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– AWS to Power New AI-Driven Experiences, Serve as Presenting Partner of WNBA Live, and Join the WNBA Changemakers Collective – The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced a multi-year partnership focused on enhancing fan engagement, introducing innovative advanced analytics and data insights, and accelerating the league's continued growth. AWS will become the Official Cloud and Cloud AI Partner of the WNBA, in addition to joining the WNBA Changemakers Collective. The partnership marks AWS's first with a women's professional sports league and builds on its work across sports to help organizations drive innovation, accelerate growth and

Chicago, Feb. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Circana LLC, a leading global provider of data, insights, and advisory services, today announced the appointment of three new members to its Board of Directors: Brian Cornell, Executive Chair of Target Corp.; Lauren Cooks Levitan, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of ROOT and Lead Independent Director at e.l.f. Beauty, Inc.; and Rohit Prasad, former Senior Vice President and Head Scientist of Artificial General Intelligence at Amazon.com, Inc. "These appointments strengthen the Board's ability to guide Circana's strategy and accelerate the value we deliver to our global clients," said Stuart Aitken, President and CEO of Circana. "We are focused on advancing

Doug Bowser and Carla Vernón to join as newest Board members Today, Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAS), a leading games, IP and toy company, announced that Doug Bowser, retired President and Chief Operating Officer of Nintendo of America Inc., and Carla Vernón, Chief Executive Officer of The Honest Company, Inc. have been appointed to Hasbro's Board of Directors. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260120899535/en/ "We are delighted to have Doug and Carla join our seasoned and dynamic Board of Directors," said Rich Stoddart, Chair of Hasbro's Board of Directors. "Doug and Carla bring extensive leadership experience across co

This article has been disseminated on behalf of MAX Power Mining Corp. and may include a paid advertisement. AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MiningNewsWire: Global electricity demand is reaching a pivotal turning point. The International Energy Agency (IEA) now projects that global data-center electricity use will almost double by 2030, with AI-focused facilities increasing their consumption more than four times over the same span — a trajectory pushing power grids in the United States, China, Europe, Southeast Asia and other regions to their limits. The bottleneck is no longer data throughput or semiconductor performance; the critical constraint has become electricity it

After launching the powerful eero Max 7 and the tough eero Outdoor 7, eero expands Wi-Fi 7 portfolio with all-new eero 7 and eero Pro 7 eero 7 is the company's most affordable Wi-Fi 7 router, offering multi-gigabit speeds in a compact form factor eero Pro 7 delivers premium Wi-Fi 7 performance for high-bandwidth connectivity needs, offering fast wireless and wired speeds with two 5 GbE ports, and capacity for hundreds of devices Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced that eero is expanding its Wi-Fi 7 portfolio to include eero 7, delivering multi-gigabit speeds at a more affordable price, and eero Pro 7, offering premium performance for bandwidth-demanding networks. Thanks to the company's TrueM

Founder Col Needham Becomes Executive Chair, Nikki Santoro Named CEO, Positioning IMDb for Next Phase of Innovation and Growth IMDb (www.imdb.com), the world's most popular and authoritative source for information on movies, TV shows, and celebrities, today announced that Founder & Chief Executive Officer Col Needham has transitioned to the role of Founder & Executive Chair. Nikki Santoro, who has served as IMDb Chief Operating Officer since 2021, has been appointed the Chief Executive Officer of IMDb. This marks a significant milestone in the company's 35-year history, with Santoro becoming only the second CEO and the first woman to hold the role. This press release features multimedia.

Southeast Asia's leading superapp leverages AWS to enhance operational efficiency across eight countries At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ:AMZN), and Grab, Southeast Asia's leading superapp (NASDAQ:GRAB), announced that Grab has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider. With AWS, Grab is pursuing a technology-led strategy to accelerate growth across its mobility, deliveries, and financial services verticals, including its new digibanks, while continuing to improve its operational efficiencies and reduce IT infrastructure costs. Grab relies on the world's leading cloud to serve 41.9 million monthly transacting users1 and over 13 mi

Amazon Ads announced several new capabilities that leverage its deep, full-funnel insights to help brands launch new products and extend its sophisticated measurement and optimization ad tech to all advertisers (NASDAQ:AMZN) — At unBoxed 2024, Amazon Ads launched a suite of new advertising capabilities that bring together insights from across the marketing funnel to help advertisers optimize their media investments. The announcements showcased how Amazon Ads is making its powerful insights easier to access and activate by every advertiser, across every ad product. "Our mission is to be the most customer-obsessed advertising service by giving all brands the measurement and data-driven, mac

