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Syniverse to Present Universal Commerce Roaming Solution at ROCCO's Genesis

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Donnerstag, Mai 16, 2024
Technology, Mobile, Wireless, 5G, Other Technology, Telecommunications, Blockchain, Networks, Internet, IOT (Internet of Things), Transport, Friction, Internet of things, GSMA, Innovators, Product management, BCE, Monolithic kernel, Research, Voice over LTE, Innovation, Online shopping

Syniverse , the world's most connected company®, will present its industry-leading Universal Commerce solution and discuss the latest developments in roaming, messaging, and 5G during ROCCO's Genesis 2024 event, which will be held May 20-21 in Seville, Spain.

Key Points: 
  • Syniverse , the world's most connected company®, will present its industry-leading Universal Commerce solution and discuss the latest developments in roaming, messaging, and 5G during ROCCO's Genesis 2024 event, which will be held May 20-21 in Seville, Spain.
  • "Universal Commerce addresses this challenge by standardizing, automating, and scaling these processes, empowering MNOs to monetize the new technologies and services that result from next-generation network rollouts."
  • Universal Commerce can efficiently clear, reconcile, settle, and audit roaming traffic by standardizing the non-standard.
  • Regardless of the use case, Universal Commerce ensures operators have the tools and transparency to make optimal business decisions."

BCE announces election of Directors

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Donnerstag, Mai 2, 2024
BCE Inc., TSX, BCE, Proxy, Annual general meeting

MONTRÉAL, May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - BCE Inc. (TSX: BCE) (NYSE: BCE) today announced that shareholders voted in favour of all items of business put forth by BCE at the company's Annual Meeting of Shareholders today, including the election of the Directors by a majority of the votes cast by shareholders present or represented by proxy:

Key Points: 
  • MONTRÉAL, May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - BCE Inc. (TSX: BCE) (NYSE: BCE) today announced that shareholders voted in favour of all items of business put forth by BCE at the company's Annual Meeting of Shareholders today, including the election of the Directors by a majority of the votes cast by shareholders present or represented by proxy:

BCE reports first quarter 2024 results

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Donnerstag, Mai 2, 2024
Churn, Sale, Internet, Virgin Plus, TSN, NAS, Quaternary, Radio, Internet of things, News, Advertising, Population growth, Crave, Rationalization, SAM, Depreciation, ARPU, The Source, IPTV, Postpaid mobile phone, Human, Super Bowl LVIII, Public expenditure, Communication, Bell Canada, Bell, Acquisition, EPS, Workforce, CRTC, Bell Fibe TV, Performance, BCE, RDS, Bell Media, Growth, Mobile phone

"BCE's Q1 results demonstrate that we're on the right path forward as we head further into 2024," said Curtis Millen, Chief Financial Officer of BCE and Bell Canada.

Key Points: 
  • "BCE's Q1 results demonstrate that we're on the right path forward as we head further into 2024," said Curtis Millen, Chief Financial Officer of BCE and Bell Canada.
  • Mobile connected device net activations were down 6.1% to 66,406 in Q1 2024, despite more connected car subscriptions and fewer data device deactivations, due to lower consumer and business IoT activations, which can fluctuate from quarter to quarter.
  • BCE's Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.9975 per common share, payable on July 15, 2024 to shareholders of record at the close of business on June 14, 2024.
  • BCE confirmed its financial guidance targets for 2024, as provided on February 8, 2024, as follows:

Fraser Institute News Release: Ontario curricula for Grades 1 to 12 lacking in Canadian history

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Donnerstag, April 25, 2024
Fourth grade, Bangladesh Technical Education Board, Curriculum, Fifth grade, Fraser Institute, First Nations, Public policy, Grade 3, Student, Government, BCE, World war, Nursing

“Ontario students are not taught enough about the specifics of Canada’s history, and the little amount of Canadian history that is taught is not presented in a logical, chronological order.

Key Points: 
  • “Ontario students are not taught enough about the specifics of Canada’s history, and the little amount of Canadian history that is taught is not presented in a logical, chronological order.
  • This will no doubt confuse students and make it hard for them to put important historical events and figures into context,” said Michael Zwaagstra, Fraser Institute senior fellow and author of Canadian History Untold: Assessing the K-12 Curriculum Guides in British Columbia and Ontario.
  • The study analyzes the Canadian history content in both the Ontario and B.C.
  • For example, students only start learning Canadian history (from 1780 to 1850) in Grade 3, with no requirement that students learn about any specific people or events.

Bell CEO fails to justify mass firings in Heritage Committee testimony says Unifor

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Freitag, April 12, 2024
Bibic, System, Hand, MP, House, Unifor, Bell, Workforce, Private sector, Telecommunications, Government, Social justice, BCE, Bell Media, Management

"We know Bell can't possibly believe cutting thousands of jobs will improve telecommunications services to customers and strengthen local news media across the country.

Key Points: 
  • "We know Bell can't possibly believe cutting thousands of jobs will improve telecommunications services to customers and strengthen local news media across the country.
  • Unifor vehemently refutes statements by Bibic implying that the union agreed with the company to make the job cuts.
  • The Bell CEO was grilled by MPs about BCE's mass firings, increased dividend payouts, lucrative executive pay increases, service cuts, and, notably, whether the company properly followed federal labour regulations.
  • Unifor is Canada's largest union in the private sector, representing 315,000 workers in every major area of the economy.

