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VALORANT Points Now Available on Codashop

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SINGAPORE, June 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Today Coda Payments (“Coda”) and Riot Games, the developer of League of Legends, announced that players in six markets across Southeast Asia, including Myanmar, can purchase VALORANT Points on Codashop (www.codashop.com), a website where millions of customers come to top up their favourite games every month.

VALORANT is a free-to-play team-based, first-person tactical shooter game with a 5v5 setup. In the main game mode, each player gets to pick Agents, characters that have exciting abilities like building walls, calling down airstrikes and more.

How to Top Up VALORANT Points
How to Top Up VALORANT Points

As soon as the transaction is completed, VALORANT Points will appear in the game. There’s no login required on Codashop, neither do users need to use a voucher nor PIN code.

Gamers love Codashop due to the wide range of popular local payment methods that are accepted, including

  • MPT
  • Telenor
  • Ooredoo
  • Mytel
  • easyPoints
  • WaveMoney

Coda as the exclusive alternative payment channel for VALORANT’s launch in 6 countries on Jun 2, 2020, will also offer payment solutions for Riot Games’ upcoming titles, including Teamfight Tactics Mobile and League of Legends: Wild Rift.

“Our mission at Coda is to make world-class content accessible to everyone,” Philippe Limes, Coda’s Chief Executive Officer, said. “With this partnership, we are delighted to make it simple for millions of players to participate in the new competitive stage.” 

“Here in Southeast Asia, we recognize that gameplay and payment preferences are extremely diverse,” said Justin Hulog, General Manager of Riot Games Southeast Asia. “Our partnership with Coda will allow gamers to access and enjoy all our upcoming, new games with comfort and ease.”

About Coda Payments

Coda Payments (www.codapayments.com) helps digital content providers monetize their products and services in more than twenty emerging markets. Publishers of leading games like PUBG Mobile and Call of Duty: Mobile, streaming platforms like beIN and Bigo Live, dating apps like Tinder, and video-on-demand platforms like Viu have integrated with Coda to accept payments on/at: 

  1. their own website using Codapay, allowing their users to pay at a wide network of alternative payment channels, including using direct carrier billing with dozens of telcos;
  2. Codashop, which more than 11 million users visit every month to top up their favourite games and content services; and
  3. Coda’s e-commerce (Lazada, Tokopedia, Bukalapak, Shopee), telco (Digi, XL), and super app (Gojek) distribution partners who leverage Coda’s xShop solution to offer their users a wide range of premium digital content.

Coda helps its clients collect payments in Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kuwait, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Nigeria, Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates.

Founded in 2011, Coda is headquartered in Singapore with additional offices in Jakarta and Bangkok. It is backed by Apis Partners—a private equity asset manager that invests in growth-stage financial services and financial infrastructure businesses in Asia and Africa—and GMO Global Payment Fund, whose strategic management company is GMO Payment Gateway, Japan’s largest online payment gateway.

Contact: press@codapayments.com

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About Riot Games

Riot Games was founded in 2006 to develop, publish, and support the most player-focused games in the world. Riot has finally released its first major non-League of Legends Game: VALORANT, codenamed Project A. It was announced during its League of Legends’ 10-year anniversary stream in October 2019.

Riot continues to evolve the game while delivering new experiences to players with Legends of Runeterra, VALORANT, League of Legends: Wild Rift, Teamfight Tactics, and multiple work-in-progress titles.

Founded by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill, Riot is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and has 2,500+ Rioters in 20+ offices worldwide. Riot has been featured on numerous lists including Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For,” “25 Best Companies to Work in Technology,” “100 Best Workplaces for Millennials,” and “50 Best Workplaces for Flexibility.”

Contact: jloh@riotgames.com

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[Video] techENT Download || Playstation 5 Unveiled! Nintendo Gets Hacked, Android 11 and more!

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The techENT Download is back for another exciting week in tech! This week’s tech news round up has everything from dramatic reveals, painful hacks to sad cancellations!

(00:28 – 01:50) Android 11 Beta is Released!

(01:51 – 02:13) Adobe Photoshop Camera brings interesting new possibilities to smartphone cameras

(02:14 – 03:51) Acer Refreshes their Nitro 5 & Predator Triton500 gaming laptops with the new 10th Generation Intel processors and beefier specs!

