TOKYO - Thursday, December 1st 2016 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Toshiba Tec Corporation (TOKYO:6588) today introduces its “Form & Label Solution” to save on shipping costs while optimizing logistics operations. This solution enables easy, yet precise shipping via its multifunction peripheral (MFP). Toshiba’s Form & Label Solution combines many types of documents within one combination label. A wide array of documents and labels – from invoices, shipping lists and shipping labels– are used in logistics operations. Promotions and return labels are also required in e-commerce business. The Form & Label Solution combines all necessary information in one format to reduce the steps of shipments by half while helping avoid shipping errors. Toshiba Tec Europe Imaging Systems S.A.'s, the toner factory of Toshiba Tec in France, use of the Form & Label Solution is dramatically improving the company's logistics operation. “Improving our work efficiency by 30 percent is more than what we exp ... Read more »

Bitmovin has bundled its APIs for encoding and playback with analytics and integrations to other services to create the first comprehensive video infrastructure for developers PALO ALTO, Calif. - Sunday, December 4th 2016 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Bitmovin, the provider of streaming video infrastructure technologies, today released a new video infrastructure API that bundles Bitmovin’s successful video encoding and video player services with a new video performance analytics product as well as integrations into various storage and content delivery network (CDN) providers. The result is an end-to-end video infrastructure API that greatly simplifies the development and delivery of web-based video, including live, VOD, 360, and virtual reality. The term “video infrastructure” refers to all of the components required to deliver adaptive streaming video in an online environment. The chain begins with a video file, which is encoded into adaptive streaming format (usually MPEG-DASH a ... Read more »

GREENWICH, Conn. - Wednesday, November 30th 2016 [ME NewsWire] Company Announces Greenwich Compliance Corp. Adds New Forex products (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR) has released its November IB Communiqué to inform clients worldwide about the latest enhancements to its Trader Workstation platform (TWS) and new product offerings. IB Announces Greenwich Compliance Interactive Brokers recently announced the launch of Greenwich Advisor Compliance Services Corp. as a new resource for experienced investors and traders wishing to start their own investment advisory firm. Greenwich Compliance professionals have regulatory and industry experience who are able to assist investment advisors trading on the IB platform with their registration and compliance needs. Learn more here. New Financial Products Launched Interactive Brokers expanded its product offerings this quarter. IB now offers Forex Contracts for Difference (CFDs). Eligible clients can also now tra ... Read more »

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Wednesday, November 30th 2016 [ME NewsWire] What a better world would it be if everyone joined hands in humility, generosity, and goodwill. As the dawn of a new, hopeful year breaks, Mouawad has respectfully decided to give back to the United Arab Emirates, in collaboration with the esteemed Emirates Red Crescent, supporting the education of children through the sale of specially-made bracelets; for with collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. With its launch taking place on the eve of the 45th anniversary of the unification of the UAE, Mouawad’s global ‘Hand in Hand’ initiative sees each purchase of a custom designed bracelet making a precious difference in a child’s life. Part proceeds of each bracelet are donated to the Emirates Red Crescent, with the sole focus of advancing children’s education and upbringing. Director of Emirates Red Crescent, Mr. Mohammed Abdullah Al-Haj Al-Zaroni, says, commenting on this collaboration: “This initiative ref ... Read more »

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & OSAKA, Japan & BOTHELL, Wash. - Sunday, December 4th 2016 [ME NewsWire] – Data will be presented in an oral session at the annual American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting on Saturday, December 3 at 2:15 p.m. PT – – Trial achieved highly statistically significant improvements in rate of objective response lasting at least four months, median progression-free survival and overall response rate, and decrease in symptom burden in ADCETRIS arm; Safety profile associated with ADCETRIS was generally consistent with the existing prescribing information – (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE:4502) and Seattle Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SGEN) today announced that data from the Phase 3 ALCANZA clinical trial evaluating ADCETRIS (brentuximab vedotin) in patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) will be presented in an oral session at the 58th American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting on Saturday, December 3 at 2:15 p.m. PT. Topline data we ... Read more »

