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1. Financial Updates.....................................................1
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3.Rewards and Recognition Updates........................26
4.Customer Success Updates.....................................35
5.Partnership Ecosystem Updates............................45
6.Miscellaneous Updates...........................................60
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Executive Commentary
Agilent Technologies Reports Third Quarter Fiscal
Year 2019 Financial Results
• Revenue of $1.27 billion represents 6 percent reported growth; and
up 6 percent(1) on a core basis driven by strength in the pharma,
diagnostics, environmental and forensics markets
• GAAP net income of $191 million or EPS of $0.60
• Non-GAAP net income of $240 million or EPS of $0.76(2),
• up 13 percent year-over-year
• Raises full-year revenue and non-GAAP EPS guidance
• Signed definitive agreement to acquire BioTek Instruments, a global
leader in life science instrumentation, strengthening leadership position
in the cell analysis segment
"The Agilent team delivered very strong results in the third quarter,
exceeding both our top and bottom-line expectations," said Agilent
president and CEO. "Building on this performance, we are increasing
our guidance for the full year. In the quarter, we also announced the
pending acquisition of BioTek, continuing our investments in high
growth markets. BioTek will significantly expand our presence in the
fast-growing field of cell analysis."
For more details, please click the link below:
https://www.agilent.com/about/newsroom/presrel/2019/14aug-gp19016.html
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Analog Devices Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2019 Results with
Revenue and EPS above the Midpoint of Guidance
• Revenue of $1.48 billion with B2B markets down 3%
year-over-year
• Operating Cash Flow of $2.3 billion and Free Cash Flow of
$2.0 billion on a trailing twelve months basis
• Returned over $300 million to shareholders in the third quarter
through dividends and share repurchases
“In what continues to be a challenging macroeconomic environment, we once
again executed soundly and delivered strong financial results,” said President
and CEO. “Revenue and operating margins came in above the midpoint of
guidance as ongoing broad-based weakness compared to the year ago quarter
was balanced by growth in new areas such as 5G and electric vehicles. Further,
we returned more than $300 million of cash to our shareholders in the third
quarter through share repurchases and dividends.While these uncertain times do
not seem to be abating in the near term, ADI has successfully navigated
macroeconomic challenges many times before. The key to our resilience is
maintaining our long-term focus while remaining agile in response to market
dynamics. Our focus on cutting edge innovation and diversity across products,
customers and applications has allowed us to continue to generate strong
revenue growth, profitability, and cash flow for more than five decades.”
https://www.analog.com/en/about-adi/news-room/press-releases/2019/8-21-2019-adi-reports-third-quarter-fiscal-2019-results.html

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NVIDIAAnnounces Financial Results for
Second Quarter Fiscal 2020
• NVIDIA today reported revenue for the second quarter ended
July 28, 2019, of $2.58 billion compared with $3.12 billion a year
earlier and $2.22 billion in the previous quarter.
• GAAP earnings per diluted share for the quarter were $0.90,
compared with $1.76 a year ago and $0.64 in the previous quarter.
• Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were $1.24 compared with
$1.94 a year earlier and $0.88 in the previous quarter.
“We achieved sequential growth across our platforms,” said
founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Real-time ray tracing is the
most important graphics innovation in a decade. Adoption has
reached a tipping point, with NVIDIA RTX leading the way.
NVIDIA accelerated computing momentum continues to build
as the industry races to enable the next frontier in artificial
intelligence, conversational AI, as well as autonomous systems
like self-driving vehicles and delivery robots,”
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-second-quarter-fiscal-2020

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Strong business performance for pbb in the first half of 2019
• New Commercial Real Estate Finance business totaled €4.4 billion in the first half of the year, up from
€3.6 billion in the same period of the previous year.
• During the first half of 2018, pbb raised new long-term funding in the amount of €4.2 billion (6m 2018:
€3.0 billion), with issuance volumes increasing both for Pfandbriefe and uncovered bonds.
• Net interest income rose to €229 million (6m 2018: €220 million). This increase resulted in part from the
higher average volume of commercial real estate loans totalling €27.4 billion (6m 2018: €25.4 billion),
together with lower average margins in new business, and lower funding expenses.
• Net fee and commission income from non-accruable fees amounted to €3 million (6m 2018: €3 million).
• Net income from fair value measurement totalled €–7 million (6m 2018: €4 million). Expenses of €9
million from the pull-to-par effect, largely attributable to derivatives, were partly offset in particular by
increases in the value of non-derivative financial instruments of €2 million.
• Net income from realisations of €16 million (6m 2018: €15 million) benefited from prepayment fees of
€14 million (6m 2018: €8 million) and fee realisations on the disposal of financial instruments of €4 million
(6m 2018: €5 million).
• Net other operating income/expenses of €–2 million (6m 2018: €–9 million) comprised €2 million (6m
2018: €2 million) in expenses from currency translation.
• General and administrative expenses of €93 million were slightly above the previous year's figure of €88
million.
• Net gains and losses from restructuring of €2 million (6m 2018: €0 million) included income from the
release of provisions related to human resources.
• Income taxes of €–18 million (6m 2018: €–23 million) comprised a current tax expense of €9 million (6m
2018: €22 million) and deferred tax expenses of €9 million (6m 2018: €1 million).
CEO said: "Our core business continues to develop in a very
positive manner. The results are built on strong net interest income,
thanks to a growing strategic portfolio and lower funding costs for
our lending business. Moreover, once again, no net additions to risk
provisions were required. We thus remain cautiously positive, in a
market environment that remains exceptionally difficult."
https://www.pfandbriefbank.com/en/media/press/detail/news/strong-business-performance-for-pbb-in-the-first-half-of-2019.html

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Intuit Fourth Quarter Revenue Up 15 Percent,
Full Year Up 13 Percent
For the fourth quarter, Intuit:
• Grew revenue to $994 million, up 15 percent year-over-year.
• Grew Online Ecosystem revenue by 35 percent.
For the full year, Intuit:
• Grew revenue to nearly $6.8 billion, up 13 percent year-over-year.
• Grew combined QBO and TTO platform revenue over 23 percent, totaling approximately $3.9
billion.1
• Grew Online Ecosystem revenue by 38 percent.
• Finished the year with over 4.5 million QuickBooks Online subscribers, growth of 33 percent.
• Grew Consumer Group revenue 11 percent.
• Increased GAAP operating income to $1.9 billion, up from $1.6 billion in the prior year, growth
of 19 percent.
• Increased non-GAAP operating income to $2.3 billion, up 12 percent.
• Increased GAAP and non-GAAP earnings per share by 16 percent and 17 percent respectively.
"Our business continued its strong momentum in the
fourth quarter, resulting in full year revenue growth of 13
percent, exceeding our original guidance of 8 to 10
percent growth," said Intuit's chief executive officer.
"These results were fueled by 15 percent growth in the
Small Business and Self-Employed Group, and 11 percent
growth in the Consumer Group.”
https://investors.intuit.com/Press-Releases/Press-Release-Details/2019/Intuit-Fourth-Quarter-Revenue-Up-15-Percent-Full-Year-Up-13-Percent/

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Sistema announces financial results
for the second quarter 2019
• Consolidated revenue [1] increased by 9.6% year-on-year to RUB
194.1 billion.
• Adjusted OIBDA [2] increased by 1.3% year-on-year to RUB
65.6 billion; the adjusted OIBDA margin was 33.8%.
• Adjusted net profit attributable to Sistema [3] was RUB 7.5
billion.
President and Chief Executive Officer of Sistema said:“Despite challenges related to
softer global commodities prices and weaker consumer behaviour in Russia, the
Group’s portfolio companies reported high-quality growth in the second quarter, which
is a clear sign that our investment strategy is delivering results.While operating in a
highly competitive industry, MTS continues to increase revenue not only from
traditional telecommunications services but also through increased sales of system
integration services and software, as well as the successful integration of MTS Bank,
which has been making excellent use of MTS’s expertise in big data analytics. MTS has
been expanding the boundaries of its industry and is already competing with banks,
fintech firms and IT companies as it creates its own ecosystem.
http://www.sistema.com/press/press-releases/detail/article/24351/

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Agilent Completes Acquisition of
BioTek Instruments
Agilent Technologies, Inc. announced it has completed the acquisition of
BioTek Instruments, a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution
of innovative life science instrumentation. The BioTek acquisition expands
Agilent's growing presence and expertise in cell analysis and strengthens the
company's position in the large and growing immuno-oncology and
immunotherapy areas. The combined portfolio will allow Agilent to deliver a
range of unique cell analysis workflows to provide customers the ability to
obtain deeper, more reliable insights across a variety of cell analysis
applications. This combination expands the company's presence in biopharma,
academia and research, as customers seek to understand complex cellular
environments and interactions.
