Belkin announces a collaboration with famous Singer-songwriter, Victor Wong (Pin Guan), a 25 years veteran in the music industry

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HONG KONG / SINGAPORE / KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach – 27 October 2021 – Belkin, a global consumer electronics leader, today announces a collaboration with a famous Singer-songwriter, Victor Wong「Pin Guan」. With his classically trained background in music and more than 25 years of being in the music and acting industry, Victor Wong「Pin Guan」 is meticulous and highly discerning about sound quality and having sound true to life.  This made Victor Wong「Pin Guan」 the natural selection for Belkin to work with him on our range of high-quality sound products from our SoundForm™ Elite speaker tie up with Devialet to the range of True Wireless earbuds that we have launched.



This SOUNDFORM™ ELITE speaker is a high-performing smart speaker that combines the extraordinary acoustic architecture of sound pioneer Devialet with fast wireless charging and Google Assistant.

 

With the technology of Devialet, you are able to feel the full resonant bass with crystal-clear detail at any volume. Devialet’s patented Speaker Active Matching (SAM®) technology makes high fidelity sound reproduction possible in this tiny sized speaker.  Devialet’s signature “Push-Push” dual woofer configuration also cancels vibrations creating an impactful sound experience with truly powerful bass.

 

Use Google Assistant to play music, find answers online, manage everyday tasks, and easily control smart devices around your home – just by using your voice.

With the capability of streaming music to more than one speaker simultaneously, one can enjoy adding multiple Belkin SOUNDFORM™ Elite speakers to experience an even more immersive listening experience in your home.

 

“The depth and clarity of the sound from Belkin’s SOUNDFORM™ ELITE with the power and accuracy of Devialet’s Push-Push and SAM technology brings the music to life” –Victor Wong 「Pin Guan」

 

Price：HKD 2,698

Price：SGD 499

SOUNDFORM™ Freedom True Wireless Earbuds

Get rich, radiant sound with exceptional battery life in the SOUNDFORM™ Freedom

True Wireless Earbuds. Custom drivers activate superbly deep bass while maintaining clear mids and highs. The advanced clear-call technology and dual microphones provide amazing call quality. There’s up to 8 hours of non-stop playtime, plus another 28 in the charging case. As one of the first third-party accessories to work with the Apple Find My network you can track and locate the charging case using the Apple Find My app.*

 

“The “Find My” feature in Belkin’s SOUNDFORM™ Freedom has been a lifesaver!  I keep leaving it all over my home!”- Victor Wong 「Pin Guan」

 

Additional Features

  • Latest Bluetooth 5.2  chipset for even more stable and reliable true wireless connection
  • Low latency for even better movie and gaming experiences
  • Use a Qi-certified wireless charging pad, or a USB-C cable, to charge the case; 15 mins of charge equals to 2 hours of music play time
  • Custom-design ear tips in 3 sizes ensuring the best fit, comfort and sealing.
  • IPX5 sweat and splash proof


Price：HKD 799

Price：SGD 149

SOUNDFORM™ Rise True Wireless Earbuds

Belkin’s SOUNDFORM™ Rise True Wireless Earbuds are designed to get you through even the longest days with an impressive 7 hours of charge in each earbud and another 24 hours in the wireless charging case. With a streamlined design to fit into the ear comfortably, this enables one to enjoy the pure studio sound the True Wireless Earbuds offer. Created with two microphones in each earbud means you’ll always be heard on calls. The IPX5 water resistance rating protects them rain or shine while easy-to-use controls offer the power to change volume, skip tracks, and take calls, all at your fingertips.

