PETALING JAYA, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach – 30 May 2022 – Envictus International Holdings Limited, an established Food & Beverage group, effective 20 May 2022, has renewed its International Multiple Unit Franchise Agreement with US-based Cajun Global LLC, to continue to develop and operate Texas Chicken restaurants in Malaysia and Brunei.
Asia-Pacific’s largest business platform for female founders is excited to invite women-led businesses, particularly those in the ESG space or seeking access to a female client demographic, with an exclusive VC network, media coverage, mentorship, marketing and more.
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 30 May 2022 – Established in 2015, Female Entrepreneurs Worldwide (FEW) is Asia-Pacific’s largest membership platform, gathering female founders,executives and investors to support women to reach their business goals.Throughout its impactful seven-year history, FEW has established a full scale of capabilities for entrepreneurs, from understanding business models and helping startups to scale up to successful fundraising. Our latest initiative is the three-month FEW Accelerator, offering mature startups a range of services from cash investments, mentorship, media coverage and valuable access to FEW’s exclusive investor network, while charting a clear pathway for expansion.
FEW is committed to continuing to build a valuable database of impact investors, who share the platform’s mission to support female founders and welcome opportunities to invest in companies with excellent growth potential. Each of the hand-picked three companies selected to participate in the FEW Accelerator program will receive a US$10,000-US$100,000 cash investment, mentorship and marketing services for a 5-10% equity share.
Benefits from the 3-month FEW Accelerator Program include:
Investor networks: Privileged access to FEW’s community of impact investors, including one-on-one investor meetings; Demo Day pitches and access to private investor groups on Linkedin.
Mentorship: each startup receives a personalized match with 2 experienced mentors from FEW’s network.
Publicity: three media interviews to boost exposure of founders and company.
Investment: Each three-month program comes with US$10,000-US$100,000 cash investment plus marketing services for 5-10% equity.
To fuel growth and refine strategy, participants will benefit from mentorship with two experienced industry leaders with relevant experience, who can provide invaluable perspectives on business models, client acquisition, fundraising strategies, and more. They can also expect a minimum of three articles published by media partners, which will boost the company’s profile, enhance branding messages and attract new customers. Meanwhile, FEW’s team of professionals will also impart private equity, venture capital, legal, and marketing expertise to round out the program’s holistic approach.
FEW represents Asia-Pacific’s largest business platform for female founders, with more than 20,000 members, 1,800 investors and 100 corporate partners, including UBS, Credit Suisse, Silicon Valley Bank, KPMG, Forbes China and SCMP. As a regional leader, FEW believes in making space at the table for more female entrepreneurs, thereby promoting the economic participation of future generations of women.
The FEW Accelerator builds on the success of the FEW Incubator 2021 sponsored by Apollo Future Mobility Group, iptiQ by Swiss Re and InvestHK, which welcomed 13 women-led tech startups with cash grants totalling over HK$1 million. As a natural progression, the FEW Accelerator focuses on established businesses ripe for expansion.
“Being an entrepreneur can be lonely, especially as a woman. Having access to a community for support and inspiration is important for me,” says Peggy Cheung, a serial entrepreneur who participated in the FEW Incubator on behalf of Gump, a SaaS collaboration platform.
“I can’t recommend FEW enough if you’re a female founder looking to grow your business and join a fun community of like-minded #girlbosses. Plus, I’ve been able to expand my network and meet potential investors to explore fundraising opportunities – it’s been an invaluable experience for me personally.”
“Even when women have an amazing product and potential to grow, it can be challenging for them to make inroads, find the right investors and ultimately ask for financing. We strive to empower female founders by creating a network of investors and through the FEW Accelerator program,” says Ines Gafsi, Co-founder and COO of FEW. “The program may end after 12 weeks, but our support continues. Participants will also be embraced by the FEW community, where meaningful connections and business inspiration flourish on a daily basis.”
Applications are now open for the 2022 FEW Accelerator program. Here’s how to apply:
Application Instructions Applicants should sign up here before June 15th, 2022.
Selection Criteria: We’re looking for female entrepreneurs, particularly those in the ESG space or seeking access to a female client demographic, with a minimum of an 18-month track record and scalability potential, and a Go-To-Market strategy for APAC regions.
Application Schedule: Applications are open until June 15th, 2022. Applications are evaluated by an independent advisory team that includes venture capitalists, academics, and industry veterans.
Program Schedule: Program starts on July 1st until September 30th, 2022.
About Female Entrepreneurs Worldwide (FEW)
Female Entrepreneurs Worldwide (FEW) is the largest business platform for female founders and business executives in Asia. FEW’s mission is to empower women with essential skills, capital and networks to help their business growth and personal development.
Tech Platform | Members can sign up for business and lifestyle programs and experiences that help them grow personally and professionally.
