremony held at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna today. The Animalis edition of the Awards focused on pet and anim...

Jun. 22, 2017 15:10

KAL Launches Open Banking Technology Ahead of Europe’s PSD2 Initiative

KAL, a world-leading provider of banking software, is delighted to announce the launch of its new open banking technology designed to help banks get ready for the upcoming Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2). PSD2 will transform the European ...

Jun. 22, 2017 14:50

Selection of Preferred Bidder for the Sale of Toshiba Memory Corporation

Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) hereby announces that its board of directors today resolved to select the consortium of Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, Bain Capital Private Equity LP, and Development Bank of Japan (“the Consortium”) a pr...

Jun. 22, 2017 13:55

XPRIZE Announces Teams Advancing in $15M Global Learning XPRIZE at EdTechXEurope

Today, XPRIZE, the world’s leader in designing and managing incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand challenges, announced 11 semi-finalists advancing in the $15M Global Learning XPRIZE. Announced at this year’s EdTechXEurope, XPRIZE is ch...

Jun. 22, 2017 13:20

Australian Automotive Manufacturing Plants Shutting Down Operations

Hilco Industrial Acquisitions B.V. announced today that it will lead the disposition process for a massive machinery and equipment asset sale which will effectively shut down the automobile manufacturing business on the Australian Continent. The s...

Jun. 22, 2017 11:55

ARM CEO Simon Segars Joins SoftBank Group Board of Directors

ARM Holdings plc today announced that CEO Simon Segars’ appointment to the SoftBank Group Corp. (SBG) Board of Directors was formally approved at SBG’s 37th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders held today in Tokyo. SBG earlier announced new boar...

Jun. 22, 2017 10:50

Results of MSCI 2017 Market Classification Review

MSCI Inc. (NYSE:MSCI), a leading provider of global equity indexes, announced today that beginning in June 2018, it will include China A shares in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and the MSCI ACWI Index. This decision has broad support from intern...

Jun. 21, 2017 18:05

New data reveal high rates of stroke history in asymptomatic atrial fibrillation patients

Boehringer Ingelheim today announced findings from GLORIA™-AF which show that people with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF) with few or no symptoms are more likely to have had a stroke prior to AF diagnosis than symptomatic AF patients.[1] Thi...

Jun. 21, 2017 18:00

Blurry Box, the Unbreakable Software Protection Technology

Hundreds of participants from all corners of the globe have taken part in a hackers contest aimed at cracking a game protected with Blurry Box®, the pinnacle of encryption recently launched by Wibu-Systems. The outcome: No one could break the late...

Jun. 21, 2017 17:25

Entrust Datacard Creates the Modern Authentication Solution with the Introduction of IntelliTrust Authentication Service

Entrust Datacard, a leading provider of trusted identity and secure transaction technology solutions, today announced the launch of IntelliTrust authentication service - its new authentication cloud service with Mobile Smart Credential technology....

Jun. 21, 2017 13:50

Schlumberger Recommends Stockholders Reject “Mini-Tender” Offer by TRC Capital Corporation

Schlumberger Limited (NYSE: SLB) (“Schlumberger”) has been notified of an unsolicited “mini-tender” offer by TRC Capital Corporation (“TRC Capital”) to purchase up to 2 million shares of Schlumberger common stock, representing approximately 0.14 p...