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Pet Food Express Launches Kitten Season Campaign, Calls on Animal Lovers for Help as California’s Kitten Season Starts

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Monday, April 1, 2024

From April 1 - 28, visit www.petfood.express/kitten-season or walk into any of the 66 Pet Food Express stores to participate in the kitten season campaign.

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  • From April 1 - 28, visit www.petfood.express/kitten-season or walk into any of the 66 Pet Food Express stores to participate in the kitten season campaign.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240401784639/en/
    Pet Food Express Kitten Season campaign launches to find foster and forever homes for California's needy kittens.
  • “Kitten season puts serious strain on California’s animal rescue network from April through November,” said Megan Kniepkamp, community manager for Pet Food Express.
  • Kitten Season is one of several community impact programs Pet Food Express runs yearly, along with Fill the Food Bank, Pet Fair, and Holiday Shopping Spree, among others.

Advancing Cloud-Native Application Security: Veracode Connects Security from Code to Cloud with the Acquisition of Longbow Security

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Monday, April 1, 2024

Veracode , a global leader in application risk management, today announced the acquisition of Longbow Security , a pioneer in security risk management for cloud-native environments.

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  • Veracode , a global leader in application risk management, today announced the acquisition of Longbow Security , a pioneer in security risk management for cloud-native environments.
  • The integration of Longbow into Veracode enables security teams to discover cloud and application assets quickly and easily assess their threat exposure using automated issue investigation and root cause analysis.
  • With Longbow, Veracode customers can address these challenges in four ways:
    Unified visibility of risk across applications, code, and cloud.
  • Veracode combined with Longbow advances the field of application security and enables customers to secure their increasingly complex application landscape more efficiently.”
    Longbow is available immediately.

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Launches Virtual Urgent Care

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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Virtual Urgent Care offers families the same level of care online as they do in person, including translation services if needed.

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  • Virtual Urgent Care offers families the same level of care online as they do in person, including translation services if needed.
  • At the virtual visit, the medical team will provide discharge instructions, send prescriptions to the family’s pharmacy, and, if necessary, let families know how and where to get physical exams, lab tests or imaging done.
  • CHLA’s Virtual Urgent Care services are available via appointment only Monday through Friday from 5 p.m. to midnight, and Saturday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. New and existing CHLA patients are both welcome, and most major insurance plans are accepted.
  • CHLA’s Virtual Urgent Care services are made possible thanks to the continued support of the Rauch Family Foundation and its generous philanthropic grant, which funds CHLA’s Virtual Care at School program.

Gigamon and Cribl Announce Technology Integration that Delivers Comprehensive Intelligence to a Full Range of Security and Monitoring Tools

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Through this integration, Cribl can now bring network telemetry from Gigamon into Cribl Stream, providing joint customers with deep observability across hybrid cloud infrastructure, dramatically extending the value of existing tool investments.

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  • Through this integration, Cribl can now bring network telemetry from Gigamon into Cribl Stream, providing joint customers with deep observability across hybrid cloud infrastructure, dramatically extending the value of existing tool investments.
  • Gigamon offers a Deep Observability Pipeline , with GigaVUE Cloud Suite at its core, that brings deep observability into traffic traversing hybrid cloud infrastructure, delivering greater security and performance optimization.
  • Cribl Search , the industry’s first search-in-place solution, enables security teams to locate application data regardless of where it’s stored.
  • Bottom line, Gigamon is bringing a new – and critical – data source to Cribl.”
    To learn more about the Gigamon and Cribl partnership, read the blog .

Glean Appoints Tamar Yehoshua as President, Product and Technology to Accelerate Delivery of Enterprise AI Platform

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Glean , the AI-powered work assistant making waves among CIOs under pressure to quickly and securely deploy generative AI in the enterprise, announced Tamar Yehoshua as the company’s first President of Product and Technology, effective March 11.

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  • Glean , the AI-powered work assistant making waves among CIOs under pressure to quickly and securely deploy generative AI in the enterprise, announced Tamar Yehoshua as the company’s first President of Product and Technology, effective March 11.
  • She will oversee all of research and development, including global engineering, product, design, and data science, as Glean enters a period of rapid growth.
  • “Glean has seen tremendous growth over the last year as we help more and more companies bring secure, responsible generative AI into their organizations,” said Arvind Jain, co-founder and CEO of Glean.
  • “I loved working in venture capital, but the opportunity to lead product and technology at Glean was too good to pass up,” said Tamar Yehoshua.

