London (ots/PRNewswire) - The Joint Shipping Initiative - made up of Shell, BP, Maersk, Stena and Japanese shipping companies NYK, MOL and "K" Line - today announced it has given $1.5 million of additional funds to a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) project to improve the lives of Somalis and security for seafarers. (Photo: ...
Ottawa, Ontario (ots/PRNewswire) - Ecosystem Enables Agile, Assured, Orchestrated Services CENX [http://cenx.com ], a global leader of Service Orchestration solutions for software-defined networks, today announced that it is collaborating with MEF member companies, Accedian Networks [http://www.accedian.com ], EXFO [http://www.exfo.com ] and JDSU [http://www.jdsu.com ], for product interoperability, to usher in the Metro ...
Amsterdam (ots/PRNewswire) - Atradius Collections, a leading international trade invoice collections company, has announced a strategic alliance with Recuperos S.A. to strengthen its presence in Latin America. This alliance will enable Atradius Collections to provide a more localised service to its customers while attracting new customers to its debt collection ...
Copenhagen, Denmark (ots/PRNewswire) - Endless Jewelry, a new high-quality jewellery collection, has received financial backing from a group of investors including Lars Seier Christensen, co-founder and CEO of Saxo Bank. Endless Jewelry was created in 2013 by Jesper Nielsen, a Danish entrepreneur and former CEO of KasiGroup, a reseller of PANDORA jewellery. Christensen joins a small group of new investors in the company ...
Waalwijk, The Netherlands (ots/PRNewswire) - Desso, the global carpets, carpet tiles and sports pitches company contributed to Viktor&Rolf's Autumn/Winter 2014 Haute Couture collection - which was presented at the Paris Fashion Week on July 9th- by delivering red carpet material and supporting the finishing. The ...
Johannesburg (ots/PRNewswire) - Today, Sasol Limited (Sasol) announced a joint pre-feasibility study for a large-scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant, which will be based on gas from the Rovuma Basin in Northern Mozambique. The study, which is being conducted in conjunction with Mozambique's national oil company, ...
Göteborg, Sweden (ots/PRNewswire) - Volvo Car Group joins the Open Automotive Alliance Volvo Car Group (Volvo Cars) has joined the Open Automotive Alliance to make the Android smartphone platform available to drivers through its new ground-breaking user interface. This move brings together one of the world's most progressive car companies and the world's most popular smartphone platform, developed by Google. To view the ...
Manchester, England (ots/PRNewswire) - On 30th May 2014 Routes (part of UBM Live) and the Regional Tourism Organization of Southern Africa (RETOSA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together to improve air connectivity and travel facilitation to, from and within Africa. "Collaboration between RETOSA and Routes as strategic partners is incredibly significant and long overdue. It is our hope that this will help ...
Cork, Ireland (ots/PRNewswire) - Janssen R&D Ireland Ltd announced today that they have entered into a collaboration with ViiV Healthcare to develop and commercialize a new single tablet regimen containing Janssen's Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor rilpivirine (marketed as EDURANT(R)) and ViiV's ...
Ottawa, Ontario (ots/PRNewswire) - Neptec Technologies Corp. is pleased to announce that its OPAL 3D laser scanners have been selected by the Technische Universität Dresden [https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1T4MXGB_enCA512CA512&q=Technische+Universit%C3%A4t+Dresden&spell=1&sa=X&ei=Xd-IU53CG9PksASkzIDoCw&ved=0CCQQvwUoAA ] for an airport tarmac safety project in ...
Houston (ots/PRNewswire) - Sasol Chemicals North America LLC and INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA announced today that they have reached final investment decision to form a joint venture to build a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plant in LaPorte, Texas. The 50/50 joint venture will produce 470 kilotons per annum of bimodal HDPE using Innovene(TM) S process technology ...
Darmstadt, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - - Development and commercialization agreement on blood-based RAS biomarker mutation status test for (metastatic) colorectal cancer (mCRC) - This non-invasive, fast and easy-to-perform diagnostic test is expected to provide a real-time reflection of a patient's RAS mutation status to help guide clinical decision making in mCRC Merck ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Vocalcom, leading provider of multi-channel contact center software and New Frontier Group, a leading IT solution company in CEE & beyond, today announced a partnership aiming to bring the Vocalcom's Effortless Contact Center(TM) solution to Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Commonwealth ...
Shire plc and Lumena Pharmaceuticals
Dublin And San Diego (ots/PRNewswire) - - Acquisition of Lumena Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company with late stage rare disease pipeline assets - Adds to Shire's rare diseases portfolio and leverages this expertise, and is a perfect combination with Shire's already strong Gastrointestinal (GI) presence - ...
