NEW YORK -Tuesday, December 5th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- 21st Century Fox (NASDAQ: FOXA, FOX) today announced that it has elevated Star India Chairman and CEO Uday Shankar to President, 21st Century Fox, Asia, effective immediately.

In his new role, Mr. Shankar will lead 21st Century Fox’s (21CF) video businesses across all of Asia, including Star India and Fox Networks Group, and work closely with 21CF leadership on key strategic initiatives in the region. He will continue to serve as Chairman and CEO for Star India, a key driver of 21CF’s growth and one of India’s largest media and entertainment companies, comprising 60-plus channels across entertainment and sports and eight languages, as well as leading digital video platform Hotstar.

21st Century Fox Executive Chairman Lachlan Murdoch and CEO James Murdoch commented:

“Uday’s new role will enhance our strategic focus across all of Asia and enable us to fur ... Read more »

PARIS & NEW YORK-Friday, December 8th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- L’Officiel (owned by Jalou Media Group) and GEM Group (New York) are pleased to announce the launch of the L’Officiel Fund, a US $ 50 million investment fund which aims to promote emerging brands and develop their engagement with luxury lifestyle consumers.

The launch of the L’Officiel Fund is the second phase of a partnership which began in October of this year when Jalou Media Group and GEM Group joined together to launch L’Officiel USA Inc, encompassing both a digital platform, lofficielusa.com—which went live in late October—and L’Officiel USA, a bi-monthly print edition which will be on newsstands beginning in March of 2018.

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Defense system upgraded to protect enterprises from the next evolution of DDoS and application attacks

STERLING, Va.-Friday, December 8th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Neustar, Inc., a trusted, neutral provider of real-time information services, today launched SiteProtect NG™ (Next Generation), its new solution to protect brands against DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks.

It is the latest wave of the company’s purpose-built DDoS mitigation solution designed to meet the security requirements of all brands, on-premise and in the cloud, to deal with the next generation of cyber threats. This powerful upgrade adds Neustar’s state of the art WAF (web application firewall) solution to the award-winning Neustar SiteProtect solution to extend network protection to the application layer. A new real-time user interface provides consolidated in-depth trend analysis and gives brands unprecedented access to attack forensi ... Read more »

PARIS-Friday, December 1st 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Be-Bound and ethicPhone today announced a partnership to make international transfers available to everyone across the Ivory Coast. ethicPhone, awarded the Digital Africa prize, has developed a system for international mobile payments and transfers dedicated to African countries, and is integrating Be-Bound’s technology to expand their reach.

French startup Be-Bound, specializing in augmented connectivity for mobile services, has developed a solution that guarantees connectivity wherever there is a mobile network. For ethicPhone, this means that international transfers can be made instantly via their mobile app, even for users in the most rural areas. By integrating Be-Bound’s SDK, ethicPhone will be the first international mobile payment operator to enable Ivorians to receive international transfers anywhere across the country, including areas typically out of range, accessible even to user ... Read more »

COLOMBES, France-Friday, December 8th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- IDEMIA, the global leader in trusted identities for an increasingly digital world, today announces its partnership with FlexiGroup, Australia’s market leader in Point of Sale consumer and commercial finance to launch Australia’s first MOTION CODETM credit card.

Developed by IDEMIA (formerly known as OT-Morpho), the MOTION CODETM credit card1 is a high-tech payment card with a dynamic security code (CVV2) that automatically changes hourly. Instead of a static security codeprinted on the back of a bank card, the MOTION CODETM CVV2 is displayed on an e-paper “mini-screen”. The security code automatically refreshes to a random security code every hour. This solution has no impact on the cardholder journey for safer online transactions: if compromised, this dynamic data becomes rapidly unusable.

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