LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto and POSCO, the largest steel producer in South Korea and one of the world’s leading steel producers, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly explore, develop and demonstrate technologies to transition to a low-carbon emission steel value chain. The partnership will explore a range of technologies for decarbonisation across the entire steel value chain from iron ore mining to steelmaking, including integrating Rio Tinto’s iron ore processing technology and POSCO’s steelmaking technology.
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CASA GRANDE, Ariz. & VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#Arizona--Elim Mining Incorporated (“Elim” or the “Company”), an emerging private US-based copper developer and producer, is pleased to announce the appointment of George Ogilvie as President, Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and Director, effective immediately. Alan Edwards will remain a member of the Board of Directors.
MELBOURNE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto has appointed Isabelle Deschamps to succeed Barbara Levi as Chief Legal Officer & External Affairs. Isabelle, who is currently General Counsel of AkzoNobel and a member of the Executive Committee, will join Rio Tinto on 25 October 2021. Isabelle, a dual Canadian and UK citizen, has over 20 years’ experience in various senior legal roles across Europe and Canada. She joined AkzoNobel in 2018 as Group General Counsel, where she is responsible for all legal, integrity & compliance and intellectual property management, as well as company secretary. She was a driving force behind the Diversity & Inclusion programme.
Dialpad Contact Center improves customer experiences for cricket fans across AustraliaBENGALURU, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dialpad Inc., the industry leader in AI-powered communication and collaboration, announced Cricket Australia selected Dialpad’s Cloud Contact Center to improve its customer and fan experience. Cricket Australia, the national governing body for the game in Australia, helps procure and deploy technology for all state and territory associations. The organization chose Dialpad to ensure call center operations run smoothly for its members, including Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA) and South Australian Cricket Association (SACA), especially during peak season.
Dialpad Contact Center provides reliable, scalable solution to keep cricket fans connected across AustraliaSYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dialpad Inc., the industry leader in AI-powered communication and collaboration, announced Cricket Australia selected Dialpad’s Cloud Contact Center to improve its customer and fan experience. Cricket Australia, the national governing body for the game in Australia, helps procure and deploy technology for all state and territory associations. The organisation chose Dialpad to ensure call center operations run smoothly for its members, including Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA) and South Australian Cricket Association (SACA), especially during peak season.
Strategic New Partnerships with Linktree, Staples Canada and Sprout Social Help Knowledge Workers Improve Workflows and Achieve Their GoalsSYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Canva, the global visual communications and design platform, today announced a series of strategic new partnerships with Linktree, Staples Canada and Sprout Social, giving businesses around the globe the power to design anything, and print and publish anywhere. The announcement comes at a time of hypergrowth for Canva’s partner ecosystem, with the fast-growing company reaching over 450 partners globally, across every continent on the planet.
Leaning on experience in Australia, where B2B payments are over 90% digital, Finstro’s solution offers suppliers and buyers a new way to trade and drive business growthDENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#B2B--Finstro, a technology-powered provider of trade credit and payment solutions for B2B commerce, is planning to capitalize on growing digital adoption momentum in the business-to-business (B2B) space as it rolls out its card solution and an integrated ERP solution designed to support the supplier/buyer trade relationship.
Imaging of compact uranium deposit now underway in Athabasca BasinVANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#cleantech--Canadian Earth ‘x-ray’ start-up Ideon Technologies and French Orano Group (Orano), one of the top world uranium producers, have deployed the world’s first comic-ray muon detector for use in industry-standard boreholes. The EUREKA-approved research and development project, which is receiving advisory services and funding support from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP
Promotion of acting regional leader to support and capitalize on continued growing demand for third-party support solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific and help achieve the Company’s target of $1B in annual revenue by 2026LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#RMNI--Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a global provider of enterprise software products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products and a Salesforce partner, today announced the promotion and appointment of Daniel Benad to group vice president and regional general manager, Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific (OCEANIA). In this role, Benad is responsible for the Company’s full business operations in the region, including sales, client success, service delivery and field marketing. Benad reports to Gerard Brossard
New white paper co-authored by Chuck Cooper sets out the benefits of business partner certification NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#IBM--Certifying the skills and knowledge of people that re-sell IT products can significantly boost customer satisfaction and reduce support costs. In a new white paper, online assessment provider Questionmark, sets out the benefits of certifying the business-partner channel.
