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Sparrow introduces Sparrow Cloud, the new application security & quality testing as a service at “Black Hat USA 2021”

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LAS VEGAS, July 31, 2021 — Sparrow Co., Ltd, the leader in application security testing, announced on July 29 its participation in "Black Hat USA 2021." Sparrow hosts its virtual booth to introduce its new solutions between August 4 and 5.

This year, Black Hat, one of the world’s largest IT security events, is holding its 24th conference from July 31 to August 5 as a hybrid event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Attendants may participate in this event free of charge with pre-registration and experience a variety of solutions from global security companies, including Sparrow.

This year, with its new slogan, "Simplify Application Security with Sparrow", Sparrow will introduce two security solutions: ‘Sparrow Cloud’ and ‘Sparrow SCA’. ‘Sparrow Cloud’ is application security as a service that contains the core of Sparrow’s market-leading solutions, Sparrow SAST/SAQT and Sparrow DAST. This cloud-based service helps users to diagnose application security and quality by performing static and dynamic analysis anytime and anywhere at minimum cost.

To effectively enhance application security in the face of increasing cyber threats, it is critical to apply both static and dynamic analysis to the software development life cycle. With Sparrow Cloud, users can run both analyses on a single platform. Its powerful analysis capability and intuitive UI with detailed descriptions of detected vulnerabilities, even developers who are not familiar with security testing tools can easily manage security vulnerabilities.

Sparrow will introduce its open-source management solution, Sparrow SCA, as well. Sparrow SCA automatically identifies open-source software in use and detects security vulnerabilities in the source code and binary.

Ilsoo Chang, Sparrow’s CEO stated "As President Biden stipulates detailed regulation for strengthening security, it is important to prove that the application is developed in a secure environment. Sparrow, with its security solutions, can help companies to proactively respond to cyber threats".

About Sparrow

With its outstanding technology, Sparrow offers solutions to implement DevSecOps into the software development life cycle. The solutions include Sparrow SAST/SAQT, static analysis solution for application security and quality testing, Sparrow DAST, the web vulnerability analysis tool, Sparrow RASP, the operational application self-protection tool, and Sparrow InteractiveHub, the platform for tool-to-tool interaction and vulnerability management. Experience a variety of powerful security solutions with Sparrow.

To experience Sparrow Cloud today, visit https://cloud.Sparrowfasoo.com

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ZENVIA Inc. Announces Closing of Concurrent Private Placement with Twilio Inc.

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SÃO PAULO, July 30, 2021 — ZENVIA Inc. ("ZENVIA") (NASDAQ: ZENV), announced yesterday the closing of its previously disclosed concurrent private placement of 3,846,153 of its Class A common shares to Twilio Inc. in a private transaction ("Concurrent Private Placement") at an offering price of US$13.00 per Class A common share.

ZENVIA raised US$50,000,000 in gross proceeds with the Concurrent Private Placement, and together with ZENVIA’s initial public offering ("IPO") of 11,538,462 Class A common shares at a public offering price of US$13.00 per Class A common share that closed on July 26, 2021, ZENVIA raised in aggregate approximately US$200,000,000 in gross proceeds.

As disclosed into ZENVIA’s effective registration statement on Form F-1 filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, part of the net proceeds from the IPO and the Concurrent Private Placement will be used to pay the consideration payable in cash to acquire One To One Engine Desenvolvimento e Licenciamento de Sistemas de Informática S.A. — Direct One and any remaining proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, which may include investments for the development of software, products or technologies, investments in the international expansion of our operations, funding other opportunistic mergers, acquisitions or investments in complementary businesses, and maintaining liquidity.

About ZENVIA
ZENVIA is driven by the purpose of empowering companies to create unique experiences for customer communications through its unified end-to-end platform. ZENVIA empowers companies to transform their existing customer communications from non-scalable, physical and impersonal interactions into highly scalable, digital first and hyper contextualized experiences across the customer journey. ZENVIA’s unified end-to-end CX communications platform provides a combination of (i) SaaS focused on campaigns, sales teams, customer service and engagement, (ii) tools, such as software application programming interfaces, or APIs, chatbots, single customer view, journey designer, documents composer and authentication and (iii) channels, such as SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, Instagram and Webchat.