"We're extremely pleased to add BioTek's tremendously talented employees
and industry leading technologies to the Agilent team," said Agilent
president and CEO. "The combination of our two companies and our
collective offerings will help lead to a better understanding of cell function,
behavior and interactions. This will enable researchers to more quickly
achieve significant breakthroughs in solving the most complex health and
science challenges."
https://www.agilent.com/about/newsroom/presrel/2019/26aug-gp19017.html
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RDX to Acquire Navisite LLC
Charter Communications, Inc. and RDX announced a definitive agreement
under which RDX will acquire and merge with Navisite LLC, a leading
provider of managed cloud services.Within the Madison Dearborn Partners
investment portfolio, RDX, a specialized provider of managed IT services,
will own and operate the assets including client relationships, employees
dedicated to supporting the Navisite business, fixed assets, leases and
Navisite-operated facilities.Charter Communications, Inc. is a leading
broadband communications company and the second largest cable operator
in the United States. Charter provides a full range of advanced residential
broadband services, including Spectrum TV® programming, Spectrum
Internet®, Spectrum Voice®, and Spectrum Mobile™.
"With its shared mission, RDX will benefit from Navisite’s
contributions as a trusted cloud service provider to its clients," said
EVP and President, Spectrum Enterprise. "As part of our ongoing
prioritization and refinement of our portfolio, this divestiture will
accelerate the execution of our strategy to serve America’s largest
businesses and communications service providers as a national
service provider of scalable fiber-based technology solutions."
https://newsroom.charter.com/press-releases/rdx-to-acquire-navisite-llc/
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RDX Completes Acquisition of Navisite
RDX, one of the largest independent cloud, database and application
managed service providers, and Charter Communications, Inc. announced
that RDX has completed the acquisition of Navisite LLC from Charter. The
Navisite acquisition increases the depth of RDX’s customer base, expands
its global network of data centers and adds hundreds of certified experts in
cloud-based infrastructure and application managed services. In short, this
acquisition solidifies RDX’s global scale and rounds out its service offering
to meet the current and future technology needs of the customers it serves.
"We are building RDX into a next-generation cloud provider, with a unique portfolio
of business-centric strategy and services," said RDX Chief Executive Officer. "Our
goal is to enable enterprises to shed the constraints of legacy IT, so they can move to a
cloud-driven model of innovation, insight and enablement that drives their revenue,
margins and return on investment.We thank our colleagues at Navisite for their hard
work and dedication and wish them well as they join the RDX team," said Phil
Meeks, EVP and President, Spectrum Enterprise. "With its shared mission, RDX will
benefit from Navisite’s contributions as a trusted cloud service provider to its clients
and this divestiture will accelerate Spectrum Enterprise’s execution of its strategy to
serve America’s largest businesses and communications service providers as a
national provider of scalable fiber-based technology solutions."
https://newsroom.charter.com/press-releases/rdx-completes-acquisition-of-navisite/
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People’s United Bank Provides $92 Million Credit
Facility for MidCap Financial
People's United Bank, N.A., a subsidiary of People's United Financial, Inc.,
announced its Healthcare Finance and Capital Markets Divisions provided a
$92 million Credit Facility to MidCap Financial (“MidCap”), a middle
market-focused, specialty finance firm that provides senior debt solutions to
companies across all industries. The Facility provides a “bridge” enabling
MidCap to deliver fast execution and loan closings to borrowers who seek
long-term permanent mortgage financing with a HUD, Freddie Mac or
Fannie Mae loan, which can take a number of months to obtain approval
and close. The Facility extends maturity of an existing Syndicated Line of
Credit provided to MidCap in 2017, for which People’s United served as
Lead Arranger, and included multiple service offerings for the borrower.
“We are excited to expand our partnership with MidCap and to
further strengthen our relationship with a leader in the middle
market finance industry,” saidExecutive Vice President of
Commercial Banking, People’s United Bank. “This is a great
example of our ability to structure a unique banking solution
tailored to Midcap’s thoughtful growth strategy.”
https://www.peoples.com/press/2019/peoples-united-bank-provides-credit-facility-for-midcap-financial
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Publicis Groupe acquires US based full-service
marketing agency Rauxa
Publicis Groupe announced its acquisition of Rauxa, an independent,
full-service marketing agency. Rauxa will become part of Publicis
Media, the media solution hub of Publicis Groupe. Founded in 1999,
the agency has averaged double-digit growth every year, with a net
revenue of around 70M$ in 2018, and more than 300 employees
spanning New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Orange
County and Dallas. Rauxa’s clients include Verizon, Samsung, Alaska
Airlines, Vans, Celgene and 20 other leading client brands.
Chairman and CEO of Publicis Groupe, said: “With the acquisition of
Rauxa, Publicis Groupe is reinforcing its expertise in driving
one-to-one consumer engagement for clients, through data-driven
creativity offerings and scaled capabilities. The addition of Rauxa’s
data, tech, media, creative and production expertise will accelerate
Publicis Media’s and the Groupe’s ability to deliver across all parts of
the consumer journey.”
https://www.publicisgroupe.com/en/news/press-releases/publicis-groupe-acquires-us-basedfull-service-marketing-agency-rauxa
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AIS Business launches AIS eBiz Shop, an online channel for corporate
customers and business owners The first in Thailand! that allows customers
to register number via online and confirm their identity via e-KYC
AIS Business reinforces service leader for the organization and ready to
bring Digital Infrastructure to strengthen for corporate customers, from
small organizations to large organizations and business owners who are not
registered as corporate company. Recently, moving forward of the service
to the next level by launching the AIS eBiz Shop, an online store which is
ready to be alongside of corporate customers and business owners in every
dimension on facilitate customers to buy products and services from AIS
Business easily and conveniently via online channels wherever customers
can use the service, no need to go to the shop and no more to wait in line.
Customers can spend time taking care of the business efficiently — this
service is available for both corporate customers and business owners. AIS
eBiz Shop begins with the launch of new number register services and
packages that specially selected for both corporate customers and business
owners. Accordingly, customers who sign up for the service will receive
identity verification following the e-KYC process — therefore ensuring
data security, helping to prevent fraud or unauthorized use of the company
name. AIS is the first service provider in Thailand that use the e-KYC
process to provide new number register online services for corporate
customers and business owners. In the future, will expand the service to
cover the increased needs of customers such as the service to change mobile
phone numbers that registered in the name of business owners number to
corporate number, or purchase the additional service either solutions, etc.
http://advanc.listedcompany.com/news.html/id/736070/group/newsroom_press
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Simplify Power Delivery (PD) in Growing USB
Microchip Technology Inc. announced two new solutions that
simplify USB Type-C PD for a range of applications. As one of the
industry’s first USB-IF-certified USB 3.1 SmartHub devices with
integrated support for Power Delivery (TID1212), the USB705x
family enables fast device charging and introduces unique PD
implementations called HostFlexing and PDBalancing. The
UPD301A is a standalone USB Type-C PD controller that
significantly simplifies the implementation of basic USB Type-C
PD charging functionality, making it ideal for applications from rear
seat charging in vehicles to portable equipment to public charging
stations. The USB705x family includes two unique features that
simplify USB Type-C PD implementations – HostFlexing and
PDBalancing. HostFlexing simplifies the user’s docking station
experience by allowing all USB Type-C ports to function as the
“notebook” port, eliminating the need for cryptic labels that try and
explain overall functionality of each USB Type-C port.
