LayerStack performs infrastructure and network upgrade for expansion in Asia Pacific Japan

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 23 (Bernama) -- LayerStack -- an innovative cloud solution provider -- has performed infrastructure and network upgrade of all the cloud servers hosting and network equipment at the Tier3+ rated Equinix data center in Singapore for expansion in Asia Pacific Japan (APJ).

The expansion of SG1 data center reinforces Singapore’s position as Asia-Pacific’s network hub and meeting the future bandwidth requirements of the Southeast Asia (SEA) market which benefit customers at no extra cost by facilitating network speed and scalability.

The network enhancement with PCCW Global, Telstra, Cogent, NTT Communications and Singapore Internet Exchange (SGIX) provides greater access to the SEA users, and focuses on improving its network resiliency, capacity and reducing the latency of the critical SEA backbone infrastructure.

SGIX which also operates as a distributed peering network platform with the presence in Equinix data centers in Singapore provides LayerStack and its customers better network performance from any locations island-wide.

The upgrade will allow LayerStack to support the surge of high-bandwidth applications such as video conferencing, disaster recovery, VoIP (Voice-over Internet Protocol) and others, a statement said.

Since January, LayerStack has launched four data centers across three locations in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan to serve its growing base of customers. More details on www.layerstack.com.

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Invivoscribe submits the LeukoStrat CDx FLT3 Mutation Assay for quizartinib in Japan

 

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21 (Bernama) -- Invivoscribe Inc -- a privately held biotechnology company -- has submitted the LeukoStrat CDx FLT3 Mutation Assay to the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) as the companion diagnostic for quizartinib, following Daiichi Sankyo’s PMDA application for quizartinib in Japan.

The LeukoStrat CDx FLT3 Mutation Assay is a PCR-based, in vitro diagnostic test designed to detect internal tandem duplication (ITD) mutations and tyrosine kinase domain (TKD) mutations D835 and I836 in the FLT3 gene in genomic DNA extracted from mononuclear cells obtained from peripheral blood or bone marrow aspirates of patients diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia.

The submission complements Invivoscribe’s prior regulatory approvals of the LeukoStrat CDx FLT3 Mutation Assay as an acute myeloid leukemia (AML) companion diagnostic in support of midostaurin for Novartis (United States and Europe) and gilteritinib fumarate for Astellas (Japan).

The milestone helps to further establish the LeukoStrat CDx FLT3 Mutation Assay as the international standard for comprehensive FLT3 assessment for critically ill AML patients as this CDx is available worldwide and generates standardized signal ratios for both ITD and TKD mutations.

These criteria resulting more consistent stratification of patients to help prescribing doctors identify personalized therapy options for their patients and accelerate new drug and therapy approvals by establishing more homogeneous patient populations for clinical trials.

The company has developed the LeukoStrat CDx FLT3 Mutation Assay in partnership with Daiichi Sankyo as the companion diagnostic that bridges to the global phase 3 QuANTUM-R clinical trial in patients with relapsed and refractory FLT3 ITD AML.

Invivoscribe has improved the quality of healthcare worldwide by providing high quality, standardized reagents, tests and bioinformatics tools to advance the field of precision medicine. More details on www.invivoscribe.com.

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Southeast Asian Garden Art jade display at Taiwan's Taichung World Flora Expo

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 22 (Bernama) -- “Jadeite Cabbage” -- a vivid depiction of bok choy with green foliage and white stalks carved from a green-and-white jade -- is one of the major highlights at Taichung World Flora Expo in Taiwan from Nov 3, 2018 to April 24, 2019.

The Southeast Asian Garden Art is one of the two pieces of jade art from the National Palace Museum’s (NPM) collection. It is featured by the NPM New Media Gallery in the expo’s Houli Horse Ranch venue, a statement said.

The “Jadeite Cabbage” is a cultural relic that symbolizes agriculture. It echoes the flora expo as well as connotes the agricultural industry in central and southern Taiwan. It also reminds viewers of land and the origin of agriculture.

