–Tory Burch et Roger Farah formeront le bureau des directeurs exécutifs pour superviser la croissance de stratégie mondiale de la société –

NEW YORK - Dimanche 28 Septembre 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Tory Burch, LLC, annoncé aujourd’hui la nomination de Roger Farah au poste de codirecteur général. M. Farah et Mme Burch créeront également le bureau des directeurs exécutifs (BDE), un groupe de gestion nouvellement constitué, composé de Brigitte Kleine, Robert Isen, Roger Farah et Tory Burch, pour diriger et superviser la gestion de la société. Mme Kleine demeure présidente de Tory Burch, LLC et se joindra au conseil d’administration. M. Farah a également été élu au conseil d’administration de la société. Mme Burch gardera son poste de présidente du conseil. M. Isen gardera son rôle de membre du conseil et continuera d’être président du développement commercial et directeur juridique.

L’expérience de M. Farah ... Read more »

NEW YORK - Dimanche 28 Septembre 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) Hier, le jour du Sommet 2014 des Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques, Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO), l'innovateur de premier plan du secteur de la publicité extérieure, a lancé une campagne extérieure avec le groupe des grandes villes engagées dans la lutte contre les changements climatiques, C40 Cities, dans le but de renforcer la sensibilisation au rôle des villes dans le cadre de ces initiatives.

Les annonces publicitaires, sensibilisant les citoyens au travail accompli par le C40, sont affichées sur l'espace phare de CCO à Times Square pendant le Sommet des Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques, ce support étant offert par CCO.

Par l'affichage de cette campagne dans l'un des plus célèbres symboles de vitalité urbaine et commerciale au monde, les deux organisations font la démonstration de leur engagement à établir un contact avec la population urbaine. Il s ... Read more »

La 3e génération de ZC Mobile, la toute dernière version mobile du système de gestion ZC Web des fournisseurs, est désormais disponible sur Google Play et l’App Store

ORLANDO, Floride. - Dimanche 28 Septembre 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dans la version de ZC Mobile de 3e génération, ZeroChaos a étendu et amélioré la facilité d’utilisation et les fonctionnalités de son application pour ses utilisateurs Apple et Android du monde entier.

Les systèmes de gestion des fournisseurs sont des outils qui aident les sociétés à gérer leurs fournisseurs de main-d’œuvre et de services extérieurs. « ZeroChaos sait bien que pour son public de clients, de fournisseurs de personnel et de ressources contractuelles, le travail ne s’arrête pas au bureau. C’est pour cette raison que depuis 2011, nous nous sommes attachés à faciliter la vie de nos clients à tout moment et à tout endroit », a affirmé Gary Flowers, responsable informa ... Read more »

RICHARDSON, Texas - Friday, September 26th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Mavenir Systems® (NYSE:MVNR), a leading provider of software-based networking solutions, announced today that its 4G LTE software solutions enable mobile operators to disrupt OTT applications by leveraging Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and launch innovative new services such as HD Voice, Wi-Fi Calling and Video Calling, that are natively supported on the latest generation of 4G LTE devices.

“Multiple smartphone vendors, such as Samsung and Apple, are introducing new devices that natively support the advanced services enabled by our technology,” said Pardeep Kohli, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mavenir Systems. “This is a key milestone in a maturing 4G LTE device ecosystem that will embolden mobile operators to compete with and disrupt popular OTT service providers.”

A second disruptive element is the introduction of seamless mobility as a new feature ... Read more »

– Tory Burch and Roger Farah Form Executive Directors Office to Oversee the Company’s Global Growth Strategy –

NEW YORK - Thursday, September 25th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Tory Burch, LLC, today announced it has named Roger Farah co-Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Farah and Ms. Burch will also establish an Executive Directors Office (EDO), a newly formed management group made up of Brigitte Kleine, Robert Isen, Roger Farah and Tory Burch to lead and oversee the management of the company. Ms. Kleine will remain President of Tory Burch, LLC and will join the Board of Directors. Mr. Farah has also been appointed to the Board of Directors. Ms. Burch will retain her role as Chairman of the Board. Mr. Isen will retain his role as a member of the Board and continues as President of Business Development and Chief Legal Officer.

Mr. Farah’s previous experience with large international brands will strategically complement the business ... Read more »

Professionals on the Go Can Share Multimedia and Virtual Paperwork on Projectors and Monitors for Ultimate Productivity

ANTA CLARA, Calif - Thursday, September 25th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. announced that the newly released BlackBerry Passport features a built-in SlimPort® interface solution, which allows it to connect to boardroom projectors and large screen displays for a seamless high-definition viewing experience.

