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Planful and Acumatica Partner to Bring Modern, Cloud-Based FP&A to Customers

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Leader in Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Becomes Top Planning Extension for Acumatica’s Cloud ERP Solution

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 18, 2021 — Planful Inc., the pioneer of financial planning and analysis (FP&A) cloud software, today announced it has partnered with Acumatica to give users of both platforms an industry-leading solution for tightly integrated, cloud-based ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and FP&A.

Acumatica is a comprehensive cloud ERP solution optimized for ease of use, adaptability, mobility, and security. As a recommended extension for Acumatica, Planful provides numerous unique capabilities for FP&A compared to alternative platforms, including:

  • Fast, flexible implementation using Planful Now, a package of quick-start solutions that helps enterprises meet critical use cases in just weeks.
  • Excel syntax support for ease-of-use with existing Excel charts and processes.
  • Ability to seamlessly process large amounts of data to create a scalable, stable experience for the end user.
  • Fast cloud deployment with rapid configuration and seamless product updates.

"This partnership brings the power of Planful’s end-to-end platform for financial planning, consolidation, and reporting & analysis together with Acumatica’s robust ERP solution," said Kyle Van Jahnke, Vice President of Global Partnerships, Planful. "With Planful, Acumatica customers will now be able to automate and accelerate FP&A activities to drive faster and more agile planning and decision-cycles, and elevate the financial IQ of the organization."

This partnership signals that the Planful Platform meets the highest standards set for Acumatica integration and functionality. It also points to Planful’s commitment to Acumatica quality measurements and alignment to future Acumatica roadmap releases.

"We’re proud to partner with Planful to meet our customers’ growing business demands," said Christian Lindberg, Vice President of Partner Solutions, Acumatica. "Customers who want to stay competitive need flexible, responsive FP&A cloud software such as the Planful Platform to execute their long-term business strategies."

To learn more about Planful and Acumatica’s partnership, click here.

About Planful
Planful (formerly Host Analytics) is the pioneer of financial planning and analysis (FP&A) cloud software. The Planful platform is used by the Office of the CFO around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and visual analytics. More than 800 customers, including Boston Red Sox, Del Monte, TGI Friday’s, and 23andMe, rely on Planful to accelerate cycle times, increase productivity, and improve accuracy across the end-to-end FP&A process. Planful is a private company backed by Vector Capital, a leading global private equity firm. Learn more at www.planful.com.

About Acumatica
Acumatica provides cloud-based business management software that enables small and mid-size companies to accelerate their businesses.  Built on cloud and mobile technology and a unique customer-centric licensing model, Acumatica delivers a suite of fully integrated business management applications, such as Financials, Distribution, CRM, and Project Accounting, on a robust and flexible platform. For more information, visit www.acumatica.com.

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Lumen Acclaimed by Frost & Sullivan for Boosting Enterprise Customer Web Application Security with Its Holistic Web Protection Solution

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The Lumen platform’s reliability and product performance simplifies and streamlines secure application experiences for its customers

LONDON, Feb. 18, 2021 — Based on its recent analysis of the global holistic web protection market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Lumen Technologies with the 2021 Global New Product Innovation Award for its Holistic Web Protection solution. The platform enables businesses to identify and mitigate various cybersecurity threats through networking, Edge computing, security, and collaboration. It combines distributed-denial-of-service mitigation (DDoS), web application firewall (WAF), and bot risk management (BRM) technologies to achieve optimal efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

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"Lumen has leveraged emerging data technologies through enhanced connectivity to secure application experiences with its comprehensive Holistic Web Protection solution. Since its rebranding from CenturyLink to Lumen, the company has doubled down on efforts to improve the customer experience and leverages employee expertise to deliver a swift solution," said Mikita Hanets, Research Analyst. "The platform positions its customers to acquire, analyze, and act on data efficiently to deliver secure application experiences."

By integrating DDoS, WAF, and BRM solutions, Lumen streamlines precise and granular enterprise security defenses. These offerings can help reduce false-positives and enable higher detection rates for both known and unknown threats between automated and human web traffic. Moreover, they leverage multi-tier threat intelligence data, attackers’ behavior patterns, dynamic analytic engines, and machine learning intelligence for accurate results. Lumen’s complete portfolio of WAF/web application and API protection solutions, integrated with DDoS mitigation, are tailored to customer needs.

