Editor’s Note: This press release was originally published on March 28, 2022 and since has been updated as of August 12, 2024.

PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Virgin Media O2 UK has selected VMware to help modernise its network and enable the continued success of its 5G rollout. The company will leverage VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure to rapidly design, build, test and implement virtualised network functions, boosting innovation across its network and the delivery of new services. The collaboration has underpinned the deployment of Virgin Media O2’s 5G network over the past 16 months.

VMware’s Telco Cloud Infrastructure delivers a single horizontal platform enabling Virgin Media O2 to simplify, scale, and better protect its core cloud networks. Operating a reliable, agile network that can be efficiently upgraded to maintain quality of coverage is fundamental to the success of Virgin Media O2’s 5G network – particularly in highly regulated and competitive markets.

Virgin Media O2 will also leverage VMware Tanzu for Telco’s Kubernetes cluster capabilities to build Containers as a Service (CaaS) proficiency. This will support the next generation of containerised network functions and enable Virgin Media O2 to maintain and expand the network’s ability to support multi-vendor solutions. Being able to onboard functions and interoperate between different vendors is essential in rapid deployment. VMware’s common platform enables Virgin Media O2 to add these incrementally.

“As the rollout of 5G networks comes close to completion, service providers need to be able to modernise their network infrastructure quickly, simply, and economically. The best way to do this is through a single platform that can automate and streamline delivery of multi-vendor network functions,” said Sanjay Uppal, senior vice president and general manager, Service Provider & Edge, VMware. “Through its work with VMware, Virgin Media O2 is able to deploy a network infrastructure that enables the successful roll out of its 5G services without limitations, by harnessing the agility, flexibility, and consistency of a common platform.”

Chris Buggie, Director of Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering & Delivery, Virgin Media O2, said, “Virtualising and modernising our network is essential if we are to cement our position as the leading telco provider across UK and EU and we are delighted to partner with VMware to achieve this. By utilising a consistent, NFV- and cloud-native platform for onboarding and managing our workloads and network functions, we are able reinvest into the network and our customers with a service we can be proud of.”

Learn more about how VMware is helping service providers modernise their networks at telco.vmware.com.

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About VMware

VMware is a leading provider of multi-cloud services for all apps, enabling digital innovation with enterprise control. As a trusted foundation to accelerate innovation, VMware software gives businesses the flexibility and choice they need to build the future. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is committed to building a better future through the company’s 2030 Agenda. For more information, please visit www.vmware.com/company.

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In celebration of Thunderbird’s 75th anniversary, the new five-story, 110,000-square-foot, high-tech facility features an impressive selection of Planar display solutions. According to the company, it supports the institution’s mission of being the most technological and digital leadership management business school in the world.

Planar’s selection of display installations appear throughout the new headquarters. This includes the Digital Global Forum, Global Decision Theater, Founders Ring, classrooms, meeting spaces and more.

The installations thus comprise award-winning LED, LCD, transparent OLED and custom display solutions delivering new ways for Thunderbird to recruit, instruct, collaborate and visualize data.

A Fruitful Partnership

“It’s an incredible privilege to power Thunderbird’s new global headquarters with Planar’s industry-leading display solutions,” says executive vice president, Adam Schmidt.

Schmidt continues, “Thunderbird is a world-renowned institution with a reputation of being at the forefront of innovation. In addition to elevating viewing and learning experiences, our extensive portfolio of groundbreaking visualization technologies is a perfect match for Thunderbird’s vanguard capabilities for global connectivity in its new high-tech facility. We’re thrilled to be making history with one of the most technologically sophisticated global management schools in the world.”

Also Read: Planar Debuts Luminate Ultra Series for Close Up Outdoor Viewing

An assortment of striking, smoothly curved LED displays serves as a key attraction near the building’s ground-floor entrance. This is before visitors are surrounded by an extensive range of LCD display technologies that support teaching and next-generation collaboration.

“Our vision is to not only reclaim our position as the most global leadership and management school in the world, but to also be the most digital and technological,” remarks Sanjeev Khagram, director general and dean of Thunderbird. “That was our mantra for designing and building this fantastic new global headquarters, and it’s the long-term partnerships with collaborators like Planar that has brought it to life.”

