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BUSINESS WIRE / ME NewsWire CANNES, France Tuesday, October 23rd 2012 

In recognition of the relationship between two American icons, Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey, in association with Frank Sinatra Enterprises (FSE), is launching a new ultra-premium expression in Travel Retail this October. Crafted from special "Sinatra barrels” the Jac ... Read more »

LOUGHBOROUGH, England & NEW DELHI - Wednesday, October 24th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

India’s largest oil & gas company to explore use of hydrogen for various fuel cell power systems in the Indian market

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Intelligent Energy, the global power technology company and Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IndianOil), India’s largest oil & gas company have signed a Statement of Intent to initiate demonstration projects and work collaboratively to develop the use of hydrogen in a range of fuel cell power systems in the Indian market. The Statement of Intent was signed by Dr. S.K. Sarangi, Executive Director, Alternate Energy, IndianOil and Dr. Henri Winand, CEO, Intelligent Energy in the presence of Mr. R.S. Butola, Chairman, IndianOil, at the PETROTECH-2012 event held in New Delhi, India.

Under the agreement, IndianOil and Intelligent Energy will prepare a multi-phased programme to demonstrate and eventually deploy hydrogen-based power systems applicatio ... Read more »

Alliance with CAP-Accredited Prodia Clinical Labs Enables Global Trials in World’s Fourth Most Populous Country

SINGAPORE & JAKARTA, Indonesia - Wednesday, October 24th 2012

(BUSINESS WIRE/ME NewsWire)-- Quintiles today announced the start of its first global study involving Indonesia, made possible by an exclusive alliance with Prodia Clinical Laboratoryto provide high quality in-country testing of samplesfrom Indonesian patients in clinical trials.

With a population of more than 240 million, Indonesia has been difficult to include in global trials because of requirements that all local samples be tested in-country before samples or data can be exported. Two things changed that: Prodia’s exclusive alliance with Quintiles to test trial samples; and its recent accreditation by the College of American Pathologists, the world’s foremost organization dedicated to laboratory quality improvement.

"We have embarked on a new chapter for clinical research in Ind ... Read more »

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Tuesday, October 23rd 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AquaFold, Inc. has released Aqua Data Studio 12.0, a major upgrade to its universal database query and administration software, allowing users to design and administer the latest class of relational databases effortlessly. With this release, Aqua Data Studio once again leaps ahead with remarkable speed improvements of 100% to 800% when working with big datasets. It also includes FluidShell, a fully integrated command line shell to automate database ETL (extract, transform and load) tasks, as well as a streamlined user interface, Subversion 1.7 support, and numerous enhancements to support larger databases and the latest database versions.

"This release is about lightning fast performance, particularly for Big Data,” says AquaFold’s CEO, Niels Gron. "Enterprises are growing their data warehouses exponentially and they are demanding tools that offer speed and cost-cutting automation to stay compe ... Read more »

DALLAS - Monday, October 22nd 2012

117 million active PayPal account holders will be able to load, send, withdraw funds from their accounts at MoneyGram locations around the world

(BUSINESS WIRE/ME NewsWire)-- MoneyGram(NYSE: MGI), a leading global money transfer company, today announced a new global agreement with PayPal that will enable consumers to easily access money in their digital wallets in the physical world. PayPal’s 117 million active account holders will now have the option to put cash in and take funds out of their PayPal accounts at MoneyGram locations.

This agreement brings together the world’s leading e-commerce payment company with the world’s second-largest global money transfer company to give consumers a fast, convenient and secure way to easily get funds out of their PayPal account and put cash in via MoneyGram locations. MoneyGram’s network currently includes more than 284,000 locations in 196 countries.

The new service options created ... Read more »

BUSINESS WIRE / ME NewsWire SHANGHAI - Monday, October 22nd 2012

The world’s leading pulp and paper manufacturer Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) and China Business News, one of the top business publications in China, have jointly initiated a new corporate social responsibility initiative aiming to enhance awareness of personal hygiene and help cultivate healthier lifestyle habits among youths living i ... Read more »

Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

JOHANNESBURG - Monday, October 22nd 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Dimension Data, the global ICT solutions and services provider, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders1 quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service2. Compiled by Gartner analysts, the Magic Quadrant examined 15 providers of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), employing two main evaluation criteria which include ‘ability to execute’ and ‘completeness of vision’.

Brett Dawson, Dimension Data CEO said, "We are extremely honoured to be positioned as a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service. The leading trend shaping the global IT services landscape is the emergence of cloud computing. We believe our investments in our cloud capabilities are testament to Dimension Data’s commitment to the cloud market, and we remain on track to become a formid ... Read more »