PDBalancing provides a methodology for manufacturers to manage
overall system power through centralized control, ultimately saving
money for consumers by being able to charge a number of PD
enabled devices with less overall power.
https://www.microchip.com/en/pressreleasepage/simplify-power-delivery-in-usb-type-c-charging-market

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Micron Unveils Industry’s Highest-Capacity Monolithic
Memory for Mobile Applications
Micron Technology, Inc. unveiled the industry’s
highest-capacity monolithic 16Gb low-power double data rate
4X (LPDDR4X) DRAM. Capable of delivering up to 16GB1 of
low-power DRAM (LPDRAM) in a single smartphone,
Micron’s 16Gb LPDDR4X extends the company’s leadership in
memory capacity and performance for current and
next-generation mobile devices. Micron LPDDR4X is also
available in a UFS-based multichip package (uMCP4) to
address the needs of mobile device manufacturers seeking low
power for extending battery life and smaller dimensions for
designing devices with thin, attractive form factors. Micron has
begun volume shipments of its LPDDR4X and uMCP4, leading
the industry’s transition to 1z nanometer node.Micron
LPDDR4X delivers higher density in the same footprint for
discrete designs and low-power multichip packages to address a
broader smartphone user base. Emerging 5G mobile technology
will require a memory subsystem that can accommodate higher
data rates and real-time data processing to provide mobile
device users with a flawless experience.
http://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-unveils-industrys-highest-capacity-monolithic-memory

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Mobile Connect: Telekom, Telefónica and Vodafone launch
password-free secure login procedure
Digital life is now even more secure for mobile phone
customers in Ger-many. Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica
Deutschland and Vodafone Deutschland launch Mobile Connect.
The globally established mobile-phone-based login procedure
enables simple and protected login to Inter-net services on PCs,
tablets and mobile phones. All customers need to register is their
smartphone and their mobile phone number. There is no need to
enter a user name and password. And the personal mobile phone
number becomes a unique digital identity for Internet purchases
or regis-tration on online portals. In future, Mobile Connect
could also enable digi-tal visits to government agencies. The
three German network operators Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica
Deutsch-land and Vodafone Deutschland are fighting data
thieves by offering Mobile Connect, a login procedure for online
portals. It does not require an e-mail ad-dress or password and
thus makes a decisive contribution to higher security when
logging in.
https://www.telekom.com/en/media/media-information/archive/german-network-operators-launch-secure-login-procedure-578816

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PayActiv Streamlines Earned Wage Access with
Fiserv Digital Payments Technology
Fiserv, Inc., a leading global provider of payments and financial
services technology solutions, announced that PayActiv will
enhance employee financial wellness by streamlining access to
earned wages with money movement capabilities from Fiserv.
PayActiv’s mission is to bring security, dignity and savings to
American workers. It allows businesses to provide employees
with a holistic financial wellness solution which includes
real-time access to up to one half of their earned wages prior to
receiving their paycheck, helping workers alleviate financial
stress by avoiding payday loans, overdraft charges and late fees.
The company processed more than $1 billion in earned wage
access for workers nationwide during 2018. The Expectations &
Experiences consumer trends survey conducted by Harris Poll
on behalf of Fiserv found that 30 percent of consumers consider
managing money to be a burden and that 38 percent of
consumers – and half of millennials – say it would be difficult or
impossible to pay back a $500 loan today.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1I1RIu_Uv2ZLLBblDRbB1NpND4H8ldSsHOMZmefqpkfY/edit#gid=0

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IFA 2019: Presenting SoftPOS - A Solution that Turns Smartphones
and Tablets into a Contactless Payment Terminal
First Data, now part of Fiserv, a leading global provider of
payments and financial services technology solutions, together
with Visa, a global leader in digital payments, and Samsung
Electronics, will showcase the company’s new Software Point of
Sale (SoftPOS) solution during IFA 2019. IFA is Europe’s largest
technology fair and the leading showcase for the global technology
industry. SoftPOS enables contactless payments of any amount via
a smartphone or tablet, in the same way a traditional payment
terminal functions but with no additional equipment. SoftPOS
enables this functionality on an everyday mobile device using
embedded near-field communication (NFC) functionality. The
merchant’s smartphone or tablet will accept contactless
transactions from existing contactless cards, NFC-enabled mobile
phones, or other NFC-enabled devices such as wearables and key
fobs. A SoftPOS pilot will take place in Poland by the end of 2019.
The pilot program will expand thereafter, initially in the EMEA and
APAC regions.
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Qualcomm Unveils Networking Pro Series Platforms that Aim to
Set a New Benchmark in Wi-Fi 6 Performance
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated
announced Qualcomm® Networking Pro Series platforms, its second-generation
Wi-Fi 6 networking offerings, designed to deliver the ultimate Wi-Fi 6 connectivity
experience across the widest range of applications. At Qualcomm® Wi-Fi 6 Day in
San Francisco, executives are demonstrating the Qualcomm Networking Pro Series,
comprised of four platforms, the 1200, 800, 600, and 400, distinguished by format,
scale of application, and computing needs. The platforms leverage the company’s
unique Wi-Fi 6 architecture and approach and are designed for densely congested
networks, onboarding of hundreds of devices without degradation of user experience,
and high performance. Modern networks are overmatched by the number of devices
and data demands placed on them in the most densely populated environments.
Networks must meet expectations for high bandwidth, low latency, and with fair and
simultaneous access. This reality belies the promise of the Wi-Fi 6 standard and
demands a new architectural approach to wireless networking silicon optimized for
this environment. The Qualcomm Networking Pro Series platforms are built for the
dense connectivity requirements of modern Wi-Fi networks, with Wi-Fi 6 features
offering increased network capacity for high-density environments such as university
lecture halls, malls, stadiums, and office buildings.
https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2019/08/27/qualcomm-unveils-networking-pro-series-platforms-aim-set-new-benchmark-wi

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Qualcomm Announces World’s First Fully Integrated Extended-Range
mmWave Solution for 5G Fixed Wireless Access
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm
Incorporated, introduced the Qualcomm QTM527 mmWave antenna
module for the Snapdragon X55 5G Modem-RF System, delivering the
world’s first fully integrated extended-range mmWave solution for 5G
fixed wireless access (FWA) – allowing mobile operators to offer fixed
internet broadband services to homes and businesses using their 5G
network infrastructure.The Qualcomm QTM527 mmWave antenna module
expands the capabilities of the Snapdragon X55 5G Modem-RF System to
deliver a comprehensive modem-to-antenna platform for flexible,
cost-effective, high performance 5G mmWave customer-premises
equipment (CPE) designs. By building on its existing 5G mmWave
technology leadership with a high-power CPE solution for Power Class 1
devices, Qualcomm Technologies is enabling mobile carriers and OEMs to
accelerate the expansion of high-speed internet access to underserved
suburban and rural communities, as well as dense urban environments,
with a plug-and-play, multi-gigabit alternative to cable and fiber.
https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2019/09/06/qualcomm-announces-worlds-first-fully-integrated-extended-range-mmwave

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Renesas Electronics’ Enhanced RX65N Wi-Fi Connectivity Cloud Kit Simplifies
Secure IoT Endpoint Device Connections to Amazon Web Services
Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced
semiconductor solutions, announced the Renesas RX65N Cloud Kit
featuring onboard Wi-Fi, environmental, light and inertial sensors, and
support for Amazon FreeRTOS connected to Amazon Web Services
(AWS). The kit gives embedded designers a fast start and secure
connection to AWS. Using Renesas’ e2 studio Integrated Development
Environment (IDE), IoT applications are easily created by configuring
Amazon FreeRTOS, all the necessary drivers, and the network stack
and component libraries. The RX65N Cloud Kit provides an excellent
evaluation and prototyping environment, enabling embedded designers
to create secure end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT) cloud solutions for
sensor-based endpoint equipment. Employing Renesas’ browser-based
software, users can visualize their sensor data using a smart device
cloud dashboard to monitor a wide range of applications including
networked smart meters, building, office, and industrial automation
systems, as well as home appliances.
https://www.renesas.com/in/en/about/press-center/news/2019/news20190820.html

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Frontier Communications Launches Managed Wireless LAN: Fast, Secure
and Reliable Wireless Networking for Medium and Enterprise Business
Frontier Communications Corporation announced the launch of
Managed Wireless LAN for medium businesses and large
enterprises, which combines hosted and managed technology
with extensive, one-stop-shop network installation,
management, maintenance and analytics. The solution is a key
component of Frontier’s growing Fully Integrated Managed
Solutions Portfolio. Frontier professionally designs, installs,
operates, proactively monitors and manages high-capacity
wireless LAN solutions. Combined with Frontier’s extensive
Ethernet connectivity capabilities, this solution allows a
customer’s employees, contractors, customers and guests to
work and interact virtually anywhere within a network.
