KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 26 (Bernama) -- Sangfor Technologies via Sangfor NGAF was recently granted AAA rating in CyberRatings.org’s 2021 Enterprise Firewall + SSL/TLS Product Ratings.
Sangfor NGAF is the world's first AI-enabled and fully integrated NGFW (Next Generation Firewall) + WAF (Web Application Firewall) with all-around protection.
It is an end-to-end comprehensive Enterprise Firewall Protection solution, designed to protect users from internal, external and future threats updated regularly to keep the network safe.
According to a statement, Sangfor NGAF provides the best of breed protection and efficiency, achieving the highest security effectiveness score at 99.7 per cent.
“Sangfor’s security effectiveness was outstanding, with 264 out of 264 evasions and 2,325 out of 2,331 exploits blocked,” said chief executive officer CyberRatings.org, Vikram Phatak.
Phatak added high customer satisfaction made Sangfor products a serious alternative to more established vendors.
CyberRatings.org provides unbiased ratings, technical reports and industry analysis for a multitude of cybersecurity technologies.
-- BERNAMA
Friday, February 26, 2021
KIOXIA LATEST NVME™ SSDS NOW AVAILABLE ON SUPERMICRO PCIE® 4.0 SERVER, STORAGE PLATFORMS
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| KIOXIA CM6, CD6 Series PCIe® 4.0 NVMe™ SSDs (Photo: Business Wire) |
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 25 (Bernama) -- Kioxia Corporation’s lineup of KIOXIA CM6 and CD6 Series PCIe® 4.0 NVM Express™ (NVMe™) enterprise and data center solid state drives (SSDs) have gained compatibility approval with Super Micro Computer Inc (Supermicro)’s PCIe® 4.0-based platforms.
This includes a wide range of enterprise-ready rackmount systems encompassing Ultra, WIO, BigTwin, FatTwin, SuperBlade, 1U/2U NVMe™ all flash arrays, GPU accelerated systems and SuperWorkstations.
According to a statement, users are moving to NVMe™ SSDs to address the demands of enterprise performance requirements, cloud-based data center architectures, and performance-centric and latency-sensitive applications.
At the center of this movement is heightened demand for NVMe™-based storage where PCIe® 4.0 is the latest performance upgrade, and Kioxia’s CM6 and CD6 Series SSDs are delivering these enhanced capabilities.
While NVMe™ SSDs are penetrating server platforms at an increased pace, interoperability between the two cannot be taken for granted.
Kioxia’s commitment to bringing innovations to customers includes ensuring that the customers’ data storage will work as expected, and Kioxia collaborates with suppliers like Supermicro to ensure proper operation and full functionality.
-- BERNAMA
Thursday, February 25, 2021
RAJANT ENTERS STRATEGIC DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT WITH RUSSIA’S COMPTEK
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 25 (Bernama) -- Rajant Corporation, the provider of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, has entered into a strategic distribution agreement with Russia’s CompTek, the leading Russian reseller of network and telecommunication equipment.
According to a statement, this partnership represents Rajant’s further investment in Eastern Europe and CIS to increase support of machine-to-machine connectivity and mobility in markets like open-pit mining, underground mining, indoor warehousing, ports, and other industrial markets.
“Russia has a vast, high tech economy and CompTek is keenly focused on providing their channel partners with value-added solutions within their portfolio to support emerging IIoT networking demands,” said Rajant’s Sales Director Eastern Europe and CIS, Marcin Kusztal.
“With Rajant, CompTek has what their telecom operators, systems integrators, application developers, and resellers in more than 100 cities in Russia and the CIS have been looking for, creating favourable conditions for its partners’ business development.”
Meanwhile, CompTek’s head of sales Nikita Ivanov said: “As companies try to digitalise most processes to evolve their overall productivity, Rajant solutions are vital for them. We are happy to be partnered with Rajant.”
With Rajant, customers can rapidly deploy a highly adaptable and scalable network that leverages the power of real-time data to deliver on-demand, mission-critical business intelligence.
-- BERNAMA
According to a statement, this partnership represents Rajant’s further investment in Eastern Europe and CIS to increase support of machine-to-machine connectivity and mobility in markets like open-pit mining, underground mining, indoor warehousing, ports, and other industrial markets.
“Russia has a vast, high tech economy and CompTek is keenly focused on providing their channel partners with value-added solutions within their portfolio to support emerging IIoT networking demands,” said Rajant’s Sales Director Eastern Europe and CIS, Marcin Kusztal.
“With Rajant, CompTek has what their telecom operators, systems integrators, application developers, and resellers in more than 100 cities in Russia and the CIS have been looking for, creating favourable conditions for its partners’ business development.”
Meanwhile, CompTek’s head of sales Nikita Ivanov said: “As companies try to digitalise most processes to evolve their overall productivity, Rajant solutions are vital for them. We are happy to be partnered with Rajant.”
With Rajant, customers can rapidly deploy a highly adaptable and scalable network that leverages the power of real-time data to deliver on-demand, mission-critical business intelligence.
-- BERNAMA
LEDDARTECH LAUNCHES PIXSET, THE INDUSTRY'S FIRST FULL-WAVEFORM FLASH LIDAR DATASET
The Leddar PixSet is the industry’s first publicly available dataset for ADAS and AD research and development that contains data from a full sensor suite (cameras, LiDARs, radar, IMU), including full-waveform data from a 3D solid-state flash LiDAR sensor
QUEBEC CITY, Feb 24 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LeddarTech®, a global leader in Level 1-5 ADAS and AD sensing technology, announces its first publicly available sensor dataset for advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving research and development called the Leddar™ PixSet. This dataset is the first of its kind in the industry to include full-waveform data from LeddarTech’s Leddar™ Pixell, a 3D solid-state flash LiDAR sensor. LeddarTech will offer these datasets free of charge for academic and research purposes.
Sensor fusion techniques are widely used to improve the performance and robustness of computer vision algorithms. Datasets such as the Leddar PixSet allow academic and engineering research teams specializing in ADAS and AD technology to use existing sets of sensor data to test and develop advanced software and to run simulations without having to assemble new sensor suites and collect their own dataset.
