SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#SAPAribaLive--SAP NEWSBYTE — Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating will deliver an enlightening closing keynote session at the SAP® Ariba® Live event in Sydney, the premier global procurement and supply chain conference, SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) announced today. The Sydney event is the last stop in the event’s Asia-Pacific-Japan series and is scheduled to take place September 10–11 at The Westin Sydney. SAP Ariba Live will bring together buyers, suppliers, partners and thought leaders across Australia and New Zealand to network and explore the power of intelligent spend management
Talented favourites include Tom Gleeson, Celia Pacquola, Tommy Little, Judith Lucy and Lano & WoodleyThe Australian Amazon stand-up specials will come to Prime Video in Australia and 200 countries and territories around the world in early 2020SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--(NASDAQ: AMZN) – Amazon today announced that a series of stand-up specials featuring Australian comedians will be filmed in Melbourne this September and premiere exclusively on Prime Video in early 2020. The specials will include a talented roster of award-winning and nominated comedians, and be made available to Prime members around the world in more than 200 countries and territories. The new specials will include performances by Lano & Woodley, Zoë Coombs Marr, Judith Lucy, Tommy Little, Anne Edmonds, Tom Walker, Celia Pacquola, Dilruk Jayasinha, Alice Fraser and Tom Gleeson.
Partnership includes POS, Loaded Tickets and LoyaltyADELAIDE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Givex, the cloud-based customer engagement solution that helps to streamline business operations from end-to-end, announced today its partnership with Titanium Security Arena. As part of the partnership, Givex’s point-of-sale (POS) technologies have been successfully deployed across the 8,000-seat arena.
Collaboration with Google on hearing aid specification now officially brings direct streaming of music, phone calls and other sound to people with hearing loss. For the first time, people can stream sound from their compatible Android devices to their hearing devices using Bluetooth Low Energy. BALLERUP, Denmark & SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GN Hearing, the global leader in hearing aid connectivity, and Cochlear, the global leader in implantable hearing solutions, together with Google, today announce world-first support for direct streaming from Android™ devices to hearing devices using Bluetooth
Establishes Transition Management Footprint in AustraliaSYDNEY & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) has made two strategic appointments in its Capital Markets business. The hires respond to increased demand for its transition management solutions globally – and establish a transition management presence in Sydney, Australia. Mat Cook has been appointed to lead Northern Trust’s transition management offering across Asia-Pacific from its Sydney office. Cook joins Northern Trust from State Street, where he worked for the past nine years as a transition manager. With more than 14 years of industry experience, he brings deep expertise in equities, fixed income and project management to support Northern Trust’s growing capital markets business across the Asia-Pacific region.
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#GoldenVisa--As global headlines are dominated by the effects of changing immigration policies in the UK and the US, there is one consequence that has gone largely unnoticed: a significant decline in international student numbers. Latest statistics show that top universities have seen international enrollment figures drop significantly in response to new restrictions on student visas in the US, uncertainty over Brexit and the rights of EU citizens in the UK, and tuition hikes in both countries.
BURTON UPON TRENT, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Clinigen Group plc (AIM: CLIN, 'Clinigen' or the 'Group'), the global pharmaceutical and services company, and CHEPLAPHARM Arzneimittel GmbH (‘CHEPLAPHARM’), the family-owned pharmaceutical company based in Germany, have signed an exclusive distribution agreement for chemotherapy products Etopophos® and Vepesid® in Australia and New Zealand. CHEPLAPHARM acquired the global rights to the products from Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) in August 2018. CHEPLAPHARM has global capabilities in manufacturing and distribution and will continue to supply and provide access to these medicines for patients. Clinigen has been appointed by CHEPLAPHARM to distribute Etopophos
SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has completed its acquisition of Analytics8, a privately held Australian big data and analytics consultancy that is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture. Terms of the transaction are not being disclosed.The transaction, first announced on August 15, 2019, strengthens Accenture’s capabilities to deliver AI-powered data and advanced analytics services to clients across Australia and New Zealand.
VIENNA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cubro is excited to announce the #ElevateTheEXA8 Challenge to introduce EXA8 hardware platform to the open-source community. Developers, designers, engineers, IT professionals, and students can turn their passion into reality and get an opportunity to develop a new application for the community. The winner would win $5000, an EXA8, on which the application would be developed, and will be featured in the Cubro Blog.
LOWELL, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kronos Incorporated today announced it has received its highest-ever ranking as a Best Place to Work in Australia from Great Place to Work®, continuing to climb the country’s list for the fourth-consecutive year. News FactsKronos ranked 12th in its category on the annual 50 Best Places to Work in Australia list, continuing its yearly ascent from no. 20 in 2016, no. 17 in 2017, and no. 13 in 2018.
