Veteran capital markets advisor will counsel clients and support TrailRunner’s international growth with a focus on the Middle East North Africa region

SOUTHLAKE, Texas-Thursday 16 June 2022 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- The strategic communications advisory firm TrailRunner International today announced the appointment of Marwan Abedin, founder and CEO of the Dubai-based financial consultancy Flatrace, as a senior advisor. Abedin will support TrailRunner’s growth in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region while advising TrailRunner clients on inbound and outbound matters.

For the past two decades, Abedin has advised governments, businesses, multinational corporations, private equity funds, and family offices across the region on issues related to capital allocation, debt and equity fundraising, crisis management, and business growth. He has been involved in over $40 billion worth of transactions, including the $26 billion restructuring of ... Read more »

GENEVA-Friday 17 June 2022 [ AETOS Wire ]

 IFPMA, the body representing biopharmaceutical companies in Geneva, expresses deep disappointment with the decision taken to adopt a TRIPS waiver, despite intellectual property (IP) not being a barrier to vaccine scale-up and wide acknowledgment of vaccines surplus.

IP has enabled the rapid research and development of several effective vaccines against COVID-19 and underpinned the more than 380 voluntary partnerships; while trade barriers have severely undermined collective efforts to deliver vaccines to those who need them most.

Industry warns that such an “empty shell” and fact-free decision can have severe consequences on innovation and global health security.

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today’s decision at the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference (MC12) to endorse a TRIPS waiver for COVID-19 vaccines sends the wrong message to those carrying out research and development and i ... Read more »

Identified benefits include better L&D team productivity, 20% faster new-hire onboarding, more efficient upskilling, and up to five times better employee retention.

PLEASANTON, Calif.-Thursday 16 June 2022 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Degreed, a pioneer in learning experience for eight million users, today shared the results of a commissioned Total Economic ImpactTM (TEI) study of its Learning Experience Platform (LXP). The study, conducted by Forrester Consulting found that organizations using Degreed’s LXP experienced faster time-to-productivity for new employees, democratization of learning across the workforce, improved upskilling, and lower learning content costs. The potential total return-on-investment calculated in the study was 312%, with a net present value (NPV) of $4.69M and payback in under six months. Read the full study here.

 “Our customers choose Degreed alongside their LMSs and HCM systems to build the skills their ... Read more »

New research from Experian finds that consumers trust known brands who protect them online

COSTA MESA, Calif.-Friday 17 June 2022 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Digital financial transactions have become commonplace in recent years, growing a number of savvy consumers with a heightened awareness of fraud and the role recognition and security tools play in protecting them. Insights from Experian’s annual Global Identity & Fraud Report found that more than half of consumers surveyed globally have been a victim of fraud or know someone who has – where identity theft has surpassed credit card theft as their biggest security worry. Despite these concerns, most consumer respondents say their online activity will increase in the next three months.

“Criminals persistently seek the path of least resistance and to combat that, organizations must be equally aggressive in leveraging data as a defence, prioritizing investments in fraud detection a ... Read more »

Parties to Explore Investment in Advanced Technologies

WASHINGTON-Friday 17 June 2022 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- EIG, a leading institutional investor to the global energy and infrastructure sectors, today announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (“MoU”) with Aramco to collaborate on future energy projects.

Under the terms of the MoU, the parties will look to pursue investment opportunities in projects that advance their shared sustainability objectives, including in existing and new technologies such as alternative fuels, carbon capture, hydrogen and natural gas, transportation, and energy storage.

“As global energy demand rises, EIG is committed to balancing the twin goals of decarbonization and reliability,” said R. Blair Thomas, EIG’s Chairman and CEO. “As part of this effort, we are ... Read more »

• StayWell Holdings announces the launch of a new brand, Park Proxi

• Park Proxi is a hotel for hoteliers, allowing a model of flexibility for owners to co-design the hotel that suits them.

• The launch is punctuated with the signing of the first Park Proxi hotel in the world, the Park Proxi EL Hayat Sharm in Egypt.

Sharm EL Sheikh, Egypt-Thursday 16 June 2022 [ AETOS Wire ]

StayWell Holdings is excited to announce the launch of a new hotel brand, Park Proxi, a unique hotel offering that has flexibility and hoteliers at its core.

