PR Newswire Europe and Les Echos
London (ots/PRNewswire) - - Partnership Will Combine Dissemination in France and Across the EU, to Provide a Transparency Obligations Directive Compliant Solution PR Newswire, the world's leading disclosure and corporate news distribution service and Les Echos, the leading French financial newspaper and website (http://www.Lesechos.fr) today announced ...
Riverdeep Interactive Learning USA, Inc.
San Francisco, November 29 (ots/PRNewswire) - Riverdeep Interactive Learning USA, Inc. (the "Company") announced today that it has commenced tender offers (the "Offers") to purchase for cash any and all of its outstanding 8.250% Senior Notes due 2011 (CUSIP No. 441560AK5), 9.875% Senior Subordinated Notes due ...
Medienfachverlag Oberauer GmbH
Dusseldorf/Frankfurt/Zurich/Salzburg (ots) - In this year Europe's best newspapers come from Belgium, Norway, Finland, Portugal and Spain. 287 newspapers from 26 countries participated in the eighth European Newspaper Award. As the four main newspaper genres such as national paper, regional paper, local paper and weekly differ considerably, they are awarded by the jury separately so that four chief awards can be ...
UEFA - Union of European Football Associ
UEFA Video Service provides live Internet coverage of UEFA Champions League matches in 96 countries. Nyon (ots) - The launch of the UEFA Video Service (UVS), has given Internet users in 96 countries access to live online matches from UEFA competitions. UVS has been developed by UEFA to enable its broadcast partners to extend their rights and provide live match coverage on the Internet. Over 20 broadcasters ...
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - - Communications to Help Reflect Quality of Foremost American Daily Newspaper When The New York Times Company opens its new headquarters in the spring of 2007, state-of-the-art technology from Nortel(x) (NYSE: NT , TSX: NT) will give its employees a range of options for staying connected to breaking news stories, readers, ...
Luzern (ots) - During a media convention of the city of Luzern and the organization "Rose d'Or", the new concept for the renowned international competition for TV entertainment with its long tradition was presented. Freddy Burger, the new owner of the market rights and an entrepreneur in the entertainment and restaurant industry, and the designated festival director ...
Zurich (ots) - Teleclub and cablecom agreed to cooperate. The two companies will work together to promote and disseminate Teleclub's digital pay TV services. From June 2007, Teleclub's digital TV services will be available on cablecom's digital TV platform. The products will be promoted jointly. The services are available to the subscribers of both companies. Cablecom and Teleclub AG reached an agreement on 11th ...
Reading, England (ots/PRNewswire) - - Assessment Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute Verizon Business has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant among European network services providers by Gartner, Inc., a leading industry analyst firm, in its new report, "Magic Quadrant for Pan-European Network Service Providers, 2006."(i) The ...
Natick, Massachusetts (ots/PRNewswire) - Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today welcomed the results of two studies and an editorial published in today's edition of The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), all of which reaffirmed the safety and efficacy of drug-eluting stents. Commenting on the ...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Seattle (ots/PRNewswire) - - Four Grants Support Development of Vaccines and Better Drugs, and Launch of New Medical Journal The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced four grants totaling US$68.2 million to help accelerate research on neglected tropical diseases, including hookworm, leishmaniasis, and trypanosomiasis, which kill or disable ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - - New Service Enables Listed Companies and Their Advisors to Communicate With Analysts and Investors Across Europe PR Newswire announced today the launch of Investor Network, a new service that delivers company news releases to industry analysts and investors. Investor Network combines the media reach of PR Newswire with an extensive database of European sell side analysts and ...
Zurich (ots) - In its ongoing dynamic development, the Jelmoli Group has set a strategic marker in the field of financial services. We would thus like to invite you to a media briefing on: Thursday, July 6, 2006, 10.30 a.m. Zurich Park Hyatt Hotel Beethoven-Strasse 21, 8002 Zurich Gustav Stenbolt, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Jelmoli Holding AG, and other representatives of the company will ...
Toronto, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - - Definitive Settlement Agreement Signed with Lead Plaintiffs; Agreement Reached With Canadian Plaintiffs Nortel(x) (NYSE: NT, TSX: NT) today announced that, as a result of the continuing discussions in the mediation process with respect to the previously announced agreement in principle for a proposed settlement of ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - - The Global Lung Cancer Coalition (GLCC) is Excited to Launch the Tempus Journalism Awards, a Global Initiative to Recognise Excellence in Lung Cancer Reporting Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death in both men and women and every year more than 1.2 million new cases of lung and bronchial cancer are diagnosed worldwide. Sufferers of lung cancer are often stigmatised ...
Toronto, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Nortel(x) Networks Corporation (NYSE: NT , TSX: NT) today announced that it and its principal operating subsidiary, Nortel Networks Limited ("NNL"), and NNL's subsidiary Nortel Networks Inc. ("NNI") have entered into an amendment and waiver with the lenders under Nortel's US$1.3 billion one- year credit facility (the "2006 Credit ...
