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LAKE MARY, Fla. - Monday, October 29th 2012

Harland Financial Solutions announced today its alliance with South Africa-based IZAZI Analytics. IZAZI’s expertise in process and business analysis and in-depth knowledge of the financial industry, combined with Harland Financial Solutions’ CreditQuest® software solution, will provide organizations with a complete credit risk management solution that successfully aligns with their business processes.

CreditQuest is a suite of integrated solutions that are built around the unique needs of credit management. It brings financial analysis, portfolio management, executive reporting, rating model administration and workflow management together into one system that can be deployed as a full suite or individually, depending on the specific needs of the organization. Harland Financial Solutions offers CreditQuest worldwide and has clients in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

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AMSTERDAM - Monday, October 29th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Regulatory News:

Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security announces that it has been selected by Vodafone Group, one of the world's largest mobile communications service providers, to provide and operate its global Trusted Service Management (TSM) platform and deploy NFC services solutions.

This multi-year global contract will provide the foundation for secure and convenient ‘wave and pay’ contactless transactions via mobile phone, as well as for numerous new services that demand the highest levels of security and integrity. Key elements of the end-to-end solution that is being integrated by Gemalto include the Allynis TSM service platform (a complete solution that ensures mobile payment end-to-end security encryption between financi ... Read more »

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Monday, October 29th 2012

(BUSINESS WIRE/ ME NewsWire)-- The HR Certification Institute (the Institute), the internationally recognized independent certifying body for the HR profession, has officially opened registration for the Human Resource Business Professional (HRBPSM) and Human Resource Management Professional (HRMPSM) exams to be offered in March 2013. The HRBP and HRMP credentials are designed for HR professionals primarily practicing outside of the United States and complement the Institute’s existing offerings.

The HRBP and HRMP focus on globally relevant HR concepts that are common across geographic locations and offer a way for HR professionals who have mastered their country’s HR practices and regulations to prove their skills in both the strategic and technical aspects of the profession. They were developed to validate core human resource knowledge and skills.

The HRBP validates professional-level core HR knowledge and skills and de ... Read more »

Patients with High Platelet Reactivity had 2.5 Times Greater Rate of Stent Thrombosis at 1-Year

MIAMI - Friday, October 26th 2012

(BUSINESS WIRE/ ME Newswire)-- Accumetrics, Inc., developer of the VerifyNow® System, the first rapid and easy-to-use point-of-care system for measuring platelet reactivity to multiple antiplatelet agents, today announced the presentation of the 1-year results from the Assessment of Dual AntiPlatelet Therapy with Drug-Eluting Stents (ADAPT-DES) registry at the 2012 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting. Study findings indicate a significant association between platelet reactivity and 12-month stent thrombosis, myocardial infarction, and death. ADAPT-DES had previously demonstrated an approximately four times greater rate of stent thrombosis at 30-days in patients with high residual platelet reactivity (HRPR), as measured by Accumetrics’ VerifyNow P2Y12 Test. This association continued through follow-up, as patients with H ... Read more »

HOUSTON - Friday, October 26th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Schlumberger Limited (NYSE:SLB) will hold a conference call on January 18, 2013 to discuss the results for the fourth quarter and full year ending December 31, 2012.

The conference call is scheduled to begin at 9:00 a.m. (US Eastern Time) – 3:00 p.m. (Paris time). A press release regarding the results will be released prior to the call that same day.

To access the conference call, listeners should contact the Conference Call Operator at +1-800-230-1059 within North America or +1-651-291-5254 outside of North America approximately 10 minutes prior to the start of the call, and ask for the "Schlumberger Earnings Conference Call.”

A webcast of the conference call will be broadcast simultaneously at www.slb.com/irwebcaston a listen-only basis. Listeners should log in 15 minutes prior to the start of the call to test their browsers and register for the webcast. Following the end of the conference ... Read more »

New UtilityIQ™ Software Offering Broadens Choice For Customers Worldwide

RIO DE JANEIRO & REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Friday, October 26th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today at the SENDI Brazil 2012 Conference, Silver Spring Networks, a leading networking platform and solutions provider for smart energy networks, unveiled enhanced standards support for Latin America, Europe, Asia, and other international markets with the latest version of its UtilityIQ™ 4.7 AMM application. The new offering includes native support for the DLMS/COSEM protocol, the accepted IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) standard for utility meter data exchange, and expanded language support for Brazilian Portuguese. Silver Spring’s IPv6-based networking platform already connects more than 12 million homes and businesses worldwide. These additions extend Silver Spring’s leadership in offering the market’s broadest range of device choice, eliminating vendor lock-in and delivering the ... Read more »

HANOI, Vietnam - Saturday, October 27th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

New Infrastructure, Jobs, Partnerships, Brand Building, Sustainability Programs Underline Vietnam Commitment

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Coca-Cola Company today announced a new system investment of US$300 million over the next three years in Vietnam to further capture growth opportunities in one of the world’s major emerging consumer markets. The stepped-up investment, commencing in 2013, will bring to US$500 million the total investment that The Coca-Cola Company and its bottling partners have committed to Vietnam from 2010 through 2015.

"Vietnam is an important growth market in Asia Pacific as we work to achieve our 2020 Vision goal of doubling system revenues this decade,” said Muhtar Kent, Chairman and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company, during a visit to Hanoi. "Vietnam’s economy has maintained healthy growth in recent years and this new financial commitment is more than an investment in Coca-Cola’s expansion in Vie ... Read more »

BOUDRY, Switzerland - Saturday, October 27th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

Society for Melanoma Research Abstracts Published Online in Organization’s Journal

(BUSINESS WIRE/ME NewsWire)-- Celgene International Sàrl, a subsidiary of Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG) today announced that abstracts for the upcoming Society for Melanoma Research meeting have been published online in the organization’s official journal at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pcmr.12023/abstract. The publication includes an abstract reviewing results from a phase III metastatic melanoma study with ABRAXANE® (paclitaxel protein-bound particles for injectable suspension) (albumin-bound).

In the randomized, open-label, international study (CA033), ABRAXANE showed a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) in chemotherapy-naïve patients with metastatic melanoma compared to patients receiving dacarbazine chemotherapy (4.8 vs. 2.5 months, respectively (HR:0.792; ... Read more »

Leading Pharma CRM Solution Enables Flexibility through Seamless Compatibility with Both Windows 8 and Apple iOS

PARIS - Friday, October 26th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cegedim Relationship Managementtoday announced that Mobile Intelligence 9, the company’s award winning mobile CRM platform, will be fully compatible with the Windows 8* PRO tablet. Mobile Intelligence 9 will feature the Life Sciences industry’s broadest support for new hardware and operating systems in order to afford companies with the latest in next generation technology. Cegedim is a leader in the Life Sciences mobile CRM market with over thirty-seven thousand users around the world leveraging the Mobile Intelligence application on iPads** or smartphones.

Innovative Pharma Mobile CRM Solution Continues to Lead by Offering Flexibility in Operating Systems

Over the last three years, an increasing number of Life Sciences commercial, medical, market access and key account management ... Read more »