Johor plant is Colorcon’s 7^th major film coating plant and 16^th manufacturing facility worldwide

HARLEYSVILLE, Pa. and JOHOR, Malaysia, July 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Colorcon, a global leader of film coating systems, specialty excipients, controlled release formulations and controlled atmosphere packaging for the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries, today announced the grand opening of a new, state-of-the-art film coating manufacturing facility in Johor Malaysia.

Colorcon has opened a new, state-of-the-art pharmaceutical and nutraceutical film coating manufacturing facility in Johor Malaysia.The 200,000 square-foot facility will immediately employ 30 people and will serve as the production hub for film coatings in the Asia Pacific region.

The 200,000 square-foot facility will immediately employ 30 people and will serve as the production hub for film coatings in the Asia Pacific region. Designed with cutting-edge technology and energy-efficient systems, the new plant reinforces Colorcon’s dedication to industry innovation, superior quality, regulatory leadership and environmental stewardship.

Simon Tasker, CEO of Colorcon, said of the project: “We are thrilled to open this world-class facility to support our pharmaceutical customers throughout Asia. This investment is aligned with our long-term vision to strengthen and de-risk our supply model for film coatings worldwide. Our goal is to anticipate market growth, adding capacity to ensure we are always a step ahead of demand. This is just one of many development projects currently in our pipeline to support our credo of ‘we’re everywhere our customers need us to be.”

Willem Hoogwater, Managing Director at Colorcon, added: “This is a monumental achievement for the local team, and I commend everyone who has played a part in bringing this facility to completion. We’re proud to offer superior film coating technology and a world-class facility to this rapidly growing region. Malaysia has quickly become an important hub for high-value pharmaceutical manufacturing, and we’re proud to support the local economy with an investment like this. We look forward to serving our regional customers even more efficiently for many years to come as a result.”

Since 1961, Colorcon has been a leader in film coating technology and this is their 7^th manufacturing plant worldwide. The launch of Opadry in 1980 marked a turning point for the pharmaceutical industry—introducing the world’s first complete film coating system and revolutionizing tablet coating by simplifying processes, improving batch uniformity and minimizing error. Since then, Opadry has evolved into a comprehensive portfolio of high-performance film coatings that address a wide range of formulation and manufacturing challenges—from taste-masking and moisture protection to improved swallowability and regulatory compliance. For more information,  www.colorcon.com.

HANGZHOU, China, July 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Unitree Robotics has been committed to developing accessible and user-friendly robots that enhance everyday life through advanced technology—bringing more comfort, convenience, and happiness to the public. As the aging of rural labor becomes an increasingly serious issue, more and more technology companies are exploring the use of robotics and data-driven technologies to promote the intelligent transformation of agriculture.

Recently, Unitree partnered with a leading agricultural research institution to promote the application of robotics in agricultural scenarios, supporting the transformation of traditional farming toward digitalization and intelligent operations.

Compared with traditional methods that rely on human experience to assess crop conditions, robotic systems powered by AI vision and edge computing are emerging as new tools to improve the efficiency and accuracy of agricultural management. These systems also significantly lower the technical threshold, enabling young people to step into agriculture as “robot managers” and become a new generation of smart farmers.

Among these efforts, Unitree Robotics’ consumer-grade quadruped robot, Go2, has taken the lead in being deployed in agricultural settings. With a starting price of just $1,600, Go2 offers an ideal smart terminal platform for agriculture, thanks to its high cost-effectiveness, stable performance, and strong scalability. It’s worth noting that agricultural applications pose high technical barriers—unpredictable lighting conditions and constantly changing leaf shapes require advanced perception systems and robust recognition algorithms.

Therefore, Go2, as a “new employee”, is equipped with a dedicated camera and agricultural sensors to monitor seedling growth conditions in real time. The robot also integrates a custom AI vision model developed for specific scenarios.

This algorithm, powered by edge computing, enables real-time analysis and automatic identification of seedling status, with data transmitted to a centralized control platform. Based on agricultural big data, the platform can then generate targeted planting strategies for the current growth stage—realizing an integrated agricultural robotics workflow from terminal to cloud.

