MONACO and SAN FRANCISCO, CA (ots) - Five-time Olympian, HSH Crown Prince Albert of Monaco, today announced his continuing support and involvement in the Visa Olympians Reunion Center and invited all Olympic alumni to enjoy ongoing hospitality during their visit to the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, ...
Berne (ots) - The BKW Group closed the first half of 2003 with a profit of CHF 126 million, a 29% increase on the year-back period. Sales totalled CHF 1,256 million (up 32%). BKW FMB Energie Ltd is introducing new, lower-price electricity products in Switzerland. These will start with SMEs on 1 October 2003, while the remaining products, which will also cover private households, will follow next year. The BKW ...
London (ots) - William Ransom, the natural healthcare company, today strengthens its brand development and corporate finance expertise by the appointment of two highly-experienced non-executive directors. Jacqueline Paterson, Head of Beauty and Lingerie at Marks & Spencer, and William Nabarro, a senior corporate financier, join the Board with effect from ...
Lugano (ots) - The general meeting of shareholders of Banca del Gottardo Italia approves a recapitalisation from EUR 25 million to EUR 50 million. Rocco Benetton acquires a 4% stake in the company and is elected to the Board of Directors. Rocco Benetton, the youngest son of Luciano Benetton, has become ...
PROVO, UT (ots) - Today, IMCentric, the leader in website certificate automation, officially launched its company and introduced AutoCert Server as its flagship product. AutoCert Server allows enterprises to more easily manage the lifecycle of its certificates by automating the installation and renewal ...
Zurich (ots) - sunrise enters the new season with a completely new ADSL special offer: Customers who take out a sunrise ADSL subscription now will receive a modem, the activation fee and the monthly charges until the end of the year, absolutely free. This offer remains valid until December 31, 2003. There were already many good reasons to get broadband Internet access with sunrise ADSL: Our customers surf up to ...
Amsterdam, Netherlands (ots) - IBC - Darim Vision (http://www.darim.com), a leading provider of integrated MPEG Encoding, Streaming, Broadcasting, and Security solutions, announced today the introduction of the VS2000, a revolutionary turnkey system for the creation of virtual sets for small to mid-sized ...
Global Society for Asset Management (G-S
Amsterdam (ots) - Sun Microsystems, IBM and EMC Join World-Class Group of Vendors, Users and Integrators in Advancing State of Digital Asset Management IBC -- G-SAM, the world's first global trade association dedicated to accelerating the uptake of asset management technologies, has made its official European debut at IBC 2003 with a booth (Stand 8.658), press conference and a VIP cocktail reception, bringing ...
Amsterdam (ots) - Skymicro Inc, the leading Thousand Oaks, California, OEM provider of Merlin 2003, a high-end video capture and codec board today announced a host of new worldwide customers and global expansion plans. A selection of new global customers for Skymicro's Merlin 2003 are joining the likes of Silicon Graphics Inc. (NYSE: SGI) and Raytheon (NYSE: ...
Montreal (ots) - SAND Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: SNDT) today announced the general availability of release 3.1 of its high-performance SAND Analytic Server. The SAND Analytic Server is an optimized platform for Business Intelligence (BI) systems integration, and for building and deploying large-scale ...
Brussels (ots) - Bridgestone Europe have teamed up with the European Minardi Cosworth Formula One team to offer one of their website readers a trip in a two-seater Grand Prix car. Bridgestone will fly the Winner to Minardi's home country of Italy to experience this thrilling ride of a lifetime. Entries can be ...
Berlin (ots) - Today, the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) announced at its inaugural Annual General Meeting the key milestones achieved in its mission to promote interoperability across the mobile value chain. OMA announced a series of initiatives, including five new Enabler Releases, bringing the total number over ...
London, UK and Princeton, New Jersey USA (ots) - Antisoma plc (LSE: ASM; Nasdaq Europe: ASOM), a United Kingdom-based biopharmaceutical company, and Cytogen Corporation (Nasdaq: CYTO), a United States-based, product-driven, oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company, today announced that Antisoma has acquired certain royalty rights to Antisoma's lead product, R1549 (formerly Pemtumomab), from Cytogen. In connection ...
A new type of computer virus has appeared that spreads differently compared with earlier viruses. A Swiss firm has come up with the answer. Lausanne (ots) - In recent weeks, a new type of virus has been spreading from computer to computer across computer networks and over the Internet., These viruses are dangerous because they do not pass through e-mails, as did previous Internet viruses. They exploit a bug in the ...
San Mateo, CA (ots) - NSD Security Inc., a subsidiary of Nippon Systems Development Incorporated, and Identrus LLC, today announced the Identrus certification of the Secure Identity Appliance, making available to Identrus financial institutions the only FIPS 140-1 Level 2 certified roaming PKI solution. ...