Managed Wireless LAN easily scales as business needs grow,
relieving customers of the cost and administrative burden of
keeping core technology and software up to date.
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Fujifilm launches “FUJINON UA18×7.6BERD” and
“FUJINON UA23×7.6BERD”
FUJIFILM Corporation is pleased to announce the addition of
the portable lenses “FUJINON UA18×7.6BERD” (UA18×7.6)
and “FUJINON UA23×7.6BERD” (UA23×7.6) to the UA
Series of 4K-compatible broadcast lenses. The UA18×7.6 and
UA23×7.6 are 4K-compatible broadcast lenses with compact
design and advanced portability. The use of unique optical
technology delivers high image resolution and rich tonal
gradation. Both are highly versatile, with the UA18×7.6
covering focal lengths from 7.6mm to 137mm (18× zoom), and
the UA23×7.6 covering focal lengths from 7.6mm to 175mm
(23× zoom). Fujifilm will launch the UA18×7.6 in September
2019 and the UA23×7.6 in October 2019, expanding its
broadcast lens lineup to 13 models in total, supporting
premium-quality 4K video production.
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Nanya Technology Wins CommonWealth Magazine’s New Star
Award in Corporate Social Responsibility Award 2019
Nanya Technology Corporation (NTC) has won
CommonWealth Magazine’s New Star Award in
Corporate Social Responsibility Award 2019. NTC was
recognized for its core business development of
low-power DRAM product, and as a producer of green
technology that focus on corporation and environment.
NTC pursues next generations technology and products
with "Innovation" as its strategic goal. In the
implementation of CSR development, we have developed
low energy consumption DRAM products, so our
customers can reduce the energy consumption and carbon
emissions. In 2018, over 60% of the NTC's products are
built to be low energy consumption, assisting consumers
save electricity of 701.02 million kWh and reducing
carbon dioxide emissions of 388,368 tons.
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Sky launches Ultrafast, 12 times faster broadband so you
can do more online on even more devices
Sky announced the launch of an all-new broadband
offering, Sky Broadband Ultrafast, which will allow
customers to do more online, on more devices than ever
before, all at the same time. Ultrafast gives 2 million
households access to over 12 times faster speeds than
Sky’s standard broadband, with average download speeds
of 145Mbps and 285Mbps, depending on what product
you choose. With the number of connected and
WiFi-enabled devices in the home increasing, from smart
TVs, speakers, virtual assistants and even intelligent
fridges, every room of the house is becoming ‘smarter’.
Fast and reliable broadband is now essential for our
everyday lives, whether at work, for entertainment
purposes such as gaming, or simply browsing on the sofa
– it’s no longer something we can live without.
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Broadcom Accelerates PCIe Gen 4.0 Deployments Across Data Center
and Cloud Infrastructure with its Switches and Retimer
Broadcom Inc. announced the production release of its
industry-leading PCIe Gen 4.0 ExpressFabric™ switch family,
comprised of PEX88000 Switches and the PEX88T32 Retimer,
enabling data center and cloud ecosystem partners to address the
ever-growing demand for computing and storage resources in today’s
modern infrastructure. Ranging from 26 to 98 lanes and ports, the
PEX88000 is the industry’s most comprehensive and flexible offering
of feature-rich PCIe Gen 4.0 switches and retimer, ideal for
high-throughput and low-latency applications such as deep learning,
high performance computing (HPC) and NVMe all-flash arrays. The
PEX88T32 retimer is based on Broadcom’s proven PCIe Gen 4.0
SerDes IP that has been used in a wide-variety of Broadcom
connectivity and storage solutions, and offers seamless integration with
PCIe switches. The retimer will help strengthen the ecosystem and
accelerate the deployment of PCIe Gen 4.0 especially in AI/ML/HPC
applications.
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AIS Wins Honor Award "Organization of the Year 2019"
AIS wins "Organization of The Year 2019" in the field
of Information and Communication Technology from
Million Seeds of Virtue in Gratitude of the Land
Project, organized by the Foundation for Thai Society,
by giving as an organization that can apply knowledge
to practical use with an excellence in managing various
businesses successfully, and also rewarding the land
which will be a good model for society, which Air
Chief Marshal ChalitPukbhasuk was the one who gave
the award at the Bangkok Air Force Auditorium.
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Agilent OFS Academy Receives Learning!100
Award for Third Consecutive Year
Agilent Technologies Inc. announced it has received a
Learning!100 Award from Elearning! Media Group (EMG). This is
the third year in a row that EMG has recognized Agilent for the
strength and quality of its Order Fulfillment and Supply Chain
(OFS) online learning programs. The award was received for
Agilent's OFS School of Digital Innovation, an educational online
portal that helps employees develop a digital mindset toward
innovating and solving problems, with topics ranging from
artificial intelligence and robotics to Office 365. This is Agilent's
third Learning!100 Award in three years; No. 15 in 2017, No. 8 in
2018, to No. 3 this year.In response to this need, Agilent created
the OFS Academy, of which the OFS School of Digital Innovation
is a part. This online portal provides specific learning and
development opportunities for Agilent's 3,000 OFS employees, all
from a broad range of educational, technical, and cultural
backgrounds. The portal includes articles, videos, and other
educational content that reinforce Agilent's global culture of
learning.
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AU Optronics won the top ten CSR corporate
citizenship awards
AUO has actively invested in the industry-university cooperation and youth
development employment plan with the company's sustainable business
philosophy. It has won the 2019 "World Magazine" CSR Corporate Citizen
Award - the top ten enterprise awards of large enterprise groups, and the four
major evaluation projects. "Corporate Governance, Corporate Commitment,
Social Participation and Environmental Sustainability" have shown outstanding
results and won high praise from the jury, affirming AUO's determination to
balance the economic, environmental and social development. AUO implements
corporate governance with high standards, promotes sustainable development
through the board of directors and committees, and practices the concept of
transparent business operations and the interests of shareholders. AU
Optoelectronics Chairman and CEO Peng Shuanglang said: "AUO is committed
to sustainable development as a core thinking, and is a flexible and resilient
industry challenge. The inter-departmental unit constitutes a sustainable
development committee, effectively connecting the world trend, integrating
resources and closely integrating operational core strategies. At present, AUO
attaches great importance to the cultivation of young talents.
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LONGi Solar achieves top-performing AA-rating status in
new PV ModuleTech Bankability rankings
LONGi Solar, a subsidiary of LONGi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd, has achieved
AA-Rating status, in the first quarterly release of PV-Tech’s new PV ModuleTech
Bankability Ratings. LONGi Solar is one of only four solar photovoltaic (PV) module
suppliers that qualifies within the top-performing rating category of AA across the sector.
The PV ModuleTech Bankability Ratings system is the solar industry’s first qualified tool
that allows investors to understand and benchmark solar module suppliers; the analysis
tracks a wide range of manufacturing and financial performance metrics, combining these
to generate an overall bankability score between 0 and 10. Companies are then graded
across nine risk categories from AAA-Rated (most bankable) to C-Rated (high risk).The
ratings system is considered as the PV Tech analysis team’s research achievement over the
past five years. It evaluates the investment risk (or financability) rating for all PV module
manufacturers, which combined with manufacturing capacity and financial health scores.
At present, no company has been rated AAA and the Top 4 companies are all rated
AA.PV-Tech and the PV ModuleTech event brand are recognized as the most credible,
independent third-party research bodies covering the solar photovoltaic (PV) segment;
specifically related to solar PV module suppliers.
