BERN, 20-Feb-201 — /EuropaWire/ — An innovative project called ProTex will receive CHF 2 million funding grant from BRIDGE Discovery. ProTex relies on highly sensitive portable sensors that use light to measure oxygen saturation in the blood. Those portable sensors will help prevent injuries to … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Healthcare, Investment, News, Science, Switzerland
Tagged bedridden patients, bedsores, BRIDGE Discovery, funding, grant, Guido Piai, Innosuisse, Luciano Boesel, oxygen saturation in the blood, paraplegia, portable sensors, pressure injuries, ProTex, smart clothing, Smart sensors, Swiss National Science Foundation, textile, textile sensors, ulcers, University of Bern, Ursula Wolf
ZURICH, 20-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Credit Suisse is today commemorating the 200th anniversary the birth of Alfred Escher. What Alfred Escher has achieved back in the 19th century continues to have a lasting impact on Switzerland as an economic center to … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, News, Pharma & Biotech, Small Business, Switzerland
Tagged automation, Credit Suisse, Credit Suisse Entrepreneur Capital AG, Didier Denat, Elios Elsener, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurs' Day, ETH Zurich, fintech, Fotokite, medtech, robotics, Startups, Swiss Entrepreneurs Fund, Swiss Venture Club, Switzerland Global Enterprise, venture capital
HELSINKI, 20-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — FinRavinto 2017 survey revealed that Finns’ salt intake is still too large, with 86% of women and almost all men, 98%, exceed the daily recommended sodium intake. Valio makes it possible to reduce the sodium … Read the full press release
Posted in Finland, Food & Beverage, Healthcare, News, Retail, Society
Tagged Finland, FinRavinto, heart disease, low-salt, salt intake, sodium content, Valio, Valio ValSa® milk salt
ABU DHABI, 20-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Saab made yet another important step in progressing with its plans and works to develop an indigenous industrial capability in the UAE. At IDEX 2019, MENA region’s leading defence exhibition and conference, Saab signed a crucial agreement with Tawazun … Read the full press release
BUCHAREST, Romania, 19-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Digi Communications N.V. (The Company) would like to inform the market and its investors that, by notice no 5,392/19.02.2019, the Central Securities Depository in Romania informed the Company that, on 18 February 2019, it … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Investment, Law, Media, News, Romania, Technology, Telecom
Tagged AFM, Android TV-based entertainment service, ASF, Bucharest Stock Exchange, buy back shares, buy-back program, BVB, Class A shares, Class B shares, conference call, Digi, Digi Communications, Digi Communications 2018 Preliminary financial results, Digi Communications Conference Call, Digi Communications NV, DIGI symbol, directors stock option plans, Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets, employees stock option plans, equity reserves, financial transactions, Hungary, Investor Relations, investors, IPO, market, mobile services, MVNO, Regulation, Romania, Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority, Romanian National Securities Commission, romanian telecommunications provider, Securities, Serghei Bulgac, shareholders, shares, shares buy-back, shares conversion, Spain, stock option plans, Telecom Market, TELECOMMUNICATION PROVIDER, telecommunications, telecommunications services, transactions, treasury class B share, tv
BUCHAREST, Romania, 19-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Digi Communications N.V. (The Company) would like to inform the market and its investors that, on 15 February 2019, Mr. Dan Ioniță, Co-Chief Financial Officer of the Company, exercised his stock option with respect … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Investment, Law, Media, News, Romania, Technology, Telecom
Tagged ASF, Bucharest Stock Exchange, buy back shares, buy-back program, BVB, Class B shares, conference call, Dan Ioniță, Digi, Digi Communications, Digi Communications 2018 Preliminary financial results, Digi Communications Conference Call, Digi Communications NV, DIGI symbol, Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets, financial transactions, FSA Regulation no. 5/2018, Hungary, Investor Relations, investors, IPO, market, mobile services, MVNO, PDMR, Regulation, Romania, Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority, Romanian Law no. 24/2017, Romanian National Securities Commission, romanian telecommunications provider, Securities, Serghei Bulgac, shareholders, shares, shares buy-back, Smaranda Ștreangă, Spain, stock option plan, stock options, Telecom Market, TELECOMMUNICATION PROVIDER, telecommunications, telecommunications services, transactions, tv
THE HAGUE, 19-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Researchers from the NWO Institute AMOLF in Amsterdam and the ESPCI in Paris have just discovered that both the caffeine and the taurine can slow down the movement of water molecules by a factor 5 and 4 … Read the full press release
Posted in Food & Beverage, France, Netherlands, News, Science
Tagged caffeine, coffee, energy drinks, ESPCI, NWO Institute AMOLF, RESEARCH, soft drinks, taurine, tea, water molecules
ESPOO, 19-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Neste Corporation redesigns its organizational structure to strengthen its global growth strategy in renewable products. Neste will divide its growing Renewable Products business area into three business units and one operational platform each of which … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Chemicals, Energy, Gas & Oil, Finland, Industrial, Management, News