Australian fintech gained $250 million in home loan applications within three days of launchAUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Q2 Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:QTWO), a leading provider of digital transformation solutions for banking and lending, announced today that Athena Home Loans (Athena), one of Australia's first pure digital mortgage providers, selected Cloud Lending (CL), a Q2 company, as its digital lending platform provider.
Increased visibility into technology ecosystem has empowered Australia Post to stamp out inefficiencies and achieve strategic business objectivesSTOCKHOLM & SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#itoperations--Snow Software, the global leader in technology intelligence solutions, today announced that Australia Post is using the Snow platform to optimize IT operations, gain insight into its technology ecosystem and manage application sprawl. As the organization responsible for delivering over 3 billion items and managing more than 4,000 post offices nationally, Australia Post has a government mandate to deliver quality service while also earning a profit. This requires Australia Post to run its IT ecosystem as effectively and efficiently as possible in order to support the operation at scale.
OKAYAMA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CreoFuga, Inc. (Okayama Prefecture, CEO: Shuichiro Nishio), operator of Audiostock, one of Japan's largest stock audio services, has released an English language version of the Audiostock website (https://audiostock.net/). Audiostock features about 150,000 music works by around 10,000 Japanese creative teams, with sales intended to contribute to the earnings of these creators.
Nearly 7,000 free movies and television series will be available on September 1, including 3:10 to Yuma, The Blair Witch Project, Kickboxer and Stranger Than Fiction, with many more titles to be added in the futureSAN FRANCISCO & SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tubi (www.tubi.tv), the world’s largest ad-supported video on demand (VOD) service, today announced plans to expand its free, premium service to Australia. Launching on September 1, customers in Australia can enjoy the largest free library in the country with an initial offering of nearly 7,000 movies and television series, which will rapidly expand in the near future. Titles immediately available on the service will include
LONDON & DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Janus Henderson Investors (NYSE: JHG, ASX: JHG) announced today the appointment of Daniel J. Graña, CFA, as Portfolio Manager, Global Emerging Market Equities. Daniel is based in Boston and reports to George Maris, Co-Head of Equities.Enrique Chang, Global Chief Investment Officer, said: “We are delighted to welcome an investment professional of Daniel’s caliber to lead our Global Emerging Market equities capability. We have a strong global investment team with the common goal of achieving superior risk-adjusted returns for clients, and are excited about the opportunity to further build on our Emerging Market equities capability under Daniel’s leadership.”
The enterprise-grade network lets organizations benefit from Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity anywhere in-stateCAMARILLO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced that Definium Technologies (Definium) has deployed a new enterprise-grade statewide network in Tasmania based on Semtech’s LoRa® devices and the LoRaWAN® protocol
NICE inContact partners provide customer experience expertise and services throughout the Americas, EMEA, APACSALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NICE inContact, a NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) business, today announced the addition of multiple new partnerships in Australia which will bring NICE inContact CXone – the world’s #1 cloud customer experience platform – to contact center customers throughout the region. Converged Communication Network Applications Pty Ltd (CCNA) and Byte, among others, join hundreds of NICE inContact global partners with go to market, operations and services teams across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. These partnerships combined with NICE inContact CXone and global service teams support local, regional and multinational customers of all sizes.
Cubic Global Defense’s multi-domain, live, virtual and constructive solutions deliver improved performance-based trainingSAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cubic Corporation (NYSE: CUB) today announced Cubic Defence Australia, which operates within its Cubic Global Defense business division, will showcase its leading defense simulation and training solutions at the Australasian Simulation Congress 2019
SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Auckland Council, the local government council for the Auckland Region in New Zealand, has selected GTreasury to support its treasury management and accounting functions. GTreasury is a digital TMS platform for integrated treasury management and risk management. “As one of the largest debt issuers in New Zealand, we need full visibility of our liquidity and multi-currency debt exposures,” says Auckland Council Treasurer John Bishop. “With GTreasury, not only will we thoroughly modernize our operations with a single, integrated workflow, but we will also be able to access and act on our information anytime, anywhere from the cloud.”
Cubic Transportation Systems to also showcase latest intelligent transport management technologiesSAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#ITSSummit--Cubic Corporation (NYSE:CUB) today announced its Cubic Transportation Systems’ (CTS) Vice President of Global ITS Strategy Chris Bax, will discuss ways to use the wealth of data collected by our transport networks to reduce congestion at the seventh annual Australian Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Summit
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ŠKODA UK has partnered with Dealer Trade to launch ŠKODA Market, an innovative remarketing solution for their dealer network. Dealer Trade offers a fully mobile ‘app’ based service that ŠKODA retailers can utilise via their tablets or mobile phones to list and sell their part exchange vehicles for free. The process from listing to sale typically takes under 3 hours - significantly faster than most traditional disposal routes, saving time as well as money.
SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--James Hardie Industries plc (ASX: JHX) announced today that Mr Matthew Marsh, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Executive Vice President – Corporate, has resigned to pursue other opportunities.James Hardie’s CEO, Dr Jack Truong, noted, “I want to thank Matt for his contributions to James Hardie over the past six years and wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors.”
BRISBANE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Strategen, a professional services company specializing in market development for a decarbonized grid and headquartered in California, USA, has appointed Mark Paterson as Chief Strategy Officer and Managing Director of Strategen Australia/Pacific region. Formerly of Horizon Power and CSIRO, Paterson is a globally recognised grid transformation leader and champion of “human-centered energy systems.” With Paterson at the helm, Strategen will significantly expand its services to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, a region that has emerged as a veritable hotbed of technology and business model innovations for creating a deeply decentralized 21st century grid.
—InMoment hosts leading Australian food franchisor in showcasing how customer experience intelligence is driving company successSINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This week at Forrester’s CX Singapore 2019, InMoment, the leader in Experience Intelligence (XI), will host a session with Minor DKL Food Group, the owner of The Coffee Club, in presenting “The Real Work of Turning CX Insights into Results.” Taking place on 28 August in Singapore, the event will bring together some of the world’s best customer experience thought leaders, technology providers, and professionals.
Demonstration Highlights CGCS, P3E, Mission Intel Station and CertifiabilitySAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On August 16th, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) gave a flight demonstration to Royal Air Force (RAF) senior leadership and RAF Reaper operators, as well as guests from the U.S. Marine Corps and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). The flight showcased MQ-9B SkyGuardian – GA-ASI’s development RPA that the RAF’s new Protector RG Mk1 is based upon – and several of its revolutionary capabilities, including the new Certifiable Ground Control Station (CGCS), automatic takeoff, landing and taxi over SATCOM, Portable Pre/Post-Flight Equipment (P3E) and the Mission Intelligence Center.
ADELAIDE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#climate--POFCAP -- On August 19 2017 (International Orangutan Day), POFCAP launched the world’s first Palm Oil Free Certification Trademark in Australia. Now, 2 years on, POFCAP celebrates its second birthday with 1,088 products Certified Palm Oil Free with hundreds more currently under assessment. The trademark is approved in 19 countries - Australia, Scotland, Spain, N. Ireland, Austria, England, Wales, Sweden, the USA, Italy, France, Finland, NZ, Singapore, Norway, India and just announced, Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands.
Comfort Kits Being Distributed by Partner Organizations Around the WorldMELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq:HSIC) today announced that more than 2,100 Team Schein Members (TSMs) from around the world have joined together to build over 27,000 comfort kits for patients undergoing cancer treatment and their loved ones. TSMs built the kits as part of the Company’s second annual We Care Global Challenge, an initiative that aims to bring colleagues together under the shared mission of “Helping Health Happen” for people and communities in need.
Users can unlock new convenience and save on both energy and costs through air conditioning add-on product for the Australian marketVICTORIA, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#IoT--Zen Ecosystems — providing intelligent energy management solutions for businesses and consumers — today announced the launch of a new product to remotely control and schedule split air conditioners — Zen Air. Samsung has integrated the new Zen Air product into its SmartThings
Dr. Patrick Lucey and Tom Worville to Discuss Artificial Intelligence in Sports and the Significance of Data-Powered Storytelling in the EPLSYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stats Perform, the revolutionary leader in sports AI and data, announced that Dr. Patrick Lucey, chief scientist, and Tom Worville, senior data analyst at Opta and OptaPro, will present at the Australia Sports Tech Conference at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre on Friday, 23 August. Worville’s session begins at 10:40 a.m. AEDT, while Dr Lucey’s begins at 11:40 a.m. AEDT.
MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Propanc Biopharma, Inc. (OTC: PPCB) (“Propanc”), a biopharmaceutical company developing new cancer treatments for patients suffering from recurring and metastatic cancer, announced today that it has received a granted US patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) covering composition of matter claims involving trypsinogen and chymotrypsinogen. The additional composition claims are a continuation from the original foundation patent in the U.S., and as a result, both method of treatment and composition claims now protects the Company’s lead product candidate, PRP, a pharmaceutical composition consisting of two proenzymes, trypinsogen and chymotrypsinogen, for treating cancer.
