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SiriusXM Adds Australian Football League Matches, Weekly Show with Eddie McGuire to Sports Lineup

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Renowned Australian commentator and AFL Club President Eddie McGuire to host “Aussie Football Rules America with Eddie McGuire“ every Thursday exclusively on SiriusXM

SiriusXM’s AFL Match of the Week kicks off tonight, June 4 with a replay of the classic 2018 AFL Grand Final; Weekly games from 2020 season begin airing June 11 when season resumes

NEW YORK, June 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — SiriusXM announced today that it is adding Australian Football League programming to its sports lineup for the first time ever, featuring a new exclusive show hosted by Australian media icon Eddie McGuire, as well as play-by-play broadcasts of an AFL Match of the Week.

Aussie Football Rules America with Eddie McGuire will debut tonight, June 4th and will air every Thursday from 6:00-7:00 pm ET, on SiriusXM’s Dan Patrick Radio channel (ch. 211), recapping the previous week’s AFL action and looking ahead at the exciting matches in the weekend ahead.

McGuire is a household name in Australia as one of the most prominent media personalities in his home country.  He has been deeply involved in Australian Rules Football throughout his life, from his days as a youth player and his first job as an Australian Rules Football statistician and reporter, to playing a leading role in his country’s sport today. 

A passionate and devoted Collingwood fan since childhood, McGuire became one of the youngest Presidents in football when at 33 years of age he took over Australia’s most famous club at its lowest period in its history.  Since then he has presided over Collingwood reclaiming its position as a powerhouse in Australian sport, both on and off the field, with the building of state of the art training facilities and being central to the rebuilding of the Melbourne Cricket Ground where Collingwood regularly plays in front of crowds of over 90,000 people.  On the field Collingwood won the Grand Final of 2010 and has been to the big dance in 2002, 2003, 2010 (for a draw and a famous replay win), 2011 and 2018.  Collingwood has also made the playoffs 12 times in that period. 

McGuire was honored with the Australian Sports Medal for services to Australian Rules Football, the Centenary Medal for services to the Media and Football and the Order of Australia Medal AM for services to ‘Philanthropy and the Media.’  He is also a member of the MCG and AFL Media Hall Of Fame.

“SiriusXM serves millions of fans and listeners across North America and I’m thrilled to be bringing our great sport to their sports lineup for the first time,” said McGuire.  “There’s not a better platform for me to connect with Aussie Rules fans on the other side of the world, and to share the news of our sport as we get back into action this month.  If you’re not fan of Aussie Footy yet, join us!  You will be!”

McGuire is one of the country’s most watched and listened to TV and radio personalities.  In addition to being a prominent Australian Rules commentator and host on Fox Sports and the Nine Network, he is host of the hugely popular The Hot Breakfast radio show in Melbourne, and weeknights hosts the Channel Nine program Millionaire Hot Seat, the Australian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? which he has done since 1999.  McGuire has hosted and called Olympic Games, Formula One races, The Logie Awards (the Australian version of the Emmys) and numerous other major event television and radio shows throughout his career.  He is also the former CEO of the Nine Network and is the Chairman of his own media production business.

“Eddie is an icon in sports and entertainment in Australia, and with his history in the sport and knowledge of the game, he’s the perfect host for our first show dedicated to Australian Rules Football,” said Scott Greenstein, SiriusXM President and Chief Content Officer.  “Aussie Football Rules America will be entertaining and informative, and we’re very excited to present it along with AFL matches on our air for the first time.  No matter where AFL fans are from, they can stay connected with the game and their teams.  We look forward to introducing this great sport to more fans in North America.”

Immediately following Aussie Football Rules America, SiriusXM listeners will hear a special rebroadcast of the Australian Football League’s Match of The Week called by the number one AFL radio broadcast, Triple M (Southern Cross Austereo).  The 2020 AFL season is set to resume on June 11 after it was paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Tonight listeners will hear the classic 2018 Grand Final match between the West Coast Eagles and the Collingwood Football Club.

“SiriusXM is the leading audio entertainment platform in the United States and to be able to take our game, Australian Rules Football to the millions of listeners via their sports programming is a partnership the AFL is proud to be a part of,” said Gillon McLachlan, AFL Chief Executive Officer.  “We love our footy in Australia and look forward to sharing its passion with the audience in North America.”

