AIRLINE DATA PLATFORM ATPCO ACQUIRES RICH CONTENT PROVIDER ROUTEHAPPY

The acquisition connects Routehappy's airline rich content with ATPCO's airfare data, transforming the flight shopping experience across all points of sale

DULLES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT and NEW YORK, Feb 2 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ATPCO, the leading source for airline industry pricing and shopping data, today announced the acquisition of Routehappy, the airline industry's leading rich content provider for flight shopping. The acquisition broadens ATPCO's value to the entire airline distribution ecosystem by enabling rich content, making it a centralized platform for both airfare data and rich content.

"Airline merchandising is rapidly evolving, as rich content is more widely adopted across both NDC and traditional distribution models. As an industry, we want travelers to be able to see, and trust, the differences between flight options," said Jerry Foran, Chairman of the Board of ATPCO and Head of Product Delivery, Revenue Management at British Airways. "This acquisition is another example of how ATPCO is executing on its promise to fuel the future of airline distribution."

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ORANGE LAUNCHES NEXT-GEN CISCO NETWORK AUTOMATION CAPABILITIES ACROSS ITS IP AND DATA PORTFOLIO

BARCELONA, Feb 2 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cisco Live - Over the next five years, strong growth in the number of mobile users, business digitization demands, Internet of Things (IoT) connections and mobile video consumption will place significant challenges on networks. The increasing traffic has yet to show an equivalent growth in ARPU.

As service providers prepare for the next wave of network speed, extensive architectural transformation involving programmability and automation will be needed to support these capabilities and future innovations, including the evolution of enterprise services, 5G, and IoT.

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NASDAQ ANNOUNCES QUARTERLY DIVIDEND OF $0.38 PER SHARE

NEW YORK, Feb 2 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Board of Directors of Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) has declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.38 per share on the company's outstanding common stock. The dividend is payable on March 30, 2018 to shareowners of record at the close of business on March 16, 2018. Future declarations of quarterly dividends and the establishment of future record and payment dates are subject to approval by the Board of Directors.

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GLOBECOMM ANNOUNCES ROBUST ORDERS YEAR TO DATE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., Feb 2 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Globecomm, a leading service provider of multi-network communications solutions, today announced year to date orders valued at over $130 million for fiscal year 2018, which began July 1, 2017. Orders from new customers as well as renewals and expansions contributed to robust growth across its Government, Media, Telecom, Enterprise, and Oil and Gas segments.

Globecomm's new projects for the U.S. government include IPTV services (Globecomm's state-of-the-art content delivery platform), wireless services, and SATCOM engineering solutions. Innovative solutions such as Vector - Globecomm's cloud-based, virtualized video headend solution - and Ka-band broadcast uplink facilities have driven growth with major broadcasters. Globecomm has also experienced rapid growth in demand for the company's Internet of Things ("IOT") Asset Tracking solutions. Thanks to its continued focus on customer satisfaction, the company has received significant contract extensions and add-ons.

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HORIZON ROBOTICS LICENSES NETSPEED INTERCONNECT IP FOR AI SOCS

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb 2 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NetSpeed Systems, Inc. today announced that Horizon Robotics has licensed NetSpeed Orion and Gemini Interconnect IP for use in its industry-leading artificial intelligence (AI) chips for embedded AI applications such as autonomous driving and smart cameras.

AI applications rely on extensive computing resources to emulate human intelligence and decision-making capability. IBM's Watson platform, for example, utilizes vast cloud computing resources to address AI applications in healthcare, education, finance, transportation and energy. At the consumer level, smart assistants like Alexa and Siri still must rely on cloud resources to answer even simple questions. Horizon Robotics has developed chip technology that eliminates the dependency on the cloud and can bring AI to billions of smart devices at the edge of the Internet. Its chip technology provides capability for perception, understanding, and decision-making to all kinds of devices creating the "brains" necessary to enhance safety, convenience or fun.

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NEW PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS, ASSURANCE CAPABILITIES ADVANCE CISCO'S STRATEGY TO REINVENT THE NETWORK FOR DIGITAL BUSINESS

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb 2 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cisco today announced powerful assurance innovations across its intent-based networking portfolio that will help IT teams shift from reactive to proactive. It will address the 43 percent of time IT spends troubleshooting, while making IT operations more proactive, agile and automated. The software innovations represent significant advancements in mathematical modeling and contextual insights, accelerating Cisco’s strategy to reinvent the network for the digital era.

Over the past few years, the explosion of devices, adoption of cloud, and exponential growth of security threats have challenged current approaches for building and managing networks. Cisco's vision is to create a network that anticipates operational issues, stops security threats in their tracks, and continues to learn, adapt and protect. To realize this, Cisco is driving the intent-based networking revolution by transforming the entire network, from the data center and campus, to the branch and edge.

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LEGO® EDUCATION LAUNCHES NEW MAKER ACTIVITIES FOR SCHOOLS

Educators can try out the new, free LEGO® Education Maker activities, learn tips for starting a makerspace in their schools plus share how they are 'making' with LEGO bricks in their classrooms by entering the LEGO Education Global Teacher Award.

BILLUND, Denmark, Feb 2 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- LEGO® Education Maker, a continuum of activities for early learning through middle school, is available today to schools around the world. The activities are centered around the iconic LEGO brick and inspired by the open-ended, playful creativity of making. The new, free LEGO Education Maker activities include stimulating challenges for every student at every education level and incorporate LEGO Education solutions including LEGO Education STEAM Park, LEGO Education Simple Machines, LEGO Education WeDo 2.0, LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 and LEGO Education Simple and Powered Machines.

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