Lumen has unique visibility into the global Internet backbone; which allows it to harness threat intelligence, enriched in Black Lotus Labs, its threat research division. Lumen also uses Black Lotus Labs’ global threat intelligence to provide faster and more effective DDoS mitigation. Lumen DDoS Mitigation Service is a global service backed by 85 Tbps of mitigation capacity across Lumen’s global scrubbing centers with next-gen intelligent routing. DDoS Hyper is a self-serve version of this offer, leveraging the same underlying infrastructure.

"The company builds its core value around enhanced application delivery architecture to manage challenging, data-intensive workloads moving towards the cloud edge. Its rapid, agile, technology-powered solutions are expected to help it thrive in a highly competitive market," noted Steven Lopez, Best Practices Research Analyst. "Overall, Lumen has evolved into a technology company with unmatched developments due to its newly evolved web security platform and by embracing the shift towards customer-centricity."

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that develops an innovative element in a product by leveraging leading-edge technologies. The award recognizes the value-added features/benefits of the product and the increased return on investment (ROI) it gives customers, which, in turn, raises customer acquisition and overall market penetration potential.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analyses, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.

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Crunchfish enrolled to leading international payment network’s partner program

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STOCKHOLM, Feb. 18, 2021 — Crunchfish AB ("Crunchfish") announces its enrolment into a leading international payment network’s partner program with its Digital Cash solutions. As a technology partner, Crunchfish will get access to specifications and toolkits enabling integration with their payment network.

Crunchfish’s patent pending Digital Cash solutions are built on a two-tier offline vs. online settlement architecture. As a technology partner, Crunchfish will work with solutions architects and have access to specifications and toolkits enabling Digital Cash development, integration and certification with their payment network. Crunchfish is sponsored by the payment network’s innovation team in India into this program.   

"To be invited into this partner program is an important milestone for the company and a testimony of Crunchfish’s technology prowess. It suggests that Digital Cash is a promising solution that may become an integral part of digital payments of tomorrow.", says Crunchfish’s CEO Joachim Samuelsson.

For more information, please contact:
Joachim Samuelsson, CEO Crunchfish AB
+46 708 46 47 88
joachim.samuelsson@crunchfish.com

Ulf Rogius Svensson, IR & Marketing Manager
+46 733 26 81 05
ulf.rogius.svensson@crunchfish.com

Vastra Hamnen Corporate Finance AB is the Certified Adviser
Email: ca@vhcorp.se 
Telephone +46 40 200 250.This information is information that Crunchfish AB is obliged to publish in accordance to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was provided by the contact person above for publication on February 18, 2021.

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Quad9 public domain name service moves to Switzerland for maximum internet privacy protection

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Quad9 is the first DNS security solution to extend GDPR privacy protections to internet users worldwide.

ZURICH, Feb. 17, 2021 — Quad9, the global, not-for-profit Domain Name System (DNS) security platform, today announced that it has moved its headquarters from California to Zürich, Switzerland supported by Packet Clearing House and SWITCH.

Quad9 has set itself apart from other DNS providers by voluntarily placing itself within a jurisdiction which strictly enforces privacy laws to the highest global standards. Considered a stronghold of individual rights, Switzerland has a legal privacy regime harmonized with the European-standard General Data Protection Regulation. It grants individuals enforceable rights and effective remedies, giving Quad9 users around the world the full protection of Swiss law. This and other important concessions and findings of law from the Swiss government which ensure Quad9 users’ privacy and security, have made Quad9’s selection of domicile a natural choice.

Quad9 is the only global DNS security provider to offer these universal privacy protections.

Privacy by Force of Law

Unlike commercial DNS operators, which profit from the sale of users’ personal information and internet browsing history, Quad9 collects no personal information. Users’ queries and addresses are neither collected nor recorded, and thus no third parties have access to them. Quad9 is a not-for-profit organization with transparent governance and finances, supported by donations, and dedicated exclusively to the operation of private and secure DNS services.

"The privacy protection claims of DNS security solutions are only meaningful if they are bound under law and enforced by an empowered authority. Privacy policies which are not backed by law are empty promises," said John Todd, general manager of Quad9.

Quad9 is under the supervision of the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner and subject to Swiss jurisdiction. The Swiss Data Protection Act does not contain any restriction regarding the citizenship or residence of the individuals whose personal rights are to be protected by the law. By using Quad9, anyone in the world can receive the same, fully legally enforced, protection as a Swiss citizen.

