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STOCKHOLM, November 20 - Karolinska Development AB today announced that the European Investment
Fund (EIF) has entered into a co-investment agreement with the company. The
co-investment fund will be managed by Karolinska Development and used to
invest in the company's portfolio of early-stage pharmaceutical and medical
technology companies. EIF has agreed to invest 26.7 M Euros in the
co-investment fund. The agreement represents EIF's largest single investment
in the Nordic region to date.
Exclusive Partnership With Goldbach Media Group Extends Reach in Europe
LONDON, November 20 - Adconion Media Group (.adconion.com), the largest
independent global audience and content network, announced today that it has
entered into an exclusive partnership with Goldbach Media Group, the leading
marketer for private electronic, interactive and mobile media in Switzerland
and Austria to extend its footprint across Europe.
JERUSALEM, November 20 - This Friday 20th November sees the twentieth anniversary of
the historic United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, in which
governments set out their vision of a dignified future for the world's
children. But twenty years on, what difference has the convention made in the
lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestine refugee children?
HONG KONG, November 18 - The GSMA, the body that represents the worldwide mobile
communications industry, today announced that its Green Power for Mobile
(GPM) programme is working with the International Finance Corporation (IFC),
the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, to support mobile operators
in exploring the use of renewable energy base stations as a means of
optimizing capital and operating expenditures. Through this collaboration,
mobile operators in developing markets can benefit from technical assistance
programmes, market research, and knowledge sharing programmes to help them
implement large scale renewable energy powered networks.
Two Swedish enterprises, the Swedish Rail (SJ) and the digital media school Hyper Island have joined forces. SJ takes the next step to enhance digital communication by becoming a Hyper Island Learning Partner.
New Gateway Between North Rhine-Westphalia and China
LEVERKUSEN, Germany and NANJING, China, November 18 - CHEMPARK, with its sites in Leverkusen, Dormagen and Krefeld-Uerdingen,
Germany, and Nanjing Chemical Industry Park (NCIP) in China entered into the
first worldwide partnership agreement between chemical parks on Wednesday,
November 18, 2009. The contract was signed during a visit to China by NRW
State Premier Jurgen Ruttgers. The signatories were Klaus Schafer, Chairman
of the Executive Board of CHEMPARK operator CURRENTA, and Xie Chongxiu, Vice
President of the NCIP Administrative Committee and Deputy Director of NCIP
GmbH. CHEMPARK accounts for around a third of the sales generated by the
chemical industry in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Over 45,000 people
are employed at its sites.
NEW DELHI, November 18 -
- Powered by IndiaMART.com, www.NDTVSME.com will Provide
Information, Transaction and Services to the Large SME Segment.
LEIDEN, The Netherlands, November 17 - Top Institute Pharma (TI Pharma) has formed a
consortium with Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Erasmus Medical Centre and
Maastricht University to define new modalities for the treatment of
hypertension (high blood pressure) and associated vascular complications such
as heart and kidney failure, myocardial infarction and stroke. Based on novel
action mechanisms, new drugs may be discovered with the potential to prevent
vascular complications in patients with hypertension: an opportunity to
improve the quality of life for over a billion people worldwide. This
collaboration, involving 3.4 million euros, 9 new research positions, unique
materials and exchange of know-how, is scheduled to last 3 years.
Matthias Krämer has been in the Senior Product Manager job at Jedox Since the Beginning of November. An OLAP Product Development Team in Prague is Joining Jedox
MADRID, November 17 - ONDAS Media S.A., the satellite radio company for Europe, today announced
it has teamed up with Jazz FM - the UK's interactive home of jazz - in a
content cooperation agreement. The partnership will see distribution of Jazz
FM's content on the ONDAS Media digital satellite radio platform to be
broadcast across the internationally recognized borders of 27 European
countries.
CLEVELAND, November 17 - American Greetings today announced it's bringing one of entertainment's
most gifted writers and storytellers to the greeting card aisle! Taylor Swift
has partnered with American Greetings Corp. (NYSE: AM) and secured yet
another outlet for her creativity — writing greeting cards. The country/pop
superstar will create a line of greeting cards, gift packaging, stationery,
online photo personalization products and online greetings. Product will
begin arriving on store shelves and be available online in spring 2010.
Self-Publishing Imprint Harlequin Horizons Furthers Opportunities for First-Time Authors
TEL AVIV, Israel, November 17 - Recently, Mr. Waldemar Wilhelm Hoppe, Deputy Managing Director
of the "Invest in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern" agency, and Ms. Ursula Goldacker,
the Senior Consultant of the agency, have arrived to Israel in order to
conduct a business meeting with Mr. Shmuel Ovadia, the CEO of S.D.E Company
and Ms. Inna Braverman, International marketing manager of the company.
LONDON and NEW YORK, November 16 - Corvil, innovator of electronic trading and market data latency
management systems, today announced that Fixnetix, the leading provider of
ultra-low latency market data and trading connectivity to liquidity venues
worldwide, is partnering with Corvil to offer CorvilClear to its global
client base of financial institutions. CorvilClear is the first inter-party
latency management system developed for the global electronic trading
industry.
AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, November 16 - VASCO, a world leader in strong authentication solutions has joined with
Monext, a pure player in electronic payments, to offer their clients an
effective, cutting-edge solution for authentication problems faced by
financial institutions, businesses and public services.
JOHANNESBURG, November 16 - First National Bank's (FNB) partnership with China's only bankcard
association, China UnionPay (CUP), was launched in December 2008, a first for
the South African banking industry. The partnership enables Chinese tourists,
who are CUP card holders, to make purchases in South Africa at FNB SpeedPoint
terminals.