Tagged Neste, oil, Peter Vanacker, polymers, renewable, Renewable Chemicals, Renewable Products, sustainable
LONDON, 19-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — New pilot cashback scheme, aimed at making it easier and more convenient for people to access cash in areas across UK where it might be challenging, is going to be launched in the UK by Lloyds Banking Group … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Financial, News, Retail, Society, United Kingdom
Tagged access to cash, ATMs, British high streets, cash access, cash withdrawals, cashback, cashback pilot scheme, cashback system, Lloyds Banking Group, local high street shops, local retail stores, protects access to cash, retailers, Vim Maru, VISA
BARCELONA, 19-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — CaixaBank has just released information about its loan exposition to the Spanish hotel industry for 2018. According to data from the bank, it has loaned 2,186 billion euros to the hotel industry in Spain during 2018, which represents 46% … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Financial, Investment, News, Spain, Travel
Tagged Balearic Islands, CaixaBank, campsites, Catalonia, CEHAT, Community of Madrid, FRS Inmark, Gonzalo Gortázar, hotel business, hotel federations, hotelier, hotels, Jordi Gual, loans for hoteliers, Spain tourism, Spainish hospitality industry, Spanish Confederation of Hotels and Tourist Accommodation, the Canary Islands, tourism in Spain, tourism report, tourist accommodation, tourist expenditure
MANCHESTER, 19-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — UKFast introduces a new feature on its eCloud hosting portfolio that allows users to install popular applications on new virtual machines in seconds. The new One-Click Apps feature eliminates lengthy install processes and reduces the … Read the full press release
Posted in Internet & Online, Management, News, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged applications, apps, Docker, eCloud, Ghost, Gitlab, Gogs, hosting, install processes, Jenkins, LAMP, LEMP, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Neil Lathwood, Node.js, Plesk, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Redis, UKFast, virtual machines, Wordpress
PARIS, 18-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Synova, based in France and leader in manufacturing high-performance recycled polypropylene for the automotive sector, has been acquired by Total. The deal’s amount has not been disclosed. Following the acquisition, Total’s polymers know-how will be combined with Synova’s recycling … Read the full press release
Posted in Chemicals, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, France, Investment, News
Tagged acquisition, Alliance to End Plastic Waste, automakers, Bernard Pinatel, biobased bioplastic, biodegradable bioplastic, bioplastic, Bioplastics, Carling, Citeo, Feluy, high-performance recycled polymers, plastic recycling, plastic waste pollution, polyethylene, polymers, polypropylene, polystyrene recycling system, recyclable bioplastic, recycled materials, recycled plastics, recycling, reduce CO2 emissions, Saint-Gobain, Syndifrais, Synova, Total, waste in oceans
WIESBADEN, 18-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) has just released its preliminary results on Germany’s international trade for 2018. According to the data, China remains the biggest trading partner for Germany, already 3 years in a row. Goods worth … Read the full press release
BONN, 18-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Deutsche Telekom completed the first of three tranches of the nearshore rollout. Providing 3,152 nearshore areas across 2,855 local networks and around 1,700,000 households now benefit from faster internet connections with Speeds of up to … Read the full press release
BUCHAREST, Romania, 18-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — In accordance with the ASF Regulation no. 5/2018 and art. 2 of the Commission Delegated Report (UE) 1052/2016, DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market (Bucharest Stock Exchange “BVB”, Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Investment, Law, Media, News, Romania, Technology, Telecom
Tagged ASF, Bucharest Stock Exchange, buy back shares, buy-back program, BVB, conference call, Digi, Digi Communications, Digi Communications 2018 Preliminary financial results, Digi Communications Conference Call, Digi Communications NV, DIGI symbol, Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets, financial transactions, Hungary, Investor Relations, investors, IPO, market, mobile services, MVNO, Regulation, Romania, Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority, Romanian National Securities Commission, romanian telecommunications provider, Securities, Serghei Bulgac, shareholders, shares, shares buy-back, Spain, Telecom Market, TELECOMMUNICATION PROVIDER, telecommunications, telecommunications services, transactions, tv
STOCKHOLM, 15-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — TeffLand has launched new lines of grain and flour for the popular Teff cereal. The new products maintain all of Wheat’s advantages and none of its disadvantages. Unlike its Wheat counterpart, Teff flours make for protein … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Food & Beverage, Healthcare, News, Retail, Sweden
Tagged blood sugar, cereal, dietary fibers, fibers, flour, grain, healthy diets, long-chain carbohydrates, prebiotic energy, Teff cereal, TeffLand
