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WASHINGTON, March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Laurie Clarke, JD, MPP joins TSG Consulting as Vice President & Principal of the company’s medical device regulatory practice. With over 25 years of experience as a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lawyer, Laurie is a known leader in medical device regulation, from premarket submissions to FDA enforcement actions. In this newly created position, Laurie will lead TSG Consulting’s established medical device regulatory team, as well as collaborate with medical device advisory and product development colleagues at sister company Sagentia, to help clients deliver FDA-compliant, innovative medical devices across the patient care continuum. TSG Consulting and Sagentia are both Science Group companies.

Erin Tesch
, MD of TSG Consulting in North America, says: “Laurie’s vast experience allows Science Group to play a greater role in supporting clients through both product development and the required FDA approvals in the US. TSG is the only company that we are aware of that offers both medical device development and in-house FDA and EPA regulatory expertise.”

Rob Morgan, PhD, Managing Partner Medical, Sagentia adds: “We work with many companies planning innovation strategies as well as designing and developing breakthrough medical products. With Laurie’s deep understanding of the FDA regulatory processes, clients now have a partner that can provide more support in new product regulation from concept to launch, so expanding the service we offer.”

Laurie Clarke notes: “Science Group’s thriving and dynamic medical device product development and regulatory practices attracted me to the company. At TSG, I have the rare opportunity to help clients shape their FDA regulatory strategy, including the design of their clinical studies, while their medical devices are in the early stages of development. I am excited because at that stage the client has maximum flexibility to align the device’s technology, marketing claims, and regulatory path. In addition, the client benefits from working with an integrated team. This approach promises to be cost effective as it reduces the FDA regulatory risks and thus makes it more likely our clients will obtain FDA clearance or approval to market their devices sooner.”

Laurie received her law degree from Stanford University after obtaining a Masters in Public Policy (MPP) with a concentration in health policy from Harvard University and an AB cum laude from Smith College. She started her career as an FDA lawyer at Patton, Boggs and Blow. While at that firm Laurie obtained public acknowledgement that her client wrote the original Nancy Drew books under the pen name “Carolyn Keene.” As an FDA partner, Laurie helped expand the medical device practices at three top-ranked law firms – Hogan & Hartson, King & Spalding LLP, and Jones Day. Most recently Laurie was Executive Vice President, Medical Devices & Combination Products at Greenleaf Health Inc., a boutique FDA consulting company. Throughout her career, Laurie has represented medical device companies ranging from small start-ups to multi-national corporations on complex regulatory matters involving a wide variety of medical devices.

About TSG Consulting

TSG provides companies with high-quality regulatory and scientific consulting services. We help clients worldwide address the technical and regulatory issues in taking their products to market in multiple jurisdictions. Our scientific expertise, regulatory knowledge and understanding of local nuances enable our clients to navigate the complex and ever-changing regulatory landscape across the globe.

We serve a number of key markets and industry sectors including agricultural, industrial, consumer, food and beverage, animal health, and medical. Our teams comprise scientists and regulatory experts – many of whom have previously held positions at regulatory agencies, departments and in industry. This combination of science, regulatory expertise and knowledge of how institutions and industry operate provides our clients with superior and well-rounded guidance.

TSG Consulting is a Science Group company.

www.tsgconsulting.com 

About Sagentia

Sagentia is a global science, product and technology development company. Our mission is to help companies maximise the value of their investments in R&D. We partner with clients in the medical, consumer, industrial and food & beverage sectors to help them understand the technology and market landscape, decide their future strategy, solve the complex science and technology challenges and deliver commercially successful products. Sagentia employs over 150 scientists, engineers and market experts and is a Science Group company.

www.sagentia.com

About Science Group

• Science Group plc (AIM: SAG) is a science-led advisory and product development organization. The Group has three divisions:
• R&D Consultancy: providing advisory, applied science and product development services cross-sector helping clients derive maximum return on their R&D investments.
• Regulatory & Compliance: helping clients in highly regulated markets to launch, market and defend products internationally, navigating the frequently complex and fragmented regulatory ecosystems.
• Frontier Smart Technologies: designing and manufacturing chips and modules for the DAB/DAB+ radio markets with 80% market share (excluding the automotive market).

