Hudson Valley Wireless (“HVW”) has selected and deployed Mavenir’s cloud-native LTE vEPC to support their recent project. HVW has formed official Public-Private Partnerships (P3) with local governments and works with State and Federal government to secure grant funding and deploy network in unserved and underserved communities.

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Lebanon has a long history of economic and political instability. In the past, local insurers have been successful at navigating this challenging environment. However, recent civil unrest and a ballooning public debt have increased the level of economic uncertainty, which is negatively impacting the credit quality of Lebanon’s insurance market.

In a new Best’s Special Report, “Lebanese Insurance Market Faces Mounting Uncertainty”,"...

The LEGO Group announced a partnership with Nintendo that will change the way people interact with Super Mario in the physical world and engage in LEGO® experiences.

Both companies share a passion for innovation and play and their collaboration has led to a reimagination of the LEGO building experience, enabling an entirely new way to play inspired by the beloved video game icon, Super Mario.

Neither"...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation for the investigation of empagliflozin to reduce the risk of kidney disease progression and cardiovascular death in adults with chronic kidney disease, Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) announced. The designation was granted for the clinical investigation of empagliflozin in adults with chronic kidney disease. This Fast Track designation for empagliflozin underscores the urgent need for new treatment options for people living"...

MUSCAT: Bank Muscat, the flagship financial services provider in the Sultanate, in line with its commitment to strengthening support to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) held two Najahi Talks seminars in Muscat and Nizwa recently. Launched earlier in September 2019, Najahi Talks is a monthly knowledge-sharing platform that is organised by the Retail Enterprises unit of Bank Muscat for the benefit of Omani entrepreneurs across the country. The events are organised in a casual setting and features sessions by different guest"...

MUSCAT: Lulu Hypermarket launched the Beautiful Britain 2020 across all its branches in Oman. The promotion was inaugurated by Hamish Cowell, the British Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman, at Lulu Hypermarket Bausher, on March 10 at 10.30 am. The fest is being held at Lulu branches in Bausher, Darsait, Al Bandar, Wadi Al Lawami, Suhar, Nizwa and Salalah.
The promotion, which is held from March 10 to March 16, 2020, is serving as a platform to promote the best of British brands among the local as well as the expatriate"...

MUSCAT: Leading financial institution Ahli Bank has opened a new branch at the Mall of Muscat in Mabellah to cater to its growing customer base. With this opening, the bank now has total of 27 branches in the Sultanate.
Shaikh Ibrahim bin Yahya al Rawahi, Wali of Wilayat Seeb inaugurated the new branch in the presence of members of the bank’s senior management, branch and departments managers, as well as a group of customers.
The opening of the Mall of Muscat branch reflects the bank’s strategy to strengthen"...

MUSCAT: Musandam Power Company (MPC) SAOG, a subsidiary of OQ, has held its first AGM post its successful IPO and listing in MSM in December 2019. The 28 million shares IPO offering was comfortably oversubscribed with overall subscription of around 3.5 times last year.
Elaborating on the overall successful performance of the company in 2019, Ahmed Tufail al Rahman, Chairman of MPC said, “Excellent plant availability and higher power generation has led to a 9.2 per cent growth in the total revenues earned by the"...

MUSCAT: National Finance, as part of its Social Investment Program, continues the series of ‘Calculate it Right’ Workshop in collaboration with Fund for Development of Youth Projects (Sharakah) across the country. The sixth session of the “Calculate it Right” workshop series was held last Tuesday at the Youth Training Center in Sur, Al Sharqiyah South. This is the second consecutive year that the workshops are being held at all the major cities of Oman. Similarly, the workshop was held in January at"...