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Squarespace Refresh 2024: Introducing a New Era for Entrepreneurs

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NEW YORK, Sept. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP), the design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online, today announced Refresh 2024, its annual release of new products, features, and updates that empower entrepreneurs to unlock their creativity and take their business to the next level.

As AI becomes more prevalent, Squarespace is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs harness this technology to enhance their creativity and simplify their business operations so they can focus on their passions. Squarespace is excited to introduce Design Intelligence: a new approach to web design that combines cutting-edge technology, including AI, with two decades of industry-leading design expertise. Built on Squarespace’s belief that AI should unlock human creativity, not replace it, the Design Intelligence suite of features aims to support and amplify a user’s creativity in building their personalized and unique online presence, tailored to their specific needs.

As part of Design Intelligence, Squarespace has launched the next evolution of Blueprint AI, the company’s first AI-powered website builder. Serving as a creative partner, Blueprint AI helps users create elevated, fully-bespoke websites through curated design and content recommendations that reflect their individual brand identity. Blueprint AI supports users at every step of the website building process, from the initial onboarding experience to the design and functionality stages. By incorporating core elements that make each brand unique—such as business type and preferred color palette—Blueprint AI helps create a beautiful, custom starting point for any entrepreneurial journey. Blueprint AI is now available globally in all languages.

“Squarespace champions the irreplaceable value of human creativity, and our latest platform innovations are designed to further empower entrepreneurs to easily bring their visions, brands, and businesses to life,” said Anthony Casalena, Founder and CEO of Squarespace. “It has been an incredible year of innovation at Squarespace as we combine the latest technologies with our deep rooted focus on design to deliver unmatched capabilities for customers globally.”

The latest tools and features highlighted in Refresh 2024 include:

Make your mark
The latest suite of design and content generation tools deliver a more personalized online presence, tailored to every user’s brand profile and need.

Design Intelligence:Blueprint AI: The next evolution of Squarespace’s guided website builder is enhanced with AI integrations that automatically create a standout website populated with curated and beautifully-designed imagery and copy, tailored to a customer’s goals and brand personality.Layout Switcher: An adaptive layout menu that enables faster website design experimentation—offering a set of flexible compositions with one’s content automatically embedded, then applied instantly to a page.Site Themes: One-click styling combinations that make it easier to preview and apply a new website aesthetic—via handpicked font pairings, color palettes, button styles, and more, with recommendations aligned to a customer’s brand personality.Brand Identity Management: A central hub for crafting and storing one’s unique brand identity that guides Squarespace’s AI writer to instantly generate first draft, on-brand copy populated across key surface areas, including website text, content descriptions, and client documents, among others.

Usability & Expressibility Tools: New updates to cookie banner functionality and compliance systems to enhance website privacy and protection on a global level. Plus, new pinning effects to create a more engaging website scrolling experience.

Your business, your way
Built to support every type of business with an intuitive setup, plus management, monetization, payment, and marketing tools that help entrepreneurs establish their business effectively.

Client invoicing: On-brand, professional documents like invoices, proposals, and contracts to help entrepreneurs easily secure and manage their clients. Plus, tools to schedule document sends help foster a positive customer experience. And now with low-fee Automated Clearing House (ACH) direct deposits, clients can quickly and easily pay from a US bank account.
 Squarespace Payments: An expanded native payment solution with exclusive payment options that improve conversion, like Klarna, now available in more countries. Squarespace Payments is available to customers in the US, Canada and the UK, with extended European availability coming soon. Customers can also now manage their finances in the Squarespace app for iOS and Android, with upcoming payout and processing summaries, payment and payout dashboards, and detailed views of each transaction.
 Content & Memberships: New ways to monetize content, like charging for access to blog posts or videos, allow customers to turn their expertise into income. Entrepreneurs can provide website visitors a preview of their content, and then charge a one-time fee or recurring subscription for access to full blog posts and video libraries.
 Donations: Enhanced tools to make collecting donations more efficient, including a new dashboard, support for recurring donations, and a streamlined donation process to help customers reach their fundraising goals faster.
 Marketing Tools: An intuitive new experience for building automated email flows that give users total control over outbound marketing. Users can structure campaigns based on audience actions and custom rules, or browse existing templates to save time on customer communication, including thank you notes to first time buyers or discounts to new subscribers.
 Business Guidance: New updates that make managing and growing every kind of business easier than ever, with dynamic dashboards, specialized analytics, custom navigation, and step-by-step setup guides that help customers succeed with customized guidance for their specific needs.