Privacy Risks of the Domain Name System

Whenever users use the internet, they leave a trail of digital footprints. Recursive DNS providers are the chokepoint through which all users’ actions pass, and this is where personal information can be scrutinized, recorded, and turned into dossiers for sale. Unlike other large DNS providers, which are domiciled in the United States, a jurisdiction that shields them from privacy claims and responsibility to users, Quad9 has placed itself under the legally binding authority of a strong privacy regulator. The strength of Swiss law, combined with Quad9’s mission and transparent privacy practices, guarantee that personal data will never be collected, analyzed, or sold.

Protection Against Cybercrime

Independent tests show that Quad9 also prevents users’ devices from connecting to 97% of malicious web sites. To achieve this success rate, Quad9 aggregates information from many cyber threat analysts, now including SWITCH, to form a uniquely comprehensive database of malicious domains. When a Quad9 user connects to the internet, Quad9 checks their destination in that database and blocks the connection if connecting to it would harm the user.  Quad9 operates in more than 150 locations in ninety countries and protects internet users from more than sixty million malicious attacks each day.

Collaboration With SWITCH

Quad9’s move to Switzerland is being facilitated by SWITCH, one of Switzerland’s centers of competence for internet security. The foundation operates several critical infrastructures and has been committed to greater cybersecurity for decades to make the internet a more secure place for its users. SWITCH is taking a seat on Quad9’s foundation council and contributing to Quad9’s governance.

"In less than five years, Quad9 has built a global alternative to the commercial DNS platforms that are focused on reaping profit from user data," said Tom Kleiber, managing director of SWITCH. "We look forward to expanding Quad9’s reach and impact to show internet users across the globe that security can be improved without exploiting their privacy."

Using Quad9

Quad9 is free and available throughout the world. Users may configure their computer’s DNS resolvers to 9.9.9.9, 149.112.112.112 and 2620:FE::FE. For a step-by-step guide or for more advanced options, please visit https://quad9.net.

About Quad9

Quad9 is a recursive DNS service providing cybersecurity protection against malware and phishing. As a not-for-profit organization, Quad9 does not collect or resell personal data and provides a trusted service to individuals and organizations at no cost and with no contract. The organization was launched in 2017 and now is operational in more than 150 locations in 90 countries. Quad9 exists to improve end user protection and privacy worldwide in addition to promoting the stability and security of the internet.

Learn more at https://www.quad9.net

About SWITCH

SWITCH is a trusted partner for digitalization issues that jointly concern the education, research and innovation community in Switzerland. The independent foundation helps universities and other partners take advantage of the possibilities of digitalization within and outside the academic world. SWITCH has been the registry for .ch and .li domain names since the early days of the internet. As one of Switzerland’s centers of competence for security on the internet, SWITCH operates a multi-sector CERT providing services for universities, the domain registry, banks, industry, logistics and the energy sector.

Learn more at https://www.switch.ch

Press conference, February 17, 2021 at 11am (CET): https://swit.ch/quad9

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Diginex launches Front-to-Back Digital Assets Trading, Portfolio Management and Risk Platform Powered by Itiviti

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SINGAPORE, Feb. 17, 2021 — Diginex Limited (Nasdaq: EQOS), the digital assets financial services company, and Itiviti, a leading technology and service provider to financial institutions worldwide, today announced the launch of ‘Access’, a front-to-back trading, portfolio, and risk management solution that enables the trading of cryptocurrencies and crypto derivatives across several platforms.

Access is powered by Itiviti’s Tbricks, an award-winning trade automation technology and infrastructure that is recognized globally as one of the most popular institutional trading platforms available.

The launch of ‘Access’ comes as institutional investors are making a wholesale shift into digital assets, driven by dwindling returns in traditional assets and escalating fiscal stimuli fueling rising concerns about inflation. 

Access provides investors with an aggregated order book across exchanges, and the ability to ensure best execution across their previously disparate liquidity pools. Execution, order and portfolio management are streamlined for investors through a robust front, middle, back office with real time risk and P&L.

Tbricks is a next-generation, cross-asset trading system optimized for low latency, high throughput and scalability. Already in use with many tier one sell-side firms and banks, today’s launch will mean that clients of these firms will now have instant ability to trade crypto currencies and manage their risk and portfolio in the same way as any other traditional asset classes.

