German Environmental Prize awarded to soil scientist and cleaning products manufacturer

Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kögel-Knabner (Munich) and Reinhard Schneider (Mainz) honoured on 27 October 2019 in Mannheim Osnabrück, Germany. In 2019, soil scientist Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kögel-Knabner (60) from the Technical University of Munich, and entrepreneur Reinhard Schneider (51) from Mainz, whose company, Werner & Mertz, is in the laundry detergent and cleaning product industry and is dedicated to comprehensive sustainability at every stage of production, will split the German Environmental Prize, which is awarded by…

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Huawei CEO offers to license 5G stack to new competitor

(Telecompaper) Huawei is prepared to sell a perpetual licence to its 5G stack to help create a competitor on the market, CEO Ren Zhengfei said in an interview with The Economist. The buyer would be able to modify the source code to build its own network equipment, a move that could help alleviate concerns about Huawei’s alleged ties to the Chinese government. 

Avaya still in takeover talks but with no time-table

(Telecompaper) Avaya said that the takeover talks it hoped would be completed by mid-September are still ongoing and that it remains in advanced discussions. Reports in March said the company was considering a leveraged buy-out offer form a private equity firm. The company later confirmed it was it was considering takeover offers and that these would be completed soon.