VIENNA - Tuesday, November 6th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

EMC Momentum 2012

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- euroscript has received this year’s EMC IIG President Award for Customer Satisfaction at EMC Momentum 2012.

For the past 25 years, euroscript has delivered top-quality services to its customers around the world, adapting to their needs, being flexible whenever required and mobilising its expertise to achieve optimum results. Since we know a satisfied customer is a loyal customer, euroscript has constantly searched for innovative approaches, developed add-ons to help customers get the best out of their technology and implemented architecture-based solutions suited to a wide range of highly specific environments.

Today, by presenting euroscript with this prestigious award, EMC recognizes euroscript’s excellence in delivering customer satisfaction and its ability to exceed customer expectations by providing the highest levels of satisfaction in terms of service and solutions.< ... Read more »

WOLFSCHLUGEN, Germany & LONDON - Tuesday, November 6th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

- Willi Balz wins the Energy Efficiency Race in England with the 'Windreich Me 1'

- New Record: 101.6 km from Brighton to London with 3.8 kWh or 0.4 litre petrol

- A mobile wind charger on site provided energy for the record run

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Windreich AG, the most successful developer, engineer, installer, and operator of offshore wind farms is also way forward in energy-efficient driving. Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing. (FH) Willi Balz, founder and sole shareholder proved it on 3 November, as he sovereignly won the Future Car Challenge 2012. 'Windreich Me 1'; a model he developed himself was the overall winner to occuppy the first place in the categories 'Most Energy Efficient Sport Car' and 'Best Pure Electric Vehicle'. In addition, the two-seater conquered the hearts of many viewers and won the audience choice 'The Best Future Car'.

The Future Car Challenge (FCC) is the world's mos ... Read more »

INGELHEIM, Germany - Tuesday, November 6th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

    New FDA data safety assessment supports previous clinical evidence on the safety of the anticoagulation therapy and reports new Pradaxa® and warfarin patients to have similar bleeding rates
    Comprehensive efficacy and safety evaluation by the EMA leads to recommendation for renewal of the marketing authorisation for Pradaxa® to ensure ongoing patient benefit

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Following independent regulatory appraisals of the safety and efficacy of the anticoagulation therapy Pradaxa®, both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) have reconfirmed the positive benefit-risk profile of the treatment for prevention of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF)*.

On Friday 2nd November, the FDA publishe ... Read more »

WALTHAM, Mass. - Monday, November 5th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the launch of a panel of nine new epigenetic research assay kitsfor the detection of endogenous histone modifications at the Revolutionaries for Global Health Summit (RGH), a global scientific community event dedicated to advancing personalized health. Last week’s RGH Summit in San Francisco, is part of a global series hosted by PerkinElmer to share advanced research and foster collaboration among researchers and practitioners as they deploy PerkinElmer’s disruptive technologies and approaches to support research to prevent, detect, and treat disease.

"PerkinElmer is dedicated to providing a forum for revolutionary change in the way we approach research, and ultimately, healthcare,” said Kevin Hrusovsky, president Life Sciences and Technology, PerkinElmer. "Through our Revolutionaries ... Read more »

The Netherlands - Thursday, November 1st 2012 [ME NewsWire]

EMC Momentum Europe 2012

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- euroscript is proud to announce that DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, has decided to use the eDRG integrated within Documentum D2 because of its simple configuration and customization capabilities.

DSM was searching for a product that could handle all reporting needs for their Documentum system.

"We chose the eDRG for its integration in D2 Client, the ways queries are built for reports, its flexibility in defining report templates, functionalities as adhoc reports and scheduled reports and the rules to define if the final report is sent, stored or opened. Even with lots of functionality in eDRG, learning eDRG to use reports, build reports and report templates ... Read more »

MCLEAN, Va. - Thursday, November 1st 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today, on World Food Day, Hilton Worldwideannounced multi-year partnerships with Feeding Americaand The Global FoodBanking Networkto secure food and reduce hunger in communities where it operates around the globe. The collaborations will enable Hilton Worldwide hotels to collect safe, surplus food from conferences and daily food and beverage operations that would otherwise be thrown away and make it available to those in need.

