PICANTE News Weekly

Brazilian Enterprises See Digital Transformation as a Way to Better Engage with Customers, The Drone Racing League And Swatch Introduce 2019 Swatch Pilot, Winner Of Global Esport Competition, InComm Launches Google Play Gift Cards in Malaysia, Top 20 Photographers by 2018 Auction Turnover, and many more.

Welcome to the second edition of PICANTE News Weekly! Each Friday we are going to gather all the headlines that are available on Picante.Today and have created buzz in the media.

Industry Leaders to Converge in Hong Kong to Discuss Digital Assets and Blockchain Applications at the HashKey International Digital Asset Summit 2019

HIDA2019 will be the first summit in Asia aimed at increasing global awareness of digital assets and blockchain applications and follows the Global Blockchain Summit that has been hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs for the last four years. At the event, industry experts and key opinion leaders from investment, finance, blockchain and market regulatory fields will be presenting and participating in various panel discussions......

Cryption SMS Are Proving Crypto Isn’t Such a Volatile Market

As CNN reported, Cryption SMS’s user base more than quadrupled during the first half of last year, from 200 thousand in January to nearly one million in early June. Now, Cryption SMS has more than 1 million registered traders, and the company’s breakneck rate of expansion makes it likely that the platform will continue to onboard new users at a steady pace.....

OKEx Revisited Bangkok After Launch of Thai Baht Trading

Throughout the “mindXchange” session, industry talents Nattapon Nimakul, Tech Lead of Katinrun & CTO of Kulap, Jake Choi, Chief Marketing Officer of Fantom Foundation, Sivanus Yamdee (Go), CEO and Co-founder of Coin Asset Exchange and Jirayut Srupsrisopa, CEO of Bitkub have discussed the importance of raising awareness of blockchain in the community, and shared insight on the latest regulatory development in the Thai digital asset space and how to accelerate the ecosystem....

NetCents Technology Eliminates Blockchain Transaction Delays With Zero Confirmation and Risk Analysis

The NetCents Zero Confirmation and Risk Analysis technology facilitates near-instant, risk-mitigated commerce, guaranteeing the cryptocurrency transaction before it is confirmed by miners on the blockchain. The technology provides a score for each transaction, guaranteeing the transaction against double spend, expiration, and other fraud. If the transaction passes the NetCents scoring algorithm, the transaction is approved with 0 confirmations. At launch, the Company will be using this technology for all Bitcoin transactions and will be rolling out for Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash transactions within the next 6-weeks....

Saudi Arabia based Wataniya Adoptes eBaoTech’s Future Proof Insurance Platform

Wataniya experienced fast business growth in recent years. Its legacy IT systems became a challenge to support its further growth and the IT maintenance was very costly. In this context, Wataniya was looking for a new on-premise core business platform which should be on a modern architecture for the ease to maintain, agile enough to meet the changing needs in digital age and cost effective.....

Bad Ass Cannabis Oil Expanding Across the United States

Bad Ass Cannabis Products, whose parent company is Mist Health Systems in Las Vegas, is promoting two major products. CBD Mind Restore helps combat anxiety while CBD Body Relief helps to reduce inflammation....

VIVO Cannabis Announces Cannabis Oil Sales License Granted to Wholly-Owned ABcann Medicinals

The cannabis oil sales license allows the Company to significantly expand its product lines for medical cannabis patients and adult-use consumers. ABcann’s high-quality oil products are expected to be a core component of the Beacon Medical? and Lumina? brands, in addition to the cannabis oil already offered by the Company’s Canna Farms? brand....

Geyser Brands Inc. Announces Signing of Letter of Intent to Acquire Brands

Solace distributes its products in Canada through over 3,000 stores including Bosleys, PetLand, Pharmasave, Bukerfields, Master-Feeds, Global Pet Foods, Shoppers Drug Mart, Woofies, PetValue, Pet Planet & Bone & Biscuit. International distribution extends to the UK, Caribbean Islands, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Spain and the USA....

Pure Global Signs MOU for Supply Agreement with Craft Cannabis Experts: Emerald Plants Health Source

Since obtaining its sales license last month PureSinse has been focused on securing high quality, differentiated inputs. The Supply Agreement will allow the Company to expand its product offerings to medical patients, support product demands from Spark Cannabis Clinic, and diversify its consumer channel strategy with adult use products. Further details will be provided upon the parties entering into a definitive supply agreement. There can be no assurance that a definitive supply agreement will be executed.....

