Dubai, United Arab Emirates -Monday, April 30th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

Under the patronage of Her Excellency Dr. Ghada Hinain, President, the American university of Technology (AUT) and Cambridge Assessment English signed a strategic partnership with Cambridge Assessment English to recognize Cambridge English C1 Advanced qualifications.

This step will allow students of the American University of Technology to gain prestigious Cambridge English certifications. The C1 Advanced level qualification is a valid for life high level qualification recognized by universities, employers and government bodies in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zeeland and other English-speaking countries. The qualification will allow students to pursue higher education opportunities in these countries, in addition to being able to enhance their employability globally.

"We are very pleased to sign this agreement, which has positive impact on both sides of the partnership," said ... Read more »

The prestigious community recognizes the company’s contribution to open source

HANGZHOU, China-Thursday, April 26th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, has won the 2018 MySQL Community Awards: Corporate Contributor, which recognizes its contribution to the MySQL ecosystem, the world’s most popular open source database. The award, presented earlier this week at the Percona Live conference held in Santa Clara, California, is another accolade for the global cloud services provider.

The award recognized Alibaba Cloud’s contributions to the open source communities and its efforts to empower developers around the world in recent years. Today, more than one hundred thousand MySQL instances are running on ApsaraDB for RDS, Alibaba Cloud’s relational database services.

This is the second time Alibaba has received the coveted award from the MySQL community. In 2015, Alibab ... Read more »

 Sharjah Ruler’s donation to a Malaysian charity to continue supporting displaced communities

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates-Sunday, April 29th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- A donation of USD 1 million has been given to strengthen the educational infrastructure for refugee and internally displaced children in Asia, Middle East and North Africa, at a time when according to UNHCR statistics, children represent about half of the displaced population globally.

His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the United Arab Emirates Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah has extended the generous donation to a Malaysian Charity – Children for Dignity Foundation – to boost the delivery of the educational and support services they have been offering these marginalised communities in Asia and the MENA region for 20 years.

The foundation, which has managed to educate over 7,000 undocumented students and currently su ... Read more »

Company enables “Innovation by Extension” with launch of new mobility, analytics and security add-on solutions

LAS VEGAS-Wednesday, April 25th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a global provider of enterprise software products and services, and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products, today announced the first offerings in a family of solutions designed to provide improved competitive advantage to organizations with mature and valuable enterprise software investments that can be used as a foundation for innovation. Rimini Street’s new solutions can enable an organization to quickly and cost-effectively modernize their current enterprise software with the latest desired features and capabilities, future-proof their technical platforms against yet-unknown technology changes, and secure their systems against a constantly evolving threat environment. Rimini Street’s new ... Read more »

Landmark milestone for Westinghouse technology

SANMEN, China -Thursday, April 26th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Westinghouse Electric Company, China State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (SNPTC) and CNNC Sanmen Nuclear Power Company Limited (SMNPC) announced today that the world’s first unit of AP1000 nuclear power plant located in Sanmen, Zhejiang Province, China, has received the fuel load permit from China’s National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) and has commenced initial fuel loading.

“Today we have reached a tremendous milestone for Westinghouse and our AP1000 plant technology,” said José Emeterio Gutiérrez, Westinghouse president and chief executive officer. “This is the next major step in delivering the world’s first AP1000 plant to our customer and demonstrating the benefits of our advanced passive safety technology to the world.”

Sanmen Unit 1 has successfully completed all ... Read more »

 More than 600 residents, visitors and retailers participated in the two-day community event, designed to promote human engagement and social well-being

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates-Sunday, April 29th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

Al Zahia, Sharjah’s premier lifestyle destination, celebrated spring with its first annual ‘Open market’ event, held at the community’s Trees Park. Designed to foster human engagement and social well-being, the ‘Open Market’ in Al Zahia was attended by over 600 residents, visitors and retailers.

During the two-day event, residents and visitors enjoyed savoury food items offered by local food trucks, live entertainment, and a host of children’s outdoor activities including face painting, arts and crafts, sports and entertainment.

“One of our key goals in Al Zahia is to foster human engagement in the community by offering fun, interactive family-friendly events that cement our footpr ... Read more »