AfterNow Spotlighted in Article on Frictionless Augmented Reality
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A recent article from the American Alliance of Museums - Towards Frictionless Augmented Reality - features AfterNow's collaboration with Perceptoscope inventor Ben Sax to create a simulation of Ice Age animals walking around the current-day La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. The team had already developed scientifically accurate animated models of many Tar Pits animals and then used drones to photogrammetry scan the entire Tar Pits campus, creating an accurate 3D model of every sidewalk and tree to ensure that the animals looked like they were walking on real ground instead of floating mysteriously in the air. (Phillippe Lewicki, WLA)
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Appulate Digitizes Workers' Comp Policies with AmTrust
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Appulate has teamed with AmTrust Financial Services to allow retail insurance agents and brokers to rate, quote, and bind workers' compensation policies in real-time. The process begins in the agent or broker's management system where ACORD data, the industry standard associated with property and casualty insurance, can be uploaded directly from their management system using Appulate's bridging technology. Through the relationship, the data can now interact with AmTrust's Application Programming Interface to create an instant quote for policies, and can also bind online to complete the transaction. (Dimitri Nikouline, WLA)
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Dave Berkus Judging National Venture Plan Competition
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Dave Berkus is taking part in Pismo Ventures' National Venture Plan Competition, which is open to applicants and spectators. The competition offers businesses, pre- and post-revenue, the opportunity to present their business, obtain honest and expert feedback from experienced judges and investors, have exposure to angels and other investors nationwide, and win invaluable prizes along the way. (Dave Berkus, SGV & WLA)
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BeSmartee Wins a Stevie at 2020 American Business Awards
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BeSmartee won a Bronze Stevie Award in the Digital Process Automation Solution category in the recent 18th Annual American Business Awards. 3,600+ nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories. Meanwhile, visit BeSmartee's virtual booth in the Innovation Hub at the Digital Mortgage Conference, September 14-17. (Veronica Nguyen, OC)
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Cornerstone & Adam Miller Named Among Top Software Companies & CEOs
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Adam Miller, Founder and Co-Chair of Cornerstone, is #4 on The Software Report's "Top 50 SaaS CEOs of 2020." Nominees were reviewed on company performance, workplace culture, product strength, strategic decision-making, and qualitative and substantive commentary provided in the nomination submissions. Also, Cornerstone is #15 on The Software Report's "Top 100 Software Companies of 2020." Awardees were judged on product strength, management team caliber, organizational composition, and company growth. (Adam Miller, WLA)
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Eckert & Ziegler Receives Approval for Gallium-68 Generator for Canada
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Eckert & Ziegler Radiopharma GmbH has received approval for its pharmaceutical 68Ge/68Ga generator GalliaPharm from the Canadian regulatory authority Health Canada. About the size of a thermos flask, the generator significantly reduces costs and increases flexibility in nuclear medical clinics and practices. GalliaPharm is already successfully used for the diagnosis of neuroendocrine tumors and prostate cancer. (Frank Yeager, SGV)
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Electrosonic Promotes Bryan Hinckley to Global Role & Wins Awards
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Electrosonic Group recently announced Bryan Hinckley as Global VP for Immersive Experiences, tasked with the growth of large projects that make use of immersive technologies and storytelling on a global scale. Meanwhile, an Electrosonic project at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum won a Communication Arts Award for environmental design, while in AV Magazine's 2020 AV Awards, Electrosonic is a Finalist for its work on the NHL Seattle Preview Center, the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, and Snorri Touren Dark Ride at Europa Park. (Bryan Hinckley, SGV)
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Greenlight Ranks on the 2020 Inc. 5000 List
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Greenlight Information Services is #3743 on the 2020 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the US. Inc cites Greenlight's three-year growth rate of 97%. (Jason Makevich, OC)
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myKaarma Teams with Worldpay & Uber for Business + Named a Best Tech Startup
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myKaarma is now a Worldpay Integrated Partner, which enables myKaarma clients to offer several options for their auto service customers to pay their bills. Worldpay is from FIS, which processes $40+ billion annual transactions for more than a million merchants worldwide. Also, myKaarma has expanded its partnership with Uber for Business to include Uber Vouchers, a web-based tool that allows client auto dealerships to sponsor rides with Uber. Vouchers can either fully or partially cover the cost of the ride and can be used not just for alternative transportation while customer cars are being serviced, but also as incentives for test drives, trade-ins, appraisals, and more.