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Industry veteran brings decades of business acumen and global insight from Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, and Unity JFrog Ltd. ("JFrog") (NASDAQ:FROG), the Liquid Software company and creators of the JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform, today announced Unity CFO, Luis Felipe Visoso, will join its Board of Directors, effective immediately. He will also serve as a member of the Board's Audit Committee. With extensive experience in global enterprise leadership and board roles across the cybersecurity, cloud, and software industries, Visoso brings a wealth of business expansion expertise to JFrog that will help the company drive growth in the DevOps, DevSecOps, and AI/MLOps

USA News Group CommentaryIssued on behalf of Scope AI Corp. VANCOUVER, BC, June 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- USA News Group – How we embrace this surging adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in the economy of the future remains up for debate. Already, we're seeing the impact of AI adoption in the workplace, in culture, and in finance, but it won't end there. According to Goldman Sachs, AI is showing "very positive" signs of eventually boosting GDP and productivity, while some experts are remarking that the generative AI tech wave is sweeping in much faster (maybe 10x) than early internet. Behind the scenes, tech developers are building AI-powered tools that could potentially revolutionize pr

Jeremi Gorman and Roderick Randall Have Expertise in Content Monetization, Digital Media, Automotive Technology and Capital Allocation Board Expands to Seven Directors Xperi Inc. (NYSE:XPER) (the "Company" or "Xperi"), an entertainment technology company that invents, develops and delivers technologies that enable extraordinary experiences, today announced the appointment of Jeremi A. Gorman and Roderick K. ("Rod") Randall to the Board of Directors (the "Board"), effective June 10, 2024. Following the appointment of Ms. Gorman and Mr. Randall, the Board consists of seven directors, six of whom are independent. "We welcome Jeremi and Rod, both accomplished leaders with domain expertise

Subramanian joins the leading food for work technology company in the US, bringing more than 20 years of experience at high-growth companies ezCater, the leading food for work technology company in the US, today announced it has named Kaushik Subramanian as Chief Revenue Officer, effective June 3, 2024. Subramanian is a seasoned technology executive with over 20 years of business management experience at high-growth companies and marketplaces, including Lyft, Inc. (NASDAQ:LYFT), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), and Visa, Inc. (NYSE:V). This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240603123872/en/ezCater, the leading food for

USA News Group CommentaryIssued on behalf of Avant Technologies Inc. VANCOUVER, BC, May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- With integration of AI-powered computing steadily on the rise, analysts at Goldman Sachs Research are projecting that the global data center power behind this tech boom is poised to more than double by 2030. However, the catch is that Goldman's teach believes that the supporting data center load growth will require at least $50 billion in new power generation capacity investment to achieve this. Experts are now declaring that 'futuristic AI needs futuristic data centers' in order to achieve the dreams of developers and end-users. According to WhaTech, the growth for data centers ma

INSTANT®, a leading data automation and generative technology company specializing in real-time business intelligence for global enterprises and financial institutions, is delighted to announce the appointment of Rob Melnyk as Executive Vice President, Financial Services. With his extensive experience in leadership at high-growth investment management and capital markets firms, Rob brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the INSTANT leadership team. As Executive Vice President, Financial Services, Rob will spearhead efforts to refine the INSTANT Platform for Financial Services, assist with the product delivery sales process, drive strategic planning, and lead cross-organizational initi

NEW YORK, Feb. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Dow Jones Indices will make the following changes to the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and Dow Jones Transportation Average (DJTA) effective prior to the open of trading on Monday, February 26: Amazon.com Inc. (NASD:AMZN) will replace Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (NASD:WBA) in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Reflecting the evolving nature of the American economy, this change will increase consumer retail exposure as well as other business areas in the DJIA. The index change was prompted by DJIA constituent Walmart Inc.'s (NYSE:WMT) decision to split its stock 3:1, which will reduce Walmart's index weight due to the price weighted construc

NORTHVILLE, Mich., Oct. 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gentherm (NASDAQ:THRM), the global market leader of innovative thermal management and pneumatic comfort technologies for the automotive industry and a leader in medical patient temperature management systems, today announced that Dr. Ken Washington has been appointed to the Company's Board of Directors, effective October 2, 2023. Dr. Washington is the Senior Vice President, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer of Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT), a global healthcare technology company that provides device-based medical therapies and services. He was appointed to this position in June 2023, and he leads innovation and the expansion of technol

