ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Tuesday, September 17th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

The Abu Dhabi Police GHQ signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary for England and Wales, aimed at strengthening cooperation in areas of common interest.

The MoU was recently signed by Major General Nasser Lakhrebani Al Nuaimi, Secretary General of the Office of HH Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, currently visiting the United Kingdom with an Abu Dhabi Police GHQ’s delegation. Tom Winsor, Chief Inspector of Constabulary in the United Kingdom signed the memorandum on behalf of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary.

The memorandum aims to boost cooperation between the Abu Dhabi Police GHQ and the UK’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, and enable both parties to carry out their tasks and duties more efficiently.

The MOU signing ceremony was attended by Colonel Mohammed Hamid bin Dalmouj Al Dhaheri, Strategy and Performance Deve ... Read more »

BST10 Represents the World’s First "Multi-Lingual” Business Software Crafted for Leading Architects & Engineers Available on-Premise and in the "Cloud”

BARCELONA, Spain - Wednesday, September 18th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) BST Global, the leading global provider of enterprise business software solutions for leading Architecture, Engineering and Environmental Consultancies, today announced the introduction of BST10 and BST10 Cloud at the FIDIC (International Federation of Consulting Engineers) Centenary Conference in Barcelona, Spain.

BST10 and BST10 Cloud represent a new era in business software solutions designed for leading Architecture, Engineering and Environmental Consultancies. BST10 and BST10 Cloud are the culmination of years of research and development and the direct feedback from BST Global’s client base of over 100,000 users in 65 countries spanning 6 continents.

BST10 and BST10 Cloud introduce a number of industry firsts:

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CLARENCE, N.Y - Wednesday, September 18th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)  22nd Century Group, Inc. (OTCQB: XXII) announced that the company and NASCO Products, LLC entered into a definitive and binding agreement for 22nd Century Group to purchase NASCO Products. NASCO Products, a federally licensed tobacco product manufacturer, is also a participating member of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement known as the MSA, an agreement among 46 U.S. states and the tobacco industry administered by the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG).

The purchase price for the NASCO acquisition is $1 million payable in a combination of cash and equity. The purchase agreement also contemplates that 22nd Century will enter into a management agreement and a sales agreement at closing with an affiliate of NASCO Products. In addition, 22nd Century will purchase cigarette manufacturing machinery for approximately $2 million.

Upon closing, which will take place immedia ... Read more »

Highly Anticipated New Luxury Hotel Marks Milestone UAE Entry for Hilton Worldwide

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates & MCLEAN, Va. - Wednesday, September 18th 2013

Hilton Worldwide brings its global brand for the new generation of smart luxury travellers, for whom life, business and pleasure seamlessly intersect, to UAE today with the official opening of Conrad Dubai. The 555-room luxury hotel marks the entry of Conrad Hotels & Resorts into the region, after the company’s luxury brands regional opening of the Waldorf Astoria Ras al Khaimah hotel, which began welcoming guests in early August.

Located amid upscale living in Dubai’s bustling cosmopolitan business and shopping district, Conrad Dubai offers the epitome of discreet luxury and sophisticated style. The hotel is within a short distance of the city’s traditional commercial landmarks such as Dubai International Financial Centre and Dubai World Trade Centre, and is also a ... Read more »

TOKYO - Wednesday, September 18th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Toshiba’s (TOKYO:6502) SSD (1 series) and HDD (3 series) products*1 for the enterprise market were honored with the "METI*2 Commerce and Information Policy, Director-General’s Awards” of "Green IT Award 2013” by Green IT Promotion Council / the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association.

The expansion of cloud computing is triggering the explosion of information and driving a fast growing need for storage products that offer larger capacities and faster data transfers. The award recognizes both the high transfer speeds and large capacity specifications of Toshiba’s enterprise SSDs and HDDs, their design for reduced environmental impacts, along with environmental initiative by employees at Toshiba’s production site in the Philippines.

Toshiba promotes initiatives aimed at realizing a world where people lead affluent lives in harmony with the Earth, based on its environmen ... Read more »

Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company to feature 17 presentations during the 49th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)

INGELHEIM, Germany & INDIANAPOLIS, Ind - Tuesday, September 17th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

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Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company today announced they will feature five oral and 12 poster presentations for linagliptin and the investigational compound empagliflozin* at the 49th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) which will take place in Barcelona, from 23 – 27 September. The presentations will add to the already existing body of data on safety and efficacy of these two compounds.

Empagliflozin Data A total of eight clinical and pre-clinical abstracts for the investigational agent empagliflozin will be presented. Empagliflozin is a member of the sodium glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibito ... Read more »