JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, March 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hisense, a global leader in consumer electronics and home appliances, is proud to announce its participation in the 2024 Proudly South African Buy Local Summit. The event, which took place at the Sandton Convention Centre, brought together industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and consumers to celebrate and support local businesses.

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Honors, Innovations, and Strategic Partnerships: Percona's Multi-Faceted Achievements Generate Significant Momentum for the Open Source Database Leader

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Percona, a leader in enterprise-grade, open source database software, support, and services, has entered 2024 fresh off a year marked by sustained customer growth, multiple prestigious award wins, and innovative product enhancements. The company's impressive 2023 has further solidified its standing as a go-to provider of open source database solutions and support services.

Having predicted the database market to clear $100 billion in 2023, Gartner forecasts the market to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.8% through 2027 and reach $203.6 billion. This underscores sustained demand for sophisticated database management expertise to ensure optimal performance, security, and reliability. Uniquely qualified to address these needs, Percona has capitalized on the expanding opportuni ... Read more »

Artificial Intelligence Pioneers Combine to Create a Decentralized Alternative to Existing AI Projects Controlled by Big Tech

Combined Value of the $FET, $OCEAN and $AGIX tokens is USD$7.6 billion as of March 26, 2024

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- SingularityNET (SNET), the world's first decentralized Artificial Intelligence (AI) network, Fetch.ai, a Web3 platform for the new AI economy, and Ocean Protocol, a decentralized data exchange platform to protect data, today announced the launch of the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance. The creation of the largest open-sourced, decentralized network through a multi-billion token merger is a major step that accelerates the race to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

The Alliance is the brainchild of three leading minds in decentralized AI. Dr. Ben Goertzel, renowned as the “Father of AGI”, founded SNET as a blockchain-based marketplace and framework for AI services. DeepMind founding investor Humayun Shei ... Read more »

SAN FRANCISCO - Wednesday, 27. March 2024

Three new AI-powered solutions are added to Visa Protect suite to help block fraud
Among the newest services: a cutting-edge immediate payment fraud solution and expanded capabilities to mitigate fraud, agnostic to payment network
Growing usage across global services portfolio – Visa’s largest 265 clients now use an average of 22 of Visa’s value-added services products1
 

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Visa (NYSE:V), a leader in digital payments, announced continued expansion of its global value-added services business with the addition of three new AI-powered risk and fraud prevention solutions. The new products, part of the end-to-end Visa Protect suite, are designed to reduce fraud across immediate account-to-account and card not present (CNP) payments, as well as transactions both on and off Visa’s network.

Visa Protect is part of a broad suite of Visa value-added services t ... Read more »

BOSTON - Wednesday, 27. March 2024

Customers can now easily create channels in minutes, growing revenue and audiences on their own apps and FAST aggregators

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Brightcove (NASDAQ: BCOV), the world’s most trusted streaming technology company, announces the launch of Cloud Playout 2.0, offering customers new ways to create linear channels, monetize their media, and streamline their workflows in one platform.

Brightcove’s Cloud Playout 2.0 allows users to leverage their existing content catalog and live streams to build a channel in minutes. The enhanced Cloud Playout includes a linear scheduler to create an electronic program guide (EPG), which can be displayed on apps and FAST platforms. Once a channel is built, media companies can operationalize the distribution of their linear channels to owned-and-operated (O&O) properties or FAST platforms. Managing this end-to-end experience within the Brightcove platform allows media compa ... Read more »

DURHAM, England -
(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Pragmatic Semiconductor was honoured to welcome HRH The Princess Royal to officially open the UK’s first 300mm semiconductor wafer fabrication line (fab) at Pragmatic Park in Durham. The advanced manufacturing facility produces chips based on Pragmatic’s innovative and unique flexible integrated circuit technology. HRH The Princess Royal was hosted by David Moore, CEO, Pragmatic Semiconductor, with a tour of the clean room and facilities, followed by an unveiling of a site plaque to mark the occasion. Attendees included key customers, ecosystem partners, investors and government officials.

Pragmatic’s FlexICs are low-cost, more sustainable alternatives to silicon chips, ultra-thin, with a flexible form factor they enable connect, sense and compute capabilities, fuelling the Internet of Things (IoT) across multiple sectors including consumer, industrial, healthcare and beyond. The company’s mission is to ... Read more »

 Highlights include environmental goals based on climate science, workforce empowerment, focus on local partnerships, and supply chain resiliency.

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- PCI Pharma Services, (“PCI”) a leading global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has released its first  ... Read more »

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Corpay1 (NYSE: CPAY), a global leader in corporate payments, is pleased to announce that Corpay’s Cross-Border business has appointed private equity and fund administration industry veteran Oliver (Oli) Morris as their new Head of Institutional Fund Services, EMEA. In this newly created role, Oli will be accountable for collaborating with the executive and regional team members to develop and implement a comprehensive go to market strategy, along with establishing the operational and product roadmaps to effectively service and grow Corpay’s business within the institutional fund services segment across the EMEA region.

With over 18 years’ experience, Oli is a dynamic, well-regarded and experienced leader within the private equity and fund administration sectors across EMEA. Oli joins C ... Read more »

  Digital events held near Kanazawa Station under the theme of “connection”

(BUSINESS WIRE)--NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) and the Hokuriku Regional Office of NTT DOCOMO, INC. (DOCOMO), together with the city of Kanazawa, celebrated the opening of a new section of the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line b ... Read more »

NEW DELHI - Wednesday, 27. March 2024

(BUSINESS WIRE)--In a bid to transform business communication, HCLSoftware, the software business of HCLTech and Atlas Cloud Services - a branch of UM6P - Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco, have joined forces in a partnership aimed at supporting businesses’ digital transitions in Morocco. Rajiv Shesh, Chief Revenue Officer of HCLSoftware, Ryad Mezzour, Minister of Industry and Trade, Hicham El Habti, President of UM6P - Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, and Reda Loudiyi, Director General of Atlas Cloud Services were present to witness the signing of the partnership agreement.

The partnership places a strong focus on digital and software sovereignty within Morocco. This partnership will ensure access to state-of-the-art cloud services that encompass collaboration, productivity, availability, security and infrastructure. With growing concerns surrounding data privacy and protection, businesses can rest assured tha ... Read more »

 (BUSINESS WIRE)--Quectel Wireless Solutions, a global IoT solutions provider, has made further additions to its comprehensive range of antennas for IoT devices and deployments. The latest launches include the YEMN016AA and YEMN017AA 5G 5-in-1 combination antennas, the YECN001J1A and YECT000WBA external 5G antennas and the YEGB000Q1A and YEGN000Q1A active GNSS L1 and L5 antennas.

“We are thrilled to expand our product line with antennas that offer superior performance and meet the unique needs of our IoT customers,” said Norbert Muhrer, President and CSO, Quectel Wireless Solutions. “Quectel consistently enhances its diverse portfolio to precisely address the unique requirements of our clients' deployments and applications, offering unparalleled performance and adaptability, and these antennas add to that portfolio.”

The YEMN016AA is a 5G and global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) 5-in-1 antenna measuring 204.4mm x 86.7mm x 32mm. ... Read more »