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Arthur D. Little (ADL) today announced an expansion of its Australian office, with the appointment of Franco Santucci as Partner and Andrew Sampson as Principal, supported by a new team consisting of Sandro Voegeli, Principal, and Richard Song, Senior Advisor. Based in Melbourne, Franco joins from energy consultancy Energise Partners, which he co-founded in 2020 with Sandro Voegeli, while Andr...

Syteca, formerly Ekran System, is pleased to announce its participation in the upcoming it-sa Expo&Congress 2024, taking place in Nuremberg, Germany from October 22-24, 2024. Syteca will unveil its enhanced cybersecurity platform, featuring new capabilities aimed at strengthening internal perimeter security. Event Details: Location: NürnbergMesse GmbH, Messezentrum 1, 90471, Nuremberg, ...

Grid Dynamics Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: GDYN) (Grid Dynamics), a leading provider of technology consulting, platform and product engineering, AI, and digital engagement services, today announces its acquisition of Mobile Computing S.A., a highly regarded software development services provider based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This strategic acquisition enhances Grid Dynamics’ delivery capabiliti...

Quectel Wireless Solutions, a global IoT solutions provider, today announced the introduction of three additional short-range modules to its portfolio. The modules are the FC30R, a cost-effective, industrial-grade Wi-Fi module; the FCU743R, featuring Wi-Fi 4 and Bluetooth 5.2 capabilities; and the FCM740D, an MCU with Wi-Fi 4 and Bluetooth 5.2. These modules enable customers to bring IoT devic...

The second edition of the Luxembourg Venture Days will gather investors, startups, and innovators in a joint summit on 16 and 17 October 2024 at Luxexpo The Box. The annual event is organised by Luxembourg’s innovation agency Luxinnovation and the Luxembourg Private Equity and VC Association (LPEA) under the umbrella of Startup Luxembourg, the country’s network to promote its startup ecosystem...

Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) (TSE: 2914) announces that the JT Group completed the acquisition of Vector Group Ltd. (VGR) on October 7, 2024, following a tender offer, initially announced on August 21, 2024 (JT Group to Acquire Vector Group Ltd.). The tender offer period, initiated on September 4, 2024, expired at one minute after 11:59 P.M., Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), on October 4, 2024. The co...

Boomi™, the intelligent integration and automation leader, is proud to announce that it has been recognized with a 2024 API Award in the category of Best in iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service). This prestigious accolade highlights the exceptional design, engineering, and innovation of the Boomi Enterprise Platform within the API and integration technology landscape. This press release fe...

NuORDER by Lightspeed, a leading B2B commerce platform powering wholesale buying and selling, today announced the appointment of Chris Akrimi to the role of Head of Revenue for Lightspeed B2B / NuORDER. "Chris has a distinguished and proven track record of collaborating with and driving success in partnership with prestigious tech companies, global brands, and luxury retail powerhouses,” said...

Jetcraft, the global leader in business aircraft sales, acquisitions, and trades, is today announcing the appointment of Anna Gulbas as Sales Director, marking the final piece of its newly-structured EMEA sales team. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241007160708/en/Jetcraft, the global leader in business aircraft sales...

Kinaxis® Inc. (TSX:KXS), a global leader in end-to-end supply chain orchestration, today announced Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.’s adoption of Kinaxis to help orchestrate full visibility and transparency across its global supply chain. Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., (ONO) headquartered in Osaka, Japan, is an R&D-oriented pharmaceutical company committed to creating innovative medicines in s...

Instant and secure payments can act as a multiplier to help businesses and economies thrive and grow. To further Mastercard’s vision of bringing immediacy to card payments, the company today announced that South Africa will be the first market in the world to benefit from the security and speed of immediate Mastercard card payments. Through product innovations, enhancements to its network and ...

Moody’s Corporation (NYSE:MCO) has been awarded the number-one overall ranking in the Chartis RiskTech100® 2025 report, marking Moody’s third consecutive year in the top position. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241008104889/en/ The Chartis RiskTech100 is the most comprehensive study of the world’s leading providers o...

Quectel Wireless Solutions, a global IoT solutions provider, is pleased to announce the launch of the Quectel BG770A-SN ultra-compact 5G-ready satellite communication module. Compliant with 3GPP Releases 13, 14 and 17, the module supports the LTE NB1 and NB2 bands as well as non-terrestrial networks (NTN) over narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT). Ultra-low power consumption helps minimize energy usage and...

For the second consecutive year, ISG, an independent research firm, has named Mercans a Leader in its Global Managed Payroll Services (Multi-Country) ISG Provider Lens™ 2024 report. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241008882905/en/Mercans Named Global Leader in Payroll Technology for the Second Consecutive Year - ISG P...

