CleverTap Completes Acquisition of Leanplum

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and MUMBAI, India, Jun 13, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – CleverTap, world's No.1 retention cloud, today announced it has completed its acquisition of San Francisco based Leanplum, a leading multi-channel customer engagement platform.

The acquisition, originally announced on 19 th May, was closed in a record time of 3 weeks. With this acquisition, CleverTap has strengthened its footprint in the US and Europe. CleverTap will combine the product stack of both organizations and extend its world-class solutions and technology to all its customers and prospects worldwide. Momchil Kyurkchiev, Co-Founder of Leanplum, has joined CleverTap's leadership team as Chief Strategy Officer.

With the completion of the acquisition, CleverTap also welcomes marquee investors Norwest Partners, Shasta Ventures, Canaan, and Kleiner Perkins as its shareholders. The acquisition becomes revenue accretive for CleverTap from June 1st 2022.

"We are very excited to welcome Momchil and all Leanplum employees to the CleverTap family and expect full integration of the two companies, including an integrated product in the market to get completed over the next 3-4 quarters," says Sunil Thomas, CleverTap Co-founder and Executive Chairman. "With this acquisition Customers will now have a wide variety of product features and options to choose, from the best of both product line-ups (A/B Testing, Segmentation,Campaigns, Journeys etc.) At the same time, the acquisition provides a much bigger growth, exposure and learning opportunities for employees and collectively we will now become a dominant force with a large global footprint".

"The Martech landscape the world over is evolving at an exponential rate and hyper-personalized digital engagement at scale is the need of the hour. I am sure that together, Leanplum and CleverTap will address this need and continue to drive innovation in this space. CleverTap and Leanplum individually have had a robust presence in terms of geographical reach, industries, and categories. Collectively we will now become a dominant force with a large global footprint," says Momchil Kyurkchiev, Chief Strategy Officer at CleverTap.

"As we expand globally, we are looking to retain as well as grow 100% of the Leanplum customers by bringing all combined capability on one platform in due course. We also plan to increase our headcount in the US and Europe. Together, we aspire to be recognized as a SaaS talent powerhouse built on a strong people-first culture driven by values and equality," added Sunil.

About CleverTap

CleverTap is the modern, integrated retention cloud that empowers digital consumer brands to increase customer retention and lifetime value. CleverTap drives contextual individualization with the help of a unified and deep data layer, AI/ML-powered insights and automation enabling brands to offer hyper-personalized and delightful experiences to their customers. 1200+ Customers in 60+ countries and 10,000+ apps, including Gojek, ShopX, Canon, Mercedes Benz, Electronics Arts, TED, Jio, Premier League, TD Bank, Carousell, Papa John's, and Tesco, trust CleverTap to achieve their retention and engagement goals, growing their long-term revenue. Backed by leading venture capital firms, including Sequoia, Tiger Global Management, and Accel, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices in Mumbai, Singapore, Sofia, Sao Paulo, Bogota, Amsterdam, Jakarta and Dubai. For more information, visit clevertap.com or follow on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Media Contact:
Sony Shetty
CleverTap
sony@clevertap.com

Vishaal Mudholkar
Archetype
Consultant
vishaal.mudholkar@archetype.co

Forward-Looking Statements

Some of the statements in this press release may represent CleverTap's belief in connection with future events and may be forward-looking statements, or statements of future expectations based on currently available information. CleverTap cautions that such statements are naturally subject to risks and uncertainties that could amount in the actual result being absolutely different from the results anticipated by the statements mentioned in the press release. Factors such as the development of general economic conditions affecting our business, future market conditions, our ability to maintain cost advantages, uncertainty with respect to earnings, corporate actions, client concentration, reduced demand, liability or damages in our service contracts, unusual catastrophic loss events, war, political instability, changes in government policies or laws, legal restrictions impacting our business, impact of pandemic, epidemic, any natural calamity and other factors that are naturally beyond our control, changes in the capital markets and other circumstances may cause the actual events or results to be materially different, from those anticipated by such statements. CleverTap does not make any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness or updated or revised status of such statements. Therefore, in no case whatsoever will CleverTap and its affiliate companies be liable to anyone for any decision made or action taken in conjunction with the information and/or statements in this press release or any related damages.

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Lendlease commences construction on 100 MW data centre campus in Japan for Princeton Digital Group

TOKYO, Jun 13, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – Lendlease and Princeton Digital Group (PDG) today marked the commencement of construction of a 100 MW data center campus with a groundbreaking ceremony in Saitama City, north of Tokyo. This is the first project under Lendlease Data Centre Partners. Lendlease is developing and constructing the core and shell on a built-to-suit basis for PDG, on a long-term lease. PDG will invest in and operate the data center with its mechanical and electrical equipment. This data center will be one of the largest in Japan and is well poised to serve the hyperscale requirements of some of the world's largest cloud, commerce and content companies. The gross development value of the project post completion of all phases will be in excess of A$800 million for Lendlease, while PDG is investing US$1 billion of capital in this new data center.


