-(BUSINESS WIRE)– SES (Paris:SESG)(LuxX:SESG) announced today that it is confirming its satellite leadership in TV channel carriage and high definition transmission. By year-end 2011, SES broadcasts over 5,200 TV channels, including over 1,200 High Definition (HD) channels. In the second half of 2011 alone, SES added more than 100 HD channels.

While North America and Europe contribute the majority of the channels broadcast on SES satellites, an increasing portion of the channel growth is coming from emerging markets such as Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Africa. SES now carries 44 DTH platforms, more than any other satellite operator in the world. In addition to over 5,200 TV channels, close to 1,000 radio channels are broadcast via the global satellite fleet of SES.

Ferdinand Kayser, Chief Commercial Officer of SES, said: “These numbers are unrivalled in the industry and demonstrate the advantages of satellite for the distribution of high quality content to large audiences. In line with our fleet investment programme, we see continued channel growth coming from Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Africa. The addition of new HD channels continues to accelerate globally and will remain another growth driver for our company.”

About SES

SES is a world-leading satellite operator with a fleet of 49 geostationary satellites. The company provides satellite communications services to broadcasters, content and internet service providers, mobile and fixed network operators and business and governmental organisations worldwide.

SES stands for long-lasting business relationships, high-quality service and excellence in the broadcasting industry. The culturally diverse regional teams of SES are located around the globe and work closely with customers to meet their specific satellite bandwidth and service requirements.

SES (Paris:SESG)(LuxX:SESG) holds participations in Ciel in Canada and QuetzSat in Mexico, as well as a strategic participation in satellite infrastructure start-up O3b Networks. Further information under: www.ses.com.

Contacts

SES

Markus Payer

Market Communication & PR

Tel. +352 710 725 500

Markus.Payer@ses.com

(BUSINESS WIRE)– Digital Art Zone (DAZ) today announced the immediate availability of a free 3D software download at DAZ3D.com. DAZ is offering full retail versions of the following 3D software for free:

DAZ Studio 4 Pro 3D Software (Winner of 3D World’s 2011 Software Innovation of the Year Award): Retail $429.95
Bryce 7 Pro 3D Landscape Software: Retail $249.95
Hexagon 2.5 3D Modeling Software: Retail $149.95
3D Photoshop Bridge: Retail $199.00

“We’re excited to make this offer early in the year,” said James Thornton, CEO for DAZ. “We wanted to give any digital artist the opportunity to experience DAZ free 3D software for the first time, and a full suite of 3D models and 3D animation software products is available on DAZ3D.com.”

“This is a limited time offer because the software is valued at over $800,” Thornton continued. “DAZ Studio is the most popular 3D animation software on Download.com. DAZ3D.com has over 10,000 add-on products to use in most 3D software applications including DAZ Studio®, Bryce®, 3D Photoshop®, Poser®, Blender and Maya®.” The 3D model site offers a wide range of digital content including 3D human models, 3D anatomy, clothing, animals, vehicles, buildings, environments and 3D animations.

Pricing and Availability

The free 3D software is available via download only on DAZ3D.com between now and February 29, 2012. The download is eligible for free updates and upgrade pricing on future versions of each product, a potential savings of hundreds of dollars.

About Digital Art Zone

Digital Art Zone (DAZ) is a leading provider of 3D software and content. DAZ publishes DAZ Studio, an easy-to-use and robust software tool with a simple user interface. The software allows digital artists to easily add and manipulate models and morphs, adjust the textures applied to 3D models, add and adjust lighting, and fine-tune the render process. Regardless of artistic background, DAZ empowers anyone to create better graphics faster through its powerful tools and content. For more information, visit www.daz3d.com.

Note to Editors:

Free 3D Software Information: http://www.daz3d.com/i/3d/free-3d-software-free-3d-animation-software-download/.

Free 3D Software Press images: http://www.daz3d.com/i/3d/free-3d-software-press-and-media-images/.

3D Photoshop Bridge details: http://www.daz3d.com/i/3d/3d-photoshop-bridge/.

