June 11, 2021

Huawei Digital Power Looks to Build a Competent Global Partner Community for a Green and Bright Future

SHENZHEN, China, June 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — With a relentless focus on partner success, Huawei Digital Power has recently hosted the Ecosystem Partner Summit 2021 to explore how to build a competent partner system for a green and bright future through competitive zero-carbon all-scenario solutions, quality service and an innovative partner strategy. Due to Covid-19 the virtual event series, with Asia Pacific, Latin America and Europe summits, is bringing together partners from 81 countries.

“Carbon neutrality has become the world’s most pressing common goal, which stirs up a revolution in power generation and consumption and accelerates the industrial upgrading as well. The energy transformation brings abundant Industrial and commercial opportunities. By integrating digital and power electronics technologies, Huawei Digital Power is pushing forward the energy revolution and joining hands with our partners to build a green and bright future,” said James Li, Member of the Huawei Supervisory Board and President of Marketing, Sales & Services of Huawei Digital Power in his welcome speech.

Mr. Li added that the ecosystem strategy lies at the heart of Huawei Digital Power’s development strategy. The digital energy industry is essentially an ecosystem industry. We will be committed to doing something right to bring value to partners, share benefits with them, and improve their capabilities, and join forces with every competent and ambitious partner to build a green and bright future through the multi-level and multi-business cooperative ecosystem strategy.

The digital power industry needs an ecosystem, and that’s why Huawei Digital Power has come up with the ‘3-4-5-6’ ecosystem strategy. “We divide partner services into three domains — smart PV, data center & site facility, and Huawei-inside domain — to allow every player to focus on their strengths. When cooperating with partners, we adhere to the following four principles: profitability, simplicity, enablement, and ecosystem. With this in mind, we will implement five major measures this year — building a partner system centering on the digital power industry, optimizing the IT platforms, promoting standardization, ramping up marketing and branding, and increasing resource inputs — to help partners improve six capabilities in sales, service, marketing and so on,” Mr. Li emphasized in his speech.

The annual Ecosystem Partner Summit, designed to showcase the resources and tools that our partners need to drive profitability, comes as Huawei’s stepping up efforts in building a zero-carbon and smart society. Presented at the summit, Zhou Taoyuan, President of Products & Solutions, Huawei Digital Power, introduced Huawei’s All-Scenario Zero-carbon Solution, featuring “5 core technologies + 4 application scenarios + 1 cloud”. The solution covers Smart PV Generator FusionSolar 8.0, Green Residential Power 2.0, Green C&I Power 1.0, Off-grid (fuel removal) Power Supply Solutions, Energy Cloud, Zero-carbon Data Center, Zero-carbon Site, Smart Charging Network and Modular Power.

Ecosystem partner representatives from different corners of the world have shared their insights into marketing strategy during the pandemic, market expansion strategy, business growth, among others, at the virtual summit. 72 top-performing partners globally were selected to be awarded for their dedication to value creation in 2020. Within a few years, some of the partners have expanded their business to more than a dozen countries, thanks to the cooperation with Huawei. Just as Mr. Li said: “Huawei doesn’t place limits on our partners, so dream big and achieve bigger.”

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. Huawei Digital Power will focus on our ecosystem strategy and join forces with our partners to build a greener, more sustainable planet that we call home.

About Huawei

Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. We have more than 197,000 employees, and we operate in more than 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people around the world.

Our vision and mission is to bring digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. To this end, we will drive ubiquitous connectivity and promote equal access to networks; bring cloud and artificial intelligence to all four corners of the earth to provide superior computing power where you need it, when you need it; build digital platforms to help all industries and organizations become more agile, efficient, and dynamic; redefine user experience with AI, making it more personalized for people in all aspects of their life, whether they’re at home, in the office, or on the go. For more information, please visit Huawei online at www.huawei.com or follow us on:

http://www.linkedin.com/company/Huawei
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June 11, 2021

Layout International Partners with Sophi.io to Fully Automate Print Production

Combining Layout International’s NewsPublish and Sophi.io’s smart AI and ML engine reduces the hours long process of print laydown to just minutes

TORONTO, June 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sophi.io, a suite of AI-powered optimization, prediction and automation tools developed by The Globe and Mail, has partnered with Layout International, a supplier of cutting-edge enterprise technology, to transform print production. Sophi will provide the smart AI/ML technology to fully automate the end-to-end print production workflow to save publishers time and money and enable them to focus on creating high quality content.

