Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU) announced the completion of the previously announced sale by The Prudential Insurance Company of America of a $500 million 10-year exchangeable surplus note to Nippon Life Insurance Company. Under the terms of the transaction, Nippon Life can exchange the surplus note for shares of Prudential Financial common stock at any [...]

London, UK – September 16, 2009 – Aldous and Tribold, both leaders in their spaces, have formed a global sales and marketing partnership to deliver an integrated solution that enables CSPs to dramatically reduce timescales across the whole product development and fulfillment lifecycle, and thus reduce costs and increase revenue.
By combining two powerful and unique [...]

Offering a Comprehensive Suite of Highly Customized Services

PPD, Inc. (Nasdaq: PPDI) announced it has opened its global central lab facility in Singapore, strengthening its ability to provide biopharmaceutical clients an extensive range of customized laboratory services in Southeast Asia, a high-growth region for clinical research.
“Expanding our global central lab services into Singapore demonstrates our [...]

IBC2009, 11 September 2009 – Highlighting the strength of its commitment to the international marketplace, BigBand Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBND), a leader in digital video networking, will be showcasing three key video delivery solutions at IBC 2009 (RAI Centre, Amsterdam, 10-15 September 2009, Hall 3 Stand A25). BigBand’s IP-video delivery suite, vIP PASS™; its network-based [...]

The First 60GHz Standard Now Available in Consumer Electronics Products Worldwide

The WirelessHD® Consortium, currently comprised of leaders in the consumer electronics and personal computing industries, announced that several WirelessHD consumer products have successfully passed the rigorous compliance tests and are now available in Asia, North America and Europe. Adding to this momentum, Philips, Best Buy [...]

Global management consulting firm Booz & Company appoints Ashish Sharma as Principal to lead the firm’s Telecom Practice in India. Ashish brings with him over ten years of consulting and line management experience in the telecom and services industries. At Booz & Company, Ashish’s focus will include strategy development, organization transformation and performance improvement work [...]

London, UK, September 9, 2009: Tribold, the world’s leading provider of Enterprise Product Management (EPM) software specifically developed for Communication Service Providers (CSPs), has been evaluated in the much anticipated Gartner July 2009 report: ‘Competitive Landscape: Product and Service Catalog Management Solutions, Worldwide’ – a comprehensive analysis of leading vendors and the business drivers for [...]

Pembroke, Bermuda, and Paris, France, 9 September 2009
Intelsat, the world’s leading provider of fixed satellite services, announced it signed a contract with GlobeCast, a leading content management and delivery company, for occasional use (OU) capacity that spans Intelsat’s entire satellite fleet. The multi-year contract offers GlobeCast increased satellite transmissions infrastructure to fulfill its customer needs [...]

Paris, 7 September 2009 – GlobeCast, a leading content management and delivery company, and Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL), one of the world’s leading satellite operators, announce the signature of a three-year contract for two 36 MHz transponders on Eutelsat’s ATLANTIC BIRD™ 1 and W2A satellites.
The new capacity will be used for professional video [...]

Converging pressure from legacy ETRM solutions going end of life and the economic climate requiring that traders cut overheads and make better informed deals is creating a rich picking ground for trade and risk management specialist Aspect Enterprise Solutions.
The company, whose next generation software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions are quick to implement and highly cost effective, has [...]