BEIJING - Saturday, March 9th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)--GA Innovation China ("GAIC”), a subsidiary of Air China, Ltd. and GA Telesis, LLC, had its grand opening ceremony on March 5, 2013 at the Qin Han Ballroom at the Beijing Hilton. In attendance were officials, executives, dignitaries and representatives, of Air China Holdings， Air China, Ltd., officials of the CAAC, local government officials, aircraft manufacturers' MROs, Banks and officials of the importation and customs, to show their utmost support for this first ever venture in China.

In this very well attended ceremony in Beijing, the companies celebrated the receipt of their formal government license to do business as GA Innovation China, a 50/50 joint venture that will be based in Beijing. The joint-venture will be the only China-based integrated aircraft trader/lessor of mid-aged used aircraft and will also include a full-scale aircraft disassembly and redistribution business covering the entire Asia ... Read more »

DENVER - Friday, March 8th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Google Inc. and MPEG LA, LLC announced today that they have entered into agreements granting Google a license to techniques that may be essential to VP8 and earlier-generation VPx video compression technologies under patents owned by 11 patent holders. The agreements also grant Google the right to sublicense those techniques to any user of VP8, whether the VP8 implementation is by Google or another entity. It further provides for sublicensing those VP8 techniques in one next-generation VPx video codec. As a result of the agreements, MPEG LA will discontinue its effort to form a VP8 patent pool.

"This is a significant milestone in Google’s efforts to establish VP8 as a widely-deployed web video format,” said Allen Lo, Google’s deputy general counsel for patents. "We appreciate MPEG LA’s cooperation in making this happen.”

"We are pleased for the opportunity to facilitate agreements with Google to make V ... Read more »

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AMSTERDAM - Thursday, March 7th 2013

Regulatory News:

Gemalto, (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, today announced that Canadian telecommunications carrier TELUS will use Gemalto’s UpTeq NFC SIM cards to enable consumers to securely store a variety of credentials on their SIM for use with their mobile phones. This fully compliant Europay MasterCard Visa (EMV) technology will enable customers to make secure payments, participate in loyalty programs, validate their transit pass, and redeem coupons using the secure credentials stored on their SIM cards accessed by with TELUS smartphones equipped with tap-and-go Near-Field Communications (NFC) and LTE capabilities.

NFC technology makes life easier and more convenient for consumers around the world by making it simpler to make transactions, exchange digital content, and connect electronic devices with a touch of their phone.

The UpTeq NFC SIM secu ... Read more »