Park Proxi will allow hotel owners to co-create and customise the hotel they desire, by deliberately minimising the brand mandatories that usually accompany a hotel design. This approach creates space for true collaboration, and from room styling to flexible zones to the hotel logo, to a choice of 7 signature colours, Park Proxi offers owners the opportunity to develop a hotel that suits not just their ... Read more »

Known As The Edge, Scott Gillen, The Prominent Malibu Designer, Has Created A Mid-Century Modern Inspired Estate With Over 10,000 Interior Square Feet, a 10,000-Square Foot Deck, Nearly 80 Foot Infinity Pool Touting the Only New Construction Home For Sale In Malibu More Than $50M

MALIBU, Calif.-Thursday 16 June 2022 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- After more than a decade in approvals, design, and construction, Scott Gillen, visionary home designer, creator and founder of Unvarnished, has listed for sale the first of five estates in the 24-acre private enclave known as The Case. The first guard gated community built in Malibu in decades, The Case comprises five spectacular mid-century modern inspired homes perched above The Colony on Malibu’s most coveted oceanfront bluff and represents the largest private residential development in its history. The Edge, on the market for $69.995 million, will be the first home completed within the community and will be deli ... Read more »

HANGZHOU, China-Thursday 16 June 2022 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Dahua Technology, a world-leading video-centric smart IoT solution and service provider, officially launched the Full-color Smart Dual Illuminators Camera Series. The new Full-color Series integrates two illuminators – warm light and infrared light – with three supplementary light modes to deliver clear and vivid full-color images while avoiding continuous use of warm light, providing a flexible solution for a variety of night and low-light monitoring scenarios.

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Report shares seven strategies for agencies to deliver more meaningful relationships and meet the shifting expectations of procurement leaders
LONDON-Thursday 16 June 2022 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- At the ProcureCon Marketing EU Conference on June 15th in London, Havas unveiled its “Meaningful Brands Special Report: The Client-Agency Relationship Barometer,” a first-of-its-kind research report examining how agencies can become more meaningful, long-term partners amid ongoing disruption brought on by the global pandemic, supply chain issues and shifts in technology and data.

“The Client-Agency Relationship Barometer” is a special report within Havas Group’s Meaningful Brands study—a landmark bi-annual survey of brand value that has been running since 2009. Conducted in partnership with YouGov and Prescient, it is the first of its size, comprising in-depth interviews and a wide-ranging quantitative study among more than ... Read more »

SUWA, Japan-Thursday 16 June 2022 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Saint-Gobain Life Sciences today announced the addition of their Suwa, Japan manufacturing facility for the production of C-Flex® TPE tubing for use in bioprocessing. The capacity addition in Suwa is part of Saint-Gobain Life Sciences ongoing investment plan to globally expand production capacity for its products and services used throughout the bioprocessing industry.

 “The Suwa site expansion further enhances our global manufacturing network, with a specific emphasis on supporting availability of our C-Flex® TPE tubing in Asia,” said Benjamin Le Quéré, Bioprocess Solutions business unit General Manager at Saint-Gobain Life Sciences. “With the completion of Suwa’s capability, we will have C-Flex® production capacity in five separate facilities in four countries. This is a unique capability in TPE tubing for bioprocessing and it supports our mission to provide ... Read more »

Very high throughput geostationary satellite will expand high-speed network capabilities and accelerate digitalisation in the region

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- SES announced today that its newest geostationary Ka-band satellite, SES-17, is now fully operational over the Americas, the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean at 67.1 degrees West. The all-electric propulsion satellite has reached orbit per schedule after months of in-orbit raising and successful in-orbit testing.

The very high throughput SES-17 satellite built by Thales Alenia Space is ready to provide unparalleled connectivity services to customers across aeronautical, maritime, enterprise, and government markets whether on land, at sea, or in the skies. SES-17 anchor partner, Thales InFlyt Experience, will leverage SES-17 for FlytLive, a next-generation aviation connectivity solution enhancing Wi-Fi experiences onboard commercial aircraft across the Americas and the Caribbean. Moreover, key enterprise customers in B ... Read more »

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Thursday 16 June 2022 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Velodyne Lidar, Inc. (Nasdaq: VLDR, VLDRW) today announced that the Company is filing a patent infringement complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) against Ouster, Inc. (Nasdaq: OUST, OUST.WS), requesting that the Commission institute an investigation under section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930. Velodyne also filed a patent infringement complaint against Ouster in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, seeking an injunction and monetary damages.

Velodyne’s complaint asks the ITC to investigate unlawful imports of Ouster lidar sensors that are alleged to infringe Velodyne’s patents relating to lidar technologies (U.S. Patents 7,969,558 and 9,983,297). Velodyne’s complaint requests that the ITC issue a limited exclusion order and a cease and desist order against Ouster and Ouster’s contract manufacturer, to bar the importation ... Read more »