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“SOCIAL GOOD” STUDENT ENTREPRENEURS FROM UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH WIN PRESTIGIOUS $1 MILLION 2024 HULT PRIZE

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KORION HEALTH DEVELOPING AI-DRIVEN SCREENING TOOLS, EMPOWERING PATIENTS TO MONITOR HEALTHCARE FROM HOME

LONDON and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The Hult Prize Foundation today held its Global Final and named the social impact startup Korion Health from University of Pittsburgh as the winner of the annual $1M USD Hult Prize.

Hult Prize awards Univ. of Pittsburgh’s Korion Health $1 million USD investment prize

Korion Health is developing a home health monitoring kit that empowers patients to better understand their own healthcare, working in conjunction with its hardware design partner, Hellbender, Inc., a Pennsylvania Social Benefit Corporation. The company’s flagship product is an electronic stethoscope that teaches users how to collect their own heart and lung sounds.

The annual Hult Prize competition challenges for-profit student entrepreneurs from around the world to create and launch businesses aimed at tackling the most pressing challenges they see in their communities. This year, the competition welcomed 200,000 participants and 40,000 entrepreneurs from approximately 113 countries and 2,000 international universities who put forward 9,400 startup ideas. Every startup must align with at least one U.N. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) and have a “triple bottom line” focus on people, planet, and profit. 

“Korion Health is the latest example of a social enterprise that will positively impact the world based on an innovative idea, hard work, and the ability to prove that it is possible to do well by doing good in business,” said Lori van Dam, CEO, Hult Prize. “The Hult Prize is honored to support Korion Health while raising awareness for the thousands of businesses that participated in this competition, all of which aim to do their part to help make the world better by solving our shared challenges.” 

Every year since 2010, the Hult Prize has posed a different challenge to competitors, with previous contests focused on healthcare, food insecurity, early childhood education, and sustainable fashion. This year, however, in recognition of the competition’s 15th anniversary, Hult Prize organizers expanded the competition to “unlimited” – welcoming all social impact ideas regardless of focus area.

Korion Health was chosen for the Prize over five other teams invited to London for the Global Finals, which included:

Bean Around (University College Dublin, Ireland): Bean Around produces “CoffChar,” a type of biochar, from recycled coffee grounds. The process produces clean, renewable energy as a byproduct.

HerLens (Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia): HerLens leverages artificial intelligence to enhance the accuracy of cervical cancer screenings. The company’s app and device aim to improve early detection via increased screening accuracy and reduced misdiagnosis.

LothghaApp (Mansoura University, Egypt): LothghaApp provides app-based speech therapy services including access to virtual speech pathologists, learning materials, classes and support groups.

ProtonCraft (Indian Institute of Technology, India): ProtonCraft has developed proprietary technology focused on decarbonizing oil refineries by turning harmful refinery waste into an alternative energy source: hydrogen.

Xatoms (University of Toronto and Western University, Canada): Xatoms leverages quantum chemistry and AI to identify materials that purify water faster and cheaper. The company’s proprietary AI identifies and validates photocatalytic molecules that could neutralize water pollutants, before quantum chemistry is employed to design photocatalytic materials (in powder form) to neutralize the target pollutant.

The competition welcomed past Hult Prize winners, current partners, and influential leaders involved with sustainability and social impact investing to serve as judges, including Earth Day Network President Kathleen Rogers , LinHart Group Founder and Chairman Tsun-yan Shieh, BuuPass, Inc. CEO Wyclife Omondi (winner of the 2016 Hult Prize), and Sharjah Entrepreneurship Center Vice-Chairperson Najla Al-Midfa.

The winner was announced with featured speaker, actor, startup founder, and environmentalist Maisie Williams, who played Arya Stark on Game of Thrones. During an on-stage interview with van Dam, Williams highlighted her experience and lessons learned while launching Daisie, a digital platform that empowers creators to present their work, identify opportunities, and collaborate with others to develop and advance their careers. 