Taichung City Mayor, Lin Chia-lung said that the city government has worked closely with public and private sectors across Taiwan to elevate contents of the expo, hoping to deliver this year’s theme of “green productivity,” “nature sustainability,” and “people with greenability” to the world with the highest standard.

Also at the Taichung World Flora Expo, an interactive exhibition will also be held to transform horse and flower-themed cultural relics from Northern Song and Qing dynasties into images through utilizing digital projection and interactive device at Houli Horse Ranch.

Also stated in the statement from Sanlih E-Television Co Ltd, floral designs by countries including Malaysia, Myanmar and Hong Kong will be installed at the World Gardens of the Forest Expo Site.

Malaysia will present a rainforest-themed exhibition that features its national flower -- Hibiscus rosa-sinensis while Hong Kong will embark on a journey of Maritime Silk Road that features characteristic, splendor sculptures and beautiful flowers.

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BEIJING EXPLORES FRESH WAYS OF INBOUND TOURISM PARTNERSHIP

BEIJING, China, Nov. 22, 2018 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/--

The number of inbound tourists to Beijing reached 2.27 million from January to July this year, up 2.5 percent year on year. The impressive data underscores Beijing's efforts in recent years to explore new ways of inbound tourism partnership and open up its tourism market by a string of supportive policies.
 
In line with its leading role to serve international communication, Beijing has introduced an array of policies such as special funds for awarding inbound tourism, funds for MICE, shopping tax rebates on departure for overseas tourists, and 144-hour transit visa exemption, propelling inbound tourism growth. As Beijing is building a world-class harmonious and livable capital in an all-round way, inbound tourism is expected to play a bigger role in deepening reform and opening-up, enhancing international friendship and promoting cultural and economic exchanges.
 
What's more, Beijing will host the International Horticulture Exhibition in 2019, and the World Leisure Conference in 2020. The Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympic Games will also be held in Beijing in 2022. These international events will bring new opportunities for Beijing's inbound tourism development. Beijing is willing to strengthen cooperation and share opportunities with domestic and overseas partners.
 
In February, the Beijing Municipal Commission of Tourism Development (BMCTD) launched the "Global Distribution Partnership Program of Beijing Tourism", China's and even the Asia Pacific region's first strategic cooperation innovation mechanism initiated by the government and participated in by international travel agents. The project has received over 120 applications from international travel agents, while 30 of them are selected to be the partners inking a three-year-long cooperation with the BMCTD to carry out in-depth cooperation over information sharing, marketing, and tourism route development. By hosting the summit and promoting the project, the BMCTD hopes to explore a normalized inbound tourism cooperation mechanism, keep informed of the real-time changes in international tourism consumption orientation, understand the characteristics and preferences of overseas tourists, and invite global partners to participate in the study of feature inbound tourism routes and continue to enhance Beijing's appeal as a global tourism destination.
 
Based on changes in the inbound tourism market, groups and preferences, Beijing will introduce eight types of feature tourism products to the world, including ancient capital tours, modern capital tours, folklore tours, fashion tours, food tours and research and study tours, Chinese traditional medicine health tours as well as conference and sports tours.
 
Source: Beijing Municipal Commission of Tourism Development 

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TOSHIBA MACHINE LAUNCHES NEW DIE CASTING MACHINES FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN MARKET

New Machines for Southeast Asian Market Produced in our Thailand Plant

NUMAZU, Japan, Nov 19 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:6104) has developed the new DC-KT Series Die Casting Machines to meet the needs of the Southeast Asian market and has started sales and production at its plant in Thailand.
 

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DC-KT Series Features

• Enhanced functions for meeting the unique needs of the Southeast Asian market
  The Thai plant has been engaged in the manufacture and sales of die casting machines for four years. The knowledge gained about local market needs over this period led to the development of these new die casting machines with features not found in previous machines, namely, a preset function for casting pressure, 2-level injection settings for low speed, and intensification accumulator in standard configurations.
  Also, the machine control panel incorporates a touch panel for intuitive, simple operation and control.