Aussie Football Rules America with Eddie McGuire and AFL matches will air nationwide on SiriusXM’s exclusive Dan Patrick Radio channel, which is available on SiriusXM radios (channel 211), online at SiriusXM.com and on the SiriusXM app for connected devices and speakers.

The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent competition of Australian Rules Football.  The league consists of 18 teams spread over five of Australia’s six states competing in a 23-round regular (home-and-away) season. The team with the best record after the home-and-away series is awarded the “minor premiership.”  The top eight teams then play off in a four-round finals series, culminating in the AFL Grand Final.  For more on the AFL go to afl.com.au.

SiriusXM is now offering listeners its best streaming offer yet: Sign up to stream SiriusXM for 4 months free with a new subscription.  To see offer details and to start listening on the SiriusXM app, on connected devices and smart speakers in your home, go to SiriusXM.com/HomeFree.

Aussie Football Rules America with Eddie McGuire is produced in Melbourne, Australia by JAMTV Australia.

About SiriusXM

Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) is the leading audio entertainment company in the U.S., and the premier programmer and platform for subscription and digital advertising-supported audio products. Pandora, a subsidiary of SiriusXM, is the largest ad-supported audio entertainment streaming service in the U.S. SiriusXM and Pandora together reach more than 100 million people each month with their audio products. SiriusXM, through Sirius XM Canada Holdings, Inc., also offers satellite radio and audio entertainment in Canada. In addition to its audio entertainment businesses, SiriusXM offers connected vehicle services to automakers and directly to consumers through aftermarket devices. For more about SiriusXM, please go to: www.siriusxm.com.

About JAM TV Australia
JAM TV is one of Australia’s largest independent production companies specializing in sport and entertainment. Each year, JAM TV produces more than 1000 hours of television and audio content to major broadcasters from original formats, live sport and studio based entertainment. For more information, please visit https://jamtvaustralia.com.au

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CouponBirds Data Reveals User Behavior Change During Epidemic

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BEIJING, June 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The speed and range of epidemic spreading strongly influence user behavior. CouponBirds latest data analysis shows that online users’ behavior has changed a lot in the past few months as COVID-19 became a pandemic, including devices, purchasing power, and country distribution.

Due to the impact of the epidemic, daily internet usage time increases, and outdoor activities drop a lot. Mobile devices are more dominating when people spend more time at home. CouponBirds May 2020 data shows that mobile device coverage increased to 62.79% from 53.38%.

As to consumers’ performance during the outbreak, it can be seen that the purchasing power and transaction volume show different trends when it comes to different kinds of products. CouponBirds data analysis team noticed that the demand for games, bicycles, and online education had been particularly increased. As stay-at-home time becomes longer and the shipping services are restricted during the epidemic, people are more likely to shell out money for easy entertainment like board games, puzzles, and video games. Furthermore, people tend to snap up new bicycles or dust off decades-old bikes to stay fit, keep their sanity, or have a safe alternative to public transportation. The third thriving business is online learning resources, which is a great choice for people who are studying, teaching, or working remotely in this uncertain environment.

CouponBirds data also shows the percentage of users by country was different during the epidemic. Users from the US, UK, Canada, and Australia increased by 15.07%, 14.02%, 27.49%, and 16.91% respectively.

The pandemic has big impacts on both customers and merchants. It is even harder to make the transaction happen when people’s income is shrinking. CouponBirds invests a lot to discover as many valid coupons as possible, which is the best way to help customers save and at the same time help merchants sell their products.

Like some charities are helping feed families during the coronavirus outbreak, CouponBirds is doing what we can to give back to the community. “CouponBirds Seedling Project was born during the outbreaks to help people in another way, and it is a great fundraising platform for non-profit organizations”, said Sherry Zhao, marketing director of CouponBirds, “We are working hard to make CouponBirds one of the best communities to help more people”.

About CouponBirds

CouponBirds is a leading coupon platform in terms of brand coverage, coupon accuracy, and coupon richness. It has been providing free and fresh coupon codes since 2012. With the biggest coupon operation team in the world and continuous engineering efforts input, CouponBirds is the top choice for customers looking for coupons and deals.

