RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C - Monday, March 10th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) Quintiles Transnational Holdings Inc. ("Quintiles”) (NYSE:Q) announced today the launch of a secondary public offering of its common stock. Certain shareholders of Quintiles (the "Selling Shareholders”) are offering for sale to the public 15 million shares of Quintiles’ common stock owned by them. The Selling Shareholders will grant to the underwriters of the secondary offering an option to purchase up to 2.25 million shares of additional common stock. Quintiles is not offering any stock in this transaction and will not receive any proceeds from the sale of the shares by the Selling Shareholders in this offering.

Morgan Stanley, Barclays and J.P. Morgan are serving 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 are serving as book-running ... Read more »

Under the Patronage of Saif bin Zayed

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Monday, March 10th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

Under the patronage of Lt. General H.H Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, Major General Dr. Ahmed Nasser Al Raisi, Director General of Central Operations at Abu Dhabi Police GHQ, inaugurated the events of the first International Road Traffic Accident Conference addressing "Causes, Challenges, and Solutions.” The conference was organized by the Traffic and Patrols Directorate at Abu Dhabi Police, in collaboration with Lifeline Healthcare Group. The conference is being held on 10-11 March at the Rosewood Hotel in Abu Dhabi.

During its 12 morning and evening sessions, the conference will evaluate 40 work papers submitted by recognized keynote traffic safety specialists from the USA, UK, Greece, Canada, Belgium, KSA, Egypt, China, and the UAE.

The papers will tackle the main causes of traffic accidents, and t ... Read more »

CeBIT 2014

SHENZHEN, China - Tuesday, March 11th 2014 [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, has launched the LTE broadband multimedia trunking solution at CeBIT 2014 in Hanover, Germany.

ZTE’s LTE broadband multimedia trunking solution is based on TD-LTE technology. The system can be used across a multitude of sectors, providing the best information and communications technology (ICT) service for customers and meeting the customised requirements of many organisations including transport, public safety and energy.

Currently, conventional narrowband digital trunking systems provide only voice and limited data, and therefore cannot fulfil the demand of data-heavy activities such as the downloading of videos and photographs. ZTE’s LTE broadband multimedia trunking system overcomes ... Read more »

Goodrich Tobacco Sells Excess Equipment at North Carolina Factory

CLARENCE, N.Y. - Monday, March 10th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) 22nd Century Group, Inc. (OTCQB: XXII) today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Goodrich Tobacco Company, has been granted a federal permit to produce tobacco products by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury ("TTB Permit”).

As previously reported, 22nd Century Group entered into an Agreement to purchase all of the issued and outstanding membership interests of NASCO Products, LLC ("NASCO”), a North Carolina limited liability company (the "NASCO Acquisition”). NASCO has its own TTB permit to manufacture tobacco products and is a participating member of the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement ("MSA”), an agreement among 46 U.S. states and the tobacco industry administered by the National Association of Attorneys General ("NAAG”).

The NASCO Acquisition will close immediat ... Read more »

Talia’s customers in the oil and gas industry across the Middle East and Africa will now have access to Thuraya’s wide range of mobile satellite products and solutions

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Monday, March 10th 2014

Thuraya Telecommunications Company, a leading Mobile Satellite Services operator, today announced its partnership with Talia, a top-tier provider of data communications and voice services.

Headquartered in the UK, Talia owns and operates a teleport facility in Germany and offers satellite communication solutions. Talia’s customers across various market sectors, especially oil and gas, will now have access to Thuraya’s portfolio of mobile satellite products and solutions.

"Our partnership with Talia demonstrates Thuraya’s commitment to serving our customers through a network of sector-specific service partners. Talia’s experience with providing end-to-end satellite solutions for oil and gas customers is complementary to o ... Read more »

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BURBANK, Calif. - Monday, March 10th 2014

Phoenix Audio Technologies a world leader in real-time audio solutions, announced today that its new, innovative IP conference phone, the Spider, will be unveiled during the Enterprise Connect convention, in Orlando on March 17th.

The Spider is an advanced SIP based IP conference phone. In addition, it can also communicate through USB interface with any computer under any operating system. This allows it to serve as both your IP conference phone and your soft video application speakerphone. Small in size (7” in diameter), the Spider covers a large conference room with pick-up range exceeding 20 feet. In larger room setups, the Spider supports Phoenix’s proprietary Link-Up/Link-Down Bus, allowing the Spider to incorporate up to 14 slave units in a daisy chain mode, thus providing the ability to cover any size room.

"Two years in the making, the Spider is the most advanced and best performing ... Read more »