An instrumented vehicle was utilized in the development of the dataset. The various scenes were recorded in high-density urban and suburban environments as well as on the highway. The data was further augmented through exposure to various weather, lighting (e.g., sunny, cloudy, rainy), and illumination (e.g., day, night, twilight) conditions. The Leddar PixSet provides information from a wide variety of situations, creating real-world data for advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving.
Dataset key features:
QUEBEC CITY, Feb 24 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LeddarTech®, a global leader in Level 1-5 ADAS and AD sensing technology, announces its first publicly available sensor dataset for advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving research and development called the Leddar™ PixSet. This dataset is the first of its kind in the industry to include full-waveform data from LeddarTech’s Leddar™ Pixell, a 3D solid-state flash LiDAR sensor. LeddarTech will offer these datasets free of charge for academic and research purposes.
Sensor fusion techniques are widely used to improve the performance and robustness of computer vision algorithms. Datasets such as the Leddar PixSet allow academic and engineering research teams specializing in ADAS and AD technology to use existing sets of sensor data to test and develop advanced software and to run simulations without having to assemble new sensor suites and collect their own dataset.
An instrumented vehicle was utilized in the development of the dataset. The various scenes were recorded in high-density urban and suburban environments as well as on the highway. The data was further augmented through exposure to various weather, lighting (e.g., sunny, cloudy, rainy), and illumination (e.g., day, night, twilight) conditions. The Leddar PixSet provides information from a wide variety of situations, creating real-world data for advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving.
Dataset key features:
- Data from an autonomous vehicle’s comprehensive sensor suite
- Includes full-waveform data from 3D solid-state flash LiDARs
- 29k frames in 97 sequences, with more than 1.3M 3D boxes annotated
- Various environments, weather conditions, and times of day
- Open-source API and dataset viewer
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Wednesday, February 24, 2021
HANESBRANDS IS ONE OF 2021 WORLD'S MOST ETHICAL COMPANIES
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24 (Bernama) -- HanesBrands, a socially responsible, leading global marketer of branded everyday basic apparel, has been recognised as one of the 2021 World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices.
HanesBrands is one of only two apparel manufacturers being recognised among 135 companies spanning 22 countries and representing 47 industries.
“We have a strong commitment to acting responsibly, and we’re very proud to be recognised by Ethisphere,” said Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Steve Bratspies in a statement.
“This honour is the result of 61,000 employees around the world committed to operating our business in the right way. Consumers can be proud that when they choose our apparel they are choosing a company deeply committed to sustainability.”
“The World’s Most Ethical Companies honorees continue to demonstrate an unwavering commitment to the highest values and positively impacting the communities they serve. Congratulations to everyone at HanesBrands for earning the World’s Most Ethical Companies designation,” said Ethisphere CEO, Timothy Erblich.
Ethisphere’s assessment process includes more than 200 questions on culture, environmental and social practices, ethics and compliance activities, governance, diversity and initiatives to support a strong value chain.
This year, Ethisphere also gauged how applicants adapted and responded to the global health pandemic, safety, equity and inclusion and social justice.
-- BERNAMA
JELLYFISH ACQUIRES 5 COMPANIES, FUELING GLOBAL EXPANSION WITH NEW DIGITAL CAPABILITIES
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Rob Pierre, Chief Executive Officer, Jellyfish (Photo: Business Wire) |
LONDON, Feb 24 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Jellyfish, the digital marketing partner to the world's leading brands (i.e., Samsung, Uber, Nestle, Deckers, Spotify, and eBay), announced today the acquisition of 5 companies—each a known leader in the digital space. Jellyfish’s rapid expansion comes against a backdrop of consolidation and challenges in the traditional agency sector as the company’s capabilities lie in helping brands during their digital transformation journey. Jellyfish’s expansion follows previous acquisitions with a significant investment from Fimalac Group in 2019. The company represents a new kind of digital business, where agency services are combined with consultancy, training, and cutting-edge technologies to deliver the best possible outcomes for clients. Launched in 2005, it has also become one of a select few globally managed Google Marketing Platform Partners, growing at an average of 45% per annum consistently over the last eight years.
VidMob Secures US$50 Million Series C To Speed Up Broad Adoption
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24 (Bernama) -- VidMob, the leading platform for Intelligent Creative, has closed its Series C financing, raising US$50 million in expansion capital from a group of funds, strategic investors, and influential companies in the creative technology space. (US$1 = RM4.039)
The new round will support VidMob’s global expansion, new e-commerce initiatives, ongoing investments into advanced technology, and data science to help marketers maximise the value of advertising creative.
The new round includes participation from Adobe, Shutterstock, Drive by DraftKings, the Spruce House Partnership, Prefix Capital, BuildGroup, Interlock Partners, Macanta, and key industry and tech leaders like Michael Kassan, Nick Brien, and Thomas Tull, among others.
César Melo, former president at Mondelez and PepsiCo, Chief Executive Officer at Foster Grant and VP at Colgate-Palmolive is also investing and joining the board as adviser.
According to a statement, when combined with previous rounds, the company has now raised nearly US$100 million to expand on its groundbreaking platform for Intelligent Creative.
VidMob has pioneered AI to measure creative performance so marketers can optimise ad design for more efficient and impactful campaigns.
VidMob’s Intelligent Creative platform unifies creative and data and connects brands to a global network of elite content creators trained on continuously updated best practices for every digital media channel and next-gen ad format.
Originally focused on partnerships with major social platforms, VidMob has expanded its distribution to include leaders in the programmatic web and CTV / OTT.
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The new round will support VidMob’s global expansion, new e-commerce initiatives, ongoing investments into advanced technology, and data science to help marketers maximise the value of advertising creative.
The new round includes participation from Adobe, Shutterstock, Drive by DraftKings, the Spruce House Partnership, Prefix Capital, BuildGroup, Interlock Partners, Macanta, and key industry and tech leaders like Michael Kassan, Nick Brien, and Thomas Tull, among others.
César Melo, former president at Mondelez and PepsiCo, Chief Executive Officer at Foster Grant and VP at Colgate-Palmolive is also investing and joining the board as adviser.