 

“The sound quality of the Belkin SOUNDFORM™ Rise has such a high fidelity that it reproduces music to the original recording and it fits perfectly in my ear – I don’t worry about it dropping off even during my workouts!”– Victor Wong 「Pin Guan」

 

Additional Features

  • Latest Bluetooth 5.2 chipset for even more stable and reliable true wireless connection
  • Low latency for even better movie and gaming experiences
  • Use a Qi-certified wireless charging pad, or a USB-C cable, to charge the case; 10 mins of charge equals to 1 hours of music play time
  • Custom-design ear tips in 3 sizes ensuring the best fit, comfort and sealing.
  • IPX5 sweat and splash proof

Price：HKD 599

Price：SGD 99

Price：MYR 329

 

About Belkin

Belkin is an accessories market leader delivering power, protection, productivity, connectivity, audio and smart home solutions for a broad range of consumer electronics and enterprise environments. Designed in Southern California and sold in more than 50 countries around the world, Belkin creates products that empower people through technology whether at home, at work or on a new adventure. In 2018, Belkin International merged with Foxconn Interconnect Technology to bolster its global influence and remains forever inspired by people and the planet we live on.

© 2021 Belkin International, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

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Nigerian Bourse Closes Flat, NGX ASI Remains Constant

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Nigerian Bourse Closes Flat, NGX ASI Remains Constant

The Nigerian equities market closed flat at the end of today’s session as the benchmark index remained relatively constant to close at 41,814.94 points. Consequently, the YTD return closed flat at 3.83% as market capitalisation remained constant at ₦21.82 trillion.

The sectoral performance significantly strengthened as four of the five indices under coverage improved while the Oil & Gas index declined by 0.38% on OANDO (-1.98%). The Insurance index, the biggest gainer, increased by 0.51% on UNIVINSURE (+10.00%). The Banking, Industrial and Consumer Goods indices followed suit, rising by 0.21%, 0.06% and 0.04% on UBA (+1.20%), WAPCO (+1.21%) and INTBREW (+9.28%) respectively.

Investor sentiment weakened in today’s trading session, as market breadth decreased to 0.95x from 1.40x. This was illustrated by the advance of 21 stocks, led by UNIVINSURE (+10.00%) and UPL (+10.00%) and the decline of 22 stocks, led by ABCTRANS (-8.82%) and FTNCOCOA (-6.25%). Activity level weakened as total volume and value decreased by 47.63% and 26.63% as investors exchanged about 353.23 million units of shares worth over N5.57 billion.

Nigerian Bourse Closes Flat, NGX ASI Remains Constant
Nigerian Bourse Closes Flat, NGX ASI Remains Constant

We expect bullish momentum to return in the next trading session as the equities market still presents decent opportunities for investors chasing positive real return on investments.

 Fixed Income

There was relatively bullish sentiment across the bond yield curve as 3 of the 4 bond yields under coverage closed lower while the yield on the FGN-JAN-2026 bond paper closed flat. The yields on the FGN-APR-2023, FGN-APR-2024 and FGN-JUL-2030 bond papers compressed by 2bps, 1bp  and 3bps respectively.

Treasury bill yields for the 91 and 182-day papers closed flat at 3.76% and 4.59% respectively while the 364-day paper yield increased by 29bps to close at 7.16%.

We expect a further decline in yields in the next trading session on the back of huge demand from investors and the deliberate efforts of the  DMO to reduce borrowing costs.

MARKET SNAPSHOT

  • Local Bourse Closes Flat, NGX ASI Remains Constant
  • Bullish Sentiment across the Bond Yield Curve
  • Bullish Sentiment in Global Stocks
  • Positive Performance in the Commodities Market
  • Positive Performance in African Stocks

Needed—A Global Approach to Data in the Digital Age

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Needed—A Global Approach to Data in the Digital Age

Companies around the world are engaged in a digital data gold rush, panning the digital economy for our personal data, sifting flecks of it in online pools and streams of our preferences, choices, and locations.

Data is the ultimate portable good, but moving it across borders requires countries to have coherent policies that build trust. Without global principles for managing data, we could face deepening digital fault lines between nations, as massive data pools become increasingly isolated. This would be especially costly for smaller and lower-income countries.

