LONDON-Wednesday 11 July 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- ZephyrTel, a new ESW software company, dedicated to serving the global Telecommunications and Cellular industry, is pleased to announce it has acquired three new companies into its portfolio – VoltDelta, PeerApp and Mobilology, effective immediately. ZephyrTel is building a world class Telco Practice, which provides a multi-solution and services proposition to the global Telco industry. The firm’s objective is to offer Software and SaaS solutions across a Telco company’s IT estate; from infrastructure right across to customer experience. This, coupled with its high level of industry domain expertise, will enable ZephyrTel to offer consultancy on both business strategy, and technology execution. Having already acquired several Telecom software companies, ZephyrTel is currently adding to its portfolio, at pace. Its newly acquired products will be marketed by their valued, familiar product names and sit under the ZephyrTel ... Read more »

BOCA RATON, Fla.-Wednesday 11 July 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Email validation company ZeroBounce announces the release of ZeroBounce A.I., an innovative artificial intelligence email address scoring system. The software provides customers with enhanced feedback on email list quality and accelerates email marketing efforts. ZeroBounce A.I. combines a vast selection of data with proven statistical analysis to empirically rate the quality level of an email address. The software identifies positive and negative patterns of a unique email address and returns a score that users can integrate into a robust email hygiene process. The methodology of ZeroBounce A.I. periodically adjusts as web trends evolve. “What is truly revolutionary about the ZeroBounce A.I. platform is that the predictive and self-optimizing analytics within the system compute and assign a real-time score to every email address. The broad spectrum of the ZeroBounce A.I. score gives unprecedented power to the ... Read more »

• Awarded phase 2 of the Dangjin Biomass Complex in South Korea • Utilizes SFW’s advanced circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) technology with carbon neutral fuel ESPOO, Finland-Wednesday 11 July 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Sumitomo SHI FW (SFW) announces today that it has been awarded a contract by GS Engineering and Construction for design and supply of the Dangjin Biomass No. 2 Power Plant Project Boiler Island. The new boiler island will be located next to the Dangjin Biomass No. 1 Power Plant which was delivered by SFW in 2014. Commercial operation of the new plant is scheduled for 2021. SFW will design and supply the 100 MWe CFB steam generator and auxiliary equipment for the boiler island, including a cold end SCR and baghouse for flue gas cleaning. The steam generator will be designed to burn wood pellets, wood chips and palm kernel shells, while meeting applicable environmental regulatory requirements. Tomas Harju-Jeanty, CEO, Sumitomo SHI FW, said: “We are very pl ... Read more »

• 65% of organizations can’t analyze or categorize all the consumer data they store • 68% of IT professionals believe their organizations are failing to carry out all procedures in line with data protection laws • Only 54% of companies know where all of their sensitive data is stored AMSTERDAM-Tuesday 10 July 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- With pressure to ensure consumer data is protected mounting, Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, today released the results of a global study which reveals that two in three companies (65%) are unable to analyze all the data they collect and only half (54%) of companies know where all of their sensitive data is stored. Compounding this uncertainty, more than two thirds of organizations (68%) admit they don’t carry out all the procedures in line with data protection laws such as GDPR. These are just some of the findings of the fifth-annual Data Security Confidence Index, which surveyed 1,050 IT decision makers and 10,500 consume ... Read more »

Initial rollout covers use of Systematic Internaliser Registry for buy-side pre-trade compliance workflow LONDON-Tuesday 10 July 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- FlexTrade (@FlexTrade) and The SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU) today announced the integration of the SmartStream RDU with the FlexTRADER EMS (execution management system). The integration offers mutual clients the ability to embed SmartStream RDU’s Systematic Internaliser (SI) Registry information directly into the send order ticket, providing much needed clarity on counterparty SI status, prior to key 2018 MiFID II milestone dates. The SI Registry fills a gap in the MiFID II reporting regime, which requires that industry participants identify whether trading counterparties are SIs for the financial instrument that they are trading, so that they can determine which counterparty must report the trade. However, no mechanism is provided in the MiFID II framework to determine SI status. The problem is especially ... Read more »

OSAKA, Japan-Tuesday 10 July 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited: NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN ANY JURISDICTION WHERE TO DO SO WOULD CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF THE RELEVANT LAWS OF SUCH JURISDICTION Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (“Takeda”) announces that it has received unconditional clearance from the United States Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) for the proposed acquisition of Shire plc announced on May 8, 2018 (the “Acquisition”). The FTC’s unconditional clearance of the Acquisition is another significant milestone in the transaction process. The Acquisition remains subject to a number of conditions, including receipt of other regulatory clearances and approval by the shareholders of both companies. About Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE: 4502) is a global, research and development-driven pharmaceutical company committed to b ... Read more »