With more than 400 employees worldwide, primarily scientists and engineers, and speaking more than 30 languages collectively, the Group has R&D centres in Cambridge and Epsom with more than ten additional offices in Europe, Asia and North America.

www.sciencegroup.com

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NEW YORK, March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — J.P. Morgan Asset Management today released the 2021 Guide to Retirement, examining the most significant issues impacting retirement, including current challenges and opportunities and the tools needed to support planning conversations.

“The pandemic-impacted 2020 has caused many individuals to reflect on their retirement goals, so it’s more critical than ever for advisors to understand and act upon the complex issues that will drive or derail retirement planning objectives in the year ahead,” said Katherine Roy, Chief Retirement Strategist, J.P. Morgan Asset Management. “Our 2021 Guide to Retirement considers a number of timely themes impacting those planning for retirement, such as managing lower expected returns for those closer to retirement, the importance of diversified investing, and tax management strategies.”

Below is an overview of five key retirement themes featured in the 2021 Guide to Retirement:

1) 

Managing lower expected returns for those closer to retirement

• The pre-retirement rate of return assumption has been lowered to 5.75% from 6%.
• Households closest to retirement who are most reliant on their retirement savings need to carefully navigate their final savings years.

2) 

How to diversify investments to and through retirement

• With cash paying nothing, investing is key to long term retirement success.
• More diversified investing within both equities and fixed income results in better outcomes.

3) 

Making the most of record savings in 2020

• While fiscal stimulus was a driver, reduced spending also played a key role in 2020.
• Opportunities to identify costs that people didn’t miss, to spend less to save more.

4) 

Tax planning not just for today, but for the future 

• Income taxes will rise in 2026 when the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act sunsets.
• Careful planning with Roth options and Health Savings Accounts to achieve healthy income tax diversification should be a priority.

5) 

The ‘New Retirement’ – sooner than planned?

• The effects of the pandemic may lead to changes in retirement timing.
• Making informed Social Security claiming decisions remains a priority.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management serves millions of DC plan participants, offering industry-leading insights such as the Guide to Retirement, Guide to the Markets, Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions and spending and saving research in collaboration with the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI). The firm also provides a one-stop-shop of digital tools and resources including Target Date Compass®.

To view the full 2021 Guide to Retirement, click here.

About J.P. Morgan Asset Management

J.P. Morgan Asset Management, with assets under management of USD 2.3 trillion (as of 31 December 2020), is a global leader in investment management. J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s clients include institutions, retail investors and high net worth individuals in every major market throughout the world. J.P. Morgan Asset Management offers global investment management in equities, fixed income, real estate, hedge funds, private equity and liquidity.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.4 trillion and operations worldwide. The Firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of customers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management is the marketing name for the asset management businesses of JPMorgan Chase & Co., and its affiliates worldwide. 

Important Information

The views contained herein are not to be taken as advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any investment in any jurisdiction, nor is it a commitment from J.P. Morgan Asset Management or any of its subsidiaries to participate in any of the transactions mentioned herein. Any forecasts, figures, opinions or investment techniques and strategies set out are for information purposes only, based on certain assumptions and current market conditions and are subject to change without prior notice. All information presented herein is considered to be accurate at the time of production. This material does not contain sufficient information to support an investment decision and it should not be relied upon by you in evaluating the merits of investing in any securities or products. In addition, users should make an independent assessment of the legal, regulatory, tax, credit and accounting implications and determine, together with their own professional advisers, if any investment mentioned herein is believed to be suitable to their personal goals. Investors should ensure that they obtain all available relevant information before making any investment. It should be noted that investment involves risks, the value of investments and the income from them may fluctuate in accordance with market conditions and taxation agreements and investors may not get back the full amount invested. Both past performance and yields are not reliable indicators of current and future results.