Hult Prize: Competition Overview

Hult Prize is among the largest student entrepreneurship competitions for social good – featuring 200,000 participants, 40,000 entrepreneurs, and 9,400 startups from 113 countries vying for a $1M investment from the Hult family, founders, owners and operators of EF Education First (EF), a leader in academic services, language learning, educational travel and cultural exchange. The competition started with on-campus programs at universities around the world in July 2023. 16 semi-finalists were chosen via online review and live events held in seven global cities, including Bangkok, Boston, Dubai, Lisbon, Monterrey, Mumbai, and Nairobi. Through August 2023, the semi-finalists worked with Hult Prize experts remotely to transform their ideas into investment-ready social ventures in advance of the Hult Prize Accelerator.

Korion Health and the semi-finalist cohort then gathered at the Hult Ashridge Campus a royal manor in Berkhamsted, UK for three weeks of intensive mentorship to prepare for the Finals. Hult Prize announced its six finalists one week before the Global Finals in London. 

“Congratulations to Korion Health and to all the outstanding participants who have showcased truly innovative startup ideas with the potential to change our shared future for the better,” added van Dam. “The social entrepreneurship movement is vibrant and growing. In the past several years, we’ve doubled the number of startups competing, while welcoming teams from nearly all of the world’s top 500 universities. As we look to the future, it gives me hope that our most pressing global challenges can be solved through social enterprise.” 

ABOUT HULT PRIZE

Hult Prize inspires student entrepreneurs to solve the world’s biggest challenges through innovative social enterprises with positive global impact. Through our year-long competition, over 200,000 young people in 113 countries work to create high-impact startups that address global challenges in alignment with the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. The Hult Prize started at Hult International Business School, whose academic approach and commitment to experiential learning are embedded in how the competition works. 

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HighByte Launches Namespaces, Releases Next-Generation Industrial DataOps Solution for Global Manufacturers

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Industrial software company announces HighByte Intelligence Hub version 4.0, accelerating adoption of Unified Namespace architectures

PORTLAND, Maine, Oct. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — HighByte®, an industrial software company, today announced the release of HighByte Intelligence Hub version 4.0 with new Namespaces and Smart Query capabilities that advance the Unified Namespace (UNS) architectural pattern and address the key challenges to its adoption. Together, Namespaces and Smart Query enable data engineers to visually design, organize, and govern a UNS and query across it. The major release also includes a refined data modeling engine that makes it easier to create, manage, and validate more complex models and a native integration with Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform, enabling users to easily integrate this leading SCADA and IIoT platform into their enterprise data strategy.

“HighByte Intelligence Hub is crucial to our industrial data strategy. It allows us to break down silos and deliver structured data into a unified namespace,” said Brent Wassell, Principal IT Business Analyst at McNeilus, an Oshkosh Corporation Business. “The native integration with Ignition changes the game, allowing for greater scalability and faster deployments across our operations to drive digital transformation.”

HighByte Intelligence Hub is an Industrial DataOps solution that contextualizes and standardizes industrial data from diverse sources at the edge to help bridge the gap between OT and IT systems, networks, and teams. HighByte leads the evolving Industrial DataOps market with the most complete solution to optimize the orchestration of usable industrial data across the enterprise.

“Industrial connectivity is evolving beyond just linking industrial systems. It’s about creating a data-driven ecosystem. With advancements like DataOps, manufacturers can access and manage data more efficiently than ever, unlocking new levels of productivity and operational intelligence,” said Anand Taparia, Principal Analyst at IoT Analytics, a leading global provider of market insights. “The global industrial connectivity market is projected to grow from USD $89 billion in 2023 to USD $104 billion by 2028, with software, especially DataOps, being the fastest-growing segment at 49% CAGR.”

The latest release also includes major updates to Pipelines, improving data orchestration and observability and establishing Pipelines as the center of data movement in the Intelligence Hub. New Flow, Event, and Polled stages support time and event-based triggers. Additionally, Model and Model Validation stages have been added to help enforce data governance. Users can also expect a completely new UX that centers configuration around Pipelines with its intuitive graphical builder.

HighByte Intelligence Hub version 4.0 is now commercially available. All new features and capabilities introduced in version 4.0 are included in standard pricing. Please contact HighByte or an authorized distributor to request a trial or purchase a subscription license.

