Acquisition Strengthens Yum! Brands’ Global Order Management and Delivery Capability and Integrates New Technology Talent into CompanyLOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) (Yum! Brands) announced today the completion of its acquisition of Dragontail Systems Limited (Dragontail), an innovative provider of technology solutions for the food industry, following the successful implementation of the previously announced share scheme of arrangement in accordance with Australian corporations law.
MELBOURNE, Australia & INDIANAPOLIS & KETTERING, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#illuccix--Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX: TLX, Telix, the Company) today announces it has commenced a collaboration with Kettering Health (KH), a faith-based network of 13 hospitals, emergency centers, and outpatient facilities located in Southwest Ohio; headquartered at the Kettering Memorial Hospital in Kettering, Ohio, United States.
Research identifies critical thinking as a crucial modern skill NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#Questionmark--Employers with an eye to the future now recognize problem-solving skills are as important as the technical skills required to perform a job.1 Questionmark, the online assessment provider, has identified regular assessments of a worker’s ability to solve problems as essential to ensuring the workforce has the modern skills it needs to meet today’s challenges.
BRISBANE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tritium Holdings Pty Ltd (“Tritium”), a global developer and manufacturer of direct current (“DC”) fast charging technology for electric vehicles (“EVs”), today announced a AUD$40 million private placement by Cigna Investments, Inc. (“Cigna”), the investment arm of Cigna Corporation, a U.S.-based global health services company. Tritium intends to use the proceeds from the private placement to continue scaling its global operations, including production, sales and administrative support, during its ongoing business combination with Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corporation II (“DCRN”) (NASDAQ: DCRN, DCRNW, DCRNU), which was announced on May 26, 2021, in an effort to satisfy Tritium’s existing order backlog from its customers.
SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#AI--Unleash live, one of the world’s leading A.I. video analytics platforms, today announces an $8 million Series A funding round led by SafetyCulture. Launched in 2016 by co-founders Hanno Blankenstein and Jason Grier, Unleash live’s A.I. powered real time analytics platform, ‘Intelligent Remote Vision’, generates immediate insights that enable enterprises to materially drive down costs, raise productivity, increase accuracy, and improve safety. The company has seen over 500% growth since March 2020.
MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) today announced it has appointed Leon Stavrou as head of its business in Australia and New Zealand. Stavrou was most recently a global services executive responsible for Northern Trust’s asset servicing operations across Australia and for ensuring the provision and development of Northern Trust’s tailored range of asset servicing solutions to clients across Asia Pacific. He succeeds Angelo Calvitto, who was named as head of Northern Trust in Asia Pacific
EML's partner, Vault, is helping businesses, suppliers and event organisers get their employees, customers and attendees back faster by incentivising COVID-19 jabs. BRISBANE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EML Payments’ (ASX: EML) (S&P/ASX 200) client Vault Payment Solutions believes its rewards boost for COVID shots provides a lockdown-free pathway for frustrated business owners, suppliers and venues to reopen their doors fully and help keep their workforces, customers and guests safe. The company believes its jump-start solution will quickly get more staff and visitors back on deck and become a business lifeline.
FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Metals Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”) today announced that the underwriters of its previously announced initial public offering of 25,000,000 units, which closed on August 2, 2021, have partially exercised their option to purchase additional units, resulting in the issuance of an additional 1,514,780 units at a public offering price of $10.00 per unit. After giving effect to the partial exercise and close of the option, an aggregate of 26,514,780 units have been issued in the initial public offering and an aggregate of $265,147,800 has been deposited into the Company’s trust account. The underwriters have until September 10, 2021 to exercise the remainder of their option to purchase additional units.
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PHC Holdings Corporation (headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, President & CEO: John Marotta, hereafter PHCHD), a leading global life science, diagnostics and medical device company, has today announced the appointment of William (Bill) Donnelly and Ivan Tornos as independent external directors, effective September 3, 2021. Both bring significant expertise and executive-level experience at global medical device and life sciences companies.
SHENZHEN, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#5Gsignals--Hytera, a global leading provider of Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) solutions, has signed a new contract worth USD 30 million to provide the entire integrated communication solutions with systems, equipment, terminals and services for Shenzhen Metro Line 12. In the last few years, Hytera has supported five metro lines (Line 6, 7, 9, 10 and 11) in Shenzhen with its TETRA and PDT on-board systems plus a host of value-added services of secure radio communications to improve dispatching and operation efficiency.
