DOHA, Qatar-Monday 20 June 2022 [ AETOS Wire ]

Cirium develops a methodology to calculate the most accurate, historic, and predicted flight emissions data in the marketplace

American Airlines and Virgin Atlantic Airways commend Cirium’s approach for estimating fuel burn and allocating emissions at a passenger level

Leading insurance firm, Zurich, partners with Cirium to measure their corporate travel emissions and influence their travel strategies

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cirium, the aviation analytics company, has developed an advanced methodology to provide a standard and accurate picture of CO2 emissions and fuel burn calculations per flight and aircraft seat.

Jeremy Bowen, CEO at Cirium said: “The level of precision and accuracy of Cirium’s CO2 emissions calculations far exceeds estimates generally available today.”

American Airlines and Virgin Atlantic Airways each have independently commended Cirium for the supe ... Read more »

The Firm’s Board Member and former Managing Partner of Germany succeeds Jill Ader, first female Chair of the global top five executive search and leadership advisory firms

ZURICH-Tuesday 21 June 2022 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Michael Ensser has been elected Chair of Egon Zehnder by the partnership of the world’s leadership advisory firm. He assumes the role on Nov. 1, 2022, succeeding Jill Ader, who has chaired the Firm since 2018 and will transition to an advisory role.

“As our next chair, Michael embodies values-driven leadership, putting humanity and empathy at the core of all he does, which is exactly the type of leader we need to continue the Firm’s tremendous growth, expanding the reach of our leadership advisory capabilities as organizations face increased complexity and transformative challenges,” said Ader.

Over his 25 years at Egon Zehnder, Ensser has played key roles, including leading the German market ... Read more »

PORT CANAVERAL, Fla.-Wednesday 15 June 2022 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- ABS has signed a joint development project (JDP) with SpaceX to review the remotely controlled functions of autonomous rocket recovery droneships used for booster rocket recovery at sea.

The rocket recovery droneships are modified to include an expanded deck to increase the size of the landing platform, four thruster engines for propulsion and to hold on station, and blast shielding to protect electrical and engine equipment on deck. The droneships are entirely unmanned during landings, with a robot deployed on board to secure the rocket booster to the droneship before the vessel returns to port.

The project will review the design of one of SpaceX’s three rocket recovery droneships for compliance with the ABS Guide for Autonomous and Remote-Control Functions. Due to the unique and challenging operating requirements, ABS will apply a risk-based approach to the evaluation of the ... Read more »

Six companies listed on the Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) decided to distribute cash dividend with high yields in the first half of 2022.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates-Tuesday 21 June 2022 [ AETOS Wire ]

Six companies listed in Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) distributed healthy cash dividends, with Asiacell leading the way with an 11.8% dividend yield. The company is the second-largest mobile operator in Iraq, with the greatest number of subscribers and the most extensive in terms of revenue market share.  

According to Rabee Securities, many Iraqi listed companies are healthy with positive cash flow for various reasons such as increased purchase power and better economic fundamentals with stable and improved oil prices, which are the backbone of Iraq's economy.  

Baghdad Soft Drinks announced dividend with a yield of 5.3%. The company is a PepsiCo International franchisee and the largest listed industrial company on the ISX that produces and distrib ... Read more »

NUREMBERG, Germany-Tuesday 21 June 2022 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Quectel Wireless Solutions has launched the new BG773A-GL ultra-compact LTE Cat M1, NB1 and NB2 module which offers integrated SIM (iSIM) support. The iSIM capability of this new module provides huge flexibility and simplicity for integrators and IoT service providers because, in essence, it enables a device with a single stock-keeping unit (SKU) number to have the right connectivity to support its needs globally. Ultimately, this provides a simpler way for integrators to adopt cellular connectivity, removing the needs for country-specific SIM cards and simplifying the logistics of traditional, plastic SIM deployments by eradicating the need for on-site or in-country adaptations.

Quectel has been at the forefront of making the promise of iSIM a reality and has been working to tightly align module performance with the new wave of embedded and integrated SIM features that are revolutionizing what ... Read more »

The LC29H series offers high performance, power-efficient solutions to meet market needs of high-precision positioning at the centimeter and decimeter levels

NUREMBERG, Germany-Tuesday 21 June 2022 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Quectel Wireless Solutions, a global IoT solutions provider, has announced its dual-band multi-constellation GNSS module LC29H. Built using the Airoha AG3335 platform, the LC29H is available in multiple variants and optionally integrates RTK and DR. The LC29H series offers high performance, power-efficient solutions to meet market needs of high-precision positioning at the centimeter and decimeter levels. These modules are perfectly suited to an expanding market for autonomous lawn mowers, drones, precision agriculture, micro-mobility scooters and delivery robots as well as other industrial and autonomous applications.

 “High precision positioning with centimeter level accuracy is becoming increasingly vital for many new ... Read more »

SHENZHEN, China-Tuesday 21 June 2022 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- FEELM, the flagship atomization technology platform belonging to SMOORE - the world’s largest vape manufacture1, has joined the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), as part of its parent company’s listing.

CDP is an independent not-for-profit organization that manages a global disclosure system and repository for environmental reporting by corporations, municipalities, and organizations around the world; and FEELM will measure, manage, and periodically disclose its environmental impact data to CDP through SMOORE, as part of the global effort to mitigate climate change.

In 2021, more than 680 financial institutions, amounting to over 130 trillion USD in assets, supported CDP’s request for data sharing, while over 13,000 companies, accounting for 64% of the world’s market capital, disclosed through CDP’s database; a renowned scoring system and benchmark tool for sta ... Read more »

BOSTON-Tuesday 21 June 2022 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Transcend Air announced today that it was awarded a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer research and development contract from AFWERX, a Technology Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory. Transcend Air, in partnership with Auburn University, will further develop advanced flight control laws for high-speed flight with its Vy 400 vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (VTOL). “Specifically, the high speed flight is referred to as nap-of-the-earth (NOE) flight, which is a demanding regime where an aircraft stays low and follows the contours of terrain to remain undetected,” commented Peter Schmidt, COO of Transcend Air and Principal Investigator.

Transcend Air is extending its work with Professor Imon Chakraborty and his Vehicle Systems, Dynamics, and Design Laboratory (VSDDL.com) and newly teaming with Professor Ehsan Taheri and his Aero-Astro Computational and Experimental Lab ( ... Read more »

• NAVER Cloud hosts Korea's first cloud-based hardware security module (HSM) as-a-service to simplify meeting strict demands of major regulatory and industry mandates

• New solution supports easy security management and convenience, providing independent key management and configuration and management services

PARIS LA DÉFENSE-Tuesday 21 June 2022 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Thales today announced it is helping NAVER Cloud launch the first Korean sovereign cloud HSM as-a-service powered by Thales' industry-leading Luna Network Hardware Security Module. The new service helps businesses meet the strict regulatory and industry mandates for control of their data and encryption as they transition from on-premises environments to a cloud or hybrid environments.

The new NAVER Cloud HSM-as-a-service allows customers to maintain independent ownership of their encryption keys, thus improving security management, control and conven ... Read more »