Day: October 25, 2021

Amit Jain, CTO, Virgin Pulse

Amit Jain joins Virgin Pulse as company’s first global CTO

New user-friendly portal enables developers and enterprises to deliver rich, personalized experiences, including critical communication alerts, reminders, and notifications at global scale – all via a single, secure, industry-compliant omnichannel platform

CHICAGO, Oct. 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NetSfere, a global provider of next-generation secure and compliant messaging and mobility solutions, today announced the launch of its new omnichannel portal created for developers to build and integrate multi-channel capabilities for their enterprise applications to orchestrate customer communication and engagement at global scale.

“With NetSfere messaging and mobility solutions enabling more than 500 million mobile subscribers and over a trillion of messages globally on an annual basis, NetSfere has helped enterprises around the world effectively and securely disseminate rich, personalized customer communications,” said Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence. “With the launch of the new omnichannel portal, developers now have access to rapidly integrate real-time communications into business applications and workflows to streamline customer and employee interactions.”

NetSfere Omnichannel platform allows developers to quickly build and integrate customer communication at scale, and deliver rich, personalized experiences, including delivery of important alerts, reminders, and notifications – all via a single, easy-to-implement Application Programming Interface (API) developer portal.

The new user-friendly platform provides secure environment with programmable APIs and reference documentation in several popular languages for quick integration, including sample codes for different use cases and workflows. Additionally, the portal offers an intuitive dashboard that provides full visibility into API usages and real-time performance metrics, analytics and insight into customer communications and trends. With the new self-service portal, developers and enterprises can sign up in seconds and instantaneously deploy customer communications globally.

“The digitalization of the customer and employee experiences has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, setting the stage for the next leg of CPaaS growth. According to 451 Research’s recently updated analysis, total market revenue is expected to increase at a CAGR of 28%, reaching $23bn by 2025,” said Raúl Castañón-Martinez, Senior Analyst for Workforce Collaboration at 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence division. “Developers use these services to enable real-time features – such as push notifications, voice and video click-to-call capabilities, and two-factor secure authentication – and redefine how organizations engage with their clients, partners and employees.”¹

NetSfere Omnichannel is a CPaaS platform built from the ground-up for enterprises, enabling digital customer engagement at a global scale from a single platform with multi-channels to orchestrate the customer communication journey, including 1-way and 2-way SMS, MMS and RCS messaging, push notifications, voice, email, and social media messaging. The platform provides key benefits like intelligent routing and cost optimization, content management, number validation for increased open rates, full enterprise admin controls, rich analytics, and data archiving. The platform protects enterprises and customers with the highest level of security and meets all regulatory compliance standards including HIPAA, GDPR and PCI DSS, required by industries such as healthcare, retail, financial services, logistics, travel and hospitality, governments and public sector, and service providers and MNOs.

To learn more about NetSfere Omnichannel platform and the new API developer portal, visit www.infinite-convergence.com/omni.

About NetSfere
NetSfere, from Infinite Convergence Solutions, Inc., provides next generation messaging and mobility solutions to carriers and enterprises globally including its enterprise-grade, secure mobile messaging platform NetSfere Enterprise and customer engagement platform, NetSfere Omnichannel. NetSfere is also offered globally in partnership with Deutsche Telekom GmbH, one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies, and with NTT Ltd., a global information communications & technology service provider, to jointly offer NetSfere to its worldwide customers. NetSfere is also compliant with global regulatory requirements, including GDPR, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, ISO 27001, and others. The company’s technology supports more than 500 million subscribers and over one trillion messages per year. NetSfere has offices in the United States, Germany, UK, Singapore, and India. For more information, visit: https://www.netsfere.com/

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¹ 451 Research, “The CPaaS story – explosive growth fueled by hefty investments” (October 2021)

The first NFT chain for Polkadot and Kusama offers greater flexibility for anyone who wants to build their own gallery or video game

LONDON, Oct. 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Unique Network, a next generation NFT chain for Polkadot and Kusama, announced today that it has raised $11.3 million in the second round of its pre-sale, bringing its total raised to $16M. The investment round was led by Web3 investment pioneers Outlier Ventures, who were joined by some of the most well-known NFT investors, including The LAO, Flamingo, Nalu Capital and over 200 other investors, including a number of follow-on investments from the previous round his funding round, especially with the quality and quantity of investors involved, has positioned Unique Network well for the upcoming launch of Quartz, its NFT chain for Kusama.

“Unique Network are trailblazing a new path for NFTs within Polkadot and Kusama’s ecosystem and we are incredibly excited to back them in their pursuit to increase the design space of NFTs.” – Chris Cable, FlamingoDAO

“Despite all the current buzz around NFTs, there is still a massive barrier to entry,” said Unique Network co-founder and CEO Alexander Mitrovich. “Gas fees, the need to purchase cryptocurrencies, storage, and even the fact that NFTs have limited features for artists to express their vision, all hold the industry back. Unique Network and our Kusama chain, Quartz, are built to solve the economic and storage problems with Ethereum-based NFTs and create new levels of interaction and malleability that will take NFTs to the next level.”

Unique Network will participate in the upcoming parachain auctions for Kusama, during which they aim to secure a parachain slot for Quartz, their new canary network for Kusama. Beginning on Wednesday October 27th, interested parties can participate in the crowdloan to help Quartz win the auction.

