AMSTERDAM - Friday, December 12th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)  Regulatory News:

Pershing Square Holdings, Ltd. (ticker: PSH:NA) today released its regular weekly Net Asset Value (NAV) on its website, www.pershingsquareholdings.com. The NAV was computed as of the close of business on Tuesday, 9 December 2014.

PSH NAV per share as of close of business on 9 December 2014 was USD25.95.

Weekly net asset value is calculated at the close of business on each Tuesday and posted on the following Thursday. In the event that Tuesday is not a business day, PSH will calculate the close-of-business NAV as of the business day immediately preceding that Tuesday. In the event that Thursday is not a business day, any such NAV will be posted the next business day following that Thursday.

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– Data Featured as Oral Presentation at ASH 2014 –

SAN FRANCISCO - Tuesday, December 9th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

ASH 2014

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE:4502) today announced results from an open-label, Phase 2 study evaluating the safety and efficacy of oral, single-agent ixazomib (MLN9708) as maintenance therapy in patients with multiple myeloma (MM) who had received ixazomib, lenalidomide and dexamethasone as induction therapy. The data from this trial demonstrate the potential feasibility of single-agent ixazomib maintenance therapy following 12 cycles of ixazomib-lenalidomide-dexamethasone, with deepening responses and an acceptable tolerability profile. These data were presented today at the 56th American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting in San Francisco, CA.

“These findings suggest that treatment with single-agent ixazomib, an investigational oral proteasome inhibitor, in the maintenance set ... Read more »

BARCELONA & PARIS - Wednesday, December 10th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

    With over 1.76 million votes securely cast, the 2014 French Ministry of Education election once again sets the record for online votes cast in a binding and public election.
    France leads the way in the strategic uptake of secure online voting for ongoing binding elections with 3 ministries - Ministry of Education, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Interior – increasing their use of the online channel.

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Scytl, the worldwide leader in secure online voting and election modernization, today announced the successful use once again of Scytl Online Voting by the French Ministry of Education (MEN) for the French teachers union representative elections. This election once again represents the largest online voting election worldwide of voters casting their ballot online in a binding and public election with over 1.76M votes secu ... Read more »

WASHINGTON - Wednesday, December 10th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- On December 9, 2014, U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson granted final approval of a $297 million settlement between plaintiffs in a multidistrict class action and defendant U.S. Foodservice, Inc. and its former Dutch parent company, Koninklijke Ahold, N.V.

Richard L. Wyatt Jr., partner and co-leader of Hunton & Williams’ litigation department, who led the firm’s legal team on behalf of the plaintiff class — which includes restaurants, hospitals, universities and other food service providers across the United States — had several comments:

    “We are pleased with the Court’s grant of final approval and entry of judgment. We appreciate the court’s recognition of the many years of hard work that have gone into achieving this noteworthy result for the class.”
    “The settlement has been very ... Read more »

Combined company, technologies will protect data everywhere for nearly two million business customers and 8,000 partners, with excess of 100 petabytes of cloud data worldwide

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NORWALK, Conn - Thursday, December 11th 2014

Datto, the preferred global provider of hybrid cloud-based backup, disaster recovery (BDR) and business continuity solutions, today announced the acquisition of Backupify, the leading provider of cloud-to-cloud backup and recovery solutions for software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. The acquisition will create the first complete platform to protect business data no matter where it lives. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Datto and Backupify have solved the problem that most traditional disaster recovery and backup providers have not, which is that all data protection plans must be as fluid as the information flowing in and out of the companies that rely on them. As more critical data continues t ... Read more »

The First Japanese Bearings Manufacturer in an Up-and-Coming Area with Burgeoning Automobile Demand

TOKYO. - Wednesday, December 10th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) NSK Ltd. (TOKYO:6471)(NSK) announced today that it held an opening ceremony to mark the successful start-up of its new production site in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico.

The plant began operations in April 2014 and commenced mass production in July. The ceremony was attended by around 100 people from in and outside the company, including dignitaries from the Mexican government, NSK President Norio Otsuka, and Bernard Lindsay, senior vice president and head of all American operations. “To ensure NSK’s growth in the expanding North American market, we will use the latest equipment and technology to increase quality, cost competitiveness, delivery time, and safety, under a policy of localization,” commented Mr. Otsuka at the ceremony.

Background

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