Its comprehensive platform assists customers across multiple use cases, including marketing campaigns, customer acquisition, customer onboarding, warnings, customer services, fraud control, cross-selling and customer. retention, among others. As of March 31, 2021, ZENVIA served more than 10,100 active customers throughout Latin America.

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iWeb Inc, OTC Markets QB, IWBB, announced it will acquire Tingo Mobile Plc. from Tingo International Holdings, Inc, in a deal valuing the Tingo Mobile Plc at $3.7 Billion USD

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LOS ANGELES, July 30, 2021 — Transaction was negotiated for IWEB by their Business Development Partners Global Fintech Trading Limited Led by Craig Marshak an experienced Fintech Specialist investment banker who formerly ran a Nomura bank Venture Technology fund in London with considerable success in online gaming, Software and Cybersecurity investments.

Tingo International Holdings, Inc., is the parent company of Tingo Mobile, PLC, a Nigerian limited company. Tingo is a device and a service technology company focused on creating digitally inclusive ecosystems in the AgriTech and FinTech sectors in Africa.

TINGO has posted total revenue figure of $616 million dollars in 2020 and an EBITDA of $220 million dollars (figures based on NGN/USD exchange rate of 360), IWEB is confident that these figures will be exceeded going forwards with expansion and natural upwards progression of the TINGO business

IWEB have agreed to pay $4.00 per share with an issuance of 928 million new shares valuing TINGO at $3.7 Billion USD

Tingo is Nigeria’s leading technology and Device as a Service platform aimed at accelerating digital commerce, especially in Agri-Tech & Fin-Tech verticals in Nigeria. Tingo helps farmers acquire mobile phones through a unique mobile phone leasing scheme, connecting them to mobile and data networks through its virtual mobile network and connecting farmers to markets, services, and resources via Nwassa, its digital AgriTech marketplace platform. Beginning in April 2021, Tingo also launched a beta version of Tingo Pay – a B2C FinTech app aimed at providing financial services including mobile wallets, payment processing and access to specialist lenders and insurers to users inside and outside of the agriculture value chain.

Tingo have over 9 million subscribers and has supplied almost 30 million mobile devices since 2014.

About Tingo see www.tingogroup.com

Tingo has four core business drivers:

  • Mobile Phone Leasing: Tingo has distributed almost 30 million mobile handsets since 2014 and will continue to replace the devices of its installed customer base every three years.
  • Mobile Voice and Data Service: Through a Mobile Virtual Network, Tingo provides its customers with voice and data services.
  • Nwassa Platform: Tingo’s proprietary AgriTech platform, Nwassa, supports Nigeria’s agricultural value chain with market access.
    Tingo processes 500k daily transactions with a value of over $8 million, which provides its installed customer base with access to agricultural markets for their crop. Farmers and cooperatives are also supported with packaging, warehousing, and cargo logistics
    Tingo provides its customers with digital wallet services, which enable them to send and receive domestic payments, monitor cash flow in real time and securely hold money.
    Tingo provides access to other third-party services such as utility bill payment, virtual airtime top-up, insurance services, and alternative lending solutions.
  • Tingo Pay: Since the launch of Nwassa platform Tingo has been a dominant player in the B2B FinTech vertical. Tingo has entered the B2C FinTech vertical to extend our B2B play to mass market use cases beyond agriculture.

Market Opportunity

Africa is the second-largest continent by land mass and population. The continent is also the youngest by far, with a median age of 18 years for its 1.3 billion people. Tingo believes the building blocks for growth in Africa’s agriculture industry are in place and that Tingo is well positioned in this space to participate in the upside.

