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BorgWarner Completes Acquisition of Delphi Technologies

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– Strengthens Electronics and Power Electronics Products, Capabilities and Scale

– Positions BorgWarner for Greater Growth as Electrified Propulsion Systems Gain Momentum

– Enhances Key Combustion, Commercial Vehicle and Aftermarket Businesses

AUBURN HILLS, Michigan, Oct. .3, 2020 — BorgWarner Inc. (NYSE: BWA) today announced it has completed its acquisition of Delphi Technologies. The combination of BorgWarner and Delphi Technologies is expected to strengthen BorgWarner’s electronics and power electronics products, capabilities and scale, creating a leader in electrified propulsion systems that BorgWarner believes is well-positioned to take advantage of future propulsion migration.

"We are pleased to complete our acquisition of Delphi Technologies," said Frédéric Lissalde, President and CEO, BorgWarner. "Through this combination, BorgWarner is  even better positioned with a more comprehensive portfolio of industry-leading propulsion products and systems across combustion, hybrid and electric vehicles.  We expect that the combination will also strengthen our commercial vehicle and aftermarket businesses. We welcome Delphi Technologies’ colleagues around the world to the BorgWarner team and are excited about the opportunities we have together to address market trends towards electrification. I am proud of our global workforce, including our integration planning teams, for driving the business forward as we managed through the pandemic and laying a strong foundation for a seamless integration. I have great confidence that we will realize what we believe are significant benefits of this combination for our shareholders, customers and suppliers."

Compelling Strategic and Financial Benefits: 

Bringing BorgWarner and Delphi Technologies together is expected to:

  • Strengthen BorgWarner’s electronics and power electronics products, capabilities and scale, creating a leader in electrified propulsion systems that BorgWarner believes is well-positioned to take advantage of future propulsion migration. Delphi Technologies brings industry leading power electronics technology and talent, with an established production, supply and customer base. The combined company will offer customers a suite of integrated and standalone offerings of power electronics products (including high voltage inverters, converters, on-board chargers and battery management systems) and capabilities (including software, systems integration and thermal management).
  • Enhance BorgWarner’s combustion, commercial vehicle and aftermarket businesses. Delphi Technologies’ breadth of combustion propulsion products complements BorgWarner’s innovative portfolio, which is focused on clean technologies to increase efficiency and performance of modern combustion vehicles. Adding Delphi Technologies’ commercial vehicle and aftermarket business results in more balance across light vehicles, commercial vehicles and the aftermarket.

    Global aftermarket customers will continue to benefit from an extensive portfolio of BorgWarner and Delphi Technologies OE-quality aftermarket parts, services, diagnostic tools and test equipment. As a brand of BorgWarner, Delphi Technologies Aftermarket will maintain its brand identity, and customers across the world will be able to rely on their trusted contacts for sales and customer service support.

The completion of the transaction follows approval by Delphi Technologies’ shareholders, receipt of required regulatory approvals, the satisfaction of certain conditions relating to indebtedness of Delphi Technologies, and the satisfaction or waiver of customary closing conditions. In connection with the close of this transaction, Delphi Technologies common stock will cease to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

Conference Call and Presentation Materials

At 9:30 a.m. ET on Thursday, October 8, 2020, a brief conference call with additional details on the acquisition will be webcast at: http://www.borgwarner.com/en/Investors/default.aspx.  Additionally, an acquisition presentation will be available at http://www.borgwarner.com/en/Investors/default.aspx.

About BorgWarner

BorgWarner Inc. (NYSE: BWA) is a global product leader in clean and efficient technology solutions for combustion, hybrid and electric vehicles. Building on its original equipment expertise, BorgWarner also brings market leading product and service solutions to the global aftermarket. With manufacturing and technical facilities in 99 locations in 24 countries, the company employs approximately 48,000 worldwide. For more information, please visit borgwarner.com.

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You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this Release. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which are difficult to predict and generally beyond our control, that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed, projected or implied in or by the forward-looking statements.  These risks and uncertainties, among others, include: failure to realize the expected benefits of the acquisition of Delphi Technologies; failure to promptly and effectively integrate Delphi Technologies’ businesses; the potential for unknown or inestimable liabilities relating to the acquired business; our dependence on automotive and truck production, both of which are highly cyclical; our reliance on major OEM customers; commodities availability and pricing; supply disruptions; fluctuations in interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates; availability of credit; our dependence on key management; our dependence on information systems; the uncertainty of the global economic environment; the outcome of existing or any future legal proceedings, including litigation with respect to various claims; future changes in laws and regulations, including, by way of example, tariffs, in the countries in which we operate; and other risks noted in reports that we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Item 1A, "Risk Factors" in our most recently-filed Form 10-K. We do not undertake any obligation to update or announce publicly any updates to or revisions to any of the forward-looking statements in this presentation to reflect any change in our expectations or any change in events, conditions, circumstances, or assumptions underlying the statements.

