BEIJING, August 30, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — iSoftStone Holdings Limited (“iSoftStone” or “the Company,” NYSE: ISS), a leading China-based IT services provider in the People’s Republic of China, announced today the completion of the merger (the …
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JointForce Platform Sees Results and Profit Stabilizes
BEIJING and HONG KONG, August 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — ChinaSoft International (“ChinaSoft” or “the Company”) (SEHK: 354) announced today the unaud…
UTSTARCOM HOLDINGS CORP. to be Featured at 2014 MarcumBP China Best Ideas Investment Conference
Will hold investor presentation and meetings at St. Regis Beijing, September 16th
HONG KONG, August 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — UTSTARCOM HOLDINGS CORP. (NASDAQ: UTSI) announced today that it has been sele…
New MT4 WebTrader Platform Available with FxPro
LONDON, Aug. 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — FxPro Group Ltd (FxPro) has just launched its own proprietary browser-based trading platform that allows clients to trade using their MT4 accounts. By logging into FxPro WebTrader with only their FxPro Direct login details, clients can access all their MT4 accounts, real and demo and easily switch between them without re-authenticating or reloading the page.
Built in the latest HTML5 technology, the new FxPro WebTrader is easier to use and faster than most other browser-based platforms. This means that latency is exceptionally low, affording clients the best possible trading experience from anywhere in the world.
In terms of functionality, an all-new charting platform has been built with powerful drawing tools and an abundance of indicators. The expansive charting package also allows clients the ability to trade and manage orders directly from the chart.
“By listening to our clients and using their feedback we have delivered a product that offers all the benefits of the MT4 platform, but with extra added functionality and the fast execution you would expect from a desktop platform. With the majority of our clients using MT4 for forex trading, this new browser-based platform gives them the ability to trade as securely and reliably as they would do normally from any device enabled with a web browser.” Charalambos Psimolophitis, CEO at FxPro.
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New Opportunities for Operators in the Blended Reality Era
– Ensuring Relevance in a Mobile, Quantified, and Augmented World
LONDON, Aug. 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Frost & Sullivan will share insights on the most important trends in the European mobile industry and how they will affect existing value chains and business models. We highlight important developments and what they mean for your business.
The conference will be followed by a live question-and-answer session that will take place on Tuesday, 9 September 2014 at 3 p.m. BST.
Frost & Sullivan’s Information and Communication Technologies experts Senior Analyst Sheridan Nye and Consultant Lawrence Lundy will highlight the critical developments, the changing value, and growth in the Europe’s mobile industry. This online conference will:
- Explore advancements in mobile devices, including health monitoring and wireless transactions
- Identify the disruptive threats and opportunities
- Recommend strategies on how operators can adapt and remain relevant
“Mobile operators face multiple challenges in an intensely competitive environment where once-reliable sources of profit are fast evaporating. One way to fend off the threats is to emulate their fiercest competitors. This means looking ‘inside-out’ to become more agile digital businesses,” explains Sheridan Nye.
Mobile ecosystem participants need to prepare for the quantified and automated world. “When data is the currency of the future, the only sustainable competitive advantage is trust,” emphasizes Lawrence Lundy.
To participate in this complimentary web conference, please email Edyta Grabowska Corporate Communications, at edyta.grabowska@frost.com with your full contact details. Upon receipt of the above information, a registration link will be e-mailed to you. You may also register to receive a recorded version of the briefing at anytime by submitting the aforementioned contact details.
About Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, works in collaboration with clients to leverage visionary innovation that addresses the global challenges and related growth opportunities that will make or break today’s market participants.
Our “Growth Partnership” supports clients by addressing these opportunities and incorporating two key elements driving visionary innovation: The Integrated Value Proposition and The Partnership Infrastructure.
The Integrated Value Proposition provides support to our clients throughout all phases of their journey to visionary innovation including: research, analysis, strategy, vision, innovation and implementation.
The Partnership Infrastructure is entirely unique as it constructs the foundation upon which visionary innovation becomes possible. This includes our 360 degree research, comprehensive industry coverage, career best practices as well as our global footprint of more than 40 offices.
For more than 50 years, we have been developing growth strategies for the global 1000, emerging businesses, the public sector and the investment community. Is your organization prepared for the next profound wave of industry convergence, disruptive technologies, increasing competitive intensity, Mega Trends, breakthrough best practices, changing customer dynamics and emerging economies?
