Arrail gets $90m in D-round finance
Arrail Dental Group, a highend dental service provider in China, announced on Tuesday that it has completed its D-round financing and received an investment totaling $90 million. Zou Qifang, founder and president of Arrail Group, said it will use the money to set up more than 1,000 dental clinics in China in next five to eight years. In 1999, when realizing the market potential in China for highend oral healthcares, Zou established Arrail in Beijing, providing high-quality oral medical services to China’s middle class and foreign residents. Its businesses have expanded to Shanghai, Shenzhen and many cities with around 100 clinics, providing dental treatment to around 5 million people. “We want to cooperate with investors, who have similar values and focus on long-term development to expand the market, “Zou said. nected devices are having a significant positive impact for patients and their health,” said Robert Ford, executive vicepresident of Medical Devices at Abbott. “To further protect our patients, Abbott has developed new firmware with additional security measures that can be installed on our pacemakers.” The update is for pacemakers with radio frequency telemetry capabilities, meaning that they are wirelessly connected by radio waves for recording and transmitting the readings of the devices. It includes data encryption, operating system patches, and the ability to disable network connection features. to use self-driving vehicles to deliver pizzas to their customers. The Detroit-based automaker is providing a selfdriving Ford Fusion Hybrid car equipped with Ford’s full suite of cameras, sensors and radar for testing in Ann Arbor city of Michigan state for about six weeks. However, the car will not be operated in an autonomous mode. One Ford engineer hidden behind tinted windows will drive the car, and another will monitor input from the car’s hardware. It will not be the first experiment with advanced pizza delivery technology. million euros ($388 million) in funds from five European companies in July, Russian energy company Gazprom said on Tuesday. “Nord Stream 2 AG borrowed funds from five European companies in July 2017 under conditions of the long-term financing agreement made among the parties in April 2017,” Gazprom, Russia’s state and largest natural gas company, said in a report. Earlier, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline construction project will be implemented in due time despite new US sanctions that allow fining European companies for participation in joint energy projects with Russia, including Nord Stream 2 pipeline project. countries to sign them early next month. The cabinet approved the Construction Supervision Consultant Services Agreement with a budget of 3.5 billion baht ($103 million), which has been increased from some 1.6 billion baht earlier provided. Thailand and China are going to sign these two contracts during Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s visit to China, Transport Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith said on Tuesday.