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Read more about HighByte Intelligence Hub version 4.0Download the Data Modeling Guidebook See all company and product news 

About HighByte
HighByte is an industrial software company in Portland, Maine USA building solutions that address the data architecture and integration challenges created by Industry 4.0. HighByte Intelligence Hub, the company’s award-winning Industrial DataOps software, provides modeled, ready-to-use data to the Cloud using a codeless interface to speed integration time and accelerate analytics. Learn more at https://www.highbyte.com.

HighByte is a registered trademark of HighByte, Inc.

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Apollo GraphQL Unlocks the Value of Enterprise APIs with New Innovations

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Apollo Connectors for REST APIs available today to enable next-gen intelligent app development

Additional new product enhancements help enterprises improve developer efficiency and API performance

Coinbase, Indeed.com, JUCR among hundreds building their API strategies using Apollo GraphQL, also presenting this week at GraphQL Summit 2024 among many industry leaders designing, building, and operating GraphQL at scale

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Apollo GraphQL, the GraphQL API Platform company, today announced Apollo Connectors for simplifying GraphQL API integration. Unveiled at GraphQL Summit 2024, this groundbreaking addition to Apollo’s product suite empowers organizations to leverage GraphQL as a complementary platform that sits atop existing services with minimal overhead, enhancing the flexibility, speed, and efficiency of API integration. By reducing the need for middleware and boilerplate code, Apollo Connectors further position Apollo at the forefront of the GraphQL API market. Apollo Connectors for REST APIs is available today in public preview.

Many organizations recognize the potential of GraphQL but struggle with managing various APIs and maximizing the value of their existing REST API investments, which often fetch too much or too little data. These challenges add complexity and cost, slowing innovation. As API ambitions scale to develop modern and intelligent applications, the Apollo GraphOS® platform offers an API platform approach that reduces the cognitive load on development teams, allowing them to focus on what matters most—delivering value.

The introduction of Apollo Connectors for REST APIs simplifies this transition further by allowing developers to integrate REST APIs into a federated GraphQL schema, incrementally or all at once, without incurring additional overhead. This pivotal advancement bridges the gap between traditional REST architectures and modern GraphQL deployments, enabling a unified, manageable, and more innovative API strategy across the organization. Apollo also celebrates the fifth anniversary of Apollo Federation, now considered the consensus standard for GraphQL in the enterprise.

“The pace of innovation, driven by AI and the demand for personalized digital experiences, means that organizations can no longer afford to delay modernizing their API strategies,” said Matt DeBergalis, CTO and co-founder of Apollo GraphQL. “Apollo Connectors for REST APIs allow teams to swiftly adapt by incrementally adopting GraphQL without overhauling existing systems. This isn’t just about simplification; it’s about staying competitive in an environment where speed and flexibility are critical. Apollo Connectors are designed to make that transition seamless and immediate.”

Key Features of Apollo Connectors for REST APIs include:

Declarative integration: Engineers can use a simple syntax within their GraphQL schema to connect directly to REST API endpoints, streamlining the process of mapping types and fields to underlying services.

Eliminating the GraphQL server: By eliminating the complexities of GraphQL server development and maintenance, Apollo Connectors reduces technical debt and allows teams to focus on delivering value faster.

Seamless onboarding: Apollo GraphOS provides integrated tooling and a smart editor for VSCode, ensuring a smooth onboarding process for teams of all sizes.

“Apollo Connectors makes it dramatically easier for enterprises to unify their API ecosystem with a federated GraphQL architecture,” said Rob Brazier, vice president of product at Apollo GraphQL. “Almost every organization of significant scale has a large REST API footprint. Apollo Connectors for REST APIs enable our customers to leverage that API footprint, integrating with it to drive innovation without wasting time on risky migrations or waterfall architectural transformations.”

Additional New Product Features Improve Scalability, Speed, and Developer Productivity

Apollo is also unveiling several enhancements to its platform, Apollo GraphOS, and its suite of tools aimed at improving enterprise scale, developer velocity, and platform performance:

Significant performance gains now in Apollo Router Core: Apollo Router Core, now with a new native query planner in public preview that delivers significant performance improvements, reduces resource usage, and cuts latency when processing and planning client requests.

As Apollo customers scale their graphs to handle more clients and increasingly complex use cases, they require a way to ensure that complex GraphQL operations do not compromise performance or lead to denial of service issues. Enterprise customers can use Apollo’s GraphOS Router, which now includes native demand control to help manage and limit operational complexity, to prevent performance slowdowns.

