[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Current Alpari World Match Racing Tour Champion, Ian Williams was one of many keen observers of the Olympic sailing in Weymouth. Although fleet racing was the focus, Williams believes the regatta was a great advert for match racing, with no less than “three of the nine” fleet racing competitions exhibiting tactics more commonly seen on the Tour. The 2010 ISAF Match Racing World Champion Ben Ainslie took a fourth successive Olympic gold medal by winning the men's Finn class at London 2012, making him the greatest ever Olympic sailor. It was some feat and while his Olympic
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Votem Co., Ltd., .(CEO Mun-Seok Kang, www.votem.kr) a Korean company specializing in medical equipment, is getting attention with sales and export growth of 100% annually since its founding in 2007. The flagship product that Votem Co., Ltd. is currently producing is the patient monitoring device for human use (animal use), which are VP-1200 (V12), VP-1000 (V10), VP-700 (V7), VO-100 (V1), VC-2000 (Central monitoring system), etc. The patient monitoring device is a device to notify through the monitor as measuring biological signals of patients, such as body temperature, he
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Apricus Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:APRI) and Takeda Pharmaceuticals International GmbH jointly announced today that they have entered into an exclusive license agreement to market Vitaros®, a treatment for erectile dysfunction, in the UK. Under the terms of the agreement, Takeda will pay NexMed (U.S.A.), a wholly owned subsidiary of Apricus Biosciences, an undisclosed upfront payment, and milestone payments of up to €35 million. According to IMS Health, the erectile dysfunction market in the United Kingdom was worth approximately €202 million in 2011. Dr. Bassam Damaj, Pre
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Dong Woo ST Co., Ltd., (CEO: Hyung Sun Kim, www.dwstco.com) a professional packaging machinery manufacturing company, will participate in Eurasia Packaging Industry Exhibition 2012 held from September 20 to 23 to embark on a full-scale entry into the European market. The company whose technological competency has been already recognized as exporting to Asian countries such as China, Japan, Southeast Asia, etc. has accomplished the feat to export USD 80 thousand so far this year and is aiming to export USD 1 million by the second half of this year. Hyung Sun Kim, CEO of Do
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Carbon Design Systems™ Inc., the leading supplier of virtual platform and secure model solutions, announced today that it received $4 million in investment funding from Samsung Venture Investment Corporation. Additionally, the companies have entered into a strategic partnership. Funds from the strategic investment will be used as working capital and support Carbon‘s ongoing development of leading tools in the electronic system level (ESL) design space, including its fast, accurate virtual prototypes. Carbon currently offers the industry’s only unified virtual prototype th
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]The business models of many industries are undergoing radical change worldwide as a result of the ongoing digitalization. In the meantime the digital business encompasses almost all segments of the value chain and is thus gaining more and more significance for the entire global industry. The first day of the dmexco clearly demonstrated this: An expo with 578 exhibitors from all over the world, the participation of over 400 international top speakers in the Conference and record trade visitor attendance. The economic relevance of the global digital business for the interna
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:MU), one of the world‘s leading providers of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced that Scott Graham, general manager of Micron’s Hybrid Memory Cube technology, will be a keynote speaker at the MemCon Memory Conference on Tuesday, September 18, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Based on 20 years of semiconductor industry experience with DRAM and NAND memory products, Graham will explain how hybrid 3D architectures are enabling the high-performance computing world, providing greater bandwidth and en
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]“Our top priority was to carry over LG’s unique design DNA and heritage to Optimus G,” says the phone’s Chief Designer Sera Park. “Optimus G has many of the elements that we incorporated in the past in phones such as Chocolate, Prada and L-Series. For example, the front face of Optimus G is completely black with lines that are nearly invisible when the phone is off, an effect similar to the original LG Prada.” The Crystal Reflection process used for the first time on the back of LG’s new Optimus G smartphone was developed and patented over a period of 15 months. Crystal R
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Female electrophysiologists from around the world gathered on August 28th, 2012 at the European Society of Cardiology Congress to attend the EPIC Alliance's scientific session: “The Heart of the Matter.” The EPIC Alliance (Electrophysiologist International Community Alliance) is a global network of female electrophysiologists that has been supported by BIOTRONIK since 2008 to address the staggeringly small number of women working in the field. Through various programs, internationally conducted meetings and clinical study opportunities, the alliance aims to increase the n
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Korea's surface plating technology development company, NNP Co., Ltd. (President Chun Seop Hwang, www.nnptechno.com), developed a new concept exposure based on micro pattern implementation technology. The exposure is a device made by photolithography technology creating a photosensitizer made of materials to cause a reaction to constant light and a shape of a pattern through investigating the light in a photomask where a minute pattern is formed. It is used as a mandatory element of the semiconductor and display industries including the processing sector of FPCB (flexible