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PharmStars Now Accepting Applications for Spring 2022 Accelerator Program; Startups with Digital Innovations in Neurological Disease Are Welcome to Apply
PharmStars, the pharma-focused accelerator for digital health startups, is now accepting applications for its spring 2022 cohort with the theme, “Digital Innovations in Neurological Disease.” - January 04, 2022 - PharmStars
ZEAL Invests 1% of Gross Revenue Into Bridging the Gap
ZEAL, an award-winning software consultancy, today announced the commitment to invest 1% of gross revenue into the next generation of technical talent and bridging the digital divide. 50% of the investment went to LEARN academy, who is teaching a new generation of daring and diverse students to be compassionate, curious, and professional web developers, while the remaining 50% went to organizations like One Digital World, and Women in Tech. - December 30, 2021 - ZEAL
Remote Theater Commemorates Attack on Congress with "Insurrection"
Remote Theater, a pioneer in live online drama, today announced the upcoming premiere of "Insurrection," a multi-story play about the impact of the 1/6/21 attack on Congress. Among the playwrights are Michael Gene Sullivan, Eugenie Chan, and Tanya Shaffer. The actors include Stacy Ross, James Carpenter, Amy Resnick, Atticus Shaindlin, Bonnie Akimoto, and Samrat Chakrabarti. Director: Giovanni Rodriguez, co-founder and artistic director at Remote. - December 29, 2021 - Remote Theater
Korea's Choi Dongho Honored with Gjenima Prize for Literature
Mundus Artium Press announces the award of the 2021 Gjenima Prize to Korean poet, critic and scholar Choi Dongho. Established in 2004, the annual Gjenima Prize recognizes the creator of an important body of literary work or a single major literary achievement that has played a part in current... - December 24, 2021 - Mundus Artium Press
Principled Technologies and the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community Release a Preview of WebXPRT 4, a Free Online Performance Evaluation Tool for Web-Enabled Devices
Principled Technologies and the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community have released a preview of WebXPRT 4, a free online tool that runs in almost any browser and gives objective information about how well a laptop, tablet, smartphone, or any other web-enabled device handles common web tasks. Anyone... - December 22, 2021 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
‘Dr. Pam’ Gumbs Celebrated as a Woman of Empowerment by P.O.W.E.R.-Professional Organization of Women of Excellence Recognized
‘Dr. Pam’ Gumbs of Berkeley, California has been celebrated as a Woman of Empowerment by P.O.W.E.R.-Professional Organization of Women of Excellence Recognized for her outstanding contributions to the pharmaceutical field for over 40 years. About ‘Dr. Pam’ Gumbs For over 20... - December 22, 2021 - P.O.W.E.R. Professional Organization of Women of Excellence Recognized
B2 Music Releases Billboard Presents: Electric Asia Vol. 5 "Best of Asian Dance Music" Compilation
Hong Kong label B2 Music has released the 5th volume of its popular "Electric Asia" Dance Music compilations with Billboard magazine. The 15-track album includes new music from US star 4B (remixed by China's Lizzy Wang), Canadian festival favorites Zeds Dead (remixed by Freeza) and Taiwan's RayRay. Past editions have included tracks by Steve Aoki, KSHMR and Bollywood superstar Sonu Nigam. - December 17, 2021 - B2 Holdings Ltd.
Zephyr Designer Collection Takes Kitchen Glamour to New Heights
Pushing the Boundaries of Form and Function, New Zephyr Range Hoods Let Home Chefs Express Personality In the Kitchen. - December 17, 2021 - ZEPHYR Ventilation
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing Transactional Database Performance of One Amazon Public Cloud Instance and Two Microsoft Public Cloud VMs
Principled Technologies found that one Amazon EC2 r5B.16xlarge instance with EBS gp3 storage offered higher transaction throughput and lower average latency than an Azure VM using two different storage configurations. - December 16, 2021 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
The Digital Wellness Institute's Launches On-Demand Certificate Program to Optimize Workplace Wellness and Productivity
Amidst the Great Resignation, the need for guidance to foster digital wellness is stronger than ever. The Digital Wellness Institute is the go-to resource for workplace executives, mental health practitioners and educators seeking skills to optimize productivity and self-care in the digital age. - December 15, 2021 - Digital Wellness Institute
Somnoware Awarded FedRAMP Authorization; Security Standards Recognized by Federal Government
New FedRAMP authorization enables Somnoware to rapidly deploy its cloud-based platform across public healthcare systems, provides customers with the guarantee of government-approved security, and sets the stage for future growth. - December 14, 2021 - Somnoware
Sage Talent Partners with Pyramid Analytics for Best-In-Class Analytics
Sage Talent, Inc. is partnering with Pyramid Analytics to provide highly optimized analytics for its Sage SaaS offering. - December 14, 2021 - Sage Talent, Inc.