The partnership merges Planar’s nearly 40-year history of designing, deploying and supporting display solutions and leadership in delivering unparalleled visual performance with Thunderbird’s global enterprise management expertise and renowned leadership success development programs.

Thunderbird School of Global Management, ASU

List of Installations

Thunderbird students, faculty and visitors will experience the following display installations from Planar:

Facility Entrance, Digital Global Forum and Visualization Room

• Nearly 9-foot diameter Planar CarbonLight CLI Series LED video display with a 1.9 millimeter pixel pitch forms the Founders Ring. The Ring features the names of the Schools’ founders and a canvas for branding, key messages or welcoming guests.
• Custom 8.2-foot diameter LED sphere with a 3 millimeter pixel pitch suspended from the ceiling hangs in the Digital Global Forum. The Forum is a dynamic open rotunda used to host a variety of events and presentations.
• A Planar CarbonLight CLI Series LED video wall in an 18-foot-wide, 5-foot-high array with a 1.5 millimeter pixel pitch and motion-responsive technology controls content on the custom LED sphere.
• 360-degree LED video ribbon of Planar CarbonLight CLI VX Series LED displays with a 2.6 millimeter pixel pitch measures 146-feet-long and 6.5-feet-high, supports 12 videoconferencing or camera feeds.
• A second Planar CarbonLight CLI VX Series LED video wall with a 2.6 millimeter pixel pitch installed directly below the LED ribbon. Measuring 26-feet-wide and 10-feet-tall, this videowall is useful for presentations or live camera feeds.
• A 55-inch Planar LookThru Transparent OLED Display is at the front entrance and serves as a virtual greeter to welcome guests.

Classrooms and Meeting Spaces

• A curved, 30-foot-wide Planar CarbonLight CLI Flex Series LED video wall with a 1.5 millimeter pixel pitch provides a spectacular presentation and broadcast background in the Global Decision Theater.
• Nine multi-touch tables, each comprising 55-inch ultra-narrow bezel optical touch LCD displays in a 3×1 configuration for next-generation collaboration.
• Three Planar UltraRes X Series 100-inch touch 4K LCD displays in the 5th-floor Thunderbird Pub.
• Two Planar HB Series 75-inch Huddle Board touch screen displays in the Dean’s suite.
• Hundreds of additional Planar large format 4K LCD displays ranging from 55- to 98-inches deployed throughout the facility’s classrooms and learning spaces.

Thunderbird’s new global headquarters and Planar’s extensive selection of display solutions were unveiled during a special global reunion event in celebration of the School’s 75th anniversary in April. Explore One Global Place as if you were there in person through this virtual reality tour.

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Click on “View Slideshow” on upper-right corner for images of Planar’s collection of displays at Thunderbird School of Global Management.

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AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#FraudPrevention—SEON, the fraud fighters, today unveiled modern digital device fingerprinting capabilities designed to identify and counter the latest internet and mobile fraud tactics used by sophisticated fraudsters and bots.

Fraudsters increasingly use unusual device setups to speed their efforts. Device fingerprinting can combat this by analyzing users’ software and hardware configurations to determine if they are legitimate. Based on ongoing research from SEON’s data science team, this update adds new and revised checks and risk scoring to profiles and accurately stops the latest fraudster device setups. This makes it more challenging for fraudsters to trick systems and reduces false positives on real users and legitimate transactions.

SEON’s fraud detection solution also protects against tactics specifically used with mobile devices, including burner phones, virtual numbers, and disposable phone numbers. This includes protection against new, sophisticated threats like the ERMAC trojan, which spreads over phones using the Android operating system and can potentially compromise bank accounts.

“New malware-as-a-service threats like ERMAC are being developed every day, but even the most well-made malware leaves fingerprints that SEON’s advanced AI can detect,” said Jimmy Fong, Chief Commercial Officer at SEON. “We’ve dramatically simplified the effort it takes for merchants to fight the ever-changing tactics of fraudsters and bots.”

