ATLANTA-Thursday, December 14th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Arby’s Restaurant Group, Inc. (ARG) today announced a development agreement with Vantage Egypt for Tourism and Entertainment (Vantage Egypt) to build 50 new Arby’s restaurants in Egypt. The new restaurants will begin to open in 2018.

Vantage Egypt has more than a decade of experience owning and operating several restaurant concepts and international brands throughout Egypt.

“We are excited to welcome Vantage Egypt in to the Arby’s family and look forward to working with them,” said Paul Brown, Chief Executive Officer of ARG. “They are experienced restaurant operators who will do a fantastic job expanding our brand throughout Egypt.”

“I am very happy about working with a great, successful brand like Arby’s,” said Mohamed Halawa, Owner of Vantage Egypt. “We are very determined to make Arby’s one of the most succes ... Read more »

New Senior Vice President to lead charge for sustained operational performance

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-Thursday, December 14th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CTS Engines, the global leader for mature jet engine maintenance, announced today that it had hired Diane E. Cavuoto as Senior Vice President, Supply Chain, in an effort to continue to provide its customers with outstanding engine overhaul services. Ms. Cavuoto will be based in CTS’s Ft. Lauderdale headquarters and will report directly to Vesa Paukkeri, CTS’s President and Chief Operating Officer.

Ms. Cavuoto, most recently Vice President, Strategic Sourcing at Honeywell International, brings years of supply chain management experience to CTS. In her prior role at Honeywell, Ms. Cavuoto managed a global commodity team of 150 employees managing $4 billion of direct material spend, and reported directly to Honeywell’s Chief Procurement Officer. She holds a Mechanical Engineeri ... Read more »

 – Data will be Featured in the Plenary Scientific Session on December 10, 2017 with Simultaneous Publication in the New England Journal of Medicine –

– Randomized Phase 3 Clinical Trial with ADCETRIS Met Primary Endpoint, Demonstrating a Statistically Significant Improvement in Modified Progression-Free Survival –

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & OSAKA, Japan & BOTHELL, Wash.-Thursday, December 14th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE:4502) and Seattle Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SGEN) today announced that data from the Phase 3 ECHELON-1 clinical trial evaluating ADCETRIS (brentuximab vedotin) as part of a frontline combination chemotherapy regimen in untreated advanced classical Hodgkin lymphoma will be presented in the Plenary Scientific Session at the 59th American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting on Sunday, December 10, 2017. The data were also simultaneously published onlin ... Read more »

 Masterpieces reflect values of coexistence

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates-Thursday, December 14th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

A high-level delegation of dignitaries, scholars and intellectuals participating in the fourth annual Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies, visited the Louvre Abu Dhabi museum. The delegation was headed by H.E Mustafa Ceric, former Grand Mufti of Bosnia; alongside Sheikh Mohammad Mukhtar Ould Imbala, Head of Mauritania's Fatwa & Grievances Supreme Council; H.E Amar Mirghani Hussein, Sudanese Minister of (religious) Guidance and Endowments; and H.E Salho Jay, Imam of the Juma Masjid in South Africa. The Forum was held in Abu Dhabi from 11-13 December 2017, with the participation of more than 700 scholars, intellectuals and religious dignitaries from around the world.  

The delegation toured the museum’s various sections, especially the Gallery of Universal Religions, which displays works that re ... Read more »

PERTUIS, France-Thursday, December 14th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- In 2030, 1 person out of 2 will live in arid zone (UN) because of climate change and demographic growth. Water is, from far, the most used raw material in the World with nearly 5000 liters necessary per day and per capita. Water is also the most wasted raw material with only 0.4% of reuse and 4% of treatment before discharge in the environment.

The model of water use prevailing in arid zone is the one which was developed in countries where water is abundant. This model privileges unique use and mix of all wastewater in one sewer, whatever their level of pollution, then their treatment before discharge in aquatic environments.

Facing these issues, Helio Pur Technologies (HPT), an innovative environmental engineering company offers new solutions to save water, energy and reactants necessary to wastewater treatments in industrial, agricultural companies or in residential sector.

LONDON, United Kingdom-Thursday, December 14th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

Charging time and safety enhanced by Dialog's SmartDefender(TM) and other advanced charging technologies

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Dialog Semiconductor plc (XETRA: DLG), a provider of highly integrated power management, AC/DC power conversion, and low power connectivity technology, today announced that Dialog's RapidCharge(TM) chipset enabling the SuperCharge protocol was selected for the new HUAWEI Mate 10, HUAWEI Mate 10 Pro and Porsche Design HUAWEI Mate 10 smartphone adapters. As fast charging smartphone adoption accelerates, this represents another significant milestone in the company's AC/DC power conversion leadership as Dialog continues to maintain a market share above 60%.

HUAWEI recently launched their impressive Mate 10 series with breakthrough AI devices that combine innovative hardware and software. The Kirin 970 chipset and EMUI 8.0 is the world's first AI processor for s ... Read more »

SAN FRANCISCO -Thursday, December 14th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Andersen Global is proud to announce an expanded presence in Germany as Thierhoff Müller & Partner, a tax and legal firm with offices in Leipzig and Frankfurt, combines its practice with Andersen Tax & Legal in Germany. Through its German member firms, Andersen Tax & Legal and Alegis Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH, Andersen Global now has more than 65 professionals focused on providing tax and legal services and business advice across five locations in Germany, including Cologne, Dusseldorf, and Merzig.

“Thierhoff Müller is highly regarded in complex restructuring matters. Together with our existing legal and tax practice, we will be able to increase our service offerings for our clients,” said Stefan Kraus, Managing Partner of Andersen Tax & Legal in Germany. “We are dedicated to providing outstanding service and are adding additional competencies in tax a ... Read more »

COLOMBES, France-Thursday, December 14th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- IDEMIA, the global leader in trusted identities for an increasingly digital world, announced WiZink, a bank that specializes in credit cards and simple savings solutions that respond to its customers’ day-to-day needs, has selected IDEMIA to roll out the Samsung Pay mobile payment service. IDEMIA has been producing WiZink cards since the bank launched its new brand in June 2016.

Backed by IDEMIA, WiZink cards can be digitalized and used with Samsung Pay for all users, while also benefiting from all innovative Samsung features and options that Samsung Pay users can access. With the novel and convenient payment method, users can add all loyalty memberships and vouchers to the same wallet under the same app. WiZink is in a position to give customers a seamless fully digital contactless payment experience.

The IDEMIA (formerly OT-Morpho) solution will allow WiZink to slash time t ... Read more »

 Netcracker's OSS Suite to Support GVA's Rapid Network Expansion, Market Growth and Service Diversity 

WALTHAM, Mass.-Thursday, December 14th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Netcracker Technology announced today that its OSS suite was selected and deployed to support the long-term growth strategy of Group Vivendi Africa (GVA). GVA is a newly formed affiliate of the French-based multinational conglomerate Vivendi with the goal to deploy and operate a fiber network across Africa. Netcracker's OSS will be used as a consolidated solution to identify service availability across GVA's operating countries and then fulfill and provision those services to customers.

Netcracker's highly productized, out-of-the-box applications enabled the OSS suite to be deployed in seven months, meeting GVA's demand to leverage an integrated service fulfillment and inventory solution that could satisfy its long-term growth expectations, as well ... Read more »