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CKGSB Professor Wang Neng Receives 2024 CBER-Circle Insight Award for Groundbreaking Research in Blockchain Economics
BEIJING, Jan. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Professor WANG Neng, Dean's Distinguished Chair Professor of Finance and Senior Associate Dean at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB), has been awarded the prestigious 2024 CBER-Circle Insight Award, an award jointly founded by the Crypto and Blockchain Economic Research (CBER) Forum and Circle, a prominent U.S. fintech company, which recognizes one groundbreaking academic study each year for... Read More
Tokyo Tourism Connection Hosts An Exclusive Event for Global Travel Industry Professionals
TOKYO, Jan. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Tokyo Convention Visitors Bureau is announcing a limited-time event in February 2025 hosted on its online business matching platform, Tokyo Tourism Connection ( https://tokyotourismconnection.jp ), as part of their efforts to promote business and attract inbound tourism. This event offers an excellent opportunity for international travel industry professionals to discover a new side of Tokyo, as a means... Read More
Portables to solve the housing crisis? Latest ABS statistics reveal the crisis for renters and first-time buyers continues
SYDNEY, Jan. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Newly published figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reveal that the mean price of residential dwellings in New South Wales has increased over the last quarter and is the highest in the country at $1,233,600, with the ACT and Queensland in second and third spots. The ABS Total Value of Dwellings released December 2024 (September Quarter 2024) shows that the value of house dwellings has... Read More
PATRIOT ANNOUNCES CLOSING OF C$69 MILLION STRATEGIC INVESTMENT, OFFTAKE AND STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH VOLKSWAGEN AND POWERCO
VANCOUVER, BC, Jan. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- January 22, 2025 – Sydney, Australia Patriot Battery Metals Inc. (the "Company"or "Patriot") (TSX: PMET) (ASX: PMT) (OTCQX: PMETF) (FSE: R9GA) is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced private placement for proceeds of C$69 million1 or US$48 million (the "Strategic Investment") to Volkswagen Group ("Volkswagen" or "VW"). Following the closing of the Strategic Investment,... Read More
SecPod SanerNow Named Leader & Outperformer in GigaOm's Patch Management Report
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- SecPod is proud to announce its recognition as a Leader and Outperformer in the 2024 GigaOm Radar for Patch Management. This acknowledgment highlights the exceptional innovation and capabilities of SecPod's flagship solution, SanerNow, in the patch management domain. SanerNow earned a score of 5/5 in multiple key areas, including patch lifecycle management, patch testing, patch... Read More
Back Home by FIFCO: Through AI, Costa Rica returns over 36,000 seashells to their habitat to restore the ecosystem
BOGOTÁ, Colombia, Jan. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ --The seemingly harmless practice of collecting seashells as souvenirs is triggering an alarming environmental crisis. Research from the University of Florida and Barcelona found that this extraction degrades coastal ecosystems, endangers biodiversity, alters sediment stability, and weakens the ability of coastlines to withstand the effects of climate change. Read More
Quantinuum Announces Plans to Build a New Quantum R&D Center in New Mexico, Anchoring the State's Quantum Technology Revolution
BROOMFIELD, Colo., Jan. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantinuum, the world's largest integrated quantum computing company, announced plans today to open a new location in New Mexico. This anticipated site will support ongoing collaborative efforts to advance the photonics technologies critical to furthering Quantinuum's product development. Photonics, the science and technology of light, is essential to the advancement of Quantinuum's trapped ion... Read More
Checkbook Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for Transformational Innovation in Providing an Efficient and Unified B2B Digital Payment System
SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Frost Sullivan researched the business-to-business (B2B) digital payment industry and based on its analysis, recognizes Checkbook with the 2025 United States Transformational Innovation Leadership Award. The company leads the B2B digital payment transformation by delivering a solution that challenges traditional payment methods. Its platform offers businesses a more efficient and reliable way to... Read More
Mine Vision Systems Expands Global Distribution Channels with New Reseller Partnership
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Mine Vision Systems (MVS) announced a new strategic partnership with Ramjack, a premier mining industry system integrator headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa. Ramjack has established operations and an extensive support network in multiple globally significant mining regions. The partnership will immediately extend MVS's presence to multiple new regions that are crucial sources for the... Read More
Introducing CoinDesk 80: Diversified Exposure to Digital Assets Beyond the Top 20
NEW YORK, Jan. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CoinDesk Indices is proud to announce the launch of the CoinDesk 80 Index, designed to track the performance of the next 80 leading digital assets after the CoinDesk 20 Index. This innovative index provides seamless and diversified exposure to the evolving digital asset landscape, meeting the growing demand from institutional trading firms for liquidity on a larger breadth of digital assets. As the... Read More
