NEW YORK - Thursday, November 1st 2012 [ME NewsWire]

    Transaction Values Warnaco at $2.9BN – a 34% Premium Over its Last Closing Price
    Reunites the House of "Calvin Klein” to Ensure Single Brand Vision
    PVH Will Have Established Operations in Every Major Consumer Market Worldwide
    Acquisition Enhances PVH’s Long-Term Growth and Profitability Driven by "Calvin Klein” and "Tommy Hilfiger”
    Transaction Accretive to Year One Earnings by $0.35 Per Share, Excluding One-Time and Transaction Related Costs

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- PVH Corp. (NYSE: PVH) and The Warnaco Group, Inc. (NYSE: WRC) today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which PVH will acquire Warnaco and holders of Warnaco common stock will receive $51.75 in cash and .1822 of a share of PVH common stock for each share of Warnaco common stock. The transaction values Warnaco at appr ... Read more »

VERSAILLES, France - Thursday, November 1st 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Trusted Labs, a leading expert in security consulting and evaluation services, today announced it has provided the expertise to achieve a major breakthrough: the first smart card integrated circuit (IC) to obtain the highest level of internationally recognized security assurance for IT systems, the Common Criteria EAL7.

Trusted Labs supported Samsung in fulfilling the EAL7 high security requirements by mathematically verifying the secure design and developing in-depth testing methodology of the Memory Protection Unit, which is at the core of security in integrated circuits.

The EAL7 certification of the EAL5+ certified IC - Samsung flash 264Kbyte smartcard IC for finance, security ID based on 90nm technology - brings the highest assurance on the implementation of the IC’s security-critical functionalities.

Trusted Labs managed this project with a cost- and time-effective approac ... Read more »

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BAMAKO, Mali - Thursday, November 1st 2012

The Ministry of Health and Helen Keller International to treat NTD’s in Mali; END Fund thanks those who came together to make it possible

The END Fund, the world’s first private philanthropic initiative to combat the seven most common Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), announced today that much-needed treatment and prevention drugs will be distributed to millions of Malians affected by NTDs.

The END Fund exceeded its goal of raising the necessary $1.2 million USD to re-start the suspended mass drug administration (MDA). Helen Keller International, working alongside the Malian Ministry of Health, is leading the efforts to ensure the donated medicines are delivered to the communities at risk. The announcement was made today outside of Bamako during a Ministry of Health MDA launch ceremony.

The END Fund mobilized a group of mining companies and foundations for the emergency fundraisi ... Read more »

BERTRANGE, Luxembourg - Thursday, November 1st 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- euroscript chooses Interverbum Technology's TermWeb terminology management solution as a component of its Global Content Management solution.

This will allow euroscript to better support its modular offering of tailored terminology services and add tangible value to its customers’ terminology assets.

"Our customers recognize the value of their corporate terminology assets to strengthen their unique footprint and to streamline internal information management," says Karina Martínez Ferber, Director Processes & Technology at euroscript International S.A."Such assets need to be accessible for employees and other stakeholders and well-integrated in the content lifecycle. euroscript provides customers with the right services and tools along the entire lifecycle. Interverbum’s TermWeb will enable us to offer to our customers secured online access to their multilingual dictionaries and ... Read more »