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The Olive & Latte Suite adapts and evolves

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SINGAPORE, Oct. 2, 2020 — This year 2020 has proven to be a challenging year, and time was spent reflecting and with thoughts on the digital transformation journey. Engagevu has been working on online to mobile-friendly websites from the main content websites such as Olive & Latte ABS www.oliveandlatteabs.com, to Olive and Latte http://oliveandlatte.com/, and Dashingly Very Good Living, which is an affordable luxe website https://www.dashinglyverygoodliving.com/. And the Shopify sites at https://oliveandlatte.myshopify.com/, and https://dashinglyverygoodlivingvgd.myshopify.com/.

Olive and Latte Suite
Olive and Latte Suite

The new websites that were launched this year were Olive and Latte Home Lounge http://www.oliveandlattehomelounge.com/ while Engagevu, the pr and marketing collaborative outfit presents Engage for Moments https://www.engageformoments.com/.

Sharon Vu, Founder of Olive and Latte ABS (arts, bites, shop) with #OliveandLatte suite including #DashinglyVeryGoodLiving, and PR and Marketing outfit Engagevu, Vu Marcoms says, "The year 2020, has been difficult with Covid19, and there has been enough time to re-think the Digital Transformation journey to map that for our potential clients. Once again it is with the collaboration that has taken place, that makes Olive and Latte Suite to where it is at the moment, and that requires constant upskilling and reskilling to adapt to the changes that have taken place. We are on a constant lookout for items that are functional, trendy to classic, and with stories that accompany the products, and biographies of biz innovators and owners, personalities, shoppers, artists to designers, for the globeshop." 

Markus Flamman, Senior Advisor with Engagevu, and Adjunct Lecturer at the Henan University of Economics and Law commented, "I hope to place on the websites carefully curated items. Being Dutch I have access to unique luxury items that I will be looking for and list. You should be able to see them on Olive and Latte and Dashingly Very Good Living during the next year. There are many stories behind the gifts, souvenirs, paintings, and rare affordable luxury items. Additionally, I take interest and joy in creating some anecdotal content especially for Engage for Moments."

Lawrence Loh, Managing Director of FieldCrest together with Alvin Tan, Fieldcrest Enterprise’s Director have provided their thoughts on the collaboration, "It will be an exciting journey being one of the merchants with Olive and Latte ABS and being on their platforms from https://oliveandlatte.myshopify.com and https://dashinglyverygoodlivingvgd.myshopify.com, we hope to bring to the tabletop experience with Fieldcrest products to complement the food and beverage experience for customers, with products that showcase and feature the design and quality."

Please reach Olive and Latte Suite at contact@oliveandlatte.com or contact@engagevusg.com for partnerships and enquiries.

To view the websites, please find at

Globeshop

(Affordable Luxe):

1. https://www.dashinglyverygoodliving.com 
2. Installment payment Hoolah (3 months interest-free) is available on: https://dashinglyverygoodlivingvgd.myshopify.com 
3. http://oliveandlatte.com 
4. Installment payment Hoolah (3 months interest-free) is available on: https://oliveandlatte.myshopify.com/ 
5. http://www.oliveandlatteabs.com 

New Websites

6. http://oliveandlattehomelounge.com 
7. http://engageformoments.com

About Olive and Latte Suite, Olive & Latte Home Lounge and Engage for Moments

Through Olive and Latte ABS (www.oliveandlatteabs.com), the company started in 2014 as an online content generation and sharing of stories across social networks and platforms. Olive and Latte eGlobeshop http://oliveandlatte.com http://oliveandlatte.myshopify.com, a shop around the corner, was launched on 7 Feb 2018, as an extension and an ecart to describe memorabilia and items from across the globe curated by Olive and Latte with Artists, Shoppers, and Biz Innovators. The items have interesting and engaging stories behind them, or sometimes as retail therapy when people travel and getaway. Olive and Latte Plug and Play is an engagement service where they plug into companies in functions to assist and engage, for Public Relations, Marketing, and more, with their core of Publicists, Communicators, and Marketers.