 

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JAKARTA, Indonesia, March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Bank BRI (IDX: BBRI), Indonesia’s largest MSME bank, announces it has issued a record IDR 562 trillion in sustainable finance business under its commitment to supporting environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices in accordance with the Financial Services Authority’s POJK No 51 /POJK.03/2017 regulations.

The figure is equivalent to 63.9% of BRI’s total portfolio in 2020 and represents the sustainable business activity of 14.1 percent, a record high for the industry.

As the largest MSME bank in Indonesia, the achievement reflects BRI’s various activities to improve sustainability and ESG education to increase awareness among BRI employees and customers.

BRI’s sustainable business activities’ credit distribution rests on providing finance to social or green projects. BRI Social Financing is distributed through 504 agents in the form of MSME loans, including microloans worth IDR 488.6 trillion and super-micro-KUR distribution for homemakers and BRILink.

Under green financing projects, BRI renews its commitment to renewable energy financing and credit for pollution prevention, eco-friendly transportation, and green construction. In 2019, BRI became the first bank in Southeast Asia to issue sustainability bonds.

“Sustainable bonds have proved attractive to investors and have generated significant returns, increasing returns from US$500 million to US$3.3 billion with demand outpacing supply with oversubscribed orders of 8.4 times. In addition, BRI’s sustainability bond is also the first to be issued by a state-owned enterprise in Indonesia,” said Listiarini Dewajanti, SEVP Treasury & Global Services at BRI.

From the total US$ 500 million funds, US$ 422 million, or 84.4% of the total funds, were issued for social activities, and US$ 78 million or 15.6% were used for eco-friendly activities.

Through the distribution of BRI’s Kupedes and KUR, funding for social-related activities has created over 245,000 jobs within the MSME sector in Indonesia. With the issuance of subsidized KPRs, BRI Sustainability Bonds have also provided access to adequate housing to 1,200 people.

Sustainability bond issuance funds are also used to finance eco-friendly projects, such as Green Transportation and Green Construction, including LRT development projects.

Over the past two years, the sustainable bond market has peaked the attention of investors, projecting the ESG financing instruments to hit US$ 11 trillion in 2025. Assuming a growth trend of 15 percent per year, ESG Asset Under Management (AUM) is projected to reach more than USD 53 trillion in 2025. According to Bloomberg, from 2019 to 2020, the growth of sustainability bond issuance reached 151%, from USS 72.3 billion in 2019 to USS 109.1 billion in 2020.

“By using proceeds from BRI’s Sustainable Bond, we aim to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including the creation of job opportunities and inclusive economic growth, a reduction in inequality, and the provision of sustainable cities and communities,” concluded Listiarini.

For more information, visit: www.bri.co.id

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IRVINE, Calif., March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Alteryx, Inc. (NYSE: AYX), a leader in analytic process automation (APA™), today announced the appointment of Anjali Joshi to its board of directors (BOD), effective March 5, 2021. Joshi is an experienced technology executive who has managed the development of several Google properties that reach billions of users.

“We are fortunate to have Anjali join the Alteryx board. She is an accomplished leader who led major improvements in product experiences at Google using big data and automation, combined with intuitive user interfaces,” said Mark Anderson, chief executive officer of Alteryx. “We look forward to adding her deep experience to our board as we drive this next phase of Alteryx’s growth.”

As Vice President of Product Management at Google, Joshi led product development for Emerging Markets, Search and Image Search, Maps, Global Infrastructure and other core businesses. Prior to Google, she was the executive vice president of engineering at Covad Communications, Inc. and helped scale the organization from a start-up to a publicly traded company. 

“I’m excited to join the board at Alteryx and contribute to the company’s automation-first vision for analytics and data science,” said Joshi. “The innovative work Alteryx is doing with automation to make analytics and data science accessible to everyone has the power help every organization achieve transformational impact.”