‘Dr. Pam’ Gumbs to be Showcased in the Winter Issue of P.O.W.E.R. Magazine as a Woman of Distinction
‘Dr. Pam’ Gumbs of Berkeley, California will be showcased in the Winter issue of P.O.W.E.R. Magazine as a Woman of Distinction for her outstanding achievements and contributions for over 40 years in the pharmaceutical field. Each quarter, P.O.W.E.R. chooses four exceptional women for... - December 09, 2021 - P.O.W.E.R. Professional Organization of Women of Excellence Recognized
PharmStars Announces 2021 Accelerator Graduates
12 digital health startups have successfully completed PharmStars’ inaugural 10-week pharma-focused accelerator program. - December 08, 2021 - PharmStars
Mancini’s Sleepworld Opens Their 36th Store at Livermore, East Bay Area
Mancini’s Sleepworld is your go-to destination for quality-crafted mattresses and furniture in Northern California. Founded over 50 years ago, they have a history of providing premium-quality mattresses that help you get the best sleep possible. They now have 36 stores spread across Northern California. - December 07, 2021 - Mancini's Sleepworld
SolarCraft Completes Solar Power Installation for Appellation Trading Company - Napa Valley Custom Wine Maker Says Goodbye to Utility Bills
Novato and Sonoma-based SolarCraft, recently completed the installation of a 65 kW DC solar electric system at Appellation Trading Company (ATC) in Napa, CA. Harnessing the power of the sun, ATC has increased the sustainability of their operations while cutting operating costs by over $19,000 annually and reduced their dependency on non-renewable energy sources. - December 07, 2021 - SolarCraft
Executive Leadership Coaching in High Demand, Mariposa Leadership, Inc. Brings on Four New Coaches and Celebrates 25 Years in Business
While some businesses pulled back on leadership development during the pandemic, many continued to use executive coaches to support high-level leaders as they navigated through unprecedented uncertainty. And now, businesses are beginning to turn to the future with more optimism and are... - December 03, 2021 - Mariposa Leadership, Inc.
Best Interactive Applications to be Named by Web Marketing Association
The Web Marketing Association will name the Best Online Interactive Apps of 2021 in 86 industries as part of their 20th annual Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) Awards. Anyone wishing to nominate their applications work for consideration may do so at https://www.iacaward.org before the deadline of January 31, 2022. - December 03, 2021 - Web Marketing Association
Scout APM Announces Release of External Service Monitoring
Scout has expanded its service offerings to now include microservices and managed services monitoring of Ruby, Python, and PHP web applications. - December 01, 2021 - Scout APM
Pelvic Floor HIFEM (Emsella) Improves the Intensity and Duration of Male Orgasm
Dr. Judson Brandeis studied the Emsella, a device that has been FDA-approved for the treatment of urinary incontinence by stimulating the pelvic floor muscles, in mid-life men with weak or delayed ejaculation. He discovered that four weekly thirty-minute treatments with the Emsella protocol 2 was enough to improve the self-reported intensity and duration of ejaculation. - November 30, 2021 - BrandeisMD
New General-Purpose Microsoft Azure VMs Featuring 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Handled More Web Traffic Than Older Azure VMs in Principled Technologies Study
Tests compared Ddsv5 series VMs with Ddsv4 VMs featuring 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. - November 30, 2021 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Parvus Therapeutics Announces Development and Manufacturing Agreement with Resilience to Advance Novel Autoimmune Drug Candidate PVT201
Parvus Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing Navacim™ platform-based disease-specific immunoregulator therapeutics to treat autoimmune diseases by activating endogenous generation of disease-specific regulatory T cells (Tregs) without impairing normal immune system function,... - November 29, 2021 - Parvus Therapeutics U.S., Inc.