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Fujifilm's mirrorless digital cameras win
the EISAAwards
FUJIFILM Corporation is pleased to announce that FUJIFILM
GFX100 (GFX100), GFX Series of mirrorless digital cameras carrying
the Large Format sensor* approximately 1.7 times the size of the
35mm full-frame sensor, and the FUJIFILM X-T3 (X-T3), X Series of
mirrorless digital cameras carrying the APS-C sensor, have both won
the EISAAwards**. The GFX100 which realizes extraordinary image
quality captured by its sensor boasting the world's highest resolution of
102 million pixels*** was chosen as the Best Product in “Camera
Innovation 2019 - 2020”. The X-T3 which achieves fast and accurate
and fast autofocus was named the Best Product in “Advanced Camera
2019 - 2020.” This is the first EISAAward the company has won for
the GFX Series and marks the ninth-consecutive win for the X Series.
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Fujifilm's Medication Verification System “PROOFIT 1D” wins “Red
Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design 2019”
FUJIFILM Corporation is proud to announce that its Medication Verification System
“PROOFIT 1D (one dose)” has won the “Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication
Design 2019” in a category of the “Red Dot Design Award” organized by Design
ZentrumNordrhein Westfalen based in Essen, Germany. This award follows the “Red
Dot Award” of Product Design category in March this year for 24 Fujifilm products,
including the ultra-short throw projector “FUJIFILM PROJECTOR Z5000” and the
portable X-ray unit “CALNEO Xair”.When prescribing pharmaceuticals at
dispensing pharmacies in Japan, there is a growing need to pack tablets and capsules
into a single dose according to the timing of taking medicine. By applying advanced
optical designing and image-recognition technologies, the PROOFIT 1D
automatically determines the names and quantities of tablets and capsules in each
package by accurately reading stamps and letters of tablets, and the colors and forms
of capsules. The PROOFIT 1D shows the thumbnail images of tablets and capsules in
each package on a monitor and highlight tablet stamps, thereby strongly supporting
the auditing work of pharmacists. The award recognizes its excellent performance
that supports pharmacists to reduce their burden and contributes to improve the
accuracy of their auditing work, as well as its high-quality screen design.
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Ooredoo wins Fortinet’s Best Managed Security
Services Partner of the Year award
Ooredoo Recognised for Leadership in Enabling Qatar’s Secure
Digital Transformation on the Cloud Ooredoo, the region’s
leading enabler of digital business innovation, announced it was
named Fortinet’s Best Managed Security Services Partner of the
Year in Qatar. Ooredoo was honoured during the Fortinet
Partner SYNC event, annual conference for partners in Doha,
Qatar and the award was received by Sheikh Nasser Bin Hamad
Bin Nasser Al Thani, Chief Business Officer, Ooredoo Qatar, on
behalf of the company. This Fortinet award recognises the
company’s strength in enabling secure nationwide digital
transformation. In the face of rising global cyber-threats,
Ooredoo has collaborated with Fortinet to provide business
customers with industry-leading opex-based cloud solutions
across cloud email security, endpoint detection and response,
firewall, managed firewall, managed intrusion prevention
systems, unified threat management, web application firewall as
a service.
https://www.ooredoo.com/en/media/news_view/ooredoo-wins-fortinets-best-managed-security-services-partner-of-the-year-award/
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S&P Global named 'Best ESG Index Provider' and recognized with
'Award for Innovation (Research)' by Environmental Finance
S&P Global announced that two of its businesses have been recognised
in Environmental Finance's inaugural Sustainable Investment Awards.
S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) was awarded 'Best ESG Index
Provider' and Trucost, part of S&P Global, was given the 'Award for
Innovation (Research)'. The two awards further bolster S&P Global's
position as a leader in ESG products and research and its commitment
to meeting market demand for innovation in the ESG space.S&P DJI's
award recognizes the recent launch of the S&P 500® ESG Index — an
index aligned with Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
selection guidelines and designed to closely replicate the risk and
return profile of its most iconic benchmark, the S&P 500®.S&P DJI
has also launched a global family of ESG indices based on other
widely-tracked regional and country-specific large-cap and mid-cap
benchmarks used in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa
(EMEA) and Asia-Pacific (APAC).
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Singtel’s flagship store wins innovative retail concept
award from regional association
Singtel won the Most Innovative Retail Concept Award for the digital
transformation of its flagship store in Singapore at the recent
Federation of Asia-Pacific Retailers Associations (FAPRA) Awards
2019. This is the fifth accolade for the store at Comcentre since it
reopened in January 2018. The FAPRA award recognises Singtel for its
use of innovative retail technologies to deliver an engaging and unique
customer experience. Key features include the integration of online
and in-store shopping carts, a WiFi-based intelligent queue system,
24/7 self-serve kiosks where customers can pick up SIM cards, instant
purchases via automated checkout, as well as the use of crowd
analytics to improve the customer experience, all firsts in Singapore’s
retail industry.Singtel was selected by the Singapore Retailers
Association (SRA) to represent Singapore at the FAPRAAwards 2019.
The judging criteria of this award include creativity and uniqueness of
the retail concept, effectiveness in connecting to core customer groups,
success in terms of performance metrics, and overall impact on the
retail industry.
https://www.singtel.com/about-Us/news-releases/singtels-flagship-store-wins-inovative-retail-concept-award-from-regional-aso
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Arrow Electronics to Offer Teltonika IoT
Solutions in EMEA
Global technology provider Arrow Electronics announced a distribution
agreement with Teltonika, a Lithuania-based IoT solutions provider with a
20-year track record, covering Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Teltonika`s products address industrial communication, asset and personnel
tracking, and mobile machine-to-machine (M2M) communication.
Teltonika offers a broad range of IoT-related solutions and has more than
100 different products in place. To date, it has sold more than 8.6 million
devices worldwide. The company`s portfolio covers vehicle-tracking
hardware and software on 2G, 3G, LTE, Bluetooth, GNSS, GPRS, NB-IoT
and other connectivity options. The products feature a wide range of
functionalities, including geofencing, over-the-air firmware updates,
ignition detection, immobilizer, voice calls and many others. Teltonika also
offers networking solutions including routers, gateways, modems and
antennas for the enterprise network, as well as industrial M2M/IoT use. In
addition, portable trackers are available for tracking cargo and other
portable objects.
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Arrow Electronics Enters into North America and
EMEA Distribution Agreement with Getvisibility
Arrow Electronics, Inc. announced it has signed a North America and
EMEA distribution agreement with Getvisibility. Under the agreement,
Arrow will provide product distribution for Getvisibility in North
America and EMEA, and support services for new and existing
customers leveraging the technologies and solutions from Getvisibility.
Data is at the heart of almost every organization, yet conventional
cybersecurity solutions, by themselves, have failed to protect it. It is
the era of digital transformation, and securing data is playing a critical
role in accelerating this transformation. A growing problem that
enterprises face is the inability to accurately know their data, where it
resides and who has access to it. Combined with a migration to the
cloud, the process of securing data becomes even more unmanageable.
Getvisibility combines artificial intelligence with natural language
processing to bring an innovative solution to the global market that
allows organizations to protect their most sensitive data by accurately
classifying information using machine learning.
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Arrow Electronics Extends Distribution Agreement with
DH electronics to North America and Asia-Pacific
Arrow Electronics, Inc. has signed an extended agreement with DH
electronics to supply DH’s range of embedded modular solutions, to not
only EMEA but now also to North America and the Asia-Pacific region.
DH has been developing and manufacturing scalable and customizable
embedded solutions for 25 years. The DH electronics range comprises
three main product families: DHSOM system-on-modules (SOM), which
are compact embedded computers that can be plugged in or soldered to
carrier boards; DHMI touch panel computers that enable human-machine
interfaces to be easily added to systems; and DHCON control and
connectivity products that are optimized for smart home and building
applications, as well as to support IoT and Industry 4.0 use cases.
Integrating essential processing and communications interfaces in a highly
compact SOM provides companies with an ideal base for product
development. Time-to-market, costs and risk are reduced, and developers
can focus their full attention on the elements of their design that benefit
most from their specific expertise. Board support packages are available
for Linux, Android and Windows and other supported software includes
Debian, Yocto and the Qt framework.