(03:52 – 05:07) Nintendo’s Security breach gets worse with 300,000 accounts now affected

(05:08 – 05:32) Google rolls out Google Current

(05:32 – 05:50) Computex is cancelled

(05:51 – 06:15) Fitbit announces Fitbit Flow to help with the need for respirators

(06:16 – 07:21) The Sony Playstation 5 is finally revealed!

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Easy&Light introduces an upgraded EasyCanvas Pro app with wireless connect function

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SEOUL, South Korea, June 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Devguru (CEO Song Ji-ho), Software Development Company, announced that its brand Easy&Light have launched EasyCanvas Pro.

EasyCanvas Pro
EasyCanvas Pro

‘EasyCanvas Pro’ is an app that can use an iPad as a drawing tablet. While previous EasyCanvas could only connect via USB cables, this new upgrade allows wireless connections. It also announced it will add more professional functions in the future to increase productivity.

One can easily connect and use the app by downloading the program at Easy&Light website(http://www.easynlight.com/easycanvaspro/) and then connecting the PC and iPad using a USB cable. Moreover, on the same wireless network, they can be connected wirelessly. The biggest benefit of this app is that one can draw using PC software such as Photoshops or Clip Studio by creating a copy of the PC screen on the iPad.

The app supports palm rejection, pen pressure and tilt, easy shortcuts, and wire/wireless connections at the same time. It can convert between the stylus mode and touch mode automatically, allowing users to use the pen to draw while using touch gestures to zoom in/out or rotate simultaneously.

The menu bar can be hidden, recalled, minimized, or moved at will and the shortcuts speed up the work process. Users can also freely customize the shortcut names, icons, or actions. With the current launching promotion, the annual subscription can be purchased for just $4.99 and 14-day free trial is also provided.

Since its establishment in 2002, Devguru has been providing solutions for numerous companies working with machines using different operating platforms.

For more information, please contact: DEVGURU Co., Ltd., Management Support Team, +82 2-3442-7236, Sang Hoon Song, shsong@devguru.co.kr 

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Nintex Honours Top Customers and Partners with Innovation and Transformation Awards

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Annual awards program honours organisations around the globe for their ability to accelerate digital transformation and improve the way people work with automated solutions and business processes

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, June 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Nintex, the global standard for process management and automation, today recognised 14 customer organisations across multiple categories with 2020 Nintex Solution Innovation Awards, announced the 2020 Nintex Champion, and provided three Nintex partner organisations with a 2020 Nintex Partner Award in Business Transformation including Pacific BPA, System RKK, and Synergi.

The 2020 Nintex Champion receiving top honours in this year’s awards program is Zoom Video Communications, Inc. for the company’s ability to rapidly automate its new customer order process during a time so critical to supporting remote workers. Zoom leveraged Nintex Workflow Cloud’s easy-to-use and powerful capabilities to streamline and digitise its sales order process. With this Nintex digital solution, Zoom automated 90 per cent of its channel-driven orders, saving 15 man-hours per day and helping Zoom customers more quickly use their enterprise video communications platform.

2020 Nintex Solution Innovation Award winners, promoted online at https://www.nintex.com/solution-innovation-awards-2020/, by category include:

Regional Transformation Leaders

  • AMER: Lands’ End AND McCormick & Company
  • APAC: AngloGold Ashanti Australia
  • EMEA: Babcock

Successful Cloud Working and Transformation

  • Ciena Corporation

Game Changing Solution-Specific Deployments

  • Improved Sales Performance with Nintex Drawloop: Cars.com
  • Achieved Process Excellence with Nintex Promapp®: Woolworths Group
  • Enhanced Customer Experience with Rapid Automation (Nintex Workflow or Nintex RPA): Red River Bank

Public Sector Standout

  • Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) New Zealand

Industry Breakthroughs

  • Engineering and Manufacturing: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
  • Financial Services: GM Financial
  • Non-Profit: NAACP Empowerment Programs

Business Continuity

  • National Gallery Singapore

“It’s awe-inspiring to see what Nintex customers are able to achieve with our suite of process management and automation capabilities,” said Nintex Chief Executive Officer Eric Johnson. “We congratulate all the 2020 Nintex Solution Innovation Award winners for improving the world of work across the globe.”

