Leading Providers of Logistics Technologies Recognized

CHICAGO (MMD Newswire) May 9, 2012 — NTE LLC, the leader in multi-tenant platform Software as a Service (SaaS), on-premise Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and B2B collaboration technology solutions, today announced it has been selected by Inbound Logistics magazine as a Top 100 Logistics Information Technology (IT) Provider for 2012.

As a cloud-based solution, NTE offers customers quick deployment and complete flexibility in customizing a solution that meets their needs. With easy integration, NTE’s solutions can fill the gaps of customer’s enterprise solutions in place, and support complete collaboration with external trading partners.

Every April, Inbound Logistics editors recognize 100 logistics IT companies that support and enable logistics excellence. Drawn from a pool of more than 300 companies, using questionnaires, personal interviews, and other research, Inbound Logistics selects the Top 100 Logistics IT Providers who are leading the way in 2012. Editors seek to match readers’ fast-changing needs to the capabilities of those

companies selected. All companies selected reflect leadership by answering Inbound Logistics readers’ needs for simplicity, ROI, and efficient implementation.

“NTE is proud to be recognized with this award,” said Robert Rocque, chief executive officer of NTE. “We look to Inbound Logistics as a resource for industry trends and best practices amongst our peers. The fact that we are once again recognized as a leader ourselves reaffirms our commitment of providing valuable solutions to our customers.”

“Inbound Logistics is proud to honor NTE for innovative solutions empowering logistics and supply chain excellence,” said Felecia Stratton, Editor, Inbound Logistics. “When choosing this year’s Top 100 Logistics IT Providers, Inbound Logistics editors looked for technology providers that solved specific logistics challenges, but also acted as change agents by helping to transform overall business operations.

“Selections were based on how transformative logistics IT solutions impact all business activities and drive integration across internal processes as well as external processes for vendors and customers,” said Stratton. “NTE was selected because its solutions work tactically to master supply chain transactions, as well as strategically to act as a change agent to drive the enterprise to more closely match demand to supply.”

The Inbound Logistics Top 100 Logistics IT Providers list appears in the publication’s April 2012 issue. The information is also posted online and in a digital edition. An updated Logistics IT Decision Support Tool, where readers can enter their logistics technology requirements and match the solution provider(s) best suited to their needs, will also be posted.

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New York (MMD Newswire) May 7, 2012 — Akira Foundation (AFJ) announced its strategic partnership with The World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (THEWSIE), taking place in Boston, Massachusetts – America’s leading innovation city – on September 26-28, 2012.

The objective of THEWSIE is to unite innovators, entrepreneurs, and policy makers to promote action and solutions that would facilitate economic collaboration, cultural leadership, and relevant innovations in lifestyle, health, energy, cities, communication, technology, and education. The World Summit was launched in 2006 at the United Nations under the support of three UN agencies, and is held in partnership with several multinationals. Supporters and partners include the Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development, Babson College, Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), Omagine, Organization for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD), Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, Boston Globe, PepsiCo, to name a few.

As a strategic partner, Akira Foundation (AFJ) will share its ideas and actions on the use of innovation and entrepreneurship as the key enabler for creating social, economic, and environmental bridges between Japan and the world. AFJ will also lead an esteemed delegation of Japanese innovators transforming the future of work, society, and environment.

Sam Hamdan, CEO of tranzishen, and Chief Architect of The World Summit on Innovation Entrepreneurship

Hirofumi Yokoi, President Co-Founder, Akira Foundation

“Meaningful collaborations will continue to transform enterprises to become the innovation beings driving deeper economic and social bridges among nations. Our partnership with AFJ underscores our relentless commitment to showcase Japanese innovations and to support the most innovative forces and emerging enterprises worldwide”, said Sam Hamdan, CEO of tranzishen, and the Chairman Chief Architect of The World Summit on Innovation Entrepreneurship.

In this regard, THEWSIE will stage distinctive experiences that reveal the most fascinating enterprises changing our world. THEWSIE will also host The Most Innovative People Awards to celebrate the achievements of the world’s mavericks, geniuses, and icons. Former awardees include Desmond Tutu, Stephan Hawking, Bill Gates, Tarja Halonen, and Padmasree Warrior.

“We are honored to partner with THEWSIE on this very important effort,” said Hirofumi Atsufumi Yokoi, Co-Founders Presidents of AFJ. “We have been addressing the needs of marginalized and underserved people and drawn attention away from Japanese inward-looking silos to the issues which remain unsolved and seen across borders. In such a way, THEWSIE will help the Japanese community aware of them

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DervalResearch is back with more HQ data – and this time it’s really personal

Chicago (MMD Newswire) May 3, 2012 — Donald Trump may have funny hair, but he has a bankable face. US President Barack Obama’s face indicates a very testosterone-driven Hormonal Quotient®, or HQ, well-suited for the role of the most powerful man in the world. So says Diana Derval, renowned Adjunct Professor of Marketing and Innovation at the Robert Kennedy College, and president of the scientific market research firm DervalResearch. Professor Derval claims you can tell a lot about a person by certain distinct physical traits, or “biomarkers,” such as the face shape and the relative lengths of the index and ring finger. These biomarkers indicate a person’s Hormonal Quotient®, which in turn is determined by prenatal hormone exposure. And this, says Professor Derval, is research that benefits every one of us, whether we want to be a president, a real estate mogul, or just a happy and fulfilled individual.

Why is it so important for all of us to know our Hormonal Quotient®? Professor Derval has a simple and decisive answer. “We are our hormones,” she states, and in her new book, “Hormones, Talent, and Career: Unlock Your Hormonal Quotient®” (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012), she and co-author Johan Bremer demonstrate the extent to which this controversial statement is true. “Hormones are really the guys that are pushing the buttons in our body,” Professor Derval explains.

Professor Derval is the brains behind the Hormonal Quotient®, an assessment tool with a range of potential marketing, science, and even medical applications. In her second book she and her co-author reveal more eye-opening research about the wide-ranging effects of prenatal hormone exposure on every aspect of our lives. This time they make it more personal, switching the focus of HQ research from product branding to the boardroom, the classroom, and the bedroom.

While there are many different types of hormones in the human body, much of Professor Derval’s work has centered on prenatal exposure to sex hormones, namely, estrogen and testosterone. She has documented several distinct hormonal “types,” or gender polymorphisms, in both men and women. These gender polymorphisms are determined by the relative amounts of prenatal exposure to estrogen and testosterone.

Professor Derval introduced her Hormonal Quotient® research to a broader audience in her previous book, “The Right Sensory Mix” (Springer, 2010). Though very accessible to the general reader, that work was targeted mainly to marketing and branding professionals to

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