Our data power artificial intelligence (AI) that can make societies more productive, driving growth, employment, and finance. Think of more efficient supply chains, vaccine breakthroughs, and lending to previously unbanked small businesses around the world. But there are also dark sides. More and more data can be captured without our effective consent by large platforms, such as Alibaba, Facebook, Google and MercadoLibre, whose valuations have grown exponentially in recent years.

Cross-cutting issues

A new IMF staff paper discusses these challenges for growth, stability, and the international system, which are at the core of the IMFs mandate and makes the case for global cooperation to address them. Policymakers will need to start by recognizing they face several key challenges spanning financial stability and inclusion, competition, and privacy.

Fostering competition and stability in the digital economy: The concentration of data in large platforms reduces competition and increases the risks of hacking and single points of failure in modern economic and financial networks (seen in recent widespread service disruptions). Indeed, cyberattacks have been a key challenge in the data economy.

Needed—A Global Approach to Data in the Digital Age
Needed—A Global Approach to Data in the Digital Age

Promoting inclusive digitalization: Data can support greater efficiency and inclusion, including in the provision of financial services, as we have seen with the boom in fintech credit in many emerging and developing countries. But it can also be used by monopolists for price discrimination, raising profits at the expense of customers. Data-driven analytics could also be used to exclude some people from economic and financial services based on socioeconomic or other personal characteristics (what is known as “algorithmic bias”). This can disadvantage or exclude some individuals from important services that society views as essential, such as AI-driven credit scoring that worsens racial bias in mortgage lending, or facial recognition technology that fails to recognize darker skin tones.

Balancing privacy trade-offs: Policies to protect privacy—an important objective in most countries—can help lessen the unauthorized use of personal data. Privacy of financial and medical data, for example, is a key underpinning of trust in these systems. However, solely focusing on protecting privacy may prevent other uses of data that generate economic and social value—for example from sharing anonymized data on vaccine trials across borders—and may make it hard for start-ups to obtain the data they need to compete against data-rich incumbents. Clear rules are needed to tackle these trade-offs, including giving people effective control over their data while balancing public policy needs for certain types of data disclosure.

Moving toward global principles

Addressing these challenges should start at home. A number of new policy tools and approaches are being considered to provide solutions to these challenges at a domestic level. Policymakers will need to continue their focus on developing the updated laws, systems, and procedures for regulating data collection and use. At the same time, they will also need to consider mandates for making networks compatible with each other and allowing users to move and store their data on different networks.

Furthermore, policymakers could consider whether and how agencies could be created to manage consent and protect privacy, as well as provide data as a public good. Setting up “data fiduciaries”—where third-party companies collect and share data on behalf of individuals (as being explored in India)—or the data equivalent of credit bureaus (for broader classes of data beyond finance) are ideas to think about here. Balancing all the trade-offs will require unprecedented cooperation among regulators and government agencies responsible for competition, financial stability, integrity, consumer protection, and privacy.

But these issues are global. The mobility of data across borders is the basis for a rapidly growing portion of international trade in services, whose value reached about 6 trillion dollars in 2018. So, given the risk of further policy divergencies, cooperation among countries will be critical to help prevent fragmentation from taking hold in the global digital economy.

Needed—A Global Approach to Data in the Digital Age
Needed—A Global Approach to Data in the Digital Age

Promoting inclusive digitalization: Data can support greater efficiency and inclusion, including in the provision of financial services, as we have seen with the boom in fintech credit in many emerging and developing countries. But it can also be used by monopolists for price discrimination, raising profits at the expense of customers. Data-driven analytics could also be used to exclude some people from economic and financial services based on socioeconomic or other personal characteristics (what is known as “algorithmic bias”). This can disadvantage or exclude some individuals from important services that society views as essential, such as AI-driven credit scoring that worsens racial bias in mortgage lending, or facial recognition technology that fails to recognize darker skin tones.

