ZUG, Switzerland, 18-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The Swiss company Alprockz AG announced the start of a round to raise funds for building a financial platform which is orchestrated towards the issuance of its own stable cryptocurrency, ROCKZ (RKZ). The platform will be … Read the full press release
Posted in Financial, Internet & Online, Investment, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged Alexey Borichev, Alprockz AG, cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency, Cybersecurity, Ethereum blockchain, financial platform, Gabriel Rosetti, Julius Baer, Niall Carton, PayPal, Reza Hedayat, RKZ, ROCKZ, stablecoin, Swiss franc, Tal Cohen, Vadim Kuchinsky, Webmoney, Yassine Ben Hamida
OSLO, 18-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — DNV GL is now starting phase II of a joint industry project (JIP) on single phase flow meters in phase-contaminated oil flow. Phase II of this JIP will focus on the influence of the oil fluid … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Industrial, Norway, Technology
Tagged Ben Oudman, Dennis van Putten, DNV GL, metering, multiphase_flow_metering, oil, oil flow, oil_fields, oil_flow_meters
Intelligent control unit creates a model of the vehicle environment from sensor data Manufacturers receive the necessary components and subsystems from a single source Versatile input: camera, radar and lidar, plus cloud-based data Premiere at the IAA: Visitors can experience … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Germany, Technology, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged automated driving, automation, camera, Cloud, Commercial Vehicles, Continental, data, Dr. Michael Ruf, IAA Commercial Vehicles, lidar, orientation, radar, Sensors, VR
New mobility concepts: sustainable, fast and cost-effective transport of goods possible via Hyperloop Collaboration with talented young people at the Emden/Leer University of Applied Sciences and the University of Oldenburg Special belts made of carbon cord and polyurethane from Continental … Read the full press release
COLOMBES, 18-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Arkema announced a project to increase its linear mercaptans production capacities to support the demand growth of polymers for transportation and electronics markets. This incremental investment would increase the Houston (Texas) plant’s manufacturing capacity by up … Read the full press release
The President of SEAT argues that innovation and training are the two main instruments of change De Meo: “We need a stable institutional and regulatory framework and State agreements to encourage the competitiveness and internationalisation of businesses” “When the Administration … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Economy, Italy, Management, Spain, Technology, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged competitiveness, industry4, INNOVATION, Luca de Meo, mobility, Scuola di Politiche, SEAT, training, transformation
All changes come into effect on January 1, 2019. Post – eCommerce – Parcel (PeP) to be separated into German and international divisions under dedicated Board of Management leadership Post – eCommerce – Parcel (PeP) will be renamed as Post … Read the full press release
From September 17 to September 30, Deutsche Post DHL Group will call on employees worldwide to participate in the Group’s tenth Global Volunteer Day. After the first Volunteer Day was held in the Asia Pacific region in 2008, Global … Read the full press release
Boulogne-Billancourt, France, 18-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — With effect from 17 September 2018, Mr Gwendal POULLENNEC is appointed as the International Director of the MICHELIN Guides, replacing the previous incumbent Michael ELLIS. Gwendal POULLENNEC joined the Michelin group in 2003 after … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Food & Beverage, France, Management, Media, Travel
Tagged gastronomic, gastronomy, Gwendal Poullennec, Michelin Group, MICHELIN Guides, Pascal Couasnon, tourist activities
Thomas Zahn is getting ready for other assignments in the Group WOLFSBURG, 18-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Holger B. Santel, currently Executive Vice President of SAIC Volkswagen in China, is to head Sales and Marketing Germany at the Volkswagen brand passenger … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Germany, Management, Marketing
Tagged appointment, Holger B. Santel, Jürgen Stackmann, marketing, passenger cars, sales, Thomas Zahn, Volkswagen
TOULOUSE, 18-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The first A380 for All Nippon Airways (ANA) took to the skies today, completing a maiden flight from the Final Assembly Line (FAL) in Toulouse, France to the Airbus site in Hamburg, Germany. The aircraft is … Read the full press release
Posted in Aviation & Aerospace, France, Germany, Transportation & Logistics, Travel
Tagged A380, Airbus, aircraft, airlines, All Nippon Airways, ANA, superjumbo