Invitation to Essity’s Investor Day 2019

Essity’s vision is: Dedicated to improving well-being through leading hygiene and health solutions. During its investor day, Essity will describe its strategic work for achieving its vision and continuing to deliver profitable growth. The work on launching successful innovations, building our brands, improving efficiency, leveraging digitalization opportunities and contributing to a sustainable and circular society will be presented. Essity’s subsidiary Vinda, one of China’s largest hygiene companies, will also be presented.....

Waking up Tired Americans – Reon Revive

One of the ways to stay alert, according to the Sleep Foundation, is to take caffeine. If you don’t like coffee or there isn’t a coffee shop nearby, try Reon Revive, which is now available on Amazon. Reon Revive is designed to wake people up with an energy-boosting supplement powder shot that contains 80 mg of caffeine and 50 percent of your B12 RDA.....

IBM Watson Health Invests in Research Collaborations with Leading Medical Centers to Advance the Application of AI to Health

The scientific collaborations with each institution will focus on critical health problems that are ideally suited for AI solutions. Initial areas of study are expected to include the use of AI to improve the utility of electronic health records (EHRs)[1] and claims data[2] to address significant public health issues like patient safety[3], precision medicine[4] and health equity[5]. The research will also explore physician and patient user experience and interactions with AI technologies..............

FLAME University’s Entrepreneurship Centre all Set to Catalyze the Indian Startup Ecosystem

FLAME University, the pioneer of liberal education in India, will bring together a stellar group of successful entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders at BLAZE – its flagship start-up summit on March 1-2, 2019 at its campus in Pune. Designed with the aim of supporting and growing start-ups, the summit will be led by Darshan Doshi, Director of the FLAME Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (FCEI).....

Medivis Launches with $2.3M in Funding to Transform Surgical Visualization

Leveraging Microsoft HoloLens, SurgicalAR enables physicians to overlay images directly onto the patient, allowing for superior precision and real-time decision making — in and out of the operating room. With SurgicalAR, physicians can now further mitigate surgical complications and ensure patient safety. The company is also announcing it has closed a $2.3M seed round led by Initialized Capital.....

Eleni Anthony to Show Obsidian Night Collection at Vancouver Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2019

Vancouver Fashion Week is the fastest growing fashion week in the world and the only industry event that actively seeks out to showcase international award winning designers from over 25 global fashion capitals. Since its inception 18 years ago, VFW has operated with a firm belief in being a well-grounded local initiative with global instincts and intuition.....

InComm Launches Google Play Gift Cards in Malaysia

InComm, a leading payments technology company, today announced it has launched Google Play gift cards in Malaysia, becoming the first distributor to do so, through its strategic partnership with Razer Inc. and its subsidiary MOL Global, Inc. (MOL), a leading e-payment enabler. Google Play gift cards will be available in more than 2,250 7-Eleven stores across Malaysia.....

The Drone Racing League And Swatch Introduce 2019 Swatch Pilot, Winner Of Global Esport Competition

The Drone Racing League (DRL), the world’s premier drone racing circuit, today announced Christopher “Phluxy” Spangler as the winner of the 2019 Swatch DRL Tryouts, the only esports competition that transforms a gamer to pro drone pilot overnight.....

WCG Releases New Theme Song, Beyond the Game (Steve Aoki Remix)

Steve Aoki is a world class DJ recognized by Forbes as one of the top 5 world’s highest paid DJ’s and the world’s hardest-working DJ, Two-time Grammy-nominated producer/DJ. Steve Aoki is one of today’s most successful American cross-genre artists....

Artprice: Top 20 Photographers by 2018 Auction Turnover

Thierry Ehrmann: “The photography market represents just 1.7% of global Fine Art auction turnover, and 3% of the total number of Fine Art lots sold. But it has very interesting specificities that distinguish it from other Fine Art segments, starting with the fact that it is strongly dominated by Contemporary Art. Somewhat unusually, the figurehead of this market is, this year again, a woman, and an artist at the height of her art… Cindy Sherman“..........