Contacts

Springboard5

Tim Rush, 801-208-1100

tim.rush@springboard5.com

Digital Art Zone

Steve Kondris, 801-495-1777 x723

steve@daz3d.com

Reader contact:

800-267-5170 (toll-free)

801-495-1777

fax: 801-495-1787

www.daz3d.com

WILTON, Conn. – Tuesday, January 31st 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)– Infotrieve, Inc. (www.infotrieve.com), the global leader in e-content business service solutions, today announced a new release of its cloud-based Mobile Library™, updated with an improved search function,additional features for Personal & Shared Libraries and general user interface enhancements. This new release also integrates the Mobile Library with Infotrieve’s BRAVO™, a web-based aggregation platform that simplifies bulk ordering of reprints and eprints.

“Infotrieve continuously works to enrich our product and service offerings to anticipate the needs of our clients,” said Ken Benvenuto, President and Chief Executive Officer of Infotrieve. “This latest release exemplifies one of the key advantages of Infotrieve’s cloud-based architecture in providing us the flexibility to rapidly add additional capabilities to our software that address the evolving business requirements of our business partners.”

Mobile Library’s new features include: an enhanced search interface with additional flexibility for ranking results, and the addition of an auto-complete feature; new functionality in the Personal & Shared Library Suite including a dashboard showing recent changes to the library, discussion pages in each library for general comments, user creation and management of shared libraries, and enhanced administrative controls; and updates to the Browsed Holdings feature including improved filtering, copyright permissions ordering and compact citation display.

Infotrieve’s Mobile Library offers fully secure, cloud-based anywhere, anytime access to enterprise e-content, along with instant access to a world of knowledge on a pay-per-view basis. Leveraging Infotrieve’s “borderless office” technology, users can seamlessly switch between their PC, Mac or iPad™ without skipping a beat, as their workspace is automatically synchronized across devices. As a flexible e-content software solution, the Mobile Library can serve a variety of customer needs, from easy searching and ordering of pay-per-view content, to a comprehensive rights management solution integrated with shared libraries and social features.

Mobile Library is Infotrieve’s award-winning content access and management solution that has more than 325,000 users from 6,500 organizations in over 80 countries. The Mobile Library platform was initially launched as Content SCM® in November 2008. The Mobile Library iPad app was first released in September 2010 and the entire platform was renamed Mobile Library as part of a branding update in October 2011.

About Infotrieve, Inc.

Infotrieve is the global leader in developing business service solutions that improve access to e-content and inspire collaboration through secure social networking tools. Infotrieve’s expertise includes people, process and technology solutions that deliver innovations, helping our clients drive their businesses forward with the efficient use of information. Infotrieve has tens of thousands of clients around the world, including more than half of the Fortune 500.

Contacts

Infotrieve, Inc.

Lynn Schlesinger, 203-423-2143

Mobile: 203-273-5479

lschlesinger@infotrieve.com

LOS ANGELES – Sunday, January 15th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)– For the first time in its history, The New Yorker, esteemed for its consistent publication of great poetry, will stream on its website (www.newyorker.com) Leonard Cohen’s new lyric “Going Home,” one of ten songs on his new studio album, Old Ideas. The New Yorker will publish the lyric in its January 23rd issue (on newsstands January 16th). The song will also be streamed on The New Yorker website on January 16th. Cohen and Sony will release the album on January 31st (www.leonardcohen.com/us/news/new-album-old-ideas-be-released-013112).

New Yorker poetry editor Paul Muldoon, who has been listening to Cohen since 1967, said that he is “thrilled” this will be happening in the magazine, which has recently been acknowledging the great power and achievement of singer-songwriters. Muldoon said, “The New Yorker has been publishing lyrics over the past years by Cohen, Bob Dylan, and Paul Simon…Cohen is in some elite company, including his own!” Cohen’s rich, complex lyrics have intoxicated listeners for more than a generation; his work bridges the world of lyric poetry and song. A selection of Cohen’s poems and songs has recently been published by the prestigious Random House “Everyman” series, which includes in its pantheon Rumi, Keats, Byron, Pushkin, Dickinson, Frost, and, now, Cohen (www.randomhouse.com/knopf/classics/resources_press.html). Already, through a second printing, a new edition will be released later this winter.