Andrew Gauci, Lendlease Managing Director, Japan & Head of Telecoms and Data Infrastructure, Asia; Rangu Salgame, Princeton Digital Group Chairman & CEO; Justin Gabbani, Lendlease Chief Executive Officer Asia; and, Varoon Raghavan, Princeton Digital Group Chief Operating Officer (L-R) at the groundbreaking ceremony in Saitama City, Japan.

Artist's impression of the 100 MW data centre in Saitama City, Japan.


Located in Saitama City, 30 km north of central Tokyo, the facility is sited on approximately 33,000 sqm of land in one of the major commercial centers in the Greater Tokyo area. The phased development is planned to deliver more than 60,000 sqm of gross floor area and close to 100 MW of IT capacity.

Japan is the second largest data center market in Asia. Japan and Greater Tokyo are still in the early stages of growth, particularly in terms of entry and expansion of global hyperscalers.

The new facility will be built to the latest hyperscale design and standards, offering enhanced scalability, connectivity and reliability. Kajima Corporation has been appointed as contractor and Nikken Sekkei Ltd designer. This phase will be completed in 2024.

Andrew Gauci, Managing Director of Japan & Head of Telecoms and Data Infrastructure Asia:
"We are excited to commence construction of our first data center project under Lendlease Data Centre Partners, for a Pan-Asia market leader like PDG. This contributes to the Japanese government's plans to increase data capability in the country and improve digital resilience. Data centers is also a key sector for Lendlease and we look forward to accelerating our growth in the data infrastructure sector across our strategic markets."

Rangu Salgame, Chairman and CEO of Princeton Digital Group:
"Today marks an important milestone in PDG's plans in Japan, which is an important and strategic market for our customers. The on-time commencement of construction is a validation of our approach of adopting the right model for each market such as working with leading developers like Lendlease for this project. Our continued track record of delivering on our commitments is a key factor in why PDG is a partner of choice for hyperscalers across the region."

For more information please contact:

Lendlease
Shizuka Aone
Shizuka.Aone@lendlease.com
+81 80 3578 3971

Princeton Digital Group
Pritimukta Sarangi
pritimukta.sarangi@princetondg.com

PRecious Communications for Princeton Digital Group
PDG@preciouscomms.com

About Lendlease
Lendlease is an international real estate group with core expertise in shaping cities and creating strong and connected communities. Our purpose is Together we create value through places where communities thrive. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, Lendlease has operations in Australia, Asia, Europe and the Americas, with approximately 8,000 employees internationally. Our core capabilities are reflected in our operating segments of Development, Investments and Construction. For more information, please visit: www.lendlease.com

About Princeton Digital Group
Princeton Digital Group (PDG) is a leading developer and operator of Internet infrastructure. Headquartered in Singapore with presence and operations in China, Singapore, India, Indonesia, and Japan, its portfolio of data centers powers the expansion of hyperscalers and enterprises in the fastest-growing digital economies across Asia. For more information, www.princetondg.com or follow us on LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/company/princetondg/).

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Retention Cloud Leader CleverTap Unveils TesseractDB

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and MUMBAI, India, Jun 8, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – CleverTap, the world's No. 1 retention cloud, today announced it has unveiled TesseractDB(TM), the world's first purpose-built database designed to dramatically improve user engagement and retention for digital consumer brands. TesseractDB(TM) brings true technology innovation to growth marketing leaders looking to deliver in-context, timely, personalized messaging and recommendations across all user touchpoints.

TesseractDB(TM) transforms massive amounts of first-party user data in a privacy-friendly, accessible, and affordable way to power real-time user personalization. Leveraging machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI), it offers limitless scale and enables digital brands and businesses to harness data and context for every interaction. User engagement and retention start from Day One when a user launches an app for the first time.

Research estimates that nearly 85% of all messaging is considered spam, an average of about 122 billion messages globally. About 36% of spam content is generated from ill-timed, non-personalized marketing messages. This problem continues to be prevalent due to the limited data technologies that are patently unable to store the massive volumes of first-party data required to offer a truly personal customer experience.

"Today, we are excited to unveil TesseractDB(TM), the data technology that powers the CleverTap platform. It will allow global growth marketing teams to achieve true omni-channel customer engagement," said Sunil Thomas, CleverTap Co-founder and Executive Chairman. "In the last 40 years, MarTech vendors have cobbled together generic off-the-shelf data technologies in an effort to solve issues for end-user messaging. These technologies have been limiting, and as a result, brands simply cannot fully unlock their own user data for real and meaningful relationship building. To transition away from the spam and transactional communication that is so prevalent in MarTech today, we must make user data available, affordable, and easily accessible. This is why we invented TesseractDB(TM)."

TesseractDB(TM) is a giant technological leap that removes all data related limitations typically associated with the MarTech industry. Using TesseractDB(TM), digital brands can offer each user a magical onboarding experience and continue to deliver delightful experiences throughout their journey.

TesseractDB(TM) enables CleverTap to offer unmatched technology, features, and capabilities –

– Unlimited data look back periods without any limitations
– High speed, scale, and unmatched throughput
– Rich, granular first-party user data storage
– Built-in real-time machine learning and AI
– Hyper-personalized engagement and recommendations

"Until now, data look back and access limitations, created by overages and cost, prevented brands from unlocking the full potential of first-party user data for engagement. This is a deep tech and science problem. With TesseractDB(TM), CleverTap provides the industry's most versatile segmentation and data processing engine for mobile engagement," says Momchil Kyurkchiev, Chief Strategy Officer, CleverTap. He adds, "TesseractDB(TM) is designed to provide MarTech professionals a cost-effective and efficient way to capture unlimited data streams and deliver actionable insights and analytics to drive personalization and engagement."

