Latest investment takes total Series A funding to US $30 million to further develop its Wi-Fi HaLow technology and ramp customer designsSYDNEY & IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#80211ah--Morse Micro, the Australian start-up reinventing Wi-Fi for the Internet of Things (IoT), has secured $13 million (AU $18) in additional funding. New and existing investors, including Blackbird Ventures, Main Sequence Ventures, Clean Energy Innovation Fund, Skip Capital, and Ray Stata
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#BTS--Nexon America Inc.: WHAT:Today, Nexon announced a collaboration with global record-breaking pop superstars, BTS with the iconic MMORPG IP, MapleStory coming soon. Leading up to the in-game collaboration in MapleStory and MapleStory M, players will be treated to three behind the scenes videos surrounding the MapleStory X BTS collaboration with one new video releasing each week beginning on November 25 via MapleStory’s YouTube channel at youtube.com/MapleStory
TEL AVIV, Israel & MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Azura Ophthalmics Ltd., a clinical-stage company developing innovative therapies for Meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) and related eye diseases, today announced its participation in the Piper Sandler 32nd Annual Virtual Healthcare Conference. Presentations will be available for registered attendees via the Piper Sandler conference site from November 23 to December 3.
Mr. Carrick Brings Extensive Capital Markets Experience to the Company; Mr. Steve Liebeskind to Retire from the BoardALISO VIEJO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN), a leading provider of ultra-low power high performance AI technology, today announced that Geoffrey Carrick has joined the Company as a Non-Executive Director (NED). Mr. Carrick has extensive capital markets experience and provides governance and regulatory insights in Australia.
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Australia's Mortgage Deferral Hangover, 2020 Report" has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The Australia's Mortgage Deferral Hangover Report combines expert insight with the publisher's unique data on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic to determine how many borrowers will be affected in Australia and for how long.This report draws from a comprehensive consumer research conducted by the publisher in March, April, and May of 2020. As the COVID-19 global health pandemic unfolded, the publisher surveyed more than 12,000 Australian consumers in order to forecast the immediate impact on mortgage borrowers, and their lenders, over the next 12-24 months.
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Australian Banking Loyalty 2020 Report" has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The AWS Loyalty Multi-Client 2020 Report is a detailed report looking at the changing nature of customer relationships and determining if the main financial relationship is as important as it once was.It then delves deep into the deposits, mortgages and credit cards space to understand the impact of main financial relationships on these key product areas as well as a focus on how loyalty can be gained amongst consumers across the 3 core products
Expensify, the financial app with more than 10 million users worldwide, reveals record growth heading into 2021 SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#ARR--Expensify, the most widely used expense software in the world, announced today it will surpass $100 million in annual recurring revenue in 2020. The company, which has maintained profitability for years and only raised $20.2 million in primary capital since its founding in 2008, also recorded its highest monthly revenue ever in October.
EMERYVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NovaBay® Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE American: NBY), a pharmaceutical company focusing on commercializing Avenova® for the eye care market, announces the signing of an agreement with Paragon Care Group Australia Pty Ltd for the exclusive distribution of Avenova in Australia. Paragon Care Group will begin distributing Avenova directly to consumers under its Designs For Vision brand beginning in early 2021.
Percentage of Cord-Cutting is Higher Among 18-to-34-Year-Olds Nearly Half of Aussies Prefer to View Ads in Exchange for Premium Content vs Paid SubscriptionSYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A growing number of Australian consumers are cutting their pay TV subscriptions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent survey of 1,000 Australians by JWS Research for The Trade Desk (Nasdaq: TTD). Fourteen percent of Australians that use pay television services intend to cancel, put on hold or let lapse their pay TV services as a result of the pandemic. The percentage of subscription cancellations in Australia is currently higher than the 11 percent of U.S. consumers who plan to cancel based on a similar survey conducted in the U.S. by The Trade Desk in April of this year.
Enterprises Can Now Accelerate Their Cloud Adoption Journeys with AppDynamics in Azure EnvironmentsSAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AppDynamics, a part of Cisco and the world’s #1 APM solution and full-stack, business-centric observability platform, today announced its listing on Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) for Azure customers. The Cloud Adoption Framework brings together cloud adoption best practices and preferred solutions to help shape technology and business strategies for enterprises throughout their cloud adoption journeys. With AppDynamics’ monitoring solutions, enterprises building modern cloud applications or migrating their existing applications to Azure environments will be able to do so with immense confidence by gaining business-critical insights and visibility.
