The five projects include Amazon’s first renewable energy project in China, second in Australia, second and third in Ohio, and 12th in the Commonwealth of Virginia, with a combined 615 MW of additional renewable capacity and an expected generation of 1.2 million MWh of energy annually, or enough to power 113,000 average U.S. homesProjects will supply renewable energy to the fulfillment centers and AWS data centers that support millions of customers globally
New addition to Baxter’s Evo IQ Infusion Platform complements on-market large volumetric pump, offering opportunity to further help personalize treatmentIncorporates web-based Dose IQ Safety Software and wireless IQ Enterprise Connectivity Suite to maximize drug library management and advance patient safetyDesigned to optimize efficiency for clinicians, with the flexibility to help meet future needs
Randomized, double-blind clinical study will test Hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic treatment to prevent high-risk healthcare workers from contracting COVID-19DANBURY, Conn. & RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IQVIA™ (NYSE: IQV) today announced that the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, a leading biomedical research organization in Australia, has selected IQVIA to manage COVID SHIELD, a Phase II/III randomized, double-blinded clinical study of preventive care for frontline healthcare workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
500 people in the U.S. were asked if upgrading or purchasing new enterprise software was a priority at a time when businesses are responding to an escalating health crisis PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--New research from DocsCorp finds that updating underperforming or outdated legacy software will be a priority for businesses in 2020 – despite the impact of the global pandemic COVID-19. More than 60% of people surveyed said the main objective of buying new enterprise software would be to improve productivity, as opposed to reducing costs or increasing reporting capabilities.
Secure Code Warrior’s ‘start left’ approach to secure coding amplifies Zoom’s commitment to software securitySYDNEY & BOSTON & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global secure coding company Secure Code Warrior® today announced it had been selected by Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZM), to implement its online secure coding platform as part of Zoom’s ongoing strategy to enhance their developers’ secure coding best practices.
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mary Kay Inc. continues its support of female entrepreneurship, empowerment and thought leadership as a premier sponsor for the 2020 International Women's Forum (IWF) Virtual Cornerstone Conference. Originally scheduled to take place May 13-15, in London, the conference has shifted to a digital format due to the COVID-19 pandemic; much of the same great content and speakers will be broadcast globally in a series of virtual sessions shared weekly at https://www.iwforum.org/
MELBOURNE, Australia & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zenitas, one of Australia’s leading providers of health, aged care and disability services and the parent company for physiotherapy businesses including Lifecare, ONTRAC, Backfocus Physiotherapy, Beleura Health Solutions and Peninsula Sports Medicine, today announces it selected Physitrack, the global patient connectivity and Telehealth provider, to deliver technology for remote patient engagement, outcomes tracking and Telehealth via mobile and web apps.
SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--James Hardie today announced results for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2020 and the full year ended 31 March 2020:Group Adjusted net operating profit ("NOPAT") of US$86.6 million for the quarter and US$352.8 million for the full year, an increase of 17% for both compared to prior corresponding periods (“pcp”);Group Adjusted EBIT of US$121.0 million for the quarter and US$486.8 million for the full year, an increase of 21% and 20%, respectively, compared to pcp;
Users to create standard terminology, reference architectures and share use cases across industries NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Non-profit trade association Object Management Group® (OMG®) with founders Ansys, Dell Technologies, Lendlease and Microsoft, today announced the formation of Digital Twin Consortium™. Digital twin technology enables companies to head off problems before they occur, prevent downtime, improve the customer experience, develop new opportunities, drive innovation and performance and plan for the future using simulations. Members of Digital Twin Consortium will collaborate across multiple industries to learn from each other and develop and apply best practices. This new open membership organization will drive consistency in vocabulary, architecture, security and interoperability to help advance the use of digital twin technology in many industries from aerospace to natural resources.
New online casino takes Australian players on a thrilling journey where mystery bonuses and big wins await SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ozwin is a brand-new online casino that invites players on a fun and thrilling journey where they will experience mysterious games, generous bonuses and monster wins. Players embark on their magical adventure as “Tourists” with the chance to climb through six curious levels to reach the status of “Absolute Legend”. For every level cleared, additional perks are unlocked
BOSTON & HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TA Associates, a leading global growth private equity firm, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to make a strategic growth investment in Honan Insurance Group (“Honan”), a leading commercial insurance broker. Honan’s Group CEO and Executive Director, Damien Honan, Chief Executive Officer, Andrew Fluitsma, and Chief Operating Officer, Laurence Basell, will continue to lead the business and be shareholders alongside TA. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aquila Resources Inc. (TSX:AQA, OTCQB:AQARF) (“Aquila” or the “Company”) announced the filing of its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2020. All amounts, unless indicated, are reported in US dollars.“As always, our priority is ensuring the health and safety of our employees and our local community. I am pleased to confirm that we have had no cases of COVID-19 to date,” said Barry Hildred, President and Chief Executive Officer of Aquila. “While working from home, we continue to focus on managing spend while advancing financing discussions in order to fund ongoing operations and development at Back Forty. Although the metals markets have experienced extreme volatility this quarter, we feel that the current environment is constructive for gold outperformance. This would benefit the Back Forty Project, which contains over 1 million ounces of gold in the Measured & Indicated Mineral Resource categories. Our focus continues to be closing our interim financing and clearing remaining legal hurdles to get Back Forty shovel-ready.”
