RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - Saturday, February 16th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Quintiles Transnational Holdings, Inc. announced today that it has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to a proposed initial public offering of its common stock. The number of shares to be offered by Quintiles and its shareholders and the price range for the offering have not yet been determined. Quintiles expects to use the net proceeds it receives from the offering to repay a portion of its existing long-term debt and for general corporate purposes.

Morgan Stanley, Barclays and J.P. Morgan are serving as joint lead book-running managers for the offering. Citigroup, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Wells Fargo Securities, BofA Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank Securities are serving as book-running managers for the offering. Baird, William Blair and Jefferies are serving as lead co-managers, and Piper Jaffray and UBS Investment Ban ... Read more »

Cette vente permet à ASG de se concentrer sur ses segments d'emballage clés et sur des régions en pleine croissance


STAMFORD, Connecticut - Samedi 16 Février 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)--AGI-Shorewood Group (ASG), un fabricant mondial d'emballages spécialisés de premier plan, a annoncé aujourd'hui la vente de ses actifs d'héliogravure américains, mexicains et asiatiques à Amcor Limited, la plus grande société mondiale d'emballage.

« La vente de certains actifs d'héliogravure à Amcor est un jalon stratégique qui permet à ASG de concentrer son énergie et ses investissements sur nos clients des marchés des emballages spécialisés en Amérique du Nord et en Europe, et sur les régions en pleine croissance d'Asie, de Pologne et d'Amérique latine, y compris le Mexique », a déclaré Mike Ukropina, président et PD ... Read more »

Info-Tech Recognizes Parasoft Solutions Featuring Service Virtualization

MONROVIA, Calif. - Friday, February 15th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Parasoft announced today that Info-Tech Research Group selected Parasoft as the winner of its Software Testing Trend Setter award and identified Parasoft as a Software Testing Market Innovator. Parasoft was recognized for the breadth and depth of its comprehensive software testing offerings, ranging from Service Virtualization, to API Testing, to Development Testing. Competing vendors evaluated in the report include HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Microfocus.

The Trend Setter award honors the fact that "Parasoft has remained loyal to its testing roots and pushes to the cutting edge of the landscape by embracing business process testing.” The Market Innovator recognition lauds Parasoft’s "strong service virtualization capabilities that help reduce costs associated with configuring and managing testing environments” and notes ... Read more »

MCLEAN, Va. - Saturday, February 16th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

2013 IDEX

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ITT Exelis (NYSE: XLS) will showcase its industry-leading technologies at the 2013 IDEX defense exhibition Feb. 17–22, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Exelis will exhibit its affordable capabilities and ready-now, high-technology solutions for military, government and commercial customers around the world. Exelis is a leader in networked communications, night vision technology, sensors, air and ground electronic warfare, composites, air traffic solutions, information and cybersolutions, space and C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance).

In 2011, customers in the Middle East accounted for approximately 28% of Exelis international revenues with awards across a range of night vision, communications, electronic warfare, and C4ISR solutions.

"IDEX is a leading forum for customers seeking leading edge innovation ... Read more »

Able to illuminate 8 RGB-LEDs with single IC

TOKYO - Friday, February 15th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Toshiba Corporation(TOKYO:6502) today announced that it has launched an LED driver for LED display and illumination equipment that can illuminate 8 RGB-LEDs with a single IC. Samples are available now and mass production is scheduled for March 2013.

The new product, TB62D612FTG, supports common anode LED control systems and is embedded with a 7-bit PWM gray controller and a 24ch constant-current driver. The constant-current circuit is divided into 3 blocks of 8chs. The electric current of each block can be configured individually by an external resistor, making it ideal for driving RGB-LEDs. Additionally, the address of the driver IC can be set with 3 ID terminals and up to 64 ICs can be controlled individually. PWM gray level and address selection is configured by an address control interface, supporting simpler wiring that saves space on the circuit bo ... Read more »

Info-Tech récompense les solutions de virtualisation des services de Parasoft

MONROVIA, Californie - Samedi 16 Février 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)--La société Parasoft a annoncé aujourd'hui qu'elle a été sélectionnée pour le prix de « Testing Trend Setter » (Précurseur en tests de logiciels) et identifiée comme Innovateur du marché des tests de logiciels par le groupe Info-Tech Research. Parasoft a été reconnue pour la portée et l'envergure de sa gamme complète de tests de logiciels qui vont de la virtualisation des services aux tests de développement, en passant par les tests API. Parmi les fournisseurs concurrents évalués dans le rapport figurent HP, IBM, Microsoft et Microfocus.

Le prix Trend Setter honore le fait que « Parasoft a su, en tant que développeur de tests, rester fidèle à ses objectifs initiaux, puis aller beauc ... Read more »

Sale allows ASG to focus on core packaging segments and growing regions


STAMFORD, Conn. - Friday, February 15th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AGI-Shorewood Group (ASG), a leading global specialty-packaging manufacturer, today announced it has sold its gravure assets in the United States, Mexico and Asia to Amcor Limited, the world’s largest packaging company.

"The sale ofselect gravure assets to Amcor is a strategic milestone that helps ASG focus our energy and investment on customers in our core North America and Europe specialty-packaging markets and on growing regions across Asia, Poland, and Latin America including Mexico,” said Mike Ukropina, President and CEO of AGI-Shorewood Group. "ASG remains dedicated to the flawless supply of award-winning packaging to our customers in the consumer products and home entertainment segments.”

"The acquisition strengthens our value proposition to customers in three critical areas,” said Peter Konieczny, P ... Read more »