Sign Up Today for a Chance to Win a Collectible Megumin Figurine and More!LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#KonoSubaFantasticDays--Last weekend at Anime Expo Lite 2021, leading game publisher Nexon revealed an exclusive trailer for the new free-to-play mobile RPG KonoSuba: Fantastic Days, announcing that pre-registration is live as of today! Fans interested in pre-registering can visit konosuba.nexon.com
ISG Provider Lens™ report says companies accelerated SDN deployments to increase network capacity and cloud-based resources for remote work, supply chain and logistics challengesSYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--$III #5G--Australian enterprises have stepped up their adoption of software-defined networking (SDN) in response to changes in work and customer behavior caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report published today by Information Services Group (ISG
Project ensures long-term gas supply from Gorgon to customers in Australia and AsiaSAN RAMON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Chevron Australia Pty Ltd. (Chevron Australia) as operator and the Gorgon joint venture participants will proceed with the approximately $4 billion (AU$6 billion) Jansz-Io Compression (J-IC) project.
ALPHARETTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cyble, an AI-powered, Y Combinator-backed, cyber threat intelligence company that empowers organizations with darkweb & cybercrime monitoring and mitigation services, today announced that Tim Youm, ex- Regional Sales Director (Asia Pacific) at MobileIron and former Security SW Sales Leader at IBM Australia & New Zealand, has joined hands with Cyble as the Regional Sales Director – ANZ region.
Global Ground Transportation Company Rolls out New Software for Enhanced Vendor ExperienceRALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#airportproviders--Today, AirportShuttles.com, a global airport ground transportation booking company, announced after 11 months of beta testing the roll out of their new automated software – providing an easy way for airport transportation providers to join the AirportShuttles.com Supplier Program, and for ride-seeking customers to have more dependable, quality transportation options available for fast, easy scheduling.
MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#biotech--mRNA Victoria, the agency of the Australian State of Victoria Government charged with building the State’s mRNA manufacturing and research capability announced that a locally-developed COVID vaccine candidate will enter Phase 1 clinical trials in October, 2021. Preliminary trial results for the vaccine candidate are expected in the first half of 2022.
Level Increase, 5th Job Skills, and Arcane River Special Content arrive July 5LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#3rdAnniversary--MapleStory M, the free-to-play mobile MMORPG for iOS and Android, is celebrating its third anniversary with a host of new features and content beginning with the latest game update arriving July 5 which includes the highly anticipated addition of 5th Job Skills and Arcane River Special Content and a level cap increase to 230.
TORONTO & PERTH, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#PDF--AbleDocs Inc. the leader in PDF accessibility products and services, announces its acquisition of Web Key IT, a recognized leader in web accessibility services. Both companies’ founders and teams are excited to work together to provide global access to digital accessibility. The acquisition will widen the global presence of AbleDocs’ products, services, training, and localized document accessibility support across 49 languages.
PERTH, Western Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TurnKey Lender is pleased to welcome Peppermint Innovation as a new addition to its rapidly expanding client family in Asia. Peppermint Innovation is an ASX-listed fintech company (ASX:PIL) focused on the commercialization of the Peppermint Platform, a proprietary technology platform targeting four key business sectors – mobile payments, eCommerce, delivery and logistics, and mobile financial services.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--$CS #CS--Capstone Mining Corp. (“Capstone” or the “Company”) (TSX:CS) is pleased to announce that it has published its “Sustainable Thinking: Seeing Beyond” 2020 Sustainability Report (the “Sustainability Report” or the “Report”). The Sustainability Report is Capstone’s fifth full sustainability report and was prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI") Standards, Core option. The Report provides details relating to the Company’s programs and performance on topics material to Capstone’s two operating mines: Pinto Valley in Arizona, USA, and Cozamin, in Zacatecas, Mexico, as well as the Santo Domingo project in Chile. The Report follows the publication of an Interim Sustainability Summary in October 2020, for the period January 1, 2018 – June 30, 2020.
