SDC LAUNCHES CLEARCHOICE™ INTERACTIVE PRODUCT SELECTOR GUIDE

Interactive product selector guides coating users to the most appropriate coating technologies


IRVINE, Calif., July 28 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SDC Technologies, Inc. (SDC), the recognized global leader in premium, high performance abrasion resistant coating solutions, has launched a new interactive product selector tool called ClearChoice Coatings in conjunction with its FSI Coating Technologies subsidiary. The tool allows product engineers to easily search for the best coating solution for any need by selecting product characteristics such as coating type, substrate, feature, cure and application method and chemistry, as well as use parameters such as industry and market, and application method. The tool enables users to compare up to three products at a time and generate a PDF for future reference.

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IIOT WORLD TOUR TO STOP IN SINGAPORE ON SEPTEMBER 15, 2017, HOSTED BY THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET CONSORTIUM AND PLATTFORM INDUSTRIE 4.0

SINGAPORE, July 31 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and Plattform Industrie 4.0 have announced a stop in Singapore on their IIoT World Tour, which brings together industry leaders from both organizations and local organizations to accelerate the digitalization of industrial production. The two organizations have partnered with the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), to co-host an event in Singapore, held in conjunction with A*STAR’s Future of Manufacturing Singapore, a series of events related to advanced manufacturing. The Singaporean-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce will serve as a further local partner for the event.
 
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies will dramatically improve productivity and efficiencies throughout the entire manufacturing supply chain, with processes governing intelligent machines to improve production and even take corrective action to avoid unscheduled downtime. A thriving manufacturing sector helps strengthen the global economy.

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NTT COMMUNICATIONS EXPANDS PRESENCE IN INDIA TO MEET GROWING DIGITAL DEMAND

Company launches international data network services and plans to invest more than 160 million USD for data center expansion in India. 

 

MUMBAI, India, July 27 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group (TOKYO:9432), today announced the launch of international data network services in India through its affiliate NTT Communications India Network Services (NTTCINS). The acquisition of this licence in India follows the initiation of construction of the Company’s two new data centers in Mumbai and Bangalore, through Netmagic, a subsidiary of NTT Com and one of the leading managed hosting and cloud service providers in India.
This reinforces the Company’s commitment to enable customers with high-quality infrastructure services as well as the management and security services to meet their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) outsourcing needs.

NTT Com acquired Virtual Network Operator - International Long Distance (VNO-ILD) network licence in March this year. NTT Com has been providing Arcstar Universal One services as its international network services, by partnering with local carriers. The Company implements its own value-added services such as Network Virtualization Functions (NVF), while utilizing the infrastructure of its partner carriers in India.

NTT Com is the first Japanese ICT provider of VNO-ILD network licence in India.

On top of this move, NTT Com has decided to invest more than 160 million USD on the two data centers, which will become operational by April 2018. These data centers will add nearly 500,000 square feet of gross floor space at full build. This brings NTT Com’s total gross footprint to 1,100,000 square feet in India.
“India has been a key strategic market for us with the accelerating shift of IT services from traditional enterprise data centres into the cloud-based services,” said NTT Com President and CEO Tetsuya Shoji. “For the past few years, our business in India has consistently grown over 35 percent annually. With further expansion of data center foot print and addition of international data network services to our service portfolio, we aim to meet the growing market needs for Mobility, e-Commerce, Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud and Big Data.” 

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A.M. BEST AFFIRMS CREDIT RATINGS OF PROVIDENT INSURANCE CORPORATION LIMITED

SINGAPORE, July 28 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- A.M. Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B++ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “bbb” of Provident Insurance Corporation Limited (PICL) (New Zealand). The outlook of these Credit Ratings (ratings) is stable.
 
The ratings reflect PICL’s adequate risk-adjusted capitalization, prudent reserving and conservative investment portfolio. Moreover, despite the company’s start-up nature, its operating performance and claims experience during its first four years of operations have been largely consistent with initial projections.
 
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TGS Q2 2017 WEBCAST AND TELECONFERENCE

ASKER, Norway, July 28 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TGS will release its Q2 2017 results at approximately 07:00 CEST on 3 August 2017. CEO Kristian Johansen and CFO Sven Børre Larsen will present the results at 09:00 CEST at the Hotel Continental, Stortingsgata 24/26 in Oslo, Norway. The presentation is open to the public and can be followed live on the internet at www.tgs.com.
 