SEON uses advanced AI and more than 500 parameters to identify fraud and protect more than 5,000 online merchants every day. Its solutions dramatically simplify the deployment and use of fraud detection technologies with trials and pay-as-you-go pricing that scales with businesses as they grow revenues and customers. Only SEON openly shares new findings on fraud behavior patterns with transparent risk scoring decisions to help customers learn and adapt to rapidly changing fraud behaviors.

Visit SEON.io for more information, including a complete guide to digital device fingerprinting, a live demo, and a free trial.

About SEON

SEON helps any online business fight back against fraud. Built to be adaptable and accessible, it removes barriers to fraud prevention. With 30 days free trial, rapid integration, pay-as-you-go flexibility, SEON is a simplified, modern way to fight fraud with technology that combines social signals with digital footprint data to wean out false accounts and prevent fraudulent transactions. AI and machine learning adapt to how different businesses evaluate risk. SEON stops fraud before it happens with unbeatable speed, scale, depth, and breadth, all while running in the background with a frictionless business and consumer experience. To learn more about the company, visit: https://seon.io/

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State of Data Visualization report finds organizations struggle to share in real-time and have ongoing concerns around data security.

MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#avtweeps–Skykit, a leader in digital signage and workplace experience solutions, today announced the findings of its first ever State of Data Visualization report, exploring how companies approach the task of sharing data visualizations across the enterprise. Overall, survey respondents indicated they are increasingly sharing data dashboards to drive employee engagement, but are challenged to find secure solutions that deliver in real-time and integrate with their data analytics platforms.

The most popular methods for sharing data visualizations do not support real-time data updates, as indicated by the survey respondents. Of those responding, 42% still share graphics using USB drives and another 42% email graphics. At this time, only 40% of companies share their data via broadcast tools, like digital signage, some of which have real-time update capabilities.

The survey found that when IT managers invest in sharing data visualizations via digital signage, nearly three-fourths can tie the solution directly to ROI, with 81% saying it contributed to increased employee engagement, 67% to faster movement of goods, and 58% to reduced time spent on maintenance. Of those sharing data dashboards on digital signage solutions, 32% said their solution can update data across the enterprise in real time, while 39% said the tool updated data every minute.

“The shift to sharing data visualizations via digital signage is underway, and the results speak for themselves – more than four-fifths of users have more engaged employees,” said Irfan Khan, Skykit CEO. “Whether dashboards are shared in the boardrooms, the breakrooms, or the warehouse floor, we’re seeing that true ROI is tied to the ability to share data dashboards in real time.”

Still, IT managers say some digital signage providers aren’t quite meeting their expectations for broadcasting data dashboards. 97% of users said they eliminated a potential solution during the sales process based on the provider’s weak security protocols.

Security challenges will increase as more businesses look to return to the office post COVID-19. Nearly two-thirds, 60%, said they will need to share real-time updates with remote and hybrid workers. Businesses will also look to invest more in screens to modernize their workspaces, with 47% saying they will purchase new screens to increase employee engagement, and 36% looking to communicate business-critical information via screens throughout the enterprise.

“We know from the findings that users need their digital signage tools working as quickly as possible, with as few additional investments as possible,” Khan said. “It’s on providers to ensure we’re safely and efficiently rolling out signage technology – getting solutions live quickly, with easy integration into existing data visualization tools.”

For more findings from the State of Data Visualization 2022, including the security tools respondents said were most important, and the spaces where IT managers are most frequently broadcasting data, download the full report. To learn more about Skykit and solutions including its Beam content management tool, visit https://www.skykit.com/products/beam/.

About Skykit LLC

Skykit is a leading provider of workplace experience tools and cloud-based digital signage solutions that streamline customer and employee communication. The company’s award-winning platform is scalable, making it a perfect choice for businesses of all sizes, across a variety of industries. Launched in 2016, Skykit currently provides digital signage solutions and workplace experience software to hundreds of organizations using tens of thousands of screens around the world.

Contacts

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Krysta Larson

Vice President of Marketing

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Grand opening in Chandler, Arizona, represents a modern workplace for collaboration and innovation, with technology empowering anywhere work and sustainability at its heart

CHANDLER, Ariz.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Insight Enterprises (NASDAQ:NSIT), a Fortune 500 solutions integrator helping organizations accelerate their digital journey, today welcomed local innovation leaders to the grand opening of Insight Way, Insight’s new global headquarters based in Chandler, Arizona, designed as a modern workplace for the hybrid, anywhere worker.