Richard Byworth, CEO of Diginex, commented: "This launch provides yet another onramp for institutional adoption of Bitcoin and Digital Assets. Itiviti has a proven track record in providing market leading technology for traditional asset classes to both buy-side and sell-side institutional investors. Diginex brings many years of experience in crypto and digital assets combined with a robust approach to compliance and risk management."

Continued Byworth: "We see increasing demand for cryptocurrency exposure from institutional investors and believe this will be a dominant theme in 2021. With the launch of Access, investors can now manage their portfolios using institutional technology that is tailored specifically for cryptocurrencies."

"We are excited to announce our growing partnership with Diginex," said Rob Mackay, CEO of Itiviti. "With the integration and launch of Access on Tbricks, trading across different crypto exchanges will now be open to institutional investors across the globe and expose them to Itiviti’s advanced automated trading technology."

To learn more about the trends in institutional digital asset trading and investing, Itiviti and Diginex will host a webinar on Wednesday March, 31st at 11am CET, register here.

About Diginex

Diginex is a digital assets financial services company focused on delivering a cryptocurrency and digital assets ecosystem offering innovative product and services that are compliant, fair and trusted. The group encompasses cryptocurrency exchange EQUOS.io as well as an over-the-counter trading platform. It also offers a front-to-back integrated trading platform Diginex Access, a securitization advisory service Diginex Capital, market leading hot and cold custodian, Digivault and funds business Bletchley Park Asset Management. For more information visit: https://www.diginex.com/.

Follow Diginex on social media on Twitter @DiginexGlobal, on Facebook @DiginexGlobal, and on LinkedIn. Follow EQUOS.io on social media on Twitter @EQUOS_io and on LinkedIn.

About Itiviti

Itiviti provides nearly 2,000 financial institutions worldwide with flexible, cross-asset trading solutions that cover the full trade lifecycle. Through its commitment to technology innovation, relentless pursuit of workflow efficiency and an entrepreneurial culture, Itiviti is disrupting the industry with highly-scalable solutions that deliver unprecedented cost savings for clients.

For more information, please visit www.itiviti.com.

Follow Itiviti on social media on Twitter @Itiviti_AB, on Facebook @ItivitiAB, and on LinkedIn.

Itiviti is owned by Nordic Capital. 

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DOTA 2 Comes to the Silver Screen in New Netflix Anime

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Valve’s popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game, DOTA 2, is making its way to a silver screen near you. The popular game will be making its silver screen debut on Netflix in a new anime series called DOTA: Dragon’s Blood. It will be making it debut on March 25, 2021.

DOTA: Dragon's Blood | Date Announcement | Netflix

The 8-episode anime series will be following the story of Davion, one of the characters from the MOBA. In the anime, Davion is a devoted Dragon Knight. He fights to rid the world of the scourge. During his journeys, he encounters a powerful, ancient eldwurm and Princess Mirana. Unbeknownst to Davion, the princess is on a mission of her own. Slowly, but surely, Davion is pulled into events that prove to be larger than he could ever imagine.

The series is produced in partnership with Valve. Showrunner, Ashley Edward Miller, is confident that the show will be received well by fans. Miller previously worked on shows such as X-Men: First Class, Thor and Black Sails and will be also acting as the executive producer for DOTA: Dragon’s Blood. Miller is joined by Ru Ki Hyun as the co-executive producer. The series is animated by Studio MIR, the studio behind The Legend of Korra, Voltron: Legendary Defender and the recently announced The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf.

“Fans will love how we’ve imagined the DOTA 2 universe and woven together an epic, emotional, and adult-oriented story about some of their favourite characters. The cinematic animation, acting and music are simply next level and I’m grateful to Valve for supporting our creative ambitions.” 

Ashley Edward Miller, Showrunner & Executive Producer

While this is big news for the IP (Intellectual Property), Davion is widely considered one of the less interesting characters in the MOBA. It will be exciting to see what team behind the anime have in mind for the character and whether they will stick to the established lore of DOTA.

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Future FinTech and Xi’an Jiaotong University have worked together to establish Blockchain Finance Research Institute

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NEW YORK, Feb. 17, 2021 — Future FinTech Group Inc.(NASDAQ: FTFT, "Future Fintech", "FTFT" or "Company"), a leading blockchain based e-commerce company and a financial technology service provider, announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Future Commercial Group Co., Ltd., has cooperated with the School of Economics Finance of Xi’an Jiaotong University to establish a blockchain finance research institute.