A platform that scales with you
An extended network of best-in-class digital solutions help brands and businesses grow.

Domains by Squarespace: As one the world’s largest domains registrars, Squarespace continues to invest in new features to support its millions of domain customers globally. The latest innovation, Domains Dashboard, offers an improved experience for configuring domain DNS settings, email or domain forwarding rules, and more, all from one place. Plus, a new Reseller API allows qualified reseller partners to earn commission on every domain registration.
 Acuity Scheduling: A modernized appointment details page that makes it easier than ever to manage key actions: users can quickly contact clients, reschedule bookings, or initiate the checkout process directly from the streamlined interface. Acuity Scheduling also now features automated invoices generated directly from appointment details. These invoices can be customized before sending, ensuring a smooth and professional payment process that saves time and reduces administrative tasks.
 Bio Sites: New features help Bio Sites users capture all of their content and interests in a single, social-friendly link-in-bio. With the introduction of Product Links, Bio Sites offers a better way to turn followers into customers. Users can connect their Bio Site to their Squarespace store or manually import products from any digital storefront.

“Squarespace amplifies creative potential with an unmatched digital presence, tools to streamline business management, and support as users grow and scale,” said Paul Gubbay, Chief Product Officer. “As we enter this new era of entrepreneurship, we are excited to launch these tools that will transform how entrepreneurs build, manage, and scale their businesses.”

To learn more about the latest innovations Squarespace has introduced in 2024, visit Refresh 2024.

About Squarespace
Squarespace is a design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online. We empower millions in more than 200 countries and territories with all the tools they need to create an online presence, build an audience, monetize, and scale their business. Our suite of products range from websites, domains, ecommerce, and marketing tools, as well as tools for scheduling with Acuity, creating and managing social media presence with Bio Sites and Unfold, and hospitality business management via Tock. For more information, visit www.squarespace.com.

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Desay SV Collaborates with Qualcomm to Deliver New Intelligent AI Cabin Platform Powered by Snapdragon Elite Automotive Platforms

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New Desay SV G10PH is designed to support superior computing, graphics, and advanced AI-enabled cabin products for automotive OEMs, ensuring cutting-edge performance and functionality.The G10PH is engineered for real-time decision-making, adaptive responses, and proactive assistance to create tailored and intuitive driving experiences.Collaboration is built on a strong and long-term working relationship, marked by the successful development of innovative cabin platforms for global automakers.

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Desay SV and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. held a joint signing ceremony at CES today to commemorate the companies’ co-innovation to deliver Desay SV’s next-generation intelligent cabin platform, the G10PH. Desay SV and Qualcomm Technologies have a strong long-term relationship focused on developing innovative cabin solutions, which are now integrated into millions of vehicles across the globe. Building on this, the companies will collaborate on the G10PH intelligent cabin platform powered by Qualcomm Technologies’ Snapdragon® Cockpit Elite platform. 

The G10PH harnesses the advanced artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, superior computing and high-definition graphics of the Snapdragon Cockpit Elite platform to push the boundaries of automotive technology. With the Snapdragon Cockpit Elite’s state-of-the-art Qualcomm Oryon™ CPU, Qualcomm® Hexagon™ NPU for accelerated AI performance and improved Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU, this cutting-edge system provides automakers with the tools to deliver a smart, intuitive, and personalized experience for drivers and passengers*. Additionally, the G10PH enables real-time decision-making, adaptive responses, and proactive assistance, creating an exclusive intelligent cabin assistant that is finely tuned to users’ habits. Every vehicle utilizing the G10PH will feature seamless user interface and support personalized features designed to enhance comfort and convenience befitting a premium user-centric driving experience. 