FEW Accelerator | FEW Accelerator offers cash investment and marketing services to selected female founders of high-growth technology companies and helps them build a sustainable, scalable and profitable business.
Business Consulting | FEW also works closely with SMEs and multinational companies to build and operate a community or membership model, as well as market their initiatives to a female demographic.
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 30 May 2022 – SonicWall, a global leader delivering Boundless Cybersecurity, today announced that the company has been awarded several prestigious awards on top of its growing list of accolades. SonicWall’s consistent track record and recognition by cybersecurity industry experts over the last few years is a testament to the vision, commitment and innovative spirit of its employees, leaders and partners to continuously deliver value to customers by way of optimizing business efficiencies and enhancing security.
Commenting on the multiple award wins, Debasish Mukherjee, Vice President, Regional Sales-APAC at SonicWall said, “We are very honoured to be recognised with these industry-wide awards, and am especially proud of the team behind it for their innovation to create new experiences that are smart, simple, personalised and effective for our customers. With constant threats online and their ability to evolve, being instantaneous and flexible in solutions is essential to responding to such attacks and ensuring our environment remains secure. SonicWall enables our customers to feel fearless and boundless, and safeguarding their interests remains our No. 1 priority so that they can focus on other aspects of their business without restrictions or limitations of technology.”
SonicWall’s Excellence Recognized with Industry Accolades
Following the record-breaking 2022 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report, SonicWall received two Stevie® Awards in the 2022 Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards in highly competitive nominations including a GOLD STEVIE®Award for SonicWall’s Real-Time Deep Memory Inspection (RTDMI) in the category of Innovation in Technology Development (Computer Industries); and a SILVER STEVIE® Award for SonicWall’s Secure Mobile Access (SMA) in the category of Excellence in Innovation in Business Product & Service Industries. This year’s Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards attracted more than 900 nominations from over 29 nations across the Asia-Pacific region, recognizing the outstanding performance and continued innovation of companies to succeed despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
Playing a crucial role to ensure business continuity, sustainability and welfare of its employees, SonicWall was also named as one of the “Top 10 Best Companies to Work for 2022″ in the coveted CEO Insights Magazine. The CEO Insights recognizes groundbreaking companies, leaders and products that demonstrate innovation and leadership across the globe.
Going above and beyond their partner programmes and networks across the 215 countries and territories, SonicWall also earned its fifth consecutive perfect score in independent ICSA Labs Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) certification testing across the last five quarters. No other vendor currently participating has ever achieved two consecutive perfect scores, with only the perfect rating given to an elite set of vendors that deliver the ‘best of the best’ to solution providers.
Setting the Benchmark Across the Globe
SonicWall’s recognition within the cybersecurity space comes at a time of booming growth for the industry, with the company posting strong financial results despite the difficult economic climate in the past two years. This includes a 33% increase in new customer growth and generating a 45% increase in new customer sales globally. Additionally, SonicWall has seen incredible growth in cloud-delivered products and services, which are up 36% year-over-year across the respective markets.
As one of the key regions driving revenue growth in the global cybersecurity market, ASEAN will continue to be a catalyst for global trends and development. Small- and medium-sized enterprises saw a 13% quarter-on-quarter growth in the first quarter of SonicWall’s fiscal year[1] 2023, while projects and large enterprise businesses saw a 14% quarter-on-quarter growth in the same period. As of the end of SonicWall’s fiscal year 2022, the company recorded an accelerated 10% increase in top-tier partners in ASEAN, further amplifying the company’s position as one of the unquestioned leaders in the cybersecurity space.
With the post-Covid market opening up, SonicWall in India has also started to observe a significant jump of 60% year-on-year growth across projects and large enterprise businesses in the first quarter of SonicWall’s fiscal year 2023. SonicWall in India recorded a steady momentum of 27% quarter-on-quarter overall growth in the first quarter of fiscal year 2023, while growth in large enterprise businesses grew by 47% in the same period.
Laying the foundation to realise the organisation’s long-term vision, SonicWall will also be expanding and deepening their partner networks by onboarding region-wide partner distributors and expanding their partner management recourses. Most recently, the company onboarded Pacific Tech as the region-wide distributor for ASEAN to manage partner development and further invest in internal resources such as marketing, sales development and sales engineering.
Commenting on the long-term development in the region, SooHan Bai, sales director of ASEAN, SonicWall said, “SonicWall’s outstanding business performance and consistent track record demonstrates our unwavering commitment to provide the most comprehensive coverage in the cybersecurity space. We see immense growth potential in the region and having Pacific Tech onboard as our region-wide distributor for ASEAN further strengthens our commitment to developing and delivering solutions to our network of partners and customers. It is an exciting milestone for us as we can not only fully support the fast-growing market in ASEAN, but also offer support across all time zones by working closely in partnership with specialist distributors and resellers.”