• Lineup with 280-ton and 400-ton die-locking force models
  The product lineup includes 280-ton and 400-ton models providing even higher die-locking force than previous models for enabling support for casting of larger products.
  Improved high-speed acceleration performance and maximum injection force allow casting of complex-shaped products, products with large thicknesses, and a wide array of other product types.

• “Local production-local consumption”, providing optimum support to customers in Southeast Asia
  Production and shipping at the Thai plant near the market enables faster delivery times, more stable production, and quicker response to customer requests for modifications, overhauls, and other services.

Company president Tanabe of Toshiba Machine (Thailand) Co., Ltd, expressed his intention to expand in the Southeast Asian market; "We want to aggressively expand sales using this new model, which was developed based on feedback from our customers in the Southeast Asian market."

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Patton Electronics enhances IPv6 in SmartNode CPE

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21 (Bernama) – Patton Electronics Co. – doing business as a bricks-and-mortar manufacturer since 1984 – has enhanced IPv6 in its SmartNode CPE.

By implementing enhanced IPv6 in SmartNode VoIP CPE, Patton supports simplified network architectures and lowers operation and maintenance costs for service providers and enterprises.

The IPv6 standard expands available IP addresses octillion times or at least 17 billion.

According to Patton in a statement, the global expansion of the Internet, proliferation of IP endpoint devices and the burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT) reflects that Pv4 addresses will soon run out.

With IPv4, maintaining network address translation (NAT) tables is complex, time-consuming and costly – whatech.com predicts the IPv6 market will grow at rate (CAGR) of +31 per cent until 2023 and beyond.

Service providers made plans and some partially implemented IPv6 in their networks. Carriers like Telefonica and T-MOBILE and enterprises such as Microsoft have started the changeover.

“One thing is for sure, we are not living in an All-IPv6 world. Still the move to IPv6 is inevitable. And there are good reasons to do it sooner rather than later,” said Executive Vice President at Patton, Burton A. Patton (Burt).

“Getting from IPv4 to All-IPv6 networking presents challenges. We will live in a mixed IPv4/IPv6 world for some years,” Patton added in the statement.

More details at www.patton.com

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CORRECTING AND REPLACING TACIT KNOWLEDGE, A PITNEY BOWES COMPANY, HELPS FITFLOP TRIPLE ONLINE SALES

Innovative retail platform supports rapidly-growing direct-to-consumer channel for popular global footwear brand

CORRECTION...by Pitney Bowes Inc.

LONDON, Nov 21 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE)--

Please replace the release with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions.

The corrected release reads:

TACIT KNOWLEDGE, A PITNEY BOWES COMPANY, HELPS FITFLOP TRIPLE ONLINE SALES

Innovative retail platform supports rapidly-growing direct-to-consumer channel for popular global footwear brand

Tacit Knowledge, a Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) company and leading provider of end-to-end commerce solutions for global retailers and brands, today announced that its flagship ncommerce solution is powering FitFlop’s new eCommerce website, delivering value in less than 12 weeks. Ncommerce enabled FitFlop to quickly deploy technologies from numerous industry leaders in a single solution that is easy to manage and highly customisable to deliver deeper intuitive brand experiences for customers.

FitFlop has quickly become an iconic brand with a reputation for design innovation. Its footwear offers a unique combination of world-class design and ergonomically engineered comfort, in a distinctively stylish package. Since its launch 10 years ago, FitFlop has soared from cult favorite to global footwear brand. Its direct-to-consumer site is its most rapidly growing sales channel. Ncommerce combines technologies from the industry’s most trusted and innovative providers including SAP Commerce Cloud, CyberSource, Fastly, Google and Amplience. Ncommerce is one stable, modern and scalable platform, from one vendor, with one contract, removing the complexity from high profile web implementation projects.