Compelling fundamentals

  1. Strong demographic potential: Sub-Saharan Africa’s population is growing at 2.7% a year, which is more than twice as fast as South Asia (1.2%) and Latin America (0.9%). That means Africa is adding the population of France (or Thailand) every two years. At the current growth rate, the continent’s population will double by 2050. The median age across the continent is 18 years, thirteen years younger than the median age in South America the next youngest continent according to the World Bank. Africa’s youthfulness represents a significant opportunity for material growth in demand for agricultural commodities. This younger generation is also being born into a "networked" world and is more comfortable using technology to achieve their goals.
  2. Improving business conditions: Africa’s governments are paying more attention to improving business conditions for entrepreneurs and small businesses on the continent. Sub-Saharan Africa’s World Bank Doing Business rank has improved by c.20 points from 45 in 2004 to 65 in 2020. Tingo believe this trend will continue and encourage establishment of more new ventures across all economic sectors including the agriculture industry.
  3. Investor appetite remains robust: Africa attracted $407 billion of Foreign Direct Investments between 2014 and 2018 (c.$80 billion per annum on average). Investments are increasingly focused on services and industrial sectors. Only 20% of investments are in extractive industries – a clear reversal from as recently as 2008 when 55% of FDI was aimed at resource extraction, Tingo believes FDI into Africa will help resolve significant infrastructure constraints and position the Agric value chain for value creation.

Nigeria is the largest economy and the most populous country in Africa and is therefore central to the continent’s growth story.

Agriculture is central to African lives and livelihoods. 60% of sub-Saharan Africans are small holder farmers and Agriculture accounts for 23% of the region’s GDP. In Nigeria, Agriculture employs 66% of the workforce and represents 26% of GDP.

Nigeria’s suboptimal agriculture productivity is driven by several factors including broken linkages with demand centres, inefficient capital allocation for purchase of inputs, and underdeveloped and fragmented access to services. Tingo aims to play a key role in resolving each of these issues.

Access to technology: Tingo is a key access point to the digital economy for millions of rural farmers in Nigeria, by providing affordable access to mobile devices and the internet.

Access to markets: Tingo users can connect with vendors and suppliers for affordable access to inputs and services. Tingo also connects farmers with buyers who purchase crops every year.

Access to Financial Services: Through Tingo Pay, its proprietary mobile wallet application, users can execute several transactions. These include credits into the Tingo Pay wallet, and transfers from the Tingo Pay wallet for bill payments and P2P (peer to peer payments). Tingo will continuing to add services to this application to meet customer needs.

Chris Cleverly, President of TINGO INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS – "TINGO is Africa’s largest digital agricultural ecosystem and is a highly successful payment gateway. It is important that we embrace emerging technologies as they are necessary to solve the issues that burden the world such as food security and financial inclusion. We make no secret of our intention to uplist this group, or to use this platform to rapidly build our customer base in Nigeria and other African markets we will roll-out our unique offering. Global Food Security is a significant priority and our unique model will enable that priority and deliver Food Security in Africa, which powered with Coinfield will make us a very compelling proposition"

Anthony Moore, CEO of IWEB – ”It has been noted in recent years the rapid adoption and deployment of Blockchain by the Telecoms Industry and the global announcements almost weekly of the acceptance of Crypto, we feel the marriage of TINGO with Coinfield leads us into perfect position for this natural evolution in Africa. Africa is a Continent that is showing great readiness and willingness to adapt and adopt to new technologies.

With its young demographic, high smartphone penetration, lack of legacy infrastructure Africa has the greatest potential for blockchain and cryptocurrency of any region. Coinfield provides the know-how and has the history to deliver on this. TINGO with an already huge customer base will expand rapidly and will become the dominant digital payment platform in the world’s fastest growing economy”

About iWEB

IWEB, Inc., is a technology development and services company, provides coding services in various industries and markets primarily in Thailand. The company focuses on image, audio, web, and security coding technologies. Its technology enables governments and enterprises to imbed or imprint invisible digital identities to media and objects. The company’s coding technology provides the means to infuse persistent digital information to computers and digital devices into various forms of media content; and permits smartphones, tablets, industrial scanners, and other computer interfaces to identify relevant data from media content. IWEB has entered a letter of intent to acquire regulated global crypto exchange "Coinfield" which was established 2018, which was announced  as an IWBB Acquisition on 26th July 2021.