While SME and mid-markets remain their core focus, SonicWall has also committed to doubling down investment opportunities in enterprise businesses. This approach will be segmented into four key pillars – Customer Connect, working closely with key customers to strengthen the digital ecosystem in the face of cyber-attacks; developing partners who are equipped with the capabilities to drive customer connect and the fulfilment of customer needs; brand awareness and lastly developing integrated teams to remain vigilant in finding solutions and measures to further protect its partners’ greatest assets.
___________________________________________ [1] SonicWall’s fiscal year starts February 1 and runs through to January 31 of the following year.
About SonicWall
SonicWall delivers Boundless Cybersecurity for the hyper-distributed era in a work reality where everyone is remote, mobile and unsecure. SonicWall safeguards organizations mobilizing for their new business normal with seamless protection that stops the most evasive cyberattacks across boundless exposure points and increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled workforces. By knowing the unknown, providing real-time visibility and enabling breakthrough economics, SonicWall closes the cybersecurity business gap for enterprises, governments and SMBs worldwide. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
Parents who find traditional childcare options in Singapore too limiting or costly can now engage trained professionals for at-home childcare and babysitting services on a regular or ad-hoc basis as needed.
Rooma is a subsidiary of Nimbus committed to bringing the professionalism, quality, and standardisation of commercial cleaning to consumer-based housekeeping for households in Singapore. Find out more about what we do at Rooma, and get in touch with us today for babysitting services and more.
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 30 May 2022– Affinity Pain Clinic is pleased to announce that they have been nominated as the “Most Promising Pain Centre Of The Year” in the Global Health Awards 2022. The award ceremony is scheduled to be held in August this year.
The Global Health Asia-Pacific Specialist Clinic and Medical Centre Awards was first launched in 2020 and aims to honour the best healthcare providers in the region for their significant contributions to the industry. The esteemed judging panel comprises capable leaders of well-respected healthcare organisations, including Board Director of Farrer Park Hospital and Head Healthcare Pavilion Capital Dr. Timothy Low, and Chief Executive Officer of the Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council Mr. Mohd Daud Mohd Arif. Recipients of this honourable award are individuals, clinics, and medical centres that have demonstrated medical excellence and innovative and advanced techniques to improve patient outcomes.
Affinity Pain Clinic is a reputable and reliable back pain clinic in Singapore specialising in pain management. Led by certified anaesthesiologist and pain management physician Dr. Daniel Phang, the clinic adopts evidence-based intervention and treatment for various conditions – including muscle tear treatment, musculoskeletal pain, sport injury treatment, and more. Dr. Daniel Phang holds experience from a year-long fellowship at renowned Toronto Western Hospital and has attained a Certification in Pain Sonology (CIPS) with the World Institute of Pain in 2017.
Founded in 2018, Affinity Pain Clinic seeks to provide a range of tailored consultations and minimally-invasive pain treatments for their patients’ acute and chronic pain issues. Having been nominated as the “Most Promising Pain Centre Of The Year”, the team continually strives to improve their patients’ quality of life with a range of pain management services for an expeditious and pleasant recovery.
DDoS Maximum Attack Size Nearly Tripled in 2021 over 2020
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 30 May 2022– The total number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks fell 13% in 2021 over 2020, but were still well above pre-pandemic levels, according to Nexusguard researchers in the recently released DDoS Statistical Report for 2021. Additionally, while the average attack size fell by 50% over 2021, the maximum attack size nearly tripled, growing 297% over the same period.
The top three DDoS attack vectors in 2021 were UDP (user datagram protocol) attacks, DNS (domain name system) amplification attacks, and TCP (transmission control protocol) acknowledgment attacks.
UDP attacks were still the most common form of DDoS attack, even though they accounted for a smaller percentage of attacks this year, falling from 59.9% in 2020 to 39.1% in 2021. UDP attacks can quickly overwhelm the defenses of unsuspecting targets, and they frequently serve as a smokescreen to mask other malicious activities such as efforts to compromise personal identifiable information (PII) or the execution of malware or remote codes.
DNS amplification attacks were the second most common, even though they, too, account for a smaller percentage of total attacks than they did 12 months ago, declining from 14.2% in 2020 to 10.4% in 2021. A DNS amplification attack occurs when UDP packets with spoofed target IP addresses are sent to a publicly accessible DNS server. Each UDP packet makes a request to a DNS resolver, often sending an “ANY” request in order to receive a large number of responses. Attempting to respond, DNS resolvers send a large response to the target’s spoofed IP address. The target thus receives an enormous amount of responses from the surrounding network infrastructure, resulting in a DDoS attack.
