BEIJING - Saturday, March 9th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)--GA Innovation China ("GAIC”), a subsidiary of Air China, Ltd. and GA Telesis, LLC, had its grand opening ceremony on March 5, 2013 at the Qin Han Ballroom at the Beijing Hilton. In attendance were officials, executives, dignitaries and representatives, of Air China Holdings， Air China, Ltd., officials of the CAAC, local government officials, aircraft manufacturers' MROs, Banks and officials of the importation and customs, to show their utmost support for this first ever venture in China.

In this very well attended ceremony in Beijing, the companies celebrated the receipt of their formal government license to do business as GA Innovation China, a 50/50 joint venture that will be based in Beijing. The joint-venture will be the only China-based integrated aircraft trader/lessor of mid-aged used aircraft and will also include a full-scale aircraft disassembly and redistribution business covering the entire Asia ... Read more »

TOKYO - Saturday, March 9th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

Achieved a record scale again

AUTOMOTIVE WORLD 2013

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Asia's leading exhibition & conference for advanced automotive technologies, AUTOMOTIVE WORLD 2013 concluded in a huge success. Gathering 363 exhibitors from 13 countries/regions and 19,820 visitors (increase by 20% from the previous show), it achieved a record scale five years in a row since its launch in 2009.

"Automotive IT Expo" joining this time, AUTOMOTIVE WORLD now consists of 4 specialised exhibitions, each covering crucial field for automotive development of the day - "Automotive Electronics", "HEV & EV", "Weight Reduction" and "Automotive IT". Leading companies of each category exhibited here, choosing the show as the best way to conduct business with OEM & Tier 1 companies -- such as AMS, FREESCALE, INFINEON, INTERSIL, LINEAR TECHNOLOGY, RENESAS ELECTRONICS, ROHM, STMICROELECTRONICS (semiconductors), MEIDENSHA, YASUKAWA ... Read more »

PÉKIN - Samedi 9 Mars 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)--GA Innovation China organise à Pékin une grande cérémonie d’ouverture pour lancer ses opérations à Pékin, qui sont axées sur les marchés asiatiques du leasing/commerce et des pièces détachées pour avions commerciaux d'une valeur de plusieurs milliards de dollars

GA Innovation China (« GAIC »), une filiale d'Air China, Ltd. et GA Telesis, LLC, ont organisé leur grande cérémonie d’ouverture le 5 mars 2013 dans la salle de bal Qin Han du Hilton de Pékin. La cérémonie a rassemblé des fonctionnaires, cadres supérieurs, dignitaires et représentants d'Air China Holdings，Air China, Ltd., des fonctionnaires de la CAAC, des fonctionnaires d’administrations locales, des fournisseurs de services d’entretien, de réparation et de révision (ERR) des constructeurs d'avions, des banques ... Read more »

DENVER - Friday, March 8th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Google Inc. and MPEG LA, LLC announced today that they have entered into agreements granting Google a license to techniques that may be essential to VP8 and earlier-generation VPx video compression technologies under patents owned by 11 patent holders. The agreements also grant Google the right to sublicense those techniques to any user of VP8, whether the VP8 implementation is by Google or another entity. It further provides for sublicensing those VP8 techniques in one next-generation VPx video codec. As a result of the agreements, MPEG LA will discontinue its effort to form a VP8 patent pool.

"This is a significant milestone in Google’s efforts to establish VP8 as a widely-deployed web video format,” said Allen Lo, Google’s deputy general counsel for patents. "We appreciate MPEG LA’s cooperation in making this happen.”

"We are pleased for the opportunity to facilitate agreements with Google to make V ... Read more »