Future Fintech and the School of Economics and Finance of Xi’an Jiaotong University will cooperate to jointly establish the Blockchain Finance Institute, which will carry out research and cooperation on blockchain technology in the financial industry. At the same time, the Blockchain Finance Institute will set up a foundation for establishing school-enterprise cooperation post-doctoral mobile stations for the next step. The two parties will focus on the research of blockchain technology in banking, insurance, securities, futures, supply chain finance, digital payment etc. FTFT will provide funds for scientific research, while Xi’an Jiaotong University will provide scientific and engineering research personnel. Relevant research results will be shared by both parties.

According to Mr. Shanchun Huang, the CEO of FTFT, "Xi’an Jiaotong University is a comprehensive national key university with a history of 125 years. Its leading scientific research is outstanding in China, especially in mathematics, finance and computing. The cooperation with Xi’an Jiaotong University indicates that our company has taken the application research of blockchain technology to a new level. The development of our company’s blockchain technology has been on the right track gradually. Blockchain technology can solve the problem of customer fund security in the financial field. It can improve the speed and efficiency of banking, remittance and settlement, as well as the prevention of systematic risk from malicious short-selling in securities transactions. It can solve the problems which cannot be solved by traditional technologies. Our company will work with Xi’an Jiaotong University to explore more applications in the financial blockchain field, and to further promote the company’s research and development to the world’s leading level."

Professor Fuyou Li, the director of the Institute of Financial System and Economic Policy, PhD supervisor of Xi’an Jiaotong University, said that "As the independent director of the FTFT, I am very happy to build a bridge for the cooperation between the two parties. I believe the blockchain finance research institute will be an open platform. The two parties will actively carry out experiments of blockchain-related applications. Meanwhile, we will jointly build laboratories in the subdivisional fields of blockchain technology so that it can better serve economic development and benefit mankind."

Professor Zao Sun, the doctoral supervisor and dean of the School of Economics and Finance of Xi’an Jiaotong University highly agrees with this collaboration and believes that the cooperation between the school and enterprise is great. This will realize the combination of theory and practice by "going out and coming in". It can provide a full play to their respective advantages, offer opportunities and platforms for the development of both parties, and achieve a win-win situation.

About Future FinTech Group Inc.

Future FinTech Group Inc. ("Future FinTech", "FTFT" or the "Company") is a leading blockchain e-commerce company and a service provider for financial technology incorporated in Florida. The Company’s operations include a blockchain-based online shopping mall platform, Chain Cloud Mall ("CCM"), a cross-border e-commerce platform (NONOGIRL), an incubator for blockchain based application projects. The Company is also engaged in the development of blockchain based e-Commerce technology as well as financial technology. For more information, please visit http://www.ftftex.com/.

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BlizzCon 2021: What We Want to See

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It’s that time of year again! It’s time for BlizzCon – one of the biggest gaming conventions of the year. Now, if you have been following the gaming scene, you would know that there are gamers and then there are Blizzard fans. Fans of Blizzard Entertainment are notorious for being one of the most vocal and fanatical group of gamers when it comes to the IPs that Blizzard holds; particularly Overwatch, Diablo, StarCraft and Warcraft.

This year, Blizzard Entertainment’s annual BlizzCon will be happening from 19 February to 20 February 2021. In light of the pandemic, the conference will be an online one, open to the public for free. You can take part by visiting their official BlizzCon website for updates and all the information you need about the conference.

With all that information out of the way, as Deckard Cain says, “Stay awhile and listen” as we give you a rundown of what we want to see at BlizzCon 2021.

Diablo IV

Diablo is arguably one of Blizzard Entertainment’s largest IPs. The dungeon crawler was first introduced in the late 90s and quickly became one of the company’s most beloved franchises. Since then, there have been 3 major instalments into the series that follow the developments of the world of Sanctuary. The most recent being Diablo III which continued the story of the Soulstones and the Prime Evils.

In the years since the release in 2012, Diablo fans have been waiting for and theorising about Diablo IV. The hype for Diablo was fueled even more by numerous teases from Blizzard about a possible 4th instalment. At BlizzCon 2019, we finally got a glimpse of Diablo IV with the first cinematic trailer which introduced us to Lilith – Mother of the Nephalem, Queen of the Succubi and Daughter of Mephisto, Lord of Hatred.