The more than 200,000-square-foot innovation hub, located at 2701 E. Insight Way, emphasizes collaboration via 83 meeting spaces, and mobility through technology that allows Insight’s 1,400 Arizona teammates to transition effortlessly between collaborative teamwork in the office and individual work at home or anywhere else.

Speaking at the ribbon-cutting ceremony were Chandler Mayor Kevin Hartke; Insight co-founder Tim Crown, CEO Joyce Mullen and CFO Glynis Bryan; Colleen Flannery, CTO of Chandler Unified School District; and Dr. Greg Peterson, Chandler-Gilbert Community College president and Chandler Chamber of Commerce board chair.

“Cutting the ribbon today for our new headquarters is a proud milestone for all of us,” said Mullen. “This gorgeous building is an impressive representation of the journey Insight has taken — more than 30 years of ambitious goals and decisions as bold and bright as our fuchsia brand.”

Mayor Hartke said during the ceremony: “We are delighted to welcome Insight, which has emerged in the decades since its founding to become an industry-recognized, global solutions integrator. The work they do to help accelerate digital business and modern workplaces often occurs in the background. Yet they provide critical guidance and expertise, helping transform some of the world’s largest brands and enterprises.”

Insight’s evolution since opening in 1988 in Tempe, Arizona, and the move to a bigger and more modern facility, mark the company’s homegrown success and emergence as a leading solutions integrator. The company has grown from a garage business originally selling computer hard drives into one of Arizona’s top five companies, a $9.4 billion provider of solutions spanning all aspects of modern IT that transform the world’s top brands into digitally driven businesses. The organization has grown to nearly 12,000 teammates across 19 countries.

“We are proud Insight has opened its innovative global headquarters in Chandler,” said Sandra Watson, president and CEO of the Arizona Commerce Authority. “An admired global company, and one with Arizona roots, Insight has been at the forefront of innovation for over 30 years. Insight’s new headquarters will continue to drive economic growth, furthering Arizona as a premier destination for technology.”

Insight Way emphasizes “collaborative” zones, including formal meeting spaces ranging from small-group focus rooms to the Crown Room auditorium and training areas that accommodate up to 300 people. Rooms are decked with digital smartboards to accommodate hybrid meetings, writeable walls and ad hoc conference booking, and there is ample individual “hotel” workspace for visiting remote workers.

Informal meeting areas and amenities for teammates, partners and clients include a branded coffee shop called H3 (celebrating the company’s hunger, heart and harmony values); Café Fuchsia, a full-service cafeteria; health clinic, fitness facility, library and mother’s rooms.

The Innovation Center provides an interactive experience to help clients visualize how Insight’s digital transformation expertise can address their digital challenges.

As Insight Way is built for Gold LEED certification, technology also drives sustainability, including: solar panels covering parking areas to provide 80% of the facility’s energy consumption during peak hours, sensor-based window shutters that automatically open and close based on sun/UV intensity, an HVAC ionization system, and smart temperature and lighting. The building also features an abundance of natural lighting and 800 indoor trees and plants to improve air quality and reduce teammate fatigue.

“Insight Way is designed to be a center of innovation excellence. The technology allows us to transition effortlessly between work at home and in the office,” said Bryan, Insight’s CFO. “This is a place where group problem-solving and creativity can thrive — everything intentionally revolves around networking and movement to inspire the type of teamwork and productivity that generates the best solutions for our clients.”

For more information on Insight, visit insight.com or call 800-INSIGHT.

About Insight

Insight Enterprises, Inc. is a Fortune 500 solutions integrator with more than 11,500 teammates worldwide helping organizations accelerate their digital journey to modernize their business and maximize the value of technology. We enable secure, end-to-end transformation and meet the needs of our clients through a comprehensive portfolio of solutions, far-reaching partnerships and 33+ years of broad IT expertise. Rated as a Forbes World’s Best Employer and a Great Place to Work, we amplify our solutions and services with global scale, local expertise and a world-class e-commerce experience, realizing the digital ambitions of our clients at every opportunity. Discover more at insight.com. NSIT-M

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Scott Walters
Insight Enterprises

Tel. 480.889.9798

Email: scott.walters@insight.com

Ariel Kouvaras
Sloane & Company

Tel. 212.446.1884

Email: akouvaras@sloanepr.com

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NASHUA, N.H.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Akumina, the industry leading employee experience platform (EXP), announced today that it celebrated yet another milestone for 2022: its best quarter in the company’s seven-year history.

