Emoji® Signs Licensing Agreement With The Hershey Company

The emoji company has entered into a licensing agreement with The Hershey Company with regard to emoji company's registered emoji® trademark. The agreement covers the Hershey's brand launch of  a limited edition Hershey's Milk Chocolate Emoji Bar this summer. The Hershey's Milk Chocolate Emoji Bar will feature 25 different images on each chocolate piece.  Select images featured include the excited heart eyes face, thumbs up, kissing lips, wink, sunglasses smile heart and more.

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A Video Recap Of Market Activity In May - Realtors® Housing Minute

Realtors® Housing Minute: A Video Recap of Market Activity in May. Both pending and existing home sales rose on a month over month basis in May.
Visit https://www.nar.realtor/videos/housing-minute to watch a 59-second, animated video from the National Association of Realtors® summarizing May housing market conditions and performance reported in June.

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Signs Of Life - Nasa Selects Flying Mission To Study Titan For Origins

NASA Selects Flying Mission to Study Titan for Origins, Signs of Life. NASA has announced that our next destination in the solar system is the unique, richly organic world Titan. Advancing our search for the building blocks of life, the Dragonfly mission will fly multiple sorties to sample and examine sites around Saturn's icy moon.

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Enr Sourcebook Again Ranks Black & Veatch Among Global Leaders Across Telecom, Power, Water Services

The just-released list by Engineering News-Record once again reflects Black & Veatch’s leadership among global engineering, construction and consulting companies serving the power, water and telecommunications sectors. ENR’s “Top 500 Design Firms” Sourcebook, which provides detailed rankings for nearly 50 specific market categories, ranks Black & Veatch among the Top 10 companies across 20 categories – from solar power and transmission and distribution, to water supply, wastewater treatment and telecommunications.

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Tru-Form Plastics Welcomes Jaysen Rodriguez As Business Analyst/Project Estimator

(1888 PressRelease) Tru-Form Plastics, an InterTrade Industries Company, recently added Jaysen Rodriguez as a Business Analyst/Project Estimator at the company’s Southern California headquarters, where he will leverage his analytical skills to increase efficiencies and decrease costs.

Vizient Selected For Cms’ Network Of Quality Improvement And Innovation Contractors

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has selected Vizient, Inc. as a Prime awardee of the Network of Quality Improvement and Innovation Contractors (NQIIC). This designation will allow NQIICs to bid on task orders over the next five years. Vizient, Inc. provides solutions and services that improve the delivery of high-value care by aligning cost, quality and market performance for more than 50% of the nation’s acute care providers, which includes 95% of the nation’s academic medical centers, and more than 20% of ambulatory providers.

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Vp420 Mobile Printer Series Launched By Printek

1888 press Release - Printek Launches VP420 Mobile Printer Series. Fast, Easy-to-Use, In-Dash or Center Console 4” Mobile Thermal Printer. The VehiclePro VP420 Mobile Printer is a newly designed and updated in-dash or center console mobile printer built off the success of the prior VP400 Mobile Printer Series. It is the only mobile printer designed specifically for police, and fire department applications for ticket printing, rip and runs, driver information exchange, and more.

Major Virtual Power Plant Agreement With Japan's Eneres Co., Ltd Announced By Autogrid

AutoGrid Announces Major Virtual Power Plant Agreement with Japan's ENERES Co., Ltd. AutoGrid, the leader in flexibility management software for the energy industry, announced today its latest project in Japan, which will be the largest storage-virtual power plant (VPP) in the world by asset volume. The project anticipates adding more than 10,000 assets to the VPP between 2020-2021, with rapid scaling in subsequent years.

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Hong Kong Is Closer Than Ever With Thai Smile

(1888 Pressrelease) THAI passengers are now able to fly nonstop to Hong Kong from Phuket on Thai Smile. Previously, passengers travelling from Phuket to Hong Kong on Thai Airways International required a stopover in Bangkok. As THAI’s tagline suggests, the added route makes the journey between these two cities as “smooth as silk”.

Progression To Pivotal Study Following Positive Interim Data In Male Androgenetic Alopecia Announced By Follica

Follica Announces Progression to Pivotal Study Following Positive Interim Data in Male Androgenetic Alopecia. Follica, Inc, a clinical-stage biotech developing a regenerative platform for hair growth, today announced positive interim data from an ongoing safety and optimization study to treat hair loss in male androgenetic alopecia.

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Ubisoft® Unveils Updated Roadmap For Year 1 Of Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2

Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Ubisoft announced updated details for the Year 1 roadmap in Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2. Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 is available on the Xbox One family of devices including the Xbox One X, PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system and Windows PC. Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 will also launch on the new generation gaming platform, Stadia. Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 will also be available on Uplay+, Ubisoft’s subscription service. More details on Uplay+ can be found on Uplay.com**.

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Free Disaster Communication Program - Stratics Networks

Stratics Networks Announces Free Disaster Communication Program. Stratics Networks, a leading provider of cloud communications and the inventors of Ringless Voicemail and IVR Polling, today announced the introduction of their Disaster Communication Program. This program will offer free emergency messaging for qualified groups in life-threatening disasters to aid in crucial relief coordination.

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Postmates Hires Apple's Ken Kocienda As Principal Software Engineer Focusing On Human-Machine Interaction

Postmates, the leader in delivering anything you want on-demand, announced today that they've hired bestselling author and long-time Apple engineer, Ken Kocienda, as Principal Software Engineer. He will be joining the Postmates team and working first on Postmates X, building the new platform for the company's autonomous sidewalk rover, Serve

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World Animal Protection Holds Demonstration Outside Walmart's Annual Shareholder Meeting

World Animal Protection staff and volunteers traveled to Northwest Arkansas to engage Walmart stockholders and company executives about the conditions many mother pigs experience on factory farms, including cruel continuous confinement. Roughly 3 out of 4 mother pigs in the US are isolated and confined in small cages called gestation crates, unable to move around freely, turn around, or lie down with her limbs fully extended.

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Zaful Enters New Era Of Precise Fashion Operation

ZAFUL founded its fashion design center in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. Not long ago, a new operation team, specialized in connecting the back-end design with front-end operations, was officially formed. Fashion design in ZAFUL has now entered into a new era when every item, design element, material and pattern can be traced, researched, strategically planned and managed online. From consumer feedback to a new arrival, it can be finished as fast as 7 - 10 days.

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Five Equity Funds Launched By Sukemasa Trust Expands Equity Platform

1888 Press Release - Sukemasa Trust Expands Equity Platform, Launches Five Equity Funds. Sukemasa Trust, an independent global markets and financial advisory firm founded on the core values of integrity, trust and global expertise, is pleased to announce that together with its Research Division, a pioneer in innovative investment solutions arm of the company, has launched five equity funds which are designed to outperform market benchmarks through a fundamental index-based approach that incorporates active insights. 

Solar Impulse “Efficient Solution” Label Awarded By Carbios

CARBIOS Awarded a Solar Impulse “Efficient Solution” Label. The Solar Impulse Foundation aims to select and promote worldwide 1 000 economically profitable solutions to protect the environment. This label is awarded to innovations that combine technical feasibility criteria, positive social and environmental impact and economic profitability.

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