IWEB, Inc. Headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand for additional information visit: www.iweb.company

About Global Fintech Trading Limited

A group specialising in Institutional Financial, FinTech and Crypto who are to develop acquisition and investment opportunities in these fields. This is on a Global basis with their international team

See – http://www.globalfintechtrading.com

Safe Harbor Statement: This press release may contain certain forward-looking statements and information, as defined within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and is subject to the Safe Harbor created by those sections. This material contains statements about expected future events and/or financial results that are forward-looking in nature and as such are by definition subject to risks and uncertainties.

Authorized by Fung Hok Wai, President
Contact the company: Fung Hok Wai, President, Email: kevinwai@i-l-a-g.com

Anthony Moore, CEO,  TEL 90-542-332-7666
Investor Relations and Press contact: Alex Lightman in Los Angeles
Email: Alexlightman@me.com

Tingo Mobile Contact: Rory Bowen, Chief of Staff Tingo International Email: rory.bowen@tingogroup.com

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Doo Financial’s First Display On Times Square Nasdaq Tower, Establishing A Fully Disclosed Brokerage Relationship With Interactive Brokers

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HONG KONG, July 30, 2021 — Doo Financial, an online broker affiliated with Doo Group, has recently established a fully disclosed brokerage relationship with Interactive Brokers, and celebrated with a debut on the Nasdaq in Times Square, New York.

Doo Financial has recently established a fully disclosed brokerage relationship with Interactive Brokers and celebrated with a debut on the Nasdaq in Times Square, New York.
Doo Financial has recently established a fully disclosed brokerage relationship with Interactive Brokers and celebrated with a debut on the Nasdaq in Times Square, New York.

With this relationship, Doo Financial will be facilitating the development and localization of Interactive Brokers’ steadfast trading services in China, while Interactive Brokers provides reliable fundamental services to Doo Financial.

Doo Financial, The New Online Broker  

This fully-disclosed brokerage relationship with Interactive Brokers LLC is established by Doo Financial and Peter Elish Investments Securities, a subsidiary of the group based in the US. 

Doo Financial aims to provide professional investors with brokerage services in trading global securities, futures, CFDs, and many other financial products.

With leading financial technology and integrated service advantages, Doo Financial has achieved full efficiency in executing online account opening, deposit, and withdrawal, as well as trades.

Meanwhile, Peter Elish Investments Securities is 30 years old American securities firm wholly-owned by Doo Financial and is regulated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

Such achievements enable Doo Financial to provide global investors with a convenient and reliable investment experience, unlocking a window of global financial assets.

By virtue of the fundamental support of Interactive Brokers, Doo Financials’ clients can seize global market opportunities by depositing their assets in Interactive Brokers’ dedicated custodial account, to trade in the US stock market and enjoy a wider selection of financial products.

For more information regarding the relationship, readers can view it here.

Doo Group’s Global Securities Business Map Is Taking Shape

Since its establishment in 2014, Doo Group has been dedicated to providing new trading brokerage services for financial products such as securities, futures, and CFDs to individual and institutional clients around the world, deeply involving fintech as well as innovation, and continuously expanding the global securities market.

This relationship with Interactive Brokers marks an important chapter of Doo Group’s global securities business layout and it is a key step taken by Doo Financial towards the international financial markets.

In the future, Doo Group will continue to strive with its affiliates including Doo Clearing, Doo Financial, Doo Prime, and Doo Tech to become a leading global online broker with fintech at its core.

 

 

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Production Officially Starts at USI’s Vietnam Plant

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SHANGHAI, July 30, 2021 — USI’s Vietnam plant is located in Dinh Vu, Haian District, Haiphong City, Vietnam, covering a total area of 65,000 square meters. The construction process will be finished in two phases. Recently the System in Package (SiP) modules for wearable products have received the production certificate and the first-phase plant officially started production on July 29, 2021. The main plant put into use in the first phase has a floor area of 54,000 square meters, covering an area of 18,000 square meters. In the foreseeable future, the plant will focus on manufacturing SiP modules for wearable electronic products.