This system not only helps reduce the physical workload of farmers, but also provides agricultural researchers with high-frequency, multi-dimensional field data collection, accelerating the application of scientific research outcomes. Industry observers widely believe that such civilian-grade robots, through deeper integration into agricultural environments, are opening up broader application prospects for advanced legged robotics.

As a company specializing in the development, production, and commercialization of high-performance legged and humanoid robots for civilian use, Unitree Robotics continues to push the boundaries of real-world applications—leveraging robotics technology to replace high-intensity, dangerous, and repetitive labor, truly serving society and improving human quality of life.

BANGKOK, July 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Huawei successfully organised “Huawei Eco Partner Connect (EPC) 2025″ at One Bangkok, gathering key partners and industry professionals from across Southeast Asia. The event underscored Huawei’s commitment to advancing its device ecosystem by integrating and innovating within the wearable and showcasing an intelligent ecosystem. Attendees also explored the new HUAWEI Pura80 Series showcase, experiencing Huawei’s dedication to high-quality mobile technology and enhancing user experience.

The event commenced with Rachel Zhou, Director of Consumer Cloud Service, Huawei APAC, emphasising the Huawei ecosystem’s role enabling global partners to build innovative digital marketing landscapes and expand globally through Huawei ‘1+8+N’ seamless AI life strategy. Daniel Ouyang, Principal Business Sales Director, Huawei APAC, further elaborated on Huawei’s intelligent ecosystem as a global one-stop digital content platform reaching over 170 countries with 580 million MAUs and the strategy to transform wearables into intelligent health and lifestyle hubs.

Huawei highlighted successful international partnerships, emphasising the company’s role in cross-border collaborations and market expansion. Kevin Zang, Head of Petal Ads APAC, introduced Petal Ads as a smart device marketing platform enabling partners to target audiences precisely, maximise engagement and drive growth in local and overseas markets, especially China. Quick App, an installation-free format offering seamless, personalised, multi-device engagement across HarmonyOS, allows brands to reach users directly.

Local Huawei Watch Face Developer, Kitsana Kanpakdi, shared wearable design trends, discussing how popular IPs succeed and shared unique design stories that integrate Thai cultural elements and popular IPs to attract consumers. This reflects Huawei’s commitment to local creativity and diverse consumer needs, strengthening the wearables ecosystem across Finance, Wellness, Mobility and Convenience.

Tanavan Arkaleephan, Senior Director of Global Partnership Management at Siam Piwat, shared how the company collaborates with Huawei to deliver seamless travel experiences and exclusive privileges for Chinese tourists. By leveraging SkyTone, Quick App, and Petal Ads, the partnership enhances engagement across Siam Paragon, ICONSIAM, Siam Center, Siam Discovery and Siam Premium Outlets Bangkok. Siam Piwat becomes the first and only Thai retail group to establish this level of deep integration with Huawei, successfully attracting high-quality Chinese travellers to Thailand. 

The event reinforced Huawei’s commitment to fostering a thriving ecosystem with partners, empowering joint innovation and market expansion to capture significant growth opportunities for digital experiences across Southeast Asia and China.

WASHINGTON, July 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Clarifai, a global leader in AI and pioneer of the full-stack AI platform, announced its recognition as a “Challenger” and “Fast Mover” in the innovation/ feature play quadrant of GigaOm Radar for AI Infrastructure v1 Report, published on June 6, 2025. This highlights Clarifai’s innovative solutions for enterprise AI deployment at scale.

The GigaOm report, which evaluates AI infrastructure solutions based on their capabilities and nonfunctional requirements, highlights Clarifai’s strengths across several critical areas:

• Clarifai achieved a “Superior” rating for business criteria, reflecting its strong performance in scalability, flexibility, ease of use, compliance, and pricing transparency.
• The platform excelled in its rich library of pre-builtmodels and workflows, significantly accelerating development cycles for various AI tasks.
• Clarifai received a “Superior” score for its capabilities in integrating multiple data types, including text, images, and audio, within single workflows.
• Clarifai demonstrated strong competitiveness against larger organizations in key features, including Model Optimization and Acceleration, Deployment and Management Automation, and Data Pipeline Integration.

“Being recognized in the GigaOm Radar Report underscores a critical truth: Production-grade AI demands robust compute, yet enterprises often struggle with cost, complexity, and production readiness,” said Matt Zeiler, CEO of Clarifai. “Clarifai’s full-stack Compute Orchestration directly solves these pains, enabling secure, cost-optimized, and flexible AI deployment from prototype to production, fast.”