About CleverTap

CleverTap is the modern, integrated retention cloud that empowers digital consumer brands to increase customer retention and lifetime value. For brands that understand and value user retention, CleverTap drives context and individualization with the help of a unified and deep data layer, AI/ML-powered insights and automation. Customers worldwide representing over 10,000 apps, including Premier League, Bolt, Truecaller, Current Mobile, Trebel, Ze Delivery, TitleMax, YouNow, Albo, Vodafone Idea, SonyLIV, Gojek, Carousell, and Premier League, trust CleverTap to achieve their retention and engagement goals, growing their long term revenue. Backed by leading venture capital firms, including Sequoia India, Tiger Global Management, and Accel, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices in Mumbai, Singapore, and Dubai. For more information, visit https://clevertap.com/ or follow on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Media Contact:
Sony Shetty
CleverTap
sony@clevertap.com

Forward-Looking Statements

Some of the statements in this press release may represent CleverTap's belief in connection with future events and may be forward-looking statements, or statements of future expectations based on currently available information. CleverTap cautions that such statements are naturally subject to risks and uncertainties that could amount in the actual result being absolutely different from the results anticipated by the statements mentioned in the press release. Factors such as the development of general economic conditions affecting our business, future market conditions, our ability to maintain cost advantages, uncertainty with respect to earnings, corporate actions, client concentration, reduced demand, liability or damages in our service contracts, unusual catastrophic loss events, war, political instability, changes in government policies or laws, legal restrictions impacting our business, impact of pandemic, epidemic, any natural calamity and other factors that are naturally beyond our control, changes in the capital markets and other circumstances may cause the actual events or results to be materially different, from those anticipated by such statements. CleverTap does not make any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness or updated or revised status of such statements. Therefore, in no case whatsoever will CleverTap and its affiliate companies be liable to anyone for any decision made or action taken in conjunction with the information and/or statements in this press release or any related damages.

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The 11th Edition of the Big CIO Show & Awards was Convened by CIOs to Broaden the Horizons of Leadership

New Delhi, India, Jun 2, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – India played host to one of the most content-rich conferences that took place at Taj Lands End in Mumbai on 18th May 2022. Hosted by leading global business events and consulting firm Trescon, the show included a glittering awards ceremony with the 'INNOVATOR'S AWARDS' and 'LEADER'S AWARDS' honoring more than 100 CIOs and tech leaders in India. The event featured prominent global technology providers who showcased innovative enterprise technology solutions that help businesses become more efficient and resilient to market conditions.



The show featured discussions on some of the most trending opportunities and challenges including: The future of digital leadership; Data-first, data-anywhere business model; Next gen data and AI platforms; Data in motion; Winning WhatsApp commerce strategy; Value proposition of cloud-centric virtual worlds; Automation and composable technology; and Roadmap to a secure and scalable hybrid workforce, to name a few.

Dr. Neeta Verma, Director General, National Informatics Centre, MeitY, spoke at length on the topic 'Reimagining a Digital Nation with Innovation & Sustainability at its Core', who made strong points on the ideals of sustainability and expressed how important a role carbon neutrality will play in our country.

Vikram Chauhan Head of Enterprise & Government Business for Intel India while delivering his tech talk on 'India Fast Forward: Technology-led Transformation', stated that the technological capabilities that cloud on-boards are totally unmatched, and added that the Cloud is a cornerstone of today's technology.

Caesar Peter, Head of Solution Engineering – Asia at Confluent, shared his insights on 'Rethinking Data: Set Your Data in Motion to Win in the Digital Economy'. He was quoted saying, "People today want instant connectivity in real-time."

One of the most prominent panel discussions witnessed at the event discussed on 'Leading with Data, Intelligence & Automation'. The speakers on the panel included Dipak Nair, CTO, Tata AIG General Insurance; Siddhesh Naik, Country Leader, Data, AI & Automation, Technology Sales, IBM India, South Asia; RaviKiran Avvaru, IT Head/CIO Office (PM), Apollo Tyres; Rishikesh Singh, CIO, Advanced Materials – Aditya Birla Group; and moderated by Rajgopal Nayak, CTO, Metro Brands.

In his Panel RaviKiran Avvaru stated that, "having a monetary benefit cannot be the sole purpose of investing in an application, there are other KPIs which come into play and one prime indicator is customer satisfaction."

"Big CIO Show & Awards has served as a platform for recognizing the unsung heroes, who are innovative and have succeeded in their respective disciplines and have helped their organizations achieve great success via their efforts. We are happy to have hosted all these experts on our platform and look forward to hosting them again at our future initiatives. I would also like to congratulate all the top 100 CIO Leaders and Innovators in India who won the Big CIO Awards," stated Mithun Shetty, CEO, Trescon.