Orascom Development Holding AG
Cairo, Egypt (ots) - Orascom Construction Industries (stock symbols: OCIC.CA / ORCI EY / OCICq.L / ORSD LI) announced consolidated revenue of LE 1,232.4 million with a gross profit of LE 264.1 million (21.4% of revenue), earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA)of LE 286.8 million ...
Wädenswil (ots) - In June 2003, Frutarom Industries Limited acquired Emil Flachsmann AG. Flachsmann will be integrated completely into the Frutarom Group as a distinguishable new member and will be given a new name with immediate effect, namely Frutarom Switzerland Ltd. The new company name will combine the strengths of the two companies, the goal being to strengthen the company's position on the worldwide market for ...
TOKYO, JAPAN (ots) - In this world of increasing worries over dependence on foreign oil, environmental degradation and the vulnerability of power networks, many people are calling for greater use of clean energy alternatives such as solar power. It is encouraging therefore to note the completion of the world's largest factory for solar panels, built by MSK, Japan's leading specialist solar manufacturer. ...
London, UK (ots) - Antisoma (LSE: ASM- Nasdaq Europe: ASOM), the UK-based biopharmaceutical company, today announces that it has received approval for a voluntary de-listing from the Nasdaq Europe Market. The de-listing of Antisoma shares will be effective from the close of business on Wednesday 10 September ...
London, UK plc (LSE:ASM, NASD-E:ASOM) (ots) - Antisoma announces that results from its phase I biodistribution study of AS1403 (formerly TheraFab) will be presented this weekend to the European Association of Nuclear Medicine meeting in Amsterdam by Dr Michael Garkavij, a leading investigator in the trial. AS1403 is a fragment of the monoclonal antibody HMFG1 linked to a radioactive isotope with cell-killing ...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (ots) - Visa International, a worldwide partner and the official payment system of the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games, today announced the sixth "Visa Olympics of the Imagination" international youth art competition that will send 30 children from 16 participating countries to the ATHENS 2004 Olympic ...
Nuremberg, Germany (ots) - With effect from 31 July 2003, the GfK Group will acquire a stake of 51 per cent in pharma market research specialists V2 in Pennsylvania, USA. This acquisition grants GfK access to the most important market for information services relating to pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and medical ...
LOS GATOS, CA (ots) - Famed Early Stage Investors in Cisco and Flextronics Mark Their First India-Related Investment With Michael Moritz Joining the 24/7 Customer Board of Directors 24/7 Customer (www.247customer.com), a leading provider of outsourced contact center and BPO services to Global 500 companies, today announced that it secured $22 million in ...
DENVER, CO (ots) - Extension to BEA's WebLogic Workshop 8.1 Delivers Seamless Development of Speech-Based Interfaces for Web Applications to Reach Phone and Multimodal Users SandCherry, Inc., a provider of multi-service broker software for extending applications to phone or mobile devices, introduces AppDev VXML, an integrated voice-application development ...
Zurich (ots) - Effective immediately, Ruedi Denier has been named as the new Chief Executive Officer of Telekurs Multipay Ltd. and as Member of the Executive Committee of the Telekurs Group. Dôn Nguyen-Quang, Head of Corporate Services, has been promoted to Member of the Executive Committee of Telekurs Multipay. Dr. Jacques Bischoff, CEO of Telekurs Multipay Ltd. for many years, has decided to pursue new goals ...
Lugano (ots) - Banca del Gottardo positively closed the first semester of 2003 with consolidated net income of 54 million Swiss francs. Despite a generally still unfavourable economic and financial environment, operating revenues progressed by 7% against the first six months of the previous year, reaching 240 million francs. Costs, for their part, declined markedly ...
CAMPBELL, CA (ots) - Rockliffe, Inc., a leading developer of messaging and email infrastructure software, today announced their new licensing partnership with Bynari, a leader in the Outlook plug-in technology that enables full groupware functionality of Outlook with standards-based email servers. Rockliffe is ...
Tramagal, Portugal (ots) - - Plant in Tramagal to be expanded to support leading Japanese truckmaker's offensive in Europe - 100,000 vehicles manufactured to date. On the occasion of the visit of the Prime Minister of Portugal, Dr. Durao Barroso, to the Portuguese plant of Mitsubishi Fuso in Tramagal, central Portugal, on Wednesday, July 15, the company announced major expansion plans designed to boost ...
Vienna, Austria and Toronto, ON (ots) - Kapsch CarrierCom AG and Redknee Inc. today announced they have entered a partnership agreement to deliver value-added GSM and UMTS services to selected European markets. This agreement between the two firms follows extensive network trials and business analysis. Kapsch CarrierCom will distribute Redknee's broad array of mobile systems and applications within Austria, Hungary, ...