Joshi holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, a master’s degree in computer engineering from University of Buffalo and a second master’s degree in management science and engineering from Stanford University. She currently serves as a board member for Iteris and Lattice Semiconductor.

About Alteryx  
As a leader in analytic process automation (APA), Alteryx unifies analytics, data science and business process automation in one, end-to-end platform to accelerate digital transformation. Organizations of all sizes, all over the world, rely on the Alteryx Analytic Process Automation Platform™ to deliver high-impact business outcomes and the rapid upskilling of their modern workforce. For more information visit www.alteryx.com.

Alteryx is a registered trademark of Alteryx, Inc. All other product and brand names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.  

 

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BURLINGTON, Mass., March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Walgreens and Nuance^® Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced the organizations collaborated to help Walgreens customers schedule their COVID-19 vaccine appointments 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Walgreens deployed Nuance’s AI-powered Intelligent Engagement solutions to meet the needs of more customers by extending access to vaccine information and scheduling beyond its web-based portal.

Walgreens customers can now call 1-800-Walgreens or a Walgreens store and speak in English or Spanish to Nuance’s intelligent conversational voicebot to get answers to COVID-19 questions, confirm eligibility according to applicable guidelines, and schedule their vaccine appointments wherever vaccines are available. The Nuance solution also sends the customer an SMS text to confirm appointments after the call.

“Ensuring equitable access to care is essential,” said Robert Weideman, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Nuance. “Using our proven voice- and AI-powered solutions to help as many Walgreens customers as possible experience a more modern, convenient, and secure process for scheduling their COVID vaccine appointments is one of the most important outcomes we can achieve.”

The option to schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments over the phone is available in English or Spanish to all individuals seeking a COVID-19 vaccination appointment at Walgreens. To learn more about Nuance’s COVID vaccine solutions, click here. 

About Nuance Communications, Inc.


Nuance Communications
 (NASDAQ: NUAN) is a technology pioneer with market leadership in conversational AI and ambient intelligence. A full-service partner trusted by 77 percent of U.S. hospitals and 85 percent of the Fortune 100 companies worldwide, Nuance creates intuitive solutions that amplify people’s ability to help others.

Trademark reference: Nuance and the Nuance logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective owners.

Media contacts:

Nuance Communications

Nancy Scott

+1 781-565-4130
[email protected]

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SALT LAKE CITY, March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Health Catalyst, Inc. (“Health Catalyst,”) (Nasdaq: HCAT), a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations, today announced the launch of the new Healthcare.AI™. Created to address healthcare business opportunities and challenges across revenue, cost, and quality, the Healthcare.AI suite of augmented intelligence (AI) products and services will significantly expand the effective use and use cases of AI in healthcare.

Healthcare leaders face an unprecedented list of increasingly unique business, clinical, financial, and operational challenges; the ongoing implications of the global pandemic; the new government-mandated Price Transparency Rule and other regulations; overcoming inequity, and an industry-wide shift in care delivery models, making data-informed decision making more crucial than ever.

To address business, clinical, financial, and operational challenges, healthcare organizations have historically turned to transactive predictive modeling, a version of AI that was quickly adopted in the healthcare setting.  While the proliferation was positive, healthcare organizations soon realized that self-service predictive models often require tailoring and expert guidance to achieve accurate predictions and results. Further, expert guidance is required to integrate predictive models into workflows, deploy broadly, and sustain positive change. Lastly, transactional predictive models do not address the many other use cases for AI in healthcare.

Jason Jones, Chief Analytic and Data Science Officer at Health Catalyst, said, “I came to Health Catalyst to build what I could not buy from within some of the greatest healthcare organizations in the world—tools and services to improve health and healthcare for people at the hospital bedside, in the boardroom, and at their kitchen tables.  In contrast to traditional AI approaches, we designed Healthcare.AI as a new approach to meet the needs of healthcare, enabling better decisions both at the point of care and by those leading system-level change.”

