OTTAWA, Ontario - Thursday, 12. June 2025

Experts from Qualcomm, Viant Medical, and Thermo Fisher Scientific join Kinaxis and economic futurist Andrew Busch to share insights on navigating tariff volatility

(BUSINESS WIRE)--As global trade tensions remain at the forefront of business decision-making, Kinaxis® (TSX:KXS), a global leader in end-to-end supply chain orchestration, will host technology and life sciences supply chain leaders for a special tariff-focused digital event with economic futurist Andrew Busch on June 17, 2025 at 11:00am eastern.

Titled, Tariffs, Trade, and Turbulence: How to Respond to Today’s Supply Chain Challenges, the event is tailored for global business leaders and will offer expert insights on how to navigate today’s volatile trade environment with modern supply chain solutions to build resilient, future-ready supply chains.

“We’re witnessing a seismic reshaping of global trade dyn ... Read more »

STAMFORD, Conn. - 
Smokers in the European Union (EU) consumed 38.9 billion illicit cigarettes in 2024, a 10.8% increase versus 2023, with serious repercussions for tax revenues, crime rates, and public health.
France, the largest illicit market in Europe, reached 18.7 billion illicit cigarettes consumed last year, 37.6% of total consumption. Adding 10.2 ppt year-on-year, the Netherlands saw the largest increase in illicit cigarettes share, which doubled to 17.9% of total consumption.
Countries such as Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and Portugal—and Ukraine, outside the EU—have shown sizeable decreases in illicit consumption in 2024. Greece and Ukraine, in particular, saw as much as 30% declines vs. 2023.
PMI calls for evidence-based regulation, predictable fiscal regimes, and strict law enforcement to address the roots of illicit trade while promoting economic stability and public health. Evidence shows that excessive tobacco control policies may b ... Read more »

NEW YORK & NOIDA, India - 
(BUSINESS WIRE)--HCLTech, a leading global technology company, announced an expansion of its partnership with Standard Insurance Company (The Standard), a leading provider of financial protection products and services for employers and individuals.

This expanded partnership with The Standard will deliver AI-driven infrastructure and application services to boost efficiency, support rapid growth and enhance customer experience. This collaboration will also accelerate The Standard’s shift to an IT products and services-based operating model, enabling greater agility, customer value and progress toward the company’s long-term digital transformation goals.

HCLTech’s GenAI-led service transformation platform, AI Force, digital engineering and cloud services will support The Standard’s focus on exceptional customer service in the delivery of workplace benefits. This transformation will be further driven by a ... Read more »

Business AI Suite Launch, Hearst UK, and Konecta Momentum Signal Strategic Growth

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Uniphore, the Business AI Company, today announced a significant expansion across Europe, accelerating its commitment to the region through new customer adoption, partner momentum, product launches, and organizational investment.

The announcement coincides with the release of the Uniphore Business AI Cloud, announced during the AI Leadership Summit held yesterday in London—an exclusive gathering of media, industry leaders, and Uniphore customers exploring the future of agentic AI in Europe. Attendees included executives from ResultsCX, Konecta, KPMG, and Rowan Curran, Principal Analyst at Forrester, who shared perspectives on how enterprises are scaling AI from isolated pilots to business-critical systems that drive measurable outcomes across customer experience, marketing, operations and more.

A Platform Built for Europe's AI Mandate

As ente ... Read more »

 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Renowned concept artist and storyteller Ben Mauro, known for his work on major franchises such as Halo Infinite, Call of Duty, and Elysium, proudly announces the worldwide release of his acclaimed sci-fi graphic novel series, HUXLEY. The series is now available in ... Read more »

DALLAS & DUBLIN - Wednesday, 11. June 2025 AETOSWire Print 

− The Cybersecurity and Intellectual Property Litigation consulting solutions, Stroz Friedberg and Elysium Digital, bolster and expand LevelBlue’s Global Cyber Risk and Incident Response Capabilities

− Aon will continue to deliver leading cyber brokerage capabilities through the firm’s Cyber Solutions group, CyQu platform and Cyber Risk Analyzer to serve clients’ growing cyber broking needs

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- LevelBlue, a global leader in cloud-based, AI-driven managed security services, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aon’s Cybersecurity and Intellectual Property (IP) Litigation consulting groups, which include recognized cybersecurity firm Stroz Friedberg, and Elysium Digital, which is renowned for technology-related IP litigation matters. This acquisition represents a significant st ... Read more »

MEUDON, France - Tuesday, 10. June 2025

New capability gives instant visibility to detect misuse, enforce compliance, and strengthen data protection across on-premises, hybrid, and multicloud environments.
Continuous data discovery, classification, and monitoring forms the foundation of effective Data Security Posture Management, while simplifying compliance and flagging unauthorized activities that lead to data exposure.  
FAM’s built-in GenAI tools and centralized management streamlines audit reporting, accelerates threat response, reduces operational complexity across enterprise data lifecycle.
 