Avania, the leading, global medical technology contract research organization (CRO) and advisory services partner, today announced its acquisition of Anagram. Headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, Anagram is one of the leading MedTech CROs in the Iberian Peninsula, providing MedTech solutions to its customers in Spain, the wider European market, and beyond. This press release features multimedia....

Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a global provider of end-to-end enterprise software support, products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software, and an AWS partner, today announced that Mercury NZ has selected Rimini Support™ and Rimini Watch™ for SAP, as part of its strategic move to achieve cost efficiencies and retain stability of its core IT sys...

Opengear, a Digi International company (NASDAQ, DGII, www.digi.com) and provider of secure and Smart Out of Band management solutions, has introduced two new advanced offerings. These innovative solutions will simplify initial setup with zero-touch provisioning and ensure access to IT infrastructure. Opengear continues to be an IT industry leader by providing a highly secure and easy-to-use ma...

Stonebranch, a leading provider of service orchestration and automation solutions, today announced the launch of the Stonebranch UserVerse 2024 World Tour, a global event series designed to empower IT operations and business leaders with cutting-edge insights on automation trends. Spanning across multiple cities and virtual platforms, the hybrid series will bring together automation enthusiast...

Gradiant, a global solutions provider for advanced water and wastewater treatment, announced today a major milestone in the fight against PFAS contamination, a forever chemical. Working with contaminated industrial, municipal, and landfill waters, ForeverGoneTM has been quantifiably proven, through multiple third-party accredited laboratories, to reduce PFAS to levels below regulatory limits a...

Fluence, a leading global provider of energy-efficient LED lighting solutions for commercial cannabis production, hosted its sixth PHOTOx Summit on Sept. 23 and 24, 2024, in Austin, Texas. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241008990821/en/Fluence principal scientist Dr. Davis Hawley speaks at the 6th PHOTOx Summit (Phot...

Altasciences is proud to announce that Dr. Beatrice Setnik, PhD, has been honored as a PharmaVoice 100 winner. Dr. Setnik made the list of 100 honorees for her hands-on leadership and nearly 20 years of experience in clinical drug development, with a focus on abuse potential studies. In addition to her role as Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) at Altasciences, she serves as an adjunct professor a...

Bentley Systems’ Year in Infrastructure 2024–Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, today announced the general availability of new Carbon Analysis capabilities in iTwin Experience to assess and reduce carbon impacts for more sustainable infrastructure. The new Carbon Analysis capabilities enable infrastructure engineers to simplify carbon...

Today, Zendesk introduced a series of innovations, including AI-powered agents for omnichannel support, enhanced agent copilot, powerful voice, and agent builder. Leading in AI-powered customer and employee experiences through its complete service solution, Zendesk’s new capabilities help companies deliver exceptional service in a way that is easy to use, scale, and drive meaningful business r...

Bentley Systems’ Year in Infrastructure 2024 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, today announced new generative AI capabilities for civil site design, including a design copilot, site layout optimizations, and automated drawing production that will drive new levels of productivity and accuracy. This press release features multimedia. ...

Bentley Systems’ Year in Infrastructure 2024 — Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, unveiled its vision for open data ecosystems to advance infrastructure engineering at its annual Year in Infrastructure conference. During the event, Bentley executives were joined by representatives from global engineering and construction firms and infr...

Bentley Systems’ Year in Infrastructure 2024—Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, today announced a strategic partnership with Google to integrate Google’s high-quality geospatial content with Bentley’s infrastructure engineering software and digital twin platform to improve the way infrastructure is designed, built, and operated. This p...

Quectel Wireless Solutions, a global IoT solutions provider, today announces the launch of a series of new antennas to further expand the global antenna offering for Quectel customers. The new antennas include the YECT005W1A and YECT004W1A ultra-wide band 5G antennas, the YEMN302Q1A combo antenna series, the YECT028W1A 5G and YECT003W1A 4G antennas, the YFNF915F3AM and YFNF868F3AM LoRa antenna...

Topcon Agriculture has announced the release of its new Value Line Steering solution designed specifically for farmers using mid-range tractors on small to medium-sized farms. The new offering represents a significant step in making autosteering technology, typically used on larger machinery, accessible to a broader range of farmers. This press release features multimedia. View the full releas...

The Zayed Sustainability Prize, the UAE’s pioneering award for innovative solutions to global challenges, has announced this year's finalists following a deliberation by its esteemed Jury. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241009295303/en/Zayed Sustainability Prize Announces 2025 Finalists Pioneering Global Solutions (P...