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NVIDIA and VMware to Accelerate Machine Learning, Data
Science and AI Workloads on VMware Cloud on AWS
NVIDIA and VMware announced their intent to deliver accelerated GPU
services for VMware Cloud on AWS to power modern enterprise applications,
including AI, machine learning and data analytics workflows. These services
will enable customers to seamlessly migrate VMware vSphere-based
applications and containers to the cloud, unchanged, where they can be
modernized to take advantage of high-performance computing, machine
learning, data analytics and video processing applications. Increasingly
businesses are applying artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to differentiate
and advance their processes and offerings. Enterprises are rapidly adopting
AI(1) and implementing new AI strategies that require powerful computers to
create predictive models from petabytes of corporate data. Across industries,
enterprises are implementing machine learning applications such as image and
voice recognition, advanced financial modeling and natural language processing
using neural networks that rely on NVIDIA GPUs for faster training and
real-time inference. Additionally, VMware recently acquired Bitfusion, which
enables VMware to make GPU capabilities efficiently available for AI and
machine learning workloads in the enterprise.
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-and-vmware-to-accelerate-machine-learning-data-science-and-ai-workloads-on-vmware-cloud-on-aws-accelerated-by-nvidia-gpus
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NEFCU Moves to Fiserv to Accelerate
Digital Transformation
Aug. 21, 2019-- Fiserv, Inc., a leading global provider of financial services
technology solutions, announced that Long Island, New York-based NEFCU
has selected Fiserv to help transform the credit union’s member experience and
drive innovation in an increasingly digital banking environment. NEFCU, one
of the largest credit unions in the region, was driven to work with a Fintech
leader to accelerate its business strategies. The credit union selected the DNA®
core account processing platform from Fiserv for its ability to integrate other
solutions through its open architecture and APIs, and its ability to service all
loan types from a single system. The move to Fiserv will also enable the credit
union to elevate the member experience, facilitate the planned introduction of
self-service kiosks and enable branch staff to more easily expand member
relationships.DNA is a modern, unified core account processing platform that
provides a holistic view of member relationships, enabling financial institutions
to deliver personalized services and more relevant product offerings.
Additionally, the credit union will add several integrated solutions from Fiserv
including content management and wire transfers, in addition to its existing
suite of Fiserv solutions.
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Hikvision Cameras Help WWF Russia Observe the
Hatching of Endangered Oriental Storks
Hikvision, the world’s leading provider of innovative security
products and solutions, provides advanced video technologies for
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in the Amur region of Russia to
observe and protect Oriental storks, one of the rarest birds in the
Russian Far East. As the final link of the local food pyramid, the
stork is sensitive to water and soil pollution, drying wetlands, and
climate change. The Oriental storks are an indicator of the
well-being of the Amur basin ecosystems, and observation of the
numbers and survival rates of this species plays an important role
in local ecosystem protection efforts. Every spring, the Oriental
stork flies back from the Yangtze River plains in China to the Amur
region. They often choose to build their nests in tall trees or
towering objects, which means they are not easy to observe.
Researchers have to spend hours on watching without a movement,
sitting or lying very still and very close to the nest.
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QuickBooks Simplifies Health Insurance for
Small Business Owners
Intuit Inc. announced that customers of QuickBooks
Online Payroll, the number one payroll provider for small
businesses, can now take care of their employees with
easy and affordable medical, dental and vision benefits
right from within QuickBooks. This is just the latest
example of how Intuit’s technology-driven Payroll
solution leverages the power of the QuickBooks platform
and helps businesses better manage their most valuable
resources - the humans that make their business work.
Today, one in twelve American workers are paid through
QuickBooks Payroll, with $185B payroll payments
processed annually.
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Skyworks Enables Emerging Bluetooth® Platforms
Skyworks Solutions, Inc., an innovator of high performance analog
semiconductors connecting people, places and things, announced that
its advanced connectivity engines are being leveraged by Nordic
Semiconductor for ultra-low power wireless communications.
Specifically, Nordic is utilizing Skyworks’ family of fully-integrated
front-end solutions in conjunction with their multi-protocol
system-on-chip (SoC) for Bluetooth® Low Energy (LE) and emerging
Bluetooth® 5 applications. Together, the combined platform provides
superior efficiency ─ making it ideal for battery-powered Internet of
Things (IoT) devices ─ while delivering a 4x range advantage for
connected home and outdoor usage cases.Bluetooth® LE is a critical
protocol for IoT, given its upgraded communication capabilities and
minimal power consumption requirements. Bluetooth® 5 further
enhances benefits and supports additional breakthrough features such
as extended ranges, higher data throughputs and improved
co-existence, all key elements in an increasingly dense network.
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Verizon Australia inks NBN Co. agreement in
Australian first
Verizon Australia announced an agreement with NBN Co., making it one
of the first global communications technology providers to provide NBN
Co. sourced business connectivity services to Australian enterprise and
government customers. Verizon’s enterprise customers will continue to be
able to take advantage of the company’s entire suite of Managed Network
Services - including Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Virtual
Network Service (VNS) bundles - with Enterprise Ethernet connectivity
directly sourced from NBN Co.’s enterprise-grade infrastructure.NBN Co
was established in 2009 to design, build and operate Australia’s wholesale
broadband access network. Underpinned by a purpose to connect Australia
and bridge the digital divide, NBN Co’s key objective is to ensure all
homes and businesses have access to broadband across the country.
Currently, more than 590,000 businesses on a range of products and
services over the nbn™ access network to support their unique voice and
data needs.
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Wirecard wins SunExpress, one of Europe’s leading
leisure airlines, as new client
Wirecard, the global innovation leader for digital financial technology,
has signed an agreement with SunExpress, a joint venture of Lufthansa
and Turkish Airlines, to process credit card payments in local travel
agencies. The collaboration adds to the list of over 90 clients which
Wirecard is already working with in the airline sector, processing both
online and in-person payments. Within the terms of the agreement,
SunExpress uses the International Air Transport Association (IATA)
interface in combination with the billing and settlement plan (BSP) via
Wirecard's digital platform in six countries worldwide. The BSP is the
world’s most used system for straightforward processing of airline
ticket sales.SunExpress is one of the largest airlines operating between
Germany and Turkey and it has been offering non-stop services to
Turkey and to popular holiday destinations for almost 30 years. In
2018, SunExpress welcomed almost 10 million passengers. This year,
the airline is operating the largest fleet in its history, with 84 aircraft
serving 90 destinations in 30 countries.
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Amadeus to deepenNDC collaboration
with United Airlines
Amadeus announces a continued partnership to industrialize New
Distribution Capability (NDC) by developing, testing and bringing to
market new content offerings, such as United's new Corporate Bundles and
Dynamic Bundled Fares. These new innovative products will allow
customers to customize their travel on United with amenities such as
Premier Access, checked bags, United Club access, and more, bundled
together with customers' reservations at a discounted price. United has
been an active member of Amadeus’ NDC [X] program for more than a
year, providing valuable inputs on how to jointly master a major industry
change process. United is now looking towards the implementation of
NDC-enabled content later this year, followed by production phases in
2020.Today’s announcement marks a new milestone in anticipation of
United’s NDC content being available via the Amadeus Travel Platform,
where travel agencies around the globe can access the world’s most
comprehensive and robust travel content. It also demonstrates how both
companies are jointly focused on developing and delivering the value
proposition of NDC for all travel industry players and travelers.
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Amadeus and Visa’s CyberSource join forces to tackle
fraud and friction in travel
Amadeus and Visa’s CyberSource join forces to tackle fraud and
friction in travel.Agreement equips the global travel ecosystem
with the capability to deliver Strong Customer Authentication and
protect against fraud, without compromising on payment
experience.Combines CyberSource’s payment, authentication and
fraud management capabilities, backed by more data and advanced
machine learning.The European Central Bank estimates Europe
suffers from €1.3 Billion in online card fraud each year. That’s
why the Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) and the Regulatory
Technical Standards (RTS) mandate what is known as Strong
Customer Authentication (SCA). This will introduce two-factor
authentication for most electronic payments made in the European
Economic Area (EEA). Against this backdrop, Amadeus has
collaborated with CyberSource, Visa’s payment management
platform, to offer the global travel industry a range of advanced
fraud and payment management capabilities.
