Localized live video app to enrich local creator’s lives through fresh, innovative, enjoyable and profitable live social content

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.-Sunday 26 December 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

The largest independent global video social entertainment platform Uplive has unveiled its first-ever Television Commercial (TVC) for the Middle East region as part of its visual campaign strategy aimed at boosting localized content consumption and talent enrichment.

The 15-second TVC, which aired on Rotana, reaffirms Uplive’s commitment to providing locals with an array of live and fresh content from renowned MENA-based livestreamers including ​​Fionna (UID: fee1997), Ayosha UID: fv9eb8v0), Karine (UID: si6ed8n9), Larissa (UID: lar1234), Aline (UID: alouna123), and Ago (UID: bff0c8wp) among other emerging talents.

Tapping into its global platform synergy and global expansion strategy, Uplive, which has over 260 million registered users from over ... Read more »

Ylias Akbaraly was awarded the CEO of the Year 2021 by the jury of Financial Afrik and by public votes. 

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania-Friday 24 December 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Financial Afrik Awards is a strategic event that brings together each year, since 2018, experts, senior executives, banks, insurance companies, public institutions, Fintechs, stock exchanges, investment funds as well as CEOs and decision makers from Africa and elsewhere.

The 4th edition of the "Financial Afrik Awards" in Nouakchott was the occasion to unveil the list of 100 personalities who transformed Africa in 2021.

The event placed, this year, under the high patronage of His Excellency Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, brought together more than 200 personalities from the world of Economy, Finance and B ... Read more »

* TK Elevator’s Taiyuan Botanical Garden project in Shanxi, China was recognized in the “Moving Walks” category

* The company has won the most prestigious award in the industry for the third time in a row

* Same award-winning solution as TKE’s orinoco installation at the Dubai Mall Metro LinkDUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.-Sunday 26 December 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

TK Elevator is pleased to once again receive Elevator World’s Project of the Year award. With its Taiyuan Botanical Garden project in Shanxi awarded “Project of the Year 2022” under the “Moving Walks” category, the company has been given this prestigious recognition consecutively in the award’s past three editions. Back in 2015 and 2016, award-winning implementation of its innovative and versatile moving walks solutions orinoco and iwalk in Dubai, UAE and Madinah, Saudi Arabia respectively, also secured for TK Elevator “Project of the Year& ... Read more »

LUXEMBOURG-Thursday 23 December 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Sisvel International S.A. (“Sisvel”) announced today that it has signed a worldwide patent license agreement with Panasonic Corporation (“Panasonic”) for Sisvel’s VP9 Licensing Program covering the sale and distribution of Panasonic’s VP9 enabled products.

“Sisvel has a longstanding partnership with Panasonic. The Company is already a licensee of other Sisvel licensing programs in different technological fields and we are very pleased that Panasonic has now concluded an agreement that reflects the value of the VP9 portfolio, acknowledging once more the fairness and the reliability of the programs managed by Sisvel” said Valentina Piola, Program Manager of Sisvel’s VP9 Licensing Program. She continues “Sisvel’s VP9 ... Read more »

Annual Gridded Population Datasets Now Available through Esri's ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World

REDLANDS, Calif.--Sunday 19 December 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The global population grew by almost two billion people during the last 20 years—nearly 30 percent. Such growth is not evenly distributed over time or across space: the extremes include Qatar growing by 400 percent and Lithuania losing 25 percent. And even within countries, the rate of growth varies. To support the need for up-to-date population data that reflects these shifts, WorldPop and Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, have partnered to include WorldPop's 1-km annual gridded demographic datasets in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. The data covers 241 countries, territories, and dependencies for the 2000–2020 period.

"These datasets are critical for measuring and monitoring the accompanying sociodemographic changes over time and properly informi ... Read more »

Company to expand facilities in Arkansas, North Carolina, and Asia to fuel growing customer demand.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark-Saturday 18 December 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Westrock Coffee Company, LLC (Westrock Coffee) announced plans today to expand its operations and beverage capabilities with the purchase of a new facility in Conway, Arkansas that, when fully built-out, will be the largest facility of its type in the United States. Westrock Coffee will also expand its extracts manufacturing capacity in Concord, North Carolina, and launch new operations in Malaysia that will serve its rapidly growing customer demand across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions.

“We are expanding our finished product offerings, adding end beverage packaging solutions, and expanding our geographic reach to meet our growing customer demand,” said Scott Ford, CEO and co-founder of Westrock Coffee. “Our growth benefits ever ... Read more »

NTT: Realization of Modularized Quantum Light Source Toward Fault-tolerant Large-scale Universal Optical Quantum Computers

TOKYO-Friday 24 December 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- NTT Corporation (NTT, President & CEO: Jun Sawada, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)(TOKYO:9432) in cooperation with the University of Tokyo (President: Teruo Fujii, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo) and RIKEN (President: Hiroshi Matsumoto, Wako-shi, Saitama) has developed an optical fiber-coupled quantum light source (squeezed light source) (*1), which is a key technology for realizing a fault-tolerant large-scale universal optical quantum computer.

Quantum computers are being researched and developed worldwide because they are capable of parallel computational processing using unique phenomena to quantum mechanics such as quantum superposition states and quantum entanglement states. While various methods are being considered, the optical quantum computer using photons has many advantages. For e ... Read more »