Visa, the Official Payment Service Partner of FIFA, releases travel and spend data timed with the Final Draw for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™

SAN FRANCISCO -Thursday, November 30th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- In celebration of the Final Draw for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™, Visa (NYSE: V), the Official Payment Service Partner of FIFA, released travel and spending data for the 2018 FIFA World Cup™. Throughout official FIFA venues, Visa will enable a cash-free fan experience by implementing point-of-sale terminals that accept a Visa credit or debit card and a range of digital payments, such as those made via phone or watch.

These enhancements ensure official FIFA venues are equipped with the latest in payment innovation and are ready for the increase in expected international visitors to Russia. Based on spending trends and insights from Visa, it is projected that Russia will host an additional 300,000 to ... Read more »

 Hyper-converged Secondary Storage for Backup is ‘Clear Winner’ in Category

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Wednesday, November 29th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ExaGrid®, a leading provider of hyper-converged secondary storage (HCSS) for backup with data deduplication, today announced that its EX series of appliances has been honored by SVC with its 2017 Hyper-converged Backup and Recovery Product of the Year award. Winners were announced at the SVC Awards Gala Ceremony on November 23 in London, UK.

The SVC Awards recognize the products, projects and services – as well as honor companies and teams – operating with excellence in the cloud, virtualization, and storage sectors. The SVC Awards also recognize the achievements of end users, channel partners, and vendors.

The ExaGrid EX series of appliances is a hyper-converged secondary storage system for backup that revolutionizes how organizations back up and p ... Read more »

2018 Edition Expected to Attract More Than 60,000 Attendees, 600 Participating Companies

HONG KONG-Wednesday, November 29th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The GSMA today announced the first details of the 2018 GSMA Mobile World Congress Shanghai, including confirmed exhibitors and sponsors, as well as a range of programmes and activities taking place at the annual mobile industry event. Under the theme “Discover a Better Future”, Mobile World Congress Shanghai will be held 27 – 29 June 2018 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC). The GSMA expects that more than 60,000 professionals from across the mobile ecosystem and adjacent industries will gather for the 2018 event.

“Today, mobile connects more than two-thirds of the world's population. It revolutionises industries and improves our lives, creating exciting new opportunities in our global communities, while providing lifelines of hope and redu ... Read more »

Accredited Analyst Firm Ranks ExaGrid in the Top Category in 2018 Buyer’s Guide

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. -Friday, December 1st 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ExaGrid®, a leading provider of hyper-converged secondary storage (HCSS) for backup with data deduplication, today announced that independent analyst firm DCIG once again ranked the ExaGrid disk-based backup appliance in the top category of “Recommended” in its recently published 2018 Deduplication Backup Target Appliance Buyer’s Guide. This body of research assists organizations in matching their business and technical requirements for disk-based backup to best available products.

“This is the fourth consecutive year that ExaGrid has earned top-most positions in the DCIG Buyer’s Guides, which continues to validate the power of our differentiated product architecture and the speed and reliability it delivers,” said Bill Andrews, CEO of ExaGrid. &ldquo ... Read more »

Accredited Analyst Firm Ranks ExaGrid in the Top Category in 2018 Buyer’s Guide

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. -Friday, December 1st 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ExaGrid®, a leading provider of hyper-converged secondary storage (HCSS) for backup with data deduplication, today announced that independent analyst firm DCIG once again ranked the ExaGrid disk-based backup appliance in the top category of “Recommended” in its recently published 2018 Deduplication Backup Target Appliance Buyer’s Guide. This body of research assists organizations in matching their business and technical requirements for disk-based backup to best available products.

“This is the fourth consecutive year that ExaGrid has earned top-most positions in the DCIG Buyer’s Guides, which continues to validate the power of our differentiated product architecture and the speed and reliability it delivers,” said Bill Andrews, CEO of ExaGrid. &ldquo ... Read more »

NEW YORK -Thursday, November 30th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

    The Tunisian organization was selected among over 1,300 grassroots organizations that applied for the prestigious Intercultural Innovation Award, a partnership between the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and the BMW Group.
    The Intercultural Innovation Award Ceremony was held in New York at United Nations headquarters, in the presence of ambassadors and high-level UN officials.

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Young Leaders Entrepreneurs and their “Unleash Tunisia Venture Bus” initiative is one of the ten global grassroots organizations receiving the 2017 Intercultural Innovation Award bestowed by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the BMW Group.

The Intercultural Innovation Award Ceremony, held this year for the first time at United Nations headquarters in New York, was chaired by Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, High Representative for ... Read more »

HOUSTON -Thursday, November 30th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Schlumberger Limited (NYSE:SLB) will hold a conference call on January 19, 2018 to discuss the results for the fourth quarter and full year ending December 31, 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 webcast. Following the end of the conference call, ... Read more »

SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia -Thursday, November 30th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Russian biotechnology company BIOCAD and Moroccan pharmaceutical company Sothema Labs announced the launch of medicines derived using the technology provided by the Russian manufacturer into the North African market. The manufacturing of Russian biosimilars of rituximab and bevacizumab indicated for the treatment of cancer, approved in the first half of October 2017, will be based in Morocco. Besides Morocco, thеse biosimilars are planned to be marketed in Senegal, Gabon, and Côte d’Ivoire.