According to a statement, when combined with previous rounds, the company has now raised nearly US$100 million to expand on its groundbreaking platform for Intelligent Creative.
VidMob has pioneered AI to measure creative performance so marketers can optimise ad design for more efficient and impactful campaigns.
VidMob’s Intelligent Creative platform unifies creative and data and connects brands to a global network of elite content creators trained on continuously updated best practices for every digital media channel and next-gen ad format.
Originally focused on partnerships with major social platforms, VidMob has expanded its distribution to include leaders in the programmatic web and CTV / OTT.
-- BERNAMA
Thursday, February 18, 2021
TigerGraph secures US$105 million to boost cloud graph analytics
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 18 -- TigerGraph, a leading graph analytics platform provider, has raised US$105 million in Series C funding. (US$1 = RM4.0350)
To date, this is the largest funding round within the graph database and analytics market.
According to a statement, the round was led by Tiger Global and brings TigerGraph’s total funding raised to over US$170 million.
The investment reflects TigerGraph’s growth and massive potential as businesses continue to move to the cloud.
With its distributed native graph architecture, TigerGraph helps organisations scale fast and analyse many different aspects of data to be used with each other to form new models and generate new insights.
According to Gartner, by 2023, graph technologies will facilitate rapid contextualisation for decision making in 30 per cent of organisations worldwide.
“The human brain connects data to derive new insights and helps us decide what to do next,” said TigerGraph’s founder and chief executive officer, Dr Yu Xu.
“TigerGraph’s mission is to power an enterprise brain with graph and AI that discovers these new insights within the enterprise data stored in the cloud and on-prem.
“This funding will allow us to expand our offering and bring it to many more markets, enabling more customers to realise the benefits of graph analytics and AI.”
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To date, this is the largest funding round within the graph database and analytics market.
According to a statement, the round was led by Tiger Global and brings TigerGraph’s total funding raised to over US$170 million.
The investment reflects TigerGraph’s growth and massive potential as businesses continue to move to the cloud.
With its distributed native graph architecture, TigerGraph helps organisations scale fast and analyse many different aspects of data to be used with each other to form new models and generate new insights.
According to Gartner, by 2023, graph technologies will facilitate rapid contextualisation for decision making in 30 per cent of organisations worldwide.
“The human brain connects data to derive new insights and helps us decide what to do next,” said TigerGraph’s founder and chief executive officer, Dr Yu Xu.
“TigerGraph’s mission is to power an enterprise brain with graph and AI that discovers these new insights within the enterprise data stored in the cloud and on-prem.
“This funding will allow us to expand our offering and bring it to many more markets, enabling more customers to realise the benefits of graph analytics and AI.”
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021
LeddarTech Partners With Seoul Robotics to Deliver Robust Solid-State LiDAR-Based Perception Solutions
QUEBEC CITY and SEOUL, Korea, Feb 16 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LeddarTech®, an industry leader in environmental sensing solutions for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems from Level 1 to Level 5, is proud to announce that Seoul Robotics, the leading 3D computer vision company using AI and machine learning to power the future of mobility, has joined the Leddar™ Ecosystem. The Leddar Ecosystem comprises leading technology companies that have partnered with LeddarTech through the contribution of their expertise in various technologies that enhance ADAS and AD solutions.
Seoul Robotics, headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, has demonstrated expertise in LiDAR perception technology utilizing its proprietary SENSR 3D software. This platform analyzes and processes LiDAR data with high accuracy, enabling more industries, including retail, logistics, and smart cities, to apply 3D insights. Seoul Robotics has garnered much attention in recent years, with the company earning the “No. 1 Tech Startup” spot for South Korea by DB-Stars in 2019.
LeddarTech and Seoul Robotics are collaborating to develop real-time advanced perception solutions to complement LeddarTech’s Leddar™ Pixell, designed for shuttles, robotaxis, ADVs, buses, and heavy commercial vehicles. The Leddar Pixell, a 3D flash solid-state 180-degree sensor, is considered the most robust LiDAR available. The product recently received the Outstanding & Innovative Product Award by the Shenzhen Automotive Electronics Industry Association and Best of Innovation Award Honoree recognition at CES 2020. The partnership of LeddarTech and Seoul Robotics harnesses the technical expertise of both to provide customers with an enhanced LiDAR-based solution that will increase performance and robustness while shortening time-to-market and reducing costs.
“Robust LiDAR sensors like the Leddar Pixell require the most advanced 3D perception software to process and interpret data in real time,” shared Mr. HanBin Lee, co-founder and CEO of Seoul Robotics. “Our industry-leading perception platform, SENSR, enables stronger understanding and interpretation of 3D data, better serving the market with highly detailed, LiDAR-based perception. Through our collaboration in the Leddar Ecosystem, we will provide object detection and classification, as well as speed measurement, direction, and location information without a need for map data, all while reducing cost and increasing efficiency.”
“By partnering with Seoul Robotics, a respected leader in 3D perception software for LiDAR sensors, LeddarTech and our customers benefit from Seoul Robotics’ advanced and innovative LiDAR-based perception technology,” said Charles Boulanger, CEO of LeddarTech. “The collaboration yields a solution to greatly ease and accelerate the integration of the Leddar Pixell in a wide range of applications in mobility and industrial markets,” concluded Mr. Boulanger.
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MILREM ROBOTICS' TYPE-X ROBOTIC COMBAT VEHICLE TO BE EXHIBITED AT IDEX 2021
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Feb 17 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Milrem Robotics, the leading robotics and autonomous systems developer, will exhibit their Type-X Robotic Combat Vehicle for the first time at IDEX 2021.
This press release features multimedia. View the full release here:
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210216006280/en/
The Type-X RCV is designed to support mechanized units and will become an intelligent wingman to main battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles. It will be capable of taking on the most dangerous tasks and positions, resulting in lower lethality risk.
The robotic combat vehicle can be fitted with a cannon up to 50 mm hence it will provide equal or overmatching firepower and tactical usage to a unit equipped with Infantry Fighting vehicles.