The Nintex Solution Innovation Award winners were selected by a panel of judges based on nominations submitted by Nintex customers and partners in early 2020. The awards recognise Nintex customers who have successfully achieved impactful results leveraging the breadth of capabilities with the Nintex Process Platform. The Business Transformation category of the 2020 Nintex Partner Awards program recognises Nintex Partners for top customer entries in this year’s Solution Innovation Awards program. The official 2020 Nintex Partner Awards program announcement will be issued in mid-July 2020.

To learn more about the success organisations across every industry are reporting with Nintex, visit https://www.nintex.com/why-nintex/case-studies/.

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Nintex is the global standard for process management and automation. Today more than 8,000 public and private sector clients across 90 countries turn to the Nintex Platform to accelerate progress on their digital transformation journeys by quickly and easily managing, automating and optimising business processes. Learn more by visiting www.nintex.com and experience how Nintex and its global partner network are shaping the future of Intelligent Process Automation (IPA).

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NetFoundry Zero Trust Networking API Is Now Available at the World’s Largest API Marketplace – RapidAPI

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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, June 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Envisioning a future in which users can spin up zero trust, high performance networking, NetFoundry’s API is now available in the world’s largest API marketplace – RapidAPI.

Developers can now implement zero trust, cloud-orchestrated, programmable networking between any set of cloud applications, edge applications, user devices and IoT devices. The resultant private networks eliminate dependencies on MPLS or VPNs.

“We’ve been using the NetFoundry APIs to integrate private networking into our DevOps cycles in a simple, secure and reliable manner, with excellent results improving our automation and agility,” said Sergio Sancez, CEO AGT

Idit Oryon, Head of partnerships at Rapid API says, “RapidAPI is excited to collaborate with NetFoundry to offer its cloud native zero trust, programmable networking APIs on the world’s largest API Marketplace. RapidAPI enables developers to easily find, connect to, and manage the APIs they need for building diverse applications without duplicating efforts by building complex code. By making NetFoundry’s software-only, zero trust models accessible to our development community, they can now add zero trust security and optimized performance to their next-generation applications.”

“We are delighted to enable developers to simply and programmatically spin up zero trust networking without doing network engineering, leveraging our RapidAPI marketplace API,” said Galeal Zino, Founder & CEO of NetFoundry. Galeal continued, “This is the second wave: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) APIs gave developers the abstractions and controls necessary to leverage cloud native compute; now Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) enables developers to easily leverage cloud native networking.” 

“The NetFoundry platform with their programmable endpoints and APIs enables multi-cloud automation and automates networking inside DevOps constructs,” says Ananda Das, CEO of Technilium, Australia.

“Our partnership with RapidAPI enables developers to build next-generation secure-by-design applications that require secure transactions, smart automated digital services,” says Sreelakshmi Sarva, Head of Product at NetFoundry.

Developers may now subscribe to the NetFoundry API via the RapidAPI marketplace to spin up application-specific networks termed “NetFoundry AppWANs”. AppWANs provide micro-segmented, software-only, high-performance access to applications. These apps can be made to be invisible to the internet, accessible only via the private, zero trust AppWAN overlays. Because the solution is app-specific, software-only and cloud-orchestrated, it can be used to provide security and performance for any application, without disrupting any existing WANs or networks, and without impacting other applications.

About NetFoundry

NetFoundry Inc. is the leader in providing  zero trust, high performance, cloud native networking.  Customers use NetFoundry’s turnkey, software-only NaaS services and APIs to spin up private, zero trust networks in minutes, securely connecting any application on any device via any Internet access.  Partners also build their own solutions, leveraging the software which NetFoundry built, open sourced and is the leading contributor to, available at Ziti.dev.  NetFoundry is a Charlotte, NC headquartered company with locations across the world.