Recently, Cohen’s work has been receiving literary recognition throughout the world. In late October, Cohen received the Príncipe de Asturias, the highest literary award granted by Spain (www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u_7e3Tv7Uk). PEN New England has also awarded Cohen and Chuck Berry its first “Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence.” Judges included Bono, Rosanne Cash, Elvis Costello, Paul Muldoon, Smokey Robinson, Salman Rushdie, and Paul Simon.

His native Canada, which has honored Cohen before, will bestow the Ninth Glenn Gould Prize upon Cohen for his great artistic achievement in bringing literary richness to popular music and for touching “audiences far outside his main genre.” Cohen’s honors and the recent nomination of Bob Dylan for the Neustadt International Prize (www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/03/leonard-cohen-major-spanish-literary-prize) reflect the cultural recognition of folk-rock songwriters as poets of the highest order.

Contacts

For Unified Heart Productions, LLC

Alison Graham

310-494-1554

alison@ajgpr.com

Panasonic Corporation (NYSE:PC) (TOKYO:6752) (“Panasonic”) has launched a new Facebook App “SHARE THE PASSION” for sports lovers.

This App offers a new passion zone for all lovers of sports. People get together from around the world to share their Passion for sports by exchanging photos.

At first, people select a passionate shot from their Facebook album, a scene of you enjoying sports. Secondly tag it with the “Passion tag,” and the App generates their original movie. Post the movie to their wall to share their passion for sports with friends. They also can share their passion with people around the world by sport category. This new App helps people meet passionate sports fans of the world and multiply the joys of the Olympic Games by sharing.

How to Access the Facebook App “SHARE THE PASSION”

1. Visit Panasonic’s Facebook Page “Panasonic / Worldwide Olympic Partner”.

2. Click “SHARE THE PASSION”on the left menu to start the App. Start enjoying the App.

3. Via the “Panasonic / Worldwide Olympic Partner”page. Panasonic, the Official Worldwide Olympic Partner, will transmit various pieces of exciting information on the Olympic Games, as well as information on this App. Click the “Like” button to give it a try.

Related Links:

“Sharing the Passion” at the Olympic Games | Panasonic Global

About Panasonic

Panasonic Corporation is a worldwide leader in the development and manufacture of electronic products for a wide range of consumer, business, and industrial needs. Based in Osaka, Japan, the company recorded consolidated net sales of 8.69 trillion yen (US$105 billion) for the year ended March 31, 2011. The company’s shares are listed on the Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and New York (NYSE:PC) stock exchanges. For more information on the company and the Panasonic brand, visit the company’s website at http://panasonic.net/

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Contacts

Global Public Relations Office

Panasonic Corporation

Tel: +81-3-6403-3040 Fax: +81-3-3436-6766

Panasonic News Bureau

Tel: +81-3-3542-6205 Fax: +81-3-3542-9018

NEW YORK – Friday, November 18th 2011 [ME NewsWire]

-(BUSINESS WIRE)– Axioma, a leading provider of decision support, risk analysis and portfolio rebalancing and performance attribution tools, announced today the inaugural issue of Axioma Insight: Quarterly Risk Review. The publication will initially be produced quarterly with four separate editions focusing on risk trends and their implications for investors in US, European, Asia-Pacific and Global markets. Other countries and regions will be added over time.

“Axioma Insight will provide our readers with unique and valuable perspectives on the state of risk in key investment markets worldwide,” said Sebastian Ceria, Chief Executive Officer of Axioma. “Each quarter we will examine both how the investment landscape is changing and the factors driving those changes. By capitalizing on Axioma’s strengths in research, and leveraging the power of our innovative tools and analytics, I am confident that Axioma Insight will deliver on its promise of providing penetrating, actionable insights to our clients.”