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Friday, February 12, 2021
Teledyne Imaging introduces LACera advanced imaging technology
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 10 -- Teledyne Imaging, part of Teledyne Technologies has introduced LACera™, a significant step forward in CMOS capabilities for advanced imaging enabling the next generation of scientific discovery. According to a statement, exclusively developed by Teledyne Imaging, LACera advanced imaging technology draws on Teledyne’s decades of expertise in CMOS sensor and camera development. Scientific imaging, spanning x-ray to near infrared (NIR) regions, is critical to emerging applications in life and physical sciences. Applications as diverse as next generation genomics, astronomical photometry, ultra-high-resolution x-ray and electron imaging require CMOS sensors and cameras with low light sensitivity and speed. LACera CMOS technology delivers greater than 90 per cent quantum efficiency and proprietary low noise architecture with up to 18-bit readout – a combination of performance not previously available in wafer scale sensors. LACera technology will be exclusively featured in next generation CMOS cameras to be announced later this year and includes x-ray, EUV and VIS-NIR versions. More details at www.LargeAreaCMOS.com. -- BERNAMA
Thursday, February 11, 2021
SWIFT NAVIGATION RAISES $50 MILLION SERIES C ROUND TO ACCELERATE CONSUMER ADOPTION OF AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY AND PRECISE NAVIGATION APPLICATIONS ACROSS THE GLOBE
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 10 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Swift Navigation, a San Francisco-based tech firm redefining GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) and precise positioning technology for autonomous vehicles, automotive, mobile and mass-market applications, today announced that it has raised a $50 million Series C round of financing led by existing investors Forest Baskett and Greg Papadopoulos of New Enterprise Associates (NEA), existing investor Eclipse Ventures and new investors, including EPIQ Capital Group and KDDI Open Innovation Fund. To date, the company has raised a total of $97.6 million in funding.
Since its Series B round of financing, Swift has delivered a higher performance precise positioning service and expanded its global coverage to meet the needs of an on-demand economy and higher levels of autonomy. Swift’s customers across the globe include automotive OEMs, last-mile delivery providers, mobile providers and those building rail, industrial, micromobility and IoT platforms for mass-market applications. Swift plans to use its latest round of funding to scale customer deployments and continue its worldwide expansion.
Swift offers a comprehensive GNSS platform, consisting of the receiver-agnostic Starling® software positioning engine that easily integrates with the automotive sensor suite and pulls centimeter-accurate location corrections from Skylark™—Swift’s wide area, cloud-based GNSS precise positioning service that delivers real-time, secure and highly-available location data across the contiguous U.S., Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia and a growing number of countries worldwide—to deliver absolute positioning at the continental scale required by today’s safety-critical autonomous applications.
The benefits of Swift’s precise positioning solution for its varying customer applications abound. Swift’s platform enables automotive OEMs to easily integrate precise positioning and high-confidence location features into their latest vehicles. Swift’s precision GNSS solutions improve last-mile operations, allowing fleet managers to optimize delivery routes, minimize fuel and operational costs and crowd-source information to reduce delays. Swift’s highly accurate positioning technology is easily integrated into leading mobile devices and platforms, enhancing location-driven mobile applications. Swift Navigation’s cloud-based architecture allows mobile devices and vehicles to achieve lane-level location accuracy without geographic restrictions and with the utmost privacy and security.
“In the past few years, Swift Navigation has expanded across the globe, offering an ever-expanding service that is scalable to service millions of users,” said Greg Papadopoulos, PhD, Venture Partner at NEA. “NEA is delighted to lead this Series C round of financing, which will allow Swift to accelerate customer adoption in automotive safety and autonomy applications.”
“We are grateful to have an amazing investor base behind us who support our mission of enabling more efficiency and integrity in navigating the world. It is with their support that we were able to scale our customers' autonomous and navigation applications globally,” added Timothy Harris, Co-Founder and CEO of Swift Navigation. “Thank you to NEA, Eclipse, EPIQ and KDDI for sharing our vision of the importance of precision navigation in moving people, packages and vehicles more safely around the globe.”
To learn more about how to easily integrate Swift’s solutions into your application, visit swiftnav.com or contact sales@swiftnav.com.
ABOUT SWIFT NAVIGATION
Swift Navigation provides precise positioning solutions for automotive, autonomous vehicle, mobile and mass-market applications. What began as the GNSS industry’s first low-cost, high-accuracy, real-time kinematic (RTK) receiver has evolved into a Swift Navigation ecosystem of positioning solutions for autonomous applications. From the continental GNSS precise positioning service delivered from the cloud by Skylark™, the hardware-independent, integrated software solution that is the Starling® positioning engine, to the centimeter-level accurate Piksi® Multi and ruggedized Duro® and Duro Inertial RTK receivers, Swift Navigation is enabling a future of autonomous vehicles to navigate and understand the world. Learn more online at swiftnav.com, follow Swift on Twitter @Swiftnav
Press Contact:
Swift Navigation
Since its Series B round of financing, Swift has delivered a higher performance precise positioning service and expanded its global coverage to meet the needs of an on-demand economy and higher levels of autonomy. Swift’s customers across the globe include automotive OEMs, last-mile delivery providers, mobile providers and those building rail, industrial, micromobility and IoT platforms for mass-market applications. Swift plans to use its latest round of funding to scale customer deployments and continue its worldwide expansion.
Swift offers a comprehensive GNSS platform, consisting of the receiver-agnostic Starling® software positioning engine that easily integrates with the automotive sensor suite and pulls centimeter-accurate location corrections from Skylark™—Swift’s wide area, cloud-based GNSS precise positioning service that delivers real-time, secure and highly-available location data across the contiguous U.S., Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia and a growing number of countries worldwide—to deliver absolute positioning at the continental scale required by today’s safety-critical autonomous applications.
The benefits of Swift’s precise positioning solution for its varying customer applications abound. Swift’s platform enables automotive OEMs to easily integrate precise positioning and high-confidence location features into their latest vehicles. Swift’s precision GNSS solutions improve last-mile operations, allowing fleet managers to optimize delivery routes, minimize fuel and operational costs and crowd-source information to reduce delays. Swift’s highly accurate positioning technology is easily integrated into leading mobile devices and platforms, enhancing location-driven mobile applications. Swift Navigation’s cloud-based architecture allows mobile devices and vehicles to achieve lane-level location accuracy without geographic restrictions and with the utmost privacy and security.