This continues a growth trend for the company, with three of the last four quarters surpassing the last as ‘record-breaking.’

Akumina’s leadership attributes its continued and accelerated success to the wide reach of its technology in the market with millions of daily active users leveraging the Akumina platform in over 80 countries around the globe.

“Q2 continued our sustained momentum post-pandemic with 86% year-over-year SaaS bookings growth and more blue-chip customers,” said David Maffei, President and CRO of Akumina. “New customer growth has been fantastic and significant expansion inside of our existing enterprise customer base has been just as impressive.”

New customers that joined the global Akumina Community include members of the Global Fortune500 and some of the largest corporations in the world including a large French multinational manufacturing and automation company, a U.S. based energy company with over 5-million customers and a leading global investment bank and financial services company, just to name a few.

Akumina also has expanded significantly inside of its current customer base with customers like GSK, a British multinational pharmaceutical company with headquarters in London who has been using the Akumina platform since 2017.

“GSK has teamed with Akumina for over five years, and we’ve most recently partnered with them to transform our global intranet as we enter a new era for GSK with new culture, brand and ambition,” said Alex Saunders, Head of Global Digital Communications at GSK. “Akumina has been a fantastic partner in working with us to create a personalized, experience which brings to life our new brand and culture with the aim of helping everyone at GSK be more productive.”

“Companies like GSK are making significant investments in employee experience and modern EXP technology is at the heart of that,” said Ed Rogers, Akumina CEO. “Remote work is now the norm, and enterprises need to figure out not only how to connect employees to each other, but also how to best connect employees back to the business itself and build culture in this new world. It’s not easy, but it is necessary – and what GSK has delivered to their employees on the Akumina platform is truly transformational.”

About Akumina: Akumina is the employee experience platform that empowers global enterprises to create digital experiences that help connect employees to your business, their tasks, and each other. By offering a customizable, brandable and multilingual platform that seamlessly integrates with leading enterprise cloud applications, Akumina delivers a contextual, collaborative, and engaging workplace experience to every user on any device. Akumina’s customers include MassMutual, Vodafone, Banner Healthcare, Crocs, ConocoPhillips, and GSK. To learn more visit www.akumina.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

Contacts

Samantha Kenney, VP of Global Marketing

Akumina, Inc.

samantha.kenney@akumina.com
www.akumina.com

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The carbon-negative Layer-1 leads Web3’s regenerative finance (ReFi) movement to offset the world’s carbon footprint.

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Following the Uniswap community’s approval to deploy on Celo, the Celo Foundation, along with the Climate Collective, partners and community, launches Uniswap V3 and green-asset pools to help further a regenerative financial (ReFi) system and currencies supported by natural capital on the blockchain. Uniswap’s capital-efficient decentralized exchange brings access and liquidity to the voluntary carbon market, paving the way for Climate Collective partners to begin integrating ‘programmable carbon’ and accelerate climate action.

The Celo Foundation’s DeFi for the People initiative has further pledged a total of $10M to support ReFi liquidity to create decentralized financial (DeFi) products and services that promote a regenerative rather than extractive economy, and encourage adoption of the pools on Uniswap V3.

This is Celo’s first phase of #ReFiSummer, a social media movement promoting awareness for regenerative economics while encouraging investors and protocols to meaningfully participate in global voluntary carbon markets. As part of #ReFiSummer, Uniswap users will be able to explore the Celo ecosystem and take climate-positive action over the season-long program.

To kick things off on Uniswap, the Climate Collective and the Celo Foundation will seed liquidity across several pools, beginning with the Moss carbon credit token pool CELO / MCO2 and CELO / wETH. The wETH pair will help users bridge from other EVM-compatible chains to acquire MCO2 and future ReFi assets launching on Celo’s carbon-negative blockchain.