Dashingly Very Good Living VGD has the 3-pronged concept for the Affordable Luxury segment and with the addition of the e-carting of Marketing to Solutioning services for the Individual and companies pre-paid, and with categories of Global Local Designers that Dashingly Very Good Living VGD will source, partner and procure and with the category of the Personality.

Olive and Latte Home Lounge http://www.oliveandlattehomelounge.com/ aims to cover everything about Home including notes on Enrichment, Deals of the Day and Week and Home recipes as a Home companion for those working remotely or at home. Engage for Moments https://www.engageformoments.com/ is a blog about the moments, the virtual Attractions, Travel and Anecdotal Moments and experiences be it in the online sphere and spaces.

For more information, please contact:

Sharon Vu
Director, Vu Marcoms, engagevu
Mobile: +65 8138 6913
Email: sharonvu@engagevusg.com

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TechLaw.Fest 2020 Sets Stage For Legal Industry’s Future

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Virtual conference sees record 6,000 registrations from more than 100 countries

SINGAPORE, Oct. 2, 2020 — A legal profession powered by technology—that’s the bold new vision put forth for the profession’s future at the end of TechLaw.Fest 2020. Attracting more than 6,000 registrations from over 100 countries, the event featured more than 50 networking opportunities, panel discussions and keynote addresses over five days.

TechLaw.Fest 2020 also boasted more than 120 speakers from the likes of tech giants Alibaba and Google, academia, and leading local and international law firms. Together, they offered thought-provoking and practical insights into legal innovation, technology law, access to justice and the future of automated legal operations.

Said Mr Edwin Tong SC, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth and Second Minister for Law, "With its record turnout and success in bringing stakeholders of legal innovation closer together, TechLaw.Fest 2020 has shown how a purely digital event can be just as meaningful and engaging as a physical one. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, it is a good example of how technology and innovation can help us pull through and emerge stronger. The Technology and Innovation Roadmap (TIR) seeks to encourage the legal industry to step up efforts in technology adoption and innovation, so that we can better position ourselves to seize more opportunities in the new normal."

Said Ms Serene Wee, Chief Executive of the Singapore Academy of Law ("SAL"), "It has been a huge week for the entire profession. Thanks to technology, we were able to host a wholly virtual event that saw leading minds from across time zones discussing the rapidly evolving role of the legal profession and the variants of legal technology, and how both will intersect in the future of law. At the heart of all this is a key issue of access to justice. The profession now has a deeper understanding of the implications and opportunities of digital transformation and we hope this week has provided a new impetus for changes in mindsets on what legal services are all about."

Initiatives launched at the five-day TechLaw.Fest 2020 include:

  • Legal Industry Technology & Innovation Roadmap: Launched by Mr Tong, the roadmap identifies technologies that impact the delivery of legal services. It also includes an overview of current and upcoming initiatives to support the development and adoption of such technologies.
  • ALITA Legal Tech Observatory: Spearheaded by the Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation and Technology Association ("ALITA"), the Legal Tech Observatory is the world’s first regulatory observatory for legal technology. Modelled after similar observatories in blockchain and artificial intelligence, the ALITA Legal Tech Observatory provides a real-time database of legal tech players and initiatives in the Asia-Pacific. It will be a hub for actionable insights for jurisdictions and industries, with input from a broad spectrum of legal tech actors.

For more on these initiatives, kindly refer to releases from Ministry of Law and ALITA.

The third edition of TechLaw.Fest was the largest ever, both in terms of reach and content. Running from 28 September to 2 October 2020, it was free for all registrants. It was organised by SAL, Singapore’s Ministry of Law and MP Singapore.

About TechLaw.Fest
TechLaw.Fest is a signature Law & Technology event hosted annually in Singapore. TechLaw.Fest brings together the international community to debate, deliberate, act and innovate in both the law of technology (policies, regulations, legislation, case law and governance) and the technology of law (infrastructure, business transformation and people development). It is co-organised by the Singapore Academy of Law, Singapore’s Ministry of Law and MP Singapore. More information can be found at www.techlawfest.com.

About the Singapore Academy of Law
The Singapore Academy of Law (SAL)’s vision is to make Singapore the legal hub of Asia. SAL works with our stakeholders to set new precedents of excellence in Singapore law through developing thought leadership, world-class infrastructure and legal solutions. More information can be found at www.sal.org.sg.