“At the new inflection point of ‘Software-Defined Vehicle’ and ‘AI-Defined Vehicle,’ Desay SV, together with Qualcomm Technologies, launched the premium AI intelligent cabin platform G10PH, which marks another technological revolution in the process of intelligent cabin and is an important example of Desay SV leading the development of cabin intelligence upgrade,” said Jian Xu, CEO of Desay SV. “We hope that this platform will give a strong impetus to the intelligent transformation of global automotive manufacturers, reshape the new ecosystem of future mobility, and accelerate the realization of the era of intelligent mobility.”

“The automotive industry is on the brink of a new era of intelligent transformation, driven by software and AI. Qualcomm Technologies and Desay SV have built a robust foundation of collaboration, and with our combined expertise in intelligent cockpits and we are excited about the new products featuring Snapdragon Cockpit Elite,” said Nakul Duggal, group general manager, automotive, industrial, and cloud, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. “These innovations will enable automakers to deliver more advanced AI features and experiences to consumers, setting a new standard in the industry.”

Intelligent cockpit is the carrier of various sensing and interaction technologies, and it reflects the state of development in intelligent vehicle technology. According to KPMG’s analysis, China’s intelligent cabin market will reach RMB212.7 billion in 2026, with a compound annual growth rate of about 17% from 2022 to 2026, and the penetration rate is expected to increase from 59% to 82%. According to the “Smart Cockpit Assembly Data List for January-September 2024” by Gasgoo Automotive Research Institute, Desay SV holds the leading position in the market with an assembly volume of 630,492 units, accounting for 15.5% of the market share.

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About Desay SV

Desay SV (002920.SZ) is a leading mobility technology company with R&D and service branches in Germany, Japan, Singapore, Spain, USA, etc. The company focuses on efficiently integrating smart cabin, smart drive, and smart service. Relying on 39 years of accumulation, Desay SV has excelled in R&D, design, quality management, and intelligent manufacturing. Desay SV’s continuous innovation and comprehensive capabilities earn the long-term trust of global customers, including Chery, Geely, SAIC, Toyota, Volkswagen, Volvo, etc., and have helped it rank 74th in the Automotive News 2024 top 100 global auto parts suppliers. For more information, please visit Desay SV online at www.desaysv.com or follow us on: https://www.linkedin.com/company/13690363

About Qualcomm

Qualcomm relentlessly innovates to deliver intelligent computing everywhere, helping the world tackle some of its most important challenges. Our proven solutions drive transformation across major industries, and our Snapdragon® branded platforms power extraordinary consumer experiences. Building on our nearly 40-year leadership in setting industry standards and creating era-defining technology breakthroughs, we deliver leading edge AI, high-performance, low-power computing, and unrivaled connectivity. Together with our ecosystem collaborators, we enable next-generation digital transformation to enrich lives, improve businesses, and advance societies. At Qualcomm, we are engineering human progress. 

Qualcomm Incorporated includes our licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of our patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of our engineering and research and development functions and substantially all of our products and services businesses, including our QCT semiconductor business. Snapdragon and Qualcomm branded products are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. Qualcomm patents are licensed by Qualcomm Incorporated.

Qualcomm, Snapdragon, Qualcomm Oryon, Hexagon and Adreno are trademarks or registered trademarks of Qualcomm Incorporated.

*All performance targets are compared to previous generation, based on preliminary internal testing, and subject to change upon final validation. 

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VerifiedX Releases VFX SwitchBlade Wallet Featuring First-Mover Bitcoin Utility at BitMart

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TORONTO, Jan. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The VerifiedX (VFX) Network, VerifiedX.io, has launched its mainnet non-custodial wallet VFX SwitchBlade, which enables full native Bitcoin functionality. The VFX SwitchBlade also supports a ‘first-mover’ fully decentralized and self custodial Bitcoin Tokenization (Verified Bitcoin) with on-chain native features, enabling real day-to-day utility, while solving current frictions for all Bitcoiners globally today. 

 

Verified Bitcoin (vBTC) enables anyone the ability to save, spend, withdraw, borrow, lend, mint & transfer media / documents, and vault actual Bitcoin with on-chain recovery features eliminating the need for third-parties or hardware wallets, through a feature rich simple text smart contract. This incredibly unique Bitcoin token provides for enhanced privacy with near-instant transaction finality, all with near-zero fees. Verified Bitcoin tokens are transferable in any denomination completely peer-to-peer, so long as they have a native Bitcoin balance and always maintain a fully decentralized and non-custodial evergreen 1:1 peg. This means that 1 vBTC will always equal 1 BTC and token owners may withdraw their underlying Bitcoin anytime with a ‘one-click’ multisig action or off-ramp the token itself, in whole or in part, at any participatory liquidity provider.

