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The Un-carrier Unleashes Epic Week of Customer Prizes as T-Mobile Tuesdays Turns 8

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четверг, мая 30, 2024

T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) is celebrating eight years of T-Mobile Tuesdays with its biggest customer thankings yet!

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  • T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) is celebrating eight years of T-Mobile Tuesdays with its biggest customer thankings yet!
  • “We launched T-Mobile Tuesdays to thank customers with free stuff and deals JUST for choosing us.
  • !”, T-Mobile is doubling down on the thankings for the bronze anniversary of Tuesdays.
  • All available starting, you guessed it, Tuesday, June 4 with T-Mobile Tuesdays in the T Life app.

BC’s Rental Protection Fund Announces Acquisition of Casa Mia Apartments by Brightside Community Homes Foundation

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пятница, мая 24, 2024

BURNABY, British Columbia, May 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the Rental Protection Fund (the Fund) and the Province of British Columbia announce the acquisition of Casa Mia Apartments by Brightside Community Homes Foundation (Brightside) in Burnaby.

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  • BURNABY, British Columbia, May 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the Rental Protection Fund (the Fund) and the Province of British Columbia announce the acquisition of Casa Mia Apartments by Brightside Community Homes Foundation (Brightside) in Burnaby.
  • “We created the Rental Protection Fund to safeguard affordable homes, such as Casa Mia in Burnaby, against private investors, potential redevelopments and rent hikes.
  • Through the ongoing independent redevelopment efforts and the recent acquisition of Casa Mia, Brightside will be adding nearly 550 affordable homes to Metro Vancouver's affordable housing inventory by 2025.
  • This is crucial in addressing the affordable housing needs of the community of Burnaby.”
    The Province’s $500-million Rental Protection Fund serves as a blueprint for the recently announced Canada Rental Protection Fund.

NFI subsidiary Alexander Dennis announces contract with BC Transit for 29 double deck buses

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пятница, мая 24, 2024

LARBERT, United Kingdom, May 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (TSX: NFI, OTC: NFYEF, TSX: NFI.DB) NFI Group Inc. (NFI or the Company), a leading independent bus and coach manufacturer and a leader in electric mass mobility solutions, subsidiary Alexander Dennis Limited (Alexander Dennis) today announced that it has received a firm order for 29 Enviro500 double deck buses from BC Transit in British Columbia, Canada.

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  • LARBERT, United Kingdom, May 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (TSX: NFI, OTC: NFYEF, TSX: NFI.DB) NFI Group Inc. (NFI or the Company), a leading independent bus and coach manufacturer and a leader in electric mass mobility solutions, subsidiary Alexander Dennis Limited (Alexander Dennis) today announced that it has received a firm order for 29 Enviro500 double deck buses from BC Transit in British Columbia, Canada.
  • BC Transit continues to use double deck vehicles as their high-capacity bus of choice and including the latest order, it has now bought over 110 double deck buses.
  • The upcoming vehicles will replace earlier BC Transit double deck buses that have reached the end of their operating lives, a process that began in 2021.
  • BC Transit President & CEO Erinn Pinkerton said: “BC Transit is proud of our continued partnership with Alexander Dennis.

Developers Celebrate Topping Out of 600 Fifth Street NW

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пятница, мая 17, 2024

Washington, DC, May 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The joint venture of Rockefeller Group and Stonebridge today joined Clark Construction and their building crews to celebrate the topping out of 600 Fifth Street NW, the only new office building under construction in Washington, D.C. that is set to deliver over the next two years.

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  • Washington, DC, May 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The joint venture of Rockefeller Group and Stonebridge today joined Clark Construction and their building crews to celebrate the topping out of 600 Fifth Street NW, the only new office building under construction in Washington, D.C. that is set to deliver over the next two years.
  • Stonebridge and Rockefeller Group completed a 99-year ground lease with Metro in June 2023, and immediately broke ground on the $375 million project.
  • “600 Fifth Street delivers a compelling next-generation workplace while contributing to the vitality of this great city,” added Jon Pickard, FAIA, Principal at Pickard Chilton.
  • CBRE’s Scott Frankel, Carroll Cavanagh, Dimitri Hajimihalis, Emily Eppolito and DJ Callahan are the exclusive leasing agents for 600 Fifth Street NW.

Alipay Supports Xi’an to Build “International Consumer Friendly Tourist Destination”

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пятница, мая 24, 2024

Alipay, the leading digital payment and lifestyle service platform, today announced that it is working with Xi’an, the world-renowned ancient capital city located in Shaanxi province famous for the Terracotta Warriors, to launch the “International Consumer Friendly Tourist Destination” initiative.