Leading Australian energy company attracted to support model and avenue to reduce costsLAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#ERPsupport--Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a global provider of enterprise software products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products and a Salesforce partner, today announced that Origin Energy, a leading energy provider in Australia, has switched to Rimini Street Support for its Oracle software including e-Business Suite, Oracle Database, Fusion Middleware and Hyperion. Leveraging Rimini Street for support of its Oracle software will help Origin Energy materially reduce its annual support fees and avoid the process of implementing recurring vendor updates and upgrades, enabling the company to free up internal personnel to focus on high-value business initiatives.
— Work-from-anywhere 5G solution delivers high-speed internet access for business users —SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--$INSG #5G--Inseego Corp. (Nasdaq: INSG), a leader in 5G and IoT device-to-cloud solutions, today announced that Optus Enterprise, a wholly owned subsidiary of Singtel and one of Australia’s largest telecommunications providers, has made the Inseego MiFi M2000 5G mobile hotspots available to customers.
Cybersecurity Leader Builds Regional APAC Team, Bringing Onboard Albert LeeHOBOKEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#AD--Semperis, the pioneer in identity-driven cyber resilience for enterprises, today announced new investments in the Asia-Pacific region as it extends its Active Directory protection, response, and recovery solutions to businesses in APAC. To support this expansion, the company is building out its team in the region and bringing on former Proofpoint sales director Albert Lee, a leader with 20 years of business management, enterprise sales, and operational experience in telecommunications, IT, and cyber security in the APAC region.
BELMONT, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Piedmont Lithium Inc., (“Piedmont” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: PLL, ASX: PLL), a multi-asset company focused on the integrated production of lithium hydroxide to support the North American electric vehicle supply chain, today announced it has submitted two applications related to the Company’s Carolina Lithium Project.On August 30, 2021, the Company filed its application for a North Carolina State Mining Permit with the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Energy, Mineral and Land Resources.
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jetcraft, the world leader in business jet sales, acquisitions and trades, continues to cement its global presence with the appointment of Michael McCafferty as Sales Director for the Americas, covering the Northeast US region. McCafferty joins Jetcraft following a 15-year career in business aviation, with senior level sales positions at Guardian Jet and Flexjet. Supported by an experienced team of sales directors across North and South America, McCafferty takes over the former territory of Dan Kilkeary who has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Sales for the Americas.
Participating public health authorities can now access SpeeDx diagnostics and associated services across the UKSYDNEY & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#COVID19--SpeeDx Pty, Ltd. a developer of innovative molecular diagnostic solutions- has been included in the new Public Health England (PHE) National Microbiology Framework to supply Diagnostic goods and services across the UK. Under Lot 1 of the framework, participating public health authorities can access
MATRIXX to collaborate on the development of 5G customer experiences and monetization of new 5G services FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#5G--MATRIXX Software, a global leader in 5G monetization solutions, today announced that it had renewed its partnership with Australian telecommunications company Telstra to provide monetization across their 4G and 5G networks.As the market leader, Telstra is making significant 5G investments to extend its place as the nation’s go-to service provider for consumers, SMBs and enterprises.
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pico, a leading provider of mission critical technology, data and analytic services for the financial markets community, continues its global expansion efforts by launching its colocation services in the Australian Liquidity Centre (ALC) for access to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and Chi-X Australia (located in Equinix SY2). Operating from its new Sydney base, Pico will support clients in accessing this important market, with ASX among the top 20 exchanges globally by market cap, and with dark mid-point matching for best execution. Pico will provide dedicated and shared infrastructure options, comprehensive infrastructure procurement, connectivity, and hosting, all supported by on-site engineering and data center management expertise. In addition to ASX and Chi-X market data, Pico will offer tailored technology solutions based on its global market data services. Furthermore, through Pico’s ASX connectivity, clients can access more than 60 dual-listed stocks of New Zealand’s top companies.
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Cyara Maintained a 90% Customer Retention Rate & Released Industry-First Product InnovationsREDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#AutomatedCXAssurance--Cyara, provider of the leading Automated Customer Experience (CX) Assurance Platform, announces today that it closed the second half of its 2021 fiscal year with 25% growth in SaaS bookings, a 90% customer retention rate and 8.5+ billion seconds of synthetic CX testing traffic annually. Cyara’s successful and unique approach to CX has resulted in expanding relationships with Amazon Web Services, as well as new partnerships
Highly Anticipated Hit Survival Game – Available NOW! on SwitchBRISBANE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Beam Team Games, the independent developer and publisher of Stranded Deep for PC, Xbox and Playstation®, is announcing Stranded Deep for Nintendo Switch in partnership with North Beach Games.Over 20 Million players have downloaded Stranded Deep to date, and Beam Team is excited for players to test their survival skills in the open world adventure on the Nintendo Switch for the first time.
