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Retail Tech Startup Tiliter Raises $7.5M for Cashierless AI Shopping Technology

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Tiliter to increase global footprint as Investec invests through its IEC Australia Fund I

SYDNEY, Oct. 20, 2020 — Investor demand for innovative emerging companies remains strong with Australian AI tech startup Tiliter completing a $7.5 million capital raise, led by Investec Emerging Companies (IEC).

Eleanor Venture, a tech investment syndicate for angel investors, and New York’s Cornell University also participated in the funding round.

Tiliter is a leading artificial intelligence (AI) provider whose technology uses computer vision to recognise products without barcodes.

Its technology automatically identifies items, such as fresh produce, without the need for barcodes, packaging, and price stickers, making it easier for shoppers to manage during self-checkout.

Tiliter is currently focused on the Supermarket vertical and its camera and software system uses AI to pre-select items and remove the need for manual entry, with over 99% accuracy and in under one second.

Karen Chan, Head of Investec’s Emerging Companies division, said Tiliter aligned with the Fund’s philosophy of investing in companies with high growth potential backed by strong founders.

"We are excited to be working with the Tiliter team and believe this technology solves a very real need for both consumers and retailers in the Australian market and abroad," Chan said.

With retailers increasingly moving towards self-checkout and mobile-checkout options, Tiliter’s technology makes it easier and faster for customers to complete their transactions, reduces fraud, costs, and waste for businesses, and addresses the need for contactless purchases in a COVID-19 world. This can all be done with limited integration and no changes to the retailer’s IT infrastructure.

Tiliter was founded in 2017 by Marcel Herz, Martin Karafilis, and Chris Sampson. Commenting on the Tiliter team, Chan said, "The Tiliter co-founders are a visionary team, leveraging technology to solve the problems of the future.

"At IEC, we believe in acting as a true partner to our investee companies to provide advice, capital, and connectivity. We look forward to supporting the Tiliter team to reach their global growth aspirations."

Tiliter’s early adopters include Woolworths in Australia with over 20 live stores, Countdown in New Zealand, and several retail chains in the U.S., such as New York City’s Westside Market.

The company will use the latest funding to accelerate its expansion across Europe and the U.S., with many supermarkets to unveil Tiliter’s product recognition technology over the coming months.

CEO and co-founder of Tiliter Marcel Herz welcomed the funding from Investec and noted there had been a 300% increase in scan-and-go adoption in the U.S. over the past year due to COVID, and this growth is expected to rise globally.

"As an industry, we’re just at the beginning of how AI combined with computer vision will shape the future for brick-and-mortar and online shopping. It was important that we partner with investors that understand the new dynamics in retail innovation and the massive opportunity arising from this change," says Herz.

One factor many retail technology companies face is the cost and operational overhead to install and maintain their solutions.

"There has been an increased focus for Tiliter to create a plug-and-play solution for retailers and remove the operational friction of adopting cashier-less technology, particularly during the COVID pandemic," says Martin Karafilis, COO and co-founder of Tiliter.

"The end-to-end capability of Tiliter’s dedicated hardware and software is an example of how Tiliter’s recognition technology can be easily installed and used anywhere in the world at a lower cost than currently offered autonomous store solutions."

About Tiliter:

Tiliter makes software and hardware that uses computer vision to recognise products without barcodes. Tiliter is using machine learning and data analytic algorithms to disrupt industry practices and create the future now. For more information or to schedule a demo, visit www.tiliter.com or contact sales@tiliter.com. 

Media Contact: felicity.mullens@tiliter.com

About Investec Emerging Companies:

Investec Emerging Companies (IEC) is a division of Investec Australia. IEC partners with emerging companies to provide them with an integrated capital and advisory offering. The team partners with companies led by strong founders, with high growth potential and a demonstrated track record.

Media Contact: guy@honner.com.au

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Four Steps to Accelerate Your Machine Learning Journey

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This is the golden age of machine learning­ (ML). Once considered peripheral, ML technology is becoming a core part of businesses around the world, regardless of the industry. By 2021, the International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that spending on artificial intelligence (AI) and other cognitive technologies will exceed $50 billion.