About Ministry of Law, Singapore
The Ministry of Law is a ministry of the Government of Singapore responsible for ensuring that Singapore’s legal infrastructure is clear, efficacious and transparent. It is currently led by Minister for Law K Shanmugam. The Ministry of Law formulates and reviews legal, intellectual property, land, insolvency, public trustee, moneylending, pawnbroking, legal aid and community mediation policies, as well as legislation and strategies under MinLaw’s purview; provides legal and policy input for other Ministries’ proposed Bills and programmes; develops the legal services, alternative dispute resolution and intellectual property sectors; and regulates and licenses all law practice entities and registers foreign-qualified lawyers in Singapore, amongst other its other functions. More information can be found on www.mlaw.gov.sg.

About MP Singapore
Trusted since 1987, MPI embodies more than a quarter century of event building, marketing and management experience in both Eastern and Western cultures, practices, and business philosophies. We bring world-class talent, industry expertise, and incredible enthusiasm into the design and management of extraordinary online-to-offline experiences for your organisation. MPI is part of Pico Group, a global group of agencies specialising in engaging people, creating experiences and activating brands for businesses, institutions and governments. As part of the Pico group, MPI has unlimited access to a wide network of industry contacts and resources. Pico Far East Holdings has been listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange since 1992. For more information, visit www.mpinetwork.com.

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Firmenich Announces the World’s First AI-Created Flavor

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GENEVA, Oct. 2, 2020 — Firmenich, the world’s largest privately owned perfume and taste company, is proud to announce it has created the first ever flavor by Artificial Intelligence (AI), a delicious lightly grilled beef taste for use in plant-based meat alternatives. A key milestone in Firmenich’s digital transformation across its value chain, this breakthrough provides customers with uniquely tailored taste and nutrition solutions, with unprecedented speed-to-market. Leading the industry in augmented creativity, the Group is currently in advanced testing on several new AI-generated Flavors across its core tonalities.

 

"Firmenich is marrying the most fundamental elements of our DNA: ground-breaking innovation with the unique creativity of our Flavorists for enhanced formulation," said Firmenich’s Chief Digital and Information Officer, Eric Saracchi. "AI enables us to explore new boundaries by empowering our Creators with a precise formula starting point, as well as additional suggestions for optimized ingredient combinations from which they can create bespoke tastes."

Firmenich Flavors President Emmanuel Butstraen added: "The Covid-19 crisis has changed the food innovation landscape as well as the consumer marketplace. We must understand and respond to these rapidly-evolving needs with more creativity at an even faster pace. Whether through offering moments of comfort and delight or addressing the larger shift towards healthier food & beverages." Butstraen continued, "The exciting addition of AI allows us to better leverage different raw materials and explore new creative leads. Taking into account specific product parameters such as 100% natural ingredients and regulatory requirements, the technology enhances our flavorists’ capability to create superior taste solutions and accelerate our product development."

The world’s first AI flavor was created in collaboration with Microsoft®, leveraging the entirety of Firmenich’s broad raw material database. The resulting grilled beef flavor capitalizes on Firmenich’s unique palette of ingredients and SmartProteins™ expertise in plant-based protein alternatives. 

About Firmenich

Firmenich is the world’s largest privately-owned perfume and taste company, founded in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1895 and has been family-owned for 125 years. Firmenich is a leading business-to-business company operating primarily in the fragrance and taste market, specialized in the research, creation, manufacture and sale of perfumes, flavors and ingredients. Renowned for its world-class research and creativity, as well as its leadership in sustainability, Firmenich offers its customers superior innovation in formulation, a broad and high-quality palette of ingredients, and proprietary technologies including biotechnology, encapsulation, olfactory science and taste modulation. Firmenich had an annual turnover of 3.9 billion Swiss Francs at end June 2020. More information about Firmenich is available at www.firmenich.com

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PSI and SQA’s Skills for English™ is now a UKVI-approved Secure English Language Test

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LONDON, Oct. 2, 2020 — PSI Services (PSI), a global provider of assessment services, leading-edge technology, and talent management solutions and the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), Scotland’s national awarding and accreditation body, today announced that their Skills for English™ language test is now a UKVI-approved Secure English Language Test (SELT).

The approval follows PSI reaching a commercial arrangement with the UK Home Office last year to deliver the SELT for overseas UK visa applicants. Beginning October 12 in China and the rest of the world (outside the UK) later in 2020, applicants will have access to PSI’s fully computer-based testing experience via its global test center network.