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to analysts at Akita Michinoku Capital, the travel industry is facing a volatile current and an unpredictable future, but you will never realize from the influx of suitors weighing up offers to buy Virgin Australia Holdings Ltd. Even as shares of airlines plunge on predictions that air travel will take years to return to normal levels of passengers, at least 20 prospective buyers have expressed an interest in purchasing Virgin Australia. That makes the collapsing carrier a contested asset in a climate that has put several other transactions on hold.
CASA GRANDE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#Arizona--Elim Mining Incorporated (“Elim” or the “Company”), a privately held copper exploration and development company, is pleased to announce it has finalized a 100% ownership land purchase of the Merrill Property Trust for $1.2 million (see FIGURE 1), referred to as Parks/Salyer (“P/S”). The land package is contiguous to Elim’s Cactus Mine Property and is located approximately 44 mi (70 km) south of Phoenix and 6 mi (10 km) northwest of Casa Grande, Arizona. In addition, the Company closed a US$1.83 million financing with management and insiders contributing 34%.
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Conference Call Today at 11am ETCENTENNIAL, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--$WWR #earnings--Westwater Resources, Inc. (Nasdaq: WWR), an energy materials development company, announced its results for the first quarter of 2020, and provided an update on its battery graphite business development. Christopher M. Jones, President and Chief Executive Officer, said, “Our top priority remains our employees and we are pleased to report they are safe. In early May, our employees returned to field work in Texas, and protocols are in place in all of our workplaces to ensure we can continue to work safely going forward. Even with stay at home and safer at home orders in place here in the United States and Europe, during the quarter we continued to make significant progress in our battery graphite business. We remain on schedule to manufacture battery graphite in bulk quantities in the fourth quarter of 2020. After visiting with our German engineering partner Dorfner Anzaplan, as well as equipment manufacturers in January 2020, we began to test advanced graphite products and design our plan to operate a pilot plant later this year without interruption. We expect to announce our graphite test results in the coming weeks.
First Among Food Companies Based in Japan; Nine Companies in Seven Countries Begin Assessing the Nutritional Value of Target ProductsTOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ajinomoto Co., Inc. (“Ajinomoto Co.”) will roll out its nutrition improvement activities globally with the introduction on April 1, 2020 of the Ajinomoto Group Nutrient Profiling System for Products (“ANPS-P”), which it developed as a method of scientifically assessing the nutritional value of products such as powdered soups and frozen foods. ANPS-P will cover approximately 500 products at nine Ajinomoto Group companies in seven countries including Japan (Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Ajinomoto AGF, Inc., Ajinomoto Frozen Foods Co., Inc., AJINOMOTO CO. (THAILAND) LTD., AJINOMOTO VIETNAM CO., LTD., PT AJINOMOTO INDONESIA, AJINOMOTO PHILIPPINES CORPORATION, Ajinomoto (Malaysia) Berhad and AJINOMOTO DO BRASIL INDÚSTRIA E COMÉRCIO DE ALIMENTOS LTDA.).
Sign-up Now to Zoom Across New Tracks, Customization FeaturesLOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#kartrider--The highly-anticipated free to play kart racing game, KartRider: Drift, will hold its second Closed Beta starting June 3, 2020 via the Nexon Launcher, Steam, and Xbox One, including Xbox One X delivering cross-platform play. Players can register here for a chance to join the second Closed Beta starting today!
MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto’s iron ore business in Western Australia is continuing to recruit for skilled roles, apprentices, graduates and Aboriginal trainees to fill vacancies as the company progresses its development plans in the Pilbara. There are more than 300 jobs currently available including skilled operational and maintenance roles such as frontline supervisors, experienced operators of excavators, haul trucks and graders as well as experienced maintenance staff such as heavy diesel fitters. The roles are a mix of fly-in fly-out from Perth and the company’s regional hubs in Western Australia as well as residential positions in Perth and the Pilbara.
Sign up for free now to attend next week’s Online Summit on how to profit in these challenging timesCORNELIUS, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, VectorVest announced a free 3-Day Financial Freedom Summit Livestream for investors seeking education who remain at home due to the Coronavirus pandemic. This event will occur May 18, 19 and 20, 2020 between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. ET in the U.S. each day.