Healthcare.AI significantly expands the potential use cases for AI in healthcare and now supports five levels of healthcare AI analytics.

Product Suite – Level 1

• Easy one-click AI access and integration into existing BI tools, a first for the industry, and Health Catalyst software product lines and applications, including more than 100 analytics accelerators.
• Embeds cutting edge statistical and machine learning techniques into every product suite module; an approach that dramatically increases the speed to deliver analytic insights from months or weeks to minutes or seconds.
• Ensures healthcare organizations will not have to wait for additional training or hands-on experience to give analysts an accelerated AI boost. The embedded rigor enables analytics insights that are more accurate, precise, and consistent than before.

Expert Services – Levels 2-5

• Provides expert guidance to help users avoid the typical pitfalls of self-service predictive analytics.
• Helps healthcare organizations pick, tailor, or build the optimal predictive model to meet business needs, significantly improving the success rates for predictive models.
• Provides expert guidance to help identify and use AI for a wider variety of use cases and advanced decision making such as retrospective comparisons and prescriptive optimization.

Commenting on Health Catalyst’s AI capabilities, Phillip Rowell, M.J., Vice President of Clinical and Business Intelligence at Carle Health, said “COVID-19 has brought new challenges to hospitals and health systems and caused many organizations to reevaluate their data science capabilities. During this critical time, our partnership with Health Catalyst enabled us to quickly scale augmented intelligence adoption across our organization, resulting in accelerated clinical and financial improvement.”

To learn more about the new Healthcare.AI, please visit www.healthcare.ai. 

About Health Catalyst
Health Catalyst is a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations committed to being the catalyst for massive, measurable, data-informed healthcare improvement. Its customers leverage the cloud-based data platform—powered by data from more than 100 million patient records and encompassing trillions of facts—as well as its analytics software and professional services expertise to make data-informed decisions and realize measurable clinical, financial, and operational improvements. Health Catalyst envisions a future in which all healthcare decisions are data informed.

Media Contact:

Amanda Hundt

[email protected]

575-491-0974

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ATLANTA, March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Habitat for Humanity International (Habitat) and Lowe’s kick off their third annual Habitat for Humanity International Women Build Week (March 8-15) by emphasizing the global need for women’s access to safe and affordable housing. This year, the partnership will launch 300 Women Build projects across the United States, Canada and India, an increase despite the need for strict on-site COVID-19 protocols and fewer participants able to volunteer.

Globally, economic turmoil caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated an already tenuous affordable housing crisis and has impacted women-led households disproportionately. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, women comprised nearly 80 percent of healthcare workers but also accounted for more than 85 percent of all job losses in December and nearly 80 percent of job losses in January. As a result, substantially more women-led households have been forced to choose between rent or mortgage and other essential bills, such as utilities or health care.

In addition, Harvard University’sState of the Nation’s Housing 2020 report indicated that even before the spread of the COVID-19 virus, 37.1 million U.S. households spent more than 30 percent of their incomes on housing, including 17.6 million households that exhausted more than 50 percent of their incomes on housing. In response, Habitat and Lowe’s are increasing efforts to help women build or improve access to safe, affordable homes with the launch of over 300 Women Build projects supporting women-led households on International Women’s Day.

In 2020, Lowe’s donation of $1.9 million to Habitat’s International Women Build Week supported more than 230 Women Build projects. This year, Lowe’s has increased its donation to nearly $2.7 million to support more than 300 Women Build projects.

“Lowe’s and Habitat have witnessed the resiliency and transformative impact of women, from serving at the frontline in the fight against the pandemic to showing up on a daily basis as essential workers, and we are committed to helping women and mothers secure safe, affordable housing,” said Janice Dupré, Lowe’s executive vice president, human resources. “In a year full of uncertainty and precautions, we are proud to have broadened the program to support more families than ever and are grateful for our partners for making it possible.”

