LONDON - Wednesday, October 26th 2016 [ME NewsWire] · Qubit launches Qubit ML engine to fuel greater customer understanding · ‘Opportunity mining’ leverages Qubit ML to predictively prioritize customer groups by largest revenue opportunity · High impact ‘programmatic experiences’ now easily deployed through new business and technical collaboration workflows can achieve 24x more revenue per visitor uplift · Victoria Plum uses Qubit Live Tap to understand customer insights quickly (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Qubit, the pioneer in delivering context-driven customer experiences, announces the deployment of its machine learning engine as part of its industry-leading digital experience management (DXM) platform, along with several major updates. This demonstrates continued investment in the company’s technology, having completed a $40m Series C funding round led by Goldman Sachs earlier this year. Built on its new Qubit ML engine, “opportunity mining” empowers marketers by automatically identify ... Read more »

Sovereign Wealth Funds and GCC Investors Shifting to “Endowment Model”; with Increasing Dependence on Hedge Funds, Private Equity and Venture Capital Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Wednesday, October 26th 2016 [ME NewsWire] The St. Regis Hotel in Al Habtoor City opens its doors on November 1st to one of the region’s most exclusive audiences, restricted to CEOs, CIOs and senior decision makers collectively managing an estimated 10 trillion dollars in assets or more. The region’s largest event for hedge funds, private equity and venture capital is set to convene 400 major institutional investors and family offices with some of the world’s best fund managers. AIM Summit is proud to welcome preeminent figures in alternative investments to discuss the changing dynamics of GCC asset allocation in the “New Oil Normal” and an era of low financial market returns. “The ‘New Oil Normal’ is leading to a transformation of the economies of the oil and capital exporters of the Middle East. Governme ... Read more »

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Wednesday, October 26th 2016 [ME NewsWire] Azizi Developments, a leading UAE-based real estate developer with global reach into international markets, has announced its newest project in the emerging Dubai Healthcare City: Azizi Aliyah. The fully-serviced residence, a B+G+2P+14+R structure, is Azizi Developments’ first project in Dubai Healthcare City, conveniently located between Burj Khalifa and the future tallest skyscraper in the world, The Tower. Azizi Aliyah is scheduled for completion in 2018 and valued at approximately AED 470 million. The residence will encompass 191 studio apartments, 135 one-bedroom apartments, and 20 two-bedroom apartments. Farhad Azizi, CEO of Azizi Developments, said: “Azizi Aliyah encompasses our line of luxury apartments that cater towards the lavish, healthy lifestyle of professionals and nuclear families. Affluent singles, business owners, families and investors will also be treated to valet services, concierge, contem ... Read more »

COLOMBES, France - Wednesday, October 26th 2016 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- OT (Oberthur Technologies), a leading global provider of embedded security software products, services and solutions, today announced that it will present its third quarter 2016 financial results to investors on Thursday November 10th, 2016. Didier Lamouche (CEO) and Anne-France Laclide (CFO) will be presenting these financial results and taking questions the same day at 4pm Paris Time (3pm London Time/10am New York Time). In order to access the conference call dial-in details, please refer to our website: http://investors.oberthur.com. ABOUT OBERTHUR TECHNOLOGIES OT is a world leader in embedded digital security that protects you when you connect, authenticate or pay. OT is strategically positioned in high growth markets and offers embedded security software solutions for “end-point” devices as well as associated remote management solutions to a huge portfolio of international clients, including bank ... Read more »

Le gagnant recevra une contribution en espèces pour développer un projet de collaboration avec NTT DATA TOKYO - Mardi 25 Octobre 2016 [ME NewsWire] Le Concours ouvert des entreprises innovantes (Open Innovation Business Contest, http://oi.nttdata.com/en/contest) sera ouvert au niveau mondial à toutes les startups à partir du 26 octobre. Les épreuves préliminaires se tiendront dans dix villes de neuf pays - Tokyo, San Francisco, Londres, Tel Aviv, Toronto, Madrid, Barcelone, Singapour, Pékin et Sao Paulo - et les gagnants seront invités pour la Grande finale à Tokyo. Le vainqueur de la Grande finale recevra une contribution en espèces de trois mois d’une valeur de 30 000 USD pour aider au lancement du nouveau projet d'affaires qu’il proposera. (BUSINESS WIRE)--NTT DATA, fournisseur mondial de services informatiques, a annoncé aujourd'hui qu'elle allait accueillir les épreuves préliminaires dans dix villes internationales pour attirer les idées de collaboration à des projets d’e ... Read more »

