LITTLETON, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rare Element Resources Ltd. (the “Company” or “RER”) (OTCQB: REEMF) is pleased to announce that it intends to launch a rights offering for gross proceeds of approximately US$25 million if all subscription rights are exercised under the rights offering. In the rights offering, each holder of the Company’s common shares as of the close of business on the record date of October 19, 2021 will be issued, at no charge, one non-transferable subscription right for each common share owned by that shareholder on the record date. There is no minimum amount of gross proceeds that is required to be raised under the rights offering.
Funding Supports Rare Earth Processing and Separation Demonstration PlantLITTLETON, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rare Element Resources Ltd. (the “Company” or “RER”) (OTCQB: REEMF) is pleased to announce the finalization of negotiations with the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (“DoE/EERE”) for an Assistance Agreement providing approximately US$21.9 million of government funds for the engineering, construction and operation of a rare earth separation and processing demonstration plant to be located in Wyoming. The DoE/EERE has notified General Atomics, an affiliate of Synchron, the Company’s largest shareholder, of the finalization of the award. The Company is a subrecipient to General Atomics in the demonstration project, which will incorporate the Company’s proprietary technology.
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aquila Resources Inc. (TSX: AQA, OTCQB: AQARF) (“Aquila” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has closed the previously announced transaction (the “Transaction”) to sell its Bend and Reef properties in Wisconsin to Green Light Metals Inc. (“GL”). All dollar amounts are reported in Canadian dollars.Total consideration of $7,000,000 payable to Aquila consists of:
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "ROADM WSS Component - Global Market Trajectory & Analytics" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. Global ROADM WSS Component Market to Reach $1.3 Billion by 2027Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the global market for ROADM WSS Component estimated at US$630.4 Million in the year 2020, is projected to reach a revised size of US$1.3 Billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 11.1% over the analysis period 2020-2027.
Tower partners with Dutch AI-based solution FRISS to automate and accelerate claims processAUCKLAND, New Zealand--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#AI--Tower is set to further automate the process of detecting genuine and suspicious claims in real time, to allow for a faster process for customers in need. The automated system is made possible through Tower’s international partnership with Dutch AI-based solution FRISS.
Secure Code Warrior hosts inaugural DevlympicsBOSTON & SYDNEY & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#DevSecOps--Global secure coding company Secure Code Warrior® is set to bring leading global organizations and developers together to compete in an international secure coding championship for its inaugural ‘Devlympics 2021’ during Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The championship is based around recent, common coding breaches and will inspire real-life cyber defense. Developers from organizations such as Allianz, Atlassian, Contrast Security, Datacom and Sonatype will compete in gamified coding challenges to identify, locate and fix common code errors against the clock.
Company Places #1 on G2’s Project and Portfolio Management Software and Digital Asset Management Software Grid®BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Smartsheet, the enterprise platform for dynamic work, and its Digital Asset Management offering (Brandfolder) have been recognized as leaders on G2’s Grid for Project and Portfolio Management Software and Grid for Digital Asset Management Software. As organizations adjust to the new era of hybrid work, Smartsheet’s platform enables teams across any industry to dynamically manage projects, automate workflows, and quickly build new, secure solutions to drive meaningful change.
The release of Butterfly’s innovative second-generation veterinary ultrasound device is coupled with the launch of 19 international markets as well as comprehensive new clinical partnershipsGUILFORD, Conn. & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--$BFLY #ButterflyVet--Butterfly Network, Inc. (NYSE: BFLY) (“Butterfly”), an innovative digital health company that is working to democratize medical imaging and improve global health equity, is ushering in the next big shift in veterinary medicine with the launch of the new Butterfly iQ+ Vet. The second-generation device brings sharper imaging, a new procedural guidance tool, and hardware improvements that make the solution more powerful, versatile, and easy-to-use.
Winners Manage Supply Chains at Capral Australia and Laboratories PHILADELPHIA PHARMAST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Demand Management, Inc., a leading global resource for cloud-based digital supply chain management solutions, announced today that two of its customers—Michelle Wielemaker and Mariam Belghith—have been named winners of Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s 2021 Women in Supply Chain award.
