Eurasia

Energy Aspects (EA) and Vortexa announced a new partnership that combines industry leading energy commodity data and intelligence with best in class cargo tracking analytics to provide energy markets with even greater understanding of short-term market dynamics. EA will use Vortexa’s cargo tracking analytics as an input to its world-class research and analysis on global crude, refined products and LNG markets. This will help bring increased clarity to energy markets during a time of historic complexity, volatility and transition.

On 22nd March 2023, the DENZA x DEVIALET Cooperation Kick-off Evening was held at the Bay Opera of Shenzhen. At the event, DENZA and DEVIALET jointly unveiled the DENZA N7, the world's first mass-produced model coming with the DEVIALET car audio system. This cooperation witnesses DENZA become the first brand to apply DEVIALET’s audio system and serves as a paradigm of international cooperation in the global automotive industry.

Q2 Holdings, Inc., a global provider of digital transformation solutions for banking and lending, has announced that Kontiki Finance Limited (KFL), a $110 million, multi-ethnic microfinance company based in Fiji, will modernise and future-proof its finance business using the Q2 loan management and origination solutions. The move will enable rapid, scalable business growth for Kontiki Finance Limited to enter new markets throughout the Pacific Islands and beyond.

FPT Software, one of Vietnam's leading IT service provider, opened a new office in Seoul, South Korea, and its 64th globally. With this new office, FPT Software is the first Vietnamese IT company to open a second office in the Korean market, in an effort to strengthen the company’s presence in the market and become a world-class, billion-dollar company.

A new agreement is seeking to lay the foundations for a start-up bridge between India’s most industrialised state and Western Australia’s thriving innovation ecosystem. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed by iTNT Hub – India’s first emerging and deeptech innovation network – and the Curtin-based WA Data Science Innovation Hub, the Western Australia cluster for data science, artificial intelligence, and information technology innovation.

Linedata, a credit and asset management tech firm, data and services, opened new office in Singapore, strengthening its APAC footprint following a strong increase in businesses’ needs. Leaning on its large portfolio of clients within the alternative institutional wealth segment, the new Singapore office will enable Linedata to reinforce its existing product suite offering, combine technology and services and tailor them to the needs of the Singaporean market.

Boomi™, the intelligent connectivity and automation firm, opened a new office in Bengaluru, India. As Boomi welcomes its current local team members to the space, the company also intends to more than double its engineering headcount in India in the next 12 months. The expansion further extends Boomi’s strong presence in the region, which includes offices in Hyderabad and other cities, with team members in a wide variety of operational functions, from engineering to customer support, accounting, human resources, and more.

IQM Quantum Computers (IQM), the builder of quantum computers, launched an initiative, “IQM Academy,” to offer a free online quantum training course to prepare talent for quantum workforce development. IQM aims to reach high school and university students, educators, and enthusiasts who are curious to learn about the fundamentals of quantum computing.

FreeBit Co., Ltd. (FreeBit) released "freebit web3 Blocks", which solves various problems with the existing blockchains. FreeBit announced that in a demonstration experiment "TONE Coin" - a loyalty point system based on a smartphone operated, Ethereum-compatible Layer 1 blockchain “TONE Chain” - in about 10 months has exceeded 3,000 nodes in regular operation, making it the fifth largest Layer 1 blockchain in terms of the operational scale.

Gradiant, a global solutions provider for advanced water and wastewater treatment, announced it has acquired Muscat Projects & Engineering Services (MPES), one of the leading full-service water and wastewater management company in Oman. This announcement follows Gradiant’s acquisition of Advanced Watertek in February, a major original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for membrane-based water and wastewater treatment systems.