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Huawei OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage Wins Best of Show Award at Interop Tokyo 2020

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TOKYO, June 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — At Interop Tokyo 2020, the largest ICT exhibition in Japan, the Huawei next-gen OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage officially earned plaudits from IT experts when it won the Best of Show Award. This product, which runs on the SmartMatrix architecture, establishes a reliability benchmark by tolerating failure of 7 out of 8 controllers. It is the industry’s first self-optimized production and transaction storage powered by AI architecture that uses premium hardware and algorithms to improve service performance by 20%. The OceanStor Dorado All-Flash series delivers powerful computing power for everyday business, and improves the data reduction rate by over 30%.

Huawei OceanStor Dorado Wins Interop Tokyo 2020 "Best of Show" Award
Huawei OceanStor Dorado Wins Interop Tokyo 2020 “Best of Show” Award

Dr. Peter Zhou, President of Huawei Data Storage and Intelligent Vision Product Line, was happy to accept this award. On the award, he said, “We are very pleased that our next-generation OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage won Interop Tokyo’s Best of Show Award. In fact, this is the second time that Huawei OceanStor Dorado has won this award since 2017, so we are happy it is getting the recognition it deserves by the Japanese IT market its advanced and stringent performance.” Peter later added, “Current trends show that in our digital economy, new 5G and AI connections and applications have accelerated data production and flow, and caused digital transaction frequency to increase by more than 10 times. Now, enterprises need to handle service response in less than 1 ms, so conventional data infrastructure needs to be upgraded.” It is on this background that Huawei released its next-generation OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage series. Huawei storage team has been working on core production and transaction scenarios for 10 years, and has succeeded in setting numerous performance, reliability, and intelligence benchmarks. “Our series is designed to help customers in Japan and elsewhere use more stable and reliable storage, and help find the value in their data.”

OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage
OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage

Based on the unique end-to-end acceleration platform and innovative NOF+ solution, the Huawei next-gen OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage can achieve 20 million IOPS and 0.1 ms latency, setting a new benchmark for performance. The highly reliable SmartMatrix architecture ensures that a single system tolerates the failure of a maximum of 7 out of 8 controllers, ensuring continuous of mission-critical services. The AI architecture leverages an intelligent hardware platform, software and machine learning algorithms to automatically optimize storage resource allocation, improving the read cache hit ratio by 20% and enhancing storage utilization.

Since the launch of the first-generation OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage in 2010, Huawei has heavily invested in the all-flash field. Currently, Huawei All-Flash Storage has served more than 10,000 enterprises worldwide and has been recognized as a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, ranking No.1 in both the Chinese market share and the global market growth rate. For more information about Huawei OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage, please visit https://e.huawei.com/en/products/cloud-computing-dc/storage/all-flash-storage.

Interop Tokyo is a prestigious network computing industry event and the largest and most influential ICT exhibition in Japan, with the Best of Show Award offered to the best products of the year. Each year, an extensive team composed of authoritative experts and university professors selects and reviews the most innovative products and solutions, all featuring extreme commercial value, from hundreds of nominated solutions. After excelling in multiple rounds among the selected vendors, Huawei OceanStor Dorado V6 won the Best of Show Award, indicating its unique technical advantages and recognition by the industry authorities.

—Ends—

About Huawei

Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. With integrated solutions across four key domains – telecom networks, IT, smart devices, and cloud services – we are committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.

Huawei’s end-to-end portfolio of products, solutions and services are both competitive and secure. Through open collaboration with ecosystem partners, we create lasting value for our customers, working to empower people, enrich home life, and inspire innovation in organizations of all shapes and sizes.

At Huawei, innovation focuses on customer needs. We invest heavily in basic research, concentrating on technological breakthroughs that drive the world forward. We have more than 188,000 employees by the end of 2018, and we operate in more than 170 countries and regions. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.

For more information, please visit Huawei online at www.huawei.com or follow us on:

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Hyundai Card introduces 5 trends shaping the way Koreans consume digital content

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SEOUL, South Korea, June 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Ranging from K-pop sensation BTS and Oscar-winning “Parasite”, Korean pop culture appears to be having its moment. Combined with ultrafast internet and 5G-powered smartphones, the growing popularity of Korean movie and music has led to an expansion in the country’s digital content consumption.