Western Australia’s Largest Gold Mine is Now Industry’s First to Have Fully Operational, Autonomous Haulage Fleet; Trucks Commissioned in Record Time Newmont Has Invested $150 Million in Autonomous Haulage Project Short-Term Impact on Boddington’s Expected Gold Production of Approximately 140,000 Ounces for 2021, as Autonomous Fleet Is Fully Ramped UpDENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Newmont Corporation
New COO and EVP to strengthen deal team and focus on U.S. listing strategyTORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--$NETZ #NETZ--Carbon Streaming Corporation (NEO:NETZ) (FSE:M2QA) (“Carbon Streaming” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the addition of two strategic leadership roles which will greatly assist the Company in developing and executing on its growing investment pipeline as well as pursuing its potential U.S. listing in the first half of 2022.
Employers must ensure their onboarding programs are more effective NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#Questionmark--Employers are taking too long to get new joiners up to speed. While firms are desperate for new modern skills to deal with the challenges of a shifting business landscape, research shows that it can take between three to eight months for employees to become fully productive.1The new Questionmark
Longtime Customer LatConnect 60 in Partnership with Curtin University Awarded Australian Research Council (ARC) Federal GrantVIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) (“Spire” or “the Company”), a leading global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services announced today that LatConnect 60, an Australian-based satellite data and insights provider, has extended their subscription to Spire’s Automatic Identification System (AIS) vessel tracking data. LatConnect 60 and Curtin University, Western Australia’s largest university, have recently been awarded a federal grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC) to conduct research on maritime collision avoidance in shipping lanes.
Singapore is gateway to Asia as region transitions to electric vehicles. Ravi Vaidya, Vice President of Sales, APAC and the Middle East, to lead the office. SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tritium Holdings Pty Ltd (“Tritium”), a global developer and manufacturer of direct current (“DC”) fast charging technology for electric vehicles (“EVs”), today opened a new office in Singapore. The opening of the new regional office aims to cater to the increase in interest in EVs in Asia-Pacific (“APAC”) and the Middle East, and to allow the company to have local presence in the region and align more closely with its customers in Asia.
IRVINE, Calif. & SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#Avionics--Japan Airlines (JAL) has signed with Thomas Global Systems to equip the airline’s Boeing 767-300/300ER fleet with the TFD-7000 Series drop-in liquid crystal display (LCD) flight displays. The JAL award follows TFD-7000 Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) approval from the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB).TFD-7000 Series displays provide a high-performance, cost-effective LCD retrofit that resolves critical issues around cathode ray tube (CRT) obsolescence, increases operational efficiency, and provides a growth platform for new functionality.
BRISBANE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mobile Mentor, a rapidly growing technology services company and Microsoft Partner, is pleased to announce the addition of Glen Stonehouse as Head of Sales in Australia. In his new role, Stonehouse will oversee the Australian Business Development team and work to deepen relationships with customers. Stonehouse joins Mobile Mentor with over 25 years of experience in sales and operations in the IT space. Most recently, he served as Regional Manager at Canberra-based managed service provider Delv. His credentials boast a wealth of experience pertaining to sales leadership and the navigation of complex project-based outcomes.
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--$CXM #CXM--Sprinklr (NYSE: CXM), the unified customer experience management (Unified-CXM) platform for modern enterprises, today introduced Sprinklr Complaints Management, built to help banking, financial services, and insurance companies comply with Australia’s Regulatory Guidance 271 (RG 271) requirements. With advanced AI, Sprinklr Complaints Management helps organisations automatically identify a complaint and route it to the right resource – providing end-to-end auditability across 35+ digital and social channels.
Everbridge powers Australia’s Emergency Alert system, providing population-wide alerting to inform and protect the continent’s 34 million residents and annual visitors (once borders are re-opened)The live deployment of Australia’s national alerting system reinforces Everbridge’s leadership in Public Warning solutions, with wide-spread countrywide contracts across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions, capable of reaching over 2 billion citizens and travelers globally
SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc. (Nasdaq:MIGI) (“Mawson” or the “Company”), a digital infrastructure provider with diversified operations across bitcoin mining and digital asset management, today announced the closing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of 3,913,044 shares of common stock and 2,250,000 warrants to purchase up to 2,250,000 shares of common stock of the Company, which includes 293,478 warrants issued pursuant to the partial exercise of the underwriter’s option to purchase additional warrants, at a public offering price of $11.50 per share and associated warrant for total gross proceeds to the Company of approximately $45.0 million. In connection with the offering, on September 29, 2021, the Company’s common stock was listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “MIGI”.