Azure Virtual Machines Based on 3rd Gen AMD EPYC 7V13 Processors Delivered Greater Performance on MySQL and Spark Machine Learning Workloads at a Lower Cost
Despite having lower Pay-as-You-Go pricing, Azure Standard_ HB120-64rs_v3 virtual machines based on 3rd Gen AMD EPYC 7V13 processors outperformed Azure Standard_E64ds_v4 virtual machines based on Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL processors in benchmark testing. - November 24, 2021 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
PT Releases Studies Comparing Dell EMC PowerEdge XS Servers to Previous-Generation Servers
Principled Technologies (PT) tested the transactional database and VDI performance of 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor-powered Dell EMC PowerEdge XS servers vs. popular previous-generation options powered by 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. - November 23, 2021 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
VMware vSphere with VMware Tanzu Delivered Greater Resource Efficiency and Pod Density Than Bare-Metal Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
The virtualized VMware vSphere platform with Tanzu reduced storage and memory usage and supported more than six times as many Kubernetes pods. - November 23, 2021 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing AWS SAN in the Cloud Solution to an On-Premises SAN
Principled Technologies (PT) tested an Amazon EC2 r5b.24xlarge instance with two io2 Block Express volumes and an on-premises NVMe-based all-flash SAN solution with a transactional database workload. - November 23, 2021 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
LPA Statement Regarding Voxzogo™
Little People of America (LPA), the world’s oldest and largest support organization for people with dwarfism and their families, has been tracking biotechnical developments for the treatment of individuals with Achondroplasia. LPA President, Mark Povinelli, says, "With the FDA approval... - November 21, 2021 - Little People of America Inc.
Principled Technologies Releases Study Showing a Dell EMC PowerEdge XE7100 Server Met Verification Standards for Three Milestone XProtect Video Workloads
In conjunction with Dell Technologies engineers, PT found that a Dell EMC PowerEdge XE7100 server with a PowerEdge XE7420 node met stringent verification standards with four archivers. - November 21, 2021 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing MariaDB Performance of Two Series of Amazon EC2 Instances Powered by Intel
Principled Technologies found that M6i series instances featuring newer Intel processors achieved better online transaction processing (OLTP) performance than M5 series instances featuring older processors. - November 21, 2021 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Parvus Therapeutics and Ardena Enter Agreement for Tech Transfer, Scale-Up and GMP Manufacturing of Navacim Nanoparticles
Today Parvus announced it has entered into an agreement with Ardena, a specialist pharmaceutical Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), for process development, scale-up and GMP manufacturing of NavacimTM nanoparticles, a key building block for all of our Navacim platform drug development candidates. - November 19, 2021 - Parvus Therapeutics U.S., Inc.
Best Online Newsletters to be Named by Web Marketing Association
The Web Marketing Association will name the Best Online Newsletters for 2022 in 86 industries as part of their 20th annual Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) Awards. Companies or agencies wishing to nominate their email newsletters for consideration may do so at www.IACAward.org before the deadline of January 31, 2022. - November 19, 2021 - Web Marketing Association
United Energy Trading (UET) Becomes First Energy Services Provider in North America to be Green-e® Marketplace Certified
UET is the first, and only, seller of Green-e® certified products that is also Green-e® Marketplace certified. - November 18, 2021 - United Energy Trading
PharmStars Announces Showcase Event for Inaugural Class
PharmStars, a pharma-focused accelerator for digital health startups, announces the start of its 2021 Showcase Event. At the Showcase Event, the 12 startups in the accelerator’s current cohort will pitch their digital health solutions to PharmStars’ pharma members. The startups and pharma members will also have the opportunity to meet privately to discuss potential partnership opportunities. - November 17, 2021 - PharmStars
Principled Technologies Releases a Second Study Comparing Two All-NVMe Database Storage Solutions
Principled Technologies compared a Dell EMC PowerStore 7000T storage solution to a similar solution from a different company (“Vendor B”). - November 16, 2021 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
SquareFairy Launches Free Online Divorce Services for Californians
SquareFairy.com releases its free service to prepare divorce papers, using a simple question-and-answer online site, saving the cost of divorce attorneys, which averages $7,000 in the U.S. - November 11, 2021 - SquareFairy
Veed Network Launches First Social Commerce Platform for Cannabis – Creating New Avenues for Cannabis Marketers to Promote Their Products
A San Francisco based startup, Veed, Inc. announced its beta release of the first-of-a-kind social commerce platform geared towards cannabis businesses and consumers alike. - November 11, 2021 - Veed, Inc.