USI Vietnam Plant
USI Vietnam Plant

The Vietnam plant is expected to reach full capacity in 2022 with an annual output of more than 10 million modules and create approximately 1,700 jobs for local residents, becoming a high-tech manufacturing company in Haiphong. Part of the land is still reserved to develop other businesses and meet the potential needs of future customers. In the future, the company will give full play to the competitive advantages of the Vietnam site and develop EMS/ODM/JDM businesses in the Vietnam site according to customer needs.

As the company’s first manufacturing base in Southeast Asia, the Vietnam plant is an important part of the USI’s global landscape of manufacturing sites. It will help the company respond to the orders from overseas customers more flexibly and promote the development of local economy and high-tech industries in Vietnam.

About USI

USI (SSE: 601231, A constituent of CSI300 Index), Universal Scientific Industrial (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., is a global leader in electronic design and manufacturing as well as a leader in the field of SiP (System-in-Package) modules. USI provides D(MS)2 product services: Design, Manufacturing, Miniaturization, Industrial software and hardware Solutions, and material procurement, logistics and maintenance Services. With Asteelflash, USI has 27 sales, production and service locations across four continents of America, Europe, Asia and Africa, and offers customer diversified products in the sectors of wireless communication, computer and storage, consumer, industrial, medical and automotive electronics worldwide. USI is one of the subsidiaries of ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. (TWSE: 3711, NYSE: ASX) which is a world-leading provider of semiconductor manufacturing services in assembly and test in the world. To learn more, please visit www.usiglobal.com and engage with us on LinkedIn and YouTube.

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Huion Announces Three 23.8inch Pen Displays, Including the Kamvas Pro 24(4K)

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SHENZHEN, China, July 30, 2021 — Huion announces three big screen pen displays today, Kamvas 24, Kamvas 24 Plus, and Kamvas Pro 24(4K). Two from its Kamvas series and one from its Kamvas Pro series. Featured with upgraded performances, these pen displays are designed for creators specialized in animation, gaming, industrial design, etc.

Kamvas Pro 24(4K)
Kamvas Pro 24(4K)

Kamvas Pro 24(4K)

Kamvas Pro 24(4K) with premium design and performance is a flagship product of Huion. 4K UHD resolution, quantum-dot technology, 140% sRGB color gamut, 1200:1 contrast ratio, and HDR technology are making Kamvas Pro 24(4K) an ideal pen display for immersive visual experience. Like most Huion pen displays, Kamvas Pro 24(4K) also adopts the full lamination technology and anti-glare etched glass for minimized parallax and natural pen-on-paper drawing experiences.

Additionally, Kamvas Pro 24(4K) is embedded with two foldable feet with which users can enjoy the creation at an angle of 20 degrees. But for those who want more diversity and flexibility, monitor arm ST410/ST420 or the adjustable stand ST100A may be more suitable, as they can support more angles for users to find the most comfortable postures when drawing.

Kamvas 24 & Kamvas 24 Plus
Kamvas 24 & Kamvas 24 Plus

Kamvas 24 & Kamvas 24 Plus

Kamvas 24 and Kamvas 24 Plus are the sixth products of Kamvas series. Compared to their predecessors, Kamvas 24 and Kamvas 24 Plus not only boast the largest 23.8inch screen but also feature 2.5K QHD resolution. Kamvas 24 Plus even adopts the quantum dot technology which enhances the color gamut to 140% sRGB and the contrast ratio to 1200:1, enabling more vibrant and vivid picture presentation.

Create more with the digital pen

These three pen displays all come with the digital pen PW517. Developed based on Huion PenTech3.0, PW517 enables more natural and stable drawing experience. Huion also introduced the felt pen nib for the first time, which will come with Kamvas Pro 24(4K).   

8192 levels of pressure sensitivity and >220PPS report rate enable instant reproducing of natural and delicate lines. ±60° tilt recognition supports the realization of various drawing techniques such as shading, sketching, and edging. 

With the aim to bring digital ink solution to more people around the world, Huion has always been committed to offering better products to creative professionals as well as beginners.

For more information about Huion products, please visit www.huion.com.