BUCHAREST, Romania, 15-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Digi Communications N.V. (“Digi” or the “Company”) announces that on February 15, 2019, the Report regarding legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in January 2019 or in other period but effective in January … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Investment, Law, Media, News, Romania, Technology, Telecom
Tagged ASF, Bucharest Stock Exchange, buy back shares, buy-back program, BVB, conference call, Digi, Digi Communications, Digi Communications 2018 Preliminary financial results, Digi Communications Conference Call, Digi Communications NV, DIGI symbol, Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets, financial transactions, FSA Regulation no. 5/2018, Hungary, Investor Relations, investors, IPO, market, mobile services, MVNO, pay TV, RCS & RDS, Regulation, Romania, Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority, Romanian Law, Romanian Law no. 24/2017, Romanian National Securities Commission, Romanian Stock Exchange, romanian telecommunications provider, Securities, Serghei Bulgac, shareholders, shares, shares buy-back, Spain, Telecom Market, TELECOMMUNICATION PROVIDER, telecommunications, telecommunications services, transactions, tv
MUNICH, 15-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — BMW unveiled new BMW i8 Coupe Safety Car at this season’s ABB FIA Formula E Championship at the “Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez” in Mexico City. The livery of the new safety car is designed by Michael Scully, Head of Design … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Entertainment, Germany, News, Sports, Technology
Tagged ABB FIA Formula E Championship, Alberto Longo, Alexander Sims, António Félix da Costa, BMW i Motorsport, BMW i8 Coupe, BMW i8 Coupe Safety Car, BMW iFE.18, BMW Motorsport, Design Launch, Jens Marquardt, Mexico City (MEX), Mexico City E-Prix, Pia Schörner, racing, Safety Car
LONDON, 15-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Vodafone Group Plc competitive tender process for the statutory audit contract of the Group has been concluded with Ernst & Young LLP announced as the winner. Vodafone Group Board approved the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP following … Read the full press release
Posted in Financial, Law, Management, News, Telecom, United Kingdom
Tagged Audit, Auditors, David Nish, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, statutory audit, Vodafone Group Plc
STOCKHOLM, 15-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — A supernatural thriller based on a pitch by acclaimed Belgian graphic novelist Sylvain Runberg will be the next original series from Nordic Entertainment Group. The name is ‘Cryptid’ and the series will exclusively premiere on NENT Group’s Viaplay streaming … Read the full press release
Posted in Art & Culture, Entertainment, Internet & Online, Media, News, Sweden
Tagged Anna Jakobsson Lund, Black Lake, Casper Conquers Norway, Cold Courage, Commando, Conspiracy of Silence, Couple Trouble, Cryptid, Daniel di Grado, Darkness – Those Who Kill, David Berron, Dramacorp, Face to Face, Four Hands Menu, Fredrik Ljungberg, honour, Hulu, intelligent drama, Jakob Mejlhede Andersen, Mia Sohlman, NENT Group, Nordic comic noir, Patrick Nebout, Pros and Cons, Saga’s Stories, short-form series, Shudder, storytelling, Straight Forward, supernatural thriller, Swedish Dicks, Sylvain Runberg, The Inner Circle, The Truth Will Out, Veni Vidi Vici, VRT, ‘Wisting’
BUCHAREST, Romania, 14-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Digi Communications N.V. (“Digi” or the “Company”) informs shareholders and investors that the Preliminary Financial Report for the year ended December 31, 2018 is available starting 14th of February 2018, 6:20 PM EET time, … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Investment, Law, Media, News, Romania, Technology, Telecom
Tagged ASF, Bucharest Stock Exchange, buy back shares, buy-back program, BVB, conference call, Digi, Digi Communications, Digi Communications 2018 Preliminary financial results, Digi Communications Conference Call, Digi Communications NV, DIGI symbol, Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets, financial transactions, Hungary, Investor Relations, investors, IPO, market, mobile services, MVNO, Preliminary Financial Report, Regulation, Romania, Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority, Romanian National Securities Commission, romanian telecommunications provider, Securities, Serghei Bulgac, shareholders, shares, shares buy-back, Spain, Telecom Market, TELECOMMUNICATION PROVIDER, telecommunications, telecommunications services, transactions, tv
VEVEY, Switzerland, 14-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Dick Boer and Dinesh Paliwal have just been nominated for election to the Board of Directors of Nestlé as independent members. Dick Boer is the former President and CEO of Ahold Delhaize N.V. while Dinesh … Read the full press release
Posted in Food & Beverage, Management, News, Retail, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged Ahold Delhaize N.V., AI, appointment, artificial-intelligence, Board of Directors, cloud computing, Dick Boer, digital business models, Dinesh Paliwal, Directors, emerging technologies, food retail industry, Harman International Industries Inc., Henri de Castries, Jean-Pierre Roth, Management, Nestlé, Paul Bulcke, Ruth Oniang’o