Through this year’s International Women Build Week, Habitat and Lowe’s also aim to amplify the ways in which housing stability and the impact of COVID-19 on women intersect. In addition to increasing Women Build projects, Habitat is hosting a live, virtual conversation about what the pandemic has revealed about the status of women’s economic circumstances, and how safe, decent housing has never been more important in supporting women’s stability and opportunities. The event, +You: Women, housing and the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, will take place at 11 a.m. ET on Thursday, March 11.

“In a year that has been fraught with so many challenges, we are encouraged to see how partners like Lowe’s have risen to the occasion to help women and families around the world find strength, security, and stability through shelter,” said Adrienne Goolsby, senior vice president of U.S. and Canada at Habitat for Humanity International. “We’re so proud that our long-standing partnership with Lowe’s is able to continue meeting the needs of the communities we serve around the globe, especially during this time when affordable housing is more crucial than ever.”  

Lowe’s and Habitat have been partners since 2003. Since then, the partnership has brought together more than 143,000 women volunteers who have built or repaired nearly 6,000 houses. Lowe’s has committed more than $78 million to support the global housing nonprofit’s efforts, including the Women Build program, International Women Build Week, and Habitat’s Neighborhood Revitalization program. Lowe’s support of Habitat has helped more than 18,000 Habitat partner families improve their living conditions. In 2019, the partnership transitioned Women Build Week to align with International Women’s Day, on March 8.

To learn more or join the conversation, visit habitat.org/womenbuildor follow #BuildHer and #WomenBuild on social media to share and view stories from around the world.

About Habitat for Humanity
Driven by the vision that everyone needs a decent place to live, Habitat for Humanity began in 1976 as a grassroots effort on a community farm in Southern Georgia. The Christian housing organization has since grown to become a leading global nonprofit working in local communities across all 50 states in the U.S., and in more than 70 countries. Families and individuals in need of a hand up partner with Habitat for Humanity to build or improve a place they can call home. Habitat homeowners help build their own homes alongside volunteers and pay an affordable mortgage. Through financial support, volunteering or adding a voice to support affordable housing, everyone can help families achieve the strength, stability and self-reliance they need to build better lives for themselves. Through shelter, we empower. To learn more, visit habitat.org.

About Lowe’s
Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE^® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 20 million customers a week in the United States and Canada. With fiscal year 2020 sales of nearly $90 billion, Lowe’s and its related businesses operate or service more than 2,200 home improvement and hardware stores and employ over 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts. For more information, visit Lowes.com.

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SAN DIEGO, March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a 5 percent increase in the Company’s quarterly cash dividend. The quarterly cash dividend will increase from $0.65 to $0.68 per share of common stock and will be effective for quarterly dividends payable after March 25, 2021. This dividend increase will raise the annualized dividend payout to $2.72 per share of common stock.

Steve Mollenkopf, CEO of Qualcomm Incorporated, said, “We are pleased to announce an increase in our quarterly dividend, reflecting our strong financial performance and continued commitment to returning capital to stockholders.”

About Qualcomm

Qualcomm is the world’s leading wireless technology innovator and the driving force behind the development, launch, and expansion of 5G.  When we connected the phone to the internet, the mobile revolution was born.  Today, our foundational technologies enable the mobile ecosystem and are found in every 3G, 4G and 5G smartphone.  We bring the benefits of mobile to new industries, including automotive, the internet of things, and computing, and are leading the way to a world where everything and everyone can communicate and interact seamlessly.

