Global Network Exceeds 37M Users as Companies DocuSign to Speed Transactions, Reduce Costs & Delight Clients

SAN FRANCISCO - Saturday, May 18th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

DocuSign MOMENTUM 2013

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- DocuSign, The Global Standard for eSignature®, welcomed more than 1,000 customers, prospects, partners, and developers at its annual DocuSign MOMENTUM conference. Highlights of the event included keynotes and panels with tech innovators Mary Meeker, general partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; Angie Hicks, founder and CMO, Angie’s List; Craig Kielburger, Free The Children and Me To We cofounder; and top executives from DocuSign customers Allergan, Cox, Hewlett-Packard, Iron Mountain, Lennar, LinkedIn, LPL Financial, McAfee, salesforce.com, Silicon Valley Bank, State of North Carolina, TD Ameritrade Institutional, Transamerica, Wyndham Worldwide, and others.

News from DocuSign MOMENTUM included announcements of customers standardizing on Doc ... Read more »

NEW YORK - Saturday, May 18th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

Palmisano will review privacy and data protocols and policies and make recommendations on possible enhancements

Bloomberg also appoints Clark Hoyt to review Bloomberg News’ relationship with the Company’s commercial operations

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Bloomberg LP announced today the appointment of Samuel J. Palmisano, the former Chairman and CEO of IBM, to serve as an independent adviser regarding the Company’s privacy and data standards.

Mr. Palmisano will immediately undertake a review of the Company’s current practices and policies for client data and end user information, including a review of access issues recently raised by the Company’s clients. In addition, Mr. Palmisano will make recommendations and advise on the implementation of any enhancements to these practices and policies, including the independent verification of the Company’s systems and procedures. Mr. Palmisano will report to Bloomberg’s Board of ... Read more »

LONDON - Friday, May 17th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Global card customization specialist Serverside Group, today announced the granting of a license of its US card customization patents to DimpleDough, Inc. (DimpleDough, a Ohio based financial services provider) along with its customers Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. (Jack Henry), Eastern Bank and Credit Union 1 (CU1) and the dismissal of those parties from the suit brought against them (and other parties) by Serverside in Delaware.

The license will cover all of DimpleDough’s existing customers and future card customization programs with financial institutions and services providers in the US.

Shawn Barrieau, CEO of DimpleDough commented: "DimpleDough is pleased to be working with Serverside Group to offer card customization to its US clients. We believe the combination of Serverside Group’s intellectual property and DimpleDough’s service will prove to be a good partnership for our customers and the m ... Read more »

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - Friday, May 17th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Quintiles today announced the completion of its initial public offering of 27,236,841 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $40.00 per share. Quintiles offered and sold 13,125,000 shares of common stock in the offering and selling shareholders offered and sold 14,111,841 shares of common stock in the offering, including 3,552,631 shares that were offered and sold by the selling shareholders pursuant to the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares.

Morgan Stanley, Barclays and J.P. Morgan served as joint book-running managers and as representatives of the underwriters for the offering. Citigroup, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Wells Fargo Securities, BofA Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank Securities served as book-running managers for the offering. Baird, William Blair and Jefferies served as lead co-managers, and Guggenheim Securities, Piper Jaffra ... Read more »

Observational Study Showed Significantly Improved Patient Outcomes When the ABThera™ Negative Pressure Therapy System was Used in Open Abdomen Surgery

SAN ANTONIO - Friday, May 17th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Kinetic Concepts, Inc. announced today that ABThera™ Open Abdomen Negative Pressure Therapy System (ABThera™ OA NPT) was associated with significantly improved patient outcomes compared to traditional Barker’s vacuum-packing technique (BVPT) in trauma and surgical patients studied. Results of the observational study, "Prospective Study Examining Clinical Outcomes Associated with a Negative Pressure Wound Therapy System and Barker’s Vacuum Packing Technique” were published in the World Journal of Surgery.1

In the ABTAC study, 280 trauma and surgical patients who required temporary abdominal closure (TAC) following a damage control laparotomy or treatment of either intra-abdominal hypertension or severe sepsis were enrolled from 20 sites across the US ... Read more »

SUGAR LAND, Texas - Friday, May 17th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Wireless Seismic, Inc. announced today the delivery of 7,500 channels of its RT System 2 real-time and cable-less seismic data acquisition system to Asian Oilfield Services, Ltd. (ASIAN). Based in Gurgaon, India, ASIAN selected RT System 2 for large-scale 3D acquisition projects in the rugged terrains of Kurdistan, beginning June 2013.

"ASIAN chose to expand our RT System 2 inventory because it provides the logistical and production benefits of cable-free recording with the real-time QC and data recovery capabilities of cabled systems,” stated Rahul Talwar, CEO, ASIAN. "We have been very impressed by how easy the RT System 2 is to use and how quickly it enables us to complete seismic acquisition projects.”

"With the wide variety of our field operating conditions, RT System 2 is the logical solution for ASIAN because of its minimal footprint and its increased efficiency and safety,” added Talw ... Read more »