Locally, 25% of organizations say they are setting aside at least 10% of their budget for technology, which includes investments in big data analytics (64%), cloud computing (57%), Machine Learning and artificial intelligence (33%), and robotic process automation (27%), based on the Malaysian Institute of Accountants’ “MIA-ACCA Business Outlook Report 2020″. [1] As more companies gain awareness of the importance of ML, they should work towards getting it in motion as quickly and effectively as possible.

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At Amazon, we have been on our own ML journey for more than two decades – applying it to areas like personalization, supply chain management, and forecasting systems for our fulfillment process. Today, there is not a single business function at Amazon that is not made better through machine learning.

Whether your company is just getting started or in the middle of your first implementation, here are the four steps you should take to have a successful machine learning journey.  

Get Your Data in Order

When it comes to adopting machine learning, data is often cited as the number one challenge. We found that more than 50% of time spent in building ML models can be spent in data wrangling, data cleanup, and pre-processing stages. Therefore, prioritize investing in the establishment of a strong data strategy to avoid spending excessive time and resources on data cleanup and management.

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When starting out, the three most important questions to ask are:

  • What data is available today?
  • What data can be made available?
  • A year from now, what data will we wish we had started collecting today?

In order to determine what data is available today, you will need to overcome data hugging – the tendency for teams to gatekeep data they work with most closely. Breaking down silos between teams for a more expansive view of the data landscape while still maintaining data governance is crucial for long-term success.

Additionally, identify what data actually matters as part of your machine learning approach. Think about best ways to store data and invest early in the data processing tools for de-identification and/or anonymization, if needed.

Identify the Right Business Problems

When evaluating what and how to apply ML, focus on assessing the problem across three dimensions: data readiness, business impact, and machine learning applicability.

Balancing speed with business value is key. Instead of trying to embark on a three-year ML project, focus on a handful of critical business use cases that could be solved in the upcoming six to 10 months. Start by identifying places where you already have a lot of untapped data and evaluate if machine learning brings benefits. Avoid picking a problem that is flashy but has unclear business value, as it will end up becoming a one-off experiment.

Champion a Culture of Machine Learning

In order to scale, you need to champion a culture of machine learning. At its core, ML is experimentation­. Therefore, it is imperative that your organization embrace failures and take a long-term view of what is possible.

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Businesses also need to combine a blend of technical and domain experts to work backward from the customer problem. Assembling the right group of people also helps eliminate the cultural barrier to adoption with a quicker buy-in from the business.

Similarly, leaders should constantly find ways to simplify the process of ML adoption for their developers. Since building ML infrastructures at scale is a time and labor-intensive process, leaders should encourage their teams to use tools that cover the entire ML workflow to build, train, and deploy these models efficiently.

For instance, 123RF, a homegrown stock photography portal, aims to make design smarter, faster, and easier for users. To do so, it relies on Amazon Athena, Amazon Kinesis, and AWS Lambda for data pipeline processing. Its newer products like Designs.ai Videomaker uses Amazon Polly to create voice-overs in more than 10 different languages. With AWS, 123RF has maintained flexibility in scaling its infrastructure and shortened product development cycles and is looking to incorporate other services to support its machine learning & AI research.

Develop Your Team

Developing your team is essential to foster a successful machine learning culture. Rather than spending resources to recruit new talent in a competitive market, hone in on developing your company’s internal talent through robust training programs.

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Years ago, Amazon created an in-house Machine Learning University (MLU) to help its own developers sharpen their ML skills or equip neophytes with tools to get started. We made the same machine learning courses available to all developers through AWS’s Training and Certification offering.

DBS Bank, a Singaporean multinational bank, employed a different approach. It is collaborating with AWS to train its employees to program their own ML-powered AWS DeepRacer autonomous 1/18th scale car, and race among themselves at the DBS x AWS DeepRacer League. Through this initiative, it aims to train at least 3,000 employees to be conversant in AI and ML by year end.

[1] MIA (Malaysian Institute of Accountants) and ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), Business Outlook Report 2020, 2020

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Data Analytics Customers Value Choice and Simplicity; Teradata’s New Flexible Cloud Pricing Provides Both

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Innovative cloud pricing models include Blended Pricing – for the lowest cost at scale – and Consumption Pricing – for a true pay-as-you-go, usage-based offer

SINGAPORE, Oct. 20, 2020 — Recognizing that data analytics workloads, usage patterns, and utilization rates can vary widely across an organization, Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the cloud data analytics platform company, today announced flexible cloud pricing options to make it easy for enterprises to grow, and benefit from data analytics in the cloud.

