PARIS LA DÉFENSE -Tuesday 13 April 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

Thales has been awarded by NATO the delivery of Increment 2 for the NATO Common Operational Picture (NCOP) programme, which will provide joint forces under NATO command with enhanced situational awareness and decision support in the theatre.
Thales was selected for Increment 1 in 2012 and has now been chosen to upgrade the current version of the system, which has been in service at NATO command centres since 2015.
Through this contract, Thales will continue to help NATO enhance its mission coordination, planning and command capabilities by providing a unified, real-time representation of information from theatres of operations.
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- On 17 March 2021, NATO awarded to Thales the new increment to provide an operational situational awareness system that will give NATO commanders a shared picture of an area of interest or mission to enhance overall awareness of joint forces operations and suppor ... Read more »

Landmark’s iEnergy® Hybrid Cloud will support digital transformation for efficient and secure access to national data

HOUSTON-Tuesday 13 April 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL) today announced it signed an eight-year contract with the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) to deploy and operate Diskos, the Norwegian national repository of seismic, well, and production data for the oil and gas industry.

Halliburton Landmark will deliver Diskos 2.0 using DecisionSpace® 365 cloud services in iEnergy® – the industry’s first E&P hybrid cloud. The cloud native services are Open Subsurface Data Universe™ compliant and provide high quality data, security and governance so users can easily access, visualize, and interpret data from the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

The open architecture and scalability of the service enables workflows across the repository and operator systems on premise ... Read more »

ZURICH-Thursday 8 April 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ABB will launch on April 9, 2021 its previously announced follow-up share buyback program of up to $4.3 billion. Based on the current share price this represents a maximum of approximately 137 million shares. The maximum number of shares that may be repurchased under this new program on any given trading day is 1,543,644.

This follow-up program is part of ABB’s plan to return $7.8 billion of cash proceeds from the Power Grids divestment to shareholders and is consistent with the company’s capital structure optimization program. As announced previously, under the initial program ABB repurchased a total of 128,620,589 shares – equivalent to 5.93 percent of its issued share capital at the launch of the program – for a total amount of approximately $3.5 billion. ABB shareholders approved the cancellation of 115 million of these shares at ABB’s 2021 Annual General Meeting (AGM).

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. & TOKYO--Monday 12 April 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- C3 AI (NYSE: AI) and Yokogawa Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6841) (“Yokogawa”) today announced that Yokogawa has selected the C3 AI® Suite as a platform to enhance enterprise AI applications and complement its digital transformation solutions and services for industrial customers.

Yokogawa signed a multi-year agreement enabling the company and its wholly owned subsidiary, KBC, to deploy the C3 AI Suite with its advanced AI capabilities to their software portfolio. Yokogawa and KBC implement leading technology and best practices, turning strategy to results through technical and commercial excellence, underpinned by engineering simulation and analytics, and systematized through operational technology and digital services.

Yokogawa expects C3 AI to play a critical role in its AI-enabled offerings that deliver optimized productivity for clients, greater levels ... Read more »

'Stay at Home' Campaign from stc pay Wins Silver and Three Bronze Awards

Dubai, United Arab Emirates-Monday 12 April 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- stc pay, the leading digital wallet service in Saudi Arabia, won four awards at the MMA SMARTIES MENA 2020, taking home a silver for COVID-19 Campaign of the Year and a total of three bronze awards in the Mobile App, Lead Generation / Direct Response / Conversions and mCommerce categories. The stc pay 'Stay at Home' campaign was the only campaign the MMA SMARTIES MENA recognized in the mCommerce and COVID-19 App categories in 2020. stc pay was awarded in numerous categories for its ‘Stay at Home’ campaign, which was co-facilitated by UM MENA and InMobi, the world’s leading independent marketing cloud.

To drive adoption of stc pay’s mobile app beginning in March 2020, especially during Eid and Ramadan, stc pay and UM utilized a three-phased approach with InMobi optimiz ... Read more »