23andMe Launches New Feature Connecting Customers to Historical Individuals from Hundreds and Even Thousands of Years Ago

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Dienstag, März 19, 2024
23andMe, African Americans, Iron Age, Farmer, Silver, CE, Indigenous peoples, Genetics, Yellow, Harvard University, SAN, Continental Army, City, DNA, History, Metal, Indian Army Public Schools, African, BCE, Late, Bronze Age, Iron

"23andMe's Historical Matches is a technical breakthrough in our ability to accurately detect genetic connections between customers and historical individuals."

Key Points: 
  • "23andMe's Historical Matches is a technical breakthrough in our ability to accurately detect genetic connections between customers and historical individuals."
  • The new Historical Matches feature leverages the same science applied in a more consumer-friendly and approachable way to making these connections.
  • To create this new feature and connect members to Historical Matches, 23andMe identifies segments of DNA that individuals share with the genetic sequences of historical individuals.
  • The feature relies on publicly available data, scientific publications, and the 23andMe relative matching technology to link to these historical individuals.

Bell terminates workers on virtual group meetings

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Mittwoch, März 20, 2024
Social justice, Private sector, Woman, Bell, Unifor, Telecommunications, BCE, Human resources, Management

TORONTO, March 20, 2024 /CNW/ - Hundreds of Unifor Bell telecommunications members are being terminated on virtual group meetings today, just a day after Unifor rallied in Ottawa to call out Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. (BCE) for cutting thousands of jobs across the country while continuing to rake in profits and increase payouts to shareholders.

Key Points: 
  • TORONTO, March 20, 2024 /CNW/ - Hundreds of Unifor Bell telecommunications members are being terminated on virtual group meetings today, just a day after Unifor rallied in Ottawa to call out Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. (BCE) for cutting thousands of jobs across the country while continuing to rake in profits and increase payouts to shareholders.
  • Unifor represents more than 19,000 telecommunications workers at BCE and its subsidiaries.
  • After the union expressed outrage, Bell has modified its approach for upcoming meetings.
  • Union representatives will be identified and people on the group calls will have the ability to unmute to ask questions.

Unifor calls out Bell on ducking accountability for job cuts

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Dienstag, März 19, 2024
CTV News, Social justice, News, Private sector, Bell Media, Life, House, Bell, Radio, Workforce, Parliament Hill, Telecommunications, BCE, Hearing

"Our Bell members are here today while Bell executives continue to play games and delay accountability for firing thousands of workers across Canada while hiking shareholder payouts," said Unifor National President Lana Payne.

Key Points: 
  • "Our Bell members are here today while Bell executives continue to play games and delay accountability for firing thousands of workers across Canada while hiking shareholder payouts," said Unifor National President Lana Payne.
  • Every job lost represents a life disrupted, a family affected," said Unifor Quebec Director Daniel Cloutier.
  • Find more info on Bell job cuts, profits and dividend payouts here .
  • Following the media conference, Unifor leadership joined Bell workers to rally and march on Bell's Ottawa headquarters, shouting the message loud and clear: Shame on Bell.

Bayou City Energy Publishes White Paper “Natural Gas Producers: Why Don’t You Stay?”

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Mittwoch, März 6, 2024
Oil, Gas, Energy, BCE, Depression, Henry Hub

Bayou City Energy (“BCE”), an E&P-focused private equity firm, today published a white paper titled, “ Natural Gas Producers: Why Don’t You Stay?

Key Points: 
  • Bayou City Energy (“BCE”), an E&P-focused private equity firm, today published a white paper titled, “ Natural Gas Producers: Why Don’t You Stay?
  • US natural gas companies continue to rely on misguided framing in comparing themselves to only the other dry gas producers when ranking drilling inventory competitiveness, thereby justifying the decision to bring on more gas volumes.
  • It’s imperative to acknowledge that dry natural gas basins do not produce the lowest cost molecule particularly relative to associated gas molecules.
  • The 2024 outlooks from major public pure play gas producers were encouraging, but not enough, to remedy our depressed natural gas markets.

National Pest Management Association Readies U.S. Military Service Members for Post-Duty Careers with Department of Defense Partnership

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Donnerstag, Februar 22, 2024
Other Consumer, Other Defense, Other Health, Family, Training, General Health, Consumer, Health, Education, Defense, DOD, Pest control, Growth, NPMA, Life, TAP, National Pest Management Association, BCE, Public, Employment, Workforce, Interview, Partnership, Management

The National Pest Management Association (NPMA) announces its partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) SkillBridge Program to prepare service members for successful civilian careers by offering internships in the pest control industry.

Key Points: 
  • The National Pest Management Association (NPMA) announces its partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) SkillBridge Program to prepare service members for successful civilian careers by offering internships in the pest control industry.
  • “Finding support and employment is often a challenge for service members reintegrating into civilian life,” said Dominique Stumpf, CEO of NPMA.
  • As part of NPMA's partnership with SkillBridge, military service members will benefit from:
    Full-Time, 18-Week Training: Equip yourself for a successful pest control career through on-the-job and classroom training.
  • Military service members seeking a supported transition to pest control can now enroll in the program.