EVERVISION'S EVERPAY ENTERS INTO A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH MALAYSIA'S ASIA DIGITAL BANK

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 16 (Bernama) -- everVision, Arweave's Web3 infrastructure provider, has recently entered into a strategic partnership with Malaysia’s Asia Digital Bank. The partnership will open up a new chapter in Arweave's role as the underlying settlement infrastructure for innovative digital financial institutions.

It is reported that Asia Digital Bank will use everVision's digital asset payment protocol everPay to fully upload the digital asset ledger of financial institutions to Arweave and use this as an opportunity to create a low-cost blockchain solution for trusted collaborations among multiple financial institutions in the future.

In addition, the two parties will jointly explore a series of organic combinations of licensed financial institutions and Web3 technology in a legal and compliant manner, such as jointly building a digital finance management platform, jointly researching an aggregation trading platform, and co-creating a joint laboratory to create a prototype of a cross-chain multi-currency payment and settlement system.

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CUSTOMERS IN MALAYSIA CAN NOW SHOP FROM OVER THOUSANDS OF DEALS DURING BLACK FRIDAY ON AMAZON SINGAPORE TO KICK OFF THE HOLIDAY SEASON

Tis’ the season for early holiday shopping with thousands of deals starting Friday, November 25, including deep discounts of up to 60% on deals and promotions (T&Cs apply).

In addition to the discounts/offers on SG selection, customers can also save big on Amazon International Store items available on Amazon.sg during the sale period.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov 16 (Bernama) -- (NASDAQ: AMZN) – For the first time ever, customers in Malaysia will be able to shop hundreds and thousands of incredible Black Friday deals on Amazon Singapore starting on Friday, November 25 at amazon.sg/blackfriday. Customers will now be able to shop epic deals on top brands and must-have items across Books, Toys, Home, Kitchen and more including Lego, Thermos, Hasbro and National Geographic. In addition, Amazon Singapore is offering exciting deals from small and medium-sized businesses such as Table Matters, Armaggeddon, Redragon and more.
 
Malaysian customers can shop tens of millions of products from Amazon.sg and also enjoy free delivery with a minimum spend of S$40 on eligible orders shipped by Amazon SG and Amazon US (know more). Additionally, customers can view the product prices in their local currency - Malaysian Ringgit (MYR) - by switching to their preferred currency of browsing on Amazon.sg website and App from the currency settings (know more).
 
Black Friday Top Deals Preview
Below is a sneak peek of the top deals available during Amazon Singapore’s Black Friday event, from November 25 through November 28, while supplies last. Specific product deals can be found below. 

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"RAINFOREST AND YOU" EXPERIENTIAL ACTIVITY HELD IN WUZHISHAN, HAINAN, CHINA

HAIKOU, China, Nov. 16, 2022 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/--
 

Recently, an activity themed "Rainforest and You" that integrates live-action performance at fields was held in Wuzhishan City, Hainan Free Trade Port, China. The pleasant rural scenery, unique culture of Li ethnic group, and wonderful singing and dancing performances have attracted a large number of tourists, according to Publicity Department of Wuzhishan Municipal Party Committee.   This year, the main venue of the "Rainforest and You" is set in the Wuzhishan area of Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park. There will be more than ten cultural tourism activities, including natural education, forest health care, leisure and vacation, ecological science popularization and wildlife appreciation, successively carried out in the surrounding cities and counties of Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park.   According to Lin Qing, the chief planner and chief director of the "Rainforest and You" activity, the live-action performances are the highlight of this activity, which, under the natural background of Wuzhishan rural grain-sunning ground, ecological farmlands, and field trails, integrated with the local minority cultures, include about 430 local mass to act in the performances together, and are planned to be upgraded to a sustainable rural cultural tourism project.   The "Rainforest and You" activity is an ecological culture brand activity planned and launched by Hainan Province. It aims to fully enhance the publicity and promotion of Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park, show the charm of the national park, cultivate the national park culture, spread the concept of the national park, and display the fruitful results of tropical rain forest protection and national park construction in all respects.    http://mrem.bernama.com/viewsm.php?idm=44742

CONTENTSTACK RAISES $80 MILLION SERIES C CO-LED BY GEORGIAN AND INSIGHT PARTNERS TO ACCELERATE THE PATH TO COMPOSABLE FOR ENTERPRISE

Largest homegrown Indian Content Management System (CMS) will use the funds to help global brands meet consumer demand for omnichannel and personalized experiences and to recruit talent across India

VIRAR, MUMBAI, India, Nov 16 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Contentstack, the Content Experience Platform (CXP) category leader and composable architecture pioneer, today announced $80 million in Series C funding. Georgian and Insight Partners co-led the round with participation from Illuminate Ventures. All three companies continue to grow their investment with Contentstack, contributing to a $169 million total raised thus far. The Company will use the funds to continue supporting enterprise companies on their path to composable, empowering them to meet consumer demand for omnichannel and personalized experiences.