This empowering development will inevitably help provide congestion relief for the Bitcoin network, dramatically reduce Bitcoin holders cost of ownership and transfers, enable media embedding, and increase self-custodial security exponentially, adding immediate utility to holders of the largest digital asset class. It is anticipated that Verified Bitcoin may also help facilitate additional native scarcity with Total Value Vaulted (TVV) over time on VerifiedX Vaults.

VerifiedX – VFX (VerifiedX.IO) is the first open-source decentralized network that is both a universal layer 1 and a Bitcoin specific sidechain for the purpose of tokenized self-custody, on-chain storage, and peer-to-peer commerce of both digital & physical assets.

For Further Inquiries:
Website: https://verifiedx.io/
Discord: https://discord.gg/7cd5ebDQCj
Twitter (X)): https://twitter.com/vfxblockchain
Github: https://github.com/verifiedxblockchain

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Ratehub Inc. launches a new personal loans marketplace powered by its LoanFinder tool

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Canadian financial technology company launches a personal loans marketplace, simplifying borrowing for Canadians and helping members manage debt better

TORONTO, Jan. 10, 2025 /CNW/ – Ratehub Inc., a leading Canadian financial technology company, has launched a new personal loans marketplace as part of its mission to empower Canadians with the tools and resources to make confident financial decisions.

This launch brings Ratehub closer to its vision of becoming Canada’s go-to source and one-stop shop for all personal finance products. With LoanFinder, Ratehub’s custom-built tool, members can easily explore and compare a range of loan options tailored to their unique needs. Members can quickly secure pre-approval for the best rates, saving both time and money—all within one easy-to-use platform.

“Our launch into personal loans is an important milestone towards achieving our vision of being the one-stop shop for all consumers’ financial needs – spend, save, borrow, invest, and protect,” said Naga Parvatharajan, CEO of Ratehub Inc. “LoanFinder, is a game-changer for Ratehub members. It uses our own data and credit bureau information to pre-approve you for the best loan offers, all without impacting your credit score. We’re thrilled to be working with Fig Financial and Spring Financial as our first partners to bring Canadians simpler borrowing options and help them manage debt better.”

Ratehub members will benefit from:

Comprehensive loan marketplace: Best pre-approved offers through LoanFinder matched to the lender, maximizing members’ approval odds without impacting their credit scoresSeamless digital experience: A fast, fully digital loan application process from the convenience of members’ homesFinancial education: Access to expert articles and resources to guide members on what to look for when selecting loansTransparency: Clear and unbiased information to help members make informed decisionsValue: Save money by refinancing credit card debt, reducing monthly payments, funding home improvement projects, or other needs

“In today’s challenging financial environment, it’s more important than ever to provide the tools and resources that help Canadians make confident decisions,” said Natasha Macmillan, Director of Everyday Banking at Ratehub.ca. “Our goal is to support every Ratehub member based on their financial needs and journey. Our launch of personal loans will allow members to navigate these products and empower them to make well-informed decisions.”

Currently offering comparisons for personal loans, Ratehub’s ultimate goal is to provide a complete range of loan types, with personalized recommendations that help members find the perfect match for their eligibility and financial situation. Ratehub is committed to helping Canadians find their best borrowing option based on their unique financial needs, and ultimately empowering them to manage debt better and take control of their financial future.

About Ratehub Inc.
Ratehub Inc. is the one-stop shop for all consumer finance needs – Save, Spend, Borrow, Invest and Protect. We connect Canadians to the best financial tools, advice, and products on the market through our financial product comparison site and mortgage brokerage, Ratehub.ca, mortgage lender, CanWise, insurance brokerage, RH Insurance, and personal finance website, MoneySense. Millions of Canadians visit Ratehub.ca and MoneySense every year to get personalized recommendations on the best mortgage rates, credit cards, savings accounts, GICs, and insurance products. To learn more, visit www.ratehub.ca or www.canwise.com or www.rhinsurance.ca or www.moneysense.ca.

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