A team of researchers has discovered fossilized human skull and leg bone fragments from the Tam Pà Ling cave, Houaphanh province, that date back 86,000 years, and are now being considered as the oldest examples of modern humans in Southeast Asia.
Oldest Human Fossils, Dating Back 86,000 Years, Found in Laos in Breakthrough Discovery
Capture Hong Kong Launches with Google Photos upload to Lead Analogue Media Digitisation in Hong Kong
This new cloud solution finally provides a long term solution for preserving family memories
HONG KONG – Media OutReach – 14 June 2023 – CaptureTM Hong Kong, a leading technology startup in the analogue media digitisation industry, has announced a new feature with Google Photos that enables Capture HK’s customers to achieve a complete solution for family memories.
The analogue media digitisation service offered by Capture HK includes photo albums, photographs, videotapes and digital media. Customers can bring their analogue media to Capture Experience Centre for consultation, where Capture Memory Specialists will review and process the digitisation. After around one week, all memories can be uploaded and backed up to Google Photos after digitisation! And customers can find Capture.HK listed in the Google Photos App > Utilities > Import Photos > Digitise Physical Photos > Capture.
Long-standing Collaboration Between Two Industry Leaders
Google Photos is one of the most widely-used and popular cloud-based photo and video storage and sharing app. That is why Capture.com, a sister company of Capture.HK in the US, added the Google Photos support in 2018. Capture.com has been helping to build the analogue media digitisation industry for more than 20 years and achieved both the highest quality standards in the industry and an excellent customer experience. Capture.HK launched Hong Kong in 2022 and is thrilled to announce this valuable collaboration. Customers can benefit from the expertise of Capture.HK. and enjoy the accessibility, organisation, enhanced search, and easy sharing of their digitised memories with their family and friends, from any device, at any time on Google Photos.
Digitise your memories before it is too late!
“It’s truly remarkable to see my faded photos look brand new, as if by magic!”, said Sheldon Li, CEO of BuyandShip.today, whose family lives in different parts of the world “I am thrilled that Capture has launched their Google Photos integration and now the whole family can share, enjoy and talk about our family history together no matter where they are.”
Don’t wait until your analogue media such as photographs and videotapes are irreversibly damaged by the passage of time and the humid environment in Hong Kong! Capture.HK’s digitisation service is high quality and affordable: each photo costs HKD $2 and each videotape/digital media costs HKD $200. In addition to Google Photos output, customers can also select a USB flash drive as the output format.
To celebrate the new feature with Google Photos, Capture.HK is offering a discount of 10% on orders placed before June 30, 2023. Register at Capture.HK to get the discount code now!
Learn more about Capture.HK:
Website: https://www.capture.hk/
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Website: https://photos.google.com/
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About Capture.HK
Capture.HK is the most advanced analogue media digitisation service provider in Hong Kong. We digitise your analogue media (photo albums, photographs, videotapes, and digital media like Memory Sticks, Compact Flash, DVD, etc), using our proprietary technology. Capture is the only service that saves your memories directly to Google Photos. In the USA, we have cooperated with Fujifilm, Google and retail giants like Walmart and Costco, to help more than 12 million families to safeguard their memories.
Moobidesk Enhances AI-Powered Omnichannel Solution with WhatsApp In-App Chat Payment Integration
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 14 June 2023 – Moobidesk, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company based in Singapore, has unveiled its plans to integrate the recently launched WhatsApp in-app chat payment feature into its solution for businesses in Singapore. This strategic integration marks an important milestone for Moobidesk as it seeks to optimise customer engagement and streamline payment solutions within its platform.
With a focus on delivering advanced, omnichannel customer engagement solutions, Moobidesk leverages the potential of AI technology to support businesses in their customer engagement efforts. The introduced feature will enable businesses to handle payments directly within the chat interface, reducing the need to switch between multiple platforms. As a result, Singapore-based businesses will be able to provide their customers with a payment process that is smooth, efficient, and user-friendly.