GraphOS Router also introduces entity caching with cache invalidation in public preview. API teams can now store key business entities, such as inventory and user records, in Redis for long-term caching, ensuring responsive and high-performing applications. They also have granular control over invalidating entries based on time to live, subgraph, type, and more. Apollo will also offer long-term support for it, ensuring that enterprises can rely on it for years to come.

Improved developer velocity and performance for API platform teams. Apollo continues to prioritize developer experience with the latest improvements in Rover, its leading command-line interface for GraphOS. The new workflow improvements in Rover integrate it more closely with GraphOS Studio and bring under-the-hood improvements that make it up to 10 times faster for developers to compose large-scale graphs.

Rover now executes commands in parallel and asynchronously, such as composition and fetching, improving speed and reliability, especially for large graphs. Native OS-level threading also makes local composition up to 10x faster.

Beyond performance improvements, Rover now supports subgraph mirroring, an automated workflow that allows developers to seamlessly fetch and test subgraph configurations on their local machines. This new enhancement eliminates the time-consuming manual setup previously required, enabling developers to quickly test new subgraphs and router configurations in a controlled environment, significantly boosting developer productivity. Download the latest Rover release.

Automatically enforce organization-specific standards with enhanced security and compliance. Apollo GraphOS introduces custom schema checks, a powerful new feature that addresses API platform teams’ demand for enhanced schema validation capabilities. This functionality allows organizations to integrate their own business logic, security policies, and governance rules into Apollo’s existing schema check workflow, ensuring that every schema change adheres to company-specific standards. The result is a more robust, flexible, and secure approach to maintaining schema integrity, allowing platform teams to uphold organizational standards in an automated manner while adhering to stringent organizational requirements.

“Our Apollo GraphOS platform and suite of tools give enterprises the capabilities they need to build next-generation intelligent applications,” said DeBergalis. “The enhancements we’re announcing today further our mission to make API platforms more powerful, flexible, and easier to use at any scale.”

Users can experience first-hand the ease of building an expansive GraphQL API through the power of Apollo Connectors for REST APIs. Start today for free.

Join the Conversation at GraphQL Summit 2024

Apollo GraphQL invites developers, engineers, and industry leaders to join us at the seventh annual GraphQL Summit 2024, where over 1,000 GraphQL enthusiasts have gathered in person this week in New York City and online. Sponsored by Xolv.io, Team Duality, and Moon Highway, GraphQL Summit will also be available virtually on November 7, 2024. Register now to explore the latest in GraphQL and API platform engineering and join in the conversation on LinkedIn and X by following #GraphQLSummit.

This announcement and more will be featured in the GraphQL Summit keynote delivered by DeBergalis, which can be viewed today via live-stream here beginning at 9 am EDT and covered on Apollo’s blog. For those unable to attend, GraphQL Summit Virtual will be held on Nov 7 and will feature announcements and presentations from the in-person event.

Customer Validation

“Our partnership with Apollo GraphQL has been key to supporting us to build our business at Coinbase and moving towards a fully federated GraphQL architecture. We’re breaking down our monolith into manageable subgraphs, reducing bottlenecks, and creating a more scalable system. Apollo empowers our teams to scale, innovate, and grow with confidence.” – Stephanie Saunders, Engineering Manager at Coinbase

“At Indeed, we rely on our primary graph, OneGraph, to manage traffic from our native apps, website, third-party vendors, and subsidiaries. Monitoring and controlling these interactions is essential to avoid excessive load on our supergraph and unnecessary fees from third-party APIs. With Demand Control, Apollo has provided us with a high-performance, out-of-the-box solution that safeguards our supergraph from costly operations. By estimating an operation’s complexity before execution, we now have enhanced control over traffic management and can effectively apply rate limits.” – Carlos Gomez, Software Engineer at Indeed.com

“With Apollo GraphOS and federated subscriptions, JUCR delivers seamless live updates to thousands of EV charging sessions across Europe, keeping our customers up-to-date in real-time during their charging experience.” – Max Grollman, Co-founder & CTO at JUCR

About Apollo GraphQL

Apollo GraphQL helps developers help the world by providing a better API platform across teams. Apollo’s open-source software is downloaded 25M times per month and its commercial GraphQL technologies power the most innovative brands today. Teams at Coinbase, New York Times, and Wayfair ship personalized, omnichannel experiences faster with a supergraph – a self-service GraphQL platform that spans any number of backend services. Serving over 5T requests in 2023, the Apollo GraphOS® platform simplifies API development with workflows and infrastructure to build, test, and ship supergraphs at any scale. Based in San Francisco, Apollo is backed by Insight Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, and Trinity Ventures. Learn more at: https://www.apollographql.com.