Chicago And Hellerup, Denmark (ots/PRNewswire) - The Options Industry Council (OIC) and Saxo Bank, the online trading and investment specialist, have signed a content sharing agreement making OIC's renowned equity options educational materials available to Saxo Bank's global client base. OIC has been educating ...
Rastatt, Landquart (ots) - MAQUET and Swisstom are pleased to announce their distribution partnership for the monitoring and diagnostic product Swisstom BB2. Acute Lung Injury is still a leading cause of death for intensive care patients. Swisstom BB2 was especially developed to continuously monitor the lung function of ICU patients undergoing mechanical ventilation. ...
European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
Gothenburg, Sweden (ots/PRNewswire) - Volvo Car Group and Apple Inc. are joining forces to make Apple's widely-used and hugely admired operating system available to drivers, bringing together one of the world's most progressive car companies and the world's most famous technology company. To view the Multimedia News Release, please click: http://www.multivu.com/mnr/65022-volvo-and-apple-forge-global-alliance The alliance ...
Hertfordshire, UK (ots) - SkyVision Global Networks Ltd., a leading global communications provider, today announced the successful implementation of its project with SAPETRO (South Atlantic Petroleum), one of Nigeria's major oil and gas upstream companies with new operations in Benin, which includes the installation ...
Gosselies, Belgium (ots/PRNewswire) - iTeos Therapeutics SA today announced the filing of the Company's first patent applications protecting proprietary inhibitors of the intracellular enzyme TDO2, which is expressed at high levels in specific cancers. iTeos Therapeutics has collaborated with Ludwig Cancer Research over the last year to identify small molecule ...
Dubai (ots) - Canadian Energy Equipment Manufacturing FZE ("CEEM"), a UAE oilfield specialist equipment manufacturer with facilities in Ras Al Khaimah and Dubai, has announced that UMW Oil & Gas Corporation Berhad ("UMW Oil & Gas") has purchased one of its Advanced Hydraulic Workover Units ("AHWU"). The total order value is for USD2.8 million and includes a 460k ...
London (ots) - Ennovor Group, a global sustainable biofuels company, is pleased to announce that it has signed a rolling tolling contract with one of Spain's largest biodiesel refiners. An innovator of feedstock procurement, supply chain development and sustainability assurance, Ennovor plans similar tolling agreements with a number of specialist biodiesel refineries ...
Amsterdam (ots/PRNewswire) - - To achieve at least EUR4.3B annualized synergy target, the Alliance will focus on closer integration in four key areas: R&D, Manufacturing & Logistics, Purchasing, and Human Resources. - Projects in each function focused on improving operational performance of the Alliance and fully leverage economies of scale. The Renault-Nissan Alliance is launching convergence projects in four key ...
Bern/Barcelona (ots) - The DECT Forum, the international association of the wireless home and enterprise communication industry, is pleased to announce that the first CAT-iq 2.0 certified handsets from full members Sagemcom (D49HD) and Swissvoice (IH250) carry the HD Voice logo of the GSMA. "The DECT Forum has recently entered into a cooperation agreement with the GSMA, where CAT-iq 2.0 certified devices will be able to ...
Lugano, Switzerland (ots) - The two companies sign a distribution and license agreement for an investigational therapy for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting covering China, Hong Kong and Macao Helsinn and Mundipharma announce the signature of a new, exclusive license and distribution ...
Lugano, Switzerland/Woodcliff Lake, NJ, USA (ots) - Seeking indication for prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting Helsinn Group and Eisai Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted for review the submission of the New Drug Application (NDA) for the investigational ...
Lausanne, Switzerland And Mechelen, Belgium (ots/PRNewswire) - Today Biocartis and VIB announced their exclusive license agreement on a novel panel of microsatellite instability (MSI) biomarkers for several cancers, in particular colorectal cancer (CRC). This agreement will enable Biocartis to develop a unique and user-friendly assay, whereby MSI biomarkers can simply ...
Yverdon, Switzerland (ots) - BPA Solutions SA (BPA), headquartered at Swiss Technopole Yverdon, Switzerland, today announced it has raised development funds from Debiopharm Investment. BPA is a global leading provider of innovative business software solutions based on Microsoft (MS) SharePoint technologies with 800+ customers and 50+ partners worldwide. Profitable ...
European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
Geneva, Switzerland (ots) - The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and 26 of its Members, with cooperation from the European Film Academy (EFA) (http://www.europeanfilmacademy.org/European-Film-Awards.36.0.html) have joined forces to launch EUROVISION FILM WEEK - the most accessible film festival (http://ots.de/DMmQo) anywhere, and the first ever based exclusively on TV ...