Quartz will be the first NFT infrastructure on Kusama, and is designed to enable the most powerful and advanced NFT functionality on the Kusama network. Quartz parachain on Kusama will allow anyone to build NFT marketplaces and experiences with interoperability between different blockchains, like Ethereum and EVM Based Chains and other notable NFT blockchains.

In the five months since its first investment round, Unique Network has announced various partnerships including with the UN-led DigitalArt4Climate Campaign with GloCha, RMRK, Art Curators Grid, Forever Has Fallen, and more. With the impending launch of Quartz, Unique Network will be able to help even more projects and artists develop their NFT marketplaces and experiences.

For more information, please visit Unique Network, and join us on Twitter and Telegram.

About Unique Network

Unique Network is a framework for the next generation of NFTs. The first NFT chain for Kusama and Polkadot, it offers developers independence from network-wide transaction fees and upgrades. The Unique Network team built Substrapunks, the first NFTs on Polkadot, won Hackusama in 2020, and created Substrate’s pallet for NFTs. Unique Network launched in July 2021.

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Company Appoints CEO-Global Markets and Industries, CFO and CTO to Accelerate Growth

SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass., Oct. 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Virtusa Corporation, a global provider of digital strategy, digital engineering and IT services and solutions that help clients change and disrupt markets through innovation engineering, today announced several key leadership appointments. Today’s announcements extend Virtusa’s leadership, vision, and reputation as a top employer.

Virtusa has a long heritage of providing deep digital engineering skills and industry expertise to clients around the world. We are excited to build on that tradition with the following appointments:

Samir Dhir has been named CEO – Global Markets and Industries, a newly formed role, to lead P&L management for all industry groups and markets worldwide. Samir has been an instrumental leader during his 11 years with Virtusa. Prior to this appointment, Samir led the overall P&L management for the Americas.

Amit Bajoria has been appointed as Virtusa’s new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), replacing Virtusa’s former CFO, who had previously resigned. Amit brings 20+ years of experience at Wipro, most recently as Senior Vice President, Finance & Global Controller, where he was responsible for deal structuring, financial reporting, Security & Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting, financial controls, and Merger & Acquisition activities.

Ram Meenakshisundaram has been appointed as Virtusa’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO), a new role within Virtusa to lead lines of service including technology strategy and solutions, building digital competencies and capabilities, and working with Virtusa’s alliance group to enable partner solutions. Ram brings 30+ years of experience, with his last 16 years in leadership roles at Cognizant, most recently as Head of Delivery, Growth Markets, where he was responsible for leading a $4 billion business with a geographically distributed team. Ram also served on the Executive Leadership team at Cognizant.

“Today’s announcements align to our engineering roots while paving the way to an exciting future for our company, employees, partners and clients,” said Santosh Thomas, CEO of Virtusa. “The addition of Ram and Amit bolster an already solid leadership team, and their experience and track records will contribute to the growth path we’re on. Samir has done a tremendous job in leading our Americas business, and I’m confident in his ability to build upon that success.”

These appointments report to Santosh Thomas, CEO and are effective immediately.

About Virtusa

Virtusa Corporation is a global provider of digital business strategy, digital engineering, and information technology (IT) services and solutions that help clients change, disrupt, and unlock new value through innovative engineering. Virtusa serves Global 2000 companies in Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare, Communications, Media, Entertainment, Travel, Manufacturing, and Technology industries.

Virtusa helps clients grow their business with innovative products and services that create operational efficiency using digital labor, future-proof operational and IT platforms, and rationalization and modernization of IT applications infrastructure. This is achieved through a unique approach blending deep contextual expertise, empowered agile teams, and measurably better engineering to create holistic solutions that drive the business forward at unparalleled velocity enabled by a culture of cooperative disruption.

Virtusa is a registered trademark of Virtusa Corporation. All other company and brand names may be trademarks or service marks of their respective holders.

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PHOENIX, Oct. 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — WillScot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp. (“WillScot Mobile Mini” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: WSC), a North American leader in modular space and portable storage solutions, today announced that it closed the acquisition of Sommer’s Mobile Leasing, Inc. The transaction was funded with cash on hand and borrowings under the Company’s revolving credit agreement. This acquisition adds about 1,200 modular units and about 500 storage units in the Company’s existing U.S. markets in Ohio and West Virginia.

Brad Soultz, Chief Executive Officer, commented, “I am excited to welcome the employees of Sommer’s Mobile Leasing to our team at WillScot Mobile Mini. Sommer’s has been a leading provider of modular space solutions in the Ohio and West Virginia markets since 1946. Consistent with our M&A strategy, these operations allow us to extend our ‘Ready to Work’ value proposition to new customers with our industry leading service capabilities while leveraging our technology investments and operational best practices to create value for our shareholders. I look forward to collaborating with our new team members in our new Columbus, Cleveland, and Charleston locations.”

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About WillScot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp.

WillScot Mobile Mini Holdings trades on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol “WSC.” Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, the Company is a leading business services provider specializing in innovative flexible workspace and portable storage solutions. WillScot Mobile Mini services diverse end markets across all sectors of the economy from a network of over 275 branch locations and additional drop lots throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.

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Investor Inquiries:

Nick Girardi

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