American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT), the world’s leading B2B travel platform, announces upcoming customer pilots and rollouts for online booking of Air France and KLM NDC content across its proprietary solutions, Neo and Egencia. The new content will be enabled through Amadeus in a way that fully meets the requirements of corporate clients. This milestone will also help set a standard that can be used by the entire travel industry to ensure a successful and scalable launch of NDC-sourced content. Like other major airlines, Air France and KLM are moving ahead with plans to promote the use of…
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Problems with ‘pruning’ brain connections linked to adolescent mental health disorders Problems with the brain’s ability for ‘pruning’ itself of unnecessary connections may underlie a wide range of mental health disorders that begin during adolescence, according to research. The findings, from an international collaboration, led by researchers in the UK, China and Germany, may help explain why people are often affected by more than one mental health disorder, and may in future help identify those at greatest risk. One in seven adolescents (aged 10-19 years old) worldwide experiences mental health disorders, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Depression, anxiety…
The AS-1 Pro is the first Converse CONS signature shoe for skateboarder Alexis Sablone. The shoe is the first cup sole offering in the Converse performance skateboarding line. Created with a newly engineered coring built into the outsole, the cup sole helps increase impact protection while maintaining board feel. Alexis Sablone is already unlike any other skater in the park or creative in the studio. As a professional skateboarder, architect, sculptor, painter, producer and more, she sets the example for a multitalented generation of creatives who are shaping the future. The Converse AS-1 Pro, Sablone’s debut performance signature shoe, is…
Festival season has officially kicked off around the world and this year, Amex and Depop are taking a new approach to tap into the season’s energetic and epic blend of music and fashion. Depop – a fashion resale platform that is home to millions of stylists, designers, artists, collectors, vintage sellers, sneakerheads and more, Amex and Depop to curate a festival collection of vintage and pre-loved items. “Part of the fun of festival season happens when fans are planning and picking their ‘fits and expressing their creativity and individuality through fashion,” said Shiz Suzuki, Vice President of Global Brand Sponsorships…
ABB is planning to delist its American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and ultimately to seek to deregister its ADRs and the underlying shares under the US Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the Exchange Act). In connection with the delisting of its ADRs from the NYSE, ABB intends to convert its current sponsored Level II ADR program into a sponsored Level I ADR program, which would give US investors a continued investment option, in addition to the ordinary ABB share. The company’s shares will remain listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (SIX) and the Nasdaq…
Coca-Cola Refreshing Films Program