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Under the slogan "Our workers … Thank You"

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Friday, May 6th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

To mark the International Workers’ Day, celebrated annually on May 1st, the Police College in Abu Dhabi, represented by the Administrative and Finance Department, honored 13 distinguished workers from the College’s different departments.

Colonel Waleed Salem Al Shamesi, Director General of the Police College, said: “The initiative is part of the Ministry of Interior’s strategy, to recognize the services provided by its department’s workers. It also represents a gesture of thanks and appreciation for their dedicated efforts and loyalty to work.”

The ceremony was attended by Colonel Saif Rashid Al Salhadi, Head of the Administrative and Finance Department; Colonel Mohammed Butti Al Shamesi, Head of the Relations and Guidance Section; Lieutenant Colonel Abdullah Saeed Sebae; Lieutenant Colone ... Read more »

BRUCHSAL, Germany - Wednesday, May 4th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CYNORA, a leader in TADF (thermally activated delayed fluorescence) materials, has made significant progress in its highly efficient blue material developments during the last 6 months: a strong indicator for reaching performance levels requested by the OLED industry.

CYNORA has been working on organic TADF emitting materials during the last 5 years. Since 2015, CYNORA applies its experience to develop pure organic highly efficient blue dopants for vacuum deposition.

The TADF technology combines high efficiency (3 times better than the state-of-the-art fluorescence technology) together with long lifetime. OLED displays incorporating blue TADF materials will reduce power consumption up to a factor of 2.

CYNORA has developed deep blue material reaching an EQE of 16.3% (at 100 cd/m2) compared to 3% reached in October 2015, a factor 5 improvement in six months.

In parallel ... Read more »

 Combination of U.S.- and U.K.-Based Associations Would Create World’s Third Largest Powerhouse of Independent Accounting and Consulting Firms

ATLANTA & FARNHAM, England - Thursday, May 5th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- U.S.-based Allinial Global and U.K.-based IAPA International (IAPA) announced today that the management teams for both associations have signed a Letter of Intent to join forces. A combination would create an entity with 300 members in 79 countries with annual fee revenue of over $2.6 billion -- making it the third largest association of independent accounting and consulting firms in the world.

Allinial Global’s President and CEO Terry Snyder and IAPA’s CEO Stephen Hamlet will lead a team of representatives from both associations into further discussions and work through the necessary details. The proposed combination is subject to the execution of a definitive agreement with board and membership approval. If ... Read more »

BERLIN - Thursday, May 5th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The distance learning Master of Business Administration (MBA) Renewables jointly offered by the Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin and the Renewables Academy AG (RENAC) proudly announces the launching of its international Advisory Board. MBA Renewables is designed to equip professionals with the advanced interdisciplinary management skills for executive positions in the renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors. Through the new Advisory Board, MBA Renewables is building a platform of exchange which will bring its graduates a step closer to the green industries.

MBA Renewables’s Advisory Board consists of 9 professionals active at different levels of the renewable energy value chain worldwide. Representatives from the renewable energy industry, engineering and consulting companies, research institutions, and international development organisations will have access to exceptionally well ... Read more »

SES’s capacity and customised broadband platform will provide reliable communications to SeaVsat’s maritime customers

LUXEMBOURG - Wednesday, May 4th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- SES S.A. (NYSE Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) announced today that SeaVsat, a global mobile broadband communication solutions and maritime communications provider, has chosen to use the SES Enterprise+ Broadband service and to utilise additional SES capacity to deliver connectivity to vessels worldwide.

Under the new agreements, SeaVsat will be providing broadband connectivity and VoIP services to its maritime customers. This will enable secure and reliable communications for offshore operations and enhanced crew welfare communication services.

The SES Enterprise+ Broadband service offers high-speed broadband, and is a competitively priced flexible connectivity platform that has a ‘plug ‘n’ play’ offering, with pay-as-you-go options to ens ... Read more »

LUXEMBOURG - Thursday, May 5th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Luxembourg Government, the public-law banking institution “Société Nationale de Crédit et d’Investissement” (SNCI) and the Silicon Valley-based asteroid mining company Deep Space Industries (DSI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) setting out their cooperation within the recently announced Luxembourg spaceresources.lu initiative. The initiative defines a framework for the exploration and commercial utilization of resources from Near Earth Objects (NEOs), such as asteroids.

Within this partnership, DSI, Inc. USA and Luxembourg-based DSI Europe will build economic and technological substance by developing advanced products, systems and services focused on the utilization of asteroid resources. For its part, the Luxembourg Government will provide funding for relevant R&D in this field. The funding will be sourced from the Luxembourg space programme (LuxIMPULSE), th ... Read more »

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Wednesday, May 4th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- eASIC® Corporation (@easic), a fabless semiconductor company that delivers a custom integrated circuit (IC) platform (eASIC Platform) today announced it has joined the OpenPOWER Foundation, an open development community based on the POWER microprocessor architecture.

eASIC joins a growing roster of technology organizations working collaboratively to build advanced server, networking, storage and acceleration technology as well as industry leading open source software aimed at delivering more choice, control and flexibility to developers of next-generation, hyperscale and cloud data centers. The group makes POWER hardware and software available to open development for the first time, as well as making POWER intellectual property licensable to others, greatly expanding the ecosystem of innovators on the platform.

eASIC will offer their latest generation eASIC Nextreme-3 Platform t ... Read more »