Melissa Brown, Senior Director of Marketing and Chief Analyst for Axioma Insight, added, “Our goal is to look behind the numbers to understand in-depth what’s actually driving the predicted risk of a given portfolio, so that our readers, in turn, can better understand the risk environment in which they have been and will be investing. We particularly welcome the active participation of our readers, whose critical feedback and observations will undoubtedly enhance the value of Axioma Insight going forward.”

Scott Hamilton, Director of Client Services at Axioma, is also a key contributor of research and analysis for Axioma Insight.

Among the important observations in the inaugural issue of Axioma Insight are:

• Volatility rose in each region and globally, with the “market factor” accounting for a large proportion of the gain, as common themes drove risk during the quarter.
• Predicted risk from the short-horizon models increased in all regions during the quarter relative to the medium-horizon models, pointing to a near-term environment of increasing risk. For most regions the increase occurred in August. The divergence stabilized over the next two months, but in Asia the difference grew throughout the quarter, especially for the statistical model. This rising spread suggests that a factor not identified by the fundamental model is behind the increase in risk for Asia.
• Across the globe, style factor returns took a wild ride during the quarter, bouncing from unusually high to unusually low returns throughout the period.
• 60-day stock-stock correlations remained near their 12-year peak, and the percent of stocks with negative correlations within each region was close to zero, suggesting that stock picking has been a very difficult endeavor. More recently, correlations appear to be declining.
• Similarly, cross-sectional predicted volatility—whether for stocks, industries, countries, currencies, or style factors—fell substantially in all regions, underscoring the difficulty facing managers to differentiate themselves.

Readers are invited to download Axioma Insight at http://www.axioma.com/insight.htm

About Axioma

Axioma, Inc. develops and markets innovative risk analysis, portfolio rebalancing and performance attribution products for the financial services industry. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in New York with offices in Atlanta, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, San Francisco, Singapore and Sydney, Axioma helps leading financial firms manage risk, increase returns and improve operational efficiency. For more information about Axioma, please contact Topher Wurts at 212.991.4506, or visit the company’s website at www.axioma.com.

Contacts

Kwittken & Company

Caleb Hulme-Moir, +44 (0) 2072 591 776

chm@kwitco.com

or

William Nikosey, 646-747-7150

wnikosey@kwitco.com

SAN FRANCISCO & APELDOORN, Netherlands – Thursday, October 13th 2011 [ME NewsWire]

-(BUSINESS WIRE)– Grass Valley™, the premier video technology solutions company, today announced that it has acquired PubliTronic, a privately-held, global provider of multichannel, integrated, automated playout solutions. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

PubliTronic, based in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, began operations in 1997 by developing some of the earliest integrated playout solutions with a primary focus on the European market. Its systems have grown in sophistication, enabling them to span from small disaster recovery solutions to addressing the needs of large multichannel service providers. Its installed base of more than 800 on-air channels includes some of the largest service providers and broadcasters in Europe and around the world.

Integrated playout is one of the fastest-growing segments in broadcasting, expected to increase significantly over the next three years. With the economics of launching new channels changing dramatically, innovative approaches are needed to support this growing segment. Multichannel service providers in the cable, satellite, and telco sectors, as well as broadcasters adding secondary digital channels, can benefit from a multichannel, integrated, automated playout approach.

Grass Valley, together with its investors at Francisco Partners, see a large opportunity in this emerging segment, having targeted this area as part of the expansion strategy that it adopted after the company was acquired earlier this year by Francisco Partners. The expertise, experience, and support of Francisco Partners provides Grass Valley with the agility to make strategic acquisitions and investments when appropriate.

“When we decided to expand our playout offerings to include an integrated approach, we had a choice: do it on our own or invest through an acquisition,” said Alain Andreoli, President and Chief Executive Officer of Grass Valley. “As we learned more about PubliTronic’s technology and people, it became very clear that a combination of our talents and resources could allow us to offer innovative and compelling products to our customers quickly. This second acquisition this year after Evolution exemplifies our strategy of entering fast-growing, new segments to take full advantage of all opportunities, as it presented a key growth opportunity for the K2 server family and Grass Valley. What this acquisition brings to customers is much more than a simple ‘channel-in-a-box’ solution. Our next-generation K2 Edge™ server is a sophisticated and very powerful multichannel, integrated, automated playout system that delivers benefits to our customers from day one.”

