American Express and F1 ACADEMY Team Up to Support Local Small Business Caja Caliente During Miami Race Week American Express has teamed up with all-female racing series F1 ACADEMY in a new global partnership, which will kick off during Miami Race Week. As part of the partnership, American Express will support local communities and shed a spotlight on small business in cities that host F1 ACADEMY™ races throughout the season, beginning with local Miami restaurant Caja Caliente. Caja Caliente’s business logo will appear on a custom livery, driven by British F1 ACADEMY driver Jessica Edgar. It is the first small…
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Samsung and O2 Telefónica Launch vRAN and Open RAN Network in Germany Samsung Electronics and O2 Telefónica has announced that the companies have launched their first virtualized RAN (vRAN) and Open RAN commercial site in Germany. It is the first time that Samsung’s 5G vRAN solution is being used in a commercial network in Germany. The site is now operating in Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, providing high-performance and reliable 4G and 5G services to customers. In the coming months, the companies will expand the vRAN and Open RAN network to seven additional sites in the region, aiming to further extend…
Yada Xishan Hotel Yixing Officially Opens as New Addition of The Unbound Collection by Hyatt Brand Hyatt Hotels Corporation has announced the opening of Yada Xishan Hotel Yixing, the first Hyatt-branded hotel in the charming city of Yixing and the latest addition to The Unbound Collection by Hyatt portfolio. Located in the heart of the Yangxian Ecotourism Resort in Yixing, this enchanting sanctuary marks a significant milestone in The Unbound Collection by Hyatt’s brand expansion, as the eighth property to open in Greater China. Designed for those who are seeking an escape from the fast-paced urban life, this 102-room hotel…
Get Ready to Meet Okaimono Panda: Rakuten Presents New Anime Series Starring Beloved Mascot Rakuten Group, Inc. has announced the launch of an anime series starring the company’s official mascot, Okaimono Panda, set to premiere in the fall of 2024. Content production for the series will be led by Rakuten Content Central, a company specializing in intellectual property and media franchising. Okaimono Panda – literally “shopping panda” – celebrates its 11th anniversary as Rakuten’s official mascot this year on May 7. Entitled Rakuten Panda!, this televised anime series will be the first to feature the mascot character and is slated…
Brain Imaging Study Reveals Connections to Human Consciousness In a paper titled, “Multimodal MRI reveals brainstem connections that sustain wakefulness in human consciousness,” published in Science Translational Medicine, a group of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, and Boston Children’s Hospital, created a connectivity map of a brain network that they propose is critical to human consciousness. The study involved high-resolution scans that enabled the researchers to visualize brain connections at submillimeter spatial resolution. This technical advance allowed them to identify previously unseen pathways connecting the brainstem, thalamus, hypothalamus, basal forebrain,…
Merck Announces Positive Data for V116, an Investigational, 21-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Specifically Designed for Adults Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, has announced results from STRIDE-10, a Phase 3 trial evaluating V116, the company’s investigational, adult-specific 21-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, at the 34th European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID Global) in Barcelona, Spain. The trial evaluated the immunogenicity, tolerability and safety of V116 compared to PPSV23 (pneumococcal vaccine, polyvalent [23-valent]) in adults 50 years of age and older who had not previously received a pneumococcal vaccine. Key results from the study…
Zoetis to Sell Medicated Feed Additive Portfolio to Phibro Animal Health Zoetis Inc. and Phibro Animal Health Corporation has announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement where Phibro Animal Health will acquire Zoetis’ medicated feed additive (MFA) product portfolio, certain water soluble products and related assets for $350 million, subject to customary closing adjustments. This transaction is expected to be complete in the second half of calendar year 2024. Both Zoetis and Phibro Animal Health have a longstanding commitment to the production animal health sector. The acquired medicated feed additive product portfolio, which generated approximately $400 million in…
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Welcomes Young Archaeologists More than 20,000 artefacts unearthed in a detailed archaeological survey carried out on the site of the proposed extension to the Home of Rolls-Royce at Goodwood. Children from Years 3, 4 and 5 at The March CE Primary School, which adjoins the Home of Rolls‑Royce, were invited onto the site to see the work at first hand. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars undertakes detailed archaeological survey on the site of its proposed extension Conducted by experts from Oxford Archaeology, one of Europe’s largest and longest-established independent archaeology and heritage practices Children from Years 3, 4 and…
Petrobras’ oil and natural gas production grows 3.7% in 12 months Petrobras’ oil, NGL and natural gas production in the 1st quarter of 2024 (1Q24) reached 2,776 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed), an increase of 3.7% compared to production in the same period of previous year (1Q23). Among the main factors for this variation, we can highlight the evolution of production (ramp-ups) of the FPSOs Almirante Barroso, P-71, Anna Nery, Anita Garibaldi and Sepetiba, in addition to the entry into production of 19 new wells from complementary projects in the Basins de Campos (11) and Santos (8). In…
Biogen Receives Positive CHMP Opinion for TOFIDENCE (tocilizumab), a Biosimilar Referencing ROACTEMRA Biogen Inc. (Nasdaq: BIIB) has announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) adopted a positive opinion for TOFIDENCE (tocilizumab), a biosimilar monoclonal antibody referencing ROACTEMRA. The intravenous formulation of TOFIDENCE has been recommended for approval for the treatment of moderate to severely active rheumatoid arthritis, polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis, systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis and COVID-19. The CHMP’s positive opinion will now be referred to the European Commission (EC), which will decide whether to grant marketing authorization for TOFIDENCE.…