“In the past few years, Swift Navigation has expanded across the globe, offering an ever-expanding service that is scalable to service millions of users,” said Greg Papadopoulos, PhD, Venture Partner at NEA. “NEA is delighted to lead this Series C round of financing, which will allow Swift to accelerate customer adoption in automotive safety and autonomy applications.”
“We are grateful to have an amazing investor base behind us who support our mission of enabling more efficiency and integrity in navigating the world. It is with their support that we were able to scale our customers' autonomous and navigation applications globally,” added Timothy Harris, Co-Founder and CEO of Swift Navigation. “Thank you to NEA, Eclipse, EPIQ and KDDI for sharing our vision of the importance of precision navigation in moving people, packages and vehicles more safely around the globe.”
To learn more about how to easily integrate Swift’s solutions into your application, visit swiftnav.com or contact sales@swiftnav.com.
ABOUT SWIFT NAVIGATION
Swift Navigation provides precise positioning solutions for automotive, autonomous vehicle, mobile and mass-market applications. What began as the GNSS industry’s first low-cost, high-accuracy, real-time kinematic (RTK) receiver has evolved into a Swift Navigation ecosystem of positioning solutions for autonomous applications. From the continental GNSS precise positioning service delivered from the cloud by Skylark™, the hardware-independent, integrated software solution that is the Starling® positioning engine, to the centimeter-level accurate Piksi® Multi and ruggedized Duro® and Duro Inertial RTK receivers, Swift Navigation is enabling a future of autonomous vehicles to navigate and understand the world. Learn more online at swiftnav.com, follow Swift on Twitter @Swiftnav
Press Contact:
Swift Navigation
press@swiftnav.com
Source: Swift Navigation
Source: Swift Navigation
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Wednesday, February 10, 2021
YAMAHA LAUNCHING DEMONSTRATION PROJECT FOR ONLINE TOURS OF SIGHTS IN JAPAN
HAMAMATSU, Japan, Feb. 10, 2021 /Kyodo JBN-AsiaNet/ --
| - Multi-language Audio Guide Application Also Tested for Viability by Future Travelers to Facilities in Japan - Yamaha Corporation has developed the online "Video Tour" and "Remote Tour" programs, both of which make it possible for people to enjoy seeing spots in Japan remotely and safely from their homes. The company is holding a demonstration project for the online tours in February. Furthermore, demonstrations of the new "Audio Guide/Explanatory Guide" application (*), which can be used safely to reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection in museum and elsewhere, will also be conducted in preparation for the resumption of inbound travel to Japan. The demonstration project is being carried out as part of the project to strengthen the profitability of arts and culture on consignment from the Cultural Affairs Agency, in connection with the agency's Strategic Project to Create Culture and the Arts for fiscal 2020. Details of the agency's project are available on its dedicated website: https://bunka-syueki.jp/ Note: (*) The demonstration of the "Audio Guide/Explanatory Guide" application is conducted with people residing in Japan. After the demonstration, Yamaha will consider making the application usable at other facilities including those outside Japan. Image1: https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/prwfile/release/M100577/202102090790/_prw_PI1fl_sc4Zm46k.png Overview 1. "Video Tour/Remote Tour" for anyone to enjoy from home Yamaha offers two types of tours one can take to enjoy sightseeing from home without going out. "Video Tour" makes it possible to enjoy visiting various locations on video with multi-language subtitles and several interactive functions. "Remote Tour" allows people to enjoy traveling in Japan through real-time video. Furthermore, participants can send applause and cheers to the venues visited and/or send tips to them just by tapping the buttons on their smartphones while enjoying the "Remote Tour." This function is powered by Yamaha's original technology "Remote Cheerer." One can take part in both types of tours through the "OMOTENASHI GUIDE" application. Example of "Video Tour" and "Remote Tour" (for illustration purposes only): https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/prwfile/release/M100577/202102090790/_prw_PI2fl_qxOaiAC2.png 2. Multi-language "Audio Guide/Explanatory Guide" for use at spots Yamaha will also conduct the demonstration (*) of its new "Audio Guide/Explanation Guide," which can be used safely to avoid the risk of COVID-19 infection in museums and elsewhere. Providing audio guidance via visitors' smartphones helps reduce physical contact, which could be caused by sharing dedicated rental devices, as well as close contact among visitors that could otherwise be made if the guide gives them vocal explanations nearby. This function can be used by launching the "OMOTENASHI GUIDE" application at each facility. (*) Please refer to the previous note. Image2: https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/prwfile/release/M100577/202102090790/_prw_PI3fl_gjG6SN48.png For more information, please visit the following websites: OMOTENASHI GUIDE powered by SoundUD: http://omotenashiguide.jp/en/ Remote Cheerer powered by SoundUD: https://soundud.org/en/serviceinfo/remote-cheering-system-remote-cheerer-powered-by-soundud-beta/ The demonstration project's dedicated website: https://bunka-syueki.jp/ Source: Yamaha Corporation http://mrem.bernama.com/viewsm.php?idm=39300 |
Parisian artist-jeweller first monograph launched
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 9 -- The first monograph dedicated to Parisian artist-jeweller, Frédéric Zaavy was launched last month.
The ‘Stardust: The Work and Life of Jeweler Extraordinaire Frédéric Zaavy’ book presents a portrait of an artist who strived to paint the beauty of the universe in precious stones.
Zaavy considered himself heir to the legacy of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, gems dealer to Louis XIV, and was chosen as the exclusive jeweller for the 21st century revival of Fabergé.
Inspired by nature, quantum physics, philosophy, art, music, and literature, his poetic sensibility saw him create daringly intricate pieces with hundreds or thousands of tiny gems that came together like pointillist objets d’art.
According to a statement, the 240-page book featured concept, photography and production by John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler (Kubaba Bespoke Books).
Taylor and Dubler have created photography for over 300 books, focusing on works of art, architecture, jewellery and antiquities.
Published by Officina Libraria, Milan and text by French philosophical writer, Gilles Hertzog, the book offers English and Simplified Chinese languages.