The Grass Valley K2 Edge multichannel, integrated, automated playout system is based on the technology platforms developed by PubliTronic (see: “Grass Valley Announces New K2 Edge Automated, Multichannel, Integrated Playout Solution,” October 12, 2011).

While there are benefits for some facilities invested in traditional playout automation to continue with that approach, it is too expensive and unnecessarily complex for many of the new players coming online. A fully integrated system offers tremendous benefits, the least of which being lower initial capital cost. Total cost of ownership is also reduced by streamlining the playout workflow as each tool—server, graphics, master control, and the automation system itself—is seamlessly integrated and purpose-built to work together.

“This acquisition by Grass Valley is great for PubliTronic’s customers, as the entire team in Apeldoorn can now enjoy the resources of a true multi-national company, complete with deep knowledge in video and server technologies,” said Harold Vermeulen, Vice President, Media Playout Solutions, Grass Valley and Founder and former Managing Director of PubliTronic. “Now, together, our technologies can bring real cost and operational benefits to the industry on a large scale.”

Multichannel, integrated, automated playout is the next evolution in the program playout market segment. While traditional playout solutions take advantage of IT-based technologies to control separate components, it is only when all of the applications—asset management, channel design, media playout, and automation—are designed to work together from the ground up, can one realize further workflow efficiencies.

“PubliTronic is a great complement to the Grass Valley team,” said Charlie Dunn, Executive Vice President, Products and General Manager, Editing, Servers & Storage Product Group for Grass Valley. “They have well-engineered products and the same values and focus on the importance of leveraging IT technologies in broadcast as we do. This will not only help to quickly extend the K2 media server product family, but will help to deliver more complete solutions to our customers more quickly.”

About Grass Valley – the Premier Video Technology Solutions Company

With a rich history serving the broadcast and professional video industries, the Grass Valley name is synonymous with innovation, leadership, and performance. With a full range of products and services supporting many of the world’s most high-profile television events, Grass Valley offers the most comprehensive portfolio of flexible and cost-effective digital technologies and systems available. Customers deploying Grass Valley solutions include most of the world’s leading broadcast and teleproduction facilities, independent video professionals, as well as emerging content creators and distributors providing broadband, telecommunications, and transmission services. When you’re watching news, sports, or entertainment programming, whether on a TV, the Web, or a mobile phone, you’re watching Grass Valley at work.

For information about Grass Valley products, please visit www.grassvalley.com.

Join the Conversation at GrassValleyLive: Facebook; Twitter; YouTube.

About Francisco Partners

Francisco Partners is a leading global private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in technology and technology-enabled services businesses. With approximately $7 billion of capital raised to date, Francisco Partners pursues structured investments in technology companies, targeting investments in private companies, public companies and divisions of public companies, with transaction values ranging from $25 million to over $500 million. For additional information, visit www.franciscopartners.com.

Contacts

Grass Valley

Denise Williams, 503-526-8160

denise.williams@grassvalley.com

EMC’s Affordable HD Connect Satellite Service Offers the Highest Quality HD Video Communications Anywhere, Any Time –at a Fraction of the Price of a Typical Dedicated Satellite Data Circuit

(BUSINESS WIRE)– Emerging Markets Communications(EMC), a premier provider of hybrid global satellite and terrestrial communications, today announced the general availability of its affordable new high quality HD Connect On Demand satellite technology, which offers significant breakthroughs for the telepresence, videoconferencing and visual collaboration industry.

The first high definition (HD) videoconferencing over satellite service available in an affordable, on demand, ‘pay as you go’ manner, HD Connect is available now for deployment to Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia – and soon to China as well as Central and South America. HD Connect allows governments, multinational corporations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in hard to reach areas of the world to use HD videoconferencing, telepresence and visual collaboration anywhere, anytime (on land, sea or in the air), at a fraction of the price of a typical dedicated satellite data circuit. HD Connect also delivers unprecedented quality, with low jitter, low packet loss and predictable and steady latency for excellent, unparalleled videoconferencing experiences.