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  • Alipay, the leading digital payment and lifestyle service platform, today announced that it is working with Xi’an, the world-renowned ancient capital city located in Shaanxi province famous for the Terracotta Warriors, to launch the “International Consumer Friendly Tourist Destination” initiative.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240524320945/en/
    Launch ceremony of “International Consumer Friendly Tourist Destination” Xi’an (Photo: Business Wire)
    Alipay – with the support and guidance of local authorities – is working with its partners in Xi’an, including tourist attractions, hotels, restaurants, and public transit agencies, to upgrade their payment and digital services for international travelers.
  • In addition to paying like a local with Alipay, international tourists can also use their home e-wallet while exploring China.
  • “Alipay looks forward to working with even more partners to enhance the payment and travel experience for both domestic and international tourists.

India Prepaid Card and Digital Wallet Business Report 2024: A $134.59 Billion Market by 2028 - Unified Payments Interface (UPI) Continues to Lead Prepaid Growth - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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среда, мая 22, 2024

Prepaid card market (value terms) in India increased at a CAGR of 18.4% during 2019-2023.

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  • Prepaid card market (value terms) in India increased at a CAGR of 18.4% during 2019-2023.
  • With over 100 KPIs at country level, this report provides comprehensive understanding of prepaid card and digital wallet card market dynamics.
  • Overall, the publisher maintains a positive growth outlook for the prepaid card industry in India over the next three to four years.
  • From the short to medium-term perspective, the publisher expects more digital wallets to diversify their offerings to aid revenue growth.

Nutanix Accelerates Hypervisor Innovation to Drive Enterprise Modernization

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вторник, мая 21, 2024

Additionally, the company announced new capabilities in the Nutanix AHV hypervisor to strengthen resilience and support enterprise scale deployments, to help customers looking for a new virtualization and containerization platform.

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  • Additionally, the company announced new capabilities in the Nutanix AHV hypervisor to strengthen resilience and support enterprise scale deployments, to help customers looking for a new virtualization and containerization platform.
  • “Moving to Nutanix was one of the fastest and smoothest migrations we’ve ever had.”
    Nutanix announced new AHV server capabilities, currently under development, to help streamline customer migrations to Nutanix from the incumbent legacy hypervisor.
  • The company is working jointly with Cisco to certify Cisco UCS blade servers as part of the strategic partnership between Nutanix and Cisco.
  • This new functionality will enable enterprises to repurpose existing deployed servers, including blade servers, to run the Nutanix AHV hypervisor.

Redfin Report: The Sun Belt Is Seeing Some of the Biggest Rent Declines in America

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пятница, мая 17, 2024

Seattle is not in the Sun Belt, but like the Sun Belt, it has seen a surge in apartment construction in recent years.

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  • Seattle is not in the Sun Belt, but like the Sun Belt, it has seen a surge in apartment construction in recent years.
  • It’s worth noting that four of the 10 metros with the steepest April rent declines are in Florida.
  • In Minneapolis, the median asking rent jumped 10.3% from a year earlier in April—the biggest uptick among the metros Redfin analyzed.
  • The median asking rent in April was just $52 below (-3.1%) the record high of $1,700 in August 2022.

CP Group Announces Nearly 40,000 SF of Leasing at Miami Tower in Downtown Miami

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четверг, мая 16, 2024

Two Chairs, a behavioral healthcare company new to the downtown Miami market, signed a lease for a 2,600-square-foot spec suite.

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  • Two Chairs, a behavioral healthcare company new to the downtown Miami market, signed a lease for a 2,600-square-foot spec suite.
  • Shubin Law Group, a law firm specializing in land use, zoning entitlement matters, and related litigation, signed a lease for a 5,200-square-foot spec suite.
  • NormanMax Insurance Group, a reinsurance group, signed a lease for a 4,500-square-foot spec suite as its second office location and first Miami office.
  • Less than seven miles from Miami International Airport, it also features an on-site Metro rail station and adjoins the Hyatt Regency Miami.

Samsung Ties Apple Atop Cell Phone Market and Now Leads 5G Phones, ACSI Data Show

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вторник, мая 14, 2024

The smaller cell phone manufacturers finish last despite improving 1% to an ACSI score of 72.

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  • The smaller cell phone manufacturers finish last despite improving 1% to an ACSI score of 72.
  • Industrywide ACSI improvement reflects the increasing popularity of 5G phones, which outpace legacy technology for customer satisfaction by nearly 10 points (82 to 73).
  • Among 5G customers, Samsung pulls ahead of Apple by a score of 83 to 82.
  • The ACSI Wireless Phone Service and Cell Phone Study 2023-2024 is based on interviews with 12,414 customers, chosen at random and contacted via email between April 2023 and March 2024.