Georgian’s Lead Investor Emily Walsh will join the Contentstack board along with Contentstack CFO David Overmyer.

“We look for high-growth companies with great leadership and a strong work culture. We also love to help disruptors do what they do best,” said Walsh. “For all these reasons, we chose to double down on our investment. Contentstack’s ability to ensure customers are successful while also innovating at record speeds positions them as the leader in the CMS market. We are proud to co-lead this round and provide the Company with the support required for true category leadership.”

Contentstack is the largest homegrown Indian CMS representing global brands like Chase, Holiday Inn, Levi’s, Mattel, McDonald's, Mitsubishi, and Shell. The Company will also use the funds to continue to grow and recruit in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Pune and Virar-Mumbai.

"We are super excited to be among the fastest growing SaaS companies in India,” said Nishant Patel, Contentstack’s co-founder and CTO. “Contentstack was incubated in India-based Raw Engineering before it was spun out to take on a more global presence in 2018. Our mission is to help support and drive massive growth in the Indian startup ecosystem. Recently sponsoring the NASSCOM Product Conclave helped energize that mission; you can expect more of that to come.”

As the only headless CMS offering a solution to “integration hell” with Automation Hub, Contentstack delivers a viable path to composable for enterprises. By automating and streamlining hundreds of activities across technologies and vendors in real-time, enterprises can now more aggressively retire costly legacy content management systems (CMS). This also allows them to unlock digital experience innovation more broadly andrealize a significantly greater return-on-investment.

The Company’s flagship Care Without Compromise^TM program ensures cross-vendor support in composable environments. With Automation Hub and Care Without Compromise, Contentstack is again at the forefront of the composable movement, which strives to set customers up for success in today’s rapidly changing business and technology landscape.

Since Contentstack’s Series B in June 2021, its expertise has led to growth in size and scale of use cases as more enterprises have adopted composable architecture at the center of their digital strategies. The Company:

• Grew to more than 400 employees and approaching 50K+ users in 70+ global markets
• Doubled the number of customers served and nearly tripled ARR, while maintaining a 97% customer retention rate
• Scaled with the largest global brands – 42% with greater than $1B in revenue, 35% of them are publicly traded
• Delivered a cloud-agnostic solution supporting both AWS and Microsoft Azure in the US and Europe

Contentstack also is a certified Great Place to Work in India (September 2021-2023), won six 2022 Comparably Best Places to Work Awards, and was honored as an Inc. Best Workplaces in 2021. Austin Business Journal named CEO Neha Sampat one of Austin’s Best CEOs in 2022.

About Contentstack

Contentstack™ – the Content Experience Platform (CXP) category leader – empowers marketers and developers to deliver composable digital experiences at the speed of their imagination. Companies such as ASICS, Chase, Express, Holiday Inn, Icelandair, Mattel, McDonald's, Mitsubishi, Riot Games and Shell trust Contentstack to power their most critical content experiences with uncompromising scale and dependability. Famous for its Care without Compromise™, Contentstack has achieved the industry's highest customer satisfaction rating. Contentstack is also a founder of the MACH Alliance, setting the industry agenda for open and composable technology that is Microservices-based, API-first, Cloud-native SaaS, and Headless. Learn more at http://www.contentstack.com. 

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Systems developer for Japan's first digital bank to offer full-cloud banking system

 

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 14 (Bernama) -- Japanese systems developer Zerobank Design Factory Co Ltd (ZDF), a subsidiary of the Fukuoka Financial Group, has announced it will begin offering a full-cloud banking system.

It said the system would be based on the core system that ZDF and Accenture developed for Minna Bank, Japan’s first digital bank.

“We are convinced that this full-cloud system is the solution to many of the challenges faced by companies seeking to enter the banking business.

“By sharing our successful experience with customers in a wide range of industries, we hope to contribute to the development of digital banking in Japan and abroad,” said ZDF and Minna Bank president and chief executive officer Kenichi Nagayoshi in a statement.