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Hollyland Technology Announces MARS X, a New Wireless Video System for iOS and Android Devices Monitoring

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SHENZHEN, China, June 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Hollyland Technology, the world’s leading wireless video and audio transmission systems manufacturer for filmmaking, live broadcasting, is pleased to announce the launch of the MARS X Wireless HDMI Transmission System. The new generation steps forwards from a traditional wireless video transmission system with a full set of transmitter and receiver to a single transmitter wireless video transmission system that could turn phones and tablets into external monitors by the HollyView App.

MARS Series is a category of wireless video and audio transmission systems and wireless intercoms designed to be user-friendly, portable, and affordable for small-crew videomaking or YouTubing. The new MARS X builds on Hollyland’s heritage of innovation with a brand-new modular design. MARS X weighs 112g and is equipped with collapsible antennas and a single HDMI IN with 1080P and various other resolution formats, which make the device very portable and compact. It also offers a wide collection of cool features on wireless video and audio transmission. It makes studio shooting more flexible and easier to carry & monitor.

 

ONE TO THREE

MARS X turns phones/tablets into external monitors. It supports up to three iOS and Android devices app monitoring. With this single transmitter product, YouTubers or small production teams that do not need to use an external monitor can easily cut down the cost and add this device to their setup to enable app monitoring for themselves, the client or director.

VIDEO & AUDIO SYNCHRONIZATION AND EIGHT FREQUENCY CHANNELS

MARS X has a transmission range over 300ft with a clean line of sight (LOS), and a 150ft suggested best performance range with less than 0.07s ultra-low latency.

It has eight frequency channel options that can be switched to to avoid interference and to ensure a stable wireless transmission.

NEW APP FUNCTIONS ADDED

Firmware Upgrade and Channel Scan are added to the HollyView App on MARS X.

With the firmware upgrade added to the app, users no longer need to use a USB flash and their computer to do the update. While the channel scan is a feature generally on a receiver, it helps users to find out which channels are clean and which ones have interference in sophisticated WiFi surroundings. Hence, users no longer need to try out the channels one by one to find out the best channel to use.

The ‘HollyView’ App has basically all features on an external monitor such as Waveform, Histogram, Focus Assist, False Color, Zoom, 3D Lut, Screenshot, Doodle, Screen Record, etc.

OLED DISPLAY SCREEN

The OLED display includes information such as Battery Status, Frequency Channel, Video Format, and WiFi Password. The 0.69” OLED Screen displays the key information that one needs to know about the system.

COLLAPSIBLE ANTENNAS & MULTIPLE POWER SUPPLY

As previously mentioned, MARS X is designed with collapsible antennas, which provide enhanced transmission performance with the antennas and the portability and convenience without the antennas. From a test conducted by the Hollyland R&D team, if one folds the antennas 20 times a day, it could last up to 1,500 days.

The system also comes with a built-in lithium battery that furthermore increased the portability of the device. With the 1300mA battery, it has a battery life of about 1.5 hours, with the system being used continuously. The Type-C (5V-12V) interface on the device enables wide voltage charging. If users tend to use gimbals a lot, the gear can also be charged while it is being used on all mainstream gimbals.

About Hollyland Technology

Shenzhen Hollyland Technology Co., Ltd., often referred to as Hollyland or Hollyland Technology, is a technology company that focuses on wireless video transmission and wireless intercom solutions.

We design and manufacture wireless video and audio transmission products that are used around the world by prosumer and professional video content creators. Currently, we have three categories of wireless products,

  1. Prosumer Level – MARS SERIES: MARS 400S, MARS 400, MARS 300, and MARS T1000 (intercom)
  2. 2Professional Level – COSMO 600, COSMO 1000PLUS, COSMO 2000, and the brand-new 7-inch 1500 Nit High Brightness Touchscreen Wireless Monitor – COSMO M7
  3. Systems Integration Level – SYSCOM 1000T (intercom), and SYSCOM 3000

We aim to provide all our customers with the most economical and efficient wireless solutions and services. We customize our products and keep on striving forward to meet our consumer’s needs. Whether you are a professional in the filmmaking industry, smart education industry, church services, wedding or live concert broadcasting industries, or just a solo videographer or content creator who needs a wireless video or wireless intercom solution, let Hollyland Technology bring you the most suitable one!