Big CIO Show & Awards – India is officially SUPPORTED by NITI Aayog and sponsored by:
– INNOVATION PARTNER – Intel India
– PREMIER PLATINUM PARTNER – IBM
– PLATINUM PARTNER – Confluent
– GOLD PARTNER – Haptik;
– BRONZE PARTNERS – Darktrace, NeoSOFT, Web Werks, Dista, and Fortinet.
– EXHIBITOR – Okta/ACPL
– OFFICIAL PRINT PARTNER – Business Standard
– OFFICIAL ONLINE NEWS DISTRIBUTION PARTNER – Businesswire India

About Trescon:

Trescon is a global business events and consulting firm that provides a wide range of business services to a diversified client base that includes corporations, governments and individuals. Trescon is specialized in producing highly focused B2B events that connect businesses with opportunities through conferences, road shows, expos, demand generation, investor connect and consulting services.

About Big CIO Show & Awards:

Big CIO Show & Awards is a thought-leadership, business-focused initiative that provides a platform for CIOs who are looking to explore new-age technologies and implement them in their organizations.

The show will host CIOs across industry sectors in India who will meet, network, learn and engage with some of the world's renowned technology thought-leaders, subject matter experts and technology innovators in a constructive, open-dialogue environment to find solutions for issues hindering their business and personal growth.

For further details about the event, please contact:
Nupur Aswani
Head – Media, PR, and Corporate Communications
+91 9555915156 [nupur@tresconglobal.com]

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SESAMi Holding acquires MyBiz in all-cash deal boosting regional footprint

SINGAPORE, Jun 1, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – SESAMi Holding Pte Ltd (SESAMi) announced the successful acquisition of MyBiz Solutions Sdn Bhd.

The all-cash deal is immediately profit-accretive and provides SESAMi with an additional revenue stream as well as an opportunity to strengthen SESAMi's portfolio of businesses. The company also believes that the acquisition has the potential to significantly value-add to existing and potential customers of both SESAMi and MyBiz.

Mr Ong Teck Soon, SESAMi Holding's Chairman and CEO said, "We have been actively exploring various strategic acquisition opportunities to strengthen SESAMi's suite of products and services and enable the Company to provide a more robust business solution to our customers, thereby helping us grow revenue. The acquisition, when completed, is expected to enable us to capture new opportunities within the fast-growing online transactional commerce business in the region and we are confident of the industry's significant long-term growth prospects."

Award-winning MyBiz has emerged as an Asian leader in spend management and strategic sourcing solutions with more than 20 years of experience and expertise in their field. Their proprietary software was awarded the Procurement Consultancy Award in the World Procurement Awards 2019, as well as the "Solution Provider of the Year" in the Asia Pacific Procurement Awards in 2018. Over the years, the company has successfully delivered hundreds of millions of dollars of savings for their industry-leading clients, including companies such as Sembcorp Industries, Westpac Bank, Singapore Airlines, ST Engineering, UOB and Maybank.

SESAMi is Asia's leader and powerhouse in providing trusted solutions for transacting commerce over the Internet for sourcing, procurement, planning and order management. Their clients include organisations in both the public and private sector ranging from industries such as healthcare, aviation, tourism and telecommunications. As the foremost commerce service provider and operator of the leading electronic hub (E-Hub), SESAMi is best positioned to facilitate and provide the advantages and efficiencies of trading online to businesses. Together with MyBiz, SESAMi will bring a fully integrated supply chain solution to corporates and their suppliers in Singapore and Malaysia in a more timely, automated and cost-efficient manner.

Following the acquisition, SESAMi expects to also add to its growing pool of tech talent that will drive innovation in the organisation to better serve its customers. In a constantly-evolving world with customers demanding the highest levels of service and product offerings, we see our people as a vitally important differentiator in staying ahead of the competition, by anticipating and adapting to situational as well as long-term trends in this space. Moving forward, the company will look to integrate financing and payment solutions to make the platform even more holistic and all-encompassing.

Mr Ong added, "MyBiz has been aptly described as the Porsche of procurement – a fast, reliable and technologically advanced platform that we see as being a natural fit to SESAMi, the largest e-procurement platform in Singapore, and a vital piece of the entire jigsaw puzzle to reshape the entire industry to become the gateway for organisations, whether buyer or supplier, to seamlessly interact and transact on a platform that is built with a commitment to enhancing efficiency, accessibility, security and equal opportunity. This acquisition will further accelerate our efforts to develop new and innovative products to capture the fast-growing transactional commerce economy and we are excited to bring even more choice, value and savings to our customers going forward."

About SESAMi ( www.sesami.com )

SESAMi was founded in 1999 by a consortium of large corporates to develop e-sourcing and e-procurement services. Over the years, the company has consolidated its position in the e-procurement sector in Singapore, while expanding into other services like demand aggregation and e-financing. In 2018, SESAMi further expanded its technological capabilities by acquiring Capital Match, a leading lending platform in Singapore focusing on trade finance. Today, SESAMi processes around S$6bn of e-purchase orders and S$2bn of e- invoices annually on its platform with over $225M worth of origination via its e-financing program.