Diablo 4 - Official Announcement Cinematic Trailer | Blizzcon 2019

With all that hype and no news since, we want to see more of the upcoming instalment – particularly when it comes to the game’s mechanics and gameplay. So far, we’ve only seen a brief gameplay trailer which revealed three of the player classes available in the game: the barbarian, the sorceress and the druid. The gameplay trailer showed off some of the return mechanics which series veterans should be familiar with. We also know that the series will be more open this round with players travelling between the many regions of Sanctuary

We’ve had enough teasing Blizzard. It’s time to reveal more about the game this year – possibly new classes and even more about some of the new features and mechanics that are coming back to the series. But more importantly – we want a release date! When will we be returning to Sanctuary?

Diablo Immortal

Announced at BlizzCon 2018 to a rather unimpressed audience, Diablo Immortal is Blizzard’s first foray into the mobile MMO (massively multiplayer online) gaming scene. It is developed in partnership with NetEase. However, since the unceremonious reception, we’ve not heard much about it. In 2019, NetEase’s CFO said the game was pretty much ready. August 2020 saw the release of a new trailer while December 2020 saw a closed alpha.

That said, we only know little of the game. To date, we know that game is set 5 years after the events of Diablo II but before Diablo III. Players will be starting in Wortham and be travelling with Deckard Cain by their side. They will be facing the undead and cultists in the beginning. They will be locating and destroying shards of the Worldstone in their travels. Like other instalments of Diablo, players will be able to choose between six player classes: the Crusader, the Necromancer, the Monk, the Barbarian, the Wizard and the Demon Hunter.

Diablo Immortal Cinematic Trailer

With the release of the open alpha, we really want to finally see a release of the game into the wild. If you’re like me, you’ve probably already pre-registered for the game on the Google Play and App Stores. We’ve seen a stream of reviews from publications that got access to the closed alpha.

Overwatch 2

Overwatch is Blizzard Entertainment’s first multiplayer first-person shooter game. It was released in 2016 and remains one of the company’s best IPs in the realm of competitive, professional eSports.

Source: Blizzard Entertainment

Blizzard made the announcement of Overwatch 2 back at BlizzCon 2019. The new instalment promised more characters and even backwards compatible gameplay with Overwatch. The company showed off many features including a new PvE (player versus environment) cooperative mode.

However, like Diablo 4, there has been little information since then. We actually want to know if the game is ready for prime time – which seems unlikely. That said, knowing Blizzard, we’ll settle for more shorts that give us more to love about the Overwatch world.

StarCraft

A decade after the release of the first entry into StarCraft II, the series seems to be on ice. Just recently, Blizzard Entertainment announced that support for the game will be reduced to a bare minimum. The series has had a tumultuous decade with Blizzard with most of its veteran developers leaving Blizzard.

Source: Blizzard Entertainment

However, we still harbour some hope that Blizzard will bring back Jim Raynor, Sarah Kerrigan and Zeratul. We actually want to know what the future of the franchise is. It would be a nice to see Blizzard bring back StarCraft for a third instalment.

Hearthstone & World of Warcraft

Two of the company’s biggest, longest running online games. The pandemic has thankfully reinvigorated the games with more players returning to them. We would like to see more development in card packs for Hearthstone and perhaps some big announcements for WoW.

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Marketing tech consultancy admiral.digital acquires Fresh Sports Group, strengthening its offering across the entire digital spectrum

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From strategy, to technology, to creative

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb. 17, 2021 — Marketing technology consultancy, admiral.digital, has acquired Fresh Sports Group (FSG), strengthening its consultancy offering across the entire digital spectrum. Following the acquisition, FSG will be renamed admiral.sports and serve under the admiral.digital umbrella, signalling a new chapter in the company’s growth story.

Packing an experienced punch, the new team brings to the table expertise in brand creation, content development, campaign execution and business strategy. The uniting of the two companies enables admiral.digital to enhance its executive team, strengthen its marketing technology consultancy offering and expand into an exciting new sales channel – sports.

Pieter Van den Eynde, admiral.digital Founder, said, "We have a clear mission at admiral.digital: to empower brands to become digital first and thrive. This is especially relevant now, at a time when the business and economic landscape has warranted the need for brands to innovate aggressively, particularly from a tech perspective. This deal enables us to add to existing capabilities and enhance our expertise to better serve our clients".

"We see this as a natural move in the right direction. Even prior to the deal, we found the FSG team to be a strong ally, having worked closely with them on multiple collaborations over a number of years. We also recognise that sports technology is an exciting market to dive into with tremendous potential. Moving forward, admiral.sports will play a highly integrated and complementary role, creating a dynamic synergy, thereby fortifying our core business where the end result is truly greater than the sum of its parts," he added.