Janet Garcia, Executive Vice President of PSI’s Global Credentialing Division, commented, "This is a major milestone for our Skills for English™ brand which we created jointly with SQA. The UKVI-approval is widely acknowledged as the hallmark of an effective, high-quality qualification, and we are thrilled now to be able offer a Skills for English (UKVI) test."

John McMorris, Director of Business Development at SQA added, "This approval is the culmination of an intense period of work between ourselves and PSI to create a qualification that can service the needs of those seeking to work, study, or settle in English-speaking countries. Having a UKVI-approved SELT is a major achievement, and we will be working hard to build out the Skills for English brand for a range of other purposes."

The approval of Skills for English as a UKVI Secure English Language Test means that it can be used for all types of visa applications where evidence of English Language proficiency is required. PSI and SQA believe the simplicity of the candidate’s journey – from booking an assessment, to the test session itself, through to the delivery of results, coupled with wide availability of test locations and dates – will ensure its popularity with test-takers.

Timing for the launch of the new test has inevitably been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and will be phased with bookings for test sessions available first in China and Hong Kong SAR, with tests in an additional 120 countries following a month later. All our SELT centers strictly adhere to the latest safety procedures with regard to COVID-19 based on various international, state, and local orders and guidelines as well as CDC and WHO recommendations.

The delivery of this program will further reinforce PSI’s presence in the global secure testing market, which comprises over 2,000 plus testing locations spanning 160 countries through which it delivers some 15 million assessments per year.

About PSI

PSI Services LLC (PSI) is a global workforce solutions provider that designs robust solutions for our clients by blending best-in-class assessment content, leading-edge technology, and deep consulting expertise across the entire career life cycle. PSI has over 70 years of experience providing worldwide testing solutions to a wide variety of customers across public and private sector industries, ranging from small businesses to global enterprises, leading academic institutions, and government organizations.

PSI offers a comprehensive solutions approach from test development to delivery and results processing, including pre-hire employment selection, managerial assessments, licensing and certification tests, distance learning testing, and other specialized services. Through our work with over 2,000 experts across 160 countries, PSI exists to empower people in their careers and drive organizational success. For more information, visit psionline.com.

About the Scottish Qualifications Authority

The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) is Scotland’s national awarding and accreditation body. It is responsible for developing, delivering, and accrediting qualifications, courses, and assessments undertaken by thousands of candidates in schools, colleges, training providers, and the workplace every year. SQA qualifications are delivered by thousands of teaching and training professionals in Scotland throughout the UK and around the world. SQA is instrumental in setting and maintaining robust national standards that ensure its courses, qualifications, and awards are recognized by colleges, universities, and industry, enabling learners and businesses alike to realize their potential and achieve their ambitions.

SQA works with around 15,000 teaching professionals and industry specialists, who support its awarding operations annually, ensuring SQA qualifications accurately reflect learners’ knowledge and skills and provide routes to jobs or further study. SQA also awards a range of other qualifications, including customized awards, to meet the needs of individual companies and organizations. They provide advice, support, and services, such as expertise in assessment, that enable organizations to meet a range of educational, development, and regulatory requirements.

Based in Scotland, SQA works throughout the UK and internationally. SQA takes great pride in offering exceptional customer service, which is acknowledged by government organizations, universities, businesses, and individuals around the world.

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Global ERP Solution Provider BST Global Names New Chief Executive Officer and New President

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TAMPA, Florida, Oct. 2, 2020 — BST Global announced today that Javier A. Baldor has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer and Carlos A. Baldor Jr. appointed as President. 

This announcement comes in light of the passing of BST Global’s Founder, President & CEO Carlos A. Baldor Sr. in August 2020. Carlos Sr. had prepared years in advance the company’s succession plan, which included his two sons successfully carrying on the global business. 

Javier A. Baldor, who previously served as the company’s Executive Vice President, joined BST Global in 1989 and has served in various capacities during his tenure. In 1999, Javier was the primary catalyst in establishing a global vision for the company, which now operates across an international network of offices and has clients leveraging BST Global’s solutions in 65 countries on six continents. As Chief Executive Officer, Javier will continue to lead a global team of professionals responsible for the market introduction of BST Global’s business software products and solutions. He will also be instrumental in crafting and implementing the company’s business strategy, overall vision and mission with Carlos Jr. and the BST Global leadership team.