Newfront Adds Phil Pierce to Powerhouse Leadership Team
Newfront, a tech-enabled, full-service brokerage based in San Francisco, CA, announced today that it has hired Phil Pierce as Chief Growth Officer to join its growing team. Pierce joins Newfront from Lockton Companies, where he was Chief Operating Officer - Pacific North. “Newfront stood out... - November 10, 2021 - Newfront
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing SQL Server Performance of AWS EC2 M6i Instances vs. Older M5 Instances
In hands-on testing, PT found that M6i instances featuring 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors delivered faster data analysis for Microsoft SQL Server databases compared to M5 instances with older processors. - November 09, 2021 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Principled Technologies Finds That a Single Dell EMC PowerEdge R750 Server with Kubernetes Containers Can Support Up to 47,150 Web App Users
With a VMware vSphere and VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid environment, the server supported thousands of Weathervane users while meeting quality of service (QoS) requirements. - November 09, 2021 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Activate Brain & Body Chooses Cincinnati for First Brain Health Center. Focus on Upstream Preventive Healthcare Can Provide Important Quality of Life Benefits.
(Cincinnati) Activate Brain & Body Holdings, Inc. is opening the first-of-its-kind brain health center designed to help members maintain healthy, active lifestyles by taking charge of the way they age – cognitively and physically. Years of research and trial programs have informed the development of this innovative brain health center, scheduled to open in January 2022 in Cincinnati. - November 08, 2021 - Act!vate Brain & Body
Creative Ad Agency, SPREAD and Western Dental and Orthodontics Team Up to Launch the I Love Western Dental and I Love Brident Campaigns
Top Los Angeles creative advertising agency, SPREAD, teams up with Western Dental & Orthodontics to launch the I Love Western Dental and I Love Brident campaigns, which will focus on brand-oriented entertainment content creation and distribution. - November 08, 2021 - SPREAD
Image Options Promotes SVP of Sales and Marketing to C-Suite
California based retail and experiential design company promotes Barry Polan to Chief Revenue Officer. - November 05, 2021 - Image Options
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing the Procurement Process of Dell Technologies APEX Data Storage Services Solution to a Similar Competitor Solution
In hands-on testing, PT found that Dell Technologies APEX Data Storage Services deployed a managed Storage as-a-Service solution in as little as 13 days, which was quicker than the competitor solution. - November 05, 2021 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Vacatia Acquires Liberté Management Group - Adds Five Florida Resorts to Management Portfolio
Vacatia Inc., a leading provider of innovative, customer-centric solutions for timeshare resorts, has acquired Treasure Island, Florida-based Liberté Management Group, which specializes in the management and marketing of resort-style timeshare and condo hotel communities. With the addition... - November 03, 2021 - Vacatia Partner Services
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing the Procurement Processes for Two Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) Solutions
Principled Technologies compared the purchase, procurement and installation processes for Dell Technologies APEX Data Storage Services versus for an HPE GreenLake data storage solution. - November 02, 2021 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Mancini's Sleepworld is All Set to Open Its 35th Store in San Ramon, Bay Area
Mancini's Sleepworld is set to open its 35th store in San Ramon on 6th November 2021. Heavy footfall is expected at the store on Opening Day as there will be major events, including sweepstakes and giveaways. - November 01, 2021 - Mancini's Sleepworld
Winners Revealed for the 2021 IoT Innovator Awards
Winners are best-in-class businesses in the Internet of Things (IoT) space. - November 01, 2021 - IoT
Moonstream.to Releases an Analysis of Over 7 Million Ethereum NFT Transactions
Moonstream.to launched an open source tool for the quantitative analysis of the NFT market. Moonstream.to used this tool to analyze the over 7 million NFT transactions that took place on the Ethereum blockchain between April 1, 2021 and September 25, 2021 across over 700,000 accounts. Their... - October 25, 2021 - Moonstream
Bay Equity is Bay Area's 8th Fastest-Growing Private Firm
Bay Equity Home Loans has been named the 8th fastest-growing privately owned company in the San Francisco Bay Area. The San Francisco Business Times ranking is based on revenue growth from 2018 to 2020. Commenting on the growth, Bay Equity CEO Brett McGovern said: “We start with hiring... - October 23, 2021 - Bay Equity Home Loans
Securian Financial Teams Up with iGrad to Offer the Enrich Financial Wellness Platform to Retirement Plan Clients
Securian Financial will be offering the award-winning Enrich Financial Wellness platform, created by iGrad, to its retirement plan clients and their employees at no additional cost. - October 21, 2021 - iGrad