BUCHAREST, Romania, 17-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — In accordance with the Romanian National Securities Commission Regulation no. 5/2018 and art. 2 of the Commission Delegated Report (EU) 1052/2016, DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market (Bucharest Stock Exchange “BVB”, Romanian … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Investment, Management, Media, News, Romania, Technology, Telecom
Tagged AFM, ASF, Bucharest Stock Exchange, buy back shares, buy-back program, BVB, Digi, Digi Communications, DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V., Digi Communications NV, DIGI symbol, Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets, Hungary, internet provider, investors, IPO, market, mobile services, MVNO, RCS & RDS, RCS&RDS, regulared market, Regulation, Romania, Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority, Romanian National Securities Commission, Romanian National Securities Commission Regulation, romanian telecommunications provider, Securities, Serghei Bulgac, shareholders, shares, shares buy-back, Spain, stock exchange, Telecom Market, TELECOMMUNICATION PROVIDER, telecommunications, telecommunications services, television provider, transactions, tv
coMakeIT, a niche provider of product engineering, application modernization, and digital transformation services announced the appointment of a new Head of Global Sales BAARN, Netherlands, 17-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — coMakeIT strengthened its executive management team through the addition of Durga … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Internet & Online, Management, Netherlands, News, Technology
Tagged Aad Vredenbregt, app modernization, Application modernization, appointment, BAARN, BFSI, coMakeIT, Digital Disruption, digital transformation, digitale transformatie, Durga Prakash Kone, emerging technologies, ERP, fleet management, HCL Technologies, Hyderabad, Intelligroup, leadership, legacy modernization, logistics, Management, NTT Data, offshore development, Product Development, product engineering, Satyam, software development, Software product development, Tech Mahindra, TOP CloudTM
153 municipalities all over Germany benefiting from the fiber-optic rollout Bandwidths of up to 100 Mbit/s Book more speed from Deutsche Telekom BONN, 17-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Almost 153,000 households in 153 municipalities can now surf faster on the Internet. With … Read the full press release
Posted in Germany, Internet & Online, Technology, Telecom
Tagged calls, Cloud, Deutsche Telekom, fiber-optic Internet, fiberoptic, INTERNET, music, Tim Höttges, tv
Today, September 14th 2018 in Ljubljana NLB d.d. signed a purchase and sales agreement with Zavarovalnica Triglav d.d. for the sale of 9,102 shares of Skupna pokojninska družba d.d., representing 28.13% of company’s share capital. Ljubljana, Slovenia, 17-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — NLB d.d. … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Investment, Management, Slovenia
Tagged bank, NLB d.d., PE, shareholder, shares, Skupna pokojninska družba d.d, stake, Zavarovalnica Triglav d.d.
Delft, Netherlands, 17-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Cyclist Lieke de Cock won the world championship for cycling in the Nevada desert in the US with a speed of 120 km/h. She was riding the VeloX 8 from the Human Power Team, a … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Netherlands, Sports, Technology, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged aerodynamic_bike, Bike, cycling, Cyclist, Lieke de Cock, Nevada desert, recumbent_bike, riding, TU Delft, VeloX 8, VeloX8, VU Amsterdam
ESSEN, 17-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Feed specialist company Evonik is reminding its customers to buy products only through official order channels, following reports of counterfeit goods being found in China. A customer who recently bought two bags of MetAMINO from … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Chemicals, Germany, Industrial
Tagged animal_nutrition, CHINA, counterfeit, Evonik, feed_additives, MetAMINO®, methionine, Torben Madsen
High concentration Omega-3 powder 3-5 times more bioavailable than standard Omega-3 softgels Directly compressible to easily combine with other ingredients Unmatched protection against oxidation: stable for at least 3 yrs. ESSEN, 17-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Evonik, a global partner to nutraceutical … Read the full press release
Capgemini’s World Quality Report 2018 shows that customer experience is the top priority for quality assurance activities for the very first time, with automation and AI set to accelerate in the coming years PARIS, 17-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ —Capgemini and Sogeti today released the … Read the full press release
Posted in France, Internet & Online, Management, Society, Technology
Tagged AI, automation, Brad Little, Capgemini, customer experience, CX, QA, quality assurance