Qualcomm Incorporated includes our licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of our patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of our engineering, research and development functions, and substantially all of our products and services businesses, including our QCT semiconductor business.  For more information, visit www.qualcomm.com.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

In addition to the historical information contained herein, this news release contains forward-looking statements that are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to statements regarding future dividend payments and our commitment to returning capital to stockholders. Forward-looking statements are generally identified by words such as “estimates,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks” and similar expressions. Actual results may differ materially from those referred to in the forward-looking statements due to a number of important factors, including but not limited to our ability to generate sufficient cash flow to enable us to continue to pay dividends; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and government policies and other measures designed to limit its spread, on business and consumer confidence, on demand for smartphones and other consumer devices sold by our customers or licensees which incorporate our integrated circuit products and/or our intellectual property, and on the global wireless supply chain, transportation and distribution networks, and workforces; our customers’ and licensees’ sales of products and services based on CDMA, OFDMA and other communications technologies, including 5G, and our customers’ demand for our products based on these technologies; intense competition in an environment of rapid technological change, and our ability to adapt to such change and compete effectively; our dependence on a small number of customers and licensees, and particularly from their sale of premium-tier devices; our customers’ vertically integrating; a significant portion of our business being concentrated in China, which is exacerbated by U.S./China trade and national security tensions; efforts by some OEMs to avoid paying fair and reasonable royalties for the use of our intellectual property, and other attacks on our licensing business model, including current and future legal proceedings and governmental investigations and proceedings, including potential adverse outcomes relating to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission lawsuit against us, and actions of quasi-governmental bodies and standards and industry organizations; potential changes in our patent licensing practices, whether due to governmental investigations, private legal proceedings challenging those practices, or otherwise; the continued and future success of our licensing programs, which requires us to continue to evolve our patent portfolio and to renew or renegotiate license agreements that are expiring; our dependence on a limited number of third-party suppliers; risks associated with the operation and control of our manufacturing facilities; our ability to extend our technologies and products into new and expanded product areas and adjacent industry segments and applications beyond mobile; our strategic acquisitions, transactions and investments, and our ability to consummate strategic acquisitions; security breaches of our information technology systems, or other misappropriation of our technology, intellectual property or other proprietary or confidential information; difficulties in enforcing and protecting our intellectual property rights; claims by third parties that we infringe their intellectual property; our use of open source software; our ability to attract and retain qualified employees; failures in our products or in the products of our customers or licensees, including those resulting from security vulnerabilities, defects or errors; the cyclical nature of the semiconductor industry, declines in global, regional or local economic conditions, or our stock price and earnings volatility; our ability to comply with laws, regulations, policies and standards; our indebtedness; and potential tax liabilities. These and other risks are set forth in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended December 27, 2020 filed with the SEC.  Our reports filed with the SEC are available on our website at www.qualcomm.com. We undertake no obligation to update, or continue to provide information with respect to, any forward-looking statement or risk factor, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Qualcomm is a registered trademark of Qualcomm Incorporated.  All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Qualcomm Contact:
Mauricio Lopez-Hodoyan, Investor Relations
Phone:  1-858-658-4813
Email:  [email protected]

 

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HONG KONG, March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited (“iClick” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: ICLK), an independent online marketing and enterprise data solutions provider in China and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced a collaboration with Oracle, a leading integrated cloud applications and platform services provider, to launch tailored SaaS offering that will empower brands to better serve and connect with consumers in China.

This collaboration helps address the challenges international brands face in achieving an in-depth understanding of consumers in China. Combining the marketing automation capabilities of Oracle Eloqua with iClick’s unparalleled data covering more than 940 million Chinese consumers and its massive China media resources, the collaboration will offer integrated SaaS-based solutions for brands to identify, engage with, and more effectively convert their target audiences.

This relationship will direct consumers from multiple media channels to brands’ WeChat official accounts and mini programs enabling brands to build up memberships. Through this process, brands will be able to form 360-degree audience profiles by collecting open IDs from diverse media channels and integrating them with the client CRM data stored on the centralized data hub. With deeper insights into consumer behavior and needs, these solutions will enable brands to generate personalized marketing campaigns through big data technology, thereby increasing repurchasing rates, enhancing consumer loyalty, and boosting sales in China. 