Carlos A. Baldor Jr. previously served as the company’s Vice President. Carlos Jr. joined BST Global in 1988 as part of the Documentation team, and in 1990, he became a member of the Design team for BST RDBMIS. In 1993, he was named Manager of the Training and Support teams. From 1997 to 2005, Carlos Jr. was the Manager of the Product Development team – when BST Enterprise was designed, developed and brought to market. In 2005, he was named the Director of Design and was involved in new product development. In 2016, Carlos Jr. was appointed Vice President overseeing the Operations and Product Delivery teams to ensure they were supported to achieve their goals, and produce the most meaningful products possible. In addition to helping drive the company’s business strategy execution, Carlos Jr. will also focus on mentoring and coaching the next level of BST Global’s future leadership.

FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
"My father built this business from the ground up, which has flourished over many decades, by clearly fostering a vision and leading by his example of sheer dedication, compassion and hard work. It is a privilege and great honor to follow in his footsteps, continue the mission that he started nearly 50 years ago and build upon it with an extraordinary team of professionals around the world." – Javier A. Baldor, Chief Executive Officer, BST Global 

FROM THE PRESIDENT
"Carlos Sr. was an engineer by schooling and enjoyed using technology to solve problems. He was a true innovator and pioneer leveraging technology since the early 1970s when computers were in their infancy. This spirit has always excited me and it continues to fuel the company as it looks forward to the future with the goal of helping our clients and users achieve more and make their lives easier." – Carlos A. Baldor Jr., President, BST Global 

ABOUT BST GLOBAL 
BST Global designs, develops and deploys project-based ERP solutions specifically for the world’s leading architects, engineers and consultancies around the globe. More than 120,000 professionals across six continents and 65 countries rely on BST Global’s solutions each day to successfully manage their projects, resources, finances and client relationships. With unrivaled industry knowledge, BST Global serves as trusted partners to its loyal clients and remains at the forefront of innovation to evolve its products for the greater good. For more information, visit www.BSTGlobal.com.

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DoiT International Announces Expansion to France and Germany

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DoiT International today announced that it has significantly expanded its European operations by setting up new teams in France and Germany.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 2, 2020 — DoiT International ("DoiT" or the "Company"), leading provider of a proprietary platform for public cloud optimization, governance, and expertise for Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services, today announced that it has significantly expanded its European operations by setting up new teams in France and Germany. DoiT’s Germany operation will also support the entire DACH region, including Austria and Switzerland.

This expansion comes less than a year after DoiT’s entrance into the European market with its London operation, built to support customers and partners in the United Kingdom and Ireland (UK/I) region. In addition to its expansion in Europe, the last 12 months have also seen DoiT expand to Australia and throughout the United States in California, New York, and Texas.

This expansion comes at the height of DoiT International’s rapid global scaling, having achieved a 350% growth in revenue over the last three years. The past year also saw DoiT win the 2019 Google Cloud Reseller Partner Award for North America, receive over $100M in investment from Charlesbank in November 2019 and complete the acquisition of superQuery in February 2020 to help companies adopting cloud-based databases such as Google BigQuery be more productive and cost-optimized.

DoiT’s operation in the DACH region will be led by Country Manager Lewin Keller, who joins after six years at Google Cloud, where he most recently served as the Digital Native Lead for Germany. The DACH Engineering team will be led by Bernhard Weisshuhn, who most recently served as VP Infrastructure & Vice CTO at Frontier Car Group (acquired by OLX). The DACH region will also work with implementation partners Endocode (focusing on infrastructure and Kubernetes) and ML6 (focused on data and machine learning projects).

DoiT’s operation in France will be led by Kahina Saighi, who comes to DoiT after leadership roles at Cloudreach and Red Hat. The France Engineering team will be led by Staff Cloud Architect Ahmed Zerzeri, who joins after serving as the CTO of French travel startup MisterFly.

DoiT’s UK/I operations opened in November 2019 and has scaled to a team of 12 and onboarded 50 new clients in less than 10 months. The UK/I office is led by Country Manager James Moore and Staff Cloud Architect Ric Harvey, who joined DoiT International from Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services, respectively.

DoiT is proud to support over 1,000 fast-growing startups and technology companies, including a wide range of European companies in the fintech, health, and software fields such as VNC—Virtual Network Consult AG, Fit Analytics, OneFit & Urban Sports Club, Instana, Inkitt, Chess.com, Livedooh, Freewebstore and Arabesque AI. DoiT supports its technology customers with its innovative Cloud Management Platform that uses artificial intelligence to achieve sustainable cost reduction. DoiT’s solution provides meaningful cost savings to customers within 90 days of onboarding, and the Company’s engineering consultancy helps customers architect applications and deployments optimally for multi-cloud environments.

