partnership news

The Sony Ericsson-WTA Tour partnership has taken women’s tennis to new audiences through unprecedented fusion of the sport with technology, fashion and music, enabling the Tour to lay the foundation for an unprecedented global growth of women’s tennis.

Toyota and the Clean Energy Partnership announced today (5 March) that Toyota has become a new international auto partner for the organisation.

Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire certain assets of value-added distributor Servodata a.s. in the Czech Republic. The acquired assets will be integrated into the operations of Avnet Technology Solutions (TS), the value-added solutions distribution leader and an operating group of Avnet, Inc.

Fiat Group Automobiles UK kicks off a busy March with news of another high profile fleet tie-up – this time with The Football Association.

Saab and Vägverket will work together to accelerate and coordinate the development of intelligent transportation solutions for highway traffic, both in Sweden and internationally.

As part of the ongoing strategic partnership between Tjat and Opera Software, Opera is demonstrating the Tjat Mobile Messaging Widget at Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona.

At the first Annual Leaders Forum of the Pacific Coast Collaborative (PCC) today, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, along with British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell, Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown and Washington Governor Christine Gregoire, signed two Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) that build upon the original PCC Agreement, signed on June 30, 2008.

Some of the world's best young designers from London's Royal College of Art (RCA) have created a series of remarkable 'Bentleys of the Future' designs in a unique partnership with the famous British company.

The GSMA and comScore, Inc., in partnership with operators O2, Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile and 3UK, today announced the official UK launch of the GSMA Mobile Media Metrics (MMM) product, a pioneering census-level solution for mobile media reporting.

With the support and guidance of the Ministry of Tourism, Oman Sail was set up in 2008 to rekindle Oman’s maritime heritage and to inspire a new generation of young Omanis to take up sailing as recreation and as a competitive sport.

Fujitsu (TSE: 6702) and Symantec Corporation (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that they intend to expand their global strategic partnership and better serve their customers in the areas of data protection, storage management, and information security.

Over the next three years, to 2012, year-long apprenticeships will provide on the job training across BBC Vision Productions, alongside a study programme.

Daimler AG and the State Company for Automotive Industry (SCAI) signed an agreement in the German embassy in Baghdad yesterday concerning a planned partnership for the supply of complete Mercedes-Benz trucks and assembly kits. The agreement is the result of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that Daimler signed with the Iraqi government in July 2008.

Siemens Enterprise Communications Group (SEN Group), a leading global provider of unified communications (UC) solutions, and Polycom, Inc. [Nasdaq: PLCM], a global leader in telepresence, video, and voice communications solutions, today announced a strategic alliance and global resale agreement that will enable customers to leverage the productivity and cost-saving benefits of Polycom telepresence

Nextgen Networks, a specialist provider of high-quality data services in Australia, was recently announced as the successful tenderer for the Australian Government’s $250 million Regional Backbone Blackspots Program to deliver competitive backhaul links into major regional centres.

Building in-part on the success of CNN.com’s Freshman Year series in which two first-time Congressmen document their experiences on Washington D.C.’s Capitol Hill with handheld video cameras

Panasonic Corporation, a market and technology leader in consumer and industrial electronics, has ushered in the cloud computing era by adopting IBM (NYSE: IBM) LotusLive’s suite of collaboration services.

The UN has requested that Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) deploy its Ericsson Response organization to aid relief work in disaster-stricken Haiti. Ericsson has had 20 volunteers on stand-by and will now send four, all telecom experts, to set up a container-based mini GSM-system to enable mobile communication in the area.

DTNA has received nearly $40 million (approx. €28 million ) in funding through the 21st Century Truck Technology Partnership.

Today McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE), the world’s leading dedicated security company, and Facebook announced an unprecedented collaboration that will provide additional security protection to a significant portion of the Internet population.