Website: http://www.hollyland-tech.com/ 
E-mail: sales@hollyland-tech.com 
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Hollyland Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hollylandtech/ 
Hollyland FB User Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hollylandtech/

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+86-130-5819-0167
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Moovaz goes global with $7mil Series A funding & acquires SPH’s The Finder

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SINGAPORE, June 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Once a demographic dominated by affluent professionals, the face of the expat has dramatically shifted to welcome almost everyone, including a new generation of free-spirited, tech-savvy, globally-mobile adventurers keen to experience the world — and Moovaz is helping them live the dream. Powered by smart technology, Moovaz is reimagining logistics with simple, efficient moving services for a new generation of expat, and has secured a Series A round totalling USD 7 million, including previous convertibles, to do it.

Moovaz goes global with $7mil Series A funding & acquires SPH’s The Finder
Moovaz goes global with $7mil Series A funding & acquires SPH’s The Finder

An international relocation services platform headquartered in Singapore, Moovaz was founded in 2018 by Lee Junxian and 2 other Co-founders. The vision was simple: to promote a life well moved, for today’s global citizens. With the ease of travel and rise in flexible work, more people are choosing to forgo their home bases in pursuit of the digital nomad lifestyle. But the process is typically headache-inducing and comes with many roadblocks, from extremely high costs to slow shipping times and storage container issues. Moovaz turns the traditional logistics industry upside down, providing a smart, curated platform connecting customers with the right services at the right time.

“Relocating from one country to another is a huge logistic undertaking. You have to uproot everything, manage accommodation and travel plans, apply for visas, open new bank accounts. Basically move your entire life,” says Lee Junxian, Co-Founder and CEO of Moovaz. “Despite all the tech innovations out there, relocation services remain notoriously slow, expensive and inefficient. As the world opens up, these challenges need to be addressed. Our goal is to use innovation to provide a complete moving solution for global citizens, and eliminate the headache that comes with moving your life.”

On the Moovaz platform, customers can get instant shipping prices and track their belongings. Using automation and data, Moovaz captures customer information and profiles their needs before connecting them with their global network of contractors. However, Moovaz goes beyond the expectations of a relocation services company; instead harnessing technology and automation to provide a seamless moving process for customers.

Dubbing themselves “Life Movers”, Moovaz helps global citizens move their lives, while also connecting them to their future communities. During the process, Moovaz provides tailored recommendations for essential extra services to ensure as smooth a move  as possible, from connecting utilities to buying insurance or setting up the all-important Wi-Fi.

While the lion’s share of its customers hail from the Asia-Pacfic, Moovaz plans to scale rapidly and expand its partnership base. Now, backed by the likes of Quest Ventures, who are backed by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, Supply chain conglomerate YCH Group and deep-tech investors SGInnovate, it can do that and more — and has its sights firmly set on strengthening its services and facilities to become an industry leader in the relocation field.

This means launching go-to market campaigns in new countries, raising capital, expanding their team, and welcoming new partners to optimize each customers life journey, at a functional level and an emotional one.

About Moovaz

Moovaz is an all-encompassing relocation service for globalised mobile citizens. Its all-in-one digital platform is revolutionising the logistics and international relocation industry by enabling a seamless and truly moving experience for everyone. Using smart technology and a global network of over 2,000 certified partners, Moovaz offers customers an unprecedented level of transparency and open access to mobility services worldwide. With our dedicated team, Moovaz is committed to delivering convenience and excellence, first time, every time.

For more information, please visit https://www.moovaz.com/about-us/

Information about the latest acquisition of SPH’s The Finder could be found here – https://moovaz.com/press/

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Indore Student part of Team Hollo from the University of Hong Kong wins 2020 Microsoft Imagine Cup World Champion

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HONG KONG, June 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Team Hollo, an iDendron incubatee from the University of Hong Kong (HKU), won the 2020 Microsoft Imagine Cup World Champion with a mental health platform connecting a mobile app for users and a web application for mental health professionals; leveraging their own technology with Azure analytics and AI services to advance youth therapy practices. This is the first team from Hong Kong to have won the World Champion since the launch of the Microsoft Imagine Cup in 2003.