“At Celo, we have always sought to reimagine traditional financial systems with a regenerative approach, by ascribing value to natural capital and recognizing people as unique and connected––the core values from which our foundation was built. With early DeFi protocols maturing, we are proud to galvanize and support builders and partners, from Uniswap to the Climate Collective, as well as the broader community, promoting increased awareness and adoption for ReFi products within our Celo ecosystem and beyond.” – Rene Reinsberg, President, Celo Foundation & Co-Founder, Celo

Celo hopes to strengthen web3’s ReFi ecosystem by:

• Offsetting CO2 with every transaction on its L1, totalling 3,168.4 tons to date
• Creating green asset liquidity pools with natural capital-backed assets such as tokenized carbon credits (e.g. MCO2, GNT, and NCT) and future nature backed assets, like land and forests, circulating on Celo
• Pledging to provide $10M to support ReFi liquidity
• Bringing Uniswap V3’s increased capital efficiency to the 6B smartphone users around the world
• Continuing to use Celo and Uniswap’s decentralized governance processes to increase, if approved, the Mento Reserve with nature-backed assets.
• Fostering pathways for future climate action use cases on Uniswap

About Celo

Celo is a carbon-negative, permissionless, layer-1 protocol with a rich ecosystem of global partners building innovative Web3 applications within the DeFi, ReFi, and NFT sectors on Celo in support of its community’s mission to create a more inclusive global financial system. Accessible to anyone with a mobile phone, the Celo ecosystem consists of a decentralized, proof-of-stake blockchain technology stack (the Celo Protocol), the CELO token, and several Mento Protocol stable assets (cUSD, cEUR, cREAL) that make it easy for anyone to use crypto like cash or other types of currency —every day. Launched on Earth Day in 2020, the open source Celo mainnet now supports 1000+ projects created by developers and artists located around the world. For more information, please visit Celo.org.

About Uniswap

The Uniswap Protocol is an open-source automated market making protocol that is now the world’s largest decentralized exchange and the market leader for providing liquidity and trading tokens on Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, and Optimism. As a decentralized exchange, the Uniswap Protocol provides deeper liquidity, near-instant settlement, and seamless integration with other protocols. To learn more, visit https://uniswap.org/.

About the Climate Collective

The Climate Collective is a global coalition of organizations building solutions at the intersection of climate and web3. Launched in October 2021, the Climate Collective began as an effort driven by the Celo ecosystem to combat climate change and improve community economies. By accelerating innovative technologies through grant giving, member partnerships, technical advisory, and community education, the Climate Collective promotes the awareness and adoption of regenerative finance (ReFi) to address the world’s systemic problems.

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Milestone is a commitment to operational excellence, product integrity, and customer satisfaction as Sila scales production of its next-generation silicon anode material.

ALAMEDA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sila, a next-generation battery materials company, today announced it has earned an ISO 9001 certification. Many global automotive, consumer electronics, and cell phone makers require ISO certification from their suppliers and partners. With this certification, Sila begins to establish its preparedness to satisfy the needs of these industries worldwide.

ISO 9001 is a global standard for effective Quality Management Systems (QMS). Millions of companies and organizations across 170 countries are certified to this standard, which has a strong focus on the delivery of consistent, high-quality products to customers. Sila’s certification to this global standard is part of its roadmap for scaling their next-generation silicon anode material at its current Alameda plant and its newly purchased 600,000+ sq. ft. plant in Moses Lake, Washington. The initial capacity of the new plant will produce enough anode material to power batteries in up to 500,000 premium electric vehicles and 500 million mobile phones annually, beginning in the second half of 2024. Mercedes-Benz has recently disclosed that it will incorporate Sila’s anode material in an upcoming fully electric G-Class model.

“This ISO 9001 certification is proof of our dedication to not only create the highest performing next-gen silicon anode on the market, but also manufacture it at world-scale volumes, while maintaining the highest level of product quality for our customers,” said Bill Mulligan, COO of Sila. “And this goes beyond the production floor. Our entire company is focused on operational excellence, continual improvement, and the standard set by ISO 9001. This is what’s required to properly serve premium global customers like Mercedes-Benz and others we’re in conversations with, and it gives us a strong foundation to continue to push the boundaries of battery material innovation.”