Designed from the ground up with the working professional in mind, the BlackBerry Passport with its 1,440 x 1,440 4.5-inch screen provides more viewing area for spreadsheets and data and features the same resolution as Full HD-equipped phablets. SlimPort display-out further expands the smartphone’s usefulness in the work environment, increasing user productivity and enabling a collaborative working experience through an easy, fast and reliable high resolution connection between the phone and th ... Read more »

INGELHEIM, Germany. - Friday, September 26th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

• Nintedanib*, when added to docetaxel, is the first lung cancer treatment to have provided over one year overall survival for patients with advanced adenocarcinoma, after first-line chemotherapy

• Adenocarcinoma is the most common type of lung cancer and nintedanib* has demonstrated the first advancement in overall survival benefit for this patient population in over a decade

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- For media outside UK and US only

Boehringer Ingelheim today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has issued a positive opinion for the approval of nintedanib* (suggested brand name Vargatef®) in combination with docetaxel for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced, metastatic or locally recurrent non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) of adenocarcinoma tumour histology after first-line chemotherapy.< ... Read more »

The 3rd generation of ZC Mobile, the mobile version of the ZC Web vendor management system, is now available on Google Play and the App Store

ORLANDO, Fla. - Thursday, September 25th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- In the 3rd generation release of ZC Mobile, ZeroChaos has extended and enhanced the usability and functionality of its app even further for their Apple and Android users, globally.

Vendor management systems are tools that help companies manage their outside labor and service vendors. “ZeroChaos knows that for its audiences of customers, staffing suppliers, and contract resources, work doesn’t end at their desk. That’s why our focus since 2011 has been to enable our customers anytime, anywhere they may be,” says Gary Flowers, CIO of ZeroChaos.

The third generation of ZC Mobile offers broad functionality, including:

    Enhanced requisition and timesheet management
    ... Read more »

SPARTANBURG, S.C - Thursday, September 25th 2014 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE) AFL, a global provider of fiber optic solutions, announces that Phil Edwards has joined AFL as president of EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa). Edwards will be responsible for leading AFL’s business strategy and operations in the EMEA region, and building the infrastructure needed to support growth for AFL.
“AFL recognizes a tremendous opportunity to build our business in the EMEA region. Bringing Phil on board adds a proven leader to our team, and positions us to take full advantage of the market opportunities. His background and experiences in telecom industry is truly impressive and I am pleased to have Phil join our leadership team,” said Jody Gallagher, president and CEO of AFL.
Edwards served as the Group President of Draka Communications at Draka Holding N.V. prior to its merger with Prysmian Group in 2011 when he was appointed to the position of Executive Vice P ... Read more »

ESSCIRC 2014

TOKYO. - Saturday, September 27th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)  Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced that it has developed an extremely low-power 2.4 GHz Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) for low-power wireless systems, such as Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE). Low-voltage operation below the threshold voltage of the transistor is achieved by combining the features of a class-D VCO and dynamic control technique of the supply voltage. The power consumption of the VCO is reduced to one-fifth to one-tenth compared to the conventional one. Toshiba presented the VCO in European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC) in Venice, Italy, on September 24th 2014.

Recently, applications of wireless communication have widened to include sport, fitness, healthcare, watches and more. As these applications often assume long-life operation with low-capacity batteries, such as a coin cell battery and energy harvester, extremely low-power ... Read more »

LONDRES - Dimanche 28 Septembre 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) - Ronald Duncan, président et directeur de l'Information à la société cloudBuy plc, la  première plate-forme en nuage transactionnelle au monde, a fait une présentation sur les municipalités de la coopération des pays du Golfe et la Conférence des villes intelligentes à Dubaï sur la façon dont cloudBuy habilite les villes intelligentes grâce à l'amélioration des achats, la participation des citoyens au gouvernement et le développement économique.

Cette présentation fait partie d'une série d'événements de "Peak Performance" à cloudBuy qui ont eu lieu dans toutes les régions du Moyen-Orient et en Asie Pacifique, en partenariat avec l'UKTI. L'objectif de ces événements consiste à savoir comment les entreprises peuvent économiser de l'argent et stimuler la croissance et l'efficacité dans les achats en utilisant des technologies en nuage. Les événements vanten ... Read more »

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ATLANTA - Thursday, September 25th 2014

The Middle East and Africa’s growing institutional wealth and the increased globalization of the institutional investment industry are major factors behind eVestment’s decision to open its newest office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Officially opened this week, this is the company’s first office in the Middle East.

The office is located in Building 01 in Dubai Internet City and will serve as eVestment’s base of operations for the company’s continued growth in the Middle East and Africa.

Since Q1 2009, investable institutional assets domiciled in the Middle East and Africa have grown more than 180%, from $196.8 billion U.S. to $560 billion U.S. as of Q2 2014, according to eVestment figures. Sovereign wealth funds have also grown dramatically, and the wealth of the Middle East’s high net worth individuals has increased from $1.4 trillion US in 2009 to ... Read more »

NEW YORK - Thursday, September 25th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Yesterday, on the day of the 2014 UN Climate Change Summit, Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO), the leading innovator in out-of-home advertising, launched an outdoor campaign with climate leadership group C40 Cities to raise awareness of the role of cities in combatting climate change.