Driving HD Connect is the industry’s first single carrier per channel (SCPC) – a non-shared, on/off model specifically designed for videoconferencing. With several patents pending around the methodology and the technology, EMC is the only company offering the service today.

HD Connect, which works with any videoconferencing system, utilizes EMC’s high quality MPLS satellite network, which has been providing data services to governments and NGOs in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia for over eight years.

EMC’s new HD Connect service offers:

Secure, mission-critical, end-to-end high quality video communications deployable anywhere on the planet
Affordability: A revolutionary ‘pay as you go’ service where users only pay for the bandwidth that is used, packaged with bundled hours of monthly usage (like a pre-paid cell phone)
High quality: Low jitter, low packet loss with predictable and steady latency for excellent videoconferencing experiences
Ease of use: Delivered via a browser in bandwidth multiples of 1mb & 5mb, the user simply goes to a portal, turns on the system and operates the videoconferencing system of his choice for as long as he likes
Speed of service: Circuit turn-on takes less than 30 seconds
A single vendor: Providing customers the ability to interact with just one vendor to reach over 140 countries eliminates the need to depend on the local infrastructure for power and communications outside the region. Since EMC owns the entire network, EMC is a single solution provider for all satellite-served areas.

“Until now, HD videoconferencing in the most remote regions of the world has been costly, unreliable and of poor quality,” said Thomas Luketich, VP of Videoconferencing and Application Services for EMC. “Our easy to use HD Connect service enables organizations around the globe to conduct affordable, on demand, lifelike face-to-face communications and collaboration with colleagues, partners, suppliers and customers in regions that have traditionally been hard-to-reach.”

“Historically, the use of satellite connections to host videoconferencing sessions has involved significant cost, performance and availability compromises,” said Ira M. Weinstein, Senior Analyst and Partner at Wainhouse Research. “With its ad-hoc availability, consistent quality of service and usage-based pricing model, EMC’s HD Connect has changed the rules of satellite-based videoconferencing.”

In related, news, EMC also announced that it will be interconnecting with Masergy, a global provider of secure, virtualized network services. Masergy’s IP/MPLS network, the most mature global IP/MPLS network in the industry, was purpose-built to support real-time applications like Telepresence and HD videoconferencing.

“EMC’s new HD Connect service will provide clients with locations in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia with a compelling alternative solution for video applications in these fast-growing regions,” said Chris Carr, Director of Video Markets for Masergy. “We are excited to be partnering with EMC as these regions are extremely important for our customers and partners.”

Supporting Resources:

Read more about EMC’s satellite communications.
Watch a video on HD Connect
Learn about a demonstration of HD Connect at the Wainhouse Research Collaboration Summit.

About EMC

Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) is a premier provider of hybrid global satellite and terrestrial communications. Utilizing a high quality, fully managed network, EMC offers private end-to-end satellite solutions in more than 140 countries. EMC specializes in meeting the diverse communications needs of its customers, which includes Oil & Gas, Telecom, Financial Institutions, Global 2000 companies and Large Intergovernmental organizations including the United Nations. A US-based company with HQs in FL, EMC is powered by its network of strategically located, wholly-owned support centers (Argentina, Germany, Kazakhstan, Russia, UK, Thailand, UAE, US, Kenya, Angola, Nigeria and Senegal). EMC operates three wholly-owned teleport facilities in USA and EU, which are equipped with 11 to 32m C, Plan C, Ku, Ka, L and X-band antennas, as well as 120,000 sq ft of highly secure disaster recovery and business continuity infrastructure. Our QMS is ISO 9001-2009 certified. For more information, please visit http://www.emc-corp.net.