HIGHLIGHTS Annual revenues of A$25.0 million, up 198% from FY20Commercial Services business unit delivered $22.7 million in revenues, up 188% from FY20Products business unit generated revenue of A$2.3 million from initial sales of its flagship branded product, FebriDx®, into the UK, Germany and CanadaFebriDx clinical evaluation completed and U.S. FDA 510(k) submittedNew U.S.-based manufacturing facilities increase production capacity up to 10 million POC diagnostic tests per month
PEMBROKE, Bermuda--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Arch Capital Group Ltd. [NASDAQ: ACGL] today announced the completion of the previously disclosed acquisition of Westpac Lenders Mortgage Insurance Limited (WLMI), an Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) authorized captive lenders mortgage insurance (LMI) provider to the Westpac Group (Westpac). With the transaction complete, Arch will proceed with combining the operations of WLMI with its existing Australian LMI company, Arch LMI Pty Ltd.
Company extends reach to accelerate lasting social change in more communities around the worldSYDNEY & AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Social Solutions Global, the leading cloud software provider for nonprofit and public sector social service organizations, today announced the availability of its Apricot case management software in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). Apricot is Social Solution’s flagship, comprehensive case management tool for outcomes-focused organizations. Designed with intuitive workflows and powerful reporting, Apricot enables human services organizations across the ANZ region to better track and report on services and optimize programs to better meet the needs of the people they serve. Adding to their product portfolio available in ANZ, Apricot joins Penelope by Social Solutions as an industry-leading case management tool to accelerate social change in the region.
The Cognigy Insights analytics suite will enhance the capabilities of the Cognigy.AI platform to make sense of conversational data and facilitate data-driven optimisationSYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#cognigy--Cognigy, a global leader in omnichannel customer and employee service automation with its Conversational AI platform, Cognigy.AI, today announced the launch of Cognigy Insights, a powerful analytics suite integrated with the Cognigy.AI platform to help enterprises make sense of their conversational data, and give them the means to act upon insights, all within one best-in-class suite.
CorpU’s cohort-based offering accelerates skills development and enables global customers to achieve scalable business outcomesSAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#HR--Udemy, a leading destination for learning and teaching online, today announced it has acquired CorpU, an online leadership development platform that delivers cohort-based immersive learning experiences and access to world-class experts. The acquisition deepens Udemy’s learning offerings with CorpU’s immersive experiences to deliver transformational learning that fosters innovation, leadership, and business agility.
Mawson’s subsidiary, Luna Squares LLC, now has consecutive options to extend the lease out to 2047 and also has the option to acquire the site outrightSYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc. (OTCQB:MIGI) (“Mawson”), a digital infrastructure provider with diversified operations across bitcoin mining and digital asset management, is pleased to announce it has expanded its flagship site in Georgia, USA by 11.3 acres pursuant to an amendment to the lease held by its subsidiary Luna Squares LLC.
Creation of Abitibi Hub in Québec for Lithium ProjectsPiedmont Lithium and Sayona Mining (ASX:SYA) complete acquisition of North American LithiumCombining Authier and NAL creates a potential lithium production hub in the Abitibi region of QuébecStudies underway for future restart of lithium production in QuébecEvaluation of alternatives for Québec-based lithium hydroxide manufacturing commencing
New August Investor Presentation provides update to expanding bitcoin mining operations in USA and AustraliaSYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc. (OTCQB:MIGI) (“Mawson”), a digital infrastructure provider with diversified operations across bitcoin mining and digital asset management, is pleased to announce that a new Investor Presentation is available on its website:Investor Presentation available at:
- SunMirror expands business activities to Finland, one of the most attractive mining areas in the world- Agrees to acquire the largest exploration tenement holding in Finland, including the second largest undeveloped cobalt resource in Europe- Post-transaction SunMirror to hold a highly prospective portfolio of battery metals projects in Australia and Finland- Investor focus builds around traceable raw materials for energy, mobility and tech sectors