Balancing privacy trade-offs: Policies to protect privacy—an important objective in most countries—can help lessen the unauthorized use of personal data. Privacy of financial and medical data, for example, is a key underpinning of trust in these systems. However, solely focusing on protecting privacy may prevent other uses of data that generate economic and social value—for example from sharing anonymized data on vaccine trials across borders—and may make it hard for start-ups to obtain the data they need to compete against data-rich incumbents. Clear rules are needed to tackle these trade-offs, including giving people effective control over their data while balancing public policy needs for certain types of data disclosure.

Moving toward global principles

Addressing these challenges should start at home. A number of new policy tools and approaches are being considered to provide solutions to these challenges at a domestic level. Policymakers will need to continue their focus on developing the updated laws, systems, and procedures for regulating data collection and use. At the same time, they will also need to consider mandates for making networks compatible with each other and allowing users to move and store their data on different networks.

Furthermore, policymakers could consider whether and how agencies could be created to manage consent and protect privacy, as well as provide data as a public good. Setting up “data fiduciaries”—where third-party companies collect and share data on behalf of individuals (as being explored in India)—or the data equivalent of credit bureaus (for broader classes of data beyond finance) are ideas to think about here. Balancing all the trade-offs will require unprecedented cooperation among regulators and government agencies responsible for competition, financial stability, integrity, consumer protection, and privacy.

But these issues are global. The mobility of data across borders is the basis for a rapidly growing portion of international trade in services, whose value reached about 6 trillion dollars in 2018. So, given the risk of further policy divergencies, cooperation among countries will be critical to help prevent fragmentation from taking hold in the global digital economy.

Needed—a common approach on data

Countries’ treatment of privacy, competition, and stability reflects their national priorities. And the resulting fragmentation could be damaging to smaller countries with smaller data pools and those more dependent on multinational digital firms. For example, strong privacy protections in some advanced countries may work as trade barriers for exporters of services from developing nations whose businesses have to incur exceptional costs to comply with protections.

Therefore, a strong case exists for common global principles for the data economy. For example, a common understanding of definitions in government rules to protect personal privacy, as well as to what kinds of firms and business activities they should apply, could help reduce some of the policy divergences among countries.

Many of the other domestic policy approaches being proposed for managing the data economy—for example, requirements that data be more easily shared across platforms to promote competition or on how to manage an individual’s consent—could also benefit from common principles on their international application. Provided privacy concerns can be adequately addressed, there is scope for international coordination on compilation and sharing of data sources from private digital companies for regulatory and public policy purposes.

As domestic and international efforts advance, the tensions between data privacy, security, competition, and stability will continue to play out in the global digital economy.

New IMF Country Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa’s Outlook

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New IMF Country Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa’s Outlook

After an unparalleled contraction in 2020, sub-Saharan Africa is set to grow by 3.7 percent in 2021 and 3.8 percent in 2022. The recovery is supported by rising commodity prices, improving global trade and financial conditions. But this welcomed rebound is relatively modest by global standards, leading to a widening income disparity with developed economies.

Seven charts taken from our latest Regional Economic Outlook tell the story of the forecast for sub-Saharan Africa:

1. The vaccine rollout in sub-Saharan Africa has been the slowest in the world, leaving the region vulnerable to repeated waves of COVID-19. The region has fully vaccinated only 3 percent of its population, well below the level needed to reach herd immunity. Although the world is set to produce around 12 billion doses in 2021, it will likely be more than a year before a meaningful number of people are vaccinated in sub-Saharan Africa.

New IMF Country Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa's Outlook
New IMF Country Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa’s Outlook

2. The expected recovery is slower than in other regions, leading to widening divergences. Differences in growth rates between regions are expected to continue over the medium term amid persistent global disparities in vaccine access and stark differences in the availability of policy support. Advanced economies are forecasted to return to their pre-crisis growth path by 2023. Sub-Saharan Africa, on the other hand, does not regain the lost ground any time soon. The region would have to grow twice as fast in the next three years to match the type of recovery seen in advanced economies.