GENEVA, 17-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — SGS is pleased to announce that we will be collaborating with ClipperData, a provider of data sets, analysis and commentary on maritime commodity flows, to provide news alerts on fuel specification changes worldwide. We will be … Read the full press release
the Finnish growth company becomes part of an international technology frontrunner HELSINKI, 17-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — CapMan Growth Fund has, together with its other owners, signed an agreement on selling its holdings of Fluido Oy, the leading Salesforce partner in the … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Finland, Investment, Management, Technology
Tagged acquisition, CapMan Growth Fund, Cloud, Fluido, Fluido Oy, Infosys, Juha Mikkola, Kai Mäkelä, Nordics, Salesforce, stake
Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell) today announced a target to maintain methane emissions intensity below 0.2% by 2025. This target covers all oil and gas assets for which Shell is the operator. The HAGUE, 17-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — “This methane target … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Netherlands
Tagged cleaner_energy, gas, greenhouse_gas, Mark Radka, methane, methane emissions, methane_emissions, oil, Royal Dutch Shell
Ten eActros trucks will be tested in day-to-day operation for two years Hermes is the first of 20 test customers in various sectors Locally emission-free and quiet distribution Stefan Buchner, Head of Mercedes-Benz Trucks: “The practical trials with the eActros … Read the full press release
Jotun, leading supplier of paints and coatings, is launching Green Building Solutions (GBS) – the easiest way to design, specify, beautify and protect buildings worldwide with green building products. Sandefjord, Norway, 14-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Jotun offers an online green building … Read the full press release
Posted in Chemicals, Management, Norway
Tagged beautify, BREEAM, buildings, coatings, design, EPDs, green building products, green_building, Henriette Eggen, Jotun, LEED, paints
FRANKFURT, 14-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Deutsche Börse and 360T, Deutsche Börse Group’s FX unit, to serve FX markets with independent streaming swap market data Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services and Deutsche Börse foreign-exchange (FX) trading venue 360T are launching … Read the full press release
Posted in Financial, Germany, Investment
Tagged 360T, Deutsche Börse, DIGITEC, FX markets, fx trading, FX_markets, Hartmut Graf, Peer Joost, Simon Bajec, spot, swap
Södertälje, Sweden, 14-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Scania will contribute to a new research centre at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) over the next ten years. The collaboration will focus on business models for the future transport ecosystem. “Scania is a … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Environment, Sweden, Technology, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged EDU, future_transport, Henrik Henriksson, Lars Strannegård, logistics, Tony Sandberg
ING has invested in Black Bear Carbon (BBC), a company that recycles old tyres into a raw material used to make things like pen ink, smartphone covers and new tyres. AMSTERDAM, 14-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The raw material ‘carbon black’ is used … Read the full press release
Posted in Environment, Financial, Netherlands, Technology
Tagged Black Bear Carbon, carbon_black, circular, CO2, echnology, funding, ING, investment, recycling, tyres
PARIS, 14-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Orange Digital Ventures Africa – the Orange Group’s venture capital investment fund for Africa – has made a second investment in one of the continent’s most promising fintech companies, the South African Yoco. Yoco is a … Read the full press release
Posted in France, Investment, Technology, Telecom
Tagged investment, Marc Rennard, merchants, mPOS, Orange Digital Ventures Africa, Payments, South Africa, Yoco
Cyber risks are one of the biggest threats to the digital and networked economy The most important thing for companies is to ensure they have the best possible technical prevention Munich Re is developing insurance products and services that offer … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Germany, Insurance, Internet & Online, Security & Safety, Technology
Tagged cyber risks, cyber_threats, insurance, Munich Re, networked_economy, protection, Torsten Jeworrek
Deutsche Telekom continues nationwide roll-out of fiber-optic lines in business parks 19,000 enterprises in 103 business parks in 61 municipalities to benefit Bandwidth up to 1 GBit/s – pre-marketing phase starts – build-out in 2019 BONN, 14-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — A … Read the full press release
Posted in Germany, Internet & Online, Technology, Telecom
Tagged broadband, Deutsche Telekom, fiber-optic, fiberoptic, FTTH, German business parks, Hagen Rickmann, INTERNET