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Frost & Sullivan: Colombian and Peruvian Contact Center Outsourcers Focus on the Americas
— Spain’s dwindling contribution to the offshoring segment has compelled market participants to alter their geographical strategy
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Aug. 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — A mix of quality and competitive costs ensured that the contact center outsourcing services markets in Colombia and Peru were among the most dynamic markets in Latin America up until last year. Since 2013, the market has lost some of its pace as competitive pressures have intensified with the entry of many participants. To navigate the transformed landscape, contact center outsourcing service providers will have to keep up with new entrants’ world-class practices, which have elevated quality standards in both countries.
Sebastian Menutti, ICT Industry Analyst, Frost & Sullivan
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New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Colombia and Peru Contact Center Outsourcing Services Markets 2014, finds that the Colombian market earned $1,045.6 million in 2013 and estimates this to reach $2,206.2 million in 2020. Peru’s market revenues stood at $385.4 million in 2013 and this is projected to go up to $647.3 million in 2020.
“In the Colombian contact center outsourcing services market, domestic business still accounts for more than 70 percent of the revenues. However, revenues from the offshoring segment are growing at a faster rate than those from domestic business as a result of multiple deals with the United States,” said Frost & Sullivan Information & Communication Technologies Industry Analyst Sebastian Menutti. “Meanwhile, in the Peruvian market, nearshoring from South American countries such as Argentina and Chile is bringing in new business.”
In 2013, Spain once again emerged as the main destination that offshored work to contact center outsourcing service providers in Colombia and Peru. Nevertheless, offshoring revenues generated from Spain in 2013 decreased in Peru and suffered from a growth slowdown in Colombia, owing to the recent Spanish economic crisis.
“Consequently, several Colombian and Peruvian contact center outsourcers were forced to refocus their business models and direct their commercial efforts either to domestic businesses in the high-performing local economies or businesses in other countries likely to avail offshoring services,” noted Menutti. “Prime targets for developing the offshoring segment have been South and North America, which are expected to become the dominant regions driving this segment by 2020.”
For more information on this study, please email Francesca Valente, Corporate Communications, at francesca.valente@frost.com.
Colombia and Peru Contact Center Outsourcing Services Markets 2014 is part of the Contact Centers & CRM (http://www.contactcenter.frost.com) Growth Partnership Service program. Frost & Sullivan’s related studies include: Latin American Contact Center Systems Market 2014, Brazilian BPO and Contact Center Outsourcing Services Market 2014, Argentine and Chilean Contact Center Outsourcing Services Markets, and Mexico and Central America and the Caribbean Contact Center Outsourcing Services Markets. All studies included in subscriptions provide detailed market opportunities and industry trends evaluated following extensive interviews with market participants.
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Our “Growth Partnership” supports clients by addressing these opportunities and incorporating two key elements driving visionary innovation: The Integrated Value Proposition and The Partnership Infrastructure.
- The Integrated Value Proposition provides support to our clients throughout all phases of their journey to visionary innovation including: research, analysis, strategy, vision, innovation and implementation.
- The Partnership Infrastructure is entirely unique as it constructs the foundation upon which visionary innovation becomes possible. This includes our 360 degree research, comprehensive industry coverage, career best practices as well as our global footprint of more than 40 offices.
For more than 50 years, we have been developing growth strategies for the global 1000, emerging businesses, the public sector and the investment community. Is your organization prepared for the next profound wave of industry convergence, disruptive technologies, increasing competitive intensity, Mega Trends, breakthrough best practices, changing customer dynamics and emerging economies?
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CAIDE Looks into the Future: New App from Merz Pharmaceuticals Assesses the Risk of Getting Dementia Within the Next 20 Years
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany, Aug. 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — The CAIDE Dementia Risk App from Merz Pharmaceuticals is available free of charge for people from 40 to 65 to calculate their individual risk for getting dementia within the next two decades. Using a traffic light color scheme, the App can also help physicians discuss preventive measures with patients at risk.
The new “CAIDE Dementia Risk App (Cardiovascular risk factors, Aging and Incidence of DEmentia) has been developed in collaboration with Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and is available in the App Store for a free download. The CAIDE App may be used on an iPhone or iPad and comes in two versions: one for physicians and one for individuals. It is available in five languages: German, French, Spanish, Russian, and English as default.
CAIDE supports prevention of dementia
After entering gender, date of birth, height and weight, cholesterol level, blood pressure, physical activity and years of education the App calculates the risk of getting dementia within the next 20 years. If the risk is in the normal range an orange bar appears. The bar is green if the risk is lower and red if it is higher than average. Then the physician should discuss preventive lifestyle interventions.
Professor Miia Kivipelto who has done the research (1,2) on which the App is based says: “The biggest risk factor for developing dementia is advanced age. Large epidemiological studies have demonstrated that what is good for the heart is good for the brain – in other words, a healthy lifestyle with physical activity, low blood cholesterol levels, not being obese, and having normal blood pressure at midlife protects not only against cardiac disease, but also against dementia.”