Through this integration, Moobidesk will introduce an additional capability that enables its customers to intuitively manage product inventories and payments within the WhatsApp Business platform. By consolidating these operations, businesses can streamline workflow, simplify customer interactions, and deliver a unified and cohesive customer experience.
This integration aligns with Moobidesk’s existing META analytics tool, which allows businesses with actionable insights into customer behaviour and preferences. By combining the intuitive inventory management and payment capabilities of Moobidesk’s WhatsApp integration with the analytical power of META, businesses can develop a comprehensive understanding of their customers. This knowledge enables them to optimise their strategies, make data-driven decisions, and prioritise customer satisfaction, fostering sustainable business growth.
The introduction of these features by Moobidesk underscores the company’s dedication to innovation and adaptability in addressing the evolving needs of businesses in the digital age. With a suite of tools and services, including contact centre solutions and omnichannel customer support software, Moobidesk reaffirms its commitment to helping businesses in streamlining customer engagement, improving conversion rates, and driving growth. These services further strengthen Moobidesk’s position as a comprehensive provider of end-to-end customer engagement solutions.
For more information about Moobidesk and its features, please visit https://www.moobidesk.com/.
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Calastone brings new level of automation to Class B funds with introduction of CDSC solution in Taiwan
- Calastone’s Contingent Deferred Sales Charge (CDSC) solution digitalises the record of investor holdings and automates the calculation process for transfer agents creating efficiencies and cost savings for asset managers
- New registry technology complements traditional transfer agent technology with added benefits providing end-to-end automation and supporting scale
- First solution to automate Class B Share mutual fund deployment sees early-adoption in Taiwan as Calastone continues to extend its service offering in the market
TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Media OutReach – 14 June 2023 – Calastone, the largest global funds network, today announces the introduction of its Contingent Deferred Sales Charge (CDSC) solution. The new CDSC solution is built using the technology enabled by Calastone’s Distributed Market Infrastructure (DMI).
CDSC funds (for example, Class B Share funds) are known for reducing market volatility as investors are incentivised with reduced fees if they retain their investments for longer. In Taiwan alone, the number of Class B Shares has grown 98% since 2017[1] as the Financial Supervisory Commission continues to incentivise investment into these funds.
However, the benefits of Class B Share funds have been typically overshadowed by the complex processes required to administer them. Until now, asset managers have not had a digital, accurate, or real-time view of investor holding periods. Similarly, transfer agents have relied on an inefficient, costly and manual process to collect information and accurately calculate the fee charges, as they have not had a clear view of the investment holding periods.
Calastone’s CDSC solution is the first digital solution that enables asset managers with end-to-end automation by creating a shadow register of the client holdings that can be easily accessed by both asset managers and transfer agents.
This unique offering also leverages the open microservice architecture of the DMI. The solutions uses several components of its Fund Services product suite – including Connectivity, Register, and Fees, Costs & Charges.
Justin Christopher, Managing Director, Head of Asia at Calastone, said:
“Despite the benefits that Class B Share funds present, the traditional model for distributing them has been very manual and expensive. Calastone CDSC is the first digital and automated solution that provides an efficient, cost effective, and scalable way for asset managers to distribute Class B Share funds, and enables transfer agents to support their asset management clients more effectively at scale. The solution will enable asset managers to launch and operate Class B Share funds with ease whilst reducing frictional costs and operational risk.
We are thrilled to see early adoption in Taiwan from one of our leading clients. Taiwan is a unique, rapidly evolving market and we continue to expand our presence in the region. Following the successful launch of the solution in Taiwan, we look forward to supporting more asset managers and investors in Asia with launching CDSC funds in an automated and scalable way.”
[1] Source: Lipper 2023
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About Calastone
Calastone is the largest global funds network, connecting the world’s leading financial organisations.
Our mission is to help the funds industry transform by creating innovative new ways to automate and digitalise the global investment funds marketplace, reducing frictional costs and lowering operational risk to the benefit of all. Through this, we make investing more accessible, generating the opportunity for the industry to deliver greater value for the investor.