The ads, connecting citizens to the work of C40, are displayed on CCO’s flagship inventory in Times Square during the UN Climate Change Summit, with CCO donating the space.

By showing the campaign in one of the world’s most famous symbols of urban and commercial vitality, both organizations are demonstrating their commitment to connecting with urban citizens. This is a thought-provoking and impactful campaign, and the result of a global NGO and global commercial enterprise coming together to show citizens that ensuring cities are sustainable is pivotal to combating climate change.

William Ecc ... Read more »

— Elles font la démonstration de technologies de pointe pour une stabilité et une synchronisation sans faille —

TOKYO - Dimanche 28 Septembre 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., un leader mondial dans le domaine des composants et solutions électroniques avancées, a dévoilé aujourd’hui sa dernière innovation, les pom-pom girls Murata, une équipe de petits robots qui utilise les dernières technologies de détection et de communication, ainsi qu’une technologie de commande de groupe avancée pour atteindre une stabilité parfaite et une danse synchronisée impeccable.

Contrairement à leurs prédécesseurs, MURATA BOY qui faisait du vélo et MURATA GIRL qui faisait du monocycle, les pom-pom girls Murata ne se déplacent pas sur roues, mais plutôt sur une balle, au-dessus de laquelle elles restent en équilibre tandis que la balle roule. Elles peuvent bouger rapidement dans n’importe quelle direction et rester d ... Read more »

LONDON - Friday, September 26th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Ronald Duncan, Chairman and CIO at cloudBuy plc, the world’s leading transactional cloud platform, has delivered a presentation at the GCC Municipalities and Smart Cities Conference in Dubai on how cloudBuy enables smart cities through improved purchasing, government to citizen engagement and economic development.

This presentation forms part of a series of cloudBuy ‘Peak Performance’ events taking place across the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions in partnership with the UKTI. The focus for the events is how business can save money and drive growth and efficiencies in procurement by using cloud technologies. The events extol the success of the UK Government G-cloud program, which cloudBuy has used to deliver £10 million of saving to government organisations.

A recent Gartner analysis stated that a full source- to- pay solution would take five years to roll out th ... Read more »

CLARENCE, dans l’État de New York - Dimanche 28 Septembre 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -22nd Century Group, Inc. (NYSE MKT : XXII) a annoncé aujourd’hui que le Center for Tobacco Products (« CTP ») de l’Agence américaine des produits alimentaires et des médicaments (« FDA ») avait accordé à la Société un rendez-vous pour le 12 novembre 2014 en vue de discuter des développements ultérieurs du potentiel produit du tabac à risque modifié de la Société, dont le nom de code est BRAND B (« BB-1 »). Il s’agit d’une cigarette conçue pour offrir un ratio goudron/nicotine exceptionnellement faible. Par rapport aux autres cigarettes commerciales à faible teneur, le seul facteur de différenciation de la cigarette BB-1 est qu’elle utilise un tabac à haute teneur en nicotine exclusif de 22nd Century ; ce tabac est planté, cultivé, récolté, séché et traité exactement de la même manière que le tabac commercial con ... Read more »

INGELHEIM, Germany - Saturday, September 27th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

    LUX-Lung 8 trial met its primary endpoint of improving progression-free survival in patients treated with afatinib* versus erlotinib after failure of first-line, platinum-based chemotherapy, reducing the risk of disease progression by 18%
    Overall rate of severe adverse events (≥ grade 3) was comparable between both therapies
    Limited treatment options currently exist for patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the lung, which represents approximately 30% of all non-small cell lung cancer cases with only about 15% of patients surviving for five years or longer

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- For Ex-US and Ex-UK Media Only

Phase III data from Boehringer Ingelheim’s LUX-Lung 8 trial, the first study to directly compare the efficacy of two different targeted agents in patients with advanced squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the lung, dem ... Read more »

CLARENCE, N.Y. - Thursday, September 25th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- 22nd Century Group, Inc. (NYSE MKT:XXII) announced today that the Center for Tobacco Products (“CTP”) of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has granted the Company a meeting on November 12, 2014 to discuss the further development of the Company’s potential modified risk tobacco product, code-named BRAND B (“BB-1”), which is a cigarette that is designed to provide an exceptionally low tar-to-nicotine yield ratio. As compared to other commercial low-yield cigarettes, the only differentiating factor of the BB-1 cigarette is that 22nd Century’s proprietary high-nicotine tobacco is used, which tobacco is planted, grown, harvested, cured, and processed in exactly the same manner as conventional commercial tobacco.

Pursuant to the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 (“Tobacco Control Act”), the Company i ... Read more »