LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 10, 2018--Intertrust Technologies Corporation, the inventor of Digital Rights Management (DRM), is pleased to announce that its Kiora ™ offline content delivery platform, won the “Best OTT Platform Service” award at the TV Connect Awards Ceremony held on May 9 th, 2018 in London. The award is held in conjunction with the TV Connect event currently taking place at the Olympia in London.Kiora is Intertrust’s OTT platform, which provides attractive and secure OTT video service experiences to consumers in low to no bandwidth locations. Composed of an innovative back-end cloud platform and edge video distribution appliances, Kiora creates local Wi-Fi based content zones for consumers to enjoy protected video content on their smartphones and other portable devices. Kiora’s content zones can be placed in a wide variety of environments ranging from cars, trains and airplanes to buildings with weak network connections in developing … [Read more...] about Intertrust Wins TV Connect’s Prestigious Award for the Best Over the Top (OTT) Platform Service
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UniCredit beats forecasts with best Q1 result since 2007
By Valentina Za MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s biggest bank, UniCredit <CRDI.MI>, topped forecasts with its best first-quarter result since 2007 on Thursday and said it would shed bad loans more quickly than anticipated. UniCredit reported a net profit of 1.1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) for January-March, above an average 766 million euro forecast in a consensus of 25 brokers provided by the company. Revenues rose 4 percent from the previous quarter to 5.1 billion euros, mainly driven by fees, while the bank’s net interest income eased slightly. Loan writedowns fell more than expected from a year earlier to 496 million euros. The bank also cut more costs in the first quarter than forecast. UniCredit has embarked on a restructuring after hiring French banker Jean Pierre Mustier as chief executive in mid-2016. It raised 13 billion euros early last year in one of Europe’s biggest cash calls, to fund a balance sheet clean-up. “First-quarter 2018 results are … [Read more...] about UniCredit beats forecasts with best Q1 result since 2007
UniCredit profits up 22 percent, best 1Q in a decade
Published May 10, 2018 Markets Associated Press Facebook Twitter Comments Print Italy's largest bank by assets, UniCredit, has reported its best first quarter in more than a decade, with net profits up 22 percent to 1.1 billion euros ($1.3 billion). Unicredit CEO Jean Pierre Mustier said Thursday the bank's "renewed customer focus" had driven up fees for both investments and transactions by 2.8 percent to 1.75 billion, while net interest remained stable at 2.6 billion euros. First-quarter net profits compared with 907 million euros last year, as the bank cut costs by 5.2 percent to 2.7 billion euros. Continue Reading Below Mustier announced that the bank would accelerate the full write-down of non-performing loans to 2021 from 2025. That will include the sale of 4 billion euros in bad and unlikely-to-pay loans in both core and non-core businesses this year. … [Read more...] about UniCredit profits up 22 percent, best 1Q in a decade
Four DPS high schools named in top 10 best high schools in Colorado; No. 1 is a charter school
Lafayette’s Peak to Peak Charter School is ranked the best high school in Colorado, earning gold medal status from U.S. News and World Report while four Denver Public Schools high schools also made the annual list of the 2018 “Best High Schools in America.” The rankings included data on more than 20,000 public high schools in 50 states and the District of Columbia. The top 500 public high schools in the nation earned gold medal status. The report recognized 72 Colorado schools as among the best high school schools, including 11 gold medal schools, 31 silver medal school and 30 bronze medal schools. Peak to Peak landed at No. 1 in Colorado, followed by KIPP Denver Collegiate High School; D’Evelyn Junior/Senior High in Denver; Liberty Common Charter School in Fort Collins; DSST: Stapleton High School in Denver; Denver Center for International Studies; The Vanguard School in Colorado Springs; Denver School of the Arts; Telluride High School in Telluride; and … [Read more...] about Four DPS high schools named in top 10 best high schools in Colorado; No. 1 is a charter school
“Thank you for allowing me to live my best life”: Aurora Mayor Steve Hogan enters hospice care
Longtime Aurora Mayor Steve Hogan , who in March revealed he was diagnosed with cancer, announced Wednesday that he has entered home hospice care. “To tell you the truth, I have never been much of a believer in term limits,” Hogan, 69, wrote on his Facebook page Wednesday. “I wanted you to know that my time as mayor of Aurora will end sooner than I had desired. I have entered into home hospice care, with the understanding that my future days will be lived with dignity, grace, and in peace.” Hogan, who has served decades in elected office and led Aurora through rapid growth and the 2012 theater shooting, said in March that he would not be seeking a third term for mayor of Colorado’s third-largest city. He was first elected Aurora’s mayor in 2011 and was re-elected four years later. “It has been my distinct honor to serve first as a State Representative, then a Councilman and finally as Mayor of Aurora,” he wrote Wednesday. “Aurora is … [Read more...] about “Thank you for allowing me to live my best life”: Aurora Mayor Steve Hogan enters hospice care