Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today revealed that 18 central banks and government organizations in Asia Pacific have recently rolled out the flagship Thomson Reuters Eikon platform for real-time financial data, analytics, news and commentary.

The central banks and government authorities that have signed up to use Thomson Reuters Eikon in recent months include the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Reserve Bank of India, Nepal Rastra Bank, Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan), State Bank of Vietnam, Bank of the Lao P.D.R and Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan. Read more

Embarcadero Technologies, a leading provider of software solutions for application and database development, today announced Embarcadero DB PowerStudio® XE3.5, the latest release of the company’s award-winning database management and development platform. DB PowerStudio XE3.5 is a key component of Embarcadero’s new metadata governance platform, which allows organizations to leverage diverse data across information management and the software development lifecycle for successful data governance initiatives. Read more

Based on its flagship creative optimization technology, DataPop has officially launched today the industry’s first Product Listing Ads (PLA) platform that drives significant performance based upon semantic technology. DataPop’s platform seamlessly extracts the most relevant information from retailer product feeds that best connects to consumer intent. Retailers with early access to DataPop’s PLA platform have already seen triple-digit increases in click and conversion volumes from Google PLA. Read more

Katie Ingram of CMS Wire reports, “Semantic content enrichment solutions provider, Temis has announced it will be releasing a beta version of its online collaboration platform, the Luxid Community. Founded in 2000, Temis has worked on providing collaboration solutions and improving how information assets are managed. For example, in late 2011 it integrated its Luxid semantic enrichment tool with Nuxeo. With the Luxid Community Platform, Temis will give users in the semantic content enrichment field the ability to meet with colleagues, exchange practices, work on projects and share information.” Read more

Bottlenose has released several new features based on client feedback. According to the company, “We’ve redesigned the way you can post messages in Bottlenose. You can easily select a list of your many accounts or Facebook pages and post an update (This also works for reposts and replies). Also, we now autocomplete usernames on Twitter so you can easily mention, reply or DM someone.” There is good news for Bitly users as well: “You can now add your Bitly account, which enables you to use your own custom URL shortener when publishing messages. That way you can track clicks and demographics for each update.” Read more

Networked Insights reports that the company has launched an innovator trial program for its SocialSense semantic platform. According to the article, “SocialSense is the first platform that places smart and actionable real-time consumer insights into the hands of brand advertisers as well as media and entertainment companies. The platform leverages Networked Insights‘ years of expertise developing solutions for the world’s most innovative brand marketers, enabling real-time marketing decisions that keep brands in-sync with their target audiences. The result is improved brand planning, targeting, messaging and activations.” Read more

Jamie Beach recently interviewed Marina Kalkanis, Head of Media Services at the BBC regarding the BBC’s online coverage of the Olympics. Kalkanis stated, “For the UK audience the 2012 Olympics online offering changed the way our audience engage with digital media. We shattered previous records for consumption across desktops, mobiles, tablets and TVs. We found that TV and mobile usage grew by orders of magnitude and we’ve seen sustained growth afterwards. With 24 live streams and 2500 hours of VOD available across all these devices, our challenge was to ensure that audiences could find the events they wanted to watch. With the Olympics we introduced the Interactive Video Player (IVP) with the chapter markings and event switching.” Read more

Publishing Technology’s digital publishing platform pub2web has been selected to build the United Nations eCollection. COO Louise Tutton stated, “With 40 new agreements so far this year, we are continuing to build on the success of our state-of-the-art solutions to the unique challenges of digital publishing. The new United Nations eCollection will take full advantage of the powerful combination of semantic web technologies and sophisticated information commerce capabilities available within the pub2web platform as standard. This combination allows for ease of breaking down content silos and moving away from the traditional containers of journals, books and reference works while allowing publishers to experiment with new business models (such as Patron-Driven Acquisition) and to deliver an enriched user experience.” Read more

ThingWorx has launched Version 2.0 of its ThingWorx Connected Platform, “a technology accelerating the development of connected applications that enable operational innovation through constant connectivity and interaction from people, systems, and the physical world. Version 2.0, which builds on ThingWorx’s groundbreaking original release of the connected platform, introduces a new Mashup Builder that allows user interfaces for web browsers and mobile devices to be built in a drag-and-drop environment. This reduces the time required to build and deploy new user experiences by five times over traditional development platforms.” Read more