Print laydown is typically a long and arduous process, involving multiple editors and page designers and taking hours to complete. Without the rigid constraints of a template, Layout International customers will now have the opportunity to create a print-ready paper that is indecipherable from a paper prepared by human page designers, and the entire process takes just minutes. And for Layout International’s over 200 customers, this partnership means seamless integration of Sophi into their current NewsPublish editorial workflow.

“We’re excited that working with Sophi.io enables us to offer our customers cutting edge new capabilities in the form of an end-to-end automated print solution that dramatically increases efficiencies. Our customers will be able to run and rerun their print paper in just minutes, whenever they chose, all within the NewsPublish Enterprise content management system that they already use daily,” said Jean-Michel Habis, CEO of Layout International.

The Sophi suite of tools is designed to identify an organization’s most valuable content (not the most popular content, but the content that drives conversions or retention or the metric that matters most to that organization) and place it in the most valuable places across their digital entities, or behind a paywall when the subscription revenue outweighs the predicted advertising revenue. In addition to NewsPublish powered by Sophi.io, Sophi provides site automation, a fully dynamic, real-time, personalized paywall, and analytics solutions to publishers across the world.

“Print laydown is a massive undertaking,” said Greg Doufas, Chief Technology Officer at The Globe and Mail. “We see this partnership with Layout International giving publishers the freedom to focus on content creation and the specific design elements that page designers want to spend their energy on. The best part is that NewsPublish powered by Sophi.io is getting better and smarter every day, so Layout International customers will always be on the cutting edge of technology with this solution.”

To learn more, please visit www.newspublish.org or email sales@layoutintl.com.

About Layout International
Layout International (www.layoutintl.com) meets the growing technological needs in the market by providing highly customizable enterprise solutions. They serve more than 200 clients, supplying them with cutting-edge technology to improve the way they work. They enable many organizations to digitally transform their processes, migrate and integrate to work on a single platform.

Layout International Media Contact
Ghassan Halawi
Vice President of Sales, Layout International
+961 70 855685
ghalawi@layoutintl.com

About Sophi.io
Sophi.io (https://www.sophi.io) is a suite of AI-powered optimization and prediction tools that helps content publishers make important strategic and tactical decisions. Sophi solutions range from Sophi Site Automation and Sophi for Paywalls to Sophi Analytics, a decision-support system for content publishers. Sophi is designed to improve the metrics that matter most to your business, such as subscriber retention and acquisition, engagement, recency, frequency and volume.

Sophi.io Media Contact
Jamie Rubenovitch
Head of Marketing, Sophi.io
The Globe and Mail
416-585-3355
jrubenovitch@globeandmail.com

June 11, 2021

Coppel Mexico choisit VoltDB pour alimenter les profils des clients

BEDFORD, Massachusetts, 10 juin 2021 /PRNewswire/ — VoltDB, la seule plate-forme de données d’entreprise qui répond aux exigences des applications modernes en matière de données en temps réel, a annoncé aujourd’hui que Coppel, le plus grand magasin national du Mexique, utilise désormais la plate-forme de données VoltDB pour créer un système unifié pour les profils des clients.

« Volt a vraiment changé la donne pour nous », a déclaré Robert Gil, directeur des technologies de Coppel. « Nous pouvons désormais disposer d’une plateforme unifiée pour gérer l’ensemble des données de notre portefeuille de 13 millions de clients, ce qui se traduit ensuite par une expérience client bien meilleure et un retour sur investissement bien plus important pour nous grâce à une meilleure fidélisation de la clientèle. »

L’un des principaux actifs de Coppel, les portefeuilles de clients, présente également un défi de taille : disposer d’un profil unique en ligne et à jour comportant toutes les informations relatives au client et faire en sorte que ce profil soit actif dans un environnement omnicanal afin que les clients puissent accéder à leurs informations sur les frais, les crédits et les versements (soldes) en temps réel, sans compromettre la vitesse de traitement des transactions au sein du portefeuille.

Coppel a choisi VoltDB parce qu’elle avait besoin d’une plateforme de données qui puisse lui permettre de :

Conserver les informations en ligne en un seul endroit
Être insensible aux défaillances grâce à des schémas aux différences finies (DRP) répartis et optimisés sur plusieurs sites.
Analyser les informations en temps réel grâce à des tableaux de bord
Collecter les données en temps réel
Effectuer des analyses de fraudes sans compromettre les performances de la base de données

« Tous les tests réalisés avec Volt ont dépassé les attentes en ce qui concerne les performances en termes de transactions par seconde », a déclaré Gil.

