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Zafrens Expands Investor Syndicate to Scale Revolutionary Drug Discovery Platform

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SAN DIEGO, Feb. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Zafrens, a pioneering biotech company transforming drug discovery, welcomes imec.xpand to its Series A syndicate, bringing the total capital raised to USD 31 million. imec.xpand is joined by existing investors Prime Movers Lab, Kofa Healthcare, and Global Brain in this financing.

Zafrens’ breakthrough platform allows scientists to create and test hundreds of thousands of potential medicines in a single experiment – a dramatic improvement over traditional drug discovery methods. This innovative approach significantly reduces the time and cost of finding new treatments while providing deeper insights into how these drugs work.

“Our platform represents a fundamental shift in drug discovery,” said Swamy Vijayan, CEO of Zafrens. “By creating and testing hundreds of thousands of potential drugs simultaneously and understanding exactly how they affect cells, we can identify the most promising treatments faster and with greater confidence in their safety. This means we can potentially bring life-changing drugs to patients more quickly and efficiently.”

The company has already demonstrated the value of its platform through successful collaborations with several leading pharmaceutical companies, focusing on multiple classes of drugs. The new funding will enable Zafrens to expand its capacity and engage in additional partnerships with pharmaceutical companies worldwide.

“Zafrens exemplifies the kind of breakthrough innovation imec.xpand seeks to support,” said Benoit Devogelaere, Partner at imec.xpand. “Their platform is fundamentally enabled through nanotechnology, and can accelerate the development of various types of modern medicines, from traditional small molecule drugs to advanced cell therapies and antibody treatments. We’re excited to support their mission to transform how these new medicines are discovered.”

For more information, please contact:
Swamy Vijayan, CEO
svijayan@zafrens.com

About Zafrens Zafrens is pioneering an ultra-high-throughput drug discovery platform to isolate, culture, image, and sequence hundreds of millions of cells per project. The proprietary Z-Screen platform transforms drug discovery by enabling a comprehensive analysis of therapeutic assets across efficacy, safety, and mechanism dimensions. Alongside developing an internal pipeline, Zafrens collaborates with leading pharmaceutical companies to accelerate breakthroughs in oncology, immunology, neuroscience, and more disease areas. For more information, visit www.zafrens.com.

About imec.xpand imec.xpand is one of the world’s largest independent venture capital funds dedicated to early-stage semiconductor innovation. It targets ambitious deeptech start-ups where the knowledge, expertise and infrastructure of imec, the world-renowned semiconductor and nanotechnology R&D center, can play a determining role in their growth. imec.xpand has an outspoken international mindset towards building disruptive global companies and strongly believes that sufficient funding from the start is key to future success.

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As Dan Bongino Leaves Rumble, Steven Crowder Moves to New Time Slot, Announces YouTube Departure, Leads New LIVE Daily Lineup

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“Louder with Crowder” moves to 11 am ET livestream time slot on Rumble as Trump appointee Bongino departs for FBI role.New Rumble-exclusive daily lineup features Crowder, Tim Pool, Russell Brand and more.Top creators join forces to cancel YouTube and stream exclusively to Rumble.Other big announcements slated as Rumble revolutionizes livestream viewer experience.

DALLAS, March 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — As conservative commentator and recent Trump-appointee Dan Bongino assumes his new role as Deputy Director of the FBI, there is a shakeup at Rumble. Steven Crowder, host of the most-watched online conservative show, moves to 11 am ET. Along with the hour shift in programming, Crowder announced today he is taking the major step of officially canceling all live streaming to YouTube, taking with him a growing list of prominent conservative streamers.

“Through censorship, demonetization, and deplatforming, YouTube created this emerging monster. Now it must face the consequences of its actions,” said Crowder in a statement announcing the lineup. “Starting Monday, March 17, 2025 we don’t just break the old decrepit mold, we obliterate it and change the streaming game forever.”

Along with Crowder, who’s made headlines for his unrelenting war on Big Tech censorship, Rumble’s daily lineup featured on the platform’s new “Rumble LIVE” will include conservative firebrands such as Tim Pool, Russell Brand, Vince Coglianese, Evita Duffy, The Quartering, and Viva Frei, with an expanding roster of talent to be announced in the coming weeks.

With his departure from YouTube’s streaming service, Crowder urges his nearly 6 million YouTube followers to join him at Rumble as he leaves Big Tech censorship behind.

“Steven Crowder is one of the most creative and entertaining voices on Rumble and we look forward to his exclusive content continuing to crush it, with huge numbers of viewers, for years to come,” said Chris Pavlovski, Rumble’s founder and CEO.

In addition to the hour-long free show in its new time slot, “Louder with Crowder” offers daily exclusive content to premium viewers. On Nov 5, during the most watched election night independent stream worldwide, Crowder announced his Mug Club community was moving under the Rumble Premium umbrella. For a monthly subscription fee of $9.99 or $99 annually, Rumble Premium provides an ad-free viewing experience and offers exclusive content from Crowder, Pool, and other globally popular creators including Russell Brand, and Dr DisRespect.

Rumble reported 26% growth in Monthly Active Users to 67 million in the third quarter of 2024, and a 39% year-over-year revenue increase to $25.1 million. The company is set to announce additional technology innovations that will revolutionize the way viewers consume live daily content.