Opticann completes shipments of CBD filmstrips formulated with Heritage CBD and manufactured using IntelGenx VersaFilm® technologyTORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Heritage Cannabis Holdings Corp. (CSE: CANN) (OTCQX: HERTF) (“Heritage” or the “Company”), is pleased to announce its subsidiary Opticann has signed two supply agreements with two well established Australian companies for the supply of medical cannabis products. The first shipment of medical cannabis CBD/CBDA filmstrips totalling $60,000 was recently completed.
Welcomes Fiona Reynolds, Global Leader in Responsible InvestmentLONDON & SYDNEY & HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners (‘Quinbrook’), a specialist investor in renewables, storage and grid support infrastructure, today announced the appointment of Fiona Reynolds to its Advisory Board. Reynolds joins Mark Fulton, Dawn Turner and recent appointee Kurt Akers in helping guide Quinbrook’s strategies and impact initiatives in climate policy, ESG and responsible investment.
MELBOURNE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto is supporting iron ore rail car manufacturing in Western Australia with a commitment to use local suppliers to build ore rail cars for its Pilbara mining operations. A tender will soon be released to the local market for an initial purchase of 50 ore rail cars, followed by an ongoing commitment of 10 ore cars a year for the next five years.The tender will be released through the Rio Tinto Buy Local portal
PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa Corporation (NYSE: AA) intends to enter the growing high-purity alumina market to address increasing demand for sustainable products through a joint development project. Alcoa of Australia Limited (AoA), a subsidiary of Alcoa Corporation, has executed a binding term sheet with Western Australia-based FYI Resources Ltd (ASX: FYI) for development activities to produce high-purity alumina, or HPA.
MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quadrant Private Equity, Five V Capital, Rodney Kagan and other shareholders of Probe CX (“Probe” or the “Company”) today announced they have entered into an agreement under which KKR will acquire a majority stake in Probe alongside existing management. The investment will be used to further fuel Probe’s robust growth and strengthen its digital capabilities to enhance its service offering to customers.
According to Procore and Dodge Data & Analytics, real-time cost management inspires a second wave of digital transformation in the construction industryCARPINTERIA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Procore Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: PCOR), a leading provider of construction management software, today released a report in partnership with Dodge Data & Analytics, a leading provider of commercial construction project data. The report found that both owners and contractors face a variety of challenges when it comes to project cost management, but they believe using one streamlined tool will help facilitate construction projects and cost management more efficiently.
EML heralds its flagship entry into open banking with the innovative Nuapay brand through the strategic acquisition of Sentenial Group BRISBANE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EML Payments’ (ASX:EML) (S&P/ASX 200) much-anticipated acquisition of Sentenial Limited and its wholly-owned subsidiaries ("Sentenial") has been approved by the French and U.K. financial regulators; L'Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). EML is acquiring Sentenial, including its open banking product suite, Nuapay, for an upfront enterprise value of €70 million (A$108.6 million), plus an earn-out component of up to €40 million (A$62.1 million).
MELBOURNE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto has published its first report on progress in improving Communities and Social Performance (CSP) practices, as the company works to rebuild trust and relationships with Traditional Owners following the destruction of the Juukan Gorge rock shelters in Western Australia. As part of efforts to increase transparency in its approach to cultural heritage protection, Rio Tinto has engaged with investors to develop reporting that details the company’s work to improve its CSP practices and outcomes.
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The global supply chain solutions leader achieved carbon neutrality for its own operations and launches its first pallet made of 100% post-consumer plastic on the path to a regenerative futureATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Brambles, the global supply chain solutions company operating in 60 countries through the CHEP brand, has released its annual Sustainability Review, which reports on its material Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues and achievements for the financial year ending June 30, 2021.
ISG Australia joins ISG India in being recognized by Great Place to Work InstituteSYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--$III #GPTWCertified--Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq:III), a leading global technology research and advisory firm, announced today it has earned “Great Place to Work Certification™” by the Great Place to Work® Institute. ISG Australia was certified this month based on the findings of a confidential employee survey about workplace culture, credibility, respect, camaraderie and pride, conducted by the Great Place to Work Institute. More than 70 ISG employees are based in Australia, advising clients across the Asia Pacific region and worldwide on digital transformation services, sourcing solutions, managed governance and risk services, benchmarking, and strategy and operations design.
