Geneva, Switzerland (ots) - WISeID is a biometric authentication solution able to store all your passwords, PIN numbers, etc. in a digital, encrypted safe. It is available on the iPhone, Android and even in Windows. The Swiss electronic wallet is therefore becoming, de facto, a gateway between various operating systems. It can be used on your PC, tablet or mobile ...
Geneva (ots) - High-Tech Bridge (https://www.htbridge.com/) is pleased to announce its partnership with the Open Security Foundation (OSF) (http://www.opensecurityfoundation.org/) and Open Security Vulnerability Database (OSVDB) (http://www.osvdb.org/)in particular. Ilia Kolochenko, CEO of High-Tech Bridge, says "At High-Tech Bridge, we are pleased to welcome the founders of OSF, Jake Kouns ...
Goetzis, Austria (ots) - Lov!it - a unique reversed market platform for e- commerce shops and blogs - is now offering also credit card, direct debit and PayPal payments. With these new products Lov!it continues its internationalisation strategy. Lov!it now offers all important payment options and is able to substitute old fashioned payment service providers. Additional services are dunning, taxation in over 15 countries ...
Bern (ots) - BKW is undertaking additional investigations to safeguard the longterm operation of the Mühleberg nuclear power plant (KKM). This is necessary since the initial indicative tenders show that the original estimated costs of 170 million CHF will be exceeded. An assessment of economic viability and a ...
Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials AG
Amsterdam/Zurich (ots) - Swiss Takeover Board (TOB) confirms correctness of Quadrant offer price; Sarasin Investmentfonds AG (now part of the Safra Group) defeated in long-standing legal dispute The Swiss Takeover Board (TOB) issued a order today reaffirming the correctness of the public tender offer made by Aquamit B.V. for Quadrant AG in 2009. The TOB confirms in its order that the offer price paid to minority ...
Genève (ots) - High-Tech Bridge (https://www.htbridge.com/ ) is pleased to celebrate its fifth anniversary on December 12, 2012. We are grateful to all the customers for their loyalty and trust. On this remarkable date, High-Tech Bridge is also proud to partially uncover its innovative in-house product named ImmuniWeb®, expected by many customers, partners and ...
Lugano, Switzerland (ots) - The Swiss pharmaceutical Helsinn Group announces today that Taiho Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Japanese licensee of Helsinn's second generation 5-HT3 receptor antagonist (5- HT3 RA) palonosetron, has launched on the national market the 0.75mg infusion bag formulation of palonosetron hydrochloride (Aloxi®). The infusion bag is an additional formulation to the 0.75mg injectable form already marketed ...
Bern (ots) - BKW Inc. has approved the agreement governing the transfer of the trans-mission grid to swissgrid. BKW will therefore transfer ownership of its transmission grid to swissgrid on 3 January 2013. Back in 2009 BKW, along with other transmission grid owners, began working with swissgrid, the national grid company, on preparations for this transaction as prescribed by law. The contractual and operational ...
Bern (ots) - On 23 November 2012 BKW Inc. placed for the first time two registered notes with terms of 15 and 20 years and for nominal amounts of EUR 40 million and EUR 85 million, respectively. The registered notes are debentures under German law and were placed in Germany. The successful raising of credit on the German capital market secures the currency- and country-matched funding of BKW's investments in Germany and ...
Schlieren-Zurich (ots) - An innovative new test is now available to detect TSE (scrapie and mad cow disease) in sheep and goats. With the Prionics®-Check PrioSTRIP SR, Prionics brings to the market the first test to achieve high diagnostic sensitivity on preclinical TSE cases. The test was approved today by the European Commission for use in TSE testing in small ...
Lugano (ots) - Helsinn Group announces that it has signed an agreement with the Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology to provide long-term financial support for CancerLinQ, a multi-phase initiative to build a rapid learning system in oncology. Helsinn supports the Foundation's ...
Ittigen, Switzerland (ots) - Pevion Biotech AG today announced the launch of a new program called Defensomes, a platform for broad spectrum immune enhancement via mechanisms of innate immunity. The proprietary technology is derived from a vaccine platform with a solid safety track record comprising more than 80 ...
Bern (ots) - Since it was first commissioned in early November 1972, Mühleberg nuclear power plant (KKM), owned by BKW AG, has produced more than 108 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity reliably and cost-effectively. This corresponds to almost twice the volume of electricity consumed annually by the whole of Switzerland. Successful operation coupled with the ...