Clarifai’s full stack AI platform and compute orchestration empowers enterprises to overcome common AI infrastructure challenges in building, deploying, and managing AI at scale, such as:

• Power Next-Generation AI: The platform provides a robust foundation for building, deploying, and running sophisticated applications, such as autonomous AI agents, and leveraging advanced MCP tools (Model Context Protocol) for secure operational oversight.
• Escalating Costs & Underutilized Compute: With features like GPU fractioning, autoscaling to zero, and spot instances, Clarifai helps slash AI compute costs by over 70%.
• Vendor Lock-in & Deployment Complexity: Deploy any model on any hardware (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel) in any cloud, on-premises, or air-gapped environment, ensuring control and avoiding vendor lock-in. With Local Runners, you can develop, test, and run models on your own machine while still connecting to Clarifai’s AI platform.
• Streamline the entire AI lifecycle: Go from prototype to production in days by seamlessly integrating with and leveraging existing enterprise AI technology stacks.

Clarifai’s Compute Orchestration is already demonstrating its value to customers. Users have praised its potential, with one noting, “It seems like this is a solution that could work for any team, including mine.” Another highlighted the economic benefits and flexibility, stating, “I like the flexibility and so, you know… we don’t need to buy more than we need.”

Download the GigaOm Radar for AI Infrastructure v1 Report to learn more about how Clarifai empowers organizations to build and deploy AI faster, more cost-effectively, and with greater control.

About Clarifai
Clarifai is a global leader in AI and the pioneer of the full-stack AI platform that helps organizations, teams, and developers build, deploy, and operationalize AI at scale. Clarifai’s cutting-edge AI platform supports today’s modern AI technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs), Large Vision Models (LVMs), Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), automated data labeling, high-volume production inference, and more. Founded in 2013, Clarifai is available in cloud, on-premises, or hybrid cloud environments and has been used to build more than 1.5 million AI models with more than 400,000 users in 170 countries. Learn more at www.clarifai.com.

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PALO ALTO, Calif., July 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — SquareX, the leading browser security company, is proud to announce the appointment of Steve Mullett as Vice President (VP) of Sales, effective immediately. Steve, an enterprise sales veteran with over 17 years of experience, brings an exceptional track record of driving revenue growth and exceeding targets at high-growth SaaS and cybersecurity organizations.

Steve’s career is distinguished by his consistent top performance and strategic leadership at some of the industry’s most successful technology companies such as Wiz, Okta, EMC and more. Most recently he served as Strategic Account Executive at Wiz for the past four years — the fastest-growing SaaS company to reach $10 billion valuation — his five-year tenure at Okta as Regional Sales Manager for Large Enterprises spanning the company’s IPO period gave him his first opportunity to experience high velocity growth from pre-IPO to over $1 billion in yearly revenue.  Steve has consistently demonstrated his ability to build strategic relationships with Fortune 500 clients and has closed numerous multi-million dollar campaigns.

In his newly appointed role as VP of Sales, Steve will lead SquareX’s enterprise sales strategy & GTM operations, focusing on accelerating customer acquisition and market expansion. His expertise in the cybersecurity domain, plus his experience working in high growth sales organizations, positions him perfectly to drive SquareX’s continued growth in the rapidly expanding and ever changing browser security landscape.

“I am excited to join SquareX at such an exciting time in the company’s growth journey,” said Steve Mullett. “The browser has become the new attack surface for enterprises, and SquareX’s innovative approach to browser security with the ability to secure any browser on any device along with providing holistic browser DLP and a next generation approach to secure access addresses a critical gap in the market that every security leader is struggling with. Having worked with enterprise security teams throughout my career, it is the perfect time for me to apply my experience at SquareX and help companies of all sizes navigate the challenges they face with evolving browser-native threats to transform their security posture.”

“Steve’s outstanding track record of exceeding targets and building strategic relationships with enterprise clients makes him an ideal leader to accelerate SquareX’s enterprise growth. His experience at high-growth companies, combined with his deep understanding of enterprise security challenges will be invaluable as we continue our expansion plans and help organizations secure their browser environments against bad actors,” said Vivek Ramachandran, Founder and CEO of SquareX.