For media enquiries, please contact:
Donny Ong. SESAMi
Email: donny.ong@sesami.com

Derek Yeo / Wayne Koo
Email: derek@waterbrooks.com.sg / wayne.koo@waterbrooks.com.sg

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Showa Denko Starts Shipment of Newly Developed HD Media for Record-breaking 26TB Near-line HDD

TOKYO, May 26, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) (TOKYO: 4004) has started shipment of newly developed 3.5-inch hard disk media (HD media) to be used in 26 terabyte (TB) hard disk drive (HDD), which has the largest storage capacity the HDD industry has ever produced(1).

The new HD media support energy-assisted magnetic recording(2) and shingled magnetic recording(3)(SMR). This time, by introducing Showa Denko Group's latest magnetic layer design and technology to produce fine crystals of magnetic substance on the surface of aluminum platter, we successfully developed HD media which have storage capacity of 2.6TB per platter, the largest one in the industry. Thus, the new HD media have pioneered the age of HD media having recording density of 1TB/in2 or higher, and we successfully combined technology to produce fine crystals of magnetic substance with technology to improve rewrite-cycle endurance on the surface of HD media, while maintaining compatibility with shingled magnetic recording (SMR). We will accelerate development of new HD media further, and aim to realize near-line HDD having storage capacity of more than 30TB by the end of 2023.

Due to the spread of cloud-computing service and increase in video content, data centers need HDDs with larger storage capacity. In the field of HD media, which are key part of HDDs and affect their storage capacities, the Showa Denko Group has been putting topflight products in the world onto the market before others. As the largest independent HD media supplier, the Showa Denko Group will continue contributing to the increases in storage capacities of HDDs in accordance with its motto of "Best in Class," thereby supporting expansion of data economy.

*1: As of May 9, 2022
*2: Energy-assisted magnetic recording is a technology to record data on the surface of HD media with density higher than those achieved through conventional recording technologies, by pouring energy into magnetic substances which have high coercivity and assisting reversal of magnetization.
*3: Shingled magnetic recording is a technology to record data on the surface of HD media with high density by piling up a part of magnetic layers one another like singles.

About Showa Denko K.K.

Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; TSE:4004, ADR:SHWDY) is a major manufacturer of chemical products serving from heavy industry to computers and electronics. The Petrochemicals Sector provides cracker products such as ethylene and propylene, the Chemicals Sector provides industrial, high-performance and high-purity gases and chemicals for semicon and other industries, the Inorganics Sector provides ceramic products, such as alumina, abrasives, refractory/graphite electrodes and fine carbon products. The Aluminum Sector provides aluminum materials and high-value-added fabricated aluminum, the Electronics Sector provides HD media, compound semiconductors such as ultra high bright LEDs, and rare earth magnetic alloys, and the Advanced Battery Materials Department (ABM) provides lithium-ion battery components. For more information, please visit www.sdk.co.jp/english/.

Media contact:
Showa Denko K.K., Public Relations Group, Brand Communication Department, Tel: 81-3-5470-3235

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IRE NZ Releases Property Management Software Website in New Zealand

RICHMOND, New Zealand, May 25, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – IRE New Zealand, is pleased to announce the launch of its new website, which showcases digital solutions for property professionals in New Zealand. Sales and property managers are welcome to book a free demo of their Property Management Software on the NZ site.

An IRE NZ company spokesperson noted that IRE's new Property Management Software is comprehensive and includes all the tools needed to run a successful Property Management business in NZ. These solutions include:

– Enquiry Management Software, which puts property managers back in control with automated communications, 24/7 bookings and customisable calendars.
– IRE BDM will help property managers and BDMs win new business with less effort by generating leads and analysing performance.
– KeyWhere is an innovative key management solution that helps users keep track of their keys in real-time and enjoy easy checkouts, automated alerts, and live status updates.

"We understand that running a business takes precedence over growing a business, which is why we created an Enquiry Management System for NZ that basically runs itself," the spokesperson noted, adding that thanks to the innovative new Property Management Software, property professionals can now get access to a user-friendly and intuitive digital solution.

"Also, we've got you covered when it comes to nurturing your new leads. Our email delay feature stops overzealous agents coming on too strong while pre-populated newsletter templates help you stay in touch with useful content."

Thanks to the automated status change alerts, property professionals will easily know exactly where a prospective customer is in the conversion funnel.

To learn more about IRE NZ's Property Management Software and its key management system for real estate features, please visit the new website.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=475zI7-9hgU&t=6s

About IRE New Zealand

In 2011, former agency owner Andrew Reece and software engineer Mike van Raders set out to transform the industry. Armed with valuable property know-how and some serious engineering chops, the pair got to work building a powerful digital platform that is now used by thousands of customers around the world. Today, IRE works with leading sales and property managers to help them streamline their operations and grow their businesses. Every day, their users rely on IRE software to automate property enquiries, streamline communications, manage viewings, process tenancy applications, and more. For more information, please visit https://iretech.io/nz/.

Media Contact
Grace Chittenden
0277675611
Grace.Chittenden@inspectrealestate.co.nz

IRE NZ
Suite 1 Level 1/259 Queen Street
Richmond 7010
New Zealand

SOURCE: Inspect Real Estate

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Kingsoft Announces 2022 First Quarter Results

HONG KONG, May 24, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – Kingsoft Corporation Limited ("Kingsoft" or the "Company"; HKEx stock code: 03888), a leading Chinese software and Internet service company, has announced its unaudited quarterly results for the three months ended 31 March 2022 ("period under review").