“Sila’s commitment to quality is as impressive as the technology they are dedicated to advance,” said Barbara Frencia, Business Assurance CEO in DNV, the registrar that certified Sila to ISO 9001. “During the certification process, we found Sila to be both transparent and accountable, demonstrating the willingness and ability to quickly adapt and improve. These are key traits to build quality leadership and stakeholder trust.”

Sila works to enhance all aspects of battery performance, produce quality-controlled silicon anode materials at massive scale, and support implementation to ensure customers achieve their goals and safety requirements for shipping products. After ten years of research and development and 55,000 iterations, the Sila team was the first to industrialize and make commercially available a next generation lithium-ion chemistry with dramatically higher energy density. Sila materials power WHOOP 4.0, the world’s most advanced fitness tracker. The same materials technology from Sila will be produced at the Moses Lake facility to power electric vehicles, mobile phones, and other consumer electronics.

ABOUT SILA

Founded in 2011, Sila is a next generation battery materials company accelerating energy transformation for a more sustainable future. Sila is industrializing breakthrough science— utilizing their advanced silicon anode materials— to catalyze a new energy storage era that propels radical product innovation and alleviates the world’s dependence on fossil fuels. Through deep technical ambition, persistence, and purpose, the Sila team is delivering innovative technology to market today, moving us one step closer to the electrification of everything. Major investors include 8VC, Bessemer Venture Partners, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Coatue, Mercedes-Benz, In-Q-Tel, Matrix Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures, and funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.

Contacts

Hannah Williams

SutherlandGold for Sila

sila@sutherlandgold.com

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More companies realizing efficiencies and cutting costs using Veryfi technology

SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#AIML—Veryfi, using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to transform documents into structured data in just seconds, has announced continued strong business momentum and growth in the second quarter.

As economic concerns increase, many companies begin to reduce their staff to control costs; 88 percent of job loss in routine occupations occurs within 12 months of a recession. While economic uncertainty continues, Veryfi has emerged as a trusted, reliable partner for companies seeking greater efficiency and stronger customer relationships, continuing its strong annual recurring revenue (ARR) growth. In the second quarter, Veryfi added over a dozen new logos and major accounts including a top supplier of enterprise resource planning software and one of the world’s largest CRM/Direct Marketing Network companies.

“As companies seek new ways to increase efficiency and manage costs to position themselves for a challenging economy, Veryfi is leading the way, applying AI to automate routine data entry and streamline business processes,” said Ernest Semerda, co-founder and CEO of Veryfi. “In Q2, we welcomed over a dozen new customers and multiple strategic accounts spanning key use cases from loyalty marketing to intelligent automation for accounts payable. We are seeing cross-market demand for our Veryfi technology.”

The Veryfi AI-driven optical character recognition (OCR) software is pre-trained on hundreds of millions of documents delivering Day 1 Accuracy* so that companies accelerate their time to value and start achieving efficiency gains in hours, not months. An integration to Veryfi via its application programming interface (API) can take as little as five lines of code, across a broad range of popular programming languages, mobile frameworks, and operating systems. Once integrated, customers accelerate data extraction by a multiple of 200 times, cutting time spent from 10 minutes to 3 seconds per document, with a 10 times reduction in error rates when compared with manual data entry.

After its strong Q1, and coming off the successful launch of the latest Veryfi Lens mobile receipt capture SDK, the company is extending its leadership position as go-to technology for Direct-to-Consumer and Loyalty Marketing campaigns. As consumer packaged goods and loyalty marketing companies recognize the immense value and consumer insights that become available from the data included in receipts, they are increasingly seeking accurate and secure technology as the basis for their programs.

The strong growth continues momentum from the first quarter when Veryfi won globally-recognized customers including the largest retail property group in the southern hemisphere with $22 billion in retail assets under management, and the largest home improvement retailer in the U.S.