Mativ, global manufacturer of Argotec brand engineered polymer films, and Miru, a leading smart window technology developer, have announced a joint development agreement to commercialize a novel lamination interlayer for dynamic electrochromic windows (“eWindows”). This partnership will bring together technologies to simplify the manufacturing process and lower the cost of producing eWindows f...

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) will report its third quarter 2024 financial results on Monday, November 4, 2024 after the financial markets close. The company will host a conference call and webcast at 4:30 p.m. ET. To access the call, please dial (833) 630-2124 (U.S.) or +1 (412) 317-0651 (International) and reference the “Vertex Pharmaceuticals Third Quarter 2024 Earnings...

Cognite, the Data and AI authority for industry, today announced the launch of Cognite Embedded. This new offering enables Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Industrial Software Vendors (ISVs) to accelerate time to market, drastically reduce total cost of ownership, and future-proof their digital solutions with AI-ready architectures, all through Cognite’s leading industrial data plat...

KAGA FEI Co., Ltd., a global provider of leading short distance wireless modules, announced today the ES4L15BA1 Bluetooth Low Energy module. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241010420482/en/ES4L15BA1 (Photo: Business Wire) The module has a built-in antenna and has obtained various certifications. Consequently, it reduc...

SambaNova, the generative AI company with the fastest models and most advanced chips, announces a partnership with Canvass AI (“Canvass”), a leader in generative AI enterprise solutions, to drive fast adoption of vertically-integrated AI Solutions, inference and training to South Asia and EMEA. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/new...

Inkia Energy, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Kallpa, received environmental approval for the expansion of its solar power plant currently under construction in Southern Peru, a leading global solar resource hub. The approval will bring the solar project, Sunny, from 228 MWp to 338 MWp, and is expected to be fully operational by the second half of 2025. Based in Peru, Inkia Energy is the c...

Vespa.ai, developer of the leading platform for AI applications including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), has today announced support for ColPali, a new open-source retrieval model for visually rich documents such as PDFs. ColPali enhances document retrieval by embedding entire rendered documents, including visual elements, into vector representations optimized for Large Language Models...

1NCE, a company offering a software platform for connected products, today announced appointments and promotions for its executive team: Sven Adler as Chief Financial Officer, Arne Aßmann as Chief Strategy Officer, Jennifer Haag as Chief Human Resources Officer, Nicolas Martinez-Fresno as Chief Sales and Marketing Officer and Ivo Rook as Co-Chief Executive Officer. Founder Alexander P. Sator ...

Alchemy, the fastest-growing global circular technology company, has announced record revenues of $711 million for the financial year ending 31 March 2024. This marks a 60% increase from the previous year's $443 million, demonstrating the company's continued rapid growth and its success in expanding the circular tech economy. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: ...

ExaGrid®, the industry’s only Tiered Backup Storage solution with Retention Time-Lock that includes a non-network-facing tier (creating a tiered air gap), delayed deletes and immutability for ransomware recovery, today announced that it has been nominated in six categories for the 15th annual Storage, Digitalisation and Cloud (SDC) Awards, which are focused on rewarding innovation and excellen...

Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced the publication of Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users, Third Edition. Award-winning author and cartography expert Cynthia A. Brewer draws on her sophisticated mix of experiences—performing academic research; teaching, mentoring, and collaborating with students and analysts; and working with mapmakers at federal agencie...

Tourism leaders from both Africa and the Americas have jointly committed to working together to make the sector a pillar of collective sustainable and inclusive development across both continents. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241004171164/en/1st UN Tourism Africa & Americas Summit (Photo: Business Wire) The “Pu...

C5 Capital, a specialist venture capital firm based in Washington DC and London announces a strategic partnership with Brave1, Ukraine’s premier defense technology accelerator. This collaboration will support Ukraine’s innovative tech startups, accelerating the development and application of critical technologies for the defense of Ukraine against Russian aggression. Brave1 leads Ukraine’s de...

Global technology corporation FPT and Australian strategic consultancy firm, Ascending Strategies, recently inked a partnership agreement. The collaboration is set to foster innovation and business development across the Australasia region. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241003265492/en/(Photo: Business Wire) Under t...

On September 25th, the 3rd Global Digital Trade Expo “Digital Trade Night” was held in Hangzhou. The event highlighted important digital trade projects between China and Kazakhstan, injecting constant momentum into economic and trade cooperation between the two sides. During the event, the much-anticipated signing ceremony for the “China-Kazakhstan Digital Trade Key Project” was officially lau...