Korea’s major credit card company Hyundai Card has introduced 5 key trends shaping Koreans’ spending habits on digital content. The result is based on the company’s 2017-2019 analysis of its consumer transaction data at 10 digital subscription service providers such as Netflix and YouTube Premium.

The three-year analysis was a part of the efforts to better understand Korean digital content subscribers by Hyundai Card, which has been leading the country’s credit card trends with products tailored to customers’ lifestyle and extensive digital transformation initiatives. It has developed an artificial intelligence-based chatbot, adopted blockchain for its system and built an advanced algorithm to offer more personalized  customer services and benefits.

For more information about this report visit http://newsroom.hcs.com/front/board/Spending-on-video-streaming-services-grows

Infographic by Hyundai Card - Hyundai Capital Newsroom
Infographic by Hyundai Card – Hyundai Capital Newsroom

1. Korea’s digital content market grows much faster than global trends 

According to Hyundai Card’s analysis, its consumers spent some $30.83 million on music, video and e-book subscription services in 2019. It was about 2.6 times more than what was spent in 2017. The number of transactions has tripled over the same period from 2.36 million to 7.11 million.

While Korea is not the only country to witness the expansion of the digital content market, its growth pace has been much faster than global trends. According to Statista, digital content market (excluding games) edged up 1.13 times from $65.46 billion to $73.99 billion between 2017 and 2019, relatively slower than in Korea.

2. Video streaming services prompt explosive consumption in digital content

Among digital content subscription services, video streaming displayed the steepest growth in content consumption. Payments on video streaming services skyrocketed nine times from $2.05 million in 2017 to $17.92 million in 2019, while spending on music steaming services increased merely 1.3 times between 2017 and 2019.

The explosive growth of video streaming consumption was reflected in the transaction amount. Among the five most paid-for services in 2017, three were home-grown music streaming services such as Melon, Genie Music and Bugs Music. But in 2019, Netflix and local video streaming services like Wavve and TVING took up three spots.

3. No more piracy: Koreans more willing to pay for digital content than ever before

Psychological barriers had been high in Korea for consumption of paid content. People were mostly reluctant to pay for video-on-demand services and were used to downloading pirated films over the internet. Consuming paid digital content was deemed to belong only to tech-savvy young generation.

But this perception has changed. According to Hyundai Card’s joint survey with research agency OPENSURVEY, 92.7 percent of the respondents said they have a positive view about spending money on digital content. Of those surveyed, 37.4 percent said their perception has shifted from negative to positive.

4. In a rapidly aging society, the Korean elderly emerge as key consumer group

As Korea becomes a more aged society, the elderly have also increased their spending on digital content. Spending on digital content by those in their 50s and those aged 60 or more tripled from $1.2 million in 2017 to $3.5 million won in 2019, while spending by those in their 20s saw a two-fold increase between 2017 and 2019.

Noteworthy is the fact that people in their 60s were the most active users of e-book subscriptions. They spent 21 times more on e-books in 2019 than in 2017. Fifty-somethings spent 10 times more on video services over the same period.

5. Credit cards for streaming subscription gain popularity among Koreans

With digital entertainment options becoming more diversified, Korea has seen a series of credit cards targeting digital content subscribers. Hyundai Card also rolled out a new credit card “DIGITAL LOVER,” offering an approximately $8 discount monthly from expenditure on digital streaming services such as Netflix and YouTube Premium.

“Against the backdrop of recent surge in digital content subscriptions propelled by the popularity of video streaming services,” said a Hyundai Card spokesperson. “We took into account changes in consumer spending trend and life style when designing the card, not conventional elements such as their occupation or income. That led to upbeat response from customers.”

