Reshaping Skylines: The evolving real estate landscape in APAC

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The real estate industry in Asia Pacific (APAC) is seeing a substantial shift due to the US Federal Reserve’s sequence of swift interest rate hikes that have been in place since mid-2022, in a region where finance is readily available. While most Asia Pacific markets, with the exception of China, started to recover from the […]

BlackRock unveils its first tokenized fund, BUIDL

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BlackRock unveils its first tokenized fund issued on a public blockchain, the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (“BUIDL” or the “Fund”). BUIDL will provide qualified investors with the opportunity to earn U.S. dollar yields by subscribing to the Fund through Securitize Markets, LLC. “This is the latest progression of our digital assets strategy,” said […]

FMC Corporation announces senior appointments

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FMC Corporation an agricultural sciences company, recently announced Darren Dillenbeck, President, FMC U.S.A., has been elected Vice President and President of FMC North America. The company also announced that Renato Guimarães will join FMC as Vice President and President of FMC Latin America. Both appointments are effective April 1. Under Dillenbeck’s leadership, FMC Corporation has grown market share and […]

CDPQ onboards new Executive-VP and Head of Real Estate

Rana Ghorayeb, Executive-VP and Head of Real estate

CDPQ today announced the appointment of Rana Ghorayeb as Executive Vice-President and Head of Real Estate. In her new role, she will be responsible for leading the overall Ivanhoé Cambridge portfolio and investment team, which has assets of over USD 77 billion. Rana Ghorayeb has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Otéra Capital, a CDPQ subsidiary specialized in real […]

Sempra infrastructure unveils Cimarron Wind Project

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Sempra Infrastructure, a subsidiary of Sempra announced that it reached a positive final investment decision for the development, construction and operation of the Cimarron wind project, the third phase of the Energía Sierra Juarez (ESJ) wind complex. The Cimarron wind project will total approximately 320 megawatts (MW) of wind capacity, and the project is fully contracted under a 20-year […]

 Zendesk announces acquisition of Ultimate

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Zendesk announced it will acquire Ultimate, to deliver the most complete AI offering for customer experience (CX) in the market. As unprecedented demand for AI drives up the speed and frequency of customer engagement, AI agents push beyond traditional bot capabilities to help brands transform CX into a competitive advantage. With Ultimate, Zendesk will offer […]

Tenstorrent inks agreement with MosChip

Tenstorrent inks agreement with MosChip [Image from MosChip Website]

Tenstorrent and MosChip Technologies announced recently that they are partnering on design for Tenstorrent’s cutting-edge RISC-V solutions. In selecting MosChip Technologies, Tenstorrent stands to strongly advance both its own and its customers’ development of RISC-V solutions as they work together on Physical Design, DFT, Verification, and RTL Design services. “MosChip Technologies is special in that […]

Thales collaborates with Neural Labs for Smart Cities

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Thales’s Sentinel platform provides services for software licensing, entitlement management, delivery, and protection – helping Neural Labs to quickly and efficiently automate the creation and issuance of licenses. As a result, Neural Labs was able to reduce costs and focus more on its customers, as well as the value of its software against competitors. The […]

InfluxData partners with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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InfluxData, recently announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, a new managed offering for AWS customers to run InfluxDB open source natively within the AWS Management Console. Now generally available, Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB allows users to quickly build and run time series applications on managed infrastructure with AWS’s […]

Mitsubishi Electric inks agreement with Nozomi Networks

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Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced recently that it has reached agreement with Nozomi Networks Inc, a developer and distributor of operational technology (OT) security solutions, to jointly pursue OT security initiatives including marketing and technical development. As part of the agreement, Mitsubishi Electric has acquired an equity stake in Nozomi Networks. Mitsubishi Electric will integrate its factory-automation […]