LTIMindtree [NSE: LTIM, BSE: 540005], a global technology consulting and digital solutions company, strengthened its partnership with Currys, a leading UK retailer of technology products and services, by enabling transformation of its omni-channel retail customer experiences leveraging Salesforce Service Cloud, Commerce Cloud and MuleSoft. This partnership was recognised with the Salesforce Pa...

New York Life Investments today announced plans to liquidate the following ETFs (the “Funds”) as part of the company’s regular review of its product line-up: NYLI 500 International ETF (IQIN) NYLI CBRE NextGen Real Estate ETF (ROOF) NYLI Engender Equality ETF (EQUL) The Funds will cease trading and no longer accept creation or redemption orders after market close on November 20, 2024. ...

Belfast’s iconic Thompson Dry Dock, known as the ‘birthplace of Titanic’, came alive with light and sound this September during an immersive production highlighting the city’s maritime heritage. For the first time ever, the slipway hosted the ‘Shadowdock’ event as part of Belfast 2024, a year-long celebration focused on the themes of People, Place & Planet. Hundreds of attendees embarked o...

IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), a leader in the quantum computing industry, today announced that it has signed a $54.5 million contract with the United States Air Force Research Lab (AFRL). With a quarter remaining in the fiscal year, IonQ has announced $72.8 million in bookings year-to-date and reiterated its confidence in meeting or exceeding its bookings guidance of $75-95 million for the year. Governm...

Geoquip Marine, a provider of geotechnical services to the global offshore energy sector and Njord Partners portfolio company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Rune Olav Pedersen as CEO, effective from 1st January 2025. Rune’s deep sector experience is very closely aligned with Geoquip’s expertise. He has spent the last 14 years at PGS, the Oslo-listed, fully-integrated marine geophy...

The SES Board of Directors has approved the payment of an interim dividend of EUR 0.25 per A-share (EUR 0.1 per B-share) to be paid to shareholders on 17 October 2024, in line with the announcement made in February 2024 and SES’s commitment to shareholder returns. The implementation of a semi-annual dividend distribution brings greater alignment between the cash generation of the business and...

Radico Khaitan Limited (NSE: RADICO), a leading Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) company and the parent company of Rampur Distillery officially unveils Rampur’s newest expression of Indian Single Malt Whisky, the Barrel Blush at Whisky Live Paris 2024. The international spirits tasting event will be held from 28 September to 30 September at La Grande Halle de La Villette in Paris. This press ...

At the G20 Tourism Ministers' meeting in Belém, Brazil, UN Tourism Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili emphasized the vital role tourism plays in shaping a fairer and more sustainable future for both people and the planet. With the sector expected to fully recover pre-pandemic levels by the end of this year, Pololikashvili urged a shift in focus towards the future, prioritizing the empowerm...

Incyte (Nasdaq:INCY) today announced new early clinical data for INCB123667, a highly selective, potential first-in-class CDK2 inhibitor, in patients with advanced solid tumors. The trial results, presented during a mini-oral presentation at the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) with new, updated data shared during the Company’s investor event, highlight the potential of INCB123667 a...

Incyte (Nasdaq:INCY) today announced results from the Phase 3 POD1UM-303/InterAACT2 trial of retifanlimab (Zynyz®), a humanized monoclonal antibody targeting programmed death receptor-1 (PD-1), in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy (carboplatin–paclitaxel) for the treatment of adults with inoperable locally recurrent or metastatic squamous cell anal carcinoma (SCAC). These data were ...

Irdeto, the global leader in digital video platform experiences and security, and Bitmovin, the industry leader in video software solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to deliver enhanced secure video streaming experiences. This collaboration integrates Bitmovin’s renowned Player and Analytics suite into Irdeto Experience, the award-winning streaming platform trusted by top-tier o...

SCF Partners, Inc. (“SCF”) is pleased to announce its acquisition of the Newpark Fluids Systems business (“NFS”), a leading global pure-play oil & gas and geothermal fluids solution provider, from Newpark Resources Inc. (NYSE: NR). Newpark Fluids Systems provides a full range of drilling & completion products and related technical services supported by an innovative digital modeling so...

SK pharmteco, a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), today announced a major expansion of its small molecule and peptide production capabilities with a $260 million investment to construct a new state-of-the-art facility in Sejong, South Korea. Scheduled to begin operations in late 2026, the new facility will be the fifth plant the company opens in South Korea an...

The Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO), a global multilateral organization committed to enabling digital prosperity for all by accelerating the inclusive growth of the digital economy, has launched its inaugural Digital Economy Navigator (DEN) that enables countries to better navigate the paths to digital economy maturity, find opportunities for growth, benchmark progress, and bridge the g...