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First Advantage Expands Leadership Team in Asia Pacific Region with Strategic New Hires

First Advantage, a Symphony Technology Group (STG) company and the leading global provider of background screening analytics and identity solutions, today announced that it is increasing its investments  in the Asia Pacific region and expanded its leadership team with the addition of international business executives, Matthew Glasner and Jay Wang. As part of the company’s…

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Richard Rossow Named India Chair Of US Think Tank

By Business Standard Richard Rossow has been named the Wadhwani Chair in US-India Policy Studies the Centre for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), a leading Washington think tank. Rossow, who served the last two years as head of the South Asia practice at McLarty Associates and previously as director of operations at the US-India Business…

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Evidera Announces Release of FDA Draft Guidance on Use of the “EXACT” to Measure Symptoms of COPD Exacerbations

 Evidera, a leading provider of evidence-based solutions for the healthcare industry, announced that the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), U.S. Food and Drug Administration, has released its first draft qualification guidance document for a patient-reported outcome (PRO) measure in drug development: Qualification of Exacerbations of Chronic Pulmonary Disease Tool [EXACT] for Measurement of Symptoms…

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Archimedes, a Leader in Healthcare Simulation is Acquired by Evidera, a Symphony Technology Group Company

Symphony Technology Group (STG), a technology and services-focused private equity firm, and Evidera, a leading provider of evidence-based solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced the acquisition of Archimedes, a San Francisco-based healthcare modeling company and wholly owned subsidiary of Kaiser Permanente. No other terms of the deal were disclosed. “The acquisition of Archimedes by STG…

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Symphony Teleca to Showcase Strategies to Accelerate Innovation in India Operations at the Zinnov Confluence 2013

Attending Executives Will Learn How Ideation, Software Centricity and Business Efficiency are Transforming India Operations into Global Innovation Hubs Symphony Teleca Corporation, the global innovation and development services company, today announced that it will showcase strategies for accelerated innovation from India Centers, to hundreds of executives expected to attend the Zinnov Confluence in Bangalore, India…

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First Advantage Forms Partnership with Geotab, Expands Fleet Service Solutions

Companies Partner to Improve Fleet Safety and Operational Productivity First Advantage, a Symphony Technology Group (STG) company and the leading global provider of screening analytics and identity solutions, today announced that its Fleet Services business, a leading provider of fleet legalization and driver qualification services, has entered into a strategic partnership with Geotab, an industry…

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MSC Software Provides CAE Technology to Engineering Training Program in Mexico

MSC Software Corporation, the leader inmultidiscipline simulation solutions that accelerate product innovation, is supporting engineering education by providing licenses of its simulation and analysis software to universities in the Mexican province of Guanajuato, the company announced today. Through a collaborative partnership with MSC Software, the Instituto Estatal de Capacitación del Estado de Guanajuato (IECA) will…

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Symphony Advance Media Partners with Discovery Communications to Deliver Four-Screen Media Insights Into Audience Behavior and Media Consumption

Symphony Advanced Media (SymphonyAM), the pioneer in crossmedia passive-measurement technologies, today announced their collaboration with Discovery Communications in providing syndicated single-source cross-media data insights to help better understand television, online, mobile and social behaviors of the Discovery Communications’ U.S. network audiences. By licensing SymphonyAM’s MediaPulse data, Discovery Communications will have direct access to unprecedented cross-media…

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IRI CEO: ‘Harnessing power of data’ is vital

At the recent IRI Summit, IRI president and chief executive officer Andrew Appel outlined the company’s comprehensive “Growth Delivered” business strategy designed to drive revenue growth acceleration across the sales and marketing operations of consumer packaged goods manufacturers and their retail partners. But before developing the plan, Appel, who joined IRI in June 2012 after…

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