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Thales today announced the launch of Thales File Activity Monitoring, a powerful new capability within the Thales CipherTrust Data Security Platform that enhances enterprise visibility and control over unstructured data, enabling organizations to monitor file activity in real time, detect misuse, and ensure regulat ... Read more »

ExaGrid named Storage Company of the Year at “The Storries XXII” in London

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- ExaGrid®, the industry’s only Tiered Backup Storage solution with Retention Time-Lock and the only non-network-facing tiered air gap with delayed deletes and immutability for ransomware recovery, today announced that the company was honored with two awards, Channel Partner Programme and Storage Company of the Year, during the 22nd annual Storage Awards ceremony, “The Storries,” held in London on June 5, 2025.

The Storage Awards are determined by public vote. The 2025 awards mark the 14th year of wins for ExaGrid at “The Storries.” The Channel Partner Programme award recognizes the innovative ExaGrid Reseller Partner Program, which is designed to be easy for partners with support from the ExaGrid sales team and without milestone commitments. ExaGrid is known for having a Tiered Backup Storage system that “just works,” ... Read more »

SOLON, Ohio - Tuesday, 10. June 2025

Appointment Signals Commitment to Expanding Hana’s straightforward, partner-oriented approach in RFID Inlay design and manufacturing.

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hana Technologies, Inc. (Hana RFID), a global leader in RAIN RFID inlay and embeddable tag design and manufacturing, announces the appointment of Sipi Savolainen as the company’s new Sales Director for Europe & Middle East. Savolainen’s primary objective will be to drive business growth in retail and beyond, reinforcing Hana’s reputation as a reliable partner towards RFID industry partners, including label converters, service bureaus, and system integrators.

With over 20 years of industry experience, Savolainen brings a wealth of expertise and a strong record of guiding early adopters and established brands toward long-term success while establishing a foothold in emerging markets. His career spans key roles in sales, technic ... Read more »

LONDON - Wednesday, 11. June 2025 AETOSWire 

Modernised platform streamlines onboarding, enhances user experience and powers agile growth for MVNO customers

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- As the global mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) market surges towards a projected $137 billion by 2030, eSIM Go, a digital connectivity pioneer, is scaling for future growth. With its modernised user platform, developed in collaboration with CSG® (NASDAQ: CSGS), eSIM Go will simplify and speed up the MVNO journey, enabling faster onboarding, richer self-service and seamless integration of digital offerings.

“Businesses from fintechs to airlines are looking to deepen customer relationships by offering custom digital mobile services. But becoming an MVNO has traditionally been a slow, complex and inflexible process,” said Zacc Couldrick, CEO, eSIM Go. “As we aim to eliminate the barriers to entry into the digital connectivity space, we needed a technology p ... Read more »

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Capvidia, a pioneer in Model-Based Definition (MBD) and digital interoperability, announces full integration support for the latest Siemens’ NX™ software release. This significant advancement enhances the enablement of Model-Based Characteristics (MBC) via the QIF standard, reinforcing the digital thread from design to quality and manufacturing across OEMs and their global supply chains.

With this release, Siemens’ NX software becomes the first major CAD platform to natively support intelligent PMI ballooning and Model-Based Characteristics using QIF. As the only CAD-neutral standard designed for end-to-end digital metrology and quality workflows, this integration represents a groundbreaking development in the industry.

Capvidia’s flagship solution, MBDVidia, fully supports this advancement with bidirectional interoperability. Model data exported from NX via QIF can be validated, enriched, and r ... Read more »

SINGAPORE - Tuesday, 10. June 2025 AETOSWire 

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deutsche Bank and Ant International have announced their strategic partnership to provide more comprehensive payment solutions for businesses of all sizes in Europe and Asia, by combining their expertise and leveraging Ant International’s proprietary tokenisation and AI-based FX technology.

The bank will collaborate with Ant International’s Embedded Finance unit on a series of global treasury management and cross-border payment innovations, including tokenised deposits, stablecoin, and its Time-Series Transformer (TST) FX Model.

Deutsche Bank will be the first German bank to facilitate Ant International’s blockchain-based real-time treasury management platform to enable real-time fund transfers between Ant International’s intragroup entities. This will enable more efficient and transparent global treasury management for Ant.

In addition, the two sides will also ... Read more »

Board 14.3, Continuous Planning, and Board Agents Come Together to Eliminate Silos Between Data, Decisions, and Teams

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Board, a leading Enterprise Planning Platform, today launched a reimagined planner experience that reflects how modern planning actually happens—in real time, across teams, and in the face of constant change. The release brings together three core capabilities: the intuitive self-service upgrades in Board 14.3, a new foundation for continuous planning, and a preview of AI-powered Board Agents.

Each new capability is built to remove friction from the planning process. Board 14.3 is the latest evolution of the Enterprise Planning Platform, built to advance how planners work with data. It introduces faster performance and improvements to data entry, exports, and visualizations. With new self-service tools for scenario modeling and analysis, teams can move more quickly from questions to answers.