The Climate Pledge Commits $10M to C40 Cities to kick-start the development and deployment of zero-emission electric trucks and charging infrastructure across major cities in India and Latin America The Climate Pledge—co-founded by Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Global Optimism—and C40 Cities today launched Laneshift, a partnership to tackle carbon emissions through zero-emission freight by reimagining medium- and heavy-duty shipping vehicles and the routes they travel. Road freight is a major source of air pollution and one of the most important sectors to decarbonize, but it's also one of the most challenging. And according to the Global Commercial Vehicle Roadmap for reaching 100% zero emi

Former executive at Sofi/Galileo takes on expanded role Carta Worldwide 2021 payment processing volume grew over 50% to ~$8.5 billion Mogo Inc. (NASDAQ:MOGO) (TSX:MOGO) ("Mogo" or the "Company"), a digital payments and financial technology company, today announced that Allan Smith, a recent addition to Mogo's executive team, has been appointed Head of Carta Worldwide ("Carta"), Mogo's digital payments subsidiary. Carta, which was acquired by Mogo in January 2021, powers the next-generation card programs from innovative fintech companies in Europe, North America and APAC. This strategic acquisition has provided a number of significant benefits to Mogo, including greatly expanding its tota

NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Data Vault Holdings Inc., the emerging leader in metaverse data visualization, valuation, and monetization announced today the appointment of Tony Evans, General Manager of Financial Services for C3 AI (NYSE:AI), to its advisory board, fortifying Data Vault Holding's expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, fintech, e-commerce and security. A preeminent expert in business and sales, Mr. Evans has developed and executed transformative, customer-focused strategies across industries. From artificial intelligence to cybersecurity to e-commerce, he has managed global sales and partnership development, led global banking teams, driven growth,

Former executive of US fintech leader, SoFi, and e-commerce pioneer, Amazon Mogo Inc. (NASDAQ:MOGO) (TSX:MOGO) ("Mogo" or the "Company"), a digital payments and financial technology company, today announced the appointment of highly experienced leader Allan Smith to the newly created role of Chief People Officer. Smith brings to Mogo 15 years of expertise as an analytical human resources leader with global experience in progressively demanding leadership roles in Fortune 50 as well as hyper-growth SaaS and fintech companies. Most recently, Smith served as Senior Director for fintech leader SoFi (NASDAQ:SOFI), where he led the people function across SoFi International and its subsidiary Ga

NEW YORK, Oct. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Data Vault Holdings Inc. announces the formation of its advisory board and appointed Ed Cushing, Global Account Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS), a division of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), as its inaugural member. Cushing will offer strategic advice and continue to grow the technology company's advisory board by identifying a diverse group of innovative professionals to work closely with Data Vault Holding's management team to accelerate marketing development and business opportunities. The advisory board will enhance the company's mission of empowering businesses with its patented data monetization platform.

SANTA PAULA, Calif., Sept. 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Calavo Growers, Inc. (Nasdaq-GS: CVGW), a global leader in the avocado and value-added fresh food industries, today announced that Mariela Matute has been appointed Chief Financial Officer, effective October 11, 2021. "We are excited to welcome Mariela Matute as an integral member of our management team," said Steven Hollister, interim Chief Executive Officer of Calavo Growers. "Mariela has an impressive combination of financial expertise and relevant industry background, including food production and agriculture, which make her highly qualified to assume the role of CFO. She is a proven senior financial leader, joining us most recen

London, April 26, 2021 CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE:CNHI) today announced that it has appointed Parag Garg as Chief Digital Officer and Marc Kermisch as Chief Information Officer for Off Highway business. This follows the appointment of Kevin Barr as Chief Human Resources Officer on March 19, 2021. In these positions, Mr. Garg, Mr. Kermisch and Mr. Barr will join the Company's Senior Leadership Team (SLT), an operational decision-making body of CNH Industrial, which is responsible for reviewing the operating performance of the segments and making decisions on certain operational matters. These executive appointments form part of CNH Industrial's renewed focus on customer centricity and serve

NEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Arrival, the global company creating electric vehicles using its game-changing technologies, announced today that, in addition to the previously announced five members of its Board of Directors, it expects to appoint two additional members upon the consummation of the pending business combination between Arrival Group, Arrival S.à r.l (“Arrival”) and CIIG Merger Corp. (NASDAQ: CIIC) (“CIIG”), a U.S. publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company. Arrival Group, the combined company, will become a publicly listed company and its ordinary shares and warrants will be listed on NASDAQ under the new ticker symbols “ARVL” and “ARVLW” respectively,