The slides from the presentation will also be available in PDF format at both the TGS and Oslo Stock Exchange websites.
 
CEO Kristian Johansen and CFO Sven Børre Larsen will host a conference call on 3 August 2017 at 15:00 CEST (09:00 EDT). Attendees may want to call 5-10 minutes before to ensure registration and access.

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AMAZON INTRODUCES PRIME NOW IN SINGAPORE: FREE TWO-HOUR DELIVERY ON TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ITEMS

Prime Now is the first Amazon retail service to launch in Singapore, offering free two-hour delivery on grocery items, local favorites and name-brand goods
 
SEATTLE, July 28 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the launch of Prime Now in Singapore, which offers free two-hour delivery on tens of thousands of items right from your phone. Customers can shop on the Prime Now app for everything on their list from eggs, cold beverages and ice cream to baby strollers, toys, and consumer electronics. Local favorites such as Tiger Balm, Milo, Scotch-Brite and MamyPoko diapers as well as products from iconic brands including L’Oreal, Pampers, and Samsung are also available for ultra-fast delivery right to your door with free two-hour delivery on orders of S$40 or more.
 
“We are excited to introduce the busy people in Singapore to this convenient, ultra-fast delivery solution to get more time back to do the things they love,” said Aarif Nakhooda, Director of Prime Now Asia-Pacific. “Prime Now is powered by Amazon’s more than 20 years of operational and technological excellence and hundreds of Singapore’s talented and skilled associates.”
 
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NASDAQ REPORTS SECOND QUARTER 2017 RESULTS; ACHIEVES RECORD QUARTERLY NET REVENUES

NEW YORK, July 27 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2017.  Second quarter 2017 net revenues were $602 million, up $43 million or 8% from $559 million in the prior year period.  The second quarter increase in net revenues included a $34 million positive impact from acquisitions and $15 million, or 3%, organic growth, partially offset by a $6 million unfavorable impact due to changes in foreign exchange rates.

 
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ACAPTURE AND BOATSTERS LAUNCH THE FIRST, END-TO-END VR WEBSHOP

With this white label app, merchants can now cover the entire customer journey, from selection to payment, offering a complete omnichannel experience
 
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, July 27 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Acapture, a global, data-driven omnichannel PSP, together with Boatsters, a world leading rental platform for yachts and boats, have launched a Virtual Reality (VR) webshop pilot project.
 
Available as a white label application, Acapture’s VR webshop solution can be utilized and personalized by any merchant looking to add VR to their offering. The application covers the entire customer journey, from selection to payment. When consumers are ready to make a purchase, the payment is supported by Acapture’s award winning payment platform and completed entirely within the VR environment. Webshops created with this application can be accessed by consumers via their smartphone at the lowest-priced headsets available.
 
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CROWDSTRIKE LAUNCHES THE FASTEST AND LARGEST CYBERSECURITY SEARCH ENGINE

— New CrowdStrike Falcon® Search Engine empowers next-gen Security Operations Centers to search in real-time on the world’s fastest and most comprehensive security platform —

 

SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 27 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- CrowdStrike^® Inc., the leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, today announced that it has significantly expanded the capabilities of the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform by launching CrowdStrike Falcon Search Engine, the fastest and largest search engine for cybersecurity data. Today, CrowdStrike is introducing CrowdStrike Falcon MalQuery, the malware search and intelligence component of the search engine as part of its Summer product release.

With a vision to change the way security research, threat data collection, and intrusion detections and remediations are conducted, CrowdStrike is building the CrowdStrike Falcon Search Engine to be the industry’s most comprehensive platform for cyber threat intelligence and threat research. CrowdStrike Falcon’s scalable cloud-based architecture makes it the ideal foundation for a cybersecurity search engine.

CrowdStrike has built the largest searchable threat database in the cybersecurity industry, ingesting more than 51 billion security events a day, and indexing more than 700 million files totaling more than 560TB of malware that can be searched in real-time. With this launch, customers can take advantage of the data to significantly speed up and improve their malware research capabilities in the Security Operations Center (SOC).

