Storys zum Thema Swiss

Cornèr Banca SA

Good Results for the Cornèr Group

Lugano (ots) - Following a highly turbulent year, which saw the outbreak of the war in Ukraine and abrupt interest rate rises by the main central banks around the world, the Cornèr Group has now posted good results in its 71st Annual Report. Revenues increased to CHF 436 million, whilst the net profit rose to CHF 53.2 million, representing a strong increase compared to the previous year (CHF 22.7 million). ...

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Big data, big challenges

Bern (ots) - If handled responsibly, big data enables many useful applications: the National Research Programme "Big Data" (NRP 75) of the Swiss National Science Foundation investigated the opportunities and the challenges. The use of big data can improve our everyday lives: medical care, mobility and energy efficiency, or the supply of information. At the same time, the increasing use of big data poses a challenge - in terms of safeguarding democratic processes, equal ...

Swiss Fibre Net AG

Competition authority once again confirms important aspects of the SFN shunting model

Berne (ots) - In its response to an additional request for advice published today, the Secretariat of the Competition Commission (COMCO) once again confirmed important aspects of the competitive suitability of the SFN shunting model: The SFN shunting model does not violate the precautionary measures even if only one partner (e.g. SFN) is building a fiber optic network ...

Swissmem

Technology industry: better than feared and cautiously optimistic

Zürich (ots) - The performance of the Swiss technology industry (mechanical and electrical engineering and related technology sectors) has improved in the past year. Compared with 2021, sales were up by 9.4%, exports by 5.6%, and new orders received by 2.4%. This partially offset the slump in orders experienced in the third quarter of 2022. For the current year, businesses' expectations are cautiously optimistic. Having ...

IPZ

Innovation Park Zurich / Development company IPZ Property Ltd's shareholder base receives boost / The Angst+Pfister Group is acquiring substantial share

Zurich (ots) - Following the successful completion of the political process, the Innovation Park Zurich is registering another import step in its development - the Angst+Pfister Group, which operates internationally, is coming on board as a major investor in the generation project. This process is now well under way ...

Swissmem

New Swissmem Executive Board members: Adam Gontarz from April 2023 and Noé Blancpain from 2024

Zürich (ots) - Adam Gontarz and Noé Blancpain will be joining Swissmem's Executive Board from 1 April 2023 and 1 January 2024 respectively. Adam Gontarz has been Swissmem's Head of Industry Sectors & Technology since 2014. From 1 April 2023, he will be taking over the Digitalization & Innovation division and at the same time joining the Executive Board. Noé ...

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Brain scans of people with MS help us understand the effects of Covid

Bern (ots) - People affected by multiple sclerosis need to undergo regular MRI brain scans. The images are now being used to visualise the effects of a coronavirus infection. Brain fog, memory problems, loss of the sense of smell - Covid-19 affects the brain in a number of ways, yet the mechanisms behind this remain largely unknown. This is because disease-related changes in our brains are almost impossible to detect if ...

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

A quiet crisis manager

Sedus Stoll AG

Excellent development: Sedus Stoll AG on course for further growth

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Avoiding burnout of white blood cells

swissstaffing - Verband der Personaldienstleister der Schweiz

Swiss Staffingindex 2022 in review: comfortable increase, significant slowdown, unexpected final spurt

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Novel approaches to health care

Green

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Green launches the most energy-efficient high-performance data center / The first of three data centers at the Dielsdorf site is live

Debiopharm International SA

DEBIOPHARM APPLIES EXTENDED-RELEASE FORMULATION EXPERTISE TO REDUCE TREATMENT FREQUENCY BURDEN FOR ACROMEGALY & GEP-NET PATIENTS

Lausanne, Switzerland (ots) - - Acromegaly and gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs) are rare diseases that require life-long chronic treatment. Monthly somatostatin analog (SSA) injections are the standard of care as first-line medical treatment. - Debiopharm is developing Debio 4126, a novel ...

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Sounding the alarm in time to save endangered species

Bern (ots) - Biodiversity loss is accelerating. To identify species in urgent need of protection, scientists from Fribourg want to combine AI with data collection and engagement by citizen scientists. A few years - or sometimes even just a few weeks - can be all it takes for a plant or animal to acquire "endangered species" status. For instance, when a new road is built through a forest, the chainsaws come out and a rare ...

Cornèr Banca SA

Cornèr Group launches Visa Commercial Pay as first banking group in Europe

Lugano/Zurich (ots) - Starting from Switzerland, Cornèr Group introduces Visa Commercial Pay (VCP), supporting companies to quickly digitize B2B payments. The increasing pace of digitalisation in business processes creates new demands for payment capabilities of companies. A comprehensivesolution by ...

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

She recognises "super recognisers"

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Federal Councillors don't galvanise voters in their home cantons

Bern (ots) - When a new Federal Councillor is chosen, their home canton is always a much-discussed topic. Yet the results of referendums are hardly influenced by whether the voter's own canton is represented on the Federal Council or not. Successors will shortly be chosen both for Ueli Maurer and for Simonetta Sommaruga. Ever since they announced their resignations, ...

Green

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Green completes a CHF 480 million refinancing and accelerates its investment programs in Switzerland

Swissmem

The downturn has now reached the industrial sector

Zurich (ots) - The situation in the Swiss mechanical and electrical engineering industries (MEM industries) is currently still good. Thanks to a strong first half of the year, sales rose by 9.6% in the first nine months of 2022 compared with the same period of 2021, while exports increased by 7.0% and order intake by 2.3%. However, the third quarter of 2022 saw a significant turnaround in order intake, which fell by 12.4% ...

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Improving the efficacy of antibiotics and curbing resistance

Bern (ots) - New findings from NRP 72, financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation, are helping to curb antibiotic resistance. In the field of new antibiotics, however, structures needed for translating results into practice are lacking. Worldwide, more and more pathogens are becoming resistant to today's antibiotics. As antibiotics lose their efficacy, infections that were once easy to treat can give rise to fatal ...

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

She wants to know how we talk about dying

Swiss Fibre Net AG

Competition authority paves the way for innovative fibre optic industry solution

Bern (ots) - Over the past few months, the Secretariat of the Competition Commission (COMCO) has been assessing the SFN shunting model developed by Swiss Fibre Net AG (SFN). It has checked whether the industry solution satisfies the competition law requirements for network access. The COMCO secretariat has now approved the proposal under antitrust law. The option of ...

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

The story of a cosmic striptease