Hyundai Card transaction data analysis

Period: Jan. 2017 ~ Dec. 2019

Target: Digital content service providers

Field

Service Providers

Video

Netflix, YouTube Premium, Watcha Play, Wavve, TVING

Music

Melon, Bugs Music, Genie Music

Books

Ridibooks, Millie’s Library

Consumer survey

Period: April 29, 2020

Target: 1,000 people aged 20 or over (Survey by OPENSURVEY)

Age

No. of men

No. of women

20~29

100

100

30~39

100

100

40~49

100

100

50~59

100

100

60 and over

100

100

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REDUIT: Radical Innovation in a User Friendly Format

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NEUCHATEL, Switzerland, June 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Intuitive and simple product design is center-stage for the Swiss beauty tech innovator REDUIT.  The company has gone to great lengths to make sure that new technology is also delivered in a way that makes sense to consumers.  From aesthetics to ergonomics, each aspect of REDUIT’s Hairpods™ range has been challenged until the best possible solution emerged, resulting in a product that is  truly “made to a human measure”.

REDUIT Color Protect Hairpods™ - a simple way to protect hair from pollution, saltwater and UV radiation
REDUIT Color Protect Hairpods™ – a simple way to protect hair from pollution, saltwater and UV radiation

REDUITs new Hairpods™ cover a variety of leave-on haircare and hair styling products, each contained in different pods. The product is applied with the aid of the REDUIT One applicator, a device designed to boost the performance of the active ingredients.

The system is radically different when compared with traditional products. The formulations in the Hairpods™ themselves, developed from the ground up for each application, are each matched via a unique electronic signature to generate small magnetized mist particles.  Every single element of the beauty product had to be reinvented for REDUIT to reach a new paradigm of performance.

Never before has a new beauty routine been so easy: insert the Hairpod™ of your choice into the REDUIT One device.  Activate it, and apply the gentle mist for 15 seconds* to your hair to create a microscopically fine film, and you are ready to go.  It is as simple as that!

The sleek REDUIT One applicator is universal and operates with any of the Hairpods™: from styling products, such as the Precision Conditioner and the Volume Mist, to haircare treatments, including the Vapored Strength and (as of tomorrow, June 6th) also the Color Protect Hairpods™.

Each of the Hairpods™ is very compact, only 5 ml in size, but allows for 20 uses* which is equivalent to 100-200 ml of traditional products.  At a mere 12 grams of packaging, and recyclable through our Return & Refurbish program, the Hairpods™ lead the way as the benchmark for environmentally-friendly haircare products globally. 

None of the packaging is wasted: consumers can send in their empty Hairpods™ to the nearest REDUIT location, and they will be rewarded with free product coupons on subsequent purchases – and a healthier planet for us all. That’s the REDUIT way.

This is only the beginning: REDUIT will continue to launch a new product every Friday throughout the summer.  Register at www.reduit.com, to be the first to learn about the upcoming innovations from REDUIT on a weekly basis!

*depending on hair length and type

About REDUIT:

In French ‘REDUIT’ means ‘reduced’. We reduce packaging. Amplify results. Reduce time. Amplify efficacy. Reduce steps. Amplify beauty.

REDUIT was created with one vision: to revolutionize the everyday beauty routine.  We started in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, with the dream of creating truly superior beauty products. From performance to sustainability and user-friendliness, we design products that truly elevate the everyday.

Set on raising the bar for professional and at-home beauty solutions that deliver on one simple promise: enhancing the results and experience while reducing the unnecessary.

For more information on REDUIT, visit our Media Center (https://reduit.com/media/), or contact us directly at media@reduit.com

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ChipMOS to Present at Investor Conference Hosted by the Taiwan Stock Exchange and SinoPac Securities Corp.

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HSINCHU, June 4, 2020 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. (“ChipMOS” or the “Company”) (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 8150 and NASDAQ: IMOS), an industry leading provider of outsourced semiconductor assembly and test services (“OSAT”), today announced that it will present at the Taiwan Double Good Forum hosted by the Taiwan Stock Exchange and SinoPac Securities Corp. The virtual conference will take place on Wednesday, June 10, 2020.

Management from the Company, including Jesse Huang, Vice President of Strategy and Investor Relations, will discuss the Company’s recent financial results, business trends and growth opportunities. The Company’s investor update is currently available on the investor relations’ section of its website at www.chipmos.com.

About ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC.:

ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 8150 and NASDAQ: IMOS) (https://www.chipmos.com) is an industry leading provider of outsourced semiconductor assembly and test services. With advanced facilities in Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu Industrial Park and Southern Taiwan Science Park in Taiwan, ChipMOS provide assembly and test services to a broad range of customers, including leading fabless semiconductor companies, integrated device manufacturers and independent semiconductor foundries.

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IBM Services Collaborates with Lotte Card to Adopt A Hybrid Cloud Strategy To Help Transform Core Financial Accounting Systems

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Lotte Card to Modernize Core Functions with IBM Cloud to Help Drive Innovative Services for Cardholders

ARMONK, New York, June 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today that the Korean credit card company, Lotte Card, which services a wide network of retailers including department stores, hypermarkets and cinemas, is collaborating with IBM Services to transition its entire enterprise system, including mission critical and core financial accounting systems, to a hybrid cloud environment. By using cloud native technology from IBM and Red Hat Openshift to migrate its core business applications to a managed private cloud, Lotte Card aims to achieve greater visibility, scalability, security and speed while reducing costs, risk and complexity to its IT infrastructure so it can deliver innovative services to its clients.

Lotte Card to Modernize Core Functions with IBM Cloud to Help Drive Innovative Services for Cardholders
Lotte Card to Modernize Core Functions with IBM Cloud to Help Drive Innovative Services for Cardholders

With several economic, demographic, regulatory and technological factors in play, the Cards & Payments industry is witnessing rapid innovation across the value chain. Additionally, today’s tech-savvy consumers are using various payment options like simple payment service. To meet the need for innovation with speed, as well as deliver applications and services with minimal cost and risk, Lotte Card plans to leverage open, hybrid cloud technologies from IBM and Red Hat to introduce a diverse set of new digital services for its Korean customer base.

With its hybrid cloud strategy, Lotte Card plans to deliver new technologies to support customer service, such as the expansion of the Lotte Card LIFE application that offers a super-personalized service and gives its mobile users a 360-degree purview of all the Group’s best benefits and services in one platform. The flexibility of using cloud technologies over a traditional IT infrastructure, can allow Lotte Card to respond with greater agility to rapidly changing market conditions and competition, to help serve their customers better in near real time.

Lotte Card previously migrated its mobile application to the cloud in order to build a scalable and flexible system foundation that can actively cope within an enterprise grade mobile environment. With this project, Lotte Card experienced very positive results throughout its business, such as improvement of customer satisfaction, and enhanced performance of its mobile apps as well as a reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO). Based on this initial success, Lotte Card decided to work with IBM to adopt a hybrid cloud strategy to migrate and manage its additional enterprise systems, including the account system.

“We look forward to bringing the power of IBM’s hybrid cloud capabilities and financial services industry experience to Lotte Card’s mission-critical infrastructure,” said Archana Vemulapalli, GM IS Offering Strategy, Management and Development, IBM Services. “IBM is intently focused on working with our financial services clients all over the world to help them address critical requirements and enable industry innovation so they can service the public, while addressing the industry standards for regulatory compliance, security and resiliency.”

To power the program with Lotte Card, IBM has introduced DevOps-based agile methodology in order to speed up the development, testing, modification and release of new software or services in the cloud. IBM will also provide Lotte Card with automation tools designed for strong security and efficient system operation.

IBM has the capability and knowledge to provide end-to-end cloud services from cloud consulting, to building, migrating and managing cloud. It also has experience with regulation, security and open innovation provisions.

This agreement was signed during IBM’s Q1, 2020.

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Tricia Vuiton
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tavuiton@us.ibm.com 
+1 (914) 765-4980

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HUAWEI Y6P for the Beginners

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If you are in the market for a new smartphone for the first time, you are going to get a little bit of a shock when you see the prices of mobile devices today. You are seeing devices hitting the MYR 7,000 ceiling these days and with spec sheet more complicated than the blueprints of a Death Star.

Of course, you pay for features and quality as well. You pay for being at the cutting edge, the state-of-the-art. That has become the definition of a mobile device in your pocket these days though. They are nearly buttonless slates that are very high-tech and awfully expensive, and at the same time strangely fragile. Yes, it is a strange world we live in.