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Dynamic Threat Landscape Urges European Organizations to Turn to Managed & Professional Security Services

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Financial services will remain the largest contributor to the European MSS/PSS market until 2024, finds Frost & Sullivan

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 30, 2021 — Increasing cyber-threats coupled with a shortage of cybersecurity professionals in Europe is compelling organizations to turn toward managed and professional security services (MSS/PSS) companies. Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, European Managed & Professional Security Services Market, reveals that the dynamic threat landscape requires security vendors to look for efficiencies and invest in new technologies incorporating automation such as breach and attack simulation (BAS) platforms. Despite being fragmented, the European MSS/PSS market is estimated to reach $10.92 billion by 2024 from $8.50 billion in 2021. This study includes revenue forecast by region, vertical, and enterprise size, growth drivers, key trends, and insights for chief information security officers (CISOs).

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For further information on this analysis, please visit: http://frost.ly/631

"Financial services is the largest contributor to the European MSS/PSS market, accounting for 26.4% of total market revenue in 2020, and will remain the largest revenue contributor till 2024," said Piotr Kopczynski, Security Research Analyst at Frost & Sullivan. "The manufacturing sector, the second-largest contributor to the market, has witnessed a significant increase in the MSS/PSS penetration rates over the past three years as a result of increasingly high-profile attacks that halted production and negatively impacted revenues for affected organizations."

Kopczynski added: "Additionally, increasing security incidents and the continuing shortage of cybersecurity professionals will drive demand for better artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled security technologies that can improve communication between customers and MSS security operations centers (SOCs). Further, vendors that do not adapt their portfolios to incorporate automation in the SOC or fail to address competition from cloud solutions vendors baking security into their offerings will have difficulty growing."

Organizations’ move to mitigate the dynamically changing threat landscape presents lucrative growth prospects for market participants, such as:

  • Expansion into the Operational Technology (OT) Market: Managed security service provider (MSSP) vendors should expand their service portfolio through partnerships with OT security vendors that are helping secure OT networks.
  • Breach and Attack Simulation Technology: MSSPs need to invest in market education initiatives to increase awareness about BAS technology and its advantages over traditional cyber risk assessment solutions, such as human-based penetration testing, red team exercises, and vulnerability management tools.
  • Well-designed Zero-trust Environments: Security initiatives are increasingly focused on zero-trust framework environments; thus, PSS firms need to strengthen their offerings to put zero-trust experts at the forefront of every engagement.

European Managed & Professional Security Services Market is the latest addition to Frost & Sullivan’s Security research and analyses available through the Frost & Sullivan Leadership Council, which helps organizations identify a continuous flow of growth opportunities to succeed in an unpredictable future.

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Experts call for increasing rural area digital connectivity to alleviate poverty

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SINGAPORE, July 28, 2021 — To close the digital divide and drive economic recovery during the pandemic, cross sectors collaboration are needed to lower the costs of rural area connectivity and improve digital literacy. This was the crux of the presentations by experts at the a webinar on "Strategies for Addressing the Asia-Pacific Digital Divide – Increasing Connectivity to Drive Economic Recovery" organized by the Financial Times and Huawei on Thursday.

Experts call for increasing rural area digital connectivity to alleviate poverty
Experts call for increasing rural area digital connectivity to alleviate poverty

Asia Pacific is speeding up for digital transformation and underpinned by dynamic markets and young population. The significant rift of digital access yet hinder wider shares of digital benefits, which in turn leads to slower recovery from pandemic. ICT leverages fundamental ways to drive economic rebound.

The importance of digital inclusion is echoed by Yin Haitao, professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University’, whose newly released report on using ICT solutions to promote economic development and alleviate poverty.

The report, named "Digital Involvement and Poverty Alleviation: A Huawei Approach," was co-authored by Yin and Chris Marquis, Professor at Samuel C. Johnson College of Business, Cornell University.

The domain of corporate sustainability has long faced the challenge of making projects of this nature financially viable. To reach underdeveloped areas and improve digital coverage, Huawei initiates RuralStar program together with local operators globally including in Thailand and Indonesia since 2017. This solution replaces traditional towers with simple poles, and enabling a shift from diesel generator power to solar power. By the end of 2020, the RuralStar had been implemented in over 60 countries, with 50 million people benefited from this initiative.