Eliminating manual data entry, Veryfi enables organizations to accurately capture, extract and transform documents such as receipts, invoices, purchase orders, checks, credit cards, and W-2s into structured data, at scale. Veryfi uses advanced AI/ML technology, trained by hundreds of millions of documents over the past four years, to extract data and transform it into a structured format for 85 currencies, 39 languages, and 90 defined fields such as total, tax, VAT, SKU, vendor, invoice number, which can then be accessed for a wide variety of business applications.

To learn more about Veryfi read this Intelligent Automation Solution Brief and register for Intelligent Automation Week in Chicago from July 27-29.

About Veryfi

Veryfi empowers organizations to capture, extract and transform unstructured documents including receipts, invoices, purchase orders, checks, credit cards, and W-2s into structured data at scale. The company’s technology reduces or eliminates manual data entry and unlocks valuable business intelligence in seconds. Trusted by enterprises and software companies alike, Veryfi’s AI-driven platform delivers fast, accurate, and secure data to hundreds of companies globally. Learn more at www.veryfi.com.

* Day 1 Accuracy is a trademark of Veryfi.

Contacts

Media Contact
Joseph Eckert for Veryfi

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Accelerates performance validation of a cloud-native 5G radio access network in digital twin environments

SANTA ROSA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–$KEYS #3GPP—Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that delivers advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced that AI-LINK has selected Keysight’s 5G test tools for end-to-end performance validation of cloud-native 5G radio access network (RAN) equipment in a digital twin laboratory environment, which accelerates 5G private network deployments for large-scale smart warehouse applications.

Based in China, AI-LINK, provides industrial internet of things (IIoT) solutions, built on 5G and cloud edge computing technology platforms. AI-LINK chose Keysight’s user equipment (UE) emulation solution (UeSIM) and LoadCore, a cloud-native 5G core (5GC) network test solution, to simulate a large number of industrial mobile devices designed for deployment in 5G private networks. Keysight’s solutions enabled AI-LINK to verify the function and performance of 5G RAN equipment prior to deployment in smart warehouses.

“The completion of the 5G new radio 3GPP Release 16 specification has laid the foundation for enterprises in different industries to deploy IIoT connectivity solutions based on 5G in combination with digital twin, cloud and mobile edge computing technologies,” said Giampaolo Tardioli, vice president and general manager of Keysight’s Network and Operators group. “Keysight is pleased to support AI-LINK with test solutions that speed the validation of 5G private network equipment used in large-scale 5G intelligent warehouses.”

AI-LINK used Keysight’s 5G test solutions to simulate and stress test the behavior of autonomous guiding vehicle (AGVs) used in smart warehouses. Using Keysight’s UeSIM and LoadCore, AI-LINK can verify the interoperability of the protocol domain and the radio frequency domain. End-to-end verification of the 5G private network in a laboratory environment enables AI-LINK to quickly, efficiently and securely resolve complex connectivity issues that may occur in large-scale industrial scenarios. As a result, AI-LINK can accelerate deployments of 5G private networks.

“AI-LINK Networks is committed to promoting the implementation of 5G edge intelligence in smart warehouses and other scenarios,” said Dr. Letian Rong, chief marketing officer at AI-LINK Networks. “AI-LINK’s close cooperation with Keysight enables us to optimize our one-stop deployment process.”

Keysight offers a comprehensive range of integrated 5G software and hardware test solutions that enable manufacturers to accelerate design, development, standards compliance validation and deployment of 5G RAN used to create high-speed, low-latency and high reliability connectivity in complex industrial use cases such as smart warehouses and other private networks.

About Keysight Technologies

Keysight delivers advanced design and validation solutions that help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Keysight’s dedication to speed and precision extends to software-driven insights and analytics that bring tomorrow’s technology products to market faster across the development lifecycle, in design simulation, prototype validation, automated software testing, manufacturing analysis, and network performance optimization and visibility in enterprise, service provider and cloud environments. Our customers span the worldwide communications and industrial ecosystems, aerospace and defense, automotive, energy, semiconductor and general electronics markets. Keysight generated revenues of $4.9B in fiscal year 2021. For more information about Keysight Technologies (NYSE: KEYS), visit us at www.keysight.com.

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Contacts

Geri Lynne LaCombe, Americas/Europe

+1 303 662 4748

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Fusako Dohi, Asia

+81 42 660-2162

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