-- BERNAMA
Elon Musk funds US$100 million to fight climate change in XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 9 -- XPRIZE, the world’s leader in designing and launching incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand challenges, has announced the US$100 million XPRIZE Carbon Removal sponsored by Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation. (US$1 = RM4.057)
This four-year global competition invites worldwide innovators and teams to create and demonstrate a solution that can pull carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere or oceans and lock it away permanently in an environmentally benign way.
“We want to make a truly meaningful impact. Carbon negativity, not neutrality. The ultimate goal is scalable carbon extraction that is measured based on the ‘fully considered cost per ton’ which includes the environmental impact,” said Tesla and SpaceX founder and Chief Executive Officer, Elon Musk.
Meanwhile, XPRIZE Founder and Executive Chairman, Peter H. Diamandis said: “The goal of this competition is to inspire entrepreneurs and engineers to build the carbon dioxide removal solutions, many of which have only been discussed and debated. We want to see them built, tested, and validated.”
To win the competition, teams must demonstrate a rigorous, validated scale model of their solution at a level of carbon removal of one ton of CO2 per day, and further must demonstrate to a team of judges the ability of their solution to economically scale to gigaton levels.
The objective of this XPRIZE is to inspire and help scale efficient solutions to collectively achieve the 10 gigaton per year carbon removal target by 2050, to help fight climate change and restore the Earth’s carbon balance.
The full competition guidelines will be announced on April 22, which is also Earth Day. On that same day, team registration will begin. The competition will last for four years through Earth Day 2025.
More details at XPRIZE.org/prizes/elonmusk.
-- BERNAMA
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
World Class Global unveils highest pools at Melbourne super-skyscraper, Australia 108
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 8 -- Singaporean developer, World Class Global has unveiled the Southern Hemisphere’s highest swimming pools at its Australia 108 super-skyscraper in Melbourne, as it throws open the doors to its iconic golden ‘Starburst’.
The dual trapezoidal-shaped ‘twinfinity pools’ on level 70 of the 319-metre-high luxury tower perch 212 metres above ground and cantilever four metres over the streets below to offer a swim experience like no other.
According to a statement, they are the highest pools built in an apartment setting and the second highest in the world, trailing only the Ritz-Carlton's level 118 pool in Hong Kong at 484 metres high.
“We are incredibly excited to open our spectacular Star Club at Australia 108. It is a huge milestone for the project and stellar icon for Melbourne’s skyline, featuring two of the highest and most breathtaking swimming spots on the planet,” said World Class Global Chief Executive Officer, David Ng.
Stretching 18 metres long and 5.3 metres at its widest point, the north-facing pool offers unrivalled panoramic views of the Melbourne skyline, while its south-facing twin looks out across Port Phillip Bay, Albert Park Lake and the Dandenong Ranges.
Both pools have been unveiled for their first official laps as part of the launch of Australia 108’s Star Club, two levels of unparalleled resident experiences spanning 2,800 square metres within the building’s Starburst.
Other amenities include resident lounges, meeting spaces, dining rooms, a theatre, two expansive gyms, as well as a vertical sky-garden – envisaged to become a sky-high community hub and remote working option.
All residents at Australia 108 can access all level 70 Star Club amenity, while purchasers in the tower’s premium collection of Cloud Residences above the Starburst have their own exclusive level of amenity.
-- BERNAMA
Saturday, February 6, 2021
Toshiba 100V high-current photorelay for industrial equipment launched
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 5 -- Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (Toshiba) has launched ‘TLP241B’, a high-current photorelay in a DIP4 package for industrial equipment such as programmable logic controllers and I/O interfaces.
According to a statement, samples and production quantities are available now.
TLP241B has integrated MOSFET based on Toshiba’s latest generation of U-MOS process. With TLP241B, the OFF-state output terminal voltage is extended to 100V, a 150 per cent improvement from the 40V of the current TLP241A.
It is housed in a versatile DIP4 package, and is the industry’s first DIP4 packaged product to deliver 100V OFF-state output terminal voltage, 2A ON-state current and 5kV isolation voltage.
TLP241B can replace a 1-Form-A contact mechanical relay. Unlike mechanical relays, TLP241B has no moving contacts to degrade.
Its low current drive feature also improves product life. Other benefits are fast response time and PCB space saving due to smaller package size.
More details at https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en/top.html.
-- BERNAMA
Cisco AppDynamics delivers solution strengthening security posture against threats
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 5 -- AppDynamics, a part of Cisco has announced Cisco Secure Application, the industry’s first solution to drastically simplify vulnerability management, defend against attacks and protect applications - from the inside-out.
Co-innovated with the Cisco Security business, the world’s largest enterprise security company, this new solution correlates security and application insights through a single solution, according to a statement.
Built natively into the AppDynamics platform, users benefit from reduced alert fatigue, real time threat detection, and automatic breach prevention, resulting in businesses’ confidence in application performance without the fear of significant damage to brand reputation and customer trust.
“A slow or underperforming application can significantly impact the user experience, but when an application’s security is breached and exploited, it can be life altering for the end user. Companies simply cannot afford to ignore the risk,” said Cisco senior vice-president and general manager, security and applications, Jeetu Patel.
“Secure Application is the first of its kind to deliver this level of security insight that empowers both Application and Security teams to safeguard customer and organisation assets while delivering a best-in-class digital experience.”
With Secure Application, IT teams will no longer sacrifice security for velocity. It is the only solution that uniquely brings together business performance and security insights with zero friction to protect brands against slowdowns and exploits.
Enterprise IT teams will also have access to automatic runtime protection, simplified vulnerability management, security insights informed by business impact and collaboration between Application and Security teams.
-- BERNAMA
Friday, February 5, 2021
Ivanti Leader in the 2020-2021 IDC MarketScape for worldwide UEM software
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 4 -- Ivanti, the automation platform that helps make every IT connection smarter and more secure, has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Unified Endpoint Management Software 2020-2021 Vendor Assessment.
According to a statement, this comes on the heels of Ivanti acquiring MobileIron, a provider of mobile-centric UEM solutions.
“We believe this is validation that Ivanti/MobileIron provides one of the most robust overall UEM solutions for mobile and PC devices,” said Ivanti senior director of product management, Alan Braithwaite.
