BANGALORE, India-Wednesday, October 4th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Microland, India’s leading Hybrid IT infrastructure service provider, today announced the appointment of Arindam Sengupta, as Senior Vice President, Middle East. Based out of Dubai, Arindam will be responsible for Microland’s business in the Middle East region. “We are very pleased to welcome Arindam to the Microland team. He brings in extraordinary business expertise and sales leadership to Microland. He is well recognised for his strategic focus and execution excellence, as well as his deep understanding of the Middle East market. Arindam’s vast experience in the region will help enhance the Microland brand locally, as well as build a strong foundation for our growth in the geography,” said Pradeep Kar, Founder, Chairman and Managing Director, Microland Limited. Commenting on his appointment as Senior Vice President, Arindam said, “I am delighted to join the Microland team and look forward to closely wo ... Read more »

IRVINE, Calif. -Tuesday, October 3rd 2017 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Flatirons Jouve is pleased to announce the release of CORENA Cloud, a fully hosted software and service solution for mobile maintenance and flight operations that for the first time puts the power of CORENA Fleet into the hands of small to medium sized airline operators. Unlike traditional OEM independent solutions for technical information management that require installation and configuration on the customer premise, CORENA Cloud is fully hosted and pre-configured to reflect industry best practices. CORENA Cloud is based on proven CORENA Suite products, including CORENA Insight for managing compliant content change, CORENA Pinpoint for accessing technical information on desktop PCs, and CORENA Pinpoint Mobile for accessing information wherever it’s needed. CORENA Cloud also includes CORENA Managed Content Services for turnkey loading of OEM revisions, and for submitting requests for Customer Originated Chang ... Read more »

Multi-Million Dollar Deployment of Mobility Service Assurance Solution Begins in Q4 2017 SAN JOSE, Calif.-Wednesday, October 4th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Spirent Communications plc (LSE:SPT), a world leader in lifecycle service assurance solutions, today announced a second tier-1 mobile operator has selected its VisionWorks Mobility Service Assurance (MSA) solution for national deployment. The multi-million dollar deployment will begin in Q4 2017 and extend into 2018. The VisionWorks MSA solution dramatically accelerates identification and resolution of service issues such as poor data throughput for mobile operators. The solution offers an unprecedented ability to proactively test service quality across the end-to-end mobile network and then correlate the results to isolate the root causes of service issues. The VisionWorks MSA solution enables mobile operators to rapidly launch new network functions and services, reduce operational costs and improve service quality ... Read more »

Seattle Genetics and Takeda Announce Publication in Blood of Final Long-Term Survival Data from ADCETRIS® (Brentuximab Vedotin) Pivotal Phase 2 Clinical Trial in Relapsed or Refractory Systemic Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma BOTHELL, Wash. & CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & OSAKA, Japan -Tuesday, October 3rd 2017 [ AETOS Wire ] -Estimated Five-Year Overall Survival Rate was 60 Percent and Five-Year Progression-Free Survival Rate was 39 Percent- -In the 66 Percent of Patients who Achieved Complete Remission, Both Median Overall Survival and Progression-Free Survival Not Yet Reached- -Long-Term ADCETRIS Data Continue to Support Development Strategy to Establish ADCETRIS as Foundation of Therapy for CD30-Expressing Lymphomas- (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Seattle Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ:SGEN) and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE:4502) today announced final data from the ADCETRIS (brentuximab vedotin) pivotal Phase 2 clinical trial in relapsed or refractory systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma (s ... Read more »

BUSAN, South Korea-Tuesday, October 3rd 2017 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Busan Metropolitan City announced that it would host the 22nd Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) and the Game Show and Trade, All-Round (G-STAR) 2017, an Global Game Exhibition. The 22nd BIFF will be held from October 12 to 21, with 298 films shown onto 32 screens, while G-STAR 2017, which is emerging as one of the world’s top three gaming events, will take place from November 16 to 19 at BEXCO. During the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), 298 films from 75 countries will be projected onto 32 screens at five major cinemas in Busan. The festival will screen 100 world premieres (76 feature films, 24 short films), 29 international premieres (24 feature films, 5 short films), and 10 New Currents films. Korea’s “Glass Garden,” directed by Shin Su-won, is set to open the festival. The closing film is “Love Education” by Taiwanese director Sylvia Chang. Since the establishment of BIFF, this is the ... Read more »

New applications could fuel global market of up to €3.5 trillion per year AMSTERDAM -Tuesday, October 3rd 2017 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- In its new report, “Unlocking GigaWorld Innovation: GigaApps in a GigaWorld,” Arthur D. Little (ADL) outlines the investment and monetization opportunities available to network operators ready to embrace the “GigaWorld”, the emerging third cycle of the internet. Defined by continuous and intelligent collaboration between individuals, devices and the built environment – and driven by applications in the areas of augmented reality, virtual telepresence and automated living – the GigaWorld has the potential to both power our economy and change the way we live. However, for it to be fully realized, network operators need to deliver improved Quality of Experience (QoE) for consumers and new Quality of Service (QoS) features for content and service providers. While operators have focused on delivering sufficient bandwidth and coverage to drive th ... Read more »

Decision Most Beneficial for School Children Over 1,000 school students from GEMS Wellington International School were educated on the negative impact of sugar consumption and the epidemic of obesity Dubai, United Arab Emirates -Tuesday, October 3rd 2017 [ AETOS Wire ] Emirates Hospital’s, a subsidiary of Emirates Healthcare Company, leading paediatrician, Dr Abeer Khayat, renounces the consumption of sugary drinks among children and youth. Sugary soft drinks and energy drinks are taxed in the UAE (effective as of October 1st 2017). The foremost paediatricians from Emirates Hospital have backed this decision as it would benefit school students the most. Over 1,000 children of the GEMS Wellington International School, Dubai were educated on the benefits of healthy eating habits by Dr Abeer Khayat, paediatric consultant at Emirates Hospital Dubai, during the morning assembly. Through interactive discussion with children, Dr Abeer emphasised the importance of making good choices on w ... Read more »

MONTREAL-Thursday, September 28th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Replicor Inc., a privately held biopharmaceutical company targeting a cure for patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) and chronic HBV and hepatitis delta virus (HDV) co-infection, announced today the publication of its REP 301 study on the activity of REP 2139 and pegylated interferon α-2a (pegIFN) in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology (www.replicor.com/science/publications). The REP 301 study assessed the safety and efficacy of REP 2139 combined with pegIFN in patients with chronic HBV / HDV co-infection. This study demonstrated several key breakthroughs in this patient population including: REP 2139-mediated HBsAg reduction to below 1IU/mL dramatically potentiates the activity of pegIFN, that profound functional control of both HBV and HDV can be established in a high proportion of patients, that this function control persists for 1 year after therapy was withdrawn and is accompanied by normalizati ... Read more »