When you first invest in a smartphone too, you might not want to spend more than MYR 1,000 on your smartphone. After all, feature phones did not exceed that kind of money even when they were brand new. There are a few options for you. One of them is the HUAWEI Y6P that is now available in Malaysia for MYR 559. That already ticks the ‘under MYR 1,000’ box.

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Another thing that older feature devices have is a super long battery life. A single charge can take days to deplete while only taking an hour to charge. Premium smartphones these days can barely last a full 24 hours day before needing a plug in. The Y6P is not like that though. It comes with one of the largest battery capacities in the conventional smartphone market today. It comes with a 5,000mAh battery. No, you cannot swap it out, but it is still a large battery. That, combined with HUAWEI’s brilliant knowhow is battery life preservation means that you should easily last a day or two without ever needing a tether to your walls. ‘Long-lasting battery’, check.

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Of course, the move to smartphones have some major benefits. One of them is that you get properly nice photos from their high-resolution camera. Premium smartphones come with the latest and greatest of camera technology to produce the best possible photos and videos. Thing is, smartphone camera technology now progresses in diminishing returns. Certain mid-range and even entry-level smartphones have cameras that rival the premium smartphones in terms of Megapixel count, camera software and algorithm, and resulting photo and video quality.

The HUAWEI Y6P comes with dual cameras at the back. One is a 13-Megapixel camera that captures high-resolution, crisp photos that you can use to share with your family or family members. The other is an ultra-wide angle camera that can capture even more than the 13-Megapixel shooter. You can capture beautiful landscapes in expanded detail and tell the world of social media that you also can be a photographer.

It even comes with an 8-Megapixel front facing camera for you to shoot selfies or profile photos with. Obviously for your friends to identify you. If not, you can use the front-facing camera to take photos of yourself in your travels, just to show off a little bit maybe. ‘Cameras’, check.

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Of course, one of the biggest appeals in switching to a smartphone is the number of apps that you can access on a single small slate that fits in your palms and pockets. All this comes from the HUAWEI AppGallery for the HUAWEI Y6P. The AppGallery is currently the third largest app marketplace in the world. While there are some missing apps compared to Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App Store, the HUAWEI AppGallery ecosystem is growing every day. The essential eWallet apps are already available on the AppGallery. Even some banking apps are already available. ‘Apps’, check.

With a high-resolution camera and access to endless number of apps, you are going to need a large storage to ensure that you have access to everything you need and put into the device in its lifetime. You get 64GB in storage with the HUAEI Y6P, which is ample space to work with for both your photos and apps. You even get a whole year of access to 15 extra GB of HUAWEI’s Cloud storage to offload some of your photos and files over when you need to. Or, insert a MicroSD card into the expansion slot to get up to 512GB of extra storage. Need multiple apps running at the same time? 4GB of RAM should be able to deal with that. Oh, and the MediaTek processor running within the device is more than capable enough to run multiple apps at the same time.

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Now you are also wondering what else you can do with the 6.3-inch display. You can watch movies with it by either loading your downloaded movies into the native storage of the device. You can also look through HUAWEI’s Video app to see what you might want to watch. Of course, that is a subscription-based service like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. You can also watch Viu contents through that 6.3-inch display though, for free no less. All you need to do to start watching endless Asian shows is claim the free membership of Viu through Member center on the HUAWEI Y6P. ‘Entertainment’, check.

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The HUAWEI Y6P is now available via HUAWEI’s online store and retail partners across the nation for MYR 559. You can get your’s in three colour choices: Emerald Green, Phantom Purple and Midnight Black. The free Premium Access to Viu promotion is currently exclusive to the HUAWEI Y6P. For more information on the HUAWEI Y6P, you can visit their website.

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JinkoSolar Receives Favorable Final Determination of Non-Infringement in U.S. ITC Patent Investigation Brought by Hanwha Q CELLS

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. (NYSE: JKS), one of the largest and most innovative solar module manufacturers in the world, today announced that the United States International Trade Commission (“ITC”) issued a favorable final determination concluding JinkoSolar’s products do not infringe a patent asserted by Hanwha Q CELLS.

In March 2019, Hanwha initiated ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-1151 against JinkoSolar, LONGi Solar, and REC Group, asserting that the companies infringe U.S. Patent No. 9,893,215.

On June 3, 2020, the Commission issued its final determination in JinkoSolar’s favor, affirming the Administrative Law Judge’s initial determination in April, which was based on analysis of detailed, expert testimony, that JinkoSolar’s products do not infringe Hanwha’s patent.

“We welcome this final decision from the ITC, confirming what we have known all along: our products do not infringe Hanwha’s patent,” said Kangping Chen, CEO of JinkoSolar. “From the start, we have believed that the case brought by Hanwha was legally and technically meritless and a transparent attempt to disrupt innovation and slow our momentum. The ALJ’s decision confirms that Hanwha should never have brought this case in the first place. JinkoSolar is a true innovator, and this outcome validates our technology. Our top priority is to provide our customers around the world with the industry-leading, sustainable, high-quality, high-performance solar modules they have come to expect from us.”

About JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd.

JinkoSolar (NYSE: JKS) is one of the largest and most innovative solar module manufacturers in the world. JinkoSolar distributes its solar products and sells its solutions and services to a diversified international utility, commercial and residential customer base in China, the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Chile, South Africa, India, Mexico, Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, and other countries and regions. JinkoSolar has built a vertically integrated solar product value chain, with an integrated annual capacity of 11.5 GW for mono wafers, 10.6 GW for solar cells, and 16 GW for solar modules, as of December 31, 2019.

JinkoSolar has over 15,000 employees across its 7 productions facilities globally, 14 overseas subsidiaries in Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, India, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, United States, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Australia, and global sales teams in China, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Bulgaria, Greece, Ukraine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Morocco, Kenya, South Africa, Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Poland and Argentina.

To find out more, please see: www.jinkosolar.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains forward-looking statements. These statements constitute “forward-looking” statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as “will,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “future,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “estimates” and similar statements. Among other things, the quotations from management in this press release and the Company’s operations and business outlook, contain forward-looking statements. Such statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in JinkoSolar’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its annual report on Form 20-F. Except as required by law, the Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Contact

For investor and media inquiries, please contact:

In China

Ms. Ripple Zhang
JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd.
Tel: +86 21-5183-3105
Email: ir@jinkosolar.com

Mr. Christian Arnell
Christensen
Tel: +86 10 5900 2940
Email: carnell@christensenIR.com  

In the US

Ms. Linda Bergkamp
Christensen, Scottsdale, Arizona
Tel: +1-480-614-3004
Email: lbergkamp@ChristensenIR.com

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Userlytics Launches “Instant Access” Recorder for Remote User Research

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The new capability will enable remote moderation of usability tests and market research interviews with instant remote participant access.

AUSTIN, Texas, June 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Userlytics Corporation has announced the launch of an “Instant Access” version of its recorder, as part of its “Live Interview – Moderated User Experience Testing” suite of user research applications. 

This unique capability allows a seamless and easy onboarding for all types of remote participants, B2C and B2B, and thus empowers organizations looking for a simple way to conduct remote qualitative market research studies and remote online focus groups as a means to deal with the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic. 

According to Alejandro Rivas-Micoud, CEO of Userlytics, “The COVID-19 Pandemic has brought into stark relief the need for remote usability and user experience tests and remote qualitative market research. By introducing an online interview moderated feature with no need for downloading applications, plug-ins or extensions, we enable seamless remote UX testing of both B2B and B2C participants.”

The new live interview suite includes the “Picture-in-Picture” participant webcam + participant screen recording system of Userlytics, as well as the new “Instant Access” recorder, with no need for downloading an application or extension for participant onboarding. Quantitative metrics such as success/failure ratios, time on task, and system usability scale (SUS), as well as access to the Userlytics Global Respondent Panel with automatic translation and transcription, are also fully integrated into the platform.

User experience researchers, product managers, designers, and market researchers need an easy way to schedule, coordinate and conduct remote interviews and moderated usability tests, so as to deal with the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic. The new “Instant Access” recorder of Userlytics is uniquely suited to deal with this fast changing environment.

About Userlytics Corporation 
Born in San Francisco with offices in Austin, Miami, San Diego, Madrid, and Taipei, Userlytics is a global leader in user experience optimization. Analytics tells you what, but Userlytics tells you why.

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