Technology

April 19, 2018

Morocco to Tax International Rental and Booking Platforms

Morocco plans to tax Airbnb and Booking websites in order to offer equal opportunities for hotels and traditional travel agencies, starting 2019.

According to Mehdi Taleb, Head of Regulation, Development and Quality"...

April 19, 2018

New Website to Help Overseas Visitors Plan Japan Travel Starting at Narita Airport

(AETOS Wire)-- On April 16, 2018, NAA launched a new English-language tourist information website to provide the ever-increasing numbers of overseas visitors to Japan with information on tourist attractions around Japan and how they can be accessed"...

April 19, 2018

Leading Classic Hardware Emulation Provider, Stromasys, Leverages Expertise to Enhance Support Options for OpenVMS Clients

(AETOS Wire) -- Stromasys, Inc., the global leader in legacy system virtualization solutions, today announced the launch of its OpenVMS Operating System support on both the original VAX hardware and emulated platforms. This new initiative, which is offered"...

April 19, 2018

Corona Corporation Switches to Rimini Street for Oracle EBS Support

(AETOS Wire) -- Rimini Street, Inc., (Nasdaq: RMNI), a global provider of enterprise software products and services, and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products, today announced that Corona Corporation, a leading housing equipment provider in Japan, has switched to Rimini Street support for its Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) system. Corona immediately realized savings of 50 percent on vendor annual support fees, and with this new found savings, the company is now planning to invest in strategic areas of the business to increase efficiency and help drive innovation. For example, Corona is assessing IoT technology......

April 19, 2018

ABB: Profitable Growth

Total orders +6%1; up in all divisions
Base orders +5%; up in all regions
Revenues +1%; impacted by lower opening backlog
Book-to-bill ratio2 at 1.13x
Operational EBITA margin2 up 20bps to 12.3%
Net income $572 million; up excluding the gain on the cables divestment in 2017
Cash flow from operating...

April 19, 2018

Universal Laser Systems Expands Its Materials Database with DuPont™ and Rogers Corporation Materials

(AETOS Wire)-- Universal Laser Systems (ULS) announces the addition of DuPont and Rogers Corporation materials to its materials database, the most extensive repository of laser material processing parameters for materials in the range of 10 watts"...

April 18, 2018

Morocco Extradites Cryptocurrency Fraudster to United States

Morocco has extradited UK national Renwick Haddow to the US after a long criminal saga, finally sealing the USD 36 million fraud case. According to a press release by the US Department of Justice, Haddow allegedly engaged in “schemes to defraud victims by making material misrepresentations and misappropriating investment funds” in several entities, controlled by him, including Bitcoin Store Inc. and Bar Works Inc. Haddow, who touted the professional backgrounds of unexisting senior executives, represented Bitcoin Store Inc.......

April 18, 2018

IDEMIA and JCB Trial of the First F.CODE Payment Card in Japan

(AETOS Wire) -- As announced at the Taipei JCB World Conference, on November 2, 2017, IDEMIA, the global leader in Augmented Identity, and JCB, the leading international payment network in Japan, have started the pilot of the first F.CODE Japanese"...

April 18, 2018

Braidy Industries Subsidiary Company Veloxint is Named a 2018 Bronze Edison Award Winner

(AETOS Wire)-- The Edison Awards, celebrating 31 years of honoring the best in innovation and excellence in the development of new products and services, announced that Veloxint was voted a Bronze Winner for Space Technology at their April 11th ceremony"...

April 17, 2018

CMMI Cybermaturity Platform Builds Board and C-Suite Confidence In Cybersecurity Programs and Investments

(AETOS Wire)-- The CMMI Institute today announces the CMMI Cybermaturity Platform, a comprehensive enterprise cybersecurity capability and risk assessment platform that provides cybersecurity and senior executives with the evidence and insights to"...