To further communicate this collaboration to customers, iClick and Oracle will host an online webinar titled, “iClick Meets Oracle and the Greater Bay Area: Adopting SaaS solutions to Power Your Social CRM growth in China” on March 19, 2021. In this session, the companies will discuss current trends in the smart era of SaaS solutions empowering brands to better connect and engage with Chinese audiences through the world’s largest messaging standalone mobile app – WeChat. Furthermore, participants will learn more about the enormous opportunity SaaS-based solutions offer and advanced features to grow membership through big data technology, thereby enhancing consumer loyalty and boosting return on investment in the digital market via WeChat.

Frankie Ho, iClick’s President of International Business commented, “This collaboration with Oracle will leverage the strengths of both companies to better serve our clients with new offerings and advanced features. iClick will also be able to upgrade its clientele by serving Oracle’s extensive top-tier international clients. In the meantime, we see enormous opportunities to upsell our emerging and promising Enterprise Solutions to these international brands that are aggressively working to engage with rapidly-changing Chinese consumers.”

Joseph A. Bauer, vice president of Applications, Oracle Hong Kong, Taiwan & Korea said, “iClick has a long-term and widespread presence, with strong networks in China. As a result, we believe its long-accumulated and deep understanding of Chinese consumers will help our Hong Kong and Macau clients recognize even faster sales growth in China through more diversified product offerings that cater to the China market and allow Oracle to expand its client base.”

About iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited

iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited (Nasdaq: ICLK) is an independent online marketing and enterprise data solutions provider that connects worldwide marketers with audiences in China. Built on cutting-edge technologies, our proprietary platform possesses omni-channel marketing capabilities and fulfils various marketing objectives in a data-driven and automated manner, helping both international and domestic marketers reach their target audiences in China. Headquartered in Hong Kong, iClick was established in 2009 and is currently operating in ten locations worldwide including Asia and Europe.

For more information, please visit ir.i-click.com.

About Oracle PartnerNetwork

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) is Oracle’s partner program designed to enable partners to accelerate the transition to cloud and drive superior customer business outcomes. The OPN program allows partners to engage with Oracle through track(s) aligned to how they go to market: Cloud Build for partners that provide products or services built on or integrated with Oracle Cloud; Cloud Sell for partners that resell Oracle Cloud technology; Cloud Service for partners that implement, deploy and manage Oracle Cloud Services; and License & Hardware for partners that build, service or sell Oracle software licenses or hardware products. Customers can expedite their business objectives with OPN partners who have achieved Expertise in a product family or cloud service. To learn more visit: http://www.oracle.com/partnernetwork

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This announcement contains forward-looking statements, including those related to the Company’s business strategies, operations and financial performance. These statements constitute “forward-looking” statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as “will,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “future,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “estimates,” “confident” and similar statements. Such statements are based upon management’s current expectations and current market and operating conditions and relate to events that involve known or unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the Company’s control. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: the Company’s fluctuations in growth; its success in implementing its mobile and new retail strategies, including extending its solutions beyond its core online marketing business; its success in structuring a CRM & Marketing Cloud platform; relative percentage of its gross billing recognized as revenue under the gross and net models; its ability to retain existing clients or attract new ones; its ability to retain content distribution channels and negotiate favorable contractual terms; market competition, including from independent online marketing technology platforms as well as large and well-established internet companies; market acceptance of online marketing technology solutions and enterprise solutions; effectiveness of its algorithms and data engines; its ability to collect and use data from various sources; ability to integrate and realize synergies from acquisitions, investments or strategic partnership; fluctuations in foreign exchange rates; and general economic conditions in China and other jurisdictions where the Company operates; and the regulatory landscape in China and other jurisdictions where the Company operates. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the Company’s annual report on Form 20-F and other filings with the SEC. All information provided in this press release and in the attachments is as of the date of this press release, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.

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PITTSBURGH, March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Federated Hermes Premier Municipal Income Fund (NYSE: FMN) has declared a dividend. The fund seeks to provide investors with current dividend income that is exempt from regular federal income tax. In addition, this fund features income exempt from the federal alternative minimum tax (AMT).

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