The Russian company BIOCAD developed the biosimilars of bevacizumab and rituximab, which are used in treatment of oncological diseases and are highly demanded both in developed and in developing countries. The original drug is 30% more expensive than the BIOCAD's biosimilar.

“The efforts of our company combined with the eager enthusiasm of our Moroccan colleagues in tran ... Read more »

 Results of more than fifty major Communication Service Providers (CSPs) surveyed around the world

RICHARDSON, Texas -Thursday, November 30th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Mavenir, focused on accelerating software network transformation and redefining mobile network economics for Communications Service Providers, announces the results of a new global 5G Operator Survey. The survey, just completed by Heavy Reading in November 2017, unveils important new findings regarding the 5G development and deployment plans of more than fifty major Communication Service Providers (CSPs) around the world.

Among the highlights, CSPs overwhelmingly—94% combined—responded that they intended to deploy Cloud RAN architectures in their 5G networks either partially or in their entirety. As Gabriel Brown, Principal Analyst at Heavy Reading, points out, “Our survey shows strong support for Cloud RAN as the 5G deployment architecture. The response indic ... Read more »

NEW YORK -Friday, December 1st 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

    The organization, awarded for the initiative “Safarni” promoting diversity through simulated travel adventures, was selected among over 1,300 grassroots organizations that applied for the prestigious Intercultural Innovation Award, a partnership between the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the BMW Group.
    The Intercultural Innovation Award Ceremony was held in New York at United Nations headquarters, in the presence of ambassadors and high-level UN officials.

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Egyptian organization Etijah received 2nd place at the 2017 Intercultural Innovation Award Ceremony for their "Safarni” initiative.

The ceremony was held this year for the first time at UN headquarters in New York and chaired by Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, and Mr. Bill McAndrews, Vice Pres ... Read more »

SAN FRANCISCO -Friday, December 1st 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Andersen Global continues its expansion in Switzerland as the Partners and professionals at Reviglobal SA join the existing Andersen Tax team in Lugano, effective January 1, 2018. Andersen Tax in Lugano has been a member firm of Andersen Global since 2014 when it joined under the name MDR Advisory Group and later adopted the Andersen name.

Tiziano Ballinari is the Founder and Managing Partner of Reviglobal and joins Andersen Tax as a lead Partner, adding to the five Partners already on the team. He specializes in corporate and tax consulting and provides advice on corporate matters at a national and international level. Tiziano’s experience includes involvement in the restructuring of companies domestically as well as start-ups in Switzerland and abroad.

“We already have a very familiar working relationship with Tiziano and the rest of his team, and I am excited to become ev ... Read more »

 Comnet is the first customer in Latin America to use SES Networks Enterprise+ Broadband to seamlessly deliver reliable broadband services 

LUXEMBOURG -Thursday, November 30th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Comnet, one of Guatemala’s leading service providers, is the first to tap into the newly-launched SES Networks Enterprise+ Broadband for Latin America to enable the delivery of Quantum, a high-performance next-generation broadband service, to its end customers spanning the agricultural, tourism and mining industries.

SES announced today that in the multi-year contract Comnet will utilise the carrier-class managed services platform on the SES-10 satellite to extend reliable connectivity to underserved communities.

The turnkey broadband multi-tenant platform is underpinned by SES’s comprehensive and high-performance fleet coverage over Latin America, an extensive global teleport infrastructure, and iDirect’s ground ... Read more »

The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan (METI) host two events in Dubai to promote mutual understanding between UAE and Japan on judicial affairs and operations relating to IP infringement and counterfeiting

Dubai, United Arab Emirates.-Wednesday, November 29th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan (METI) held two events to discuss the development of appropriate collaborative measures for tackling IP infringement and counterfeiting in the region.  

IP Judicial Workshop – 26 November 2017

The first event aim to promote mutual understanding of judicial system protocol and operations between the UAE and Japan. The workshop emphasised the importance of IP, and was attended by a broad selection of court judges, prosecutors, government officials and lawyers from the two countries, inclu ... Read more »

Dual-mission satellite will enable SES to accelerate delivery of HD and
UHD channels using C-band capacity across the US, while Ku-band payload will serve EchoStar’s enterprise, media and broadcast customers

LUXEMBOURG & ENGLEWOOD, Colorado-Wednesday, November 29th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The EchoStar 105/SES-11 satellite has been successfully positioned at the 105 degrees West orbital location and is now fully operational and able to serve the video and enterprise markets in the US.

The dual-mission satellite, providing SES with a C-band payload of 24 transponders of 36 MHz, marketed under the name SES-11, and providing EchoStar with 24 Ku-band transponders of 36 MHz, marketed as EchoStar 105, was launched into space on 11 October 2017 at 6:53 PM EDT. Since then, extensive in-orbit tests have confirmed the flawless functioning of the spacecraft.

This is the second time SES has launched on a flight-proven F ... Read more »