Hollo Team members Cameron van Breda, Ajit Krishna Namakkal Raghavendran and Piyush Jha from the University of Hong Kong (HKU).
Hollo Team members Cameron van Breda, Ajit Krishna Namakkal Raghavendran and Piyush Jha from the University of Hong Kong (HKU).
Hollo is a mental health companion web application leveraging Azure analytics and AI services to advance youth therapy practices.
Hollo is a mental health companion web application leveraging Azure analytics and AI services to advance youth therapy practices.
Hollo won the 2020 Microsoft Imagine Cup World Champion and the first team from Hong Kong to have won the World Champion since the launch of the Microsoft Imagine Cup in 2003.
Hollo won the 2020 Microsoft Imagine Cup World Champion and the first team from Hong Kong to have won the World Champion since the launch of the Microsoft Imagine Cup in 2003.

Hollo Team members, Cameron van Breda (Final Year, Bachelor of Science), Ajit Krishna Namakkal Raghavendran (Year 3, Bachelor of Engineering) and Piyush Jha from India (Final Year, Bachelor of Engineering) met at HKU. The team noticed that mental health aid was not reaching the younger generations in their communities effectively and envision a future of tech-based, accessible, and comprehensive mental health management tools. With this in mind, Team Hollo developed a mental health companion web application leveraging Azure analytics and AI services to advance youth therapy practices.

Over 28,000 students from more than 200 countries registered to take part in the Microsoft Imagine Cup and only 10 teams were selected for the Asia Regional Final. Earlier in February this year, Hollo had won the title of World Finalist in the Asia Regional Final with their impactful solution. In winning the World Champion, the team won USD100,000, a mentoring session with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and USD50,000 in Azure grants.

The Microsoft Imagine Cup aims to empower students to use their imagination and passion for technology to develop innovative and inclusive solutions that tackle key societal issues. Held online this year due to the pandemic, it is the first time a Hong Kong team took home the Cup, often called the “Olympics of student tech competitions.”

Piyush is an HKU Final Year Engineering student from Delhi Public School, Indore who majors in Computer Science and minors in Finance. With a 97% score in the All India Senior School Certificate Examination, Piyush received the HKU Foundation Scholarship with a full tuition fee waiver and living allowance which is renewable for his entire undergraduate study at HKU. With HKU’s extensive global exchange network, Piyush was able to go on a summer exchange programme at the University of British Columbia in 2017. His outstanding GPA also won him the HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund – The Reaching Out Award for the exchange in Vancouver, Canada. On top of that, Piyush is a two-time recipient of the HKSAR Government Talent Development Scholarship for his extraordinary performance in international competitions involving technological innovation challenges and computer science hackathons.

Ajit is currently a Third Year Engineering student who majors in Computer Science at HKU. Originally from Chennai, he was raised in Hong Kong from a young age and has always been curious and innovative growing up. Since studying at HKU, he participated in various international competitions and was a Finalist in the Global Legal Hackathon for which he went to New York City to pitch in the finals. He is also a recipient of the Funding for Experiential Learning Projects from the Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing of HKU. He has recently completed a 1-year internship in Asia’s leading digital asset company, BC Group.

When asked about how HKU has supported the team in pursuit of their tech aspirations, Team Hollo said, “iDendron at HKU has been a huge help to Hollo. It organised workshops for industry leaders and entrepreneurs to share with us their experiences and perspectives. We were also given networking opportunities to connect with potential elite founders from a wide spectrum of fields who have a common vision to create an impact to the world.”

Team Hollo added, “The Faculty of Science’s new minor, Science Entrepreneurship, has brought us insights via critical analysis of enterprises and taught us the connection of academic knowledge with the real world. It is this minor that has enlightened us on how to create something impactful and feasible at the same time.”

HKU Chief Innovation Officer Dr. Yiwu HE congratulates Team Hollo, “It demonstrated the growing culture of innovation and entrepreneurship on campus among both academics and students here at HKU. We should think not only in terms of pursuing a new idea or concept for discovery, but to facilitate excellent research that results in products that impacts the world. we hope HKU will incubate many successful companies with innovative products to help grow the high-tech industry and provide the younger generation with more opportunities in Hong Kong.”