TCP acknowledgment (ACK) attacks, on the other hand, accounted for a larger share of total attacks, rising to become the third most common form in 2022. In 2021, TCP ACK attacks accounted for 3.7%, which rose to 9.7%. In these kinds of attacks, a large quantity of ACK packets with spoofed IP addresses are sent to the victim server, forcing it to process each ACK packet it receives, rendering the server unreachable by legitimate requests.
“While the number and average size of DDoS attacks fell in 2021 over 2020, the threat level is still very high when compared to pre-pandemic levels,” said Juniman Kasman, chief technology officer of Nexusguard. “Attack vectors are also in flux, because while UDP attacks are still the most common, TCP ACK, which can exponentially amplify the effect of a DDoS event with a small amount of traffic, rose significantly. Organizations need to be prepared to deal with a wide array of vectors — DDoS remains a persistent, elevated threat.”
Read Nexusguard’s DDoS Statistical Report for 2021 for more information on attack vectors, stats and trends based on data gathered from CSPs, honeypots, botnet scanning and research on traffic moving between attackers and their targets.
About Nexusguard
Founded in 2008, Nexusguard is a leading cloud-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) security solution provider fighting malicious internet attacks. Nexusguard ensures uninterrupted internet service, visibility, optimization and performance. Nexusguard is focused on developing and providing the best cybersecurity solution for every client across a range of industries with specific business and technical requirements. Nexusguard also enables communications service providers to deliver DDoS protection solution as a service. Nexusguard delivers on its promise to provide you with peace of mind by countering threats and ensuring maximum uptime. Visit www.nexusguard.com for more information.
Brilliant Mini LED display, 4-sided Ambilight, and total UHD quality
PETALING JAYA, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach – 30 May 2022 – Mini LED Technology brings amazing deep blacks and vibrant colours to the big, new 65″ Philips’ 4K UHD Android TV, and it’s now available in Malaysia.
Features the largest international cold chain facility in Brisbane to meet the rising demand for perishables
The facility will also support the growth of general cargo in Queensland
New site planned for completion in early 2023
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA – Media OutReach – 30 May 2022– DHL Global Forwarding, the freight specialist arm of Deutsche Post DHL Group, held a groundbreaking ceremony today for its new 4,880 square meter facility in Brisbane Airport. DHL Global Forwarding is investing 17 million AUD (11 million EUR) over ten years for the new facility, and it houses the largest international cold chain services in Brisbane, to meet the fast-growing demand for perishables. The new facility will also support the growth of general cargo in Queensland, Australia and is set to be ready by early 2023.
Last week, Infinix launched the Note 12 series in India consisting of the vanilla Note 12 and the Note 12 Turbo.
The Turbo variant went on its first sale yesterday, and now, the vanilla variant is also available for purchase. So let’s take a look at its pricing, offers, and specs.
Infinix Note 12 price & offers
The Note 12 comes in two configurations – 4GB + 64GB priced at Rs.11,999 and 6GB + 128GB priced at Rs 12,999. It is available to purchase exclusively on Flipkart.
As a launch offer, Infinix is offering a discount of Rs.1,000 when purchasing the device using an Axis bank card. Other than that, Flipkart is also bundling a Back Cover + Screen Guard for just Rs.1.
Infinix Note 12 Specifications
The Note 12 has a 6.7-inch Full HD+ 60Hz AMOLED panel offering a 1080 x 2400 resolution. It has 1000 nits peak brightness, 180Hz touch sampling rate, and covers 100% DCI-PC color gamut.
For optics, the device comes with a 50-megapixel primary sensor, a 2MP depth sensor, and an AI lens. There is a 16MP selfie snapper on the front.
Under the hood, the smartphone houses a Mediatek Helio G88 processor with two fast ARM Cortex-A75 cores with up to 2 GHz and six efficient ARM Cortex-A55 with up to 1.8 GHz. The smartphone comes with up to 6GB RAM and 128GB storage. It has a 5,000mAh battery with support for 33W fast charging and operates on Android 11.
Other features include a MicroSD card slot, a fingerprint scanner, dual speakers with DTS, a 6-layer graphene cooling system, and a 3.5mm audio jack. The phone is 7.90mm thick and weighs 184.5g.
According to a new report from a reputable South Korean news publication, Samsung will produce 30 million fewer smartphones in 2022.
The three main factors for the production decline are rising inflation and subsequent consumer spending, the ongoing component shortage and the war in Ukraine.
Samsung is expected to adjust production for all price brackets of devices from entry-level to flagships.
Samsung initially planned to manufacture 310 million smartphones for 2022 but the latest developments have forced the Korean tech conglomerate to dial back its goal to 280 million units.
Despite record-breaking Q1 revenues and an estimated 73.7 million smartphone shipments globally, Samsung will have to adjust its goals.
Other big players like Apple are also reportedly cutting down production with Cupertino looking to make 20% fewer iPhone SE units.
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