During the period under review, the revenue of Kingsoft increased 19% year-over-year and 2% quarter-over-quarter to RMB1,853.0 million. Revenue from the office software and services, and the online games and others represented 47% and 53%, respectively, of total revenue. Gross profit increased 14% year-over-year and 4% quarter-over-quarter to RMB1,502.3 million. Operating profit before share-based compensation costs increased 5% year-over-year and 42% quarter-over-quarter to RMB573.7 million.

Mr. Jun LEI, Chairman of Kingsoft, commented, "Amidst the evolving market and new challenges, we have successfully seized the opportunity for digital transformation and achieved a decent start in our core businesses. During the quarter, Kingsoft Office Group continued to pursue the strategy of 'multi-screen, cloud, content, artificial intelligence ("AI") and collaboration', upgrade its cloud office services and solutions, expand its user base and enhanced market penetration. In the online games business, we continued to focus on the R&D of premium games, promote the long-term development of core games and the overseas market expansion."

Mr. Tao ZOU, Chief Executive Officer of Kingsoft, added, "The Company maintained steady performance across all businesses in the first quarter with total revenue reaching RMB1,853.0 million, increasing by 19% year-on-year. Driven by the continued growth of subscription revenue from individual and institutional users, our office software and services business in the first quarter increased by 13% year-on-year. With the contribution of our new mobile games launched in the fourth quarter of 2021, our online games and others business in the first quarter increased by 25% year-on year."

BUSINESS REVIEW

Office Software and Services
For the first quarter of 2022, revenue from the office software and services business increased 13% year-on-year to RMB871.1 million. The year-on-year increase was mainly due to the continued growth of Kingsoft Office Group's individual and institutional subscription business.

During the quarter, the robust year-on-year growth of domestic individual subscriptions business was primarily driven by the ongoing user base expansion and growth in the number of long-term paying users. Meanwhile, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the highly effective collaboration functions of WPS Docs facilitated information sharing and drove a continuous increase in the number of uploaded cloud documents. Regarding the government and enterprise market, Kingsoft Office Group continued to enhance the solution quality of cloud and collaboration, bring brand-new experiences to users, and further promote cloud office migration and penetration. Kingsoft Office Group continued to optimize its solutions, enhance the eco-system construction and channel capabilities, and seize new opportunities arising from digital government and the industry digital transformation.

Online Games and Others
Revenue from the online games and others business for the first quarter of 2022 increased 25% year-on-year and 7% quarter-on-quarter to RMB981.9 million. The increases were mainly due to the successful launch of several mobile games in the fourth quarter of 2021.

JX World III, which was launched at the end of 2021, achieved an excellent performance in the quarter, and further demonstrated our strengths in R&D and operation of premium games. Meanwhile, we continued to optimize our newly launched titles. In April 2022, we have received the license approval for JX Online III Origin, and launched its open beta on 13 May. In view of the globalization, we strive to increase our product presence in international markets. As such, JX World III was launched in Southeast Asia in March 2022 , and Wu Lin Xian Xia was launch in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in April 2022, and will also be released in South Korea in the third quarter of the year.

Mr. Jun LEI concluded, "The results we achieved in the first quarter lays a solid foundation for the year of 2022. Looking ahead, the Company will continue to adhere to technological empowerment and keep investing in R&D . We will also strengthen our products and services, optimize user experience and strive to build a brighter future together with our users and partners."

About Kingsoft Corporation Limited
Kingsoft is a leading software and Internet services company based in China listed on the stock exchange of Hong Kong. It has three main subsidiaries including Kingsoft Office, Seasun and Kingsoft Shiyou. Following the implementation of its "mobile internet transformation" strategy, Kingsoft has completed the comprehensive transformation of its overall business and management models, and formed a strategic platform with office software and interactive entertainment as the pillars and cloud services and AI as the new directions. The Company has more than 7,000 staff around the world and enjoys a large market share in China. For more information, please visit http://www.kingsoft.com.

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Retention Cloud Leader CleverTap Acquires Leanplum

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and MUMBAI, India, May 19, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – CleverTap, the world's No.1 retention cloud, today announced it has signed definitive agreements to fully acquire San Francisco based Leanplum, a leading multi-channel customer engagement platform, for an undisclosed amount.

This acquisition will make CleverTap a truly global company with development centers and customer-facing and success teams across North America, Europe, Latin America, India, South East Asia and the Middle East. Combining the product stack of the two organizations, this acquisition will enhance CleverTap's capabilities and take its total customer base to over 1200 customers in more than 100 countries around the world. The deal is expected to close in Q2 of 2022.

Together CleverTap and Leanplum will work with digital brands to help increase their users' engagement, retention and lifetime value by making every user experience hyper-personalized, relevant and contextual at scale in real time. As more businesses become digital-first, brands need to serve their users with delightful moments where they are, when they want and on their preferred channel. CleverTap and Leanplum will now bring real-time hyper-personalization, A/B testing and increased scalability to its omnichannel engagement, analytics and segmentation product lines. As a result, growth and marketing teams globally will now be able to utilize the only end-to-end user engagement and retention cloud platform, enabling them to break down user communication silos and increase the overall lifetime value of each user.