ZDF said it would provide this system to domestic and overseas financial institutions and non-financial businesses seeking to introduce new banking services.

By promoting digital transformation in the global financial industry, ZDF aims to realise its mission to “deliver valuable connections to everyone”.

“The system will enable businesses to quickly build banking systems from scratch on the cloud, allowing them to rapidly expand financial services optimised for each customer,” it said.

ZDF said the banking services provided could be completed on a smartphone through an intuitive user interface that makes opening accounts, making deposits, transferring money and applying for loans effortless.

“In addition, the system includes an analytics engine that allows the operator to visualise account processes such as deposits and withdrawals, interest accrual and fees to better personalise offerings for each customer,” it added.

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MGA ENTERTAINMENT FORMS SUBSIDIARY, ACQUIRES PIXEL ZOO ANIMATION

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 15 (Bernama) -- MGA Entertainment Inc (MGA), one of the world’s largest and fastest growing privately held toy and entertainment company, has formed MGA Studios in a move that  underscores MGA’s continued commitment to a rapidly evolving digital entertainment landscape.

The subsidiary will be backed with more than half a billion dollars in cash and assets, a statement said.

“In addition to growing our large catalogue of television, movie and streaming content, via MGA Studios, we aim to create smaller and safer mini universes for our children to grow and develop in a seamless digital and physical entertainment ecosystem,” MGA founder and chief executive officer Isaac Larian said.

MGA also said that global leading digital animation studio Pixel Zoo Animation is MGA Studios’ first acquisition.

In the past several years, Pixel Zoo had pushed the limits of high-quality animation and content for children and families. The statement said Pixel Zoo founder and CEO Paul Gillett will continue his role to support MGA Studios’ growth.

MGA Studios will be charged with independently developing and growing a digital presence through acquisitions, partnerships, and in-house development of innovative content and original intellectual property, the statement said.

MGA Studios president Jason Larian said MGA has demonstrated time and again its ability to create multiple blockbuster brands from the ground up.

“The purpose of MGA Studios will be to facilitate the expansion of these brands beyond the toy aisle and turn them into true transmedia franchises, including entertainment, gaming, and online experiences,” Larian said.

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CLINIXERO, A DIABETES MANAGEMENT HEALTHCARE BRAND, AWARDED MALAYSIA BOOK OF RECORDS FOR MOST PATIENTS IN A VIRTUAL DIABETIC PROGRAMME

 

Photo caption: Clinixero awarded By Malaysia Book of Records for "Most Patients in Virtual Diabetic Programme". Holding the award are founder Dr Andrew Chiew and co-founder Dr Jasmine Chiew; flanked by representatives from the Malaysia Book of Records. 

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 14 (Bernama) -- Ahead of World Diabetes Day 2022 on 14 November, Clinixero, a diabetes management healthcare brand of Sozo Management and Resources Sdn Bhd celebrated by receiving the certificate awarded by Malaysia Book of Records for having the “Most Patients in a Virtual Diabetic Programme”.
 
Dr Andrew Chiew, founder of Clinixero, “During the pandemic, our patients had difficulty coming to our wellness centre. This was when we decided to convert our consultations entire online so that we can reach out to our patients near and far. You can say that we are one of the healthcare providers that adopted tele-consultation very early and entirely. And because of that, we were able to reach out to 934 diabetic patients, from just about 50 patients before the start of pandemic. We are so grateful that Malaysia Book of Records recognized our efforts.”
 
The award was given at the Sweet Retreatz dinner attended by 40 patients and their family  and friends coming from as far as Penang, Terengganu, Sabah, Sarawak, and Singapore. This is the first time, post-pandemic, that Clinixero and their patients are gathered and meeting onsite for the two-day retreat in Kuala Lumpur where patients share their experiences with each other with regards to the management of their blood sugar. 12 patients were also recognized for their visible improvements after joining the Clinixero programme.
 
Datuk Michael Lim, 60, who was awarded Best in Blood Sugar Award said, “I have had diabetes since 2001. Over the years, I have spent a lot of money on various methods to manage my sugar level but without success. Before joining the Clinixero Programme, my sugar level was around 8 on average. On an empty stomach, it is around 7 and after meals, it will usually spike up to 9 and above. After the programme, my blood sugar measures at around 5 before food and 6+ after food.”

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