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Microsoft Corp. announced on Thursday the Nokia Lumia 830, Lumia 735 and Lumia 730 Dual SIM smartphones running the latest Windows Phone 8.1 operating system, bringing industry-leading imaging technology to more affordable price levels. Microsoft also announced two new accessories that provide innovative ways for people to interact with their phones, plus the Lumia Denim update, which brings extra features and enhancements to existing Lumia smartphones.
Today, talented young professionals have a myriad of worldwide opportunities at their disposal in terms of where to live and work. In order to highlight Berlin’s leading position among global cities competing for the best minds, the German capital has created an online portal aimed directly at professionals and managers from at home and abroad. The goal of the portal is to make it even easier for young talent to get off to a great start in Berlin. It is a joint initiative of Berlin Partner for Business and Technology and the Senate Department for Economics, Technology and Research.
SevenVentures Pitch Day (7VPD) goes international: The start-up prize from ProSiebenSat.1, Germany’s largest TV group, will have an international alignment. The start-up competition specifically targets founders and consumer start-ups intending to enter or grow in the European market with their business idea or product. To support that objective, the ProSiebenSat.1 Group will award the competition winners with a total of ?7 million in TV media volume in addition to additional media prizes from TF1 (France), Dogan TV (Turkey), TVN Group ((Poland) and Modern Times Group ( Europe).
New data from the international FIELD Study Repeat presented today at the 15th World Congress of Cancers of the Skin (WCCS) in Edinburgh, Scotland, demonstrate initial treatment with Picato(R) (ingenol mebutate gel) 0.015% is efficacious in treating actinic keratoses (AK) and, when followed by a repeat cycle for persistent and newly emerging AKs, this efficacy is further increased.[1] The data also confirm two treatment cycles of Picato(R) are well tolerated by patients.[2]
Chiba Prefecture will conduct a bus wrap advertising campaign in Taipei, Taiwan, for three months starting Oct. 1, 2014, to promote tourism to the eastern Japan prefecture.
Air China and Kunming Airlines signed a codeshare cooperation agreement in the city of Kunming on September 3, 2014, and the two carriers will start code share in the form of free marketing on each other’s selected domestic flights from September 15, 2014.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Viki, a global video streaming website, has selected Aspera, an IBM company, as its exclusive provider of high-speed file transfer solutions for all video uploads from Viki’s content providers from over 100 countries. By speeding the movement of video – the most prevalent form of Big Data – Aspera enables Viki to quickly receive, subtitle and distribute premium video content to its diverse global user base.
Merck Serono, the biopharmaceutical division of Merck, announced today that detailed 26-week data from the Phase IIIb SPARK study are being presented at the Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism (SSIEM) Annual Symposium, currently taking place in Innsbruck, Austria. As announced in April, the study met its primary endpoint. It showed that the addition of Kuvan(R) (sapropterin dihydrochloride) at a dose of 10 or 20 mg/kg/day to a phenylalanine-restricted diet significantly increased phenylalanine tolerance by 30.5 mg/kg/day in children with phenylketonuria (PKU) who are below 4 years of age and responsive to Kuvan compared with that of…
Defying every Las Vegas cliche, Delano fuses the chic style and subtle seductions of the signature South Beach brand with the vibrant energy of The StripThe highly anticipated luxury, all-suite Delano Las Vegas debuted today bringing a touch of South Beach to The Strip. This morning, executives and employees of MGM Resorts International and Morgans Hotel Group gathered to officially unveil Las Vegas’ newest hotel.
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko says he has agreed with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone on a “permanent ceasefire” with rebels. “Their conversation resulted in agreement on a permanent ceasefire in the Donbass region [the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk],” his office said.