Key Capabilities of CrowdStrike Falcon MalQuery:

CrowdStrike Falcon MalQuery is available to existing CrowdStrike customers as an additional service and can be purchased as a stand-alone offering by new customers. With this new capability, customers gain the following significant advantages from the CrowdStrike Falcon platform:

• Speed – CrowdStrike’s malware search engine is the fastest in the industry, enabling searching of 560TB of data in mere seconds, which currently takes days or weeks with other systems. This speed delivers a 250x performance increase for malware research without compromising the amount of data being searched. These speed gains are realized for all types of search, including string-based or YARA-based searches.
• Clarity – CrowdStrike delivers the ability to search across the largest and most comprehensive searchable database of malware in the industry. The technology gives researchers more complete results by indexing both file metadata as well as the binary contents of the file, and overlaying the results with CrowdStrike Falcon Threat Intelligence. This yields high-fidelity results and empowers the researcher to take informed action based on only the most relevant search results and their related threat intelligence.
• Protection – CrowdStrike’s faster, more accurate results lead to higher quality protection rules for proactive defense against future threats, which enables greater understanding and protection against an attacker’s next move. Customers of the CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint Protection platform can also conduct real-time investigations based on search results to immediately understand their exposure to threats.
• Fully Integrated – Through a single console, customers can search CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence data for indicators, actors and reports with results displayed as a readily consumable, schematized snapshots. Additionally, they can conduct YARA searches with cross correlation to all CrowdStrike Intelligence data.

Moving faster than the adversaries and understanding threats in context are key to gaining the tactical advantage needed to defend organizations from modern-day sophisticated attacks. The reality for security professionals today is that their research tools are simply too slow. It can take hours or days to understand an attack and take protective action. They have to contend with slow queries, disjointed, incomplete data set and too many false positives, making it difficult to understand and thwart threats strategically. Search engines have revolutionized the speed at which we do research in all other aspects of our life and the CrowdStrike Falcon Search Engine does the same for cybersecurity.

At the core of the CrowdStrike Falcon Search Engine is patent-pending indexing technology. This index enables the engine to search across file metadata, the binary contents of the file itself, as well as the threat intelligence related to the file. The CrowdStrike Falcon Search Engine binary index is game-changing for security researchers with the scope of the data it indexes and the speed at which it can be searched, delivering only the most relevant search results in real-time.

The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform enables search over all collected content: endpoint data, intelligence indicators and malware corpus. Its Investigate module allows CrowdStrike Falcon platform customers to search real-time and historical data for their enterprise with zero impact to their endpoints. With this announcement, CrowdStrike is also launching Intel indicator search that enable rapid consumption of search results without requiring the review of large contextual sources. As a result, for the first time, cybersecurity professionals have a tool that can keep up with rapid change arising from polymorphic malware and rapidly evolving threat variants.

Supporting Quotes:

George Kurtz, CrowdStrike’s co-founder and chief executive officer

“Today’s threat landscape demands speed and precision – some of the best minds in cybersecurity are hampered by slow search tools and limited data sets. We believe that real-time data access is how cybersecurity professionals can get ahead of modern-day threats, and we’ve built the fastest AI-enabled platform that makes this possible. With today’s launch, we are fundamentally changing the game by empowering threat researchers to outpace the adversary with this solution. CrowdStrike Falcon Search Engine enables the next-gen SOC to be more productive and acts as a powerful force multiplier for security teams.”

Robert Westervelt, research manager, IDC

“CrowdStrike is providing an innovative resource that incident responders can use to thoroughly investigate and determine the full extent of potential threats. This comprehensive threat search tool addresses a significant market gap frequently hampering the ability of security teams from rapidly providing adequate protection against emerging threats and targeted attacks. The introduction of the Falcon Search Engine eliminates the blind spots and gives defenders the agility and accuracy required to create well-formed protection rules.”

If you are interested in learning more, read a blog about the announcement here. You can register here for a free trial.

About CrowdStrike®

CrowdStrike is the leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection. The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform offers instant visibility and protection across the enterprise and prevents attacks on endpoints on or off the network. CrowdStrike Falcon deploys in minutes to deliver actionable intelligence and real-time protection from Day One. Falcon seamlessly unifies next-generation AV with best-in-class endpoint detection and response, backed by 24/7 managed hunting. Its cloud infrastructure and single-agent architecture take away complexity and add scalability, manageability, and speed. CrowdStrike Falcon protects customers against all cyber attack types, using sophisticated signatureless artificial intelligence/machine learning and Indicator-of-Attack (IOA) based threat prevention to stop known and unknown threats in real time. Powered by the CrowdStrike Threat Graph™, Falcon instantly correlates 51 billion security events from across the globe to immediately prevent and detect threats.