Feeding America and The Global FoodBanking Network will each connect Hilton Worldwide hotels with local food banks and their networks of local community agencies to facilitate food delivery to school feeding programs, food pantries, soup kitchens, hospices, after-school programs and other community programs that provide food to families in need of nourishing meals. In year one, Hilton Worldwide will pilot food donation systems in New York City, Washington, D.C., Chicago, San F ... Read more »

NEW YORK - Thursday, November 1st 2012 [ME NewsWire]

    Transaction Values Warnaco at $2.9BN – a 34% Premium Over its Last Closing Price
    Reunites the House of "Calvin Klein” to Ensure Single Brand Vision
    PVH Will Have Established Operations in Every Major Consumer Market Worldwide
    Acquisition Enhances PVH’s Long-Term Growth and Profitability Driven by "Calvin Klein” and "Tommy Hilfiger”
    Transaction Accretive to Year One Earnings by $0.35 Per Share, Excluding One-Time and Transaction Related Costs

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- PVH Corp. (NYSE: PVH) and The Warnaco Group, Inc. (NYSE: WRC) today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which PVH will acquire Warnaco and holders of Warnaco common stock will receive $51.75 in cash and .1822 of a share of PVH common stock for each share of Warnaco common stock. The transaction values Warnaco at appr ... Read more »

VERSAILLES, France - Thursday, November 1st 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Trusted Labs, a leading expert in security consulting and evaluation services, today announced it has provided the expertise to achieve a major breakthrough: the first smart card integrated circuit (IC) to obtain the highest level of internationally recognized security assurance for IT systems, the Common Criteria EAL7.

Trusted Labs supported Samsung in fulfilling the EAL7 high security requirements by mathematically verifying the secure design and developing in-depth testing methodology of the Memory Protection Unit, which is at the core of security in integrated circuits.

The EAL7 certification of the EAL5+ certified IC - Samsung flash 264Kbyte smartcard IC for finance, security ID based on 90nm technology - brings the highest assurance on the implementation of the IC’s security-critical functionalities.

Trusted Labs managed this project with a cost- and time-effective approac ... Read more »

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BAMAKO, Mali - Thursday, November 1st 2012

The Ministry of Health and Helen Keller International to treat NTD’s in Mali; END Fund thanks those who came together to make it possible

The END Fund, the world’s first private philanthropic initiative to combat the seven most common Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), announced today that much-needed treatment and prevention drugs will be distributed to millions of Malians affected by NTDs.

The END Fund exceeded its goal of raising the necessary $1.2 million USD to re-start the suspended mass drug administration (MDA). Helen Keller International, working alongside the Malian Ministry of Health, is leading the efforts to ensure the donated medicines are delivered to the communities at risk. The announcement was made today outside of Bamako during a Ministry of Health MDA launch ceremony.

The END Fund mobilized a group of mining companies and foundations for the emergency fundraisi ... Read more »

BERTRANGE, Luxembourg - Thursday, November 1st 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- euroscript chooses Interverbum Technology's TermWeb terminology management solution as a component of its Global Content Management solution.

This will allow euroscript to better support its modular offering of tailored terminology services and add tangible value to its customers’ terminology assets.

"Our customers recognize the value of their corporate terminology assets to strengthen their unique footprint and to streamline internal information management," says Karina Martínez Ferber, Director Processes & Technology at euroscript International S.A."Such assets need to be accessible for employees and other stakeholders and well-integrated in the content lifecycle. euroscript provides customers with the right services and tools along the entire lifecycle. Interverbum’s TermWeb will enable us to offer to our customers secured online access to their multilingual dictionaries and ... Read more »