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Tuesday, October 25th 2016 [ME NewsWire] BravoSolution the leading global strategic procurement provider and sister company to local strategic procurement provider Tejari, hosted its fourth annual customer conference, BravoConnect 2016, on last week in Surrey Hills, England. The event saw over 150 procurement executive gather over the two days offered networking opportunities, practitioner-led workshops and keynote speeches from many of the top procurement and sourcing professionals across the globe. Based on attendee feedback from previous years BravoSolution enhanced the format this year to include more time to interact with each other and collaborate to address the bigger issues impacting procurement. BravoConnect’s mission is to offer actionable insight and practical advice around leveraging procurement technology, sparking supply chain innovation, mitigating risk and unlocking procurement value. The conference hosted various clients from across the ... Read more »

Winner to receive in-kind contribution to develop collaborative project with NTT DATA TOKYO - Tuesday, October 25th 2016 [ME NewsWire] The Open Innovation Business Contest (http://oi.nttdata.com/en/contest) will be open to any startup firm worldwide from October 26. Preliminary contests will be held at 10 locations in nine countries – Tokyo, San Francisco, London, Tel Aviv, Toronto, Madrid, Barcelona, Singapore, Beijing and Sao Paulo – and the winners will be invited to the Grand Finale in Tokyo. The Grand Finale winner will receive a three-month in-kind contribution worth 30,000 USD to support the development of their proposed new business. (BUSINESS WIRE)-- NTT DATA, a global IT service provider, announced today that it will host preliminary contests in 10 locations worldwide to attract ideas for venture-business collaborations. Any startup company is welcomed to submit a proposal for a venture business in a field such as FinTech, IoT, energy, insurance tech, big data, digital ... Read more »

MORRISVILLE, CAROLINE du NORD - Mardi 25 Octobre 2016 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)--Q2 Solutions, organisation mondiale de services d'essais cliniques en laboratoire, a annoncé aujourd'hui l'expansion de ses capacités de diagnostic compagnon (companion diagnostics, CDx)génomique. Cette annonce découle d'un accord entre Q2 Solutions – EA Genomics et Illumina, leader mondial en génomique, visant à établir un cadre pour le développement d'essais CDx basés sur le séquençage de nouvelle génération (SNG) (next-generation sequencing, NGS). L'expansion du portefeuille de développement CDx de Q2 Solutions va venir enrichir la large gamme de services de bout en bout de la société, qui s'étend de la découverte et du développement de biomarqueurs, jusqu'à l'application de la médecine de précision via son réseau d'essais cliniques en laboratoire. Conformément aux dispositions de l'accord, Q2 Solutions développera des essais SNG à l'aide de l'instrument MiSeqDx® d'Illumina. Le MiSeqDx est le prem ... Read more »

MORRISVILLE, N.C. - Tuesday, October 25th 2016 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Q2 Solutions, a global clinical trials laboratory services organization, today announced the expansion of its genomic companion diagnostics (CDx) capabilities. This comes as a result of an agreement between Q2 Solutions – EA Genomics and Illumina, a global leader in genomics, to establish a framework for developing next-generation sequencing-based (NGS) CDx assays. The expansion of Q2 Solutions’ CDx development portfolio will further enhance the company’s wide range of end-to-end services that extend from biomarker discovery and development to the application of precision medicine through its clinical trials laboratory network. Under the terms of the agreement, Q2 Solutions will develop NGS assays using the Illumina MiSeqDx® instrument. The MiSeqDx is the first NGS instrument to be cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for in vitro diagnostic purposes in clinical laboratories. This allianc ... Read more »

World-Class Speaker Line-Up Set for Next Week’s Show in Atlanta LONDON - Tuesday, October 25th 2016 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- The GSMA and the Metro Atlanta Chamber have today confirmed the final agenda for the ‘GSMA Mobility Live! – North America’ conference being held next week (1-2 November 2016) in Atlanta. More than 90 senior executives representing over 70 companies will feature across the two-day conference programme, which will cover topics such as 5G, connected cars, cyber security, digital health, fintech, the Internet of Things and augmented reality. “We are looking forward to bringing the mobile world to Atlanta next week, for a stimulating event that will highlight North America’s role in pioneering the next generation of mobile services and technologies,” said Michael O’Hara, Chief Marketing Officer at the GSMA. “The world-class speaker line-up features leading executives from both the mobile ecosystem and from vertical industries that are being transformed by ... Read more »