Apart from agreeing vendors like Huawei’s approach on digital infrastructure access, labor is another prior concern. Poon King Wang, Director of the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), calls for long-term strategies and sustained support to upskill people across generations and ensure wellbeing of workers in digital transformation.

Sofia Shakil, Director of the Economic Programs, Asia Foundation, addressed the negative impact of the pandemic on women unemployment and the urgency to invest in skills building.

In 2017, Huawei, the Bangladesh Government (ICT Division), and Robi Axiata jointly launched the Digital Training Bus project, to bring digital skills to women in the heart of rural Bangladesh. More than 60,000 women had received training till now, and 160,000 more will benefit from it by 2023.

To lessen the imminent labor deficit in APAC, 400,000 more are expected to be digitally upskilled in the next five years through Huawei educational flagship programs such as Seeds for the Future and ASEAN Academy, according to Michael MacDonald, Chief Digital Officer at Huawei Asia Pacific.

Departing from different fields, speakers share views of building ecosystem cohesively including government, industry and thought-leaderships from third party to drive digital inclusion. "Ultimately, we need to build up trust across the different stakeholders in the ecosystem", said Poon King Wang on sustaining the benefits of tech.

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Supermicro Debuts New Top-Loading and Simply Double Storage Systems with 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Processors, PCI-E 4.0 with NVMe Cache for High-Capacity Cloud-Scale Storage

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Comprehensive Family of 60-bay and 90-bay 4U Storage Models Supporting Single-Node, Dual-Node, Storage Bridge Bay, or JBOD Configurations in a Highly Serviceable Architecture

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 27, 2021 — Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a global leader in enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions, and green computing technology, announced new versions of its market-proven top-loading storage solutions with 60-bay and 90-bay systems along with new Simply Double storage systems fully optimized for the latest 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and PCI-E 4.0 NVMe drives. These best-in-class high-capacity storage and expansion systems are ideal for cloud-scale storage implementations as well as HPC storage workloads.

Supermicro Debuts New Top-Loading and Simply Double Storage Systems
Supermicro Debuts New Top-Loading and Simply Double Storage Systems

"As the growth in software-defined, cloud-based storage continues to accelerate, Supermicro helps data centers to rapidly modernize their infrastructure to leverage flexible configuration, tool-less modular designs that can be serviced by a technician, and simple expansion capabilities with our new X12 60-bay or 90-bay single, dual node and high availability architecture innovation," said Charles Liang, president, and CEO, Supermicro. "Our new high-capacity storage systems continue Supermicro’s focus on resource saving and delivers industry-leading capacity for a lower total cost of ownership (TCO)."

Top-Loading Storage Systems

Supermicro’s new top-loading architecture delivers improved flexibility, modularity, and serviceability that customers require. Both 60-bay and 90-bay systems are available in single-node, dual-node, and dual-node high availability (HA) configurations. The dual-node HA and single-node configurations control access to all drives in the systems. The dual-node configuration evenly split the drive control access between each node. With a modular, tool-less design, all critical onboard systems – hot-swap server nodes, expanders, fan modules, power supplies, and drives – are fully optimized for easy serviceability by one technician.

Supermicro’s new high-capacity top-loading systems are optimized for enterprise and cloud-scale storage environments. This scale-up and scale-out architectures design offers customers the configuration options of  PCI-E 4.0-based RAID or IT mode SAS controller. These 4U systems feature 60 or 90 hot-swap 2.5" or 3.5" SAS3/SATA3 bays plus two onboard PCI-E M.2 slots and two internal slim SATA SSD slots. The single-node system also supports two rear hot-swap 2.5" bays for OS mirroring and four optional NVMe U.2 bays for fast caching. The system supports 1.6 petabytes of cost-optimized storage at the maximum configuration, plus up to 60TB of SSD flash via the rear-accessed NVMe. The single- and dual-node systems use 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors in a dual-socket configuration with 16 DIMM slots per server node.