Participates in Microsoft Local Language Program Africa Summit as the Strategic Partner for 35 Languages for Windows 7 and Office 14 Language Interface Packs
AMSTERDAM, November 17 - Atradius Collections, a worldwide leader in business-to-business debt
collection services, has entered into a partnership agreement with
FinancePro. The pioneer and market leader in commercial receivable management
services in China, FinancePro selected Atradius Collections to provide
international debt collections services to its entire customer base.
PARIS and LONDON, November 12 - Lancôme is delighted to announce its commitment as patron of
the Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Foundation.
HALIFAX and PARRSBORO, Canada, November 12 - NS Power and its tidal technology partner OpenHydro have successfully
deployed the first commercial scale in-stream tidal turbine in the Bay of
Fundy today. The one-megawatt commercial scale turbine reached the Fundy
Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE) deployment site, in the Minas
Passage, yesterday afternoon and began preparations for deployment. The
turbine was fully deployed just before 2:00 today and is now operational,
rotating with the tides, collecting data, and producing energy.
BANGKOK, November 13 - Mr. Veerasak Kositpaisal, President & CEO of PTT Chemical Plc., and Mr.
Anuchit Boonthong, Chairman of SMC Corporation Limited, signed the Memorandum
of Understanding to initiate a mutual co-operation on the development and
support of Thailand's blow molding industry. The two companies intend to
increase the strength and potential of Thai plastic manufacturers in terms of
capability to better respond to current market needs and to successfully
compete in the global market.
LONDON, November 11 - The GSMA, which represents the interests of the worldwide mobile
communications industry, today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of
Understanding with the University of Manchester to establish an m-Health
Innovation Centre in Manchester, which will act as a UK focus for m-Health
activity. The goal of the GSMA's m-Health initiative is to foster innovative
mobile applications and services in healthcare that will focus on promoting
healthier lifestyles and early intervention.
MUNICH -
GENIVI Alliance, the automotive industry’s only collaborative association dedicated to driving the development and broad adoption of an open source In-vehicle Infotainment (IVI) reference platform, today announced its continued strong growth with the addition of four prestigious companies from the consumer electronics and technology industries.
REDMOND, Washington and LONDON -
- Microsoft and industry partners continue momentum toward a common platform for information sharing and business process integration in the oil and gas industry worldwide.
ANDOVER, England -
Sight charity The Eyecare Trust has joined forces with healthcare provider Simplyhealth to warn that many lifestyle choices can pose a serious threat to eyesight. As well as alerting people to the eye health risks posed by obesity, the charity is stressing that smoking, poor diet, lack of exercise and excessive alcohol consumption can all dramatically increase the risk of sight loss or even blindness.
SCHIPHOL-RIJK, The Netherlands - Pop culture icon and legendary showman Barry Manilow and Holiday on Ice today announced a major new collaboration. The world leader in family ice shows will showcase a selection of Manilow’s most popular songs - naturally including no 1 hits Mandy and Copacabana - in the new show TROPICANA.
PLAINSBORO, New Jersey and ROCKLAND, Maine -
SAI Global Compliance and the Institute for Global Ethics (IGE) have entered into a joint marketing and sales alliance to provide organizations and their employees with frameworks they can rely upon when making difficult ethical decisions.
UTRECHT, The Netherlands - InteRNA Technologies B.V. and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston, USA) have entered into a research agreement to develop microRNA (miRNA)-based therapeutics for cancer.
COPENHAGEN - Nuevolution A/S today announced that it has received a milestone payment derived from its collaboration with Merck & Co. Inc., Whitehouse Station, NJ.
NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey -
In a joint statement, Czura Thornton’s founders Tony Czura and Nick Thornton said: “We are delighted to augment our Life Sciences Group with Clearstone Central Laboratories and the deep expertise of the people there. We intend to maintain the integrity of the operational teams and continue to invest in strengthening the company’s focus on exceptional client service. Combined with our renewed focus on the consistent delivery of high quality service, flexibility and responsiveness that private ownership allows, we look forward to expanding Clearstone’s market reach.”
CAMBRIDGE, England and LELYSTAD, The Netherlands - Bicycle Therapeutics has obtained a global license from Pepscan to utilize its proprietary constrained peptide chemistry technology. The parties propose to closely collaborate on the development of structurally modified peptides that will act as a novel class of therapeutic molecules.
AMSTERDAM -
- Senior Librarians and Researchers From Host Universities Will Share Insights and Case Studies During “Scholarly Perspectives 2009″ Series
LONDON - London Genetics Limited, an expert in the use of pharmacogenetics in clinical drug discovery and development, has entered an intensive partnering programme following on from its successful pharmacogenetic conference in September(1). The meeting recognised that while pharmacogenetics and genetics have great potential in helping the biopharmaceutical industry overcome its many challenges, early clinical collaboration between companies, academia, regulators and payers is now needed.
SYDNEY -
Australia’s ocean energy company, BioPower Systems, today announced that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Spanish Global Project Development Company Elecnor SA.
NORTHBROOK, Illinois -
ICC Evaluation Service, Inc.(R) (ICC-ES(R)) and Underwriters Laboratories (UL) have established a Dual PMG Listing Program for plumbing, mechanical, and fuel gas (PMG) products. The purpose of the program is to provide code officials and construction professionals with a reliable means to verify that PMG products comply with applicable codes and standards.
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