New IMF Country Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa's Outlook
New IMF Country Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa’s Outlook

3. The pandemic has also worsened the pre-existing divergence across sub-Saharan African countries and within individual countries. Even before the pandemic, non-resource-intensive countries that have a diversified economic structure had been growing faster than resource-rich countries. But this gap has been exacerbated by the pandemic, which has highlighted key disparities in resilience.

New IMF Country Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa's Outlook
New IMF Country Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa’s Outlook

Similarly, the pandemic has elevated divergence within individual countries, along lines of employment, gender, geographic residence, socioeconomic status, and formal/informal workers. Rising food prices, combined with reduced incomes, also mean that households must reduce food consumption, threatening past gains in poverty reduction, nutrition, and food security.

4. Sub-Saharan African countries are facing a difficult fiscal policy trilemma—balancing tradeoffs between pressing development-spending needs, containing public debt, and mounting resistance to tax revenue mobilization. Meeting these goals has never been easy, but the pandemic has made it even more difficult. The spending needs of sub-Saharan Africa are growing and becoming pressing as the pandemic takes a toll on health, employment, education, infrastructure investment, and poverty reduction efforts. Climate change adds to the burden.

New IMF Country Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa's Outlook
New IMF Country Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa’s Outlook

5. Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s smallest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions—less than 5 percent of global emissions—but nonetheless the region is perhaps the most vulnerable to climate shocks. One-third of the world’s droughts already take place in sub-Saharan Africa, and its dependence on rain-fed agriculture makes it particularly vulnerable. Climate change can also act as a multiplier for conflict and fragility, worsening pre-existing tensions, weak governance, and other socio-economic concerns. Adapting to climate change, and assisting in worldwide mitigation efforts, will require new and robust climate-finance mechanisms.

New IMF Country Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa's Outlook
New IMF Country Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa’s Outlook

6. International cooperation remains vital. Without external financial and technical assistance, the divergent recovery paths of sub-Saharan Africa and the rest of the world may harden into permanent fault lines, jeopardizing decades of hard-won progress. So far, international organizations and donors have mobilized swiftly to support the region. Looking ahead, the voluntary channeling of Special Drawing Rights (SDR) from countries with strong external positions to those most in need can further magnify the impact of the new SDR allocation. Used wisely, these resources could shape the region’s post-pandemic recovery path.

New IMF Country Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa's Outlook
New IMF Country Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa’s Outlook

7. Despite the difficult years ahead, the region’s potential as a source of global demand remains undiminished. Over the next three decades, the global population is set to increase by about 2 billion. Half of that growth will take place in sub-Sahara Africa, as the region’s population is projected to double from about 1 billion to 2 billion. This makes the region potentially one of the world’s most dynamic economies, and one of its most important markets.

New IMF Country Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa's Outlook
New IMF Country Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa’s Outlook

Azbil Receives Frost & Sullivan 2021 Southeast Asia Building Automation Systems Customer Value Leadership Award for Second Consecutive Year

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TOKYO, JAPAN – Media OutReach – 27 October 2021 – Azbil Corporation (Tokyo Stock Exchange code 6845) announced that it has received the prestigious Southeast Asia Building Automation Systems Customer Value Leadership Award for the second consecutive year from research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan as part of their 2021 Asia-Pacific Best Practices Awards.


Azbil Corporation, formerly known as Yamatake Corporation, is a leading company in building and industrial automation, using its measurement and control technologies to provide customers with high value-added solutions to make their operations more efficient and sustainable. Founded in 1906, Azbil serves customers across the globe in a broad range of industries and aims to contribute to people’s safety, comfort and fulfilment, and global environmental preservation. At the end of March 2021, Azbil employed over 10,000 people worldwide and generated ¥246 billion in revenue.

For more information, please visit https://www.azbil.com/.