More information about Merz on http://www.merz.com.
- Kivipelto M et al.; Lancet Neurol 2006;5:735-41
- Sindi et al. Poster presented at the 13th Geneva /Springfield Symposium, March 2014
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Merz Pharmaceuticals GmbH
Dr. Elisabeth Calov
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E-mail: elisabeth.calov@merz.de
Aoxin Tianli Group, Inc. Completes Second Acquisition of the Year
WUHAN CITY, China, August 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Aoxin Tianli Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:ABAC) (“Aoxin Tianli” or the “Company”), a diversified company with businesses in hog farming and electro-hydraulic servo-valves manufacturing and marketing,…
SGOCO Group, Ltd. launches online sales platform on JD.com
HONG KONG, August 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — SGOCO Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq: SGOC), (“SGOCO” or the “Company”), a company focused on product design, distribution and brand development in the China display market, today announced a new on-line sales…
Altair Picks Malaysia As Hub In Southeast Asia
— Regional Office in Kuala Lumpur to Focus on Innovative Product Design
TROY, Mich., Aug. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Altair Engineering Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of leading US-based simulation technology and engineering services company Altair, has chosen Kuala Lumpur as its new regional headquarters to spearhead its expansion plan in Southeast Asia. The new office in Plaza Sentral will also serve as Altair’s training and technical support center for the region.
Altair’s Managing Director for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region, Australia and New Zealand, Srirangam Srirangarajan, explained, “The new office in Kuala Lumpur is significant to Altair’s future growth in Southeast Asia. We are confident that this expansion will enhance our local presence and help us penetrate new market segments such as electronics and aerospace. Malaysia’s robust infrastructure, open policy to foreign business, strong talent pool and connectivity with other ASEAN markets makes it the ideal location for Altair’s regional operation. In addition, Malaysia has the potential to produce innovatively designed products that can compete at an international level, and Altair is happy to lend its experience and expertise towards achieving this goal,” he said.
Altair Engineering Sdn Bhd is a MSC-status company and number one in computer-aided engineering (CAE) in Southeast Asia, providing both software and engineering services. Altair has served the Malaysian market since 2012, providing a rich portfolio of advanced engineering software and on-demand computing technologies to both private and public sector clients.
Commenting about the company’s expansion plans, Srirangam continued, “According to our market research, the CAE market is growing rapidly in Malaysia and throughout Southeast Asia. We are seeing CAE technologies moving aggressively into non-traditional domains like consumer products, architecture, civil engineering, and construction, to name a few.”
Local businesses are feeling increasing global competitive pressure to deliver reliable products quickly while keeping costs low. CAE solutions bridge the gap by reducing product design and development cycle time as well as testing and analysis time.
“As Malaysia moves towards establishing itself as a high-technology manufacturing hub, companies in the aerospace, biotechnology, electronics, and information and communications technology industries are turning to CAE software to improve the quality of innovation and maintain cost-efficiency. CAE software enables companies to analyze and test a product for reliability, durability and quality, which helps increase their competitive edge,” he added.
Commenting on local growth areas, Srirangam said, “In Malaysia, we see very good prospects in the automotive, manufacturing, and oil and gas sectors. Malaysia also has the capacity to become a major player in aerospace and electronics. Altair is committed to bringing innovation to our clients. We believe that sharing our expertise and technical know-how to help clients develop a design-based innovation culture within their organizations delivers increased return on investment and performance,” he concluded.
Altair Engineering Sdn Bhd’s new ASEAN regional headquarters is located at 3B-10-7, Tower 3B, Level 10, Plaza Sentral, Jalan Stesen Sentral 5, KL Sentral, 50470 Kuala Lumpur.
About Altair Engineering Sdn Bhd
Founded in 2012, Altair Engineering Sdn Bhd is a MSC-status company providing enhanced engineering solutions, on-demand computing technologies and enterprise analytic solutions for companies across a range of industry sectors such as automotive, defense, oil and gas and consumer goods, all of which play a dominant role in Malaysia’s economy. Altair Engineering Sdn Bhd is a wholly-owned subsidiary of US-based Altair.
About Altair
Altair is focused on the development and broad application of simulation technology to synthesize and optimize designs, processes and decisions for improved business performance. Privately held with more than 2,300 employees, Altair is headquartered in Troy, Michigan, USA and operates more than 40 offices throughout 22 countries. Today, Altair serves more than 5,000 corporate clients across broad industry segments. To learn more, please visit www.altair.com.