ST. HELIER, Jersey & ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Wednesday, March 13th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- With the launch of the first four satellites in O3b Networks’ satellite fleet only 78 days away, O3b announced today a strategic agreement with Pakistan’s largest ICT company Interactive Esolutions. Using multiple O3b beams to provide coverage of the entire country, Interactive will be providing a full suite of services in Pakistan, including trunking services to underserved regions, cellular backhaul for mobile operators and enterprise and e-government services across the country.

O3b Networks will deliver fiber-like speed at sub 150 millisecond latency and affordable prices, opening the door to new applications and growth opportunities for customers in Pakistan.

Mr. Shahid Mahmud, Chairman/CEO Interactive Group said, "We are extremely excited about this agreement as we strongly believe that the Pakistani market offers immense appetite for bandwidth and data. ... Read more »

Agreement Expands Treatment Options for Advanced Peripheral Artery Disease

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. - Wednesday, March 13th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cordis Corporation, a worldwide leader in the development of interventional vascular technology, today announced it has completed the acquisition of Flexible Stenting Solutions, Inc., a leading developer of innovative flexible peripheral arterial, venous and biliary stents.

Currently, Cordis markets the S.M.A.R.T.® Vascular Stent worldwide. The addition of Flexible Stenting Solutions’ FlexStent® Self Expanding Stent System provides Cordis with the opportunity to evolve the S.M.A.R.T.® Stent platform to address unmet needs in the treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD). It also extends the company’s potential to expand therapeutic applications into below-the-knee and venous interventions. An estimated 27 million people in Europe and North America alone suffer from PAD.

"Cordis continues to ... Read more »

JSCP Provide the Latest Trends in Japan's Smart City Verification Experiment projects at Yokohama, Toyota, Keihanna (Kyoto) and Kitakyushu

TOKYO - Wednesday, March 13th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The results of verification experiment projects in Japan for SmartCities' Energy and Social Systems, are now available on Japan Smart City Portal web site. Some articles tell the latest trends of Demand Response (DR) or V2H (Vehicle to Home) projects using Japanese state of the art technologies.

< About Demand Response > Optimizing power supply and demand for the community with the use of CEMS and Storage Battery SCADA

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Optimizing the control of the energy supply and demand throughout the entire community

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Confirming Constraining Effects of Large-Scale Demand Response on Electric Consumption

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High-End Jewelry Exchange Planned for Prime Ground Floor Space As Diamond District Tower Nears Completion

NEW YORK - Wednesday, March 13th 2013 [BUSINESS WIRE/ ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Extell Development Company announced today that a retail condominium spanning three levels and over 12,000 square feet has been sold to an international investor at the company’s International Gem Tower (IGT) on West 47th Street in Manhattan’s famed diamond district.

The retail condo, purchased by The Gulaylar Group, features approximately 80 linear feet of highly-visible retail frontage on the building’s ground floor in addition to two adjacent floors. Respected in their native Turkey and around the world, the Gulaylar Group currently exports to 55 countries and has a very well-developed gold and diamond international wholesale business in addition to its gold and diamond retail chain stores.

At the International Gem Tower, the Gulaylar Group plans to leverage its reta ... Read more »

New Studies Demonstrate Cost Effectiveness, Clinical Value in a Stent Population and Validation of a Therapeutic Window using the VerifyNow System

ME Newswire / Business Wire

SAN DIEGO - Tuesday, March 12th 2013

Accumetrics, Inc., developer of the market-leading VerifyNow® System, announced the presentation of a series of important data that solidifies the clinical utility of platelet reactivity testing. Real world outcomes data in high risk patients receiving stents, a cost effectiveness analysis, and validation of a therapeutic window continue to demonstrate platelet reactivity as a critical element for improving the quality of care for the millions of patients on antiplatelet therapies worldwide.

In an oral presentation, Craig I. Coleman, PharmD, Associate Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, discussed data from his cost-effectiveness analysis, which demonstrated that using a platelet reactivity driven antiplate ... Read more »