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Love, Bonito raises US$50MILLION in Series C funding to fuel category and international expansion

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  • Southeast Asia’s largest omnichannel womenswear brand has its eyes set on evolving into a purpose-driven female ecosystem that supports Asian women around the world at every life stage
  • Fundraising round led by Primavera Capital Group with participation from Adastria and Ondine Capital
  • The funds will be used to bolster efforts in existing omnichannel markets and accelerate high growth international markets including Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines and the United States (US)

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 27 October 2021 – Love, Bonito today announced the close of its Series C funding round, raising a total of US$50Million. The round was led by Primavera Capital Group, a global investment firm whose previous investments include Alibaba, ByteDance, Yum China and Mead Johnson China. Adastria and Ondine Capital participated in the round too. Love, Bonito’s current investors include Openspace Ventures and Kakaku.com.

Proceeds from the fundraising will enable the brand to bolster efforts in existing omnichannel markets and supercharge international expansion in markets that collectively are experiencing triple digits year-on-year (YoY) growth. These key markets include Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines and the US. Furthermore, the company is exploring categories outside of fashion as part of its plan to create a female ecosystem.

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Trade And Development Bank (TDB) And ICD Sign An Mou To Support Private Sector

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Trade And Development Bank (TDB) And ICD Sign An Mou To Support Private Sector

The Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) and the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD) ) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the purpose of advancing cooperation in the provision of finance and investment to private sector in their common Member States in Eastern and Southern Africa. 

The agreement establishes a framework for both institutions to collaborate with the aim of financing eligible transactions in targeted countries sponsored by the private sector or non-sovereign backed projects. Possible financing solutions to be considered include syndication and co-financing opportunities, risk sharing, bilateral financing and/or medium term liquidity lines of credit, corporate and project finance, and public-private partnerships.

Furthermore, the MoU provides for collaboration in developing capital markets through sukuk (trust certificates) structuring and advisory services, as well as for further exploration of possible equity investment opportunities in the capital stock of TDB.

TDB and ICD are fellow members of the International Development Finance Club (IDFC), and as such, are aligned in their commitment to provide innovative financial solutions to promote sustainable development investments in Africa – in accordance to the SDG Agenda and Paris Agreement.

Admassu Tadesse, TDB President Emeritus and Group MD said, “Private sector financing is crucial in the achievement of long-term development goals. The partnership with ICD has the potential to boost resilience and bring about triple bottom-line impacts, and comes at a critical time as Africa rebuilds its economies, which have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Mary Kamari, TDB Corporate Affairs and Investor Relations Executive added: “TDB forges partnerships with institutions which have the potential to help us advance sustainable development in our region, whether via debt or equity capital, or other solutions such as technical assistance. This MoU with ICD promises to drive change in the region we serve, in this case, particularly with the use of Islamic finance products.”

Ayman Sejiny, the CEO of ICD, commented: “Signing this MoU with TDB is a confirmation of ICD’s commitment to support the private sector development of its member countries across Eastern and Southern Africa by exploring co-financing opportunities, as well as collaborating to develop capital markets as a vital resource mobilization medium. We reaffirm our strong interest in developing a long-term relationship and widening our partnership to support the development of the private sector in our common members countries.”

Embark a new academic journey in The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 27 October 2021 – Only a forward-looking institute can help students’ research stand ahead in the industry in this ever-changing era. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a globally and regionally recognised research university ranked 39th in the World# and 7th in Asia*. As a pioneering institution, CUHK is the centre of excellence for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research with a global impact while making contributions to society by transposing research findings into practical utilisation.

Tremor International Signs Exclusive Global Partnership with VIDAA for ACR Data

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Smart operating system & content platform preinstalled on most Hisense TVs and integrated with premium global OEMs

 

Agreement makes Tremor International the only open end-to-end platform with direct access to global OEM ACR data for targeting

TOYKO, JAPAN – Media OutReach – 27 October 2021 – Tremor International Ltd. (AIM/NASDAQ: TRMR) (“Tremor” or the “Company”), a global leader in video and Connected TV (“CTV”) advertising, offering an end-to-end technology platform that enables advertisers to reach relevant audiences and publishers to maximize yield on their digital advertising inventory, today announced a global and exclusive strategic partnership with VIDAA, a smart TV operating system and content platform preinstalled on most TVs manufactured by Hisense, considered one of the top TV manufacturers in the world, and also integrated into a number of premium original equipment manufacturers (OEM) including Toshiba. The agreement sees Tremor International’s technology platform gain exclusive access to VIDAA’s automatic content recognition (ACR) data, both in the US and internationally.  

