KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach Newswire – 19 April 2024 – Every four years, the crypto world gets hyped for the Bitcoin halving. Past halvings, like the one of May 2020, saw a massive increase in BTC transactions, which was driven by growing adoption and community involvement. This trend benefited the crypto landscape across the board. The upcoming halving on 20 April 2024 is expected to trigger a similar surge in public interest and activity. In this article, the experts at Octa provide a brief overview of the evolution and current state of global crypto adoption.
Partnership aims to empower manufacturers with agility, intelligence, and scale to deliver digital transformation initiatives—from the cloud to the edge
MILWAUKEE, U.S. – Media OutReach – 7 October 2020 – Rockwell
Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced
a five-year partnership expansion to develop integrated, market-ready solutions
that help industrial customers improve digital agility through cloud technology.
By combining each company’s expertise in the industrial and IT markets, respectively,
teams can work together more seamlessly, enabling industrial organizations to save
on infrastructure costs, speed time-to-value, and increase productivity.
Microsoft and Rockwell are working to deliver innovative edge-to-cloud-based
solutions that connect information between development, operations and
maintenance teams through a singular, trusted data environment. This will allow
development teams to digitally prototype, configure and collaborate without
investing in costly physical equipment. This unified information environment also
enables IT and OT teams to not only securely access and share data models across
the organization, but with their ecosystem of partners as well.
“Today, one thing we know for sure is
that no business is 100% resilient. Those fortified with digital capabilities
and assets are more resilient than others, and the cloud is how they will
thrive,” said Judson Althoff, executive vice president of worldwide commercial
business, Microsoft. “We are pleased to deepen our already strong, decade-long
relationship with Rockwell Automation to help businesses simplify industrial
transformation, accelerate business outcomes and innovate with agility.”
To date, the
companies have co-developed over 20 use cases across Food & Beverage,
Household and Personal Care and Life Sciences industries. The solutions
developed from this partnership will augment and enhance our current offerings.
“This partnership provides Rockwell Automation and Microsoft
customers with a holistic, simple solution for IIoT development and operations
and removes data silos that hinder industrial digital transformation initiatives,”
said Blake Moret, Chairman and CEO of Rockwell Automation. “By eliminating a
core barrier to automation initiatives, industrial organizations establish a
digital thread connecting the entire enterprise, which in turn accelerates
innovation, maximizes productivity and optimizes operations.”
“Our team has seen the preview release of this new solution
and we are excited about collaboration between our strategic partners, Rockwell
Automation and Microsoft,” said Tristan Hunter, GM Automation & Operational
Technology at Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited, New Zealand’s largest
company and responsible for 30% of the world’s dairy exports. “Moving data from
our on-premise assets securely with context and providing new workflows for us
to analyze and drive better outcomes is important to maintaining Fonterra’s
high standards across our many plants globally.”
Organizations can access Rockwell Automation solutions now
via the Microsoft
Azure Marketplace with more solutions currently in development. The next
phase of co-innovation solutions will be available to joint customers of
Rockwell Automation and Microsoft customers in Q1 2021 at Automation
Fair At Home.
About Microsoft
Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) enables digital
transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its
mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to
achieve more.
About Rockwell Automation
Rockwell
Automation Inc. (NYSE: ROK), is a global leader in industrial
automation and digital transformation. We connect the imaginations of people
with the potential of technology to expand what is humanly possible, making the
world more productive and more sustainable. Headquartered in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, Rockwell Automation employs approximately 23,000 problem solvers
dedicated to our customers in more than 100 countries. To learn more about how
we are bringing The Connected Enterprise to life across industrial enterprises,
visit www.rockwellautomation.com.
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and growth acceleration, business performance, the integration and development
of solutions, the closing of the equity transaction and the use of proceeds and
share repurchases. These statements are “forward-looking statements” as defined
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“believe”, “estimate”, “project”, “plan”, “expect”, “anticipate”, “will”,
“intend” and other similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements.
