EDMONTON, AB, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) - Peter Konidas and Demetrius Bazos — two Canadian entrepreneurs and inventors from Edmonton, Alberta — have created the world’s first Smart Razor Handle called the PHI Razor™. The PHI Razor™ has 3 design patents and 1 ornamental patent pending and has launched on the global crowd funding platform Kickstarter. [...]
TOKYO and ZURICH, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – TDK Corporation (“TDK”, TSE: 6762) and Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG (“Micronas”, SIX: MASN) jointly announced today that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which TDK will launch an all cash public tender offer for all publicly held registered shares of Micronas for CHF [...]
JAKARTA, INDONESIA, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Indonesian electronics leader Halo Robotics today announced it has signed a distribution agreement with 3DRobotics (3DR) to distribute Solo — the world’s first smart drone — which makes its debut in Jakarta today. After Solo’s North American release in April 2015, it was widely reviewed as one of [...]
WATERLOO, CANADA, Jun. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Teledyne DALSA (NYSE: TDY), a Teledyne Technologies company and global leader in machine vision, today announced its latest innovation, TurboDrive™. TurboDrive is a proprietary and patent-pending data encoding technology that allows select Teledyne DALSA GigE Vision cameras to achieve breakthrough speeds, increasing throughput by as much as 150% [...]
FOSTER CITY, Calif., Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) –Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), the global leader in payments, today announced that it is expanding the use of new security technology that replaces the traditional 16-digit Visa account number with a unique series of numbers, helping to prevent exposure of sensitive consumer account information in online and mobile payments. [...]
TORONTO, ONTARIO, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a BMO Bank of Montreal survey, 43 per cent of Canadians now own a tablet device and many of them are using them to stay organized and conduct daily activities while on the go – including banking and investing. The report, conducted by Pollara, revealed how tablet users [...]
BOSTON, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global mobile phone shipments grew 7 percent annually to reach 515 million units in the fourth quarter of 2014. It was the first time worldwide mobile phone shipments have passed the half-billion-unit threshold. Apple was the star performer, capturing a record [...]
Tokyo, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Tanaka Holdings Co., Ltd. announced today that Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K., which operates the Tanaka Precious Metals Group’s manufacturing business, will commence the provision of evaluation samples of tips made from platinum alloy and nickel cladded (bonding of dissimilar metals) (the “Product”) as side electrodes used on spark plugs [...]
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — It hardly can be a better timing for this invention – a risk of the Ebola epidemic and need for screening people to detect fever demands instant availability of non-contact medical thermometers. Fraden Corporation of San Diego (www.fraden.com) announces that it was granted a second U.S. patent for [...]
Amsterdam, Oct 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, is supplying its Optelio Contactless MiniTag to CaixaBank, Spain’s most innovative financial services provider, for their commercial launch of contactless EMV payment wristbands. These novel wearable banking devices, certified by the international payment schemes, give CaixaBank customers the freedom and security to [...]