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Arrow Electronics and ON2IT Announce Managed Security
Platform for Advanced Security Operations
Arrow Electronics, Inc. and ON2IT, the Zero Trust
Innovators and provider of advanced security monitoring
and remediation capabilities, have teamed on security
operations center as-a-service. Built on Palo Alto Networks
technology, including Next Generation Firewalls, Cortex
XDR, Traps and the combination of Managed
Next-Generation Firewall and Managed Traps gives
customers the ability to provide better security for their
businesses. The offering incorporates a deep skillset of
security operations center analysts, best-in-breed technology,
and the flexibility of a managed service. This allows
organizations to spend time on their business instead of
repeated IT tasks.
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Arrow Electronics Expands Red Hat Relationship
Within North America
Arrow Electronics, Inc. announced that it has
expanded its relationship with Red Hat, a leading
provider of enterprise open source software
solutions, to include distribution capabilities
across the North American market. Arrow and
Red Hat have previously collaborated to deliver
solutions in Europe, Middle East, Africa and
Latin America, as well as the public sector space
in North America.
https://news.fiveyearsout.com/press-release/arrow-electronics-expands-red-hat-relationship-within-north-america
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LG SIGNATURE TO COLLABORATE WITH STUDIO
FUKSAS FOR IFA 2019 AND BEYOND
LG SIGNATURE, LG and international architectural firm Studio Fuksas
have teamed up to present Infinity at next month’s IFA 2019 in Berlin. The
Infinity installation in LG’s stand will highlight the LG SIGNATURE
brand’s design DNA as the Fuksas-curated exhibition space reflects the
infinite style and possibilities that LG’s ultra-premium products represent.
Under the philosophy of “Art Inspires Technology, Technology Completes
Art,” the collaborative effort will communicate to visitors the symbiotic
relationship between art and technology and how the two areas have long
been intertwined. Studio Fuksas, led by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas,
is an international award-winning architectural firm whose distinctive,
contemporary works can be seen around the world in airports, museums,
cultural centers, churches and building interiors. Possibly its most iconic
creation is the new Roma Convention Center and Hotel, a glass and steel
structure that hosts an enormous translucent sculpture, the Cloud, covered
in 15,000 square meters of membrane.
http://www.lgnewsroom.com/2019/08/lg-signature-to-collaborate-with-studio-fuksas-for-ifa-2019-and-beyond/
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LONGi signs cooperation agreement with SICES
for annual shipments up to 200MW
LONGi and SICES, Brazil's largest solar distributor, signed a
strategic cooperation agreement where LONGi will supply 200
MW high efficiency Mono PERC modules per year to SICES for
the distributed generation segmentsin Brazil, Mexico and other
regions. The strategic cooperation will inject new vitality into the
DG market in LATAM. As LONGi’s global strategic partner,
SICES has access to the latest advanced Hi-MO 4 modules with
output power up to 440W and the newly unveiled Hi-MO X
shingled module with efficiency exceeding 20%.LONGi attaches
great importance to Brazil and other LATAM markets. With the
strategic partnership, LONGi and SICES are confident to achieve
greater success in the PV market.During Intersolar South America,
LONGi presented the high efficiency Hi-MO 4 bifacial mono
module and the innovative Hi-MO X module, bringing leading PV
technological innovations to customers and partners in LATAM.
https://en.longi-solar.com/home/events/press_detail/id/155.html
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Astro and Maxis Announce Strategic Marketing Partnership to
Offer the Best in Content and Fibre Broadband
Astro and Maxis, have announced a strategic marketing
partnership between both parties to offer bundled broadband
with content. Astro will be launching new bundles of 30 Mbps
and 100 Mbps broadband and content products for its customers
today and the full suite with higher broadband speeds in due
course. This strategic partnership is timely as it occurs at a
period where the demand for converged connectivity matters
more than ever and multi-play propositions that bundle
connectivity, content and service. The partnership leverages
both companies’ strengths to bring greater value and benefits
for its customers. At the same time the collaboration will create
new revenue streams and unlock new markets by maximising
the talent and resources at both companies, while driving scale
and efficiency.
https://www.maxis.com.my/about-maxis/newsroom/2019/august/astro-and-maxis-announce-strategic-marketing-partnership/
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DNP and The National Library of France Sign Agreement
to Digitize Collection Stored in the Historical Site of
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd (DNP) and the National Library
of France (BnF) are pleased to announce the July 2 signing of
an agreement on the joint digitization and promotion of the
valuable collection and historic palace and site of Richelieu.
The BnF’s oldest heritage institution dating back to the Library
of King Charles the Fifth in 1368. The Richelieu site is
undergoing the first full scale restoration since its settlement in
1721, in the heart of Paris. The Renaissance of Richelieu’s
mission is to share its collections and heritage, and to create a
new museum for present and future generations to admire and
enjoy. In 2021, Richelieu will reopen completely, showing the
treasures of the BnF for the first time and offering a unique
digital experience through a hands-on experiential corner that
capitalizes on DNP’s cutting-edge digital technology in its new
museum. 2021 will be a historic event marking 300 years since
the facility was founded on rue de Richelieu in Paris.
https://www.dnp.co.jp/eng/news/detail/1192848_2453.html
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Deutsche Telekom and FC Bayern – 5G brings the
soccer match of the future to the fans
Deutsche Telekom and high-flying German soccer club FC Bayern
Munich are pursuing a very special collaboration – one that soccer fans
are sure to appreciate. As part of the partnership, the new 5G mobile
standard is to be made available in the area around the club’s grounds,
the Allianz Arena in Munich, from spring 2020. The technology can
process larger volumes of data much faster than conventional
standards, so that visitors to the stadium will be able to use augmented
(AR) and virtual reality (VR) apps on 5G-enabled devices. The end
result will be a completely new way to experience sports.Work on
developing the applications is slated to start in 2019, with visitors to
the Allianz Arena able to see for themselves what a 5G network can do
from as early as next year. Deutsche Telekom is setting up antennae
around the Allianz Arena in spring 2020. The first tests may take place
even earlier, outside the stadium, as the 5G expansion program is
already underway in the local area in the north of Munich.
https://www.telekom.com/en/media/media-information/archive/5g-brings-the-soccer-match-of-the-future-to-the-fans-580658
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Qualcomm And LGE Enter Into a New
Global Patent License Agreement
Qualcomm Incorporated announced that LGE has
entered into a new direct worldwide patent license
agreement with Qualcomm. Under the terms of the
five-year, royalty-bearing agreement, Qualcomm has
granted LGE a patent license to develop, manufacture
and sell 3G, 4G and 5G single-mode and multimode
complete devices. The agreement is consistent with
Qualcomm’s established global licensing terms.
https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2019/08/20/qualcomm-and-lge-enter-new-global-patent-license-agreement
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Qualcomm and Dallah Sign Small Cell
Patent License Agreement
Qualcomm Incorporated and Saudi Arabian company Dallah Trans
Arabia Limited Liability Company announced they have entered
into a patent licensing agreement which covers multimode small
cells. Under the terms of the agreement, Qualcomm has granted
Dallah a royalty-bearing patent license to develop, manufacture
and sell multimode small cells utilizing 3G, 4G, and 5G
technologies. The agreement is consistent with Qualcomm’s
established global licensing terms. Dallah Trans Arabia Limited
Liability Company is owned by Dallah Al-Baraka Group, a private
multinational corporation based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Dallah
Al-Baraka Group has holdings throughout the Middle East, North
Africa, Asia, and Europe, with investments including the financial,
banking, healthcare, real estate, manufacturing, transportation, and
operations and maintenance sectors. With this agreement, Dallah
joins the growing list of OEMs around the world to have direct
access to Qualcomm’s breakthrough technologies.
https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2019/08/26/qualcomm-and-dallah-sign-small-cell-patent-license-agreement
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Wirecard and OYO, one of the world’s largest hospitality
chains, exploring collaboration on a global scale
Wirecard, the global innovation leader for digital financial
technology, and OYO, the fast-growing hospitality business and
world’s third largest hotel chain by room count, announced that
they are exploring collaboration opportunities to provide a suite of
financial services to make payments for OYO hotels and home
bookings seamless and hassle-free across several regions in the
world, notably, South-East Asia, Europe, UK and the USA. OYO is
a constituent of the SoftBank Vision Fund which facilitated the
introduction to Wirecard. As part of the collaboration, Wirecard
will look to enable OYO with a wide range of digital financial
commerce related services including payment acceptance and
issuance for OYO’s booking services – online, mobile and
point-of-sale (POS) – as well as enabling it to leverage Wirecard’s
banking-as-a-platform capabilities that include lending and loyalty
to ensure guests booking an OYO hotel have a hassle-free payment
experience.
https://www.wirecard.com/company/press-releases/wirecard-and-oyo-one-of-the-worlds-largest-hospitality-chains-exploring-collaboration-on-a-global-scale
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WPP and InMobi Group enter into a multi-year strategic
partnership to co-build unique benefits
WPP and InMobi Group have entered into a long-term strategic
partnership to build unique benefits for marketers. Leveraging the best
of expertise from InMobi Group and WPP agencies, including GroupM
and Kantar, the partnership aims to simplify complexity for Indian
marketers. The collaboration between WPP and InMobi Group will
enable brands to create personalised consumer experiences at scale.