The IDC MarketScape report states: “Ivanti/MobileIron has strong support for both Windows and macOS endpoints, at a very detailed level, including OS and third-party patching, hardware/software inventory, remote control, application delivery and provisioning and support for legacy management functions and features.
“This includes device imaging both Windows and Mac), GPO management support (Windows), printer management and setup (Windows/macOS) and modern and legacy app distribution (Windows macOS) (DMG file distribution and managed Mac App Store support).”
Today, Ivanti’s UEM solution increases user and IT productivity by helping IT administrators gather detailed device data, automate software and OS deployments, personalise workspace environments, and fix user issues quickly.
It simplifies management processes by integrating actions with multiple IT solutions through a single Ivanti console and delivering automation across a broad range of systems, including Windows, Mac, ChromeOS, Linux, Unix, iOS, Android, and IoT devices.
More details at www.ivanti.com.
-- BERNAMA
Thursday, February 4, 2021
NTHU RESEARCHERS TAKE ROBOTICS TO THE NEXT LEVEL
An interdisciplinary research team led by Distinguished Professor James Chang of the Department of Power Mechanical Engineering has recently developed a humanoid robot that imitates the meticulous movements of a human hand. (Photo: National Tsing Hua University)
HSINCHU, Taiwan, Feb 5 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Although widely used in manufacturing, robots require much more agility for use in nursing and rehabilitation. With this in mind, an interdisciplinary research team led by Professor James Chang of the Department of Power Mechanical Engineering has recently applied the latest advances in AI, biomechanics, and human-factor engineering to develop a robot that can imitate the meticulous movements of a human hand. Endowed with sharp senses of vision and touch, the robot’s hands are nimble enough to catch a ball and pull out a tissue.
This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210204005049/en/
Completely designed and manufactured in Taiwan, this dexterous two-handed robot has been dubbed the “Tsing-Hua Gentleman” by NTHU President Hocheng Hong, who said that it’s destined to play a leading role in the field of medical care.
Advanced robotic agility
What makes this robot unique is that one hand provides strength, while the other is highly nimble. Chang said that a nimble hand is required in most work in medical applications, such as in covid-19 test where a hand should be nimble enough to gently operate a cotton swab in-and-out of a person's nostril or throat. Overcoming limitation of six-jointed robotic arms, Chang’s robotic arm has seven joints, enabling agile movements, even in ways that human arm can’t. The robot developed by Chang’s team closely imitates those of the human hand, with level of dexterity reached by digitizing a human hand’s motion, making the robotic hands nimble enough to hold a baby or turn over a bed-ridden patient.
Human-like perception
Chang explained that this nimble hand imitates the design of human fingers, utilizing pneumatic transmission to control its movement with a US-patented precise pressure sensing device that responds to changes of magnetic force. Comparing to robots requiring a separate sensor for each direction, Chang’s robotic hand has only one sensor for multi-direction sensing, making it more like a human hand. With a 3D visual system to scan surrounding objects over a wide range, this robot possesses sense of space and ability to use AI to identify objects.
Inspiration
A Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Chang previously worked at IBM, specializing in mechatronics and robotics. After returning to Taiwan, he met and collaborated with his primary schoolmate Yu-Cheng Pei, a rehabilitation physician at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, under support from Ministry of Science and Technology to develop assistive devices for use by patients with impaired hand function.
Chang’s initial impetus for developing this robot came from his wife seeing a robot on TV that could cook food. “I told her it was just an animation, but her request was so earnest that I promised to invent a real robot that really could cook for us,” Chang said with a smile.
Taiwan will become a super-aged society by 2025. Thus, Chang is aiming to develop a robot capable of performing a wide range of services required by the elderly, and, of course, cooking and washing the dishes.
View source version on businesswire.com:
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210204005049/en/
Contact
Holly Hsueh
National Tsing Hua University
(886)3-5162006
Email: hoyu@mx.nthu.edu.tw
Source : NTHU
Advanced robotic agility
What makes this robot unique is that one hand provides strength, while the other is highly nimble. Chang said that a nimble hand is required in most work in medical applications, such as in covid-19 test where a hand should be nimble enough to gently operate a cotton swab in-and-out of a person's nostril or throat. Overcoming limitation of six-jointed robotic arms, Chang’s robotic arm has seven joints, enabling agile movements, even in ways that human arm can’t. The robot developed by Chang’s team closely imitates those of the human hand, with level of dexterity reached by digitizing a human hand’s motion, making the robotic hands nimble enough to hold a baby or turn over a bed-ridden patient.
Human-like perception
Chang explained that this nimble hand imitates the design of human fingers, utilizing pneumatic transmission to control its movement with a US-patented precise pressure sensing device that responds to changes of magnetic force. Comparing to robots requiring a separate sensor for each direction, Chang’s robotic hand has only one sensor for multi-direction sensing, making it more like a human hand. With a 3D visual system to scan surrounding objects over a wide range, this robot possesses sense of space and ability to use AI to identify objects.
Inspiration
A Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Chang previously worked at IBM, specializing in mechatronics and robotics. After returning to Taiwan, he met and collaborated with his primary schoolmate Yu-Cheng Pei, a rehabilitation physician at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, under support from Ministry of Science and Technology to develop assistive devices for use by patients with impaired hand function.
Chang’s initial impetus for developing this robot came from his wife seeing a robot on TV that could cook food. “I told her it was just an animation, but her request was so earnest that I promised to invent a real robot that really could cook for us,” Chang said with a smile.
Taiwan will become a super-aged society by 2025. Thus, Chang is aiming to develop a robot capable of performing a wide range of services required by the elderly, and, of course, cooking and washing the dishes.
View source version on businesswire.com:
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210204005049/en/
Contact
Holly Hsueh
National Tsing Hua University
(886)3-5162006
Email: hoyu@mx.nthu.edu.tw
Source : NTHU
LeddarTech appoints Yann Delabrière to Board of Directors
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 3 -- LeddarTech®, a global leader in Level 1-5 ADAS and AD sensing technology, has announced the appointment of Yann Delabrière to its Board of Directors, which further enhances the Board’s diversity and industry expertise.
