FALLS CHURCH, Va - Monday, September 21st 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CSC (NYSE: CSC), a global leader in next-generation IT services and solutions, today announced it has closed the acquisition of Fruition Partners, the leading provider of technology-enabled solutions for the service-management sector and the largest ServiceNow-exclusive service-management consulting firm. The acquisition bolsters CSC’s ability to offer enterprise and emerging clients an expanded range of cloud-based service-management solutions to improve their business results through organizational efficiency and lower operating costs.

Fruition Partners is now a wholly owned subsidiary of CSC and will do business as Fruition Partners, a CSC company. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. ServiceNow is a CSC strategic alliance partner.

Combining Fruition Partners with the scale, reach, industry penetration and extensive skill portfolio of CSC creates an extra ... Read more »

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. - Thursday, September 24th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- A survey of 900 cybersecurity experts shows an overwhelming majority (87%) expect an increase in mobile payment data breaches over the next 12 months, yet 42% have used this payment method in 2015. The 2015 Mobile Payment Security Study from global cybersecurity association ISACA suggests that cybersecurity professionals are willing to balance benefits with perceived security risks of mobile payments:

    Only 23% believe that mobile payments are secure in keeping personal information safe.
    Nearly half (47%) say mobile payments are not secure.
    At 89%, cash was deemed the most secure payment method, but only 9% prefer to use it.

“Mobile payments represent the latest frontier for the choice we make to balance security and privacy risk and convenience,” said John Pironti, risk advisor with ISACA and pr ... Read more »

RESTON, Va. - Thursday, September 24th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Global satellite solutions provider SES Government Solutions (SES GS) will support the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) on the ground as well as in space. On 31 August 2015, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems announced its selection of SES GS to build two GEO Uplink Subsystem stations to support the next generation of the WAAS network. The data transmitted by the uplink stations will improve the accuracy, integrity and availability of the GPS signals intended to enable aircraft to rely on GPS for all phases of flight, including precision approaches to airports within the coverage area.

“SES GS is proud to expand our partnership with Raytheon and the FAA beyond the SES-15 hosted payload to include development, delivery and operations of the ground uplink stations,” said Corporate Vice President of Development, Tim Deaver.

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BOUDRY, Switzerland - Friday, September 25th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

    Anticipated approval could provide new option for population with limited treatments
    Expanded indication brings medicine to elderly AML patients who are not eligible for haematopoietic stem cell transplantation and who have >30% myeloblasts in their bone marrow

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Celgene International Sàrl, a wholly owned subsidiary of Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG) today announced that that the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive opinion for an expanded indication of VIDAZA® (azacitidine for injection) for the treatment of adult patients aged 65 years or older with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) who are not eligible for haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). The expanded indication now covers patients who have >30% myeloblasts according to the WHO classificatio ... Read more »