Bern (ots) - Samuel Leupold, member of the Executive Board and Head of the Energy International and Trading division, is leaving BKW mid-February next year, to take up a position as member of the executive board of Danish energy company Dong Energy, where he will be responsible for the off-shore wind division. Samuel Leupold joined BKW on August 1, 2006, as Head of Production. Since April 1, 2008, he has been a member of ...
Basel, Switzerland/Miami, USA (ots) - FleetPro Passenger Ship Management ("FleetPro") will commence operation on November 1st, 2012, and be the leading independent manager of passenger ships with a worldwide operation in both the ocean going and river vessel markets. FleetPro results from the combination of River ...
Zurich, Switzerland (ots) - Sequana Medical is pleased to announce that it has received CE mark approval for use of its alfapump® system in patients with ascites caused by cancer (malignant ascites). The alfapump® system was first introduced to the European market last year for patients with refractory ascites ...
Zug (ots) - AmVac AG has announced that it has made decisive progress in the development of their new RSV vaccine. The vaccine candidate is based on AmVac's innovative Sendai virus vector platform and developed for the prevention of respiratory infections, which are induced by RSV (respiratory syncytial virus). RSV ...
Bern (ots) - BKW is lodging an appeal with the Federal Administrative Court against the decision issued by the Federal Electricity Commission (ElCom) at the end of September 2012 concerning the value of the transmission grid. The appeal concerns an objection to the method defined by ElCom for determining the value ...
Quantum Global Corporate Servives AG
Zug, Switzerland / London, GB (ots) - Quantum Global Real Estate ("Quantum Global") und LaSalle Investment Management ("LaSalle") announce that Plaza Global Real Estate Partners ("Plaza"), their joint venture, has contracted to purchase a 49.5% interest in 521 Fifth Avenue from SL Green Realty Corp. (NYSE: SLG) ("SL ...
Geneva, Switzerland (ots) - Le Guin, the new German handcrafted luxury eyewear manufacturer, and WISeKey, the Swiss digital brand protection company, recently partnered to protect and enhance Le Guins newly launched titanium eyewear collection. Developed and manufactured in an established high-end factory in the south of Germany, with decades of expertise in the field of mechanical engineering and craftsmanship all Le ...
Freienbach, Switzerland (ots) - EffRx Pharmaceuticals SA is proud to announce that BINOSTO (TM) (alendronate sodium) Effervescent Tablet for buffered oral solution (70 mg) is now available by prescription in the United States. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this year approved BINOSTO to treat ...
Lugano, Switzerland and Melbourne, Australia (ots) - Helsinn Healthcare SA and STA reinforce their Cancer Supportive Care Alliance in Australia and New Zealand with a Distribution and License Agreement for the innovative phase III ghrelin receptor agonist Melbourne biopharmaceutical company Specialised Therapeutics ...
Bern (ots) - Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) and Apple have reached an agreement on the use of SBB's station clock on certain devices such as iPads and iPhones. This arrangement has been mutually agreed by both parties in a licence agreement. For the use of the clockface on certain Apple devices such as iPads and iPhones, the parties have negotiated an arrangement that enables Apple to use the SBB station clock under a ...
Obermutten, Switzerland (ots) - Obermutten now has a museum - the Obermutten International Museum of Friendship (OIMOF). "Since we opened the OIMOF in our barn, we have received over 80 friendship gifts," beams mayor Martin Wyss. A year ago, the village in the Swiss canton of Graubünden started a Facebook page, ...
Lugano, Switzerland & Vienna, Austria (ots) - New data presented at the 2012 meeting of the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) in Vienna show antiemetic efficacy maintained across the chemotherapy cycles and a positive safety profile The oral formulation of palonosetron, the second generation 5-HT3 receptor ...
Park Ridge, NJ/Zurich, Switzerland (ots) - The Hertz Corporation (NYSE:HTZ) the world's largest general use car rental brand, and Emil Frey Group have signed an agreement for Emil Frey Group to join Hertz's global franchising network and purchase the Hertz car rental business in Switzerland, representing a total of 30 locations. Mark P. Frissora, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for The Hertz Corporation, said: "Hertz ...
Freienbach, Switzerland (ots) - EffRx Pharmaceuticals SA is proud to announce and welcome Lorenzo Bosisio, new Head of Business Development and Marketing. Lorenzo will be responsible for the outlicensing and marketing of EffRx's approved product Steovess®/BinostoTM outside of the USA and Canada as well as developing the business for EffRx's other pipeline products. ...