Forter to Continue Expansion of Global Coalition of Merchants, Banks and Payment Providers Against Online FraudNEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Forter, the leader in e-commerce fraud prevention, today announced it has raised $125 million in Series E funding. Led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Felix Capital and Itai Tsiddon, with participation from Sequoia Capital, NewView Capital, Scale Venture Partners, March Capital Partners and Commerce Ventures, the round propels Forter’s valuation to over $1.3 billion.
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--$VCRA #TIMEBestInventions--Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced that the wearable Vocera Smartbadge has been named to TIME’s list of the 100 Best Inventions of 2020. Today, TIME revealed its annual list of the 100 Best Inventions that are making the world better, smarter, and even a bit more fun.
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Focal Systems Inc., the industry leader in retail automation solutions, announced today that Walmart Canada has expanded their partnership with Focal. Focal deploys shelf cameras throughout the store to provide automated detection of out-of-stocks, low inventory and planogram compliance which drives higher on-shelf availability and operational efficiency. “With the advances Focal has made with their technology solution, we’re ready to expand the partnership and deploy shelf-cameras in more stores,” said Sam Wankowski, Chief Operations Officer, Walmart Canada. “We’re always striving for more ways to improve the shopping experience for our customers. Focal is helping us use technology to improve our on-shelf customer availability, so our customers can find what they are looking for, each time they choose to shop in-store with us.”
By connecting 70,000 kegs to their IoT tracking and monitoring solution on Thinxtra’s Sigfox 0G network, Konvoy Group is revolutionizing the global keg industryPARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today at Sigfox Connect 2020, the largest IoT showroom, Konvoy Group, an Australian keg rental solution provider for the beverage industry, announced a world first with the deployment of their keg tracking and monitoring IoT solution across their 70,000-strong fleet of kegs in Australia and New Zealand.
Denodo customers, partners, and renowned industry analysts to discuss trends in machine learning, hybrid/multi cloud, data science, data virtualization, and logical data fabric SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#AI--Denodo, the leader in data virtualization, today announced it will be hosting its 3rd annual user conference, Denodo DataFest, in APAC. Denodo DataFest 2020 will be webcasted as a two-day event with half-day programs scheduled for each day. The event brings together some of the most respectable and well known industry and subject matter experts from across the APAC region, to share their experiences and insights on why logical data fabric, enabled by data virtualization
Honoring those companies that have best demonstrated innovation leading to business and IT benefits experienced through the use of GuidewireSAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--$GWRE #Capgemini--Guidewire Software, Inc. (NYSE: GWRE), the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently, congratulates the winners of its 2020 Innovation Awards: ConTe.it, Insurance Australia Group (IAG), the Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company (Wawanesa) with Capgemini, and The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB). In its fourteenth year, this year’s awards honor Guidewire customers that are adapting to an accelerating pace of industry change and evolving customer needs in innovative ways. Winners were announced during Connections Reimagined, Guidewire’s annual customer conference reimagined as a virtual event.
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. & MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Startek (NYSE: SRT), a global provider of customer experience management solutions, has been recognized as an ‘Employer of Choice’ (EOC) in The Australian Business Awards 2020. The Employer of Choice category recognises workplaces for maximising the potential of their workforce through exemplary HR policies and practices. Now in their fifteenth year, The Australian Business Awards (ABA) are an annual all-encompassing recognition program that recognises organisations that demonstrate the core values of business and product innovation, technological achievement and employee engagement via a set of comprehensive award categories.
New feature to roll out in Australia, the U.S. and the U.K. allowing families to get an easy update on their family’s whereabouts by creating a free Life360 accountSAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Life360, the leading safety and coordination service for families worldwide, today announced a new collaboration that brings its leading family coordination services to Google Assistant-enabled devices, including Nest smart speakers
BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Smartsheet (NYSE:SMAR), the enterprise platform for dynamic work, today announced the company was named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Collaborative Work Management Tools, Q4 2020 report. The report evaluated nine collaborative work management (CWM) tool providers against 32 criteria across current offering, strategy and market presence, stating, “Smartsheet excels in providing dynamic work management for the enterprise.”
Asana unveils integrations with Atlassian Jira (Server Edition), Microsoft Teams, Slack and ZoomNew Rules automation connects the enterprise's most essential tools in a clickSAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Asana, Inc. (NYSE: ASAN), a leading work management platform for teams, today announced the addition of new and expanded integrations with Atlassian Jira (Server Edition), Microsoft Teams, Slack and Zoom to its industry-leading app ecosystem featuring nearly 200 integrations. Further enhancing its offerings for enterprise customers, Asana also introduced increased admin capabilities and more ways for teams to work securely with automation, enabling IT teams to effectively deploy and manage their software at scale.
