International celebrity & UNICEF ambassador, Emma Bunton, joins Pampers & UNICEF to reflect on the 10 year-long partnership that has helped protect the lives of millions of women & their babies

NEW YORK - Thursday, October 1st 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- An estimated 500,000 newborn lives have been saved and 100 million women and their newborns protected from the deadly disease, maternal and newborn tetanus, thanks to a ten-year long partnership between Pampers® and UNICEF that helped achieve this milestone.

The partners marked the tenth anniversary of their work today by celebrating the contributions of their joint effort that has helped in the elimination of maternal and newborn tetanus in 17 countries, with the success of the ‘1 Pack = 1 Vaccine’ initiative.

Long-standing spokesperson for the 1 Pack = 1 Vaccine campaign, Emma Bunton, united with Pampers & UNICEF during a global summit in New York to celebrat ... Read more »

TOKYO - Thursday, October 1st 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) Group today announced that it has entered into a premium partnership with SAP to provide infrastructure services for SAP HANA® Enterprise Cloud. SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is a private, secure cloud fully managed by SAP and supported by global partners, and is offered for companies that run mission-critical applications in the cloud.

SAP plans to use the NTT/Dimension Data Cloud Platform, NTT DATA’s broad range of comprehensive managed services using SAP® applications, and NTT Communications’ premium-grade IT infrastructure services. The initial focus is on South Africa and the Asia Pacific region with the goal to expand availability of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud globally.

With this agreement, NTT becomes one of the select few partners delivering cloud infrastructure for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud.

In May this year, Dime ... Read more »

Seacrest to back experienced management team led by Ola Borten Moe, former Norway Minister for Petroleum and Energy and Erik Haugane, Former CEO of Det norske oljeselskap

HAMILTON, Bermuda - Thursday, October 1st 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Global investment firm Seacrest Capital Group (“Seacrest”) today announced that they have partnered with OKEA AS, a new oil and gas development and production company that is headquartered in Trondheim, Norway. OKEA will focus on developing discovered oil and gas fields on the Norwegian continental shelf to create a material development and production focussed Norwegian oil and gas company. Seacrest will initially invest up to $200m in OKEA.

OKEA is led by Erik Haugane, an industry veteran, who has more than 30 years’ experience in the sector, and Ola Borten Moe, the former Norway Minister for Petroleum and Energy. OKEA’s management team also includes Anton Tronstad and Knut Evensen, who ha ... Read more »

RICHARDSON, Texas - Wednesday, September 30th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Taqua®, LLC, a leading supplier of mobile and fixed communications solutions, announced today that Interop Technologies has placed a follow-on order for Taqua’s Virtual Mobile Core and Mobile Client to enable the expansion of their Voice over WiFi (VoWiFi) and Voice over LTE (VoLTE) service offerings in Europe.

Interop Technologies enables telecommunications service providers of all sizes to launch new virtualized IP communication services via the private Interop Cloud™, which utilizes the latest in network function virtualization (NFV) technology. By incorporating Taqua’s Virtual Mobile Core and Mobile Client into its CorePlusXSM solution, Interop enables its customers to quickly launch in demand IP services like VoWiFi and VoLTE.

“WiFi calling from Interop’s CorePlusXSM is allowing operators to offer advanced voice services today, while provi ... Read more »