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June 17, 2019AECOM (NYSE:ACM), a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, and Toshiba have signed an Alliance Agreement to work together on decommissioning nuclear reactors in Japan. This is a major step forward that combines AECOM’s 30 years of...
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June 14, 2019General Counsel of innogy SE, Dr Claudia Mayfeld, will be leaving innogy SE at her own wish. At the request of the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board of innogy SE, Dr Mayfeld will remain with the company until 30 June 2020 in order to work...
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June 12, 2019The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), America's largest grocery retailer, and Ocado (LSE: OCDO), one of the world's largest dedicated online grocery retailers, today broke ground on America's first customer fulfillment The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), America's...
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June 11, 2019Total and its partners have taken the investment decision for the second phase of the Mero project (Libra block), located deep offshore, 180 kilometers off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, in the prolific pre-salt area of the Santos Basin in Brazil.
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June 10, 2019Oncologists said they see a growing role for artificial intelligence (AI) in improving the quality of care and patient outcomes according to new research from Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions.
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June 7, 2019Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) named David Inchausti as corporate vice president and comptroller effective June 16, 2019. Inchausti succeeds Jeanette Ourada, who has elected to leave the company.
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June 6, 2019AXA S.A. (“AXA”) announces today the pricing of the sale of 40,000,000 shares of common stock of AXA Equitable Holdings, Inc. (“EQH”) to Morgan Stanley and Barclays, as the underwriters in a registered public offering of those shares (the...
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June 5, 2019Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. on Wednesday announced a cloud interoperability partnership enabling customers to migrate and run mission-critical enterprise workloads across Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud. Enterprises can now seamlessly...
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June 4, 2019British Airways is celebrating its centenary year in style with the launch of its own English Sparkling Wine. Customers will be able to enjoy the bubbles from the award-winning Hattingley Valley from July 1 and raise a toast to the airline’s...
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June 3, 2019BP has agreed to sell its interests in Gulf of Suez oil concessions in Egypt to Dragon Oil, the Dubai-based oil and gas company. Under the terms of the agreement, Dragon Oil will purchase producing and exploration concessions, including BP’s...
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June 2, 2019Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. (hereafter “Ping An” or the “Group”, HKEX: 2318; SSE: 601318) is pleased to announce that the subsidiary Ping An International Smart City Technology Co., Ltd. (hereafter “PAISCT”), has signed a...
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May 31, 2019Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today reported that in the period from May 24, 2019 up to and including May 30, 2019 a total of 75,000 of its own common shares were repurchased, with a weighted average purchase price of EUR 35.92. These...
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May 30, 2019Air Products (NYSE:APD) today announced that Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Scott Crocco will participate in a Q&A session at the Deutsche Bank Global Industrials and Materials Summit in Chicago on Thursday, June 6, 2019 at...
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May 29, 2019The Scania R 450 wins the Green Truck 2019 award and is named the most fuel-efficient and environmentally friendly commercial vehicle in its class. This victory gives Scania a hat trick for its third consecutive win in the competition.
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May 28, 2019Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the Middle East, is collaborating with AWS to create a culture of innovation within the bank and is using AWS machine learning...
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May 27, 2019Conduent Transportation, a business unit of digital interactions company Conduent Incorporated, announced the appointment of Scott Doering as general manager, Road Usage Charging.
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May 20, 2019Honda R&D Co., Ltd. (Honda R&D), a research and development subsidiary of Honda, today announced that, this month, it began a collaboration with the Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet)* in neuroscientific research of humans in the...
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May 16, 2019Ford today revealed the first images of the all-new Focus ST in wagon body style.
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May 15, 2019Samsung Electronics announced that it has signed an expansion contract with KT Corporation (KT) to provide public safety (PS-LTE) network solutions based on 3GPP standard Release 13 for 10 major metropolitan regions in South Korea including Seoul...
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May 8, 2019Honda exhibited the world premiere of the X-NV Concept, a concept model of its China-exclusive electric vehicle (EV), at Auto Shanghai 2019 (The 18th International Automobile & Manufacturing Technology Exhibition, Press days: April 16-17, 2019,...
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May 6, 2019SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced a series of innovations to SAP S/4HANA to make it easier to add artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, and to customize apps. This will help companies improve business results, automate business processes...
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May 3, 2019British Airways today announced the winners of its BA 2119: Future of Fuels challenge. British Airways celebrates its centenary this year, a landmark in aviation. To mark this, the airline’s BA 2119: Flight of the Future programme is exploring...
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May 3, 2019The Audi A7 Sportback is the “2019 World Luxury Car.” The A7 Sportback is the second Audi to take home the award after the Audi A8* won it last year. The awards were presented today at the New York International Auto Show.
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May 2, 2019The latest addition to Samsung’s Galaxy S series, the Galaxy S10+, was recently rated “Best of Test” by PROTESTE, the largest consumer protection association in Latin America.
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May 1, 2019Following the approval of all relevant authorities, BASF and LetterOne have successfully completed the merger of Wintershall and DEA. In September 2018, BASF and LetterOne had signed a transaction agreement to merge their respective oil and gas...
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