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Company Sets Goal to Help Collect and Recycle a Bottle or Can for Every One it Sells by 2030

ATLANTA-Saturday, January 20th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Coca-Cola Company announced today that it is fundamentally reshaping its approach to packaging, with a global goal to help collect and recycle the equivalent of 100% of its packaging by 2030.

This goal is the centerpiece of the Company’s new packaging vision for a World Without Waste, which the Coca-Cola system intends to back with a multi-year investment that includes ongoing work to make packaging 100% recyclable. This begins with the understanding that food and beverage containers are an important part of people’s modern lives but that there is much more to be done to reduce packaging waste globally.

“The world has a packaging problem – and, like all companies, we have a responsibility to help solve it,” said James Quincey, President and CEO of The ... Read more »

 White Box Platform Provides Full Network Functionality and User Plane Traffic Offload at Cell Site Edge

 

RICHARDSON, Texas-Friday, January 19th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Mavenir, focused on transforming mobile network economics for Communications Service Providers, today announced its virtualized Media Breakout Controller (vMBC), a single white box routing platform that enables carriers to host virtual Routing, Firewall, and User plane data offload.

Today’s networks, whether 3G, 4G or 5G, are under pressure to provide increased bandwidth in support of LTE and its frequency combinations, and reduce latency for network interaction, resulting in a continual need to increase capacity for traffic transported through the core of the network.

Multi-Access Edge Computing standardization (MEC) is trying to resolve some of these issues by placing compute functionality at the edge but it is still mostly controlled from the ... Read more »

 Fiorano APIs/integration spur growth and productivity 

PALO ALTO, Calif. -Friday, January 19th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Fiorano Software today announced that Bank of Kigali, Rwanda’s largest commercial bank, has chosen the Fiorano platform for its digital transformation. The Project includes Integration with the Bank’s Temenos T24 Core Banking Solution with support for Online and Offline Banking features. Fiorano ESB and Fiorano API Management form the backbone of all integrations in the Bank’s environment, enabling payment channels such as Mobile Banking and Internet Banking with a host of lending services.

The Bank selected Fiorano to replace its point-to-point integration with a scalable microservice-centric architecture built over an ESB. Fiorano ESB integrates its Temenos Core Banking System with its ATM and Card Management Systems and enables standardisation of its digital payment options and mobile payments. Fi ... Read more »

ExaGrid’s EX Series Makes the Cut for Innovation, Performance, Ease of Integration and Manageability, and Value

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. -Friday, January 19th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ExaGrid®, a leading provider of hyper-converged secondary storage for backup, today announced that its EX Series of backup storage appliances with data deduplication has once again been selected as a finalist for TechTarget’s Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com 2017 “Product of the Year” award in the “Backup and DR Hardware” category.

These annual awards, now in their 16th year, showcase the year’s latest and greatest innovations in technology. “These premier awards are of particular import as the panel of judges are genuine experts in an increasingly complex segment of data center technology,” said Bill Andrews, CEO and President of ExaGrid. “To have been selected given their stringent criteria is an h ... Read more »

RIYADH, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia-Friday, January 19th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

Five researchers and scientists from Malaysia, Jordan, Tunisia, the US and the UK have been named winners of the King Faisal Prize 2018 as the 40th edition of the renowned award recognized their distinguished contributions towards humanity. The Prize honours exceptional achievements in five categories: Service to Islam, Islamic Studies, Arabic Language & Literature, Medicine, and Science.

Professor Irwandi Jaswir, Deputy Dean of the International Institute for Halal Research and Training (INHART) and Secretary of Council of Professors at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), has been named the winner in the Service to Islam category for contributions to the development of ‘Halal Science’ and Halal food and consumer goods.

Professor Bashar Awad of Hadith at the International Islamic University, Jordan, has been named the winner of this year’s King Fai ... Read more »

HOUSTON-Friday, January 19th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Ascend Performance Materials announced today a price increase for its nylon 6,6 polymers, compounds and fibers due to escalating raw material costs.

The price increase takes effect Feb. 1, 2018, and includes the following price changes:

 

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DULUTH, Ga.-Friday, January 19th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- AGCO (NYSE: AGCO), a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of agricultural machinery and solutions, today held its first ever AGCO iVenture Summit in Berlin, Germany. The Summit is a joint initiative of AGCO, AGCO Finance, AGCO’s Fuse Technologies, and Anterra Capital, a venture capital investor focusing on companies in the food and agricultural sectors.

“Startups are disrupting traditional agriculture and address many of the world’s most significant challenges, including food security, farmer livelihood and resource efficiency,” said Martin Richenhagen, AGCO Chairman, President and CEO. “Today, we are bringing Silicon Valley to Berlin. Agri-tech startups will pitch ideas that make a real difference and stand for technological progress and innovation in agriculture.”

The AGCO iVenture Summit targets innovators and visionaries who act ... Read more »

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Wednesday, January 17th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- M24Seven, one of Europe’s best connectivity and internet infrastructure providers, recently partnered with leading email validation system ZeroBounce to verify email lists and improve deliverability. The new alliance helps M24Seven customers build a more consistent sender reputation and supports them in their marketing efforts.

Email remains the prevalent form of communication in the business sector, with the average office worker now receiving 120 emails per day. According to the Radicati Group, in 2018, business email will reach a peak of 139.4 billion emails sent and received, on a daily basis. However, around half of those emails never make it into the inbox of the designated recipients. Companies are therefore taking additional measures to ensure their emails are being delivered, given the importance of email deliverability in critical communication. Currently, the most ef ... Read more »

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Thursday, January 18th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Bank of America reported its fourth-quarter 2017 financial results today. The news release, supplemental filing and investor presentation can be accessed in the following ways:

   • Bank of America newsroom at http://newsroom.bankofamerica.com.
   • Bank of America Investor Relations website at http://investor.bankofamerica.com.
   • Business Wire’s news webpage at http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/news.

Investor Conference Call information

Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan and Chief Financial Officer Paul Donofrio will discuss the financial results in a conference call at 8:30 a.m. ET today. For a listen-only connection to the conference call, dial 1.877.200.4456 (U.S.) or 1.785.424.1732 (international), and the conference ID is 79795.

Please dial in 10 minutes prior to the start of the c ... Read more »

NEW YORK & LONDON-Thursday, January 18th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Faced with low interest rates and relatively high valuations for risk assets, large global institutional investors are looking to protect themselves against downturn risks through maintaining their cash levels and selectively increasing allocations to active strategies, according to a new survey by BlackRock.

While 65% of clients plan to leave cash allocations unchanged for the year ahead, the survey shows an interest in active management among institutional investors, which should play out across a diverse set of alternative asset classes, including illiquid assets and hedge funds, and also within public equities.

The survey of 224 institutional clients globally, representing $7.4 trillion1 in assets, found that illiquid or real assets remain the frontrunner within the private market universe for large global institutional investors and are expected to be the largest benefici ... Read more »