"The expanded DoiT International operation in France and the DACH region will allow us to reduce cost and drive efficiency as we support even more European startups and technology companies with their Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services deployments," said DoiT International’s CEO, Yoav Toussia-Cohen. "Alongside our current UK/I operations, we are actively hiring and expanding our sales and engineering teams throughout Europe."

For European startups and technology companies looking for cloud migration, cost optimization, and cloud analytics, visit doit-intl.com/contact.

To best support our local European customers, DoiT is actively hiring top Cloud Architects and Sales talent throughout our France, Germany, and UK regions. For more information, visit careers.doit-intl.com.

About DoiT International

DoiT International, strategic partner of Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services, is the leading provider of a proprietary platform for public cloud optimization, governance, analytics, and expertise. We help our clients tackle complex problems of scale, using our technology and our vast experience with machine learning, algorithms, complexity analysis, and system design.

Founded in 2011, DoiT International operates in nearly 70 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, France, and Israel. For more information, please visit www.doit-intl.com.

For press inquiries, please contact press@doit-intl.com.

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IAR Systems facilitates building and testing of automotive applications in Linux-based environments for Renesas RH850 MCUs

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IAR Build Tools for Linux for Renesas’ RH850 enable organizations to improve integrations, gain code quality control and streamline automated workflows

UPPSALA, Sweden, Oct. 2, 2020 — IAR Systems®, the future-proof supplier of software tools and services for embedded development, releases an update of its Renesas RH850 microcontroller (MCU)-focused build tools supporting implementation in Linux-based frameworks for automated application build and test processes. 

The growing complexity in embedded systems has accelerated the need for scalability and flexibility in today’s software development environments. This is especially true for the development of automotive embedded systems, where the Renesas RH850 MCUs are used. IAR Systems’ build tools for Linux streamlines the building and testing processes, making it possible for organizations to optimize resources when it comes to the time developers spend in their projects, as well as to manage and utilize licenses and servers in an optimal way. With the integrated static analysis tool C-STAT, developers can ensure code quality throughout the development and testing process. C-STAT proves code alignment with industry standards like MISRA C:2012, MISRA C++:2008 and MISRA C:2004, and also detects defects, bugs, and security vulnerabilities as defined by CERT C and the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE).

"Embedded systems complexity continues to be a major challenge for many of our customers worldwide, especially in the automotive industry where more and more features are added to vehicles," said Kiyofumi Uemura, Global Automotive Director, IAR Systems. "We are now extending our Linux offering for Renesas RH850-based embedded systems to support our automotive customers all the way from development start into automated workflows. Our long-standing relationship with Renesas enables us to give our shared customers the flexibility they need to stay competitive in their respective markets."

IAR Systems’ build tools for Linux includes the highly optimizing IAR C/C++ Compiler™, IAR Assembler, Linker and library tools, IARBuild and runtime libraries. The IAR C/C++ Compiler adheres to a freestanding implementation of the C18 (ISO/IEC 9899:2018) programming language standard and supports all C++17 features. In addition, C++14 (ISO/IEC 14882:2015), C11 (ISO/IEC 9899:2012), C89 (ANSI X3.159-1989) and the IEEE 754 standard for floating-point arithmetic are supported. 

IAR Systems is a Renesas Alliance Partner and delivers high-performance development tools for the entire lineup of Renesas MCUs. With more than 4,000 supported Renesas devices, the C/C++ compiler and debugger toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench and its wide selection of integrated tools for different needs supply exceptional design flexibility for embedded developers working with the extensive Renesas product portfolio. Learn more at www.iar.com/renesas.

Editor’s Note: IAR Systems, IAR Embedded Workbench, Embedded Trust, C-Trust, IAR Connect, C-SPY, C-RUN, C-STAT, IAR Visual State, IAR KickStart Kit, I-jet, I-jet Trace, I-scope, IAR Academy, IAR, and the logotype of IAR Systems are trademarks or registered trademarks owned by IAR Systems AB. All other product names are trademarks of their respective owners.
 

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Hublot announces the Big Bang e UEFA Champions League

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On the day of the draw for world football’s most prestigious club competition, Hublot announces a limited-edition version of the Big Bang e connected watch

NYON, Switzerland, Oct. 2, 2020 — The UEFA Champions League is back! On the day the draw for the group stage of this season’s competition takes place, Hublot is proud to introduce the Big Bang e UEFA Champions League, and a Hublot Loves Football UEFA Champions League app.