Meanwhile, myKaarma is #2 on the Tech Tribune's list of the "2021 Best Tech Startups in Long Beach," judged on such factors as revenue potential, leadership team, brand/product traction, and competitive landscape. (Ujj Nath, WLA)
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Nortridge Updates & Enhances Loan System Software
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Nortridge Software has added "dozens of enhancements and small updates" to its Nortridge Loan System (NLS) 5.21 software, including: two-way texting - lenders can now have conversations via text with their borrowers; improvements to the way the NLS processes payments; improved borrower employment history tracking; new set of dedicated fields to track employment information; improved process for adding a contact relationship; same-as-cash based payment distribution for commitment loans; payment reversal into global suspense; suspend ACH/AFT for excessive returns; and many more improvements to credit reporting, global search, and stability. (Greg Hindson, OC)
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Parasoft Webinar to Address AI-Powered API Testing
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Parasoft will present a webinar - Improve Software Quality With AI-Powered API Testing, to be held both September 16 and 17, noting that software quality is more important than ever as people shift to digital experiences for shopping, medical appointments, and social activities through online applications. Typically, the frontend application interacts with a whole series of backend services that make up your critical business value. API testing is the practice of validating interfaces in your application at the service or component level. You can get started quickly with a codeless API testing solution and use AI-powered technology to optimize your testing practice. This enables resource-constrained and remote teams to easily collaborate on API test creation and execution to improve quality at speed. (Elizabeth Kolawa, Ph.D., SGV)
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PeopleG2 Provides Webinar on What Employees Want & Tips for Remote Job Interviews
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On September 23, Chris Dyer, CEO of PeopleG2, will present a webinar - What your employees really want, but won't tell you - from 11 a.m. to noon Pacific. Based on years of research and countless interviews with top leaders, Chris knows the secrets of what really drives satisfaction and engagement. It isn't ping-pong tables or a Friday afternoon beer cart, and luckily it isn't more money either. Also, PeopleG2's recent post, 7 Ways to Make Remote Job Interviews More Effective, points out that when you can successfully conduct remote job interviews, you can broaden your candidate pool. So how do you make sure your remote job interviews are as informative as "the real thing?" PeopleG2 offers seven simple tips. (Chris Dyer, SGV)
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Tanner Research CEO to Present Virtual Nutrition Science Workshops
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On the evenings of September 30 (click here) and October 20 (click here), John Tanner, Ph.D., CEO of Tanner Research, will present free Nutrition Science Virtual Workshops, via Zoom, where he will share his story about how he suffered a near-fatal cardiac arrest in 2009. Since then, he has studied intensely the causes of heart disease, the leading killer in this country, and found that it can be completely avoided through a proper diet - and cancer, stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure, and about 30 other diseases can be reduced, avoided, or reversed by this same diet. John will relay to participants the scientific information they need to avoid heart disease and other leading killers. The group will discuss strategies for change and John will field questions. (John Tanner, Ph.D., Monrovia)
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Xsolla Spotlighted in VentureBeat Feature Article
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VentureBeat recently published How Xsolla provides developers with a game business engine, spotlighting Xsolla, which handles 700+ different payment systems around the world, working with 1,500+ game companies. While other payment companies focus on larger industries, Xsolla has thrived by focusing mainly on games, Venture Beat details, which has helped it figure out what developers need to run their businesses and provide the payment and backend services that can make the difference. To date, Xsolla has helped its game partners generate more than $3 billion in revenue across 3,400 games. (Shurick Agapitov, WLA)
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