Actual results may differ materially from those projected as a result of
certain risks and uncertainties, including the fact that growth may not occur
or accelerate as expected, subscription may not grow profitably as expected,
the equity investment may not close when or as expected and any use of proceeds
or share repurchases may not occur as expected, and the integration of the
solutions and development of future solutions may not occur as expected, and
those risks and uncertainties described in the companies’ filings
with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking
statements reflect our beliefs as of the date of filing this release. We undertake
no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a
result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Leading Japan with 60% market share, Amaten to become the next Amazon in the gift card industry, estimated to reach $2.7 Trillion in value by 2027
TOKYO, JAPAN – Media
OutReach – 11 August
2020 – Japan’s largest digital gift card marketplace
“Amaten” has announced plans to globalize its brand across the world, after
record sale that reached $100 million USD. The company has reinvented the
digital gift card solutions to create “win-win” situation for both consumers
and shops, shooting to a resounding growth in recent years. Today, Amaten has
set up its first overseas operations in Dubai, UAE.
Since 2019, the gift card market generated profits worth
$617 billion, this number is projected to reach a revised size of $2.7 Trillion
by 2027 as demand for going cashless is accelerating during the Covid-19 era.
It is a market that is rarely talked about yet, its current technology is
completely obsolete into today’s digital world.
Retailers increasingly refer to adoption of digital gift
cards, yet they struggle with technical errors that make their cards easily
compromised to be used multiple times, causing financial losses, in addition to
more common issues, where gift cards have limited purchasing options and tight
expiry dates.
This is where Amaten comes to the rescue, the massive
success the fintech company has brought in Japan comes from the revolutionary
makeovers that it created in digital gift card industry.
At first glance, Amaten is engineering their digital gift
cards with blockchain integration. It is taking the gift card and putting on a
smart contract making it truly digital thus, illuminating all the structural
short coming of the current technology. This provides a great advantage for
merchants and consumers from security standpoint, as they’ll be able to trace
gift cards ensuring that it’s not compromised, as Blockchain will ensure
highest level of data encryption.
This advanced integration makes Amaten the most secure gift
card issuer on the internet, thus tackling the “Gift Card Error” issue that is
commonly seen among other suppliers. A long-awaited paradigm
shift in this fintech industry.
Apart from accepting gift card purchases using cash, Amaten
was among the first marketplaces worldwide to accept Bitcoin. Conversely, users
can redeem unwanted gift cards to cash, hence tackling the issue of unused
cards that counts $1 Billion in losses globally every year.
The Amaten platform currently list the top 25 global
merchants gift cards, the likes of Amazon, Apple, Rakuten and Google within the
Japanese market.
Soon, Amaten will allow any merchant to issue gift cards, thus
encouraging buyers to purchase them for potential shopping in the foreseeable
future, thus keeping businesses under financial support during slow economic
activity.
The inspiration for Amaten’s innovation comes from one of
Japan’s IT industry leaders, Mr. Tom Kanazawa, who played a major role to
backing and funding IT ventures in Japan since 1998, he is currently the
Chairman of Amaten.
Commenting on the opportunities that Amaten has for
investors, Mr. Tom Kanazawa said “Amaten has the potential of becoming a
monopolistic enterprise and change the gift card for good, because we are
solving the last mile problem between cash and the legacy gift card, Until recently, it was deemed impossible for
the industry to reinvent itself, but as for Amaten, using our blockchain
solution built on Aelf, we tackled those structural issues and will ensure a
seamless experience for our users and merchants, finally building a true
fintech digital product and expanding the industry and its market ‘size even
further. This is a true use case for blockchain technology that can be applied
right away!”
Mr. Kanazawa added, “We also have seen quite some interest
for white label solutions that can be provided to hotel chains for example or
enterprise incentive programs to create a truly digital and seamless ecosystem.
We invite everyone interested in AMA to join our
telegram channel, or to visit our website amaten.io, me and the team
will be happy to cater to your questions and we’ll be here to help!”.
