HONG KONG-Friday, May 26th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

    Good progress with new three-wave strategy in a year of transformation
    New end-to-end ownership model to help manage each business differently
    Fourth-Quarter revenue was US$9.6 billion; Full-Year revenue was US$43 billion
    Fourth-Quarter net income was US$107 million; Full-Year net income was US$535 million
    Full-year basic earnings per share of 4.86 US cents, or 37.71 HK cents

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Lenovo Group today announced results for its fourth fiscal quarter and full-year ended March 31, 2017. In what was a year of significant transformation, Lenovo made good progress in implementing and executing its new “three-wave strategy,” designed to meet the critical business challenges of today, while positioning the Company for continued long-term profitable growth.

As part of Lenovo’ ... Read more »

LONDON -Thursday, May 25th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Providing another example of its innovative solutions within a developing LNG market, Koch Supply & Trading (KS&T) today announced the completion of the first of multiple and regular ship-to-ship (STS) LNG transfers with private Chinese company JOVO and Malaysian ship owner MISC. The agreement is the first of its kind for KS&T, JOVO and MISC and is the first LNG STS transfer in the Philippines.

With LNG STS transfers traditionally serving more of an operational role, this project represents a key commercial milestone as a recurring STS transfer demonstrates the commercial potential of such activities. Such operations open new markets for exporters and provide new supply sources to those with LNG requirements. In this example, the mother vessel loads cargo from Australia before transferring it to a smaller daughter vessel at Subic Bay in the Philippines. The operation is caref ... Read more »

 Blake Moret shares insights on IoT and Industrial Productivity at Cisco’s 2017 Internet of Things World Forum

LONDON -Thursday, May 25th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Blake Moret, president and CEO of Rockwell Automation, spoke on Internet of Things (IoT) adoption and its impact on industrial productivity, sharing insights with more than 1,200 business leaders at Cisco’s IoT World Forum in London today. As the industry’s only company solely dedicated to industrial automation and information, Rockwell Automation is uniquely positioned to understand the challenges and opportunities associated with harnessing the future of smart manufacturing.

As Moret described, the positive outcomes associated with IoT will continue to accelerate as organizations progress from pilot or proof-of-concept IoT projects to scalable IoT deployments. According to the Global IoT Decision Maker Survey published by International Data Corpo ... Read more »

Schlumberger Announces Second-Quarter 2017 Results Conference Call

PARIS-Wednesday, May 24th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Schlumberger Limited (NYSE:SLB) will hold a conference call on July 21, 2017 to discuss the results for the second quarter ending June 30, 2017.
The conference call is scheduled to begin at 8:30 am US Eastern time and a press release regarding the results will be issued at 7:00 am US Eastern time.
To access the conference call, listeners should contact the Conference Call Operator at +1 (800) 288-8967 within North America or +1 (612) 333-4911 outside of North America approximately 10 minutes prior to the start of the call, and ask for the “Schlumberger Earnings Conference Call.”
A webcast of the conference call will be broadcast simultaneously at www.slb.com/irwebcast on a listen-only basis. Listeners should log in 15 minutes prior to the start of the call to test their browsers and register for the web ... Read more »

LAUSANNE, Switzerland -Thursday, May 25th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- On May 24, 2017, the US FDA published the executive summary and research summaries supporting Philip Morris International Inc.’s (PMI) (NYSE/Euronext Paris: PM) Modified Risk Tobacco Product (MRTP) application for the company’s EHTP. In doing so, the agency announced that it will publish a notice in the Federal Register establishing a formal docket for public comments on PMI’s application at a later date.

PMI submitted the application to the FDA on December 5, 2016.

Publication of PMI’s summaries initiates a substantive scientific review process by the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products.

The FDA has made PMI’s application summaries publicly available here. The agency will publish additional modules of PMI’s MRTP application on a rolling basis. The FDA has established a one-year timetable for reviewing MRTP applicatio ... Read more »

Smartphone-integrated blood pressure measuring device could help prevent millions of unnecessary deaths across subcontinent

LAUSANNE, Switzerland-Tuesday, May 23rd 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Leman Micro Devices (LMD), the developer of regulated consumer healthcare products that is backed by major players within the mobile device industry, has announced that its V-Sensor and app - the only smartphone-integrated solution that measures blood pressure and other vital signs with medical accuracy – will satisfy new requirements imposed by changes in laws governing the use of medical devices in India, and will therefore be suitable for use in the Indian market. This is significant since leading Indian healthcare professionals have predicted a hypertension epidemic in the near future.
In an interview in the Times of India, senior surgeon Dr Ramakanta Panda explained that estimates of hypertension range from 20-40% in urban populations and 12-17% in rura ... Read more »

BRUCHSAL, Germany-Monday, May 22nd 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CYNORA, a leader in TADF (thermally activated delayed fluorescence) materials for OLEDs, has reached new performance records with its newest blue emitter material. With the current performance, the company is getting close to commercialization of its first product by the end of 2017.
Despite urgent requests by the OLED display panel makers for a high-efficiency blue emitter material in the last few years, no material supplier has yet been able to produce such a material. High-efficiency blue emitters are needed to reduce power consumption and increase the display resolution further. At SID 2017, CYNORA will now present a blue emitter with a performance that is very close to the requirements of the panel makers. Using TADF technology, the company has achieved 15% EQE at 1000 cd/m² with an emission peak at < 470 nm and a LT97 of > 90 hours (at 700 cd/m²) on a device level.
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