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AMD's Vice President of Global Sales and Corporate Development to present on the topic of 'Telemedicine Lessons from Around the World.' Chelmsford, MA (Vocus/PRWEB) April 01, 2011 AMD Global Telemedicine, Inc. (AMD), the worldwide leading supplier of telemedicine technology, devices and application software, announced today that it will participate in Med-e-Tel 2011, the international ehealth, telemedicine and health ICT forum for education, networking and business in Luxembourg...

LUXEMBOURG and NEW YORK, March 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sberbank and Sodrugestvo have signed a loan agreement today in Svetliy (Kaliningrad Region) setting a new facility for Sodrugestvo Group. Mr. Alexey Koltchik, vice president of the North-West Branch of Sberbank; Mr. Alexander V. Lutsenko, chairman of the board of Sodrugestvo Group; and Mr. Stephane Frappat, chief executive officer of Sodrugestvo Group participated in the signing ceremony. The loan will be used to finance the...

LUXEMBOURG and NEW YORK, March 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sodrugestvo Group (www.sodrugestvo.com) has started construction on a new port complex in Kaliningrad, Russia. The $430 million project, scheduled for completion in 2013, will include a new deep-sea port terminal and soybean crushing plant. The Sodrugestvo Group has already invested more than $600 million in port infrastructure and processing facilities in Kaliningrad since 2001. In a ceremony yesterday commemorating the initiation of...

ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- People who speak more than two languages may lower their risk of developing memory problems, according to a study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 63rd Annual Meeting in Honolulu April 9 to April 16, 2011. "It appears speaking more than two languages has a protective effect on memory in seniors who practice foreign languages over their lifetime or at the time of the study," said study...

LUXEMBOURG and ABU DHABI, UAE, February 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Convolant Emirates Group, Abu Dhabi, launches a partnership for a major development in the field of innovative, sustainable technology together with the Building Materials Specialist Chaux de Contern, Luxembourg, and the German subsidiary of MACE, a leading consultancy and construction group. The joint venture is using the MACOM(R)-product range based on the worldwide patented CeMin 28 Technology for recovery of raw...

LUXEMBOURG and NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sodrugestvo Group (www.sodrugestvo.com) has acquired Russia-based railcar operator Balt-Trans, the second largest operator of grain hoppers in the country. Founded in 2009 by a group of private investors, Balt-Trans contributes 1,875 grain hoppers and 102 boxcars to the Group's logistics operations, already consisting of Trans-Agro, a railcar owner, operator and freight forwarder. Combined, the company now owns a total of 2,225 grain...

LAS VEGAS, BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and LUXEMBOURG, Jan. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- From the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Verizon Wireless and Skype said today that Skype mobile(TM) with video will soon be available on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Mobile Broadband network. This new version of Skype mobile from Verizon Wireless will be deeply integrated into a wide range of 4G smartphones to be available by mid-2011. With front- and rear-facing cameras, these Android-based...

FREMONT, Calif. and LUXEMBOURG, Dec. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: WGBS), a leading developer of state-of-the-art genomic analysis systems, and the Integrated BioBank of Luxembourg (IBBL) today announced an agreement to establish a strategic relationship that will expand the use of the WaferGen SmartChip Real-Time PCR system throughout Europe and advance personalized medicine. The agreement includes: The purchase of a SmartChip...

LUXEMBOURG and NEW YORK, Dec. 8, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Sodrugestvo Group has closed on a joint venture with CAROL, one of Brazil's largest farmers' cooperatives. The new entity, called Carol-Sodru S.A., will considerably strengthen the company's presence in the Brazilian market. Sodrugestvo owns a 55 percent stake in the joint venture with the intention to acquire the remaining shares over the next few years. Fernando Lauria has been appointed CEO of Carol-Sodru. "Much of the soybean...

As the eurozone continues to wobble, new analysis of countries' economic interconnectedness finds that some of the countries with the greatest potential to cause a global crash have surprisingly small gross domestic production.Using data from Bureau Van Dijk - the company information and business intelligence provider - to assess the reach and size of different countries' economies, and applying the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model, physicists from universities in Greece,...