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ZURICH-Thursday 25 October 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

    Total orders +9%1, up in all divisions and regions
    Base orders +7%, up in all divisions and regions
    Revenues +3%; service revenue up 11%
    Operational EBITA margin2 12.1% impacted by GEIS dilution
    Operational EPS2 +4%3
    Net income $603 million, +6%
    Cash flow from operating activities $565 million, solid cash delivery for the full year expected

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- THIRD QUARTER HIGHLIGHTS

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“We demonstrated sustained growth, with total and base orders improving in all regions and all divisions,” said ABB CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer. “The continued execution of our strategy and steadily growing c ... Read more »

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -Thursday 25 October 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Universal Laser Systems (ULS) announces the addition of 3M™ and Angstron materials to its materials database, the most extensive repository of laser material processing parameters for materials in the range of 10 watts to 500 watts.

The 3M and Angstron materials new to the ULS materials database were specifically added for laser processing with the ULTRA and XLS platforms, suited for high accuracy and precision laser cutting, laser ablation and laser surface modification.

The materials include:

    3M™ 1529 Microporous Rayon Nonwoven Fabric Medical Tape
    3M™ 1776 Polyester Spunlace Nonwoven Fabric Medical Tape
    Angstron Materials AT1500-25 Thermal Foil

Laser processing notes, describing the results of the laser-material interaction for these materials, are also available in the Materials ... Read more »

PARIS-Thursday 25 October 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The L-CAT® Shore-to-shore presented by CNIM at Euronaval 2018 delivers a major increase in performance for amphibious missions. The L-CAT® Shore-to-shore has been upgrated since its launch 2 years ago.

The L-CAT® Shore-to-shore is now the only vessel with the ability to transport 80 tonnes at 25 knots in conditions up to sea state 5, land in shallow water (~1m) and accommodate 42 passengers for long distance trips.

Highly maneuvrable, the L-CAT® Shore-to-shore provides exceptional operational flexibility for amphibious assaults and humanitarian operations, without compromising between speed and payload. Its wide loading platform (145 m²), ability to travel up to 800 nautical miles when loaded, self-defence and communication capabilities are tactical advantages for the projection of Forces. Its speed of 35 knots unloaded allows for the theatre of operations to be cleared rapid ... Read more »

LAREDO, Texas -Thursday 25 October 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Inventor Matteo Gravina patents three inventions for high performance computing and data center industries. With over 200 GFLOPs per watt claimed by the patent portfolio, this might be one of the greenest patent portfolios on the planet.

The marketplace for data centers has a metric for power efficiency. The power usage effectiveness of 1.0 is the total amount of energy delivered to the servers equal to the total power use by the facility. PUE is the ratio of the total amount of power use by a facility to the energy delivered to the servers and rack equipment. According to the portfolio patent specification's, a negative power usage effectiveness is achievable, in this case, electrical power is extracted at a higher level than what is introduced to power the servers.

    200 Billion Floating Point Operations per Second per Watt
    Negative Power U ... Read more »

 Aimed at Presenting Actionable Solutions to Tackle MENA’s Youth Crisis

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates -Thursday 25 October 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- In response to the challenges facing Youth in the MENA region, Sharjah, the third largest emirate in the United Arab Emirates, has called on MENA member states and international community to collectively adopt and implement the ‘Sharjah Declaration for Youth Empowerment’, a nine-point action agenda to empower youth, and save their futures from the dangers of extremism.

    Put the acquisition of life skills at the centre of youth policy decision-making to prepare children and youth to leap into the future: ready to learn, engage in employment, be active citizen and in control of their own personal growth and empowerment.
    Promote policies that foster an enabling environment and recognise the important role of young women as a ... Read more »

In partnership with Cradlepoint, Inc., TrellisWare Technologies, and CopaSAT, LLC, Redmond-based communications company proved capability of seamless communications near southern U.S. border

REDMOND, Wash. -Thursday 25 October 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- In September 2018, Kymeta—the communications company making good on the promise of global, mobile connectivity—conducted a series of field trials with United States federal agents to successfully demonstrate the benefits and feasibility of reliable, seamless communications along the southern border of New Mexico. Along with partner CopaSAT, and trial partners Cradlepoint, Inc. and TrellisWare Technologies, Kymeta demonstrated the reliability of its dynamic network capabilities that leveraged both cellular and satellite from a moving platform.

Kymeta successfully demonstrated a complete hybrid network architecture to field agents operating in a communications degraded environment. ... Read more »

GENEVA-Thursday 25 October 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Investment Migration Council (IMC) understands the motivation behind the OECD’s recent analysis and guidance regarding the purported circumvention of the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) in both residence-by-investment (RBI) and citizenship-by-investment (CBI) programs.

We entirely agree that individuals should be stopped from using such programs to avoid accurate CRS reporting or, even worse, to engage in financial crimes, including money laundering and terrorist financing.

However, it is important to be clear about four important facts:

    Only a very small percentage of residence or citizenship statuses legitimately obtained through RBI or CBI programs are at issue. For the vast majority of applicants, tax is a non-issue, since they either move completely to their new place of residence and become tax residents there or do not change their tax residence at al ... Read more »