In keeping with Teradata’s aim to provide its customers with simplicity and choice, the company now offers two flexible cloud pricing models: Blended and Consumption. Blended Pricing is best suited for high usage and provides the ultimate in billing predictability while delivering the lowest cost at scale. Consumption Pricing is an affordable, pay-as-you-go option best suited for ad hoc queries and workloads with typical or unknown usage that delivers cost transparency for easy departmental chargeback.

With broad availability of both models, enterprises can expect more choice, lower risk, higher efficiency, and greater transparency from Teradata. These options are crucial in today’s unpredictable market where technologies, supply chains, and customer expectations can shift abruptly, leaving companies with stranded data analytics investments if their software fails to provide enough flexibility to evolve as needs change.

"If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that change happens fast, and having simple, flexible cloud pricing options gives customers the freedom needed to optimize their data analytics investments," said Hillary Ashton, Chief Product Officer at Teradata. "Different analytic use cases have vastly different utilization patterns at different points in time, which means that having choice in pricing models enables Teradata to offer the best one for each customer scenario ranging from a small ad hoc discovery system to a large production analytics environment."

Through decades of catering to data analytics needs spanning dozens of business cycles, Teradata understands deeply what is required for firms to extract the most value from their data. Blended Pricing, which is based primarily on capacity, is optimized for high or predictable utilization. Consumption Pricing is optimized for typical to low utilization, unknown future usage, or for tactical business analytics that include frequent ad hoc queries. The ability for Teradata customers to choose the most appropriate cloud pricing model for data analytic workloads facilitates financial governance and can improve customers’ return on investment.

"The convenience of a true consumption-based pricing model – determined by actual usage of the Vantage platform for running successful queries, rather than just available capacity – is a win for customers who want to better align their investment with specific analytic outcomes," added Ashton. "It also corrects outdated perceptions about the cost required to become a Teradata customer, since there is now a risk-free, zero down option to pay only for what’s used with Vantage, the industry’s best cloud data analytics platform."

Analyst firm Gartner predicts in the report, Overcome Economic Uncertainty Through Financial Governance of Your Cloud Data Management Environment, April 2020 that, "By 2022, 75% of organizations using cloud data management will encounter budget overruns resulting in their questioning the value of using cloud services."

In order to ensure the benefits of deploying in an agile cloud environment are not negated by lack of pricing transparency and cost overruns, Teradata has developed flexible cloud pricing options to meet every company’s use case(s):

Blended Pricing

Teradata’s Blended Pricing option is an enterprise-class pricing model that couples low-cost, predictable reserved compute capacity with on-demand elasticity. Customers pay only for compute resources used or activated, plus storage.

Blended Pricing allows organizations to get cloud elasticity when needed while also benefitting from the lowest cost at scale.

Key benefits of Teradata’s Blended Pricing model include:

  • Predictability: No billing surprises – unlike other cloud analytics companies that employ inefficient auto-scaling which drives up incremental cost;
  • Lowest cost at scale: Vantage scales linearly, whereas other cloud analytics companies get increasingly inefficient as they scale; and
  • Granularity: Vantage offers incremental elasticity, which means not over-provisioning, and thus not over-paying for what’s not needed, unlike alternatives.

Consumption Pricing

Teradata’s Consumption Pricing is an innovative, usage-based option with automatic elasticity in which organizations pay only for compute resources consumed for successful queries, measured down to the kilobyte by user, plus storage. Businesses leveraging Teradata’s Consumption Pricing model need never worry about utilization, system sizing, or resource status since Teradata manages them on their behalf – and they never pay for what they do not use. For a risk-free experience, organizations can even start with zero down and no obligation.

Consumption Pricing makes it easier for customers to experiment with new analytics without fear of leaving money for unused resources on the table. Longtime Teradata customer, True Value Company – one of the world’s leading hardlines wholesalers – is one such customer now taking advantage of the company’s new Consumption Pricing model.