Through this partnership, brands will be able to translate
up-to-the-moment insights into timely marketing action.WPP will
provide in-depth expertise and a creative approach through four pillars
- content, media, data and research. WPP’s GroupM will provide
data-driven marketing and media planning with end-to-end audience
insights integration and will also be sharing its unique engagement
approach for in-app mobile content marketing. This partnership will
also benefit from Kantar’s research insights, including
recommendations that combine delivery, engagement and impact
measures through media.
https://www.wpp.com/news/2019/09/wpp-and-inmobi-group-enter-into-a-multi-year-strategic-partnership-to-co-build-unique-benefits
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Yokohama DeNABaystars and KDDI sign partner agreement
to build “Smart Stadium” in the 5G era
Yokohama DeNABaystars Co., Ltd. and KDDI Corporation concluded a
partnership agreement to build a 5G mobile communication system “5G”
and “Smart Stadium” using IoT. KDDI nurtures communication based on
the baseball promoted by Yokohama DeNABaystars and Yokohama
Stadium, sympathizes with the concept of “community ball park” that aims
to become a local landmark, and provides support through 5G and
IoT.From the spring of 2020, the two companies will use the video
technology that combines 5G and XR ( Jump to the corresponding
itemNote ) and free viewpoints to improve the convenience of visitors to
the stadium, including smartphone payment services , and replay viewing
from the customer's perspective. We aim to provide a new baseball game
that can be played. In addition, before and after the match, we will jointly
consider the entertainment of Yokohama Stadium so that people who like
baseball as well as those who have never watched baseball can enjoy it at
Yokohama Stadium. With the aim of improving local experience and
expanding fans, we will continue to promote efforts to make Yokohama
Stadium a local landmark even during the off-season season.
https://news.kddi.com/kddi/corporate/newsrelease/2019/08/27/3976.html
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Nagoya Grampus signs strategic innovation partnership to realize
new stadium watching experience in KDDI 5G era
Nagoya Grampus Eight Co., Ltd. and KDDI Corporation A
strategic innovation partnership was signed as a diamond partner to
realize a new soccer watching experience. Since the spring of
2020, using the 5G mobile communication system `` 5G '', and IoT,
`` more fun and smart watching experience '' at the Nagoya
Grampus home stadium such as Toyota Stadium Both companies
will work to maximize the customer experience value.Both
companies will change the waiting time until the start of the game
to a fun time where they can communicate with players by using
XR, and a new stadium experience using free-viewpoint cameras
for families who visit the stadium. Will continue to provide. In
addition, we plan to implement various initiatives that enable
smarter use, such as ordering at crowded restaurants, selling goods,
and reducing waiting time in the toilet by using cashless payments
and IoT.
https://news.kddi.com/kddi/corporate/newsrelease/2019/08/28/3980.html
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LG Display opens 8.5th generation OLED panel
production plant in Guangzhou, China
LG Display announced the opening of its 8.5th generation (2,200mm x
2,500mm) OLED panel production plant in Guangzhou, China, ushering in
an era of producing 10 million large-size OLED panels a year. LG
Display’s new Guangzhou OLED panel plant started mass-production from
this month and will mainly manufacture large-size high-resolution OLED
products including 55-inch, 65-inch and 77-inch panels. The initial
monthly capacity will be 60,000 sheets, which will be further expanded to
90,000 sheets by 2021. The company expects to produce over 10 million
OLED panels a year by 2022 when this monthly capacity of 90,000 sheets
is combined with the 70,000 sheets currently manufactured at its OLED
panel plant in Paju, Korea, as well as an additional 45,000 sheets to be
produced at its 10.5th generation (2,940mm x 3,370mm) plant in Paju from
2022. The new 8.5th generation OLED panel plant is operated by LG
Display High-Tech China (LG Display High-Tech China Co., Ltd,
LGDCO), a joint venture established between LG Display and Guangzhou
Development District (GDD). LG Display holds a 70 percent stake with
KRW 2.6 trillion in capital.
http://www.lgdisplay.com/eng/prcenter/newsView
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Dentsu Announces the Status of
Acquisition of Own Shares
Dentsu Inc. announced the status of acquisition of the
Company's own shares carried out in accordance with Article
156 of the Companies Act, as applied mutatis mutandis
pursuant to the provisions of Article 165, Paragraph 3 of the
Act.
The details are as follows:
• Class of shares acquired: Common stock of the Company
• Number of shares acquired: 0 share
• Acquisition cost：0 yen
• Acquisition period：From August 8, 2019 to August 30, 2019
(contract date basis)
• Method of acquisition: Market purchase on the Tokyo Stock
Exchange through a discretionary trading authorization
agreement
http://www.dentsu.com/news/release/2019/0902-009881.html
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Frontier Communications Urges Customers to
Prepare for Hurricane Dorian
Frontier Communications wants customers to be safe and
prepared for the potential impacts from Hurricane Dorian. In
addition to securing food, water and storm supplies, Frontier
encourages customers to prepare a communications emergency
kit that includes lists of important phone numbers, account
information, and charging supplies for electronic devices.As a
helpful guide, Frontier is providing preparedness resources,
information and assistance to help customers manage accounts
and service requests. These tools include call forwarding,
voicemail, a mobile app, remote account management
assistance, plus a dedicated online web resource Hurricane
Dorian located at
https://frontier.com/resources/hurricane-dorian-impact
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Hikvision Achieves ISO 28000:2007 Supply Chain
Security Management System Certification
Hikvision, the world’s leading supplier of innovative security
products and solutions, announces its ISO 28000:2007
certification, marking a further strengthening of the company’s
supply chain security assurance. The ISO 28000 Supply Chain
Security Management System standard was developed to satisfy
the needs of enterprises for the standardization of supply chain
security management, with the goal of improving overall
performance of the supply chain. The standard is based on the
Plan-Do-Check-Action (PDCA) operating model to identify risks,
carry out controls, and reduce risks to address potential security
threats in the supply chain. Hikvision established a Supply Chain
Security Management System which covers customer demand,
design and development, manufacturing, service delivery, and
transportation management processes, with focus on capital
security, financial security, logistics security, manufacturing
security, personnel safety, and site security.
https://www.hikvision.com/en/Press/Press-Releases/Corporate-News/Hikvision-Achieves-ISO-28000-2007-Supply-Chain-Security-Management-System-Certification
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KT Corp. Unveils Global Epidemic
Prevention Platform in Laos
KT Corp. said its Global Epidemic Prevention Platform (GEPP)
began service in Lao PDR on September 6 to help the Southeast
Asian country enhance its epidemic preparedness and control.
Laos is the second country to use the GEPP after Ghana, where
service began last month in Ghana.Lao PDR will be capable of
issuing warnings to travelers in epidemic-prone areas through
GEPP. The Laos GEPP smartphone app will inform users if an
epidemic disease has broken out at their __location__, describe
the symptoms and give prevention advice. GEPP will also allow
users to report their symptoms to nearby health offices.The
Department of Communicable Diseases Control of Lao PDR
will be able to gauge and monitor a public health crisis
__base__d on data collected from Laos GEPP. The
multi-function platform will likely help cope with dengue fever
and measles outbreaks in Southeast Asia.
https://corp.kt.com/eng/html/promote/news/report_detail.html?rows=10&page=1&datNo=15119
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