Coppel prévoit d’étendre l’utilisation de Volt à divers cas d’utilisation des centres d’appels et du service à la clientèle.

Pour obtenir davantage d’informations sur les raisons pour lesquelles les entreprises de tous les secteurs d’activité choisissent VoltDB pour alimenter leur fonctionnement, visitez le site à l’adresse suivante https://www.voltdb.com/ .

À propos de VoltDB

VoltDB est la seule plateforme de données conçue pour prendre en charge les applications télécoms à l’ère de la 5G. Nous combinons le stockage de données en mémoire avec une faible latence prévisible et d’autres fonctionnalités principales pour alimenter les applications BSS/OSS, de gestion client et d’assurance des revenus qui doivent agir en quelques millisecondes pour générer des revenus ou éviter les pertes de revenus, sans compromettre la précision des données. Pour plus d’informations, visitez le site voltdb.com.

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June 11, 2021

Pulitzers Honor Coverage of Pandemic, Floyd Case

NEW YORK – The New York Times won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Friday for its coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, while the Star Tribune of Minneapolis won the breaking news award for its reporting following the police killing of George Floyd.

The Associated Press won two awards, sweeping the photography category, and the Pulitzer Prize Board awarded a special citation to the teen who filmed George’s killing, Darnella Frazier.

There have been few years in journalism like 2020, when nearly everything that happened was touched by COVID-19.

The announcement of the prizes itself was originally scheduled for April 19 but the Pulitzer board postponed it until June to give its 18 members a chance to debate the entries in person, instead of remotely.

This was the second such ceremony to be pushed back amid the pandemic. Last year’s announcement was pushed back two weeks to give board members busy covering the pandemic more time to evaluate the finalists.

The Pulitzer Prizes in journalism were first awarded in 1917 and are considered the field’s most prestigious honor in the United States.

The awards luncheon traditionally held at Columbia University in May also was postponed.

Source: Voice of America

June 11, 2021

British Doctors Union Urges Government Not to Reopen

The main doctors union in Britain is calling on the government to delay its plans to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions as new data shows a spike in cases of the highly transmissible delta variant.

The British Medical Association said Friday a “sensible delay” would help to stop infections from rising.

Government figures on Friday showed 8,125 new COVID-19 cases, the highest daily total since February. The delta variant, originally identified in India, now accounts for 90% of all new cases in the country.

According to the COVID-19 Roadmap laid out by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government, all pandemic-related restrictions are scheduled to be lifted June 21, one week from Monday.

However, in an interview Friday, England’s COVID-19 vaccines minister, Nadhim Zahawi, told Times Radio the nation must be very careful about the opening, given the dominance of the delta variant.

Zahawi said the government should examine the data from this coming weekend very carefully and share it with the nation, and then decide about reopening.

Johnson is expected to announce on Monday whether the planned lifting of restrictions will go ahead.

The Sun newspaper reported Friday that Johnson will hold off on easing the lockdown restrictions.

Meanwhile, Chicago became the largest U.S. city to fully reopen Friday. During a news conference formally announcing the reopening, Mayor Lori Lightfoot told reporters that for more than a year, Chicago residents have endured so much, but they did their part every step of the way.

“You masked up, you got vaxxed up, and now it’s time for you to get up, get out of the house this summer and fully and safely enjoy the events of the best city on the planet, our beloved city of Chicago,” Lightfoot said.

Earlier Friday, leaders from the G-7 nations announced they will donate a billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to low- and medium-income nations. The U.S. will donate 500 million shots, while Britain will donate 100 million doses.

In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that 64% of Americans 18 and older had had at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine.

The Associated Press reported Friday that because of slowing demand for vaccinations, some states have stopped new orders for vaccine doses and others have sent millions of doses back to the federal government. States sending vaccines back to the government include Tennessee and North Carolina, even though less than half of their populations have been vaccinated.

In other developments Friday, Malaysia’s government said it would extend a two-week nationwide lockdown by another two weeks because daily infections remain high at more than 6,000.

Sri Lanka also extended its lockdown for another week as deaths from COVID-19 surpassed 2,000 on Friday.

The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center said Friday the number of global COVID-19 infections has reached more than 175 million. The U.S. remains the location with the most cases at 33.4 million infections, but India is rapidly catching up with more than 29.3 million infections.

India’s health ministry reported more than 91,000 new COVID-19 cases Friday in the previous 24 hours. Public health officials say they suspect that India’s cases may be undercounted.

Source: Voice of America