Watch “Louder with Crowder” LIVE Monday through Friday at its new time, 11 am ET, exclusively on Rumble at rumble.com/StevenCrowder or by downloading the Rumble app.

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InventHelp Inventor Develops New Computer Typing Keyboard Test Cover (FMB-286)

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PITTSBURGH, March 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — “I wanted to create an improved keyboard cover to assist with helping the user learn to type by touch, not by sight,” said a retired high school teacher turned inventor, from Bakersfield, California, “so I invented the COMPUTER TYPING KEYBOARD TEST COVER. My design could fit any standard keyboard, and it could help promote higher typing speed, efficiency, and accuracy.”

The patent-pending invention provides a new keyboard cover for typing instruction/testing. In doing so, it offers a way of covering the keys and the typist’s hands. As a result, it prevents the user from looking at the keys, and it helps reinforce memory recognition. The invention features an adjustable and effective design that is easy to use so it is ideal for schools and businesses where typing skills are taught and/or tested, those who wish to improve their touch typing skills, etc.

The original design was submitted to the Fresno sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 23-FMB-286, InventHelp, 100 Beecham Drive, Suite 110, Pittsburgh, PA 15205-9801, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp’s Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.

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Embracing the AI Era: Huawei Cloud Thailand Launched New Cloud Service Series to Accelerate Enterprises’ Shift to AI-Native

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BANGKOK, March 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Huawei Cloud Thailand successfully hosted the “Intelligence Ignites a New Era: Huawei Cloud Reshaping Thailand’s Digital Wave” technology forum at the Renaissance Bangkok Ratchaprasong Hotel. The forum brought together over 200 business leaders and technology experts to delve into the value of data in the AI era, unveiling a suite of innovative cloud services designed to empower Thailand’s digital transformation with superior AI capabilities.

AI Strategy: A New Engine Empowering Industries
As AI drives the fourth industrial revolution forward, Celine Cao, CEO of Huawei Cloud Thailand, emphasized that: “AI should not be a high-barrier technology. Through open-source collaboration and innovation, every nation can build its own localized intelligent ecosystem.”

Prof. Jing Tang, D. Eng from Chulalongkorn University added, “Enterprises can achieve cost-efficient intelligent transformation by optimizing open-source large models with high-quality data assets. The cultivation of such data will be pivotal to successful AI implementation.”

Huawei Cloud Gives Thailand a Better AI Choice.
Huawei Cloud AI Cloud Service provides diverse, efficient, and stable computing power, enabling businesses and developers to rapidly build large-scale AI applications. The platform not only optimizes mainstream open-source models but also offers a cloud-based toolchain for streamlined development, eliminating complex configurations with one-click access and instant usability.

Technical Breakthroughs: The DeepSeek localization solution, powered by Huawei Cloud AI Cloud Service, reduces deployment cycles from 2 weeks to 2 days and cuts inference costs by 40%, supporting both full-scale and lightweight distilled models.

Scenario-Driven Innovations: Leveraging 30+ industry-specific best practices, Huawei Cloud launched three key solutions:Intelligent Interaction Hub: DeepSeek+Chatbot delivers precise semantic understanding and personalized interactions for high-concurrency scenarios across industries like customer service, education, healthcare, and finance.

Development Efficiency Revolution: DeepSeek+CodeArts boosts deployment efficiency by 20x, reduces code defects by 70%, and enables automated programming with intelligent Q&A and code inspection.

Knowledge Management Upgrade: DeepSeek+KooSearch integrates enterprise data to build unified intelligent knowledge centers.

Cloud Service Portfolio: Building Blocks for Digital Transformation
At the event, James Tan Shijie, Vice President of Solution Sales, Asia Pacific Cloud, announced a series of cloud services to accelerate enterprises’ transition from cloud native to AI-native.

CloudDC Solution: A one-stop cloud migration service for data centers, integrating deterministic operations, cloud DCs, and full-stack AI.

Backup & Disaster Recovery Continuity Center Solution: Ensures business continuity across five layers (management, applications, hosts, storage, cloud DCs), featuring risk detection within seconds, rapid recovery, and unified visibility.

Large Model Security Solution: End-to-end protection covering environment security, data compliance, model inference security, and unified security operations.

GaussDB & TaurusDB:GaussDB’s three-layer pooling architecture enables elastic resource scaling, while its dual-cluster disaster recovery design isolates hardware/software failures between clusters. An AI-powered DevOps assistant automates 90% of fault diagnosis and recovery.TaurusDB offers MySQL compatibility for seamless migration and pioneers AI-driven serverless capabilities with unique write scalability.

AI Cloud Service: Supports uninterrupted foundation model training for up to 40 days, with 10-minute fault recovery and compatibility with 100+ global models like DeepSeek and Llama.

Ecosystem Collaboration: Data-Driven Sustainable Growth
During the “C-Level Big Data Roundtable,” experts agreed that enterprises must build intelligent data governance systems to transform data assets into competitive advantages. Wu Shiwei, CTO of Huawei Cloud Asia-Pacific, stated, “Through open architectures and localized support, we empower Thai businesses to leap from data accumulation to value creation.”

This forum marks Huawei Cloud’s strategic upgrade in Thailand, combining “technology democratization” and “ecosystem collaboration” to fuel Thailand’s digital economy. With the rollout of these solutions, Huawei Cloud will continue driving intelligent transformation across Thailand

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