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Financial Highlights Consolidated results under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for the quarter ended December 31, 2014 Quarter ended December 31, 2014 Revenues were $ 2,218 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2014 QoQ growth was 2.6% in constant currency; 0.8% in reported terms; YoY growth was 5.6%  Net profit was $ 522 million for the…

Exa® Corporation, announced that its Chief Financial Officer, Richard Gilbody, will present at the Needham Growth Conference to be held in New York City. Exa's presentation is scheduled to begin at 2:10pm ET on Thursday, January 15, 2015. This presentation will be available via live audio webcast at http://investor.exa.com/events.cfm and via replay from…

3D Systems announced today that it plans to present at the 17th Annual Needham Growth Conference on Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 2:10 PM ET. A live audio webcast and replay of the presentation will be available on 3DS’ website under the Investor Relations section at 3DSystems.com/investor.

VMH International, a premier Siemens PLM Software partner, announced today that it has been selected for membership in Okuma America's Partners in THINC. Partners in THINC is a collaboration network of more than 46 companies that serve the metal-cutting and manufacturing industry. They come together to solve problems and explore…

HP announced Intel Corporation as the silicon architecture for HP Multi Jet Fusion, a revolutionary technology engineered to resolve critical gaps in the combination of speed, quality and cost, and deliver on the potential of 3D printing. Dion Weisler, executive vice president, Printing & Personal Systems (PPS), HP joined Brian…

Hexagon Metrology, Inc. and TriMet, LLC (Fenton, MO) announced a strategic partnership agreement. TriMet is now an agent of Hexagon Metrology, offering ROMER portable arm coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) and serving Southern Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. The company has extensive knowledge of the ROMER product line and cites…

CADENAS PARTsolutions had a record year helping manufacturers deliver more than 106,000,000 digital product models to their customers. CADENAS PARTsolutions clients have seen a 23% increase in digital part downloads over 2013, representing more than $83.2 Billion in estimated sales of industrial components, proving more and more engineers are looking…

BigRep teamed up with Autodesk as an early adopter of their open 3D-printing platform Spark. This was announced on the occasion of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) starting January 6 in Las Vegas. Spark is a complete, open and free platform for 3D printing that will connect digital information to 3D printers…

Tecplot, Inc. announced that Tecplot 360 EX 2015 Release 1 is now available for general use. Highlights of this release include: Conditional expressions in equations using IF() statements. Triangulation and advanced streamtrace seeding (by customer request). Arbitrary slice improvements to adjust the orientation of arbitrary slices. Improved options for appending…

Striker Systems is pleased to announce Release 2015 of its flagship STRIKER CAD/CAM & Nesting Software. The focus of STRIKER 2015 is further automation of processes that often require CNC programmer intervention.  For punching applications this includes more intelligent recognition of part features that require special tool operations, more comprehensive…