More than 20 Million TV-households in Germany and Austria are able to View Sky Sport News in both high and standard definition LUXEMBOURG - Thursday, December 1st 2016 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- SES S.A. (Euronext Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) announced today that MX1, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, will assist pay TV provider Sky in taking its first steps into free-to-air TV in Germany and Austria, by introducing Sky Sport News to audiences in these two markets. On 1 December, the 24-hour high definition (HD) sport news channel “Sky Sport News HD” will be free-to-air via satellite. In addition, Sky has contracted additional SES satellite capacity to also broadcast the channel in standard definition (SD). This provides Sky with access to more than 20 million households in Germany and Austria through ASTRA satellites. Global media services provider MX1 delivers the technical services, including uplink, signal encoding, and the transmission via ASTRA 19.2° East. “We are pleased to ... Read more »

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Wednesday, November 30th 2016 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Essel Group Middle East (“EGME”) announces that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with Gensource Potash Corporation (“Gensource”) to form a joint venture (“JV”) company that will focus on the development of one of Gensource’s potash projects in Saskatchewan, Canada. The agreement is EGME’s second significant investment in the potash industry after the company acquired the exploration license for the Bada potash mine in Eritrea’s Danakil Depression in August 2015. The investment is notable for being EGME’s first natural resources investment outside of Africa and marks an important step in the Group’s ambition to become a global, diversified natural resources company. Under the terms of the MOU, EGME will provide business and logistic expertise and will deliver financing totalling USD 200m in two stages. The first financing tranche will fund the completion of the feasibility s ... Read more »

Top U.S. manufacturer invests support savings into customer-facing digital initiative that has already contributed $120 million in revenue over the past two years LAS VEGAS - Wednesday, November 30th 2016 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rimini Street, Inc., the leading global independent provider of 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 that NCI Building Systems, the leading manufacturer of metal buildings in the commercial and industrial markets in the United States, Mexico and Canada, switched to Rimini Street for support of its Oracle E-Business Suite systems. The switch to Rimini Street support in 2014 immediately saved NCI 50% on its annual maintenance fees and helped them avoid an e ... Read more »

OSAKA, Japon - Samedi 3 Décembre 2016 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)--Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd., une filiale de Panasonic Corporation, a annoncé aujourd'hui le développement d'un nouveau modèle de son panneau à cristaux liquides IPS ayant un rapport de contraste [1] de plus de 1 000 000:1, 600 fois *2 supérieur à celui des panneaux à cristaux liquides traditionnels. Grâce aux technologies de cristaux liquides IPS uniques de Panasonic[2] caractérisées par leurs grands angles de vue, leur luminosité élevée et leur haute fiabilité, le nouveau panneau IPS atteint un rapport de contraste élevé de plus de 1 000 000:1 en intégrant des cellules modulatrices de lumière récemment développées permettant de contrôler l'intensité du rétroéclairage pixel par pixel. Il en résulte un affichage vidéo fidèle, de haute qualité, allant d'une lumière éblouissante à une obscurité totale. Le nouveau panneau IPS convient idéalement aux écrans à grande gamme dynamique (High Dynamic Range (HDR)) ... Read more »

OSAKA, Japan - Saturday, December 3rd 2016 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation, today announced it has developed a new model of its IPS liquid crystal panel that achieves a contrast ratio[1] of over 1,000,000:1, which is 600 times*2 that of conventional liquid crystal panels. With Panasonic's unique IPS[2] liquid crystal technologies that feature wide viewing angles, high brightness, and high reliability, the new IPS panel has achieved a high contrast ratio of over 1,000,000:1 by integrating newly developed light-modulating cells that permit pixel-by-pixel control of backlight intensity. This achieves a faithful and high-grade video display, ranging from dazzling light to pitch-black. The new IPS panel is ideal for use in professional-use High Dynamic Range (HDR) monitors for broadcasting stations and video production studios. HDR displays can reproduce images that are faithful to what people see, ranging fro ... Read more »