Toronto, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - - Experience Includes Services Leadership Roles in Asia, Central Europe, Russia Dietmar Wendt, a 46-year-old IBM executive with extensive experience in services and technology leadership, will join Nortel(i) [NYSE: NT , TSX: NT] as president of Global Services effective May 1, 2006. Wendt will report directly to Mike Zafirovski, president and CEO of Nortel. He will be ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - - Benefits of Cost Saving, Enhanced Efficiency Far Outweigh Current Barriers The vast majority of European companies believe the virtual enterprise is the way to increase profits and productivity for the future, according to new independent research commissioned by Nortel(x) (NYSE/TSX: NT) and the Communications ...
Brussels (ots/PRNewswire) - - Stockholm Network Report Says Crisis can be Averted by Better Practice Patterns and Newer Therapies A major new report by think tank, The Stockholm Network, shows policy makers are not doing enough to tackle rising cholesterol levels. The report titled, "Cholesterol: The ...
Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - KPMG will unveil the results of its 2006 Competitive Alternatives study on March 21st, 9:30 a.m. in the TSX Gallery Room. The 2004 edition of Competitive Alternatives acknowledged Canada as the most cost efficient G7 country in which to locate business operations. The press conference will declare the 2006 cost competitiveness leader among nine industrialized countries, and will discuss ...
Toronto, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Nortel(x) (NYSE: NT , TSX: NT) President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mike Zafirovski today announced the appointment of George Riedel as Chief Strategy Officer. Riedel will report directly to the President and CEO and will be responsible for leading the Company's corporate strategy including business development and mergers and acquisitions. In addition, Riedel will focus ...
San Jose, California (ots/PRNewswire) - Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a global leader in the development and fabrication of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced today that its AT78C4050 AFDVD(TM) (All-Format DVD) system-on-chip is a finalist in the ASSP and SoC category of EDN Magazine's Annual ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - European Capital, S.A. SICAR announced today it has invested euro 13 million (US$16 million) in the mezzanine facility of Poliris, the leading French online publisher of real estate housing listings for real estate agencies. European Capital's investment represents a majority share of the ...
Toronto, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - The second annual Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World listing will be announced on Friday January 27, 2006 in Davos, Switzerland, during the World Economic Forum. The Global 100 is the definitive annual list of large blue-chip companies around the world that demonstrated the strongest sustainability ...
UEFA - Union of European Football Associ
Nyon (ots) - Acting as a host broadcaster through its subsidiary UEFA Media Technologies, UEFA has confirmed the appointment of SRG SSR idée suisse as the executive producer of the first televised event of the UEFA EURO 2008 tournament. The UEFA EURO 2008 qualifying competition draw will take place in Montreux, Switzerland on Friday 27 January 2006. The ceremony will take place at the Congress Centre in Montreux ...
Zurich (ots) - For the first time, the pan-European television survey by UPC (published at www.cablecom.ch/wirueberuns/upc_2005_tv_survey) was conducted in Switzerland this year. The study's most conspicuous findings include high credibility for Swiss public television, as well as Switzerland's ranking as the country with Europe's lowest rate of TV consumption. To ...
Lucerne (ots) - The current CEO of T.E.A.M. Richard Worth has decided to leave the Company for personal reasons by the end of 2005. Richard Worth has been a long-term member of the T.E.A.M. management and acted successfully in the position of the CEO for the last two years. The Board of Directors expressed its gratitude to Richard Worth for his excellent performance. Thomas Klooz (50) will succeed him as the new CEO with effect on 1 January 2006. He has been a member ...
Paris, November 2 (ots/PRNewswire) - The European School of Oncology (ESO) presented this year's joint winners of the ACE (Awarding Cancer Enlightenment) Reporter Award 2005 -- Viktoria Kun, Health Correspondent on the Hungarian national daily newspaper Nepszabadsag, and Ioanna Soufleri, Science Editor on the Greek national daily newspaper To Vima -- with euro 5,000 each at an award ceremony held today at the European ...
Washington, D.c. (ots/PRNewswire) - - Calls For Public Comments - Framework Addresses Capital Market Needs for Information About a Company's Opportunities, Risks, Strategies and Plans The Enhanced Business Reporting Consortium today announced that it has released its first version of a comprehensive ...
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs
Washington (ots/PRNewswire) - A new U.S. travel publication covering a range of issues, such as how to obtain a visa and understanding new border security procedures, is now available from the U.S. Department of State. In addition to information on current travel laws and entry procedures, the electronic ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - - Takeda's ACTOS(R) (pioglitazone HCl) on Top of Standard Treatment Demonstrates Significant Cardiovascular Benefits A study published in The Lancet today shows that Takeda's ACTOS(R) (pioglitazone HCl), an oral glucose lowering medication, significantly reduces the combined risk ...