INGELHEIM, Germany & INDIANAPOLIS, US. - Friday, March 21st 2014 [ME NewsWire]

    More than 73 percent of physicians surveyed said the complexity of Type 2 Diabetes is underestimated1
    93 percent of physicians considered risk for stroke and heart disease when treating people with Type 2 Diabetes1

(BUSINESS WIRE) Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company today announced results from an online poll of more than 700 physicians treating people with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) from across six Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Columbia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela.

T2D is a growing concern for people living in Latin American countries; the International Diabetes Federation estimates today’s T2D population in Latin America will grow by 60 percent by 2035.2

The poll investigated physicians’ perceptions of the challenges and issues faced when treating people with T2D. It showed 73 percent of physicians think the com ... Read more »

Behind the scenes of one of the most modern online print shops in Europe.

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RADEBEUL, Germany - Thursday, March 20th 2014

In a video production unitedprint's staff present their version of Pharrell Williams' world famous hit "Happy". The lively four minutes of footage provides a light-hearted and exciting peek behind the scenes of one of the largest and most successful online print shops in Europe.

Click here for the video: http://bit.ly/happyUP

unitedprint.com SE, together with its brands print24, Easyprint, unitedprint, firstprint, getprint and printwhat, is one of the global leaders in online printing. unitedprint provides its customers with flyers, posters, postcards, brochures, business cards, letterheads and much more in the highest quality, fastest delivery time and at the lowest prices. More than 700 employees work around the clock using the latest technology in a production area of more than 10,000 m2. The company is ... Read more »

GREENWICH, Conn. - Thursday, March 20th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ GS:IBKR) was awarded top honors in Barron’s 19th annual ranking of Best Online Brokers, rated number one for the third year in a row.

Also ranked highly in the 2014 review was introducing broker, Place Trade. Ranked as the number three online broker by Barron’s for a second consecutive year, Place Trade licenses Interactive Brokers trading, execution and clearing technology, while providing its own full-broker services for its clients. Barron’s notes that "Interactive Brokers’ suite of tools for registered investment advisors allows firms like Place Trade to use the technology while wrapping it in a different level of service.” As a provider of fully disclosed and non-disclosed broker accounts, Interactive Brokers (IB) provides correspondent clearing services to 200 introducing brokers worldwide.

In the 2014 review, Barron’s compared 20 online broker ... Read more »

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Initial batch of 3,000 handwritten works to be digitalized by 2018

TOKYO & ROME - Thursday, March 20th 2014

NTT DATA Corporation, a global IT solutions provider, today announced it was selected to contribute to the project of digitally archiving manuscripts of the Vatican Apostolic Library. The overall project, which was started by the Vatican Apostolic Library some years ago and is currently ongoing with an initial output of 6,000 manuscripts, is intended to digitally archive all manuscripts preserved in the Library, amounting to some 82,000 specimens and 41 million pages.

The Vatican Apostolic Library selected NTT DATA as its partner for this project based on its favorable evaluation of the company’s track record in digital archiving, as exemplified by its work at Japan’s National Diet Library, and its technological expertise and resources, including its digital archive service AMLAD™.

NTT DATA agreed to participate a ... Read more »

• Positive opinion for investigational SGLT2 inhibitor empagliflozin for the treatment of T2D in adults

INGELHEIM, Germany & INDIANAPOLIS, US - Friday, March 21st 2014 [ME NewsWire]

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Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company are pleased to announce a positive opinion from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), recommending approval of the investigational sodium glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor empagliflozin* (if approved to be marketed under the name Jardiance®) for the treatment of adults with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D).

Empagliflozin is an investigational compound that belongs to the SGLT2 inhibitor class of drugs that targets glucose directly and works independently of β-cell function and insulin resistance.1, 2 Following the CHMP positive opinion, the European Commission generally follows the recommendation and usually issues its final deci ... Read more »

Waldorf Astoria Jakarta to open in 2018 as the second Waldorf Astoria branded hotel in Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia. - Thursday, March 20th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)  Hilton Worldwide today announced the signing of a new management agreement with PT Putragaya Wahana to introduce the Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts property in Jakarta, Indonesia. Scheduled to open in 2018, the 181-key Waldorf Astoria Jakarta will be the second property of the legendary luxury brand’s portfolio in Indonesia.

"Today’s announcement underlines Waldorf Astoria’s commitment to strengthening and expanding our growing portfolio of landmark properties in key destinations around the world,” said John Vanderslice, global head, luxury brands, Hilton Worldwide. "Waldorf Astoria has become the luxury hotel brand for defining unforgettable experiences for discerning travelers. Guests of Waldorf Astoria Jakarta can expect to receive True Waldorf Service resulting in a truly luxu ... Read more »