TOKYO-Thursday 8 July 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- SoftBank Group Corp. (“SBG”) today announced that Mark Kornblau will join SBG as Global Head of Communications, effective August 16. Mr. Kornblau joins SBG from the NBCUniversal News Group, where he is currently Executive Vice President of Communications.

Mr. Kornblau will be based in SoftBank's New York office and will report to Masayoshi Son, Representative Director, Corporate Officer, Chairman & CEO of SBG, and Marcelo Claure, Corporate Officer, Executive Vice President & COO of SBG and Chief Executive Officer of SoftBank Group International. In this role, Mr. Kornblau will be responsible for leading SBG's corporate communications strategy, directing the Company's external and internal global communications functions. He will also work with SBG's nearly 300 portfolio companies to foster alignment and value creation across the SoftBank Group ecosystem.

“Mar ... Read more »

Osteoarthritis affected chondrocytes’ senescence reversal, published in Scientific Reports

TOKYO-Thursday 8 July 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cartilage of the knee joint, when severely damaged by age related wear and tear or injury or osteoarthritis, which is removed and usually discarded, during joint replacement surgery, now could be rejuvenated, becoming a potential source of cells for cell therapy through a disruptive technology that reverses aging, confirmed by Senescence associated ß-Galactosidase, p16 and p21, markers, published in Scientific Reports (www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-93607-9), a Nature journal. A conversation between (Late) Prof. Masatoshi Koshiba, (Nobel Laureate, 2002) and Dr. Masahiro Katoh on whether his aging joints could be rejuvenated, inspired orthopedician Dr Shojiro Katoh to develop a path breaking EELS-TALC technique (Enriched with Essentials and Lapped in Scaffold, Transplant-suitable Autologous Leveraged Ch ... Read more »

Company announces launch of new program and brand as it crosses 50,000 patients treated

NATICK, Mass.-Tuesday 6 July 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Allurion Technologies announced today two major milestones with the launch of the transformed Allurion Weight Loss Program and new worldwide brand for the company and its program.

Allurion began commercial sales of its flagship Elipse® Gastric Balloon in 2016. Over the past five years, the company has treated over 50,000 patients across 40 countries. In that time, the company’s weight loss solution has evolved from a single device to a comprehensive program that combines medical, digital, and nutritional approaches to jumpstart weight loss and form lifelong healthy habits.

The new Allurion Program unveiled today features:

The Allurion® Balloon, rebranded to reflect its synergistic role with other features in the program

The Allurion® Virtual Care Suite, enab ... Read more »

Promotion of acting regional leader to support and capitalize on continued growing demand for third-party support solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific and help achieve the Company’s target of $1B in annual revenue by 2026 

LAS VEGAS-Thursday 8 July 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a global provider of enterprise software products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products and a Salesforce partner, today announced the promotion and appointment of Daniel Benad to group vice president and regional general manager, Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific (OCEANIA). In this role, Benad is responsible for the Company’s full business operations in the region, including sales, client success, service delivery and field marketing. Benad reports to Gerard Brossard, chief operating officer at Rimini Street, and replaces Emmanuelle Hose, wh ... Read more »

PARIS LA DÉFENSE-Wednesday 7 July 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

With health restrictions and regulations in place around the world, high-tech solutions from Thales (Artificial Intelligence, biometrics, etc.) offer airports, airlines and border officials opportunities to increase operational efficiency, protect passengers’ health and safety and improve the travel experience.

A temporary digital token is created for each passenger when they check in, from any location and well before they arrive at the airport, and is then used to authenticate the individual in less than a second, with or without a mask, at different points in the airport (check-in, bag drop-off, security, passport control and boarding).

The solution reduces passport control and boarding times by an average of 30%, easing congestion while improving airport security and enhancing the passenger experience.

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- As airports prepare for the busy summer period, they are facing a ne ... Read more »

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TOKYO-Thursday 8 July 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- With the Olympic Games just around the corner, Tokyo Governor Koike Yuriko sent a video message to the world's media inviting them to the Tokyo Media Center (TMC) provided by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. TMC offers services not only for members of the press coming to Tokyo but also those working from their home countries, a great opportunity to cover the Games and the City online no matter how far away. Registration is required for full use of member services. Do not miss the opportunity to receive regular full online updates about what’s happening in Tokyo during the Games!