Van den Eynde will continue to lead the Group’s aggressive growth agenda, with Co-Founder Alec Van Noten focused on building the company’s ‘Technology as a Service’ proposition in the role of Chief Product Officer.   

Meanwhile, FSG’s Co-Founder Sam Middlehurst steps into the role of Chief Executive Officer; tasked with setting the strategic direction and assembling the building blocks for the next stage of growth. Completing the impressive executive team as Chief Marketing Officer is fellow FSG Co-Founder Tim Johnston, who brings with him a wealth of brand creation, marketing and managerial expertise.

Middlehurst said, "We collectively share a vision to make marketing technology more accessible to more brands. By joining forces, we now cover the entire digital spectrum, from strategy to technology to creative; enabling us to service a broad spectrum of cross-industry and cross-category clients".

He added that the immediate focus of admiral.digital would be to ensure the seamless integration of FSG, the development of proprietary technologies and continued sales growth.

The executive team have used the deal as an opportunity to launch a new ‘go-to-market’ execution framework for clients; connecting technology, data and marketing to drive better customer experiences and deliver results for clients. This new strategy has been supported by a refreshed brand identity, which projects a shared passion for marketing and technology.

About admiral.digital

admiral.digital is the marketing technology consultancy. With a promise of technology and marketing that delivers results, their service offering covers the entire digital spectrum, from strategy, to technology, to creative. admiral.digital’s simple, open approach to connecting technology, data and marketing helps clients drive better customer experiences that deliver results.

Launched in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2016, admiral.digital’s vision is to make marketing technology more accessible to more brands. From their headquarters in Malaysia, and with a presence across Southeast Asia and New Zealand, admiral.digital’s 30+ experts service partners across Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. Amongst others, admiral.digital’s diverse client roster includes RHB Bank, Zenyum, Circles Life and MR DIY.

www.admiral.digital   

 

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Why Link Analysis is Crucial for Getting Actionable Intelligence

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NEW YORK, Feb. 17, 2021 — Cobwebs Technologies’ visual link analysis tool enables investigators to find and visualize real-world relationships between pieces of information from various sources located on the web in an organized, dynamic graph. In case of a major event, such as a natural disaster, authorities need to collect and analyze big data as quickly as possible for disaster relief. Also, investigators rely on big data collection and analysis for getting actionable Intelligence to wrap up their investigations. In all these cases, data is collected from open-sources such as the surface, deep and dark web, social media, online platforms, blogs, message boards, and online articles.

When collecting these huge volumes of OSINT data, link analysis is needed to visualize the digital footprints that e.g., a stranded or missing natural disaster victim or a threat actor leave behind. Link analysis helps to understand behaviors, tastes, and preferences for locating victims or identifying threat actors by visually connecting and mapping those digital footprints as interactive node-links. Such visualization allows analysts and investigators to detect patterns and anomalies for an in-depth understanding of the collected data. Advanced visual link analyses reveal and visualize hidden and connected web data and present it as a map displaying influencing nodes and social communities to reveal patterns.

Link analysis is therefore crucial, even more so since the volume and complexity of the online data to be collected and analyzed keeps growing and growing. To address this problem, more and more enterprises, institutions, and government organizations are opting for a data visualization platform, such as the AI-powered WEBINT platform of Cobwebs, to automatically gain quick and accurate insights into the collected big data for follow-up.

Such a platform provides link analysis and timeline visualization for understanding the data connections and extracting useful and actionable insight in near real-time, allowing for:

  • Smarter investigations, since all data sources are fused;
  • Sharing information for informed operational decisions, such as rescue operations;
  • Visualizing data collected from all intelligence sources quickly and in an advanced manner in one single interactive workspace;
  • Minimizing the time spent on manual administrative tasks by creating, reviewing, and delivering actionable insights in a timely manner using an AI-powered WEBINT platform;
  • Creating a centralized knowledge repository to maintain investigative intelligence that can be used by analysts in the future for other events or investigations.

To conclude, timeline visualization and link analysis enable analysts and investigators to get a clear insight into vast amounts of collected big data. They will be able to see patterns in sequences of events as well as map the connections between them for follow-up. It allows them to conduct analyses and investigations for getting the information they need to make the right decisions with limited resources in highly dynamic circumstances.

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