Phison Collaborates with MediaTek to Propel Generative AI Computing and Services

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Under the collaboration, Phison's cutting-edge AI computing service, aiDAPTIV+ , will pair with MediaTek's premier generative AI service platform, MediaTek DaVinci, heralding a new epoch for AI computing and application services and accelerating the adoption of generative AI in everyday life.

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  • Under the collaboration, Phison's cutting-edge AI computing service, aiDAPTIV+ , will pair with MediaTek's premier generative AI service platform, MediaTek DaVinci, heralding a new epoch for AI computing and application services and accelerating the adoption of generative AI in everyday life.
  • (Graphic: Phison)
    MediaTek DaVinci is an advanced, open platform for generative AI services, built on the Generative AI Service Framework (GAISF).
  • Phison's aiDAPTIV+ features a pioneering SSD-integrated AI computing architecture that breaks down large AI models for concurrent operation with SSDs.
  • "aiDAPTIV+ is set to revolutionize AI model fine-tuning, and MediaTek DaVinci has already made significant strides in AI services,” said Dr. Wei Lin, CTO, Phison.

Experity Completes Migration of Clients to Waystar

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Friday, March 22, 2024

Experity , the national leader in on-demand care solutions, announced today the complete migration of nearly 300 urgent care practices to revenue cycle manager Waystar in response to a recent incident at Change Healthcare (Optum) that impeded Experity clients’ ability to submit claims and receive payments.

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  • Experity , the national leader in on-demand care solutions, announced today the complete migration of nearly 300 urgent care practices to revenue cycle manager Waystar in response to a recent incident at Change Healthcare (Optum) that impeded Experity clients’ ability to submit claims and receive payments.
  • This migration to Waystar has allowed Experity to rapidly respond to these critical client needs.
  • The incident at Change Healthcare on February 20, 2024, prompted immediate action from Experity teams to keep clients informed about the extent of the interruption.
  • [Importantly, no evidence has been shared with Experity that any Experity client data has been impacted by this incident.]

DoorDash and Wing Announce Drone Delivery Pilot in the US

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Thursday, March 21, 2024

DoorDash (NASDAQ: DASH) and Wing today announced the launch of their drone delivery partnership in the U.S., starting in Christiansburg, VA.

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  • DoorDash (NASDAQ: DASH) and Wing today announced the launch of their drone delivery partnership in the U.S., starting in Christiansburg, VA.
  • This follows the drone delivery pilot program that DoorDash and Wing launched in Australia in 2022 and has since expanded to three locations in Queensland with over 60 participating merchants, marking the first time that Wing integrated its drone delivery service within another marketplace.
  • “We are excited to expand our partnership with Wing in the U.S. to integrate drone delivery into DoorDash’s ecosystem,” said Harrison Shih, Senior Director of DoorDash Labs.
  • The drone delivery partnership with Wing was born out of DoorDash Labs , DoorDash’s robotics and automation arm.

Abnormal Security Expands Executive Team, Appoints Smita Sanadhya as Chief Financial Officer and Jeff True as Chief Legal Officer

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Thursday, March 21, 2024

To enable its expansion to additional markets and continue its growth trajectory, Smita Sanadhya has joined as Chief Financial Officer and Jeff True has joined as Chief Legal Officer.

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  • To enable its expansion to additional markets and continue its growth trajectory, Smita Sanadhya has joined as Chief Financial Officer and Jeff True has joined as Chief Legal Officer.
  • As the company gears up for an expanded product portfolio and prepares to enter new markets, Abnormal is welcoming Smita Sanadhya to the executive team.
  • An accomplished leader with over 20 years of multinational experience, Sanadhya joins Abnormal Security from Okta, where she led worldwide finance planning and analysis.
  • In addition to Sanadhya, Abnormal is expanding its leadership team to include cybersecurity veteran Jeff True, who joins as chief legal officer.

Perficient Named a 2024 Top Workplace by USA Today

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Thursday, March 21, 2024

Perficient, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRFT) (“Perficient”), the leading global digital consultancy transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands, today announced it has been named a 2024 Top Workplace by USA Today .

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  • Perficient, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRFT) (“Perficient”), the leading global digital consultancy transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands, today announced it has been named a 2024 Top Workplace by USA Today .
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240321549877/en/
    The 2024 USA Today Top Workplace awards are based on feedback gathered from a voluntary employee engagement survey administered by Energage , an employee and research technology firm.
  • “Our Top Workplace recognition underscores the unique and collaborative culture we’re building at Perficient,” said Tom Hogan, CEO, Perficient.
  • The 2024 USA Today Top Workplace award marks the second consecutive year Perficient has received a national workplace distinction.