With more than 50% growth in APAC-based business year over year, SmartBear increases headcount and support for local customers and partners with new, larger office in downtown MelbourneMELBOURNE, Australia & SOMERVILLE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#AI--SmartBear, a leading provider of software development and quality tools, has opened a new, larger office in Melbourne, Australia to support significant company growth in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. SmartBear has experienced more than 50% growth over the last four years since launching the company’s APAC presence
ADELAIDE, South Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The company behind Australia’s first facility for the manufacturing of microbial therapies has set its sights on global impact, applying to the Therapeutic Goods Administration, Australia’s regulatory authority, for approval of their world-first biologic drug product. South Australian based biotechnology company BiomeBank has submitted for Market Authorisation of their product for the treatment of recurrent Clostridioides difficile (C-diff) and Ulcerative Colitis in a bid to meet unmet medical need across Asia Pacific.
Exclusive licensing agreement for the development of a patented formulation of oral arsenic trioxide in the treatment of autoimmune diseasesInitially the oral formulation of arsenic trioxide (Arscimed) will target the treatment of ambulatory patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGvHD)The bioavailability of the oral form is equivalent to that of the intravenous formulation as validated in a clinical study in a cohort of cancer patients
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The Future of Nucleic-Acid based VaccinationGOLDEN, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PharmaJet®, the maker of innovative, needle-free injection technology, today announced that patient enrollment has started for the phase 1 trial in Australia using its Needle-free Injection Systems to deliver a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. COVIGEN, a DNA-based vaccine was developed by French-Thai pharmaceutical company BioNet-Asia
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--$NKL #mining--Nickel 28 Capital Corp. (“Nickel 28” or the “Company”) (TSXV:NKL) (FSE:3JC) is pleased to announce that the TSX Venture Exchange has accepted the Company's notice to implement a normal course issuer bid ("NCIB") to purchase, for cancellation, up to 7,478,209 of its common shares, representing 8.7% of Nickel 28’s common shares (calculated in accordance with the rules of the TSX-V), over a twelve month period commencing on July 2, 2021. The NCIB will expire no later than July 1, 2022. Nickel 28 has entered into an exclusive agreement with Haywood Securities Inc. to conduct the NCIB on behalf of the Company.
Agreement will connect SpeeDx chemistry with the extensive range of MolGen equipment for a fully integrated, high-throughput sample-to-answer workflowSYDNEY & UTRECHT, Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#COVID19--SpeeDx Pty, Ltd. and MolGen announced the signing of an agreement to collaborate on supply and distribution of clinical diagnostics products and instrumentation across Europe and Asia Pacific. The partnership links specimen handling, nucleic acid extraction, assay set-up, amplification, and results reporting in a seamless integration of the companies technologies.
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) ‘s new insider guide to Japan features things to do and see that will sooth your soul. These contents are associated with the “Wellcation” concept that helps visitors relieve stress and anxiety arising from difficulties of the past year. Japan is often associated with big cities like Tokyo and Osaka, but 70% of Japan’s topography is comprised of dense forests and mountainous terrain. Leveraging this landscape, Japan has long excelled at harmoniously mixing art and nature, with countless open-air art facilities across the archipelago showcasing a cornucopia of sculptures and installations. Among them is Moerenuma Park
New Finish Complements the Beautiful, Lightweight Slim DesignLAUSANNE, Switzerland & NEWARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Logitech G, a brand of Logitech (SIX: LOGN) (NASDAQ: LOGI) and leading innovator of gaming technologies and gear, today introduced a new, lightweight headset to its Color Collection, the Logitech G335 Wired Gaming Headset, which is available in three colors including the new Mint colorway. To complete the collection, Logitech G is also making its G305 Wireless Gaming Mouse available in Mint, allowing gamers to match their gaming gear to their personal style.