Fastly customer Network 10 exemplified the power of Fastly's newly upgraded POPs in Sydney and Melbourne, seeing an increase of 1400% in peak bandwidth* during the airing of the 2020 Melbourne Cup CarnivalMELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY) helped support the 2020 Lexus Melbourne Cup race through official broadcaster and customer Network 10, demonstrating its commitment to Australian customers and partners. Fastly also recently upgraded its Sydney and Melbourne points of presence (POPs), representing a major expansion of network capacity in Australia. These expansions enabled Fastly and Network 10 to easily manage the record-high streaming
NEW DELHI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--aPlesk, the leading WebOps platform to build, secure and run applications, websites and hosting businesses that scale in the Cloud, has announced that it has appointed ZNet Technologies, the leading cloud services provider, as a global distributor of Plesk solutions. As part of the distributor agreement, ZNet Technologies will market and distribute a full range of solutions across the globe, via partners and support them to meet the growing demand for Plesk.
Telstra Octagon leverages the company’s low latency subsea network, direct exchange connections to support hyper-competitive global asset, currency, commodities and futures trading activities. NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#AsiaPacific--Telstra, a leading global telecommunications and technology company, has announced the launch of the Telstra Octagon, a global financial trading solution that provides organizations with low latency connectivity directly into eight of the world’s most valuable futures and commodities marketplaces.
Ushers in New Era of Event-Driven Intelligence for CTI, Fraud, and Security TeamsNEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Flashpoint, the globally trusted leader in actionable threat intelligence, today announced it has acquired CRFT, Inc., a security automation provider that empowers teams of all sizes and skill levels to streamline daily security tasks through a seamless, no-code design and delivery engine. This acquisition augments the value of Flashpoint’s intelligence by empowering security and threat teams to streamline workflows and trigger actions that mitigate threats automatically.
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aquila Resources Inc. (TSX: AQA, OTCQB: AQARF) (“Aquila” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has applied to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (“EGLE”) for a Dam Safety Permit for its Back Forty Project. The Company has already been issued the four foundational State permits required for the commencement of construction and operations at Back Forty, being the Mining Permit, Air Permit, Water Discharge (NPDES) Permit, and Wetlands Permit. The Dam Safety Permit, which is required to build the proposed Tailings Management Facility (“
CASA GRANDE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#Arizona--Elim Mining Incorporated (“Elim Mining” or the “Company”), a private copper exploration and development company, is pleased to report the first seven holes, totaling 9,009 ft (2745.9 m) from the wholly-owned Cactus Mine (the “Property”), a porphyry copper deposit in Pinal County, Arizona. Some highlights include in hole ECE-002, an enriched intercept of 200 ft (61.0 m) of 1.25% total copper (CuT); in hole ECE-001 an oxide intercept of 70.4 ft (21.5 m) of 0.48% CuT continuous with an enriched intercept of 60.0 ft (18.3 m) of 1.54% CuT; in hole ECW-003, an enriched intercept of 48.0 ft (14.6 m) of 0.70% CuT; and in hole ECW-008, enriched intercepts of 53.5 ft (16.3 m) of 0.69% CuT and 48.0 ft (14.6 m) of 1.09% CuT (see
Current drill program expanded by 25,000 meters with three new drill rigs added for a total of five rigsDrilling to expand Mineral Resources is proceeding positively and resource updates are expected in Q1 2021Infill drilling will target upgrading the Company’s Mineral Resources on the Core property from Inferred to Indicated classification in advance of a Definitive Feasibility StudyNEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--$PLL
This is the second time SilkRoad Technology has received Fosway recognition in 2020CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#EmployeeExperience--SilkRoad Technology, a global software and services platform that helps organisations attract, retain and align people to its business, today announced its recognition as a Potential Challenger in the 2020 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Talent & People Success. This position acknowledges SilkRoad Technology for offering a wide range of solutions that enable customers to transform their talent as well as drive innovation and value for their business.
Leading video management system provider expands global infrastructure in response to video usage growth by large enterprises and universitiesSEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Panopto, the leading video management system provider for enterprise and higher education, today announced it has launched a new data center in Sydney, Australia, offering a complete cloud-based video hosting option to enterprise businesses and universities in Australia and New Zealand. The new data center is in response to the accelerating global demand for video management capabilities to support distance learning and remote work. To date, Panopto Cloud has been available from data centers in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
Purpose-led fintech & neobank Douugh launches in the US to Millennial and Gen-Z consumersFostering financial wellness - helping customers spend smarter, save more and build wealthDisrupting the business model of banking - SaaS-based, harnessing open bankingSoon to launch v1.0 of its AI-powered Autopilot feature to fully automate money managementCapital-lite, leveraging a wholesale Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) model rather than becoming a bank
