Ram Charan, Ma Xu Lun, Song Lin among plenary speakers


SHANGHAI - Tuesday, September 10th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Stephen Kaye, president and CEO of Hay Group, the global management consultancy, announced today that the firm will be hosting its International Conference on 27 and 28 November 2013 at the Pudong Shangri-La Hotel, Shanghai.

The conference theme. The theme of this year’s conference is "Leading Transformation.” Intended for senior business leaders, the conference will explore the critical issue of business and organisational transformation, with particular emphasis on leaders and their ability to lead the transformation of organisations, performance and people.

Hay Group believes that truly innovative companies are continually looking to transform and improve their business. These organisations don’t wait for a talent shortage, economic crisis or fall in sales to force changes in their business. Instead they seek to transform the ... Read more »

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Airton Recognized as Innovator for Use of Third-Party Support to Maximize Value of SAP Applications

LAS VEGAS - Monday, September 9th 2013

Rimini Street, Inc., the leading third-party maintenance and support provider for enterprise software, including SAP AG’s (NYSE:SAP) Business Suite and BusinessObjects software and Oracle Corporation’s (NYSE:ORCL) Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, Oracle Database and Hyperion software, today congratulates Steve Airton, Information Systems Controller at United Biscuits, for being named a finalist for Constellation Research’s SuperNova Awards. Airton was recognized in the Technology Optimization and Innovation category for his innovative use of Rimini Street third-party support to significantly reduce maintenance costs and greatly improve the level of service the company receives for its SAP system. As a result of the switch to Rimini Street SAP Support, United Biscuits was able to reinve ... Read more »

INGELHEIM, Germany - Tuesday, September 10th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

    First Phase IIa study includes Presidio’s PPI-668 in genotype-1a infected patients1; collaboration offers the potential to explore additional HCV genotypes in future trials
    Boehringer Ingelheim’s Phase III interferon-free HCVerso® trials in genotype-1b infected patients are fully enrolled; results are expected in Q2 20142,3

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Boehringer Ingelheim today announced the completion of patient enrolment for a Phase IIa clinical trial investigating a new interferon-free, all-oral, direct-acting antiviral (DAA) combination treatment for patients with genotype-1a chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. The trial is conducted in collaboration with Presidio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and evaluates Boehringer Ingelheim’s investigational compounds, the protease inhibitor faldaprevir+ and non-nucleoside NS5B pol ... Read more »

CSL deploys ZTE’s industry-leading carrier aggregation technology to achieve next-generation performance

SHENZHEN, China - Tuesday, September 10th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) ZTE Corporation ("ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment, network solutions and mobile devices, today helped CSL Limited complete a demonstration of Hong Kong’s first 300Mbps-ready 4G network, paving the way for wider-scale commercial deployment of next-generation mobile services to consumers and business customers.

ZTE’s industry-leading carrier aggregation (CA) technology was deployed by CSL in the demonstration. ZTE’s capabilities in CA and LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) solutions help CSL to leverage its unrivalled radio spectrum assets to serve the needs of customers who demand the highest-performance mobile services.

As a key enabling technology in next-generation LTE-A networks, carrier ... Read more »