About SquareX

SquareX‘s browser extension transforms any browser on any device into an enterprise-grade secure browser. SquareX’s industry-first Browser Detection and Response (BDR) solution empowers organizations to proactively detect, mitigate, and threat-hunt client-side web attacks including malicious browser extensions, advanced spearphishing, browser-native ransomware, GenAI data loss prevention, and more.

Unlike legacy security approaches and cumbersome enterprise browsers, SquareX seamlessly integrates with users’ existing consumer browsers, ensuring enhanced security without compromising user experience or productivity. By delivering unparalleled visibility and control directly within the browser, SquareX enables security leaders to reduce their attack surface, gain actionable intelligence, and strengthen their enterprise cybersecurity posture against the newest threat vector – the browser.

Find out more at www.sqrx.com

CHICAGO, July 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The 2025 IFT FIRST (Food Improved by Research, Science, and Technology), one of the world’s largest food science and innovation expos, recently took place from July 13 to 16 in Chicago. At the expo, Angel Yeast (SHA:600298) showcased its comprehensive, innovative lineup of yeast protein, yeast extract and baking solutions, nutritional health ingredients and brewing technologies under the themes of “Yeast Extract-Enjoy a Flavorful Life” and “Yeast Protein-Redefining Future Proteins.”

Angel Yeast has especially promoted the innovative yeast protein products which boast natural, sustainable and high nutrition values, the exhibition showcased sample products applying the ingredients and technology that are meeting the consumers’ growing demand for naturally flavorful, healthy and sustainable food options.

Globally, the market is seeing a significant surge in consumer demand for efficient, high-quality protein supplements and weight management solutions alongside unprecedented attention to clean labels. According to a 2025 Innova survey, more than a quarter of North American consumers are interested in high-protein diet, and there has been a 668% growth in the new food and beverage launches tracked with a GLP-1 friendly claim (US & Canada, CAGR 2022-2024).

“The IFT exhibition has shown us the tremendous potential of yeast protein. It not only addresses the pain points of traditional protein but also opens new pathways for sustainable and healthy food,” said Hang Tao, General Manager of Angel Yeast North America Division. “Angel Yeast is committed to providing the industry with high-quality protein solutions of the future with our innovative yeast protein products that are meeting market demands while offering a stable and reliable supply.”

Angel Yeast’s Angeopro™ is a naturally sourced, high-quality alternative protein that aligns with modern health trends, the premium plant-based protein is especially suited in weight management and sports nutrition applications. Recent studies have found that yeast protein significantly protects against muscle loss^[1]. Yeast protein products such as the Angeopro™ are produced through natural and sustainable manufacturing processes with advantages including outstanding bioavailability, a balanced and complete amino acid profile, and a nutritional value comparable to high-quality animal protein.

In the meantime, Angeopro™ has a clean, impurity-free taste without the beany aftertaste that’s common in plant proteins or the dairy notes in whey protein, which makes it a superior flavor foundation for different recipes. Its low allergy trait and non-dairy nature also allow more consumers to enjoy it worry-free.

In terms of production and supply, Angeopro™ utilizes an environmentally sustainable fermentation process to ensure a stable supply chain with significant cost advantages.

The Yeast Extract Savory by Angel Yeast is a 100% natural, non-GMO ingredient that enhances umami and savory flavors while enabling up to 20% sodium reduction without compromising taste. It also balances sweetness to reduce salt and sugar at the same time, making it ideal for plant-based foods, snacks, sauces, soups, and meat alternatives.

Angel Yeast is also offering a broader scope of product portfolio including the natural flavor yeast Feravor’-Buttery developed for baking, baking yeast, nutritional yeast tablets, vitamin K2, PQQ and innovative brewing solution, the non-alcoholic beer yeast NAO5.

“Angel Yeast is always committed to the mission of ‘Developing yeast biotechnology, innovate for a healthy life’,” said Hang Tao. “We would also like to invite food manufacturers, industry partners and professionals to join us and bring consumers with healthier, more sustainable food solutions, and to create a brighter future for the food industry together.”

Learn more about Angeopro™ at https://en.angelyeast.com/products/human-health/angeopro-a-sustainably-sourced-natural-yeast-protein.html.