Contacts

EMC

Thomas Luketich, +1-305-539-1358 (Office)

VP Video Conferencing and Application Services

+1-305-989-6822 (Mobile)

tluketich@emc-corp.net

Keith Communications for EMC

Kathleen Keith, +1-707-529-4507 (Office/Mobile)

kkeith@redshift.com

A delegation from the Republic of Korea’s Central Officials Training Institute (COTI) visited Dubai Media City, a member of TECOM Investments Media Cluster, to gain insight into the free zone’s development since its inception 10 years ago.

COTI is a part of South Korea’s Ministry of Public Administration and Security. The visiting delegation comprised civil servants that are currently undergoing COTI’s New Leader Development Programme.

TECOM Investments is currently home to over 18 Korean companies across its various industry clusters. During their visit, the Korean team toured a few of these entities including Cheil MEA in Dubai Media City and the Korean Broadcasting System in Dubai Studio City.

The delegation also reviewed the state-of-the-art facilities at DMC that hosts over 1,400 companies, ranging from global media majors to promising start-ups. Senior DMC officials briefed the visiting delegation on the roadmap for establishing a thriving media community. A blueprint for developing a next-generation TV station that conforms to global broadcast standards was also shared with the visiting delegation members.

-Ends-

About Dubai Media City

Strategically located at the crossroads of the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, Dubai Media City, a member of TECOM Investments, is rapidly emerging as the region’s media hub. The City provides an advanced infrastructure for media-related businesses to operate globally out of Dubai. Dubai Media City is the place where activities Publishing, Music, Film, New Media, Leisure & Entertainment, Broadcasting, Media & Marketing Services, and Information Agencies will thrive. The facility offers an environment that allows companies and individuals to operate with collective synergy and freedom.

Companies based in Dubai Media City have the unique edge of commercial benefits derived from our free zone status including 100 % business ownership and exemption from personal income and corporate taxes. Since its official opening in January 2001, Dubai Media City has grown to become a thriving media community of over 1400companies and hundreds of freelance media professionals. Several global media giants and promising entrepreneurial ventures have joined this unique community.

Contacts

Zeba Ahmad

+971 4 3613590

zahmad@apcoworldwide.com

http://www.confluence-ci.com/content/what-we-do/workshops-a-retreats

Dubai, UAE September 28 2011: Taking time out to look inside could uncover the new wave of creativity and courage required of future leaders, according to Wendy Appel.

Appel, a seasoned organisation consultant with a deep embrace of the Enneagram System, is poised to expand on the attributes of the centuries-old symbol in a six-part webinar series, from October 12. The Enneagram is a nine-sided, multi-faceted figure that can be traced back to 750BC. During the 1960s and 70s, it merged with modern personality theory to represent a spectrum of possible personality styles and archetypes.

“I have worked with the Enneagram for many years. I know it has the ability to transform the way one can show up as a leader. I see writing on the wall and feel strongly that the time for change in the fundamentals of leadership is now,” she said.

Appel was quick to add that she is referring to leadership across all touch points – in business, government, family, community and personal life choices.

She suggested that the course of life is directed by individual habits, patterns and beliefs that lie low in the sub-conscious mind. “Most of us are unaware that our decisions – hence destiny – are being directed by our sub-conscious. This can be harmful, as much as it can be good. I believe it is the positive guise of these core beliefs that are greatly needed now. We must help transform leaders who are then able to transform organisations, worldwide.”

She describes the Enneagram as a ‘living system’. “After two decades of using the Enneagram myself, I know it acts as a dynamic, living system that is always revealing more of human nature.

“If you are ready, the Enneagram enables a journey through your inner landscape for powerful self-transformation. This does require a certain amount of courage. The result is enhanced emotional health, as well as the ability to respond to all circumstances with agility, balance and freedom.”

The 12-hour webinar series, dubbed Enneagram Foundation Plus, takes place over six weeks. Making use of interactive learning, Wendy will help delegates decode the Enneagram and identify their core Type as they embrace both the attributes and the tender spots that lie deep, and bring them to the surface.

“To transform as leaders we must first examine our core beliefs; both individual and collective. If we don’t, we will just make surface change and this is not enough to re-shape the shaken world we know today. The Enneagram can reveal the twist in direction, creativity and energy that the world is calling out for,” she concluded.