There’s much more to the story of how Falcon has redefined endpoint protection but there’s only one thing to remember about CrowdStrike: We stop breaches.
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Contacts

CrowdStrike, Inc.
Ilina Dimitrova, 202-340-0517
Ilina.dimitrova@crowdstrike.com

 

Source: CrowdStrike

A.M. BEST AFFIRMS CREDIT RATINGS OF YOUI NZ PTY LIMITED

SINGAPORE, July 27 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- A.M. Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B++ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “bbb” of Youi NZ Pty Limited (Youi NZ) (New Zealand). The outlook of these Credit Ratings (ratings) is stable.
 
The ratings reflect Youi NZ’s strong balance sheet, which is due to the company’s low underwriting leverage, as well as its prudent reinsurance program and conservative investment approach. In addition, actual claims experience during the company’s first three years of operation were largely consistent with the assumptions used in pricing its policies.

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NASDAQ ANNOUNCES QUARTERLY DIVIDEND OF $0.38 PER SHARE

NEW YORK, July 27 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Board of Directors of Nasdaq, Inc (Nasdaq:NDAQ) has declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.38 per share on the company's outstanding common stock.  The dividend is payable on September 29, 2017 to shareowners of record at the close of business on September 15, 2017.  Future declarations of quarterly dividends and the establishment of future record and payment dates are subject to approval by the Board of Directors.

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CARBON BLACK NAMED 'ASIA-PACIFIC EMERGING CYBERSECURITY VENDOR OF THE YEAR' BY FROST & SULLIVAN

SINGAPORE, July 27 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Carbon Black, the leader in next-generation endpoint security, today announced the company was named “Asia-Pacific Emerging Cyber Security Vendor of the Year” by Frost & Sullivan at the annual ICT awards ceremony in Singapore.
 
The contenders for the Frost & Sullivan Asia-Pacific ICT Awards were evaluated on a variety of market performance indicators which include revenue growth, market share and growth in market share, leadership in product innovation, breadth of products and solutions, major customer acquisitions, and business and market strategy as well as other category-specific criteria.
 
A team of 30 leading Frost & Sullivan analysts and consultants based in the Asia-Pacific were involved in the shortlisting, evaluation and research process, applying the same thorough approach that has been the hallmark of Frost & Sullivan globally.

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MIXI, INC. UPDATES FAMILY ALBUM MITENE WITH ENGLISH SUPPORT, AN AWARD WINNING FAMILY ALBUM APP THAT ENABLES FAMILIES TO SHARE PHOTO/VIDEO IN A PRIVATE NETWORK

TOKYO, July 26 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- mixi, Inc. (TOKYO:2121) today announced the update of Family Album Mitene (“Mitene” below), an award winning family album app to support English for in-app language. Mitene is currently available in Apple’s App Store and Google Play Store in over 150 countries.

Mitene is an app for sharing family photos and videos in real-time. This app allows parents to share media exclusively with grandparents and other family members. Parents can upload unlimited photos and videos of their children’s everyday life and special events with ease, encouraging fun communication between family members. At present, Mitene is shared and enjoyed by over 1.5 million users, with over 35 million photos and videos shared every month (as of June 2017).

*1 Total registered iOS, Android, and browser-based users

Mitene is available in over 150 countries worldwide in Japanese. To meet the needs of people everywhere who takes photos and videos of their child in daily basis, an English version of the app has been created so families across the world can enjoy the communication with family members, partners and grandparents by sharing photos and videos of their children.

By fostering family communication through photo and video sharing, Mitene helps to brings families one step closer together every day.

Users can access the English version of Mitene simply by switching their smartphone language setting to English. The app will then switch languages automatically, with no other special changes needed.