COPENHAGEN, 14-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Mono Solutions is proud to launch a completely new platform interface that will dramatically improve the overall user experience for even faster, easier and more efficient website production, as well as enable a true do-it-with-me (DIWM) … Read the full press release
Posted in Denmark, Internet & Online, Marketing, News, Small Business, Technology
Tagged booking, booking management, calendar synchronization, customer engagement, CX, digital, Digital marketing, digital service providers, DIWM, do-it-with-me, email reminders, interface SMBs, Louise Lachmann, LSA19, Mono Scheduling, Mono Solutions, online appointment booking solution, online presence, SaaS, scheduling, SIINDA Localcomm, small businesses, SMBs, SMS reminders, Svenn Andersen, user experience, UX, websites
HAMBURG/KIEL, 13-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Hamburg Commercial Bank participates in EUR 100 million financing for the Spanish company Adamo Telecom Iberia S.A.U. The allocated resource by the bank is EUR 30 million taking part in the deal as a lead arranger and structuring … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Financial, Germany, Internet & Online, Investment, News, Spain, Technology, Telecom
Tagged ADAMO, ADAMO TELECOM IBERIA S.A.U., Anastasia Peres, bank, broadband, broadband network operator, Dr Marcus Kleiner, EQT, funding, Hamburg Commercial Bank, HSH Nordbank, ING, investment, loan, optic fibre, Santander
COVENTRY, 13-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Jaguar Land Rover has just announced that it is expanding its Ingenium engine family with the addition of a new 3.0-litre straight six cylinder petrol engine available in 360PS and 400PS versions with a torque capable of … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Environment, Industrial, News, Technology, Transportation & Logistics, United Kingdom
Tagged diesel engine, Electric Drive Units, electric engine, electric motor, electric supercharger, electric vehicle, electrification, Engine Manufacturing Centre, EU6, greater fuel economy, hybrid engine, Ingenium, Jaguar Land Rover, London’s Ultra-Low Emission Zone, NEDC, New European Driving Cycle, optimised performance, petrol engine, Range Rover Sport, RDE, significantly reduced emissions, twin scroll turbocharger, WLTP
MUNICH, 13-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — New study by Roland Berger, released on 13 February, looks into the market for energy efficiency services across Europe. According to the research paper the key findings are 1) the market is expected to grow to EUR … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Germany, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Management, Marketing, News
Tagged climate change targets, construction of energy efficiency technology, digitalization in energy efficiency services, EES providers, energy efficiency audits, energy efficiency consulting, energy efficiency contracting, energy efficiency services, energy efficiency services market, energy efficiency software, energy transition, engineering of energy efficiency technology, Green Energy, green energy transition, procurement of energy efficiency technology, Ralph Büchele, Roland Berger
MUNICH, 13-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Next year the new MINI John Cooper Works GP will be taking roads all over the world by storm, more powerful than ever before. The 4-cylinder turbo engine with more than 300 hp (220 kW) and motor racing technology by … Read the full press release
GENEVA, 13-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — SGS can now certify foreign food suppliers under the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Accredited Third-Party Certification Program of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). This is possible due to the accreditation the company has received from … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Food & Beverage, International Trade, Law, Security & Safety, Switzerland
Tagged American National Standards Institute, certification, food carriers, food loaders, food receivers, food safety, food safety certification, food safety laws, Food Safety Modernization Act, food shippers, Foreign Supplier Verification Program, FSVP, Hank Karayan, ISO/IEC 17065, Produce farms, US FDA, US food importers, Voluntary Qualified Importer Program, VQIP
PARIS, 12-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — The latest Digital Transformation Review by Capgemini Research Institute looks into what lessons can be learnt from the leaders in the digital transformation. The publication is titled “Taking digital transformation to the next level: Lessons from the leaders” … Read the full press release
Posted in France, Internet & Online, Management, News, Technology
Tagged AI, artificial-intelligence, Barbara Martin Coppola, Bayer, Capgemini, Capgemini Research Institute, CDOs, Chief Digital Officer, Cyril Garcia, Daimler AG, Daimler’s digital transformation, digital capabilities, digital technologies, digital transformation, digital world, digitalONE, Equinor, Frédéric Levaux, GE, IKEA, Internet of Things, Jerome Buvat, leadership, leadership capabilities, personalization, Sabine Scheunert, Saskia Steinacker, the right skillset, Torbjørn Folgerø, transformation agenda, William Ruh
Inspired by actual events in 1924 Persia, In the Shadow of the Kingmakers brings voice to the human sufferings of the political lust for domination Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 12-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Amid growing conflicts between the West and Iran, a … Read the full press release
Posted in Entertainment, Media, Politics, Society
Tagged book, fiction, Gerald DiPego, Iran, Persia, post-WW1, Vahid Imani, WW1