[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Openet, a global leader of high performance transaction management software for network operators today announced that TELUS, one of the largest telecommunications service providers in Canada, has selected Openet Policy Manager to offer an enhanced subscriber experience and extreme flexibility to gain a competitive advantage in the Canadian wireless market. “Despite a challenging timeline for implementation, the maturity of Openet‘s product and the Company’s experienced team made it possible for us to deploy an LTE ready, strategic policy platform, quickly and efficiently
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Chevrolet today announced that it is entering into a four-year partnership agreement with Liverpool Football Club to become its Official Automotive Partner. The partnership runs to the end of the 2015/16 Barclays Premier League and European campaigns, and includes visibility for the brand at Anfield, Liverpool’s home ground; editorial opportunities within the Club’s print and digital publications and fan sites; and player appearances for commercial opportunities. Chevrolet is also an official sponsor for the Club’s Pre Season Tour, one of the most popular in the world, wh
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Arkadin, one of the world‘s largest collaboration services providers, announced today a global reseller distribution agreement with Adobe Systems Incorporated that enables Arkadin to sell the complete Adobe® Connect™ enterprise offering. The agreement extends Arkadin’s existing relationship with Adobe beyond the Arkadin™ Oneplace meeting solution, which is based on the Adobe Connect platform. Adobe® Connect™ is a market-leading web conferencing solution for web meetings, eLearning, and webinars. It powers mission critical web conferencing solutions end-to-end, on virtuall
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]As it exceeded 30 million downloads both in Korea and other countries, users of ‘Pudding,’ one of the most popular camera applications in Korea, show steady growth. KTH (CEO: Seo Jeong-su), a leading smart mobile company in Korea, stated on July 24 that its popular ‘Pudding series’ (http://pudding.to/?lang=en&telco) exceeded a total of 30 million downloads, including 14 million downloads of ‘Pudding Camera,’ 13.5 million downloads of ‘Pudding Face Match’ and 2.5 million downloads of ‘Pudding.to.’ The staggering number of downloads demonstrates that the Pudding series is g
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announces that the Tokyo Commodities Exchange (TOCOM) and system integrator NTT Data have extended their contract with NASDAQ OMX to 2019. Under the contract NASDAQ OMX will continue to operate and support TOCOM's integrated trading and clearing platform for commodity derivatives. In addition TOCOM has upgraded its trading platform for improved latency performance. TOCOM rolled out its NASDAQ OMX powered platform in 2009. Mr. Tadashi Ezaki, TOCOM President & CEO, said: “Our collaboration with NASDAQ OMX has been highly rewarding for
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Dot Commodity, Inc. (Dot), Japan‘s premier commodity futures broker, is pleased to announce the launch of a low latency connectivity service to the Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) for Trading Technologies’ X_TRADER(R), a trading platform for professional traders, from July 30, 2012. Dot has selected KVH Co., Ltd. (KVH) as the service provider for the new low-latency connectivity environment, and will leverage KVH's proximity solutions, a combination of data center, network and managed IT services to achieve ultra low latency at one-tenth or less of existing TOCOM connect
[NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Citibank Korea Inc. (CEO Yung-Ku Ha, www.citibank.co.kr) launches the ‘Citi Card Dream Event’ for all Citi Card (except for Citi BC, corporate card) customers from Jul.23(Mon) to Sep.22(Sat). Customers who have signed up for the event will be offered with up to 5% cash back on the two-month spending made during dinner and night time (7pm ~ 7am) at any restaurant in the nation, and will also receive 10% instant discount at affiliated restaurants and get a special chance to “Make Dreams Come True” through lucky draw. . Customers can apply for one of the exceptional experiences
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]OMA announces its standard specification for encoding, decoding and resolution of mobile two-dimensional (2D) barcodes. Along with a centralized and open registry to assign a virtually limitless number of barcode management servers, the new OMA standard will allow retailers and advertisers to create sophisticated marketing, advertising and mobile commerce campaigns using cameras on mobile phones. Non-standard solutions are prevalent in some markets, where mobile barcodes have seen significant to majority usage rates, which continue to grow across markets internationally.
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]The top executives of companies based in China or Hong Kong dominate the ranks of top Asian managers besides those of companies headquartered in Japan, according to analysts surveyed by Institutional Investor. The full ranking and its methodology can be found at www.institutionalinvestor.com. More than half of the 20 companies whose CEOs, CFOs, and Investor Relations Professionals and teams won the most first-place votes from the 935 buy-side and 491 sell-side analysts who participated in II's 2012 annual All-Asia Executive Team work for companies based in mainland China
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Mercuria Energy (“Mercuria”, “the Group”) further consolidates its presence in China. Mercuria has been active in China for more than eight years and since 2004 has grown its presence in a range of energy and commodity markets, including oil, refined petroleum products, coal and iron ore, as well as emission trading and asset investments. To support the growth of its business, Mercuria is pleased to announce the establishment of Mercuria (China) Investment Co. Ltd., a core member of Mercuria Asia Group Holding Pte. Ltd.. The newly established entity will manage all tradin