Mitene Features
FREE UNLIMITED STORAGE
Upload unlimited photos and videos of your children at high speeds for free

FAMILY-ONLY COMMUNICATION FOR ALL GENERATIONS
All the contents are accessible from the app or web browser but only the people you invite can access

AUTOMATICALLY ORGANIZED ALBUM
The pictures and videos you upload are organized automatically by month to show how your children have grown

FREE AUTO-PRODUCED 1S MOVIES
If you upload 20 or more videos, Mitene creates a new video with one-second clips from each one

PHOTOBOOK EVERY MONTH
Using the media you upload, Mitene creates organized photobooks once a month

For more information, please visit below.
iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jia-zuarubamu-mitene-zi-gongno/id935672069?mt=8
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=us.mitene
Website: https://mitene.us/en

mixi, Inc. [ http://mixi.co.jp/en/overview/ ]

mixi, Inc. aims to create new environments by providing communication-based services. With the start of Find Job! in 1997 when the company was founded, the social networking service mixi, and the slingshot action RPG Monster Strike (managed by the company’s entertainment arm, XFLAG™ Studio), mixi, Inc. is constantly providing new experiences for its users while aiming to build new markets.

Contacts

Contact Info
mixi, Inc.
Tomo Motoyoshi
Vantage Studio
press-vantage@mixi.co.jp

 

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'XI JIA' PAN (823 B.C. CHINA): ANCIENT BRONZE PLATE BREAKS AUCTION RECORD

HANGZHOU, China, July 26, 2017 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/--
 
A few days ago, an eye-catching bronze 'Xi Jia' Pan (823 B.C.) was sold at Xiling Yinshe Auction (www.xlysauc.com) with a remarkable price of RMB 212.75 million ($31.5 million, commission included), setting a new record for Chinese works of art in China.
 
'Xi Jia' Pan, with as many as 133 characters of inscription, is the only existing bronze from the Western Zhou Dynasty collected by the royal family of Southern Song Dynasty. Wang Guowei, a famous modern Chinese scholar, held it of greater importance than 'Mao Gong' Ding (Duke Mao Tripod), which is treasured in the "National Palace Museum" in Taipei. According to Wang, 'Xi Jia' Pan's original owner Yin Jifu was not only a great politician and military strategist, but also the collector and compiler of Shijing (Book of Songs), China's earliest collection of Chinese poetry.

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REDHILL BIOPHARMA REPORTS 2017 SECOND QUARTER FINANCIAL RESULTS

RedHill maintains a debt-free balance sheet with $51 million cash¹ at the end of the second quarter of 2017 

Select recent milestones include:

·         Initial net revenues of approximately $0.5 million between June 12-30 following commencement of promotional activities in the U.S. by RedHill’s GI-focused sales force with two GI specialty products, Donnatal^® and EnteraGam^®

·         Positive top-line results from the Phase III GUARD study with BEKINDA^® (RHB-102) 24 mg for acute gastroenteritis and gastritis      
 

·         Initiation of the confirmatory Phase III study with TALICIA^™ (RHB-105) for the treatment of H. pylori infection      
 

·         Last patient out in the Phase II study with BEKINDA^® 12 mg for IBS-D      
 

·         Orphan Drug designation granted to YELIVA^® (ABC294640) for the treatment of cholangiocarcinoma 

Select potential milestones expected in the second half of 2017:

·         Second independent DSMB meeting of the RHB-104 first Phase III study for Crohn’s disease, including an interim efficacy analysis and an evaluation of an option for early stop for success for overwhelming efficacy; DSMB recommendation is expected to be announced by early August 2017
 

·         Top-line results from the BEKINDA^® 12 mg Phase II study for IBS-D, expected in September 2017        
 

·         Type B FDA meeting regarding the successful Phase III GUARD study with BEKINDA^® 24 mg, expected by October 2017
 

·         Initiation of several Phase Ib and Phase II studies with YELIVA^® for cholangiocarcinoma, mucositis in head and neck cancer and ulcerative colitis, and with MESUPRON for pancreatic cancer
 

·         Re-submission of the RIZAPORT^® NDA to the FDA, expected in October 2017

TEL-AVIV, Israel and RALEIGH, N.C., July 26 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RedHill Biopharma Ltd. (NASDAQ:RDHL) (Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange:RDHL) (“RedHill” or the “Company”), a specialty biopharmaceutical company primarily focused on late clinical-stage development and commercialization of proprietary, orally-administered, small molecule drugs for gastrointestinal and inflammatory diseases and cancer, today reported its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2017.

Company contact:

Adi Frish

Senior VP Business Development &

Licensing

RedHill Biopharma

+972-54-6543-112

adi@redhillbio.com

IR contact (U.S.):

Marcy Nanus

Senior Vice President

The Trout Group

+1-646-378-2927

Mnanus@troutgroup.com

SOURCE : RedHill Biopharma Ltd.