Regional News

Lightspeed teams up with Google to help retailers increase local shopping revenue

Integration allows omnichannel retailers to automate ads and real-time inventory levels directly from the Lightspeed platform MONTREAL, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Lightspeed (NYSE: LSPD) (TSX: LSPD), a leading provider of cloud-based, omnichannel commerce platforms, announced today it willinte...

2021-05-11 19:00 1408

OTC Markets Group Reaches New Milestone as OTCQX Market Hits 500 Companies

NEW YORK, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of the OTCQX®, OTCQB® and Pink® financial markets for 11,000 U.S. and global securities, today announced that the OTCQX Market reached the 500-company milestone with the addition of its  first Danish company,Cop...

2021-05-11 19:00 5840

GWM Listed Among 2021 BrandZ™ Top 50 Chinese Global Brand Builders for the First Time

BAODING, China, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 10, Google and Kantar jointly released the "2021 BrandZ™ Top 50 Chinese Global Brand Builders", and GWM was listed among other brands for the first time. Meanwhile, GWM was also listed among "2021 BrandZ™ Top 20 Rising Stars". GWM has once again...

2021-05-11 18:51 7131

EQT Private Equity invests in Indesso, Southeast Asia's largest natural Flavor & Fragrance ingredients and Food & Wellness solutions provider

* Indesso benefits from the global demand and growing consumer awareness for natural ingredients, and contributes to the development of a sustainable value chain in the flavors & fragrances and wider consumer goods industries * EQT Private Equity will support Indesso's ambition for continued r...

2021-05-11 18:42 1874

Harbour BioMed Announces Dosing of First Patient in Australia for Phase Ib/IIa Clinical Study of its Next-Generation Anti-CTLA-4 Antibody

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and ROTTERDAM, Netherlands and SUZHOU, China, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Harbour BioMed ("HBM", HKEX: 02142) today announced the dosing of the first patient in its part 2 of phase I (phase Ib/IIa) clinical study of its next-generation anti-CTLA-4 antibody, where Australian pati...

2021-05-11 18:10 6292

LoginID Launches FIDO-certified WordPress Plugin for Passwordless Authentication

SAN MATEO, Calif., May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- LoginID Inc., creators of the FIDO-powered passwordless authentication solution LoginID, announced today the launch of itsWordPress plugin. The plugin is free to install, and enables websites powered by WordPress to install strong passwordless authe...

2021-05-11 18:08 2039

Partners Capital Announces Expansion of Office of the CIO with Two Internal Appointments

Suzanne Streeter and Alex Band to succeed Colin Pan as First Co-Chief Investment Officers for Global OCIO Firm LONDON and BOSTON, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Partners Capital, a leading global Outsourced Investment Office, announced thatSuzanne Streeter and Alex Band will be succeeding Colin Pa...

2021-05-11 18:00 3182

Kakao Entertainment Acquires Tapas and Radish Media, Two Leading U.S.-based storytelling platforms

SEOUL, South Korea, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Kakao Entertainment signed definitive agreements onMay 7 to acquire two storytelling platforms based in the U.S., Tapas Media, Inc. (hereafter Tapas) and Radish Media, Inc. (hereafter Radish). The acquisitions pave the way for Kakao Entertainment t...

2021-05-11 18:00 4523

MINISO Will Report March Quarter 2021 Financial Results on May 19, 2021

GUANGZHOU, China, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- MINISO Group Holding Limited (NYSE: MNSO) ("MINISO" or the "Company"), a fast-growing global value retailer offering a variety of design-led lifestyle products, today announced that it plans to release its March quarter 2021 financial results before ...

2021-05-11 18:00 2930

Vipshop to Announce First Quarter 2021 Financial Results

GUANGZHOU, China, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Vipshop Holdings Limited (NYSE: VIPS), a leading online discount retailer for brands inChina ("Vipshop" or the "Company"), today announced that it plans to release its first quarter 2021 financial results onWednesday, May 19, 2021 before market open....

2021-05-11 18:00 3325

China Online Education Group Announces Change to Board Composition

BEIJING, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- China Online Education Group ("51Talk," or the "Company") (NYSE: COE), a leading online education platform inChina with core expertise in English education, announced today that its board of directors (the "Board") has appointed Mr. Shengwen (Roy) Rong as an ...

2021-05-11 18:00 3330

Bangladesh and China keep cooperating on marine spatial planning during COVID-19 pandemic

DHAKA, Bangladesh and BEIJING, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- A commentary article fromTeng Xin, Head of the Secretariat of the Marine Spatial Planning Academy supported by China Oceanic Development Foundation: Bangladesh and China keep cooperating o...

2021-05-11 17:30 2451

Zhang Yuzhuo, Chairman of Sinopec: Accelerating the World-class Brand Build up to Better Lead the High-quality Development of Enterprise

BEIJING, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The "2021 China Brand Value Evaluation Information" released onMay 9 amid the Fifth China Brand Day celebration, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (HKG: 0386, "Sinopec") ranks No.1 across the energy and chemical industry inChina with a brand value of 308...

2021-05-11 17:25 6352

Mouser Electronics Adds Record 31 New Manufacturers in First Quarter 2021

SHANGHAI, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Mouser Electronics , Inc., the industry's leading New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor with the widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components, further bolstered its industry-leading line card by adding 31 ne...

2021-05-11 17:16 2730

Magnum Opus Acquisition Limited Announces the Separate Trading of its Class A Ordinary Shares and Warrants Commencing May 14, 2021

HONG KONG, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Magnum Opus Acquisition Limited (the "Company") announced today that, commencingMay 14, 2021, holders of the units sold in the Company's initial public offering of 20,000,000 units, completed on March 25, 2021, may elect to separately trade the shares of Cla...

2021-05-11 17:12 4833

Kuaishou Technology to Report First Quarter 2021 Results on May 24, 2021

HONG KONG, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Kuaishou Technology ("Kuaishou or the "Company"; 1024.HK), a leading content community and social platform, today announced that it will report its unaudited consolidated results for the first quarter endedMarch 31, 2021, after the close of Hong Kong market...

2021-05-11 17:07 3247

Zymo Research Releases Open-Source Bioinformatics Pipeline for SARS-CoV-2 Variant Detection in Wastewater

IRVINE, Calif., May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Zymo Research has released the VirSieve™ Bioinformatics Pipeline source code to the environmental microbiology community to promote global collaboration and support for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants in wastewater. VirSieve™ is an automated compu...

2021-05-11 17:05 3202

CooTek Further Expands Its Pan-entertainment Content Ecology Through Strategic Investment in Gaming Industry

SHANGHAI, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- CooTek (Cayman) Inc. (NYSE: CTK) ("CooTek" or the "Company"), a fast-growing global mobile internet company, announced its recent investment in Shanghai Lejiu Network Technology Co., Ltd. ("Lejiu"), a mobile game studio that produces creative boutique mobile...

2021-05-11 17:00 4414

Digital Edge Doubles Down in North Asia with the Addition of Two Data Centers in Japan

HONG KONG, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Edge (Singapore) Holdings Pte. Ltd.  ("Digital Edge" or the "Company"), which aims to transformAsia's digital infrastructure by building and operating state-of-the-art, energy-efficient, connectivity-rich data centers...

2021-05-11 16:56 2842

Global Esports Games Headed to Singapore, Istanbul, and Riyadh

SINGAPORE, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Launching a runway into worldwide expansion, theGlobal Esports Federation Board today unveils the first three host cities for its premier flagship event:Singapore 2021, Istanbul 2022 and Riyadh 2023.   The Global Esports Games, held each year in December,...

2021-05-11 16:45 2294