Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates-Sunday, February 25th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] In connection with the UAE’s Innovation Month, the American University of Ras Al Khaimah’s Dr. Sharon Waller, PhD., CED provided two educational sessions to enlighten, support, and encourage local teachers of determined students. The workshop was divided into morning and afternoon sessions. The morning session began with a welcoming speech from Provost Prof. Stephen Whilhite of AURAK expressing the importance of education and the difference it has made in his life. Immediately after him, Dr. Sharon launched into “Teaching the ‘Determined Ones’ and Struggling Learners,” loaded full of strategies such as: chunking, highlighting, graphic organizers, multiple modalities, and the use of manipulatives; all techniques teachers could instantly implement in their classrooms to help struggling students with learning disabilities. The underlying message to teachers was simple and clear: “You have a passion for teac ... Read more »

Dubai, United Arab Emirates-Sunday, February 25th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] Oriental Pearls Real Estate Development, have made the final shortlist in three different categories at the prestigious Gulf Real Estate Awards 2018, for their trend-setting, premium development for upscale living, Royal Pearls, that is rapidly taking shape in Dubai's Meydan One district. The Gulf Real Estate Awards is among the region’s most prestigious awards that recognises and rewards excellence in the extremely competitive real estate sphere in the GCC region. Oriental Pearls have made the shortlist in three categories - Best Real Estate Project (Luxury residential), Best Real Estate Project (Off-plan) and Best Architectural. The shortlisting was made following a thorough evaluation of their submitted entry by a panel of independent judges. The shortlisted candidates will now make individual presentations over the two day finals on March 20 and 21, following which the winners will be declared by the judge at ... Read more »

New Venture to Catalyze Next Generation of Promising Alternatives Managers; Finalizes First Strategic Partnership with Astra Capital Management NEW YORK-Saturday, February 24th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (“APFC”), the Public Institution for Social Security of Kuwait (“PIFSS”), RPMI Railpen (“Railpen”) and Wafra, a leading manager of private equity and alternative investments, today announced that they have established a new entity called Capital Constellation (“Constellation”). Constellation will provide catalytic investment capital to next generation private equity and alternatives managers and will be advised by Wafra. Combined, the founders will initially commit $700 million to the venture and Constellation is expected to deploy over $1.5 billion in the next five years. Constellation will bring together the expertise and capital base of three of the world’s premier institutional investors, spanning Europe, North America, and the ... Read more »

A family of innovative components specifically designed for optical metro applications powered by Intel® Stratix®10 FPGAs MILANO-Saturday, February 24th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE) -- SM-Optics launches FLEXSET, a single chip embedding multiple processing functionalities raising the bar for performances, density and architectural flexibility. The FLEXSET is the heart of the Lightmode product family. FLEXSET OTN switching matrix scales from 300Gbps to 1Tbps and can be addressed by ports spanning from traditional low-speed services like 2Mbps over micro-OTN, to layer2 and layer3 over ODUFlex, 100G over ODU4 and 200G over FlexO. Thanks to its embedded capabilities including multi-technology OAM, packet processing, synchronization and fast protection functions, FLEXSET operates by design at the lowest latency performances and features an Intel Stratix 10 FPGA. Following the launch of micro-OTN, a revolutionary approach to efficiently extend OTN protocol to low speed services ... Read more »

Digital technologies will help cities save money, reduce consumption, earn new revenue, and stimulate new jobs BRIDGEWATER, N.J.-Saturday, February 24th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNCR), a global leader and innovator of cloud, messaging, digital, and IoT products, today announced that it has joined the AT&T Smart Cities Strategic Alliance to help transform cities around the world. Its digital and IoT product portfolio and expertise will be leveraged by some of the mobile industry’s biggest names to create productive IoT use cases and clear, tangible business outcomes for global smart cities. As part of the AT&T Smart Cities Alliance, Synchronoss will orchestrate its digital, messaging, cloud, and IoT technologies to innovate across the vertical segments of a Smart City. By working with K2View, and leveraging its real-time analytics Fabric platform, Synchronoss will integrate disparate databases, providing notifications and alerts ... Read more »

ZURICH-Saturday, February 24th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE) -- ABB Ltd has published its 2017 annual report on its website and has filed the annual report on Form 20-F with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. The 2017 annual report is now available electronically at www.abb.com/groupreports. It provides comprehensive information on the company and its strategy, business, governance and financial performance. Shareholders may request a printed copy of the annual report via this link. It will be distributed when it becomes available later this month. ABB (ABBN: SIX Swiss Ex) is a pioneering technology leader in electrification products, robotics and motion, industrial automation and power grids, serving customers in utilities, industry and transport & infrastructure globally. Continuing a history of innovation spanning more than 130 years, ABB today is writing the future of industrial digitalization with two clear value propositions: bringing electricity from ... Read more »

HOUSTON-Saturday, February 24th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE) -- HashGains.com, a leading cryptocurrency mining platform, has launched its crowdsale program to build mega cryptocurrency cloud mining data centers in India and Canada which uses renewable energy like wind and solar as source of energy. “With the growing worries around bitcoin mining causing environmental damage, difficulty levels of mining increasing and returns heading southwards, there was no better opportunity but to build green energy data centers which run on free sources of energy like wind and solar, ensuring handsome mining rewards while taking care of environment,” said Mr Anuj Bairathi, CEO & Founder, HashGains, who is crypto enthusiast himself. HashGains is a growing cloud mining platform with more than 10,000 active customers enjoying mining returns and is expected to reach the mark of 1 million customers by 2020. To handle such a massive growth and ever growing demand of customers, it becomes even mo ... Read more »

LAUSANNE, Switzerland-Tuesday, February 20th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE/Euronext Paris: PMI) and Scuderia Ferrari have extended their partnership until 2021. Their successful collaboration spans more than 40 years. As of today, the partnership will be exclusively focused on advancing the cause of a smoke-free world – a world in which all people who would otherwise continue smoking switch from the most harmful form of nicotine consumption – cigarettes – to scientifically substantiated less harmful alternatives that are smoke-free. “We want to give the world’s 1.1 billion men and women who smoke the opportunity to make better and informed choices. We are committed to use all available resources, including our motorsports related activities, to accelerate momentum around this revolutionary change for the benefit of people who smoke, public health and society at large. We deeply appreciate Scuderia Ferrari’s support in this cause,” said ... Read more »