About HKU iDendron

iDendron, HKU Innovation & Entrepreneurship Hub, was launched in 2017 with the aim of nurturing entrepreneurial and innovative spirit on campus, incubating HKU early-stage startups, establishing interdisciplinary cooperation and engaging the community to support human endeavors and society developments.

For more details, please visit: https://idendron.hku.hk/

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ZAFUL 6th anniversary carnival, launching VR fashion week and conducting continuous webcasts with Likee

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NEW YORK, June 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — With a 50% increase on sales compared with that of the same period last year, ZAFUL, a Global fast fashion brand, has finished its three-day celebration of the 6th anniversary on June 8, 2020. The follow-up promotions will continue until June 18.

ZAFUL 6th anniversary carnival
ZAFUL 6th anniversary carnival

At the 6th anniversary carnival, ZAFUL also organized series of events including charity sale of pandemic-themed shirts, VR online fashion week, as well as 24-hour continuously webcasts of global celebrities and provided discounted items for followers. The content of the celebration varies from nation to nation, creating a refreshing shopping experience for its consumers.

Introducing themed shirts

During the pre-sale period, a charity fair of 10 series of themed shirts with the topic of “Stay Positive With ZAFUL” was conducted on the website and the income from June 1 to June 10 will be donated to COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for WHO. The purpose of this activity is to convey an optimistic attitude towards the epidemic as well as provide possible assistance to fight against the pandemic.

Launching VR fashion week on the app

Besides, while many fashion brands begin streaming their shows online due to the epidemic, ZAFUL provide more variety for the Fashion Week, launching an online VR fashion week themed as ZAFUL DIGITAL FASHION SHOW on June, 2020.

With the slogan of “do digital, do more”, this show created a multi-dimensional zone through the combination of digital and fashion, diversely displaying the new apparel of the season. A variety of clothing with different themes and styles were shown in the daily scenes of young people like parties, streets, subway, etc., among which the themed shirts were included. Consumers can go directly to the ZAFUL app for a purchase through the VR images.

Conducting continuous webcasts with Likee

From June 9th to 12th, ZAFUL initiated several webcasts of global celebrities on its live broadcast platform. There were 14 distinctive live broadcast on June 9th and around the clock so that customers were able to enter the stream rooms and made purchases whenever they want. Having considerable influence and fan base in the fields of photography, music, yoga, dance and so on, the celebrities involved launched the webcasts with their own characteristics and introduced ZAFUL products to the fans around the world.

In addition, cooperating with Likee, a short video platform of Singapore video social network Bigo, ZAFUL also participates in various theme activities initiated by different platforms to display its diverse image. Likewise, consumers can click the link directing to ZAFUL official website and place orders when watching these theme videos.

 

About ZAFUL
Found in 2014, ZAFUL is dedicated to offering fashionable and cost-efficient fashion-related merchandise for the youthful technology worldwide. In 2019, ZAFUL was ranked 23rd in High 50 China Export Manufacturers by BrandZ, the world’s largest model fairness database. With 40 million registered users and an average monthly website visit of over 170 million, ZAFUL has sold its products to more than 260 nations and regions by the end of 2019.

Website: www.zaful.com

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[Podcast] Tech & Tonic Episode 16 featuring Hasnul Hadi – It’s All About the Playstation 5 Baby!

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This week we had the pleasure of speaking to Hasnul Hadi Samsudin of the Malaysian Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC). You may recognise him from the many, many press appearances he’s done and also from our social media and around the internet.

Hasnul Hadi is currently the Vice President of the Digital Creative Content Division over at MDEC. He has spent nearly a decade advocating and championing the game development and creative industry in Malaysia. He and his team have been tirelessly working away behind the scenes pushing policies and connecting companies to build the creative industry. Aside from his dedication in making Malaysia a creative powerhouse in the Southeast Asian region, he’s also an avid gamer. He’s spent many hours honing his gaming skills behind a keyboard, on a controller and on-the-go!

In this episode, we sat down with Hasnul to speak about the recent unveiling of Sony’s upcoming gaming console, the Playstation 5and the growing Gaming and Creative industry in Malaysia.  Hasnul shares with us his insights into the industry and shares how much the industry has grown over the years as well as some of the plans his team has for Malaysia’s LEVEL UP Gaming Conference which is still slated to happen this year!