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COLOMBES, France -Wednesday, March 22nd 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- OT (Oberthur Technologies), a leading global provider of embedded security software products, services and solutions, today announces that it has been selected by the Andorran government to provide latest generation passports based on Lasink™ technology.

OT’s Lasink™ technology is used to bolster passport security and specifically passport photos. The 5-year contract covers passports, enrolment stations and photo booths.

Underpinned by OT’s patented technology, Lasink™ allows the document holder’s picture to be engraved directly into the polycarbonate personal data page. Lasink™ is the only solution on the market that is both very easy to authenticate and virtually impossible to copy. Moreover, the color technology gives polycarbonate documents a life span of more than 10 years.

Lasink™ is a complete ready-to-use solution that ... Read more »

 Global Partnership Empowers Marketers to Scale Programmatic Native and Video Campaigns To Reach Over 1 Billion Users in 50 Markets 

NEW YORK-Wednesday, March 22nd 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Taboola®, the leading global discovery platform, today announced its integration with The Trade Desk, Inc. (Nasdaq: TTD), a global technology for buyers of advertising. The collaboration enables The Trade Desk’s global advertisers to programmatically buy premium video and native placements across the largest content discovery platform in the world, reaching 1 billion users monthly.

This partnership brings together the largest source of open web native supply on desktop and mobile with advertising campaigns from global agencies and brands. Marketers are continuing to embrace a programmatic approach to digital marketing as the most efficient mechanism of buying inventory. According to eMarketer, programmatic digital ad spending is expected to ... Read more »

SES showcases innovative connectivity solutions to save lives and empower communities affected by natural and man-made disasters at Humanitarian ICT Forum

LUXEMBOURG-Wednesday, March 22nd 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- SES (Euronext Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) offers a broad range of solutions to support humanitarian and disaster relief efforts across the globe. Some of them were showcased during the Humanitarian ICT (Information and Communications Technology) Forum organised by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC), and held on the 21 and 22 March in Mountain View, California.

SES’s satellite solutions can help to restore essential communication links, ensuring immediate coverage via capacity reserved for relief efforts and support for multiple end-to-end humanitarian services.

Emergency.lu, a multi-layer platform, which includes a portable Rapid Deployme ... Read more »

LAUSANNE, Switzerland -Wednesday, March 22nd 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

    Converting existing cigarette factory in Greece into a production facility for the tobacco sticks to be used with IQOS.
    Annual capacity of around 20 billion tobacco sticks once fully operational.
    400 new jobs to be created.

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI) (NYSE/Euronext Paris: PM) today announced an investment of approximately €300 million to convert the cigarette factory of Papastratos, PMI’s affiliate in Greece, into a manufacturing plant for the tobacco sticks to be used with its smoke-free product IQOS. These tobacco sticks are currently commercialized as Heets or HeatSticks.

Since the equipment necessary to manufacture tobacco sticks for IQOS is larger than that required for cigarette manufacturing, the current facility area will be expanded. Once fully operational, the plant will have ... Read more »

 THE GLOBAL CONSULTANCY EXPANDS INTO AUSTRALIA

NEW YORK-Wednesday, March 22nd 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Morrow Sodali announced today that it has acquired a majority interest in leading Australian proxy solicitation and corporate governance firm Global Proxy Solicitation (GPS), expanding the firm’s network of global operations.

Morrow Sodali is the largest international firm providing comprehensive governance and shareholder engagement services to clients in all major markets around the world.

GPS, which has been the market leader in Australian proxy and governance services since 2007, will become the Australian arm of Morrow Sodali’s global business which combined serves more than 700 corporate clients in over 37 countries, with aggregate market capitalization in excess of US $5.5 trillion.

“The addition of Australia to our global network is an important milestone. This transaction with GPS r ... Read more »

Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates-Wednesday, March 22nd 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

The American University of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK), has signed a memorandum of understanding with Pázmány Péter Catholic University, becoming the Hungarian institution’s first partner within the UAE.

Dr. Szuromi Szabolcs, president of the Hungarian university, travelled to the UAE to sign the agreement alongside Prof. Hassan Hamdan Al Alkim, AURAK president. Speaking at the signing ceremony, Dr. Szuromi, stated, “This is my first visit to the UAE and it is truly a pleasure to be here and to cooperate with an institution in this region. I am very much looking forward to developing a strong relationship with AURAK.”

Prof. Al Alkim echoed Dr. Szuromi’s sentiments, adding, “Agreements like this are of critical important to our overall vision. Cultural understanding is at the center of our university’s ethos. We recognize that diversity ... Read more »

WALTHAM, Mass. -Wednesday, March 22nd 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Olympus’ latest addition to the Vanta™ series of handheld XRF analyzers is optimized to help ensure compliance with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS) and local or international regulatory laws. Like every Vanta analyzer, this new model combines fast, accurate results with a durable design for maximum uptime and a lower cost of ownership.

Vanta analyzers provide on-the-spot chemical analysis to quickly scan for toxic metals like lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg), chromium (Cr) and bromine (Br) in consumer products such as toys, apparel, footwear and electronics to comply with RoHS regulations. Excellent sensitivity and repeatability enable Vanta analyzers to achieve low detection limits for reliable pass/fail results of regulated elements.

Vanta XRF analyzers are accepted as a screening tool when testing for compliance with the following global h ... Read more »

 The collection of recyclables increased by 44% in six months

Dubai, United Arab Emirates-Tuesday, March 21st 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

Bee’ah, the Middle East’s leading and award-winning environmental management company, signed a contract with FedEx UAE. Bee’ah has collected several tonnes of waste and recyclables in six months from the multinational courier delivery service provider. FedEx, an environmentally conscious corporation, awarded Bee’ah the contract for three of its facilities due to their expertise in providing sustainable solutions and waste management strategies in the United Arab Emirates. This contract was signed by Khaled Al Huraimel, Group CEO of Bee’ah, and David Ross, FedEx’s Regional President in MEISA.

Packaging companies like FedEx are well known in the industry for the relatively large amount of waste they produce in a short timeframe. All indicators reveal that Bee’ah has helpe ... Read more »

LONDON -Tuesday, March 21st 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Dimension Data, the global ICT solutions and services provider, today published a new report that explores the current state of *hybrid IT deployments, as well as the key requirements and business drivers that determine workload-placement decisions.

The research of 1,500 IT decision makers from multiple vertical industries across the US, Europe, Asia-Pacific and South Africa, reveals that hybrid IT is becoming a standard enterprise model, but there’s no single playbook to get there. Looking at the top motivators to move to hybrid IT by country, Hong Kong, UK and US companies highlighted end-user demand most often, while respondents in France, Singapore and South Africa most often noted cost. Malaysian firms listed hiring challenges, and German firms mentioned limited data centre capacity as the most common motivating factors.

The Success Factors for Managing Hybrid IT report points to th ... Read more »

 Joint venture leverages Earth Networks’ lightning detection capabilities to create advanced nationwide Taiwanese lightning network

GERMANTOWN, Md. & TAIPEI, Taiwan & NORTH SYDNEY, Australia-Tuesday, March 21st 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Earth Networks, WeatherRisk and Weatherzone, today announced a joint venture between WeatherRisk and Weatherzone to create a first of its kind next generation lightning detection network in Taiwan using Earth Networks’ global lightning detection technology. The announcement was made ahead of InterMET Asia 2017, a leading global weather and climate industry conference and exhibit focused on mitigating and managing the risks of extreme weather and climate change.

The joint venture between WeatherRisk, Taiwan’s leading commercial weather information provider and Weatherzone, Australia’s leading commercial weather information provider, focused on developing a new lig ... Read more »