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VALENCIA, Calif. & MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AVITA Medical Limited (Company) (ASX:AVH) (NASDAQ:RCEL) today announced that management will participate virtually in the 1-on-1 meetings at the upcoming Oppenheimer's MedTech Summit on Wednesday, May 27, 2020.Authorised for release by the Chief Financial Officer of AVITA Medical Limited.ABOUT AVITA MEDICAL LIMITEDAVITA Medical is a regenerative medicine company with a technology platform positioned to address unmet medical needs in burns, chronic wounds, and aesthetics indications. AVITA Medical’s patented and proprietary collection and application technology provides innovative treatment solutions derived from the regenerative properties of a patient’s own skin. The medical devices work by preparing a RES® REGENERATIVE EPIDERMAL SUSPENSION), an autologous suspension comprised of the patient’s skin cells necessary to regenerate natural healthy epidermis. This autologous suspension is then sprayed onto the areas of the patient requiring treatment.
120 kg of Dense Medium Separation (“DMS”) and flotation concentrates prepared for LiOH testworkByproduct quartz samples have received positive initial feedback from key potential customersQuartz samples meet solar glass customer specifications – additional samples requestedAdditional potential clients will receive byproduct quartz, feldspar and mica samples in Q2Chemical plant Pre-Feasibility Study and updated integrated Scoping Study expected in May 2020
SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) today announced it has entered into an agreement to sell a 55% interest in Colonial First State (CFS) to KKR, a global investment firm with US$207 billion of assets under management as at 31 March 2020.The transaction implies a total valuation for CFS on a 100% basis of $3.3 billion,1 which will result in CBA receiving cash proceeds of approximately $1.7 billion from KKR. The sale price represents a multiple of 15.5x
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FOX Nation, the on demand, subscription streaming service designed to complement the FOX News Channel experience, is now available to Cox Contour TV customers and to Internet-only customers with the Contour Stream Player, announced John Finley, Executive Vice President of Development for FOX Nation. Cox customers will now have access to FOX Nation through Cox on Demand on Contour, and across devices via the Contour app and portal, as well as the Contour Stream Player, Cox’s service for Internet-only customers. Contour customers can add FOX Nation to their service for $5.99 per month. Additionally, Contour and Contour Stream Player customers with a voice remote can say “FOX Nation” directly into the remote to launch the service.
The Fund Offers Australian Investors Access to a Higher Income Strategy with a Focus on Capital Preservation and Additional Diversification from Traditional Investments in Their PortfoliosSYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ares Australia Management (“AAM”), the strategic joint venture between one of the leading global credit and alternative investment managers Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES) (“Ares”) and Fidante Partners, today launched its first Australian product, the Ares Global Credit Income Fund (the “Fund”).
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Life360, Inc. (ASX:360), the leading safety and coordination service for families across the globe, today announced global business executive Russell Burke as its chief financial officer. In the CFO role, Burke will reinforce Life360’s commitment to family safety by focusing on the effectiveness of the business model and supporting the company as they move to the next level.
Mobile Kart Racer Reaches 5 Million Global Pre-Registrations Ahead of LaunchLOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#kartrider--Prepare for a thrilling ride as free-to-play mobile kart racer, KartRider Rush+, launches on iOS and Android devices on May 12. Buckle up to experience a robust set of tracks, innovative and diverse game modes and countless kart customization options that redefine the world of kart racing games.
VALENCIA, Calif. & MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AVITA Medical Limited (Company) (ASX:AVH) (NASDAQ:RCEL) is pleased to announce that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has registered the scheme booklet (Scheme Booklet) in relation to the proposed scheme of arrangement under which AVITA Therapeutics, Inc. (Avita US), a newly-formed company incorporated in Delaware in the United States of America, will become the parent company of the Company and its subsidiaries (
SILICON VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley, Inc. (Yamaha Motor Ventures), the strategic business development and investment arm of Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272), today announced it led a $11 million AUD initial funding round for The Yield Technology Solutions Ltd. (The Yield), an award-winning Australian ag tech company transforming farming practices for irrigation-intensive crops with scalable digital technology solutions. Leveraging the USD $100 million Yamaha Motor Exploratory Fund, The Yield investment represents a strategic focus to support the application of data-driven solutions to the entire food supply chain in Yamaha Motor Ventures’ portfolio of ag tech enterprises.
VALENCIA, Calif. & MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AVITA Medical Limited (Company) (ASX:AVH, NASDAQ:RCEL) is pleased to announce that the Federal Court of Australia (Court) has today approved orders to convene a meeting of the Company’s shareholders to consider and, if thought fit, approve the proposed scheme of arrangement (Scheme) under which AVITA Therapeutics, Inc. (Avita US), a newly-formed company incorporated in Delaware in the United States of America, will become the parent company of the Company and its subsidiaries (
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Australian Construction Chemicals Market, Forecast to 2025" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. Within the Australian construction industry, the construction chemicals market is estimated by the construction activity being done within the country, as increasing construction activity implies an increase in the demand and use of construction chemicals.