"You Voted, We Listed": ByVotes Community Propelled TOSHI, HAT, and HPOS10I to Bybit Spot Listings
DUBAI, UAE, Jan. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Bybit, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has welcomed a stream of successful community-led and backed listings through its ByVotes mechanism in January. To celebrate the listings, the exchange is offering exclusive rewards for three newly listed tokens: TOSHI, HAT, and HPOS10I in respective Puzzle Hunt events.... Read More
Frost & Sullivan grants Plataine the 2025 Technology Trailblazer Award for Agentic-AI for Manufacturing
SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Frost Sullivan recently researched the manufacturing industry, and based on its assessment results, recognizes Plataine with the 2025 Frost Sullivan Technology Trailblazer Award. The company's Total Production Optimization (TPO) suite of AI Agents provides actionable insights and recommendations for solving complex problems in the manufacturing space. The innovative and disruptive technology... Read More
Bybit Web3 Livestream: Meme Lords and AI Masterminds to Face Off in Epic Roast Battle
DUBAI, UAE, Jan. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Bybit, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, is orchestrating an intellectual sparring match between Web3's AI luminaries. The upcoming livestream "Web3 Roasts: Are AI Memes Just Hype or the Real Deal?" offers the perfect occasion for meme and AI skeptics: users in the audience may tune in to watch top projects make their case for AI's role in Web3, and the robustness of... Read More
ARMswap Launches its DeFi Platform
VILNIUS, Lithuania, Jan. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The ARMswap team is thrilled to announce the launch of its 1st version of its DeFi protocol. The web3 world is booming with numerous layer-1 and layer-2 blockchains, each having their unique algorithms and capabilities. However, their closed architecture hinders seamless interaction and information flow between networks, creating inefficiencies. ARMswap's launch addresses this fundamental... Read More
Gravity Announces $13M in Series A Funding to Automate Reporting and Accelerate Energy Optimization
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Gravity, the leading enterprise carbon accounting and energy management platform, today announced a $13M Series A funding round, bringing the company's total funding to over $20M. The round was led by Ansa Capital, with participation from existing investors Eclipse, Hanover, and Caffeinated Capital, along with new investors Communitas Capital, Buoyant Ventures, and WEX Venture Capital. As part of... Read More
VINI JR. SADDLES-UP, WHILE JACK GREALISH HEADS TO JUNGLE IN LATEST PEPSI® CAMPAIGN
LONDON, Jan. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Pepsi has launched its latest global football campaign, encouraging fans around the world to break their midweek routines to experience the enjoyment of UEFA Champions League football. Featuring ambassadors Jack Grealish and Vini Jr, the campaign sets out to show that "Football Always Wins" over other forms of entertainment. In the set of films created for the campaign, Jack Grealish and Vini Jr.... Read More
Harry Theoharis Announces Candidacy for Secretary General of UN Tourism
MADRID, Jan. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- With the slogan "reform to transform, unite to grow," Harry Theoharis officially launched his candidacy for the Secretary General of UN Tourism this week at the FITUR tourism conference in Madrid. Mr Theoharis, who has an impressive track record in organizational and technological transformation in the public sector, will be presenting his initiatives to improve the transparency, accountability and... Read More
Be My Guest: The Culture Episode
GUIYANG, China, Jan. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Southwestern China's Guizhou, often called the "Land of a Thousand Cultures," is a province of highland and mountains. As a Chinese saying goes, in Guizhou, "Every mountain is home to an ethnic group, customs differ every ten miles, and traditions differ every hundred miles." The province is rich in cultural diversity, showcasing its unique charm and vitality among other regions in China. The... Read More
Synechron Earns Great Place to Work Certification™ in 14 Countries
SYDNEY, Jan. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Synechron, Inc., a leading global digital transformation consulting firm, has been officially accredited as a Great Place to Work® Certified™ organization for 2024 to 2025 in 14 countries. This recognition is based on anonymous feedback from more than 14,500 Synechron employees collected through Great Place To Work®. Synechron was certified in the following countries:... Read More
Infosys leads the industry with the fastest growing CAGR in brand value of 18% over 5 years. Maintains leadership as a global Top 3 IT services brand
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Infosys (NSE: INFY) (BSE: INFY) (NYSE: INFY), a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, today announced that Brand Finance, the world's leading brand valuation firm, has recognized the company as a Top 3 IT services brand and the fastest growing IT services brand globally, with a CAGR of 18% over 5 years in its Brand Finance Global 500 2025 report. Infosys' brand value... Read More
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