"We are seeing a seismic shift in the marketing technology landscape," says Sunil Thomas, CleverTap Co-founder and Executive Chairman. "Users today demand to be treated as individuals, and this has forced brands to change how they engage with them. CleverTap and Leanplum have both purposely built for a mobile-centric omnichannel world." The acquisition, he says, combines platforms and teams to deliver the best behavior analytics, segmentation, and engagement tools that will enable digital brands to build valuable, long-term relationships with their users. "Our combined strength will be a game-changing force for user engagement, retention and monetization, creating tremendous value for our customers. I am very excited to welcome Leanplum to the CleverTap family."

"When we started Leanplum, our vision was to meet customers' real-time needs at the cutting edge of technology," says Momchil Kyurkchiev, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Leanplum. "We have succeeded in that, but as the market has matured, to fully meet the increasing demands put on brands today, we needed to bring in the best analytics, segmentation, and engagement tools, to help our customers build valuable, long-term relationships with their customers. This is why joining forces with CleverTap makes the most sense, and I am excited about the combined capabilities we will now bring to Leanplum customers worldwide."

"I am looking forward to the journey with Leanplum. This coming together with Leanplum marks a monumental moment across the marketing technology landscape," says Sidharth Malik, CleverTap Chief Executive Officer. "This bridges the gap created by multiple martech tools and customer data platforms and will meet the growing needs of user-obsessed digital brands in a much more efficient way. Our 'better together' vision is about integrating our cumulative strengths around people, process and technology to cement our position as the global leader in the user engagement and retention space. Joining forces allows us to bring advanced product and technology capabilities as brands strive to do live segmentation, anticipate user intentions and actions, automate and deploy real-time campaigns for the highest possible conversions, all from one single dashboard."

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About CleverTap

CleverTap is the modern, integrated, retention cloud that empowers digital consumer brands to increase customer retention and lifetime value. For brands that understand and value user retention, CleverTap drives context and individualization with the help of a unified and deep data layer, AI/ML-powered insights and automation. Customers worldwide representing over 10,000 apps, including Vodafone Idea, SonyLIV, Daimler, Gojek, Carousell, and Premier League, trust CleverTap to achieve their retention and engagement goals, growing their long term revenue. Backed by leading venture capital firms, including Sequoia India, Tiger Global Management, and Accel, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices in Mumbai, Singapore, and Dubai. For more information, visit clevertap.com or follow on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Forward-Looking Statements

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Proofpoint Showcases Unique People-Centric Cybersecurity Innovation Across All Product Lines at Protect 2022 Conference

SINGAPORE, May 18, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – Proofpoint, Inc., a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, announced today at its annual Protect 2022 conference a host of people-centric innovations across its entire product line, meeting customer demand for solutions that address the security and compliance needs of today's increasingly cloud-reliant, distributed workforce. These enhancements empower companies worldwide to stay ahead of a continually evolving threat landscape and better protect their most important asset – their people – from attacks and compliance risks related to email, cloud, data and collaboration tools.

"We are focused on developing security innovations that protect people – wherever they may work – and defend their data from today's most harmful risks. To stay ahead of the threat actors, we invest hundreds of millions annually into our products and rely on the most advanced AI/ML technologies to defend our customers," said Ashan Willy, Proofpoint's Chief Executive Officer. "Our unmatched AI-powered data intelligence and ongoing commitment to innovation are why 75% of the Fortune 100 trust Proofpoint as their cybersecurity partner."

Every day, Proofpoint analyzes an incredible data set of more than 2.6 billion email messages, 49 billion URLs, 1.9 billion attachments, 28.2 million cloud accounts and over 500 million events associated with potential data loss. This gives us and our customers unmatched visibility into the threat landscape.

"Driven by the accelerated adoption of work-from-anywhere practices, our Information Protection and Cloud Security Platform is now deployed to over 25 million users worldwide," continued Willy. "Over the past 12 months, we have become the most utilized insider threat solution in the market, and our DLP solution is trusted by some of the world's biggest brands. This speaks to our ability to solve the most complex information protection challenges faced by organizations today."

Proofpoint reinvests twenty percent of its annual revenue into R&D, one of the highest percentages in the industry. The following people-centric enhancements benefit from that research and address critical areas for organizations, including cloud application security, information protection across cloud, web, endpoint and email, insider threat, deep threat intelligence, compliance, email authentication, and employee security awareness.

Proofpoint Threat Protection Platform leverages over 26 different layers of detection to uncover sophisticated email fraud attacks, including BEC, account compromise, and ransomware. With Proofpoint's leadership in innovation, we migrated over 2.7 million enterprise seats to Proofpoint over the last year, and now protect over 200,000 small businesses with Proofpoint Essentials.

