[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Isola Group S. r.l.(http://www.isola-group.com/), a market leader in engineered dielectric materials used to fabricate advanced multilayer printed circuit boards (PCBs), announced the promotion of Ms. Janet Fromm to Senior Director - Quality & Operational Excellence, reporting directly to Mr. Ray Sharpe, President and CEO. This announcement follows the recent promotion of Mr. Michael Gastonguay to President - Americas, who previously held this position. Ms. Fromm will be responsible for leading Isola‘s global lean and quality initiatives to reduce costs, improve cycle-tim
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]NDP Media Corp, the biggest mobile affiliate networks in the world and the biggest App Agency in China, has just secured $15 million from Venture Capitals (VCs). According to an insider, the capital will be used to grow their tech team, expanding their reach into global market as well as R&D based on Big Data. After devoting their energy and capital to R&D in the Big Data platform for years, they have finally managed to build their own powerful Big Data Platform as well as creating their own cutting-edge real-time tracking and optimization tool, yeahtool. One of NDP Media
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Philip Morris International Inc.’s (PMI) (NYSE/ Paris Euronext: PM) EU Region President Drago Azinovic made the following comment regarding the adoption by the Council of the European Union of the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD): “The Tobacco Products Directive adopted by the Council of the European Union today represents a worrying departure from the EU’s basic standards of proportionate, evidenced-based policymaking, which will further erode intellectual property rights and undermine the EU Charter where these rights are protected.” “Instead of further harmonizing the
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]mobli (www.mobli.com), the leading social-mobile photo and video-sharing multi-platform, announced today that Vic Lee, Co-Founder of Chinese Internet giant Tencent, is joining its board of advisors. As part of the new position, Lee will assist mobli in expanding its reach in China, other east-Asian markets, and in exploring new monetization pathways. mobli is partnering with key global technology leaders, including Carlos Slim and Kegnes Rakishev, as part of its international expansion strategy. Today’s announcement is another step along this path that will give mobli a s
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]More than 1 in 10 business school alumni are self-employed, and the longer they've been out of business school the more likely they are to have taken an entrepreneurial career path, says a worldwide survey of nearly 21,000 business school alumni from the classes of 1959-2013, released today by the Graduate Management Admission Council. “While entrepreneurship is a hot topic and is a very popular course of study at today‘s business schools, these findings suggest that business schools have always prepared students to launch and manage their own businesses,” says Sangeet Ch
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Fitch Group today announced it has acquired Business Monitor International (BMI), an independent provider of country risk and industry analysis specializing in emerging and frontier markets. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The addition of BMI strengthens and expands Fitch Group’s client offering in financial information services. Subscribers to BMI’s products include decision makers at multinationals, governments, academia, financial institutions, investment funds and research centers in more than 160 countries. Paul Taylor, President and CEO of Fit
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]A unique agreement was signed on Thursday 13th of March by The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO), The Confederation of Unions for Professionals (Unio), The Confederation of Vocational Unions (YS), The Confederation of Unions for Academics (Akademikerne), and The Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports (Norwegian NOC). The agreement highlights the values and rules that the parties to the agreement believe should apply if Norway are to host the Olympic and Paralympics Games in 2022. If Norway and Oslo are awarded these Olympic and P
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Reckitt Benckiser (RB) has selected Cegedim Relationship Management as its Global Preferred Supplier of Sales Force Automation (SFA) solutions. The decision was based largely on previous successful deployments of Cegedim’s SFA solutions in the US and UK. As part of this new contract, initial pilots of Cegedim’s award-winning*, cloud-based SFA solution, Mobile Intelligence for iPad** (MI Touch), will take place in Germany and Mexico, with plans to expand globally. Cegedim’s Global Breadth Combined with Local Expertise Promotes RB’s Multinational Corporate Growth With a pre