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"Because of Covid-19, this has been a very difficult year for everybody, full of disruption. But the start of the UEFA Champions League gives football fans all over the world something to be excited about. Hublot is really proud to be working with UEFA and to be involved in this wonderful competition. We’ve worked hard to create these special watches for fans, and we know they will make the UEFA Champions League experience even more memorable." – Ricardo Guadalupe, CEO of Hublot.

The new watch is based on the Hublot Big Bang e connected watch launched earlier this year, with a number of additional features that enrich the UEFA Champions League fan experience.

The 500-piece limited edition’s lightweight ceramic case and rubber bracelet are both in UEFA Champions League core blue. Owners will have various dials to choose from, downloadable from the Hublot Store. There are blue digital and analogue options, and a special color-dial that can be customised to match one of the participating team’s kit colours.

The watch is powered by Wear OS by Google™ and comes loaded with the new Hublot Loves Football UEFA Champions League app. The user will get notifications to alert them to kick-off times (15 minutes before the game starts), goals, penalty, substitutions, yellow and red cards and time added on. The app will also show team line-ups and VAR decisions, and then when it signals that the game is over, it will also begin a countdown to the next fixture. If there are two games taking place at the same time, users will be able to switch between them with a simple screen tap. The app will be also available to existing owners of the Hublot Big Bang e.

Hublot is the number one luxury company in world football. The company was the first Swiss watch brand and first luxury brand to get involved in football, and the first Swiss watch brand to create a luxury connected football watch for the 2018 FIFA Football World Cup™ in Russia. Since it entered football in 2006, Hublot has timed dozens of domestic, European and international football competitions. This season, Hublot is also the Premier League’s Official Timekeeper for the first time, and next year it will time the UEFA European Championships, which have been rescheduled because of the pandemic, but will still be known as UEFA EURO 2020™.

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InComm Japan Expands QR and Barcode Payment Capabilities

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Five new QR/barcode payment brands added to InComm’s already extensive payment network

TOKYO and ATLANTA, Oct. 2, 2020 — InComm, a leading payments technology company, today announced that it has partnered with five overseas QR and barcode payments processors to facilitate acceptance of their technology at retailers across Japan. These processors include AlipayHK and UnionPay QR code, which are popular in China, EZ-Link Wallet and Kakao Pay from Korea, and Touch’n Go eWallet from Malaysia.

InComm Japan provides QR/barcode payments at the point of sale through connections at over 50,000 retail stores in Japan, including major convenience stores, drug stores, electronics retail stores, department stores, and supermarkets. InComm has an established range of overseas partners such as Alipay and domestic brands such as au PAY, d payment® and PayPay. With the addition of these brands, InComm will now offer a total of 22 payments partners, including 12 Japan-based brands and 10 overseas brands. InComm Japan not only brings connectivity, but also provides one-stop operational support, such as integration, sales and marketing campaigns, and customer support for merchants.

"The pandemic has had an unfortunate effect on tourism, but we are preparing for the future recovery," said Takumaro Arai, Senior Vice President and General Manager, InComm Japan. "We’re helping our retail partners prepare to handle their customers’ payment of choice by partnering with new services that bubble up in popularity within our region."

This partnership is in line with the Japanese government’s commitment to raising the volume of cashless payments by facilitating growth within the financial technology industry. InComm is playing a major role in this scenario, helping connect payment platforms with its ever-growing retail network.

About InComm Japan
InComm Japan is a subsidiary of InComm, a leading payments technology headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. InComm holds 386 global patents and is an innovator in point-of-sale activation and prepaid technologies; the company’s presence in Japan includes 65,000 retail locations ranging from convenience, drug, home appliance, and discount stores to mass retailers, supermarkets and other retailers. InComm Japan is currently expanding its payment capabilities to better serve its partners through the coordination of multiple domestic and foreign payment operators. Its focus on streamlining QR and barcode payments for point-of-sale integration began in 2017 through targeted acquisitions of QR and barcode payment technology and system assets.

About InComm
By building more value into every transaction through innovative payment technologies, InComm creates seamless and valuable commerce experiences. InComm’s unique products and services – which range from gift card malls to enhanced payment platforms – connect companies across a wide range of industries including retail, healthcare, tolling & transit, incentives and financial services to an ever-expanding consumer base. With more than 25 years of experience, over 500,000 points of distribution, 386 global patents and a presence in more than 30 countries, InComm leads the payments industry from its headquarters in Atlanta, GA. Learn more at www.InComm.com. 

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