– Advanced Business Email Compromise Behavioral Analysis Defense Protection, Powered by New Supernova Behavioral Engine:Launched a year ago, Proofpoint's Supernova detection platform has delivered a 2x improvement in BEC detection with higher fidelity and lower false positives, stopping over 5 million BEC attack attempts per month. Starting in Q3, a new engine in Supernova will provide advanced behavioral analysis that identifies anomalous communication patterns for an organization's employees, improving detection efficacy for BEC, supplier risk, third-party account compromise, phishing, and ransomware threats. The new engine will be provided as a free detection stack upgrade to enterprises using Proofpoint email security.

– Secure Email Relay: Available now, Proofpoint Secure Email Relay provides centralized security control and visibility into application email, including 3rd party senders, as well as protects against data leaks and secures sensitive data by applying payload encryption and DLP to application email.

– Managed Email Security: Offers customers best-in-class services to complement their email security investment and drive a more sophisticated program that reduces operational overhead while improving risk posture and visibility.

– Cloud Threat Response Auto-Pull: Available since February 2022, the SaaS version of TRAP provides mail-centric Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (mSOAR), simplifying deployment and management of the automated removal of malicious and unwanted messages and compromised account remediation. Within 3 months of availability, over 600 enterprises have adopted Cloud Threat Response Auto-Pull.

Proofpoint Security Awareness Platform has over 35 million users and attracted over 2,500 new enterprise customers in the past year, with over 100 million annual simulated phishing tests sent.

– Micro-learning and Adaptive Learning Framework: Available now, our new framework provides flexibility to maximize allocated training time and improves user engagement with a more personalized learning experience that allows users to build on prior knowledge over time. The framework is built across 10 common security domains with progressive levels – delivering concise content that is not longer than 3 minutes and available in 41 languages.

– Email Warning Tags (EWT): This feature provides "in-the-moment" contextual nudges to alert users about uncertain email through embedded HMTL notifications on all devices; empowers users to report suspicious messages directly from the email warning tags, even from mobile devices.

– Cultural Assessment: Available in Q3 2022, this assessment enables CISOs and security leaders to benchmark their organization's security culture by evaluating their employees' attitudes to cybersecurity in the workplace. Insights from the cultural assessment can be used to optimize their organization's program and drive behavior change.

Proofpoint Information and Cloud Security Platform brings together unique context across content, behavior and threats for people-centric insights into and prevention of data loss and insider threats. Our solutions are trusted by customers as diverse as a top five automotive manufacturer, a global pharmaceutical company with 100,000 seats and a Fortune 500 fintech services firm with 62,000 seats; several of which were migrations from legacy DLP vendors.

– Intelligent Classification & Protection: Available now, our AI-powered classification offers increased visibility to sensitive data in cloud and on-premises repositories to accelerate DLP deployment. Includes custom-tailored dictionaries, automated policy recommendations and file labeling via the integration with Microsoft Information Protection.

– Data Privacy and Masking: Address data privacy and compliance needs by masking PII data in forensics information and controlling access to functionality and data in the console with role-based or other attribute-based policies, enabling safe and seamless collaboration between teams and business units.

– Cloud Risk Explorer (Beta): Available this quarter, our Cloud Risk Explorer simplifies cloud governance and compliance efforts with more dynamic prioritization and comprehensive discovery of cloud and web apps. This includes dynamic intelligence around sensitive data, user privileges and user behavior patterns in each cloud app on top of known vulnerabilities. In addition, Proofpoint CASB customers can discover shadow IT apps more easily than before by surfacing visibility into URLs accessed via their existing Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection and Browser Isolation products without the need for traditional firewall and web gateway log analysis.

– Data Security Reports: Available this quarter, these provide an executive overview of data security and risk, including the effectiveness of DLP policies, coverage across channels and historical trends. They also offer insights into data loss risk posed by users engaged in undesirable behaviors when handling sensitive data across various channels.

Proofpoint Intelligent Compliance Platform provides ML and AI innovation to quickly solve the most sophisticated regulatory compliance and corporate legal challenges, with over 45 petabytes of data under management – a 39% year-over-year growth.

– Flag Deduplication: Available this quarter, flag deduplication allows customers to significantly reduce the amount of content for review by avoiding original content that has already been flagged, such as replies and forwards. Using Proofpoint's ML engine, this has driven an 84% reduction in false positives during data supervisory, reporting, and review.

– Video Analysis: Available now, this feature leverages modern compliance architecture and machine learning to help customers analyze video imagery and transcribe audio to identify compliance violations.

– Proofpoint Capture for Text: Available in Q3 2022, Proofpoint will add Capture and Patrol for text messaging. Content exchanged in the texts are directly integrated to Proofpoint's machine learning engine to be scanned and evaluated against hundreds of regulatory and corporate compliance policies.

For more on Proofpoint's Information Protection solutions, please visit:
https://www.proofpoint.com/us/products/information-protection

To learn more about Proofpoint's Protect 2022 customer conference, please visit:
https://www.proofpoint.com/us/events/protect.

About Proofpoint, Inc.

Proofpoint, Inc. is a leading cybersecurity and compliance company that protects organizations' greatest assets and biggest risks: their people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including 75 percent of the Fortune 100, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions that mitigate their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web. More information is available at www.proofpoint.com.

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Proofpoint is a registered trademark or tradename of Proofpoint, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.

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