The agreement provides access to VIDAA’s distribution, reaching approximately 20 million smart TVs worldwide and expected to grow to more than 40 million in coming years. Tremor International will bring VIDAA’s ACR data into its TV Intelligence solution starting May 1, 2022, which will make Tremor International the only end-to-end technology platform with direct access to OEM ACR data for targeting purposes, outside the walled gardens. Following the integration into its TV Intelligence solution, Tremor International will have exclusive rights to the VIDAA ACR data in all global markets, and Tremor will activate in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Australia and Japan.

The data will be available for activation by both advertiser and publisher clients, through the two pillars of Tremor International’s end-to-end platform: Tremor Video and Unruly.  In addition to targeting, Tremor Video and Unruly will offer proprietary measurement capabilities for TV Intelligence campaigns.

 

Ofer Druker, Chief Executive Officer at Tremor International, commented: “This is an important milestone in Tremor International’s trajectory as a leader in CTV and video, and underscores an important pillar in our strategy. The partnership with VIDAA bolsters the availability of highly desirable data sets that will live exclusively within the Tremor International end-to-end platform, opening new advertising horizons for customers across the globe and accelerating Tremor’s growth around CTV.”

 

In 2020, VIDAA introduced a completely new and revamped user interface named U4, which puts users and their way of consuming content at the core of the design. As of May 2021, the most advanced version on the market is VIDAA U5. VIDAA’s aggregated platform has already grown to encompass a range of CTV services — including all the top content providers.

Guy Edri, EVP at VIDAA, said: “The idea behind VIDAA was to put the customer at the center of the CTV experience. Our mission is to bring the finest content, both global and local, to our customers, who are today overwhelmed by an endless array of options and choices in viewing services. Creating one easy place for user management ensures they have a direct way to view the content they enjoy, and aligning ads with their needs and preferences is an important part of that. Teaming up with Tremor International, with impressive capabilities on both the commercial and CTV technology sides of its business, will enable an even better experience for our customers, as we are committed to bringing best-in-class content to consumers all over the globe.”

About Tremor International

Tremor is a global company offering an end-to-end technology advertising platform, operating across three core capabilities – Video, Data and CTV. Tremor International’s unique approach is centered on offering a full stack of end-to-end solutions which provides it with a major competitive advantage within the video advertising ecosystem.

Tremor Video helps advertisers deliver impactful brand stories across all screens through the power of innovative video technology combined with advanced audience data and captivating creative content. Tremor Video’s innovative video advertising technology has offerings in CTV, in-stream, out-stream and in-app.

The media side of Tremor International, Unruly, drives real business outcomes in multiscreen advertising. Its programmatic platform efficiently and effectively delivers performance, quality, and actionable data to demand and supply-focused clients and partners. Tremor International has a meaningful number of direct integrations with publishers, unique demand relationships with a variety of advertisers and privileged access to News Corp inventory. Unruly connects to the world’s largest DSPs and is compatible with most Ad Age top 100 brands.

Tremor International is headquartered in Israel and maintains offices throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Australia and is traded on the London Stock Exchange (AIM: TRMR) and NASDAQ (TRMR).

For more information visit: https://www.tremorinternational.com/

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About VIDAA

VIDAA Smart OS is a Linux-based open smart TV operating system. The independent company VIDAA USA was established in 2019, and it has – in just two years – become a strong global contender in the smart TV platform space. In 2020, VIDAA introduced a completely new and revamped user interface named U4, which puts users and their way of consuming content at the core of the design. As of May 2021, the most advanced version on the market is VIDAA U5, which saw further improvements in user experience by implementing Google Assistant capabilities, its voice service, the new VIDAA remote control smartphone application, as well as advertising and billing services in select markets.  