Japan Rock Band CHAI Partners with PicsArt, #1 Photo & Video-Editing App, to Creatively Engage with Fans

CHAI, a rock band that originated in Tokyo, is launching a PicsArt edit challenge encouraging fans to “remix” their album images to redefine the concept of “Kawaii.” CHAI defines themselves and their music as “Neo-Kawaii” (meaning “new-cute” in Japanese) and are aiming to break free from the conventional Japanese beauty standards of ‘long legs, pale skin, and big eyes.’ To promote this movement, CHAI will run an image challenge on PicsArt using creative, original, “Neo-Kawaii” edits, including use of PicsArt’s stickers, image assets, photo-enhancing brushes, edit tools, and more.......

Innovega Announces Augmented and Virtual Reality Eyestrain Management Technology

Innovega Inc. announced the development of technology for managing vergence-accommodation conflict that causes discomfort and visual fatigue when using near-eye displays. This conflict, as reported in the Journal of Vision in 2008, occurs when three-dimensional (3D) depth cues presented by a stereo 3D display, or the real world, stimulate the eyes to focus at distances that are different from the fixed distance at which the static display panel is focused.....

Wirecard Digitizes Loyalty and Incentive Programs and Enables the Uploading of Money Within Seconds

Wirecard, the global innovation leader in digital financial technology, has announced the release of its Virtual Express solution for immediate and reliable delivery of digital funds including refunds, incentives, and rewards. The new functionality has been designed specifically for mobile wallets. Mobile wallet usage is gaining traction around the globe, with the main payment services seeing an upsurge in adoption in 2018. Virtual Express is available immediately to customers in the U.S. and will be rolled out to other geographies later in the year.....

Barneys New York To Launch “The High End” Luxury Cannabis Lifestyle Shop in Beverly Hills Flagship and Barneys.com

The High End will offer a unique range of elevated wellness products across home, beauty, jewelry, and more, along with an exclusive collaboration with cannabis brand Beboe. The concept shop will feature rare and exclusive items made especially for The High End, including rolling papers from Devambez, horn lighters from Lorenzi Milano, leather ashtrays and lighters from Giobagnara, ashtrays from Laboratorio Pesaro, gold rolling papers from Shine, storage boxes from Ginger Brown, and custom-made blown glass pipes from Caleb Siemmon. The shop will also feature jewelry and accessory items ranging from sterling silver pastille dispensers to grinder necklaces from Good Art HLYWD, Martine Ali, Brent Neale, Hoorsenbuhs, Carole Shashona, Sorellina, R.O.E., M. Cohen, Miansai and Barton Perriera....

New Gluten Free, Allergy Friendly Granola

The new granola comes in four unique flavor profiles, including: Birthday Cake, Blueberry Cinnamon, Chocolate and Sweet & Salty Kettle. The line is non GMO, clean label, made with ancient grains and contains no artificial ingredients.......

Celebrity Trainer Joins The Hydration Revolution

HALO Sport? launched in November 2018 and has been building a targeted presence across their launch cities of New York and Miami. The bespoke, certified-organic, vegan-friendly formula offers more electrolytes than enhanced waters and traditional sports drinks, fewer calories than packaged coconut water, and has no added sugar nor artificial coloring, unlike many traditional sports drinks. With only 10 calories and 2 grams of natural sugar per bottle, along with a crisp, refreshing citrus flavour, HALO Sport? packs purely nutritional benefits into its sleek, iconic bottle and will create a lifestyle brand in the sports drink category.....

Ben & Jerry’s Cookie Dough Ice Cream Goes Vegan

For years, Non-Dairy denizens focused on what’s not in dessert. Ben & Jerry’s celebrates what is—rich, creamy almond milk; euphoric chunks and swirls; and incredibly indulgent flavor combinations....

Brazilian Enterprises See Digital Transformation as a Way to Better Engage with Customers

The ISG Provider Lens? Digital Business Transformation Report for Brazil sees the country’s digital business transformation market transforming all aspects of traditional business. Enterprises are looking to vendors to help them improve their sales processes, product design, supply chains, human resource management and other core functions. Often that means becoming more agile and moving more workloads to the cloud, the report said....

Lead5 Exposes Hidden Executive Jobs, Opening New Doors for Talented Executives

Lead5, a leading provider of hidden executive jobs and intel, today announced enhancements to its platform that will give job-seeking executives unprecedented confidential access to the hidden and often secretive executive search world. The company believes that this latest round of enhancements will provide even more targeted opportunities to top candidates who are looking for a competitive edge in their executive job search.....

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