 Find the video invitation form Koike Yuriko, the Governor of Tokyo at https://tokyo.mediacenter.jp/about/

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Access TMC’s registration page at https://tokyo.mediacenter.jp/?modal=register

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Cognitive Space will use AWS Cloud solutions to develop and operate its suite of AI-powered services for satellite mission operations, collection planning, and capacity forecasting.

HOUSTON -Thursday 8 July 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cognitive Space today announced it has been selected to participate in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Space Accelerator, a business support program for startups seeking to use AWS to help solve the biggest challenges in the space industry. This opportunity will support Cognitive Space efforts to revolutionize satellite operations by bringing the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to mission operations and collection planning. Cognitive Space provides New Space organizations with sophisticated tools for optimizing revenue and performance yield as their satellite constellations grow and scale.

New for 2021, the four-week AWS Space Accelerator curriculum provides hands-on AWS Cloud and technical t ... Read more »

Enriching Subsurface Digital Twins through Electromagnetic Remote Sensing for Water, Environmental, and Infrastructure Resilience

EXTON, Pa.-Thursday 8 July 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, today announced that its Seequent business unit has acquired Danish company Aarhus GeoSoftware, a developer of geophysical software. The acquisition extends Seequent’s solutions for operational ground water management, and for sustainability projects involving exploration, contaminants, and infrastructure resilience.

Aarhus GeoSoftware, a spinoff company from Aarhus University in Denmark, develops the software packages AGS Workbench, SPIA, Res2DInv, and Res3DInv for the processing, inversion, and visualization of geophysical data from ground-based and airborne electromagnetic (EM), electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) remote sensing, and other sources. AGS software ... Read more »

The cyber protection company adds accomplished leader to accelerate growth, expand its network of service providers, drive product strategy, and prepare for the next level

Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-Wednesday 7 July 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

Acronis, the global leader in cyber protection, today appointed cloud software and hosting industry veteran Patrick Pulvermueller as Chief Executive Officer, effective July 1, 2021. Pulvermueller succeeds Serguei Beloussov, who founded the company in 2003 and has served as CEO since 2013.

Pulvermueller joins Acronis from GoDaddy, where he most recently served as President of the Partner Business. In that role, he led the company’s strategic expansion of its Hosting, Productivity, and Security services through resellers and agency partners. Combining that experience with his product development expertise, Pulvermueller is an expert in developing successful, cloud-based go-to-market strategies, particularly through s ... Read more »

New leader to support and capitalize on increasing demand for third-party support solutions across EMEA and help achieve Company’s target of $1B in annual revenue by 2026

LAS VEGAS-Wednesday 7 July 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a global provider of enterprise software products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products and a Salesforce partner, today announced the promotion and appointment of Emmanuelle Hose as the new group vice president and theatre general manager for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). Hose has held increasing positions of responsibility at Rimini Street since 2014, most recently serving as the successful regional general manager of Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific (OCEANIA) and will now lead the next phase of client and revenue growth across the larger and also successful EMEA theatre. Hose reports to Ger ... Read more »

 16,000 patients and 850 surgical procedures in one year 

Dubai, United Arab Emirates-Wednesday 7 July 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

CosmeSurge Jumeirah Hospital, one of the region's most trusted brands for cosmetic and aesthetic procedures, recently celebrated its first anniversary by introducing new and more sophisticated treatments using the latest technologies.

In its first year of operations, the hospital achieved maximum capacity, catering to approximately 16,000 patients and performing 850 surgeries. The state-of-the-art facility is riding the wave of an increasing number of inbound tourists who come to Dubai mostly for cosmetic surgery, which tops the list of surgical procedures that patients from around the globe fly to the city for. 

Michael Brenden Davis, CEO of NMC Healthcare, said “Despite travel restrictions that affected doctors and patients and regulations regarding cosmetic procedures and elective surgeries, we have see ... Read more »

New Study Evaluates the Ability of Masimo SedLine^® Brain Function Monitoring to Predict Neurological Outcomes and Long-term Survival in Post-Cardiac Arrest ICU Patients

Researchers Found That the Combination of Two SedLine Parameters, Patient State Index (PSi) and Suppression Ratio (SR), Had High Predictability for Mortality 180 Days After Cardiac Arrest