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E-Home Household Services Holdings Limited intends to merge and acquire an AI access control system + smart community service company to expand the front-end industry chain.

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FUZHOU, China, Oct. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — E-Home Household Services Holdings Limited (NASDAQ:EJH) (the “Company” or “eHome”), an integrated home services provider in China, announced today that it intends to merge and acquire Fuzhou Yunding Mutual Chain Information Technology Company Limited (hereinafter referred to as “Fuzhou Yunding”).

Fuzhou Yunding is a comprehensive Internet of Things information platform company mainly focusing on AI access control system + intelligent community services, and has obtained more than 20 authorized intellectual property rights. Its products are closely integrated with the government’s municipal governance and big data needs, and it has formed a multi-dimensional cooperation with the government, banks, and property companies in the form of commercial housing, public rental housing, guaranteed housing, and old districts, and has increased the cooperation and expansion of the channels of schools and parks to comprehensively promote the intelligentization of regional community management and operation throughout the life cycle. Comprehensively promote regional community management and operation of the whole life cycle intelligence.

At present, Fuzhou Yunding has landed more than 500 community projects in Fujian and Anhui, with more than 3 million online registered APP users. Many famous neighborhoods (e.g. Fuzhou Poly Champagne International), famous universities (Fuzhou University) and Xiamen Siming District Government use Fuzhou Yunding’s AI access control system and intelligent community services.

Mr. Wenshan Xie, Chairman and CEO of E-Home, commented: “E-Home’s proposed merger and acquisition of Fuzhou Yunding Mutual Chain Information Technology Co., Ltd. is based on the company’s development needs, and Fuzhou Yunding combination of the two, can be from the Internet of Things information platform front-end access to domestic demand for service customers for E-Home, to achieve the integration of the industry from the front-end to the back-end, to improve the company’s market competitiveness and brand influence, but also E-Home to enter the AI industry + intelligent community services an important step. It is also an important step for E-Home to enter the AI industry + smart community service.”

About E-Home Household Service Holdings Limited

Established in 2014, E-Home Household Service Holdings Limited is a Nasdaq-listed household service company based in Fuzhou, China.

The company is mainly involved in: 1. Home appliances, smart home installation, maintenance; 2. Housekeeping, nannies, maternity matron and cleaning services; 3. Internet aging + home care; 4. Units of public places cleaning. After years of development, E-Home has formed two main business channels, ToB and ToC, with two important subsidiaries.

Two main channel: 1. The ToC business to nanny, maternity matron, home care, cleaning, repair, maintenance of family integrated services. 2. The ToB business to public cleaning. Two subsidiaries: 1. Zhongrun Pharmaceutical, integrating pharmaceutical warehousing, distribution, wholesaling, retailing, and online sales; 2. Chuangying: presidential training, internal training, corporate consulting and counseling, and policy counseling. E-Home has been a comprehensive service enterprise for family life! We have always adhered to the “solving every issue of customers with heart” business philosophy, adhere to do the industry benchmark. For more information, visit the Company’s website at http://www.ej111.com/ir.html.

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All statements other than statements of historical fact in this announcement are forward-looking statements in nature within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that the Company believes may affect its financial condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial needs. Words or phrases such as “may,” “will,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “aim,” “estimate,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “potential,” “continue,” “is/are likely to” or other similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent occurring events or circumstances, or changes in its expectations, except as may be required by law. Although the Company believes that the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot assure you that such expectations will turn out to be correct, and the Company cautions investors that actual results may differ materially from the anticipated results and encourages investors to consider risk factors, including those described in the Company’s filings with the SEC, that may affect the Company’s future results. All forward-looking statements attributable to the Company and its subsidiaries or persons acting on their behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these risk factors.

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