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thyssenkrupp Elevator, one of the world’s largest elevator companies and a market leader in North America, is going to build a new, world-class headquarters near The Battery Atlanta in Cobb County, Georgia.

The Vienna Tourist Board sent eagles up into the skies to capture footage of the city from above. Now online, travel fans can watch it using VR goggles and experience the capital in 360° just as the eagles caught it on camera. In the first half of 2018 Vienna established a new record of 7,223,000 visitor bednights (+4.1%).

- The first half of 2018 was fortunate in that natural disasters across the world caused significantly lower losses than usual. According to provisional figures, overall losses were around US$ 33bn, the lowest level since 2005 (US$ 29bn after adjustment for inflation). - However, individual events did cause high losses for those concerned, for example crop losses in the agricultural sector as a result of drought in Europe. - Also, it is the second half of the year that usually brings higher losses. For example, in 2017 the series of major hurricanes, Harvey, Irma and Maria, pushed overall losses for the year to US$ 340bn.

- Companies team up with Qualcomm and Savari to showcase C-V2X’s advanced performance for safety, traffic efficiency and autonomy.
<p>- Exhibition includes communication between vehicles, motorcycles and infrastructure, showing commercial readiness for industry deployments as early as 2020.

Distribution and further development of Berlinger anti-doping products to be entrusted to a foundation; Berlinger Board of Directors appoints new Group CEO.

With its Automatic Biometric Identification System, the Hamburg-based company DERMALOG provides the next level of secure identification. It compares multiple biometric features simultaneously and sets new records in matching speed.

The car manufacturer Borgward launched successfully in Germany. More than 500 visitors attended the first customer VIP event, which took place at the Stuttgart brand center last weekend.

The Supervisory Board of Borgward Group AG has appointed Dr. Philip Koehn effective July 1 as the new CEO of the Stuttgart-based car manufacturer.

Today, people prefer using their own communication device – a smartphone or tablet. Using services on mobile devices is becoming more and more popular.