Simply Double Storage Systems

Supermicro’s Simply Double storage server is an industry-leading solution for content delivery. Today’s announcement introduces performance and serviceability enhancements to the overall design to support 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors in a dual-socket configuration with 16 DIMMs while maintaining the same dense storage footprint. Up to four rear hot-swap U.2 NVMe bays are supported, allowing users to add flash without sacrificing any of the 24 SAS/SATA 3.5" storage bays. Innovative chassis design enhances airflow and streamlines system service accessibility to components such as the motherboard, CPU, memory, PCI-E slots, internal drive bays, and rear drive bays. Along with these mechanical improvements, the system can be configured with the options of  PCI-E 4.0-based RAID or IT mode SAS controller.

Supermicro Storage Summit

Supermicro is launching these new systems in conjunction with its Open Storage Summit 2021, highlighting software-defined storage technology innovations. The Open Storage Summit 2021 will take place from July 27 – 29, 2021. Please click here for more details and to register.

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Shop Anywhere with “Single-Pay” and “3-Pay” Using New Paidy App

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TOKYO, July 27, 2021 —

-Complete Entire Purchase within App, from Discovery to Payment for Smooth Shopping Experience-

Paidy Inc., Japan’s leading "Buy Now, Pay Later" provider, has announced the release of its new app that allows consumers to browse and discover the items they want across thousands of online merchants and use Paidy’s "Single-Pay" or "3-Pay" service to pay for their purchases.

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With the new Paidy app, consumers can choose Paidy as their payment method at all online merchants that accept Visa. They can choose to pay next month, or in three interest-free(*1), monthly installments with 3-Pay. A "Shop & Discovery" feature has been built into the app, which allows consumers to browse stores and search for items. Consumers can also select categories they are interested in for suggestions of merchants and items that best suit their interests. By saving their favorite items in the "wishlist," consumers can set up their own, personalized shopping plan. The entire shopping experience, from discovery to purchase, is completed entirely within the Paidy app.

The expansion of merchants that accept Paidy has been achieved through partnerships with Visa and Orico.

With the mission to "Take the hassle out of shopping," Paidy aims to create an environment where everyone can shop wisely and enjoyably. Benefits such as the simple user experience, convenience of next-month single-pay or 3-pay payment, and the ability to manage their money wisely with their smartphone have attracted many consumers, with the number of accounts currently exceeding six million(*2). Paidy can be used at more than 700,000 online merchants, including Amazon and Qoo10, and with the launch of the Paidy Link service in April 2021, it is now possible to shop for the goods that they love at PayPal’s 31 million merchants around the world, all via PayPal checkout. The Paidy Plus for Apple, which launched in June and can be used to make purchases at Apple Retail Stores and the Apple Online Store, has also been well received. The revamping of its app symbolizes Paidy’s bid to go beyond a mere payment service to become the "shopping platform" that customers cannot do without. Mobile shopping is fast becoming standard, with close to 70% of online shoppers mainly using their mobile phone or smartphone to access online shopping services(*3). Paidy offers those consumers a more enjoyable and convenient shopping experience.

Russell Cummer, Founder and Executive Chairman of Paidy Inc., commented: "With the release of the new app, customers will be able to shop anywhere with Paidy. As well as paying for their purchases, they can enjoy the shopping experience itself from within the Paidy app. We believe that enjoyable shopping through Paidy’s super simple customer experience and the wise, comfortable choice of interest-free 3-pay payment will become the de facto standard for online shopping in Japan. Customers can look forward to even better things from Paidy as an innovator in E-commerce."

Paidy will continue to update the shopping experience for its customers through the provision of innovative services.

Notes:

(*1) Interest-free installment payment is available only with account transfers or bank transfers.

(*2) including Taiwan business

(*3) From Hakuhodo Institute of Life & Living’s Chronological Lifestyle Survey (2020). Percentage of respondents who answered "mainly cellphone or smartphone" to the question, "What device do you use to access (online shopping) services? (if you use the service)"

*Amazon is a registered trademark of Amazon.com, Inc. and its affiliates.