SES subsidiary, MX1, provides managed playout services for 7 channels and access to Europe’s strongest video neighbourhood for Discovery Deutschland’s new channel TLC Austria

LUXEMBOURG-Tuesday 5 February 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- SES announced today that Discovery Deutschland, a TV and Digital Media broadcast station based in Germany, has extended its partnership with MX1, SES’s global provider of media services and solutions.

Under the terms of the extension, MX1 will continue to fully manage playout and media asset management tasks for Discovery Deutschland’s SD and HD channels. The channels include TLC, DMAX, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, and Shop 300 in Germany, as well as DMAX Austria in SD in Austria. Additionally, the new channel TLC Austria has been distributed over SES’s ASTRA 1N satellite since 1 January 2019 at its prime orbital location of 19.2° East, reaching over 118 million TV homes across Eur ... Read more »

 New generation direct cDNA and PCR-cDNA 109 Kits provide full-length cDNA transcripts at high yields.

OXFORD, England-Monday 4 February 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Oxford Nanopore has launched new ‘109’ cDNA Kits for its real-time, scalable sequencing technology. The new kits provide high throughput whilst generating complete sequences of full-length cDNA strands, with a low input option of just 1ng PolyA+ RNA.

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The new cDNA sequencing method enables users to sequence whole transcriptomes to high coverage on a single MinION flow cell (10-15 million reads x full length transcripts), with substantially higher throughput capabilities on PromethION (more than 60 million reads x full length transcripts per flow cell), or smaller, rapid assays on Flongle. This facilitates new biological insights across a d ... Read more »

A2Z Tax & Legal to become Andersen Tax & Legal

SAN FRANCISCO-Thursday 31 January 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Andersen Global strengthens its growing presence in Eastern Europe with the news that A2Z Tax & Legal will adopt the name Andersen Tax & Legal and will become a full member firm of the international organization. Andersen Global has a presence in nearly 20 European countries through its member firms and collaborating firms.

A2Z Tax & Legal, headquartered in Warsaw, is comprised of over 20 employees and five Partners, and has provided tax, legal, transfer pricing, consultancy services, including VAT consultancy, due diligence, customs consultancy, mergers & acquisitions, labor law, administrative law and valuation. The partners at A2Z Tax & Legal have worked with Andersen Global for years and the firm signed a Collaboration Agreement last spring.

“Several A2Z Tax & Legal Partners and I began our c ... Read more »

 This spring, Five Colors Technologies will hold a prize-money game tournament for the whole world!

TOKYO-Monday 4 February 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Five Colors Technologies Limited (Headquarters: Hong Kong, CEO: Eugene.K) has announced that "Five Colors Coin (FCC)", a new cryptocurrency to become e-sports money, will be listed on CoinBene and IEO will be carried out on Thursday, January 31.

And this spring, the game tournament with prize money will be held for the whole world.

Five Colors Group (https://casual-esports.net/) began developing online games in 2012 and will develop e-sports platform for casual games where all smartphone users can easily participate. The developed games are the world’s first skill games for the smartphones that are certified by GLI which is the certification body of software for online gaming; therefore, the games are fair and safe for users.

The biggest feature of our software i ... Read more »

WILSONVILLE, Ore. -Thursday 31 January 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) announced today it has received a delivery order for 24 U.S. Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Dismounted Reconnaissance Sets, Kits, and Outfits (CBRN DR-SKO) systems. The delivery order is under a five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Department of Defense, in support of the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (JPEO-CBRND) DR-SKO Program of Record. The order is valued at $27.9 million, with deliveries extending through the third quarter of 2019.

The CBRN DR-SKO system is a set of mission specific kits that characterize and provide full spectrum CBRN dismounted reconnaissance capability utilized by the U.S. Military Joint Services, including units within the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and National Guard Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Su ... Read more »

•    Conference discusses key themes and hosts visits of His Holiness Pope Francis, Head of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of the Vatican City State, and His Eminence Dr Ahmed El-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al Azhar Al Sharif, to UAE 

• Al Remeithi: Gathering reflects importance of promoting a global culture of peace and reinforcing the key concept of citizenship

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates-Monday 4 February 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

The ‘Global Conference of Human Fraternity’  opened with a welcome from HE Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, the UAE’s Minister of Tolerance, to an event that “encourages compassion, respect and understanding among different communities, cultures and religions”, and a call to “counter extremism, prejudice, hate, aggression, greed, and oppression that violate the very idea of human fraternity.”

Taking place under the patronage of His Highness She ... Read more »

• Document On Human Fraternity Signed in UAE

• Agreement To Help Bring an End to Conflicts and Fight Extremism

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates-Monday 4 February 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

His Holiness Pope Francis and His Eminence the Grand Imam of Al Azhar Dr. Ahmed At-Tayyeb have signed the historic Abu Dhabi Declaration – a document on Human Fraternity in the United Arab Emirates.

The “Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together” seeks to encourage stronger relationships between people to promote coexistence among peoples and to confront extremism and its negative impacts.

The signing ceremony was in the presence of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces and attended by more than 400 religious leaders. ... Read more »