MEXICO CITY: monday.com, a customizable work operating system, and Xertica, a leading cloud computing consulting firm in Latin America, are partnering to work together in Latin America, where monday.com has 10,000 customers. This aims to help companies, through monday.com’s resources, to be more competitive and achieve their goals with their remote teams. According to GlobalData,…
AIDA Cruises will resume cruise operations with fall and winter voyages
ROSTOCK: AIDA Cruises, the leading cruise line in Germany and a part of Carnival Corporation & plc, announced that it will offer cruises this fall and winter that combine the fascination of a cruise trip with an unforgettable holiday experience to several popular destinations. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the conditions are currently not in…
Southern California Edison gets green light for $436mn expanded EV charging program
ROSEMEAD: State officials gave Southern California Edison (SCE) the green light for an expansive electric car charging infrastructure program that will add about 38,000 new chargers throughout the utility’s 50,000-square-mile service area. The program, known as Charge Ready 2, will be the nation’s largest light-duty electric vehicle charging program run by an investor-owned utility. “This…
HSBC ETFs plc launches a new multi-currency sub-fund
LONDON: The Board of Directors of HSBC ETFs plc announced the launch of a new nulti-currency (USD/GBP) sub fund: HSBC EMERGING MARKET SUSTAINABLE EQUITY UCITS ETF. The investment objective of HSBC Emerging Market Sustainable Equity UCITS ETF is to replicate the performance of the FTSE Emerging ESG Low Carbon Select Index, while minimising as far…
Northamber appoints Alex Phillips as new Managing Director
LONDON: Northamber PLC announce that Alex Phillips is to become the Company’s Managing Director with effect from 1 September 2020, having been appointed to the board as Commercial Director and prior to that he was the Director of Strategy. Alex remains an executive director on the board of Northamber. Northamber PLC is a United Kingdom-based…
British Gas pays £1.73 million for handling of changes to prepayment meter top-up arrangements
LONDON: British Gas failed to notify around 270,000 prepayment customers about a change of top-up provider, from Paypoint to Payzone, which went live on 1 January 2020. This meant that some customers, many of whom are in a vulnerable situation, may have suffered detriment through wasted journeys to try and top-up at shops which no…
Keywords Studios acquires Maverick Media Limited for £3.6 million
LONDON: Keywords Studios, the international technical and creative services provider to the global video games industry, announced the acquisition of Maverick Media Limited, a video games creative marketing agency, for an amount of up to £3.6 million. The acquisition furthers the Group’s strategy to become the ‘go to’ technical and creative services platform for the…
Data analytics consultancy Brightblue to merge with MightyHive
LONDON: S4Capital plc announced that Brightblue Consulting, an award-winning UK-based data analytics and measurement consultancy, will merge with MightyHive, S4Capital’s data and digital media practice. The merger builds upon MightyHive’s recently launched data practice, adding deep probabilistic attribution expertise to its experienced and rapidly-growing team. According to MicroStrategy’s “2020 Global State of Enterprise Analytics,” 65%…
Aurizon successfully prices A$ medium term notes
SINGAPORE: Aurizon announced it has successfully priced another issuance under its Aurizon Network Pty Ltd (Aurizon Network) A$ Debt Issuance Program. The A$500 million 10-year notes will be issued at a fixed coupon of 2.9% per annum, pricing at 210 basis points over the 10-year swap rate. Settlement of the issuance is expected to take…
HEC and Huawei to quadruple ICT Training Program
ISLAMABAD: The Huawei ICT Academy program will increase the number of training slots for Pakistani students four fold, from 800 per year to over 3,000 per year. A strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed between the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and Huawei Technologies Pakistan. Under the MoU, Huawei ICT Academies will…
KT Corporation
KT Corporation (Hangul: 케이티 주식회사), formerly Korea Telecom, is South Korea’s largest telecommunications company. The formerly state-owned firm is South Korea’s first telecommunications company and as such it dominates the local landline and broadband Internet market, serving about 90 percent of the country’s fixed-line subscribers and 45 percent of high-speed Internet users. After selling its…
Konami Holdings Corporation
Konami Holdings Corporation is a Japanese entertainment and gambling conglomerate. It operates as a product distributor (which produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, pachinko machines, and arcade cabinets), video game developer and publisher company. Konami has casinos around the world and operates health and physical fitness clubs across Japan Konami’s video game…