For more information, visit www.vidaa.com and follow VIDAA on Facebook.com/vidaatv, Twitter, and Instagram at @vidaatv.

Sentient.io Secures Real Tech Fund as Lead Investor in its Series B1 Round

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SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 27 October 2021 – Singapore-based AI startup, Sentient.io, announced today that Real Tech Fund has invested in its Series B1 funding round. Real Tech Fund is managed by Real Tech Holdings Co., Ltd out of Japan.  Its investment in Sentient.io is the Fund’s third invested company. Sentient.io is also backed by A*ccelerate Technologies, the commercialising and venture arm of Singapore’s leading Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), global technology venture capital team from BEENEXT and several Japanese companies such as, Digital Garage Group together with ABC Dream Ventures which is a corporate venture capital firm of Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdings Corporation. To date, the Company has raised more than USD$6 million in investment since its inception in May 2017.

 

Sentient.io has built a unique AI and Data platform of over 60 AI functions that software developers can “assemble like Lego blocks”.   This will empower software developers to pick from its pre-trained AI microservices that can help them to create smart applications that are powered by AI and for big data owners like government and multinational companies to generate new values from their data assets. 

 

The new fundraising is used for scaling the platform and business into Asia-Pacific markets, especially to fulfil the surging demand for Digital Transformation from Japanese corporations.

 

Mr Christopher Yeo, Founder and CEO of Sentient.io, said: “We are pleased to welcome Real Tech Fund in our Series B1 funding round.  Real Tech Holdings understands that building AI applications require a high level of expertise and a long period to master the technology.  We believe that our collaboration with them will accelerate innovative solutions and bring these to the market at a quicker pace. This will also help to fulfil our vision of benefiting humanity with augmented intelligence.”

 

The size of the AI market for voice and image recognition is expected to reach US$98.8 billion by 2025.  Despite this expected growth in AI demand, the challenges for companies to adopt AI include the lack of AI knowledge and building capabilities, the lack of algorithms that can be applied to the user’s industry domain, or the high cost of implementing AI solutions.

 

Daiki Kumamoto, Global Fund Leader and Growth Manager of Real Tech Holdings Co., Ltd. said: “Sentient.io has developed an easy to use platform and UI/UX that allows pre-trained microservices to be integrated into business applications via Application Programming Interface (API), and is particularly popular in Southeast Asia. One particular popular technology has algorithms that can process and hone in on voice activities from training data in order to recognise the unique English “accent” of Southeast Asia countries such as ‘Singlish” in Singapore.  As a strategic partner and investor, we will support Sentient i.o’s entry into the Japanese market and will continue to accelerate collaboration with Japanese companies”.

About Sentient.io

Sentient.io is a Singapore artificial intelligence (AI) company founded in 2017 by Mr. Christopher Yeo who has a strong Computer Science and Mathematics background and is also an experienced technology entrepreneur. Its aim is to enable software developers to build AI and Data-driven solutions quickly and easily by offering domain-targeted AI and Data as API services.

Sentient.io’s value proposition to enterprises is to speed up business innovation, reduce IT complexity as well as protect existing AI investments. It also enhances existing applications and is highly scalable. The early backers of the team are A*ccelerate, the commercialising arm of A*STAR, Origgin and BEENEXT. For more information, please click: https://sentient.io/en/

About Real Tech Fund

Real Tech Fund is a venture capital fund managed by Real Tech Holdings and its subsidiary Real Tech Japan. It solely invests in deep-tech start-ups solving societal and environmental issues. For more information, please click: https://www.realtech.fund

About Real Tech Holdings Co., Ltd.

Real Tech Holdings support change-makers who give their heart and soul to solve societal and environmental challenges. Real Tech Holdings is a joint venture between euglena Co., Ltd (https://www.euglena.jp/) and Leave a Nest Co., Ltd. (https://lne.st/). For more information, please click: https://www.realtech.holdings

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