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KWN Global Awards Ceremony was held in Tokyo as part of the KWN Global Summit 2017

OSAKA, Japan -Thursday, August 10th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Panasonic Corporation held the awards ceremony for the Kid Witness News (KWN) Global Contest 2017 on August 4 in Tokyo. This year the Grand Prix in the Primary Category was won by "One day of Beijing Kids," the video of Beijing Haidian Wanquan Primary School of China, while the Grand Prix in the Secondary Category was won by "Open.," the video of Fukushima Prefectural Iwaki Senior High School.

The 26 first-place works in each country for the global contest this year were particularly notable for the degree to which they depicted the diverse societies and real world that children live in, from their own perspective as children, dealing with themes such as school, family, persons wit ... Read more »

 For this first-ever KWN summit, representatives of 26 schools from 18 countries and region joined together in Tokyo. 

OSAKA, Japan-Thursday, August 10th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Panasonic Corporation held the KWN Global Summit 2017, and the children participating from 18 countries and region presented their ideas under the title of "Our Proposal For A Better Future." The children's ideas included a society where people help each other and recognize diversity, a society where individuals can live the way they want to, a society without inequality, and a society that develops technologies that allow people to live in happiness. Amid a global environment that calls for the world to work more closely together, they created ideas for inclusive societies from their own perspective of the global issues facing society.

The KWN ... Read more »

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -Monday, August 14th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Masimo (NASDAQ:MASI) announced today that the Dubai Health Authority (DHA), the government organization that oversees the healthcare systems of Dubai, is augmenting its current inventory of Masimo equipment and technology with the implementation of Masimo Patient SafetyNet™*, a supplemental remote monitoring and clinician notification system, at two hospitals in Dubai.

Masimo Patient SafetyNet enables information from bedside monitors, such as Masimo Root® with the Radical-7® or wearable Radius-7® Pulse CO-Oximeter®, to be accessible from a central viewing station. When changes occur in measured values, which may indicate deterioration in a patient’s condition, Patient SafetyNet automatically sends wireless alerts directly to clinicians, wherever they may be. In addition, Patient SafetyNet can automate the transfer of patient data, includi ... Read more »

VILLEJUIF, France -Thursday, August 10th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- WIN Consortium (WIN) received the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s approval to start the clinical investigation of a novel therapeutic approach using a combination of three targeted therapies for the first line treatment of patients with advanced Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC). The Survival Prolongation by Rationale Innovative Genomics (SPRING) trial will aim to enroll patients who are usually offered first line platinum-based chemotherapy. Patients with documented targetable driver alterations (EGFR mutations, ALK rearrangements, ROS1 and MET exon 14 skipping mutations) will be excluded. The population of NSCLC patients without actionable oncogenic driver mutations, envisioned for the enrollment in SPRING trial, represents the vast majority of patients with metastatic NSCLC (~80% in the Caucasian population).

With over 60% of NSCLC detected in an advanced o ... Read more »

CHICAGO -Thursday, August 10th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- BAI announced the finalists for the BAI Global Innovation Awards, a prestigious awards program celebrating innovation in the financial services industry. Winners will be announced at BAI Beacon in Atlanta on October 4-5.

The BAI Global Innovation Awards recognizes industry leaders changing the industry and positively impacting profitability, efficiency and customer experience. Since 2011, BAI’s Global Innovation Awards has grown from two to 10 categories plus three special awards recognizing outstanding achievements across the primary Awards categories. Nominations are evaluated by the Innovation Circle Judging Panel, a worldwide roster of leaders who carefully weigh each application to uncover the brightest in innovative offerings based on originality and the impact to consumers and the industry.

The 2017 BAI Global Innovation Awards finalists are:

Product and S ... Read more »

LAS VEGAS -Friday, August 11th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]
Revenue of $52 million, up 37% year over year
Annualized subscription revenue of $208 million, up 37% year over year
Deferred revenue of $170 million, up 29% year over year
Year to date gross profit of 63%, up from 58% year over year
Announced signing of definitive merger agreement with GP Investments Acquisition Corp.
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rimini Street, Inc. (“Rimini Street” or the “Company”) a global provider of enterprise software products and services, and a leading independent support provider for Oracle and SAP products, today announced results for its fiscal 2017 Q2 ending June 30, 2017.
2017 Q2 Financial Highlights
Fiscal 2017 Q2 marked Rimini Street’s 46th consecutive quarter of sequential revenue growth. Results included record quarterly revenue of $52 million, a quarterly increase of 37% year over year, and annualized subscription revenue of $208 m ... Read more »

NEUCHATEL, Switzerland-Monday, August 7th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) announced today the findings of a recently published study in which researchers at Cairo University in Egypt evaluated the performance of Masimo SpHb®, noninvasive, continuous hemoglobin measurement, in trauma patients with low hemoglobin levels.1

In the prospective, observational study, Dr. Gamal and colleagues sought to evaluate SpHb measurements on trauma patients with low hemoglobin levels (below 8 g/dL) because trauma patients are “vulnerable to frequent blood transfusion.” They enrolled 70 adult patients with hemoglobin levels lower than 8 g/dL who were admitted to the emergency department (ED) of Cairo University Hospital and scheduled for surgical intervention. While in the ED, the patients’ SpHb was continuously monitored using a Masimo Radical-7® Pulse CO-Oximeter®, with initial baseline measurement recorded as w ... Read more »

 Winners to be Selected and Announced at The Year in Infrastructure 2017 Conference, October 10-12 in Singapore

EXTON, Pa. -Friday, August 11th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today announced the finalists in the 2017 Be Inspired Awards program. The annual awards honor the extraordinary work of Bentley users advancing infrastructure design, construction, and operations throughout the world. Ten independent jury panels comprising distinguished industry experts selected the 51 finalists from more than 400 nominations submitted by organizations in more than 50 countries.

The finalists will present their innovative projects to their peers, the jurors, industry thought leaders, and more than 120 members of the media as part of related infrastructure forums at The Year in Infrastructure 2017 Conference, October 10-12 i ... Read more »

Largest CRM and BPO provider in Latin America plans to continue leveraging its robust and stable SAP ECC platform; No current ROI or business value to migrate to S/4HANA

LAS VEGAS & SÃO PAULO -Friday, August 11th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rimini Street, Inc., a global provider of enterprise software products and services, and the leading independent support provider for Oracle and SAP products, today announced that Atento is saving 60% on its total annual SAP maintenance costs by switching from SAP to Rimini Street support two years ago. Atento is the main provider of customer relationship services and solutions in Latin America, and is among the top three companies of this sector in the world, with broad operational presence in 15 countries. In addition to the substantial savings realized, Atento can run its robust, stable and global SAP ECC 6.0 system for a minimum of 15 years with full support and no required upgrades.

Reducing Dependence o ... Read more »

 Punitive damages hearing set for August 22nd following ruling that Edalat defrauded investors in Pharma Pak, Inc. and deliberately defamed Cahill 

BOSTON -Thursday, August 10th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Boston-based law firm Markham & Read today announced that in the case of Bruce Cahill et. al. versus Paul Pejman Edalat et. al. (U.S. Federal Court Docket: 8:16-cv-00686), a federal jury has determined that Edalat deliberately acted with oppression, fraud or malice toward Cahill, the former CEO by of Pharma Pak, Inc. who claimed Edalat had launched a smear campaign against him on social media over a year-long period.

The jury issued an award of $600,000 in damages suffered by Cahill and ruled that Edalat is liable for punitive damages. A hearing will take place in U.S. District Court, Central District of California (Santa Ana division) on August 22nd to determine the extent of punitive damages.

The jury also found that Edalat ... Read more »