05/06/2025 09:43
China’s 2025 Labor Day Sees Surge in Inbound and Outbound Travel Spending via Alipay and Other Alipay+ Partner Payment Apps

Data from Alipay and other Alipay+ partner payment apps indicates a notable increase in both outbound and inbound tourism spending in China during the 2025 Labor Day holiday (Golden Week). This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250505144383/en/The Myeongdong shopping area in South Korea welcomes travelers to pay with Alipay and other Alipay+ partner payment apps. Outbound Travel: Chinese tourists explore local experiences thr...

04/23/2025 15:42
Veracode Delivers End-to-End Risk Coverage with New Tools: AI-Powered Dynamic Analysis Security Testing with External Attack Surface Management

Veracode, a global leader in application risk management, today announced new capabilities to help organizations address emerging threats, giving security professionals better visibility and control in one place. The launch includes new AI-powered functionality in the Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) product and an External Attack Surface Management (EASM) capability. Together, they enable security teams to discover their entire attack surface and prioritize the most critical risk to...

Newsflare joins AFP's partner video collections

AFP announces a partnership with video agency Newsflare, which specialises in collecting, verifying and licensing UGC videos.

AFP announces a partnership with video agency Newsflare, which specialises in collecting, verifying and licensing UGC videos.
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04/28/2025 12:00
New Research Finds Building with Zinc Prevents Substantial Carbon Emissions

Using zinc to build a single home prevents more than 50 tonnes in carbon emissions, and if just ten percent of new homes in North America were built using zinc, more than 40 million tonnes in carbon emissions would be prevented. These impressive numbers demonstrating zinc’s success story as an agent of decarbonization are the first results of the International Zinc Association’s new Zinc Enables Decarbonization (ZED) initiative, a partnership between the International Zinc Association and Envir...

04/28/2025 12:00
Alnylam Receives Positive CHMP Opinion for Vutrisiran for the Treatment of ATTR Amyloidosis with Cardiomyopathy

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), the leading RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics company, today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive opinion recommending approval of its RNAi therapeutic vutrisiran for the treatment of wild type or hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis in adult patients with cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM). ATTR-CM is a debilitating, rapidly progressive and potentially fatal ...

04/28/2025 12:00
HistoSonics’ Histotripsy System Demonstrates 90% Local Tumor Control at 12 Months in #HOPE4LIVER Trials

HistoSonics, the developer of the Edison Histotripsy System, announced today 12-month follow-up clinical data from its prospective #HOPE4LIVER trials, designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of histotripsy for the non-invasive destruction of primary (hepatocellular cancer-HCC) and metastatic liver tumors. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250428931117/en/ The Edison System, which received U.S. Food and Drug Administ...

04/28/2025 12:15
Philip Morris International CEO Jacek Olczak Addresses Emerging Global Divide in Regulatory Approaches to Consumer Innovation

Jacek Olczak, Chief Executive Officer of Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM), outlined the need for common-sense regulations in the consumer goods sector while addressing global leaders at Semafor’s annual World Economy Summit in Washington, D.C., on April 25, 2025. Olczak emphasized the sector’s potential for innovation-led growth despite the volatile economic environment. He stressed, however, that without appropriate regulation and policy frameworks to enable scientific evaluation an...

AFP holds online workshop on verifying climate disinformation ahead of COP30 in Brazil

AFP held a digital investigation workshop on Wednesday 12 February for Brazilian journalists preparing to cover the COP30 – the 30th session of the UN climate change conference –, to be held in November 2025 in the Amazon, in the city of Belém.

AFP held a digital investigation workshop on Wednesday 12 February for Brazilian journalists preparing to cover the COP30 – the 30th session of the UN climate change conference –, to be held in November 2025 in the Amazon, in the city of Belém.
04/23/2025 17:29
CORRECTING and REPLACING Saviynt Hires Identity Veteran Roger Hsu to Accelerate Asia Growth

Headline of release issued April 22, 2025, at 9:30 p.m. PT/April 23, 2025, at 12:30 a.m. ET should read: Saviynt Hires Identity Veteran Roger Hsu to Accelerate Asia Growth (instead of Saviynt Hires Former SailPoint ASEAN Leader Roger Hsu to Accelerate Asia Growth). The updated release reads: SAVIYNT HIRES IDENTITY VETERAN ROGER HSU TO ACCELERATE ASIA GROWTH Appointment of cybersecurity veteran underscores Saviynt’s commitment to identity security amid rising threats and rapid growth across A...

04/28/2025 12:30
Mainstay Medical Announces Exclusive Coverage of ReActiv8® by Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield

Mainstay Medical Holdings plc today announced that Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield (“Anthem”) has established favorable coverage for the company’s ReActiv8 Restorative NeurostimulationTM therapy for the treatment of intractable chronic low back pain. ReActiv8 is the only therapy considered medically necessary by the policy when the conditions for coverage are met. The coverage went into effect on April 16, 2025, and expands access to the procedure, when clinically appropriate, to Anthem’s pol...