Over 3,800 clients in 54 countries and territories benefit from Calastone’s services, processing £250 billion of investment value each month.
Calastone is headquartered in London and has offices in Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore, New York, Milan, and Sydney.
Lao Movie ‘The Signal’ Named Among Top 5 Must-See Films at Shanghai Film Festival
In an exciting development for the Lao film industry, the much-anticipated film, “The Signal”, has been highlighted as one of the five must-see films at the ongoing Shanghai Film Festival by The Hollywood Reporter, a renowned US magazine.
Laos to Expect Strong Winds, Thunderstorms This Week
The Department of Meteorology and Hydrology in Laos has issued its weekly forecast, warning of severe weather conditions in some areas of the country.
Luang Prabang May Offer Concession for Developing Pak Ou Caves Tourism Activities
Luang Prabang authorities are assessing the possibility of offering a concession to a private company to develop tourism at Pak Ou caves.
Trend Micro Predicts Cloud Security Will Be Consumed by the SOC by 2026
Emerging need for visibility across cloud will require ambitious professionals to evolve and adapt
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 13 June 2023 – Trend Micro (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cybersecurity leader, predicts the security operation center (SOC) within organizations will absorb cloud security by 2026.
Security leaders are recognizing that cloud and the way cloud security teams work today are becoming increasingly critical to business and IT operations. As a result, cloud security and the foundational practices of their teams will be absorbed into the SOC to increase efficiencies in the coming years.
“Valuable innovations always cross the threshold and are absorbed into standard operations — happened with virtualization, and it will happen again with cloud,” said Mike Milner, VP of cloud technology at Trend Micro. “The organizations and individuals that lean into this will lead the way.”
Leaders who have successfully navigated cloud security are well placed to navigate a similar move to the modern SOC landscape.
Software is consuming everything, creating system infrastructure that is increasingly defined as code and reliant on large volumes of data with automation as the cornerstone for delivering value at increasing speeds. All these principles are foundational to teams building and securing in the cloud, but SOC and IT infrastructure teams’ tooling, like cross-detection and response (XDR), also leverage these concepts and can benefit from absorbing the scale, skills, and expertise of cloud teams.
Trend’s prediction is that viable SOC tools will grow to include cloud protection capabilities. With the increased inclusion of cloud detection and response (CDR) within XDR platforms, the SOC function will have an increased scope that will also impact leadership qualifications.
Global organizations are set to spend $600 billion on public cloud services this year as the technology increasingly becomes an integral part of standard IT operations. Recent estimates suggest 87% of enterprises have already embraced multi-cloud and 72% are running hybrid cloud environments.
Organizations wanting to leverage the combined strengths of their organizations might look to security partners with expertise in both cloud security and SOC tooling to smooth the transition in addition to these thoughts.
Recommendations for organizations:
- Give CIOs more freedom to experiment with handling cloud and cloud security teams
- Look seriously at a cloud security leader as the next CISO
- Encourage or deliberately connect the leadership of the two teams – via joint executive briefings or having both reports into the CIO
- Consider rotational programs for security and engineering teams
Recommendations for aspiring CISOs:
- Gain experience in cloud transformation
- Pick a cybersecurity partner with experience adopting and integrating technologies between cloud security and SOC tools
- Maintain cloud practitioner certifications from partners such as (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc.)
- Leverage learnings from the cloud like immutability, building from code, and automation to improve security posture and respond quickly
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About Trend Micro
Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend Micro’s cybersecurity platform protects hundreds of thousands of organizations and millions of individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints. As a leader in cloud and enterprise cybersecurity, the platform delivers a powerful range of advanced threat defense techniques optimized for environments like AWS, Microsoft, and Google, and central visibility for better, faster detection and response. With 7,000 employees across 65 countries, Trend Micro enables organizations to simplify and secure their connected world. 
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