FitFlop’s eCommerce site was implemented within six-months, in time for peak season. Rather than relying on an out-of-the-box template for the front-end, ncommerce fuses best-in-class technologies using a “Headless Commerce” architecture in a customisable way. Headless Commerce challenges traditional UX models by separating the UI layer from back-end services for an intuitive and highly customised retail experience.

FitFlop was able to build a brand-specific storefront that provides deeper, more engaging customer experiences, while allowing new merchandising features to be conceived and implemented more rapidly. Site maintenance is simplified, freeing FitFlop to focus more on its products and customers rather than perpetually managing technology. Tacit remains an actively involved partner, providing strategic advice and delivering new features on a consistent basis, using Continuous Development.

Denise Fender, Global GM - Digital at FitFlop said, “In the highly competitive retail and digital market, everyone wants the best technologies powering their ecommerce site to deliver the best customer experience and keep customers coming back. The problem lies in that the integrations and upkeep are simply too resource-intensive for most growing retailers – and the technology itself is cost prohibitive. Ncommerce has erased all these challenges while giving us complete control over our brand’s look and feel. We no longer have to worry about managing the platform like an IT shop, but we can still easily and rapidly release new features and functions on the site. As a result, we can focus on customer engagement and consistently delivering a seamless brand experience. We selected Tacit as our strategic partner due to their reputation in the industry for always delivering high quality solutions for brands. Our high expectations were exceeded and our online sales rocketed more than 3X and conversions increased dramatically, particularly on mobile. We are so pleased with the initial results, that we are now focused on putting digital at the forefront of our business operating model. This will enable us to truly supercharge our digital presence across all channels and markets.”

James Bullock, SVP and GM of Tacit Knowledge said, “We’re delighted that FitFlop selected Tacit as their eCommerce technology partner and chose our exciting new SAP Commerce Packaged Solution, ncommerce. We are as thrilled as FitFlop with the results – record online sales and significant conversion rate increases in less than three months. With ncommerce, Tacit has reduced the risk and complexity of eCommerce re-platforming so that retailers can focus on the art of retail and how to better serve their customers.”

About FitFlop

FitFlop was founded in 2007 by Marcia Kilgore, serial entrepreneur and award-winning businesswoman, when her first biomechanically engineered sandal was launched.
Today FitFlop is an all-year round, all-day comfortable footwear brand, operating in 64 countries around the world. With a fast-growing digital arm, the brand’s focus is on further global expansion across multiple channels. At FitFlop, we believe that if you want to live an inspired life, you’ve got to start with a great foundation.

About Tacit Knowledge

Tacit Knowledge (Tacit) is a global consultancy focused on digital retail, owned by global technology company Pitney Bowes. Tacit have worked at the nexus of commerce and content since 2002, applying Silicon Valley innovation and know-how to global retailers and brands. Tacit is now part of Pitney Bowes, a global technology company that provides commerce solutions in the areas of shipping, mailing, data and ecommerce. Tacit and Pitney Bowes provide the platforms and services to allow brands and retailers to connect and engage with their customers. For more information visit www.tacitknowledge.com.

About Pitney Bowes

Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) is a global technology company providing commerce solutions that power billions of transactions. Clients around the world, including 90 percent of the Fortune 500, rely on the accuracy and precision delivered by Pitney Bowes solutions, analytics, and APIs in the areas of ecommerce fulfillment, shipping and returns; cross-border ecommerce; office mailing and shipping; presort services; location data; customer information and engagement software; services; and financing. For nearly 100 years Pitney Bowes has been innovating and delivering technologies that remove the complexity of getting commerce transactions precisely right. For additional information visit Pitney Bowes, the Craftsmen of Commerce, at www.pitneybowes.com.


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Contact

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Media Relations Manager, Europe, Pitney Bowes
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