According to a statement, Delabrière possesses over 30 years of experience in senior executive positions in the aerospace, identity, security, and automotive industries.
Currently, he occupies the role of Non-Executive Director of ST Microelectronics and also holds the position of Chairman of the Board of IDEMIA, a global leader in augmented reality, where he previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
“Yann will be a tremendous asset to the board of LeddarTech; his background in artificial intelligence, foreign trade, automotive, and manufacturing will contribute greatly to the continued growth and success of LeddarTech,” said LeddarTech chairman of the Board, Michel Brûlé.
Meanwhile, LeddarTech CEO, Charles Boulanger said: “The extensive industry expertise that Yann brings to our Board of Directors further augments our growth strategy as a market leader in sensing solutions for ADAS and AD applications.”
Delabrière holds a PhD in Mathematics, having graduated from the École Normale Supérieure and the École Nationale d’Administration.
-- BERNAMA
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Toshiba Adds New eFuse IC, an Electronic Fuse for Repeated Use That Offers Adjustable Overvoltage Protection and FLAG Signal Output Function
TOKYO, Feb 2 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation ("Toshiba") has added a new eFuse IC, “TCKE712BNL,” to its line-up of eFuse ICs for repeated use that support functions to protect power line circuits. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here:
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210201005991/en/
Conventional physical fuses—glass tube fuses and chip fuses—protect power line circuits by physically shutting them down when they are in an over-current state, and once used and broken must be replaced. eFuse ICs are designed to replace such fuses in providing power line circuit protection and safety, and to deliver a range of built-in protection functions in addition to highly accurate overcurrent protection.
TCKE712BNL protects power lines with an overvoltage protection function that can be adjusted to user requirements with external resistors. It also has a built-in reverse blocking current function in the OFF state, allowing use in power multiplexer applications. In addition, its built-in protection functions cover overcurrent, short-circuit and overtemperature. It also has a FLAG function that transmits an external signal if an abnormality occurs in the circuit, making it easier to detect possible faults than with Toshiba’s current products.
Toshiba will continue to strengthen its line-up of eFuse ICs to protect power line circuits for multiple applications.
Applications
- Protection of power supply line circuits
(laptop PCs, game consoles, augmented reality and virtual reality equipment, smart speakers, robot cleaners, networking servers, etc.)
Features
- Reverse blocking current function in OFF state
- User-defined adjustable over current/over voltage protection function
- FLAG signal output function
- Thin and compact WSON10 package : 3.00×3.00mm (typ.), t=0.75mm (max)
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Spotify stamps mark in South Korea
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2 -- Spotify has launched its service in South Korea, giving Korean listeners access to over 60 million tracks and over four billion playlists from worldwide.
As the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service, Spotify offers an effortlessly simple interface, an innovative technology framework, everyday new music discovery and algorithmic recommendations personalised to each listener’s music taste.
According to a statement, this launch brings Spotify’s total number of markets to 93.
Since Spotify debuted its first K-Pop playlist in 2014, the share of K-Pop listening on the platform has increased by over 2,000 per cent. With this launch, Spotify plans to accelerate the growth of Korea’s entire music streaming ecosystem, benefitting creators, labels, distributors and fans.
As a part of the launch, Spotify is introducing a range of new playlists made exclusively for South Korea. These playlists offer curated and the latest music from its team of Korean music experts, across some of the most popular genres.
These new playlists will join Spotify’s K-Pop genre hub that encompasses a wide range of Korean music, including K-pop, Hip Hop, Indie, OST, R&B and more, as well as ‘RADAR Korea’, a playlist uncovering fresh K-music finds and a part of Spotify’s global emerging artiste programme.
In Korea, new listeners can try out Spotify Premium seven days-free on their mobile phone with no credit card information and a total of three months-free with credit card information, if subscribed before the end of June this year.
-- BERNAMA
All trading restrictions on options lifted - Interactive Brokers
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2 -- Interactive Brokers Group, a global brokerage firm has lifted all trading restrictions on options in AMC, BB, EXPR, GME, KOSS and other options that experienced recent market volatility.
The options, as well as underlying stocks, are currently subject to increased margin requirements, which are subject to change depending on market conditions.
According to a statement, the firm continues to monitor these volatile markets.
Interactive Brokers Group affiliates provide automated trade execution and custody of securities, commodities, foreign exchange and their derivative products round-the-clock on over 135 markets in numerous countries and currencies.
The firm strives to provide clients with advantageous execution prices and trading, risk and portfolio management tools, research facilities and investment products.
-- BERNAMA
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Tricor Group’s 2021 Asia Pacific Trade Report focuses RCEP impact on Malaysia, COVID-19 recovery
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2 -- Tricor Group (Tricor), the leading business expansion specialist in Asia has released the 2021 Asia Pacific Trade Report focusing on impact of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) on Malaysia and COVID-19 recovery.
When compared to other transnational free trade agreements, the RCEP, which was signed by Malaysia and 14 other countries last November is expected to be implemented sometime this year.
It is unrivalled in its complexity and remarkably lays the framework for a pan-Asian basic standard for trade that surpasses the terms provided by the World Trade Organization (WTO), according to Tricor Group’s 2021 Asia Pacific Trade Report.
The report, released recently to media outlets and prominent business leaders, applies industry data from a multitude of research and media sources to offer perspectives, insights, observations and projections.
It is compiled by senior Tricor executives on how global trade trends will impact APAC trade and investment activity in the year ahead, according to a statement.
In particular, the report focuses on how the landmark implementation of the RCEP in 2021 is likely to enhance market openness and create new opportunities for global enterprises in Malaysia and APAC against the challenging backdrop of COVID-19 pandemic recovery.
Within the report, Tricor details the provisions of the RCEP and offers a summary of steps companies can take to prepare themselves to capitalise on the agreement and the business growth potential it offers.
The report also contains a detailed guide to doing business in Malaysia as well as other key RCEP markets where Tricor maintains influential market presence, including Australia, mainland China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam.
The RCEP is particularly significant for the future of trade and investment in Malaysia, as the deal is projected to drive critical domestic regulatory reforms in key areas such as labour laws, investment liberalisation, cybersecurity, data security and protection of intellectual property.
-- BERNAMA
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