"As we continue on our modernization journey, it’s imperative that we are able to drive new, user-driven analytics capabilities to uncover critical business insights and operational efficiencies, all at an optimized cost," said Ron Byczynski, Director, Infrastructure, DevOps & QA at True Value. "By leveraging Teradata’s Consumption Pricing model, we will pay only for resources used, allowing us to better streamline our IT investments to ensure maximum ROI."

Key benefits of Teradata’s Consumption Pricing model include:

  • Pay only for what is used: Enables improved business efficiency and aligns investment with outcomes while not paying for unused capacity;
  • Automated elasticity: Since resource sizing is embedded in the offer, now customers no longer need to think about sizing, saving them time on capacity planning;
  • Cost allocation: Easy departmental chargeback on data analytics costs based on users’ actual resource consumption; and
  • Zero obligation: A risk-free opportunity to use Teradata Vantage in the cloud.

Vantage: the modern cloud data analytics platform

Teradata Vantage is the modern cloud data analytics platform that unifies data lakes, data warehouses, and analytics with new data sources and types. Built for a hybrid multi-cloud reality, Vantage solves the world’s most complex data challenges at scale.

Both Teradata’s Blended and Consumption Pricing models offer customers the best of what the Vantage platform has to offer, including:

  • As-a-service delivery: Teradata provisions and manages each customer in a dedicated public cloud environment, enabling users to focus on answers instead of non-differentiating tasks;
  • Dynamic resource allocation: Field-proven workload management helps customers prioritize users and queries, set guaranteed performance levels, and control spend; and
  • Software optimization: Sophisticated algorithms minimize compute and IO consumption, streamlining throughput and often eliminating the need to add the non-budgeted compute resources required by others.

Availability

Blended Pricing is now available for every Vantage deployment option worldwide.

Consumption Pricing is available for Vantage on AWS and Vantage on Azure globally. Availability for Vantage on Google Cloud is expected within the first half of 2021.

Resources

Gartner, Overcome Economic Uncertainty Through Financial Governance of Your Cloud Data Management Environment, April 2020.

About Teradata

Teradata is the cloud data analytics platform company, built for a hybrid multi-cloud reality, solving the world’s most complex data challenges at scale. We help businesses unlock value by turning data into their greatest asset. See how at Teradata.com.

Note to Investors

This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements generally relate to opinions, beliefs and projections of expected future financial and operating performance, business trends, and market conditions, among other things. These forward-looking statements are based upon current expectations and assumptions and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, including the factors discussed in this release and those relating to the timely and successful development, production or acquisition, availability and/or market acceptance of new or existing products, product features and services, and other factors described from time to time in Teradata’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 and subsequent quarterly reports on Forms 10-Q, as well as the Company’s annual report to stockholders. Teradata does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

The Teradata logo is a trademark, and Teradata is a registered trademark of Teradata Corporation and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and worldwide.

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Canon Rewards Customers Who Buy Genuine Toner Cartridges

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Canon is making getting genuine toner cartridges by rewarding customers who do. The company has launched its “Be Original: Genuine Toner Loyalty Program” in Malaysia which will be happening from 1 October, 2020 until 31 December 2020. Throughout this program, customers will be rewarded with 1000 points with every purchased of a genuine Canon toner. These points can be redeemed as MYR10 Touch ‘n Go eWallet credit or other goodies such as a Canon mini projector, printers and more. This campaign comes at a time when the demand for toner cartridges are increasing due to the increase of remote work arrangements brought on by the current global pandemic.

People often forget the importance of a genuine toner which sometimes come with an additional price to pay. Third party cartridges and toners can accumulate on  the drum and the fixing roller, resulting in printouts with unsightly lines, blurring or gray backgrounds. What’s more, it can lead to irreparable damage to your printer. 

Canon claims that their genuine toners are specially designed to bring out the best in your laser printing device, facilitating sharp characters and detailed images, and ensuring that your Canon printer always operates at peak performance to deliver the best printouts possible. Besides, Canon is also touting higher page yields, making them more cost-effective.

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Identifying a genuine Canon cartridge is easy; the Canon Genuine Security Label can be found on the exterior of Canon genuine toner cartridge boxes. All you have to do to redeem your points and rewards is scratch the label, scan the disclosed QR code with a smartphone. The QR Code will lead you to the Your Live With Canon website for verification. Once verified, you will be rewarded the 1000 points.

