SINGAPORE, August 19, 2015, (BUSINESS WIRE)– Aliyun, Alibaba Group’s (BABA) cloud computing arm, today announced that it will establish a new cloud data center in Singapore. Its headquarters for overseas business will also be based out of Singapore to drive Aliyun’s overseas expansion plan. Scheduled for an early September launch, the Singapore facility will be the seventh globally.
Jack Ma of Alibaba delivers a speech at the Economic Club of New York in June 2015(file photo).
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Alibaba’s Aliyun to Open Singapore Cloud Data Center
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Akamai Report Shows Hacking Attacks on the Rise in Q2 2015
Cambridge, Mass., August 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM), the global leader in content delivery network (CDN) services, today announced the availability of the Q2 2015 State of the Internet – Security Report. This quarter’s report, which provides analysis and insight into the global cloud security threat landscape, can be downloaded at www.stateoftheinternet.com/security-report.
Hackers left this image on desktops of employees of Sony in Nov. 2014(file photo).
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Amazon Now Bigger Than Walmart
(Note: Stock price of Amazon climbed close to 10%, and closed at $529.42 a share on July 24 after delivering a strong Q2. Its market cap is now at $246.54 billion, 7% higher than the $230.53 billion market cap of Walmart at market close on Friday.)
Seattle, (BUSINESS WIRE), July 23, 2015, — Amazon.com, Inc. today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2015.
Operating cash flow increased 69% to $8.98 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $5.33 billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2014. Free cash flow increased to $4.37 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $1.04 billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2014.
Amazon Employee picking with robot Kiva at its warehouse (file photo).
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Study: Evolution Didn’t Help Giant Pandas Digest Bamboo
Shanghai, June 7, 2015, /ecns.cn/ — Giant pandas eat almost nothing but bamboo, but the endangered species appears not to have evolved a gut microbiota to efficiently digest bamboo, a Chinese study found recently.
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2015 NECINA Annual Conference To Focus on Digital Health
Boston, June 5, 2015, — The annual conference of NECINA will be held on June 13 at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 93 Worcester St., Wellesley, MA 02481. This year’s conference will provide attendees with insight into the great opportunities provided in healthcare by sharing the expertise of leaders in investment, technology research, development and implementation, how to navigate the new laws and policies affecting the sector, and how to advance your career effectively with the best practices in business leadership.
NECINA President Ben Tao speaks at NECINA annual conference in June 2014(file photo).
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Nobel Laureate Brian Kobilka Lectures at Tongji Medical Forum
By Xinming Li, bostonese.com
Boston, May 29, 2015, — Prof. Brian Kobilka, 2012 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, recently attended Tongji Medical Forum in Wuhan, China. As an Honorary Professor at Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology(HUST), Prof. Kobilka delivered a lecture on his groundbreaking research on G-protein-coupled receptors to hundreds in the audience.
Prof. Laureate (left) receives Honorary Professor certificate at Tongji Medical College (provided to bostonese.com).
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Prof. Mildred Dresselhaus Becomes the First Woman to Receive IEEE Medal of Honor
Boston, May 4, 2015, — Information letter from Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) to its member Dr. Xingcai Zhang (who got five degrees in STEM, and is also known as Dr. Tea, the Founder of www.mylovetea.com) says: “This June, when the IEEE confers its highest accolade, the IEEE Medal of Honor, upon Mildred Dresselhaus, that will break a nearly century-long streak during which the award was given only to men.
Prof. Mildred Dresselhaus, Prof. Jing Kong (MIT), Prof Yingying Zhang(Tsinghua University) and Dr.Xingcai Zhang(Dr. Tea , Founder of My Love Tea) were speakers and they posed at 2010 MSNT conference (provided to bostonese.com)
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UMass’ Sandra Petersen and 13 Others Receive Presidential Award
WASHINGTON, DC, March 27, 2015 — President Obama today named fourteen individuals and one organization as the newest recipients of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM). These mentors will receive their awards at a White House ceremony later this year.
Prof. Petersen(left) gave Rep. Joe Kennedy a tour of UMass Life Science Labs in March 2014(file photo)
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Nature Highlights Tsinghua’s Research on DNA Hydrogels 3D Printing
Beijing, March 16, 2015, –Can organs of a living body be artificially 3D printed and replace the “original” organs one day? The cooperation research of “DNA hydrogel” by Prof. Liu Dongsheng’s group, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University and the group of Will Shu (Shu Wenmiao) from Watt University, UK is putting one step forward towards this dream.
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WuXi AppTec Opens Office in Cambridge, Mass.
Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 24, 2015, — WuXi AppTec (NYSE: WX), a leading open-access R&D capability and technology platform company serving the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries with operations in China and the United States, today celebrated the grand opening of its innovation hubnetwork office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dennis Benzan (second from right), Vice Mayor of Cambridge, helps cut the ribbon(photos by Menglei Han).
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