Opens new office in Sweden and increases headcount by 51% year over year LAS VEGAS & LONDON - Friday, November 11th 2016 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rimini Street, Inc., the leading global provider of independent enterprise software support services for SAP SE’s (NYSE:SAP) Business Suite, BusinessObjects and HANA Database software and Oracle Corporation’s (NYSE:ORCL) Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, Oracle Database, Oracle Middleware, Hyperion, Oracle Retail, Oracle Agile PLM and Oracle ATG Web Commerce software, today announced its expanded presence and investment in Europe in response to increasing demand for the Company’s premium-level Oracle and SAP enterprise software support. The Company announced that its revenue in the region increased by 67% for the 12-month period ending September 30, 2016. Rimini Street also increased its total signed clients in the region by 41% year over year as of September 30, 2016. To meet this growing client demand, the Company ... Read more »

MENLO PARK, Calif. - Tuesday, November 15th 2016 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Matrix Industries unveiled the Matrix PowerWatch, the world’s first smartwatch that uses thermoelectric technology so you never have to recharge or replace its battery. Launched on Indiegogo, the device employs breakthrough nano-materials, advanced thermal engineering, and the latest in low power electronics to run exclusively off heat generated from the body. It also uses this technology to measure calories burned and show power generated from the body. The rugged aircraft-grade aluminum timepiece functions as a smartwatch that wirelessly syncs with your smartphone, automatically adjusts to the current time zone, and has changeable watch faces. The device also features advanced activity, sleep, calorie and power tracking functionality and stores up to a year’s worth of data. When you take off the watch, it automatically goes into sleep mode, keeping all the data in memory; it turns on after a few second ... Read more »

AdaptiveMobile finds Location Tracking and Information Harvesting among top attack types CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Tuesday, November 15th 2016 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- AdaptiveMobile, the world leader in mobile network security, today announced at AfricaCom 2016 new research findings that show mobile operators in West Africa are the highest target for SS7 attacks in the continent. The research, conducted by AdaptiveMobile’s Threat Intelligence Unit, analyses packets sent over a 4-month period and finds that 39% of all African operators attacked via SS7 were in West Africa. Heightened awareness of vulnerabilities in the signalling protocols has driven an increase in demand for protection against a range of attacks, including location tracking and call interception. Previous analysis from AdaptiveMobile showed a number of malicious, sophisticated platforms operating throughout the continent. New research shows that 65% of all operators in this analysis were affected by locatio ... Read more »

MADA will utilise capacity on SES-5 satellite to deliver internet connectivity in East Africa LUXEMBOURG & CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Tuesday, November 15th 2016 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- SES S.A. (Euronext Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), the world-leading satellite operator, today announced a multi-year agreement with MADA Communications International S.A.L (Offshore), a licensed Voice and Data Communications Internet provider, to provide Internet services to an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and Mobile Network Operator (MNO) in Juba, South Sudan. MADA provides multiple telecommunications services across Africa. This agreement is a multi-year operations contract which commenced on 28 October 2016. MADA has signed up for service on SES’s SES-5 satellite, specifically on a C-band Hemi beam with an 115Mbps Internet capacity linked through SES Betzdorf teleport facilities – a tier 1 Internet provider with extremely high service and teleport availability. “We live in a digital era where ... Read more »

UAE’s leading project developer and hospitality service provider teams up with renowned American musician and producer to open premier jazz bar Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Tuesday, November 15th 2016 [ME NewsWire] ENSHAA has partnered with the legendary American producer and musician Quincy Jones to open Q’s Bar and Lounge - a jazz bar positioned to attract top performers and aficionados of the genre from across the globe at Palazzo Versace Dubai. Q’s Bar and Lounge is set to treat guests and residents of the prestigious, luxury fashion hotel to dazzling jazz performances seldom seen outside New York, New Orleans, and London. The bar features a design based on the stylistic input of Quincy Jones, whose entertainment career spans six decades and who has a record 79 Grammy Award nominations and 27 Grammys (the second most of any recording artist in history), including a Grammy Legend Award, under his belt. The opening of Q’s Bar and Lounge at the Italian-inspired waterfront urban reso ... Read more »

Ajman, United Arab Emirates - Tuesday, November 15th 2016 [ME NewsWire] Small and Medium-sized businesses are vastly growing within the UAE, and to help reach their optimum efficiency, Ajman Free Zone never fails to step in and make the entire procedure remarkably easier by bringing forward start-up packages and facilities that have proven to work their up the ranks of market favorites. Since its establishment in 1988, Ajman Free Zone has perpetuated the undeviating growth of local businesses regardless of their size, hence playing a pivotal role in the economic status within the emirate; cultivating the soil for more business to be set up and in turn, smoothen the transition of entering the industry by competitive packages at even more competitive prices. Setting up a business can be a tedious process, especially when a young and aspiring businessperson is behind it. Often, the steps to be taken and the entities to turn to in such a time are all vague and not always firmly known. T ... Read more »

Governments Must Agree on Sufficient Harmonised Spectrum to Enable the Fastest 5G Speeds, Affordable Devices, International Roaming without Cross-Border Interference LONDON - Monday, November 14th 2016 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- The GSMA today called on governments and regulators around the world to commit to supporting the needs of 5G in the lead-up to the World Radiocommunication Conference in 2019 (WRC-19). 5G can create a ‘hyper-connected’ society, supporting the varying needs of a hugely diverse set of connections, from industrial machinery in factories to automated vehicles, as well as rapidly growing services such as on-demand video. “Although the mobile industry, academic institutions and international standards-making bodies are developing the technologies central to 5G, success will depend heavily on affordable access to the necessary amount of spectrum,” said John Giusti, Chief Regulatory Officer, GSMA. “It is essential that sufficient new mobile spectrum is made avai ... Read more »

SUMMIT, N.J. - Monday, November 14th 2016 [ME NewsWire] ACTIVE trial in biologic-naïve patients met its primary endpoint, demonstrating significant improvement in ACR20 response rate at week 16 with OTEZLA versus placebo Improvements in ACR20 and other measures of disease seen as early as week 2 ACR20 response rate increased from 38 percent at week 16 to 67 percent at week 52 for patients who received OTEZLA therapy from baseline (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG) today announced findings from the ACTIVE phase 3b clinical trial of OTEZLA® (apremilast), the Company's oral, selective inhibitor of phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4), at the 2016 American College of Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals (ACR/ARHP) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. The trial met its primary endpoint of significant improvement in the proportion of patients achieving an ACR20 response at week 16 with OTEZLA versus placebo in patients with active psoriatic arthritis who ha ... Read more »