Of course, to take part in the campaign on the Your Life with Canon page, you will first have to register as a member. After this, you will be rewarded everytime you key in the toner serial number. Submissions and redemption end on 7 January, 2021. Once you confirmed the redemption request, the merchandise will then be delivered to the registered address within a month. As long as the customers have sufficient points, there is no limit for redemption.

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Google Assistant Is Now Integrated Deeper Than Ever With App Actions

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It is completely fair and not overstating to say that the Google Assistant has become one of the Google’s most important products. While people are still fantasizing of contact-less computing experience, which is still not realized by most people, Google Assistant has already worked its way into the society through variety of products like the Google Home and Chromecast. Google Assistant, we can safely say, has become a big part of plenty of people’s lives.

Google has added several new features to the Assistant this year, making it better and more helpful to users. The virtual assistant is now gaining the ability to open up, search, and perform general tasks across your favorite apps. As long as you have an Android phone that is Assistant-enabled, you will be able to open and search within Android apps just by calling; “Hey Google,” or “Okay Google.”

Google has kicked off this deeper integration by partnering with over 30 of the top apps on the Google Play store. Here a list of some of the apps such as Nike Adapt, Nike Run Club, Spotify, Snapchat, Twitter and of course more.

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The new integration will allow you to do things that need several taps in the apps themselves. For instance, apps like Nike Run Club can be easily accessed without needing users physical input. This can be huge time saver.

For all the apps that support Google Assistant, you can simply create a shortcut phrases for it and it will perform whatever preset actions for you. Nike’s Adapt training shoes could be a great example. Through Google Assistant, could create a preset action command and get your shoes to automatically tighten itself on your feet. All done via Google’s voice command, something that dreams are made of.

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The new usefulness is a major advance towards Google offering a totally without hands processing experience. While Android 11 previously included some genuinely incredible voice control openness choices, this adds much greater usefulness to the Google Assistant.

Google says the Assistant will be able to work with more apps in the near future. You could be a part of this exciting future though by creating these shortcuts and allow developers to map users’ intent to get Google Assistant to integrate with their favourite apps. Stay tuned and be excited for more fantasy acts.

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Hong Kong Blockchain Week 2020: Setting DeFi and Blockchain Trends for 2021

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November 17th to 19th 2020, speakers and participants will assess the economic and technological rollercoaster of the year 2020,and will discuss whether DeFi will change the game for fintech.

HONG KONG, Oct. 20, 2020 — During a week-long virtual event, speakers from institutions, businesses, regulatory bodies, innovative companies will evaluate the outcomes of 2020 for blockchain, technology and economy, and deliver valuable predictions about what will be trending in the nearest future. 

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Hong Kong Blockchain Week 2020/Block O2O Global Virtual Summit 18 Nov

Hosted by The NexChange Group, Hong Kong Blockchain Week is co-organised by Hong Kong Cyberport, the main regional technology hub driving the innovation force and nurturing a growing digital community in Hong Kong.

"Blockchain technology has become more widely adopted and increasingly pivotal in various areas of application, such as the financial services industry. The recent Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP) initiative by the People’s Bank of China has put Blockchain and Crypto back on the radar screen. Home to the largest FinTech community in Hong Kong with well over 300 FinTech start-ups and companies in the community, Cyberport is pleased to be powering Hong Kong Blockchain Week to examine the latest developments of blockchain and showcase Hong Kong’s capabilities in this area. Our goal is to draw blockchain talents together to exchange ideas, to co-create business opportunities as well as to lead the city in embracing blockchain," said Peter Yan, Chief Executive Officer of Cyberport.

Attendees will follow the experts’ discussions on such hot topics shaping the global agenda such as fintech, investment, and digital assets. Here, Dan Morehead, CEO of Pantera Capital, notes: "Digital assets have out-performed nearly all other asset classes year-to-date as unprecedented monetary and fiscal stimulus drive up the prices of things whose quantity cannot be eased. We strongly believe we are in the early stages of a large bull market fueled by both a powerful global macro tide and growing fundamentals in the underlying technology."

Quickly gaining traction, DeFi has become the center of attention throughout most of 2020. Decentralised Finance has undoubtedly disrupted the whole ecosystem of DLT-based financial services. From Yield Farming in trading, to DAOs and stablecoins, to NFTs (non fungible tokens) in asset tokenization and gamification, DeFi has shown interesting endless possibilities and applications which made it one of the hottest trends of the year. 

"With decentralization at its core the blockchain space was built for unprecedented times like these," said Justin Sun, Founder of TRON and CEO of BitTorrent. "The Crypto community has succeeded in rapidly pivoting to a virtual approach to conferences making it accessible to an even wider audience. I was looking forward to attending this year’s Hong Kong Blockchain Week, and hope to see you all there."

After the core event which is the Block O2O Global Virtual Summit set for November 18th, organizers prepared a DeFi special: a whole DeFi Day will be held on November 19th, featuring virtual discussions, workshops and livestreams. 

Yat Siu, Co-founder and Chairman, Animoca Brands, Founder and CEO, Outblaze: "As the COVID-19 pandemic continues worldwide, Hong Kong Blockchain Week 2020 will allow global blockchain leaders and investors to safely discuss the latest developments, opportunities and solutions in today’s most exciting field of technology. We are especially looking forward to the evolving discussions about the many benefits of non-fungible tokens for the general public."

As one of the most anticipated events for blockchain and fintech, Hong Kong Blockchain Week 2020 enjoys a rich agenda of associated events, including an online ceremony of the world’s first international TADS Awards 2020 on November 18th, celebrating the Tokenized Assets and Digital Securities industries by recognizing and honouring significant contributions worldwide.

About NexChange: NexChange Group is a venture innovation and media platform specializing in Blockchain, FinTech, HealthTech, AI, and Smart Cities. By creating a global O2O community, NexChange creates, markets, accelerates and provides access to innovative products.

For more information on the speakers, agenda, side events and partnerships, please visit https://www.hkblockchainweek.net/ or contact: info@nexchange.com 

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Samsung Galaxy F41 – The New Kid in Town

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Samsung is one of the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer. They are larger than anyone else for a reason though. They never fail to amaze and surprise the likes of us, for example. One of the surprises that they came to is their new Galaxy F series launched on the 8th October.

The Samsung Galaxy F though is designed and made in India. The Galaxy F series will start in India as a mid-range option. The mid-range option from Samsung will emphasize camera functionality. That is culminated into the first Samsung Galaxy F device that is the Samsung Galaxy F41

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That being said, the Samsung Galaxy F41 comes with a relatively high-resolution camera. Samsung’s new Galaxy F41 comes with a triple camera – a 64-Megapixel main camera, an 8MP Ultra-Wide sensor and a 5-Megapixel depth sensor. According to GeekBench scores that has been running around the internet lately, the party of cameras are apparently running on the Samsung Exynos 9611. The Samsung Galaxy F41 packs 6GB of RAM, and runs on Android 10.

Out of the 6.4-inch Full HD Super AMOLED display up front is a 32-Megapixel front-facing camera with smart beauty function. We are not kidding when we say that Samsung wants this to be a photography beast.

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The Samsung Galaxy F41 does come with a large 6,000mAh battery that is quoted to last up to 26 hours with non-stop videos. That also means that the device should last more than a full day on a single charge. 15W USB Fast-Charging takes you from zero percent to full in just only 160 minutes, in case you need that kind of power.

In the box is a modern USB Type-C to USB Type-C data cable and a USB Type-C 15W Fast Charger, among other usual things. Curiously, the Samsung Galaxy F is only made for the Indian market. In Malaysia we see Samsung launching the M31 entry-level device with very similar specs to the Samsung Galaxy F with some extras in the camera department.

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The Samsung Galaxy F41 is available in Fusion Black, Fusion Green, and Fusion Blue colour finishes. You can choose between a 64GB storage option or a larger 128GB option. The device is an India exclusive device and is already available for purchase. It will set you back from INR 15,499 (Approx. MYR 875*) onward. More information on the Samsung Galaxy F41 on their website.

* Based on approximate conversion rate of INR 100 = MYR 5.65 as of 19/10/2020

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Netskope Announces Asia-Pacific Expansion to Queensland, and Michael Kontos as Regional Sales Manager

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MELBOURNE, Australia, Oct. 20, 2020 — Netskope, the leading security cloud, announced today an expansion in the Asia-Pacific region into the Queensland and Northern Territory regions of Australia under the leadership of Michael Kontos. Kontos brings ten years of experience to Netskope, most recently from F5 Networks, where he served as Territory Account Manager for two years and Riverbed Technology prior to that. This comes on the heels of the recent addition of David Fairman, former CSO of National Australia Bank, as the newest member of Netskope’s CSO team.

"We are extremely pleased to welcome Michael Kontos to the Netskope Asia Pacific team to run our Queensland and Northern Territory region," said Tony Burnside, Vice President Asia Pacific. "Michael is joining at a perfect time when we are seeing unprecedented demand for the Netskope Security Cloud platform across the region. Michael brings a wealth of relevant experience in developing the QLD/NT region and we could not be happier that he chose Netskope as his next career move."

As part of this expansion, Netskope has opened an office on Queen Street in the Brisbane CBD, where they will offer training and professional accreditation for partners and end-users.

"Enterprises throughout the Queensland and Northern Territory regions are benefiting from digital transformation and finding that this has precipitated a massive need to adapt their security programs," said Kontos. "I feel fortunate to be joining Netskope, a company that has been at the forefront of security transformation for several years. Beyond the technology Netskope provides, I’ve been amazed by the great people and culture I’ve found at Netskope and I look forward to continuing that and growing our market share through this expansion."

In addition to Kontos, this expansion also includes the addition of the following team members:

  • Richard Batchelar, coming from Datacom with 25+ years of experience in the cybersecurity industry, and Shaun Chaney, coming from The Instillery with seven years of experience in the industry, join as account team members in New Zealand.
  • Michael Coleman joins from FireEye with 20+ years of experience in the cybersecurity industry, as a channel manager in Sydney.
  • Brett Smith, coming from F5 Networks with 20+ years of experience in the IT sector, joins the Solutions Architect team in Brisbane.

Following Gartner’s architectural framework for "secure access service edge" (SASE), Netskope is the only company in the market that has addressed shifting demands by combining next-generation SWG capabilities, the world’s leading CASB, zero trust secure access, and advanced machine learning to detect unauthorized data exfiltration and advanced threat protection. Netskope delivers inline security services through a carrier-grade, next-generation global infrastructure called Netskope NewEdge. In addition, Netskope’s deep understanding of the cloud and data-centric approach empowers security teams with the right balance of protection and speed they need to secure their remote-first workforce and advance their digital transformation journey.

About Netskope

The Netskope security cloud provides unrivaled visibility and real-time data and threat protection when accessing cloud services, websites, and private apps from anywhere, on any device. Only Netskope understands the cloud and delivers data-centric security from one of the world’s largest and fastest security networks, empowering the largest organizations in the world with the right balance of protection and speed they need to enable business velocity and secure their digital transformation journey. Reimagine your perimeter with Netskope.

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Cyient Collaborates with SR University to Help Advance the Field of Additive Manufacturing

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HYDERABAD, India, Oct. 20, 2020 — Cyient, a global digital engineering and technology solutions company, has signed an MoU with Warangal-based SR University, a leading institution in research and academics. As part of this collaboration, Cyient will help SR University in developing an industry-oriented curriculum focused on advanced manufacturing systems. This will greatly help reduce the skill gap between the need and availability of resources trained in areas such as design for additive manufacturing.

Cyient has been a key promoter and user of additive manufacturing technology and has established polymer and metal additive manufacturing facilities in India and in the US. The company has worked with marquee clients in aerospace and defense, medical technology, energy, industrial, and transportation segments to deliver functionally superior additively manufactured parts with applications in tooling, reverse engineering, and obsolescence management.

In the past year, Cyient has trained over 100 associates in design for additive manufacturing through its comprehensive internal training program. Cyient will share its expertise in the field to further faculty and student research at SR University.

Speaking on the occasion, Rajendra Velagapudi, Senior Vice President, Cyient said, "With this collaboration, Cyient and SR University will help advance the additive manufacturing industry in India which is a key tenet of the Make In India initiative. We will develop industry-ready engineers with the capabilities in additive manufacturing to build cutting-edge solutions. This will help position India as a leader in additive manufacturing talent as companies across the world embark on a journey of digital transformation and adopt additive manufacturing as a key portion of their supply chains. Furthermore, Cyient will look to its academic partners such as SR University to lead innovation through industry-aligned research and development in the field of advanced materials, design, and process controls."

"Advanced manufacturing tools like digital manufacturing, flexible automation, additive manufacturing, and autonomous robots have the greatest potential to influence the manufacturing landscape in increasing the productivity and can boost innovation too to create and develop new kinds of products economically," said Dr. G R C Reddy, Vice Chancellor, SR University.

"The need of the hour is strategic partnerships that synergistically integrate the research-driven culture of academia with the innovation-driven environment of the industry. This partnership is a step in that direction by us," said Sreedevi Devireddy, Member, Board of Management, SR University.

About Cyient:

Cyient (Estd: 1991, NSE: CYIENT) is a global digital engineering and technology company.  As a Design, Build, and Maintain partner for leading organizations worldwide, Cyient takes solution ownership across the value chain to help customers focus on their core, innovate, and stay ahead of the curve. The company leverages digital technologies, advanced analytics capabilities, domain knowledge, and technical expertise to solve complex business problems. 

Cyient partners with customers to operate as part of their extended team in ways that best suit their organization’s culture and requirements. Cyient’s industry focus includes aerospace and defense, healthcare, telecommunications, rail transportation, semiconductor, geospatial, industrial, and energy.

For more information, please visit www.cyient.com.
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About SR University:

With over 45 years of Academic Excellence, the well-established SR University (formerly SR Engineering College) was adjudged All India Number 1 in private institutions category in ARIIA-MHRD ranking recently.  SRU is a prestigious Institution to have Tier I NBA accreditation for all B. Tech programs and NIRF rank in Engineering and overall category. SRU’s  technology business incubator SRiX (SR Innovation Exchange) aided by NSTEDB, Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi, is the largest Incubation Centre in a Tier – II city in India. Few SRU milestones comprise of 41 Patents and more than 2000 Research articles published by faculty and students. Success also encompasses 52 Sponsored Research Projects & Programs by funding agencies DST, AICTE, UGC and others. SRU Collaborations with foreign universities include Purdue University, UMass Lowell, St. Louis University, University of Missouri in USA, Cranfield University in UK and Deakin University in Australia.

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Deltek Named A Best Place to Work in the Philippines

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Deltek’s Philippines office in Makati has received the prestigious award eight times since 2012

HERNDON, Virginia, Oct. 19, 2020 — Deltek, the leading global provider of software and information solutions for project-based businesses, announced today that its office in Makati has been named a Philippines Best Employer Brand. Deltek has received recognition from Best Employer Brands eight times since 2012. The awards, organized by World HRD Congress, promote the Best Employer Brands from various geographical regions.

"Our employees are the most critical component of our organization. We continue to drive innovation, collaboration and growth – even during these uncertain times, when we are working remotely. Our team in the Philippines shows unmatched resiliency, enthusiasm, passion and dedication – they truly embody what our culture at Deltek is all about," said Ed Hutner, SVP of Human Resources at Deltek. "On behalf of the entire team at Deltek, I want to extend my thanks to the World HRD Congress for recognizing us as a best place to work."

The Best Employer Brand Awards recognize companies across the Philippines that excel at fostering a positive working environment and engaging employees through best-in-class human resources practices, policies and strategies and have used marketing communications in attracting, developing and retaining talent.

Deltek’s office in Makati distinguished itself from other nominees through its world-class talent management, development and innovation programs to enable building a future-ready organization. "Best Employers" were selected following vigorous primary research conducted by the Employer Branding Institute (EBI).

Learn more about the award-winning team at Deltek.

About Deltek
Better software means better projects. Deltek is the leading global provider of enterprise software and information solutions for project-based businesses. More than 30,000 organizations and millions of users in over 80 countries around the world rely on Deltek for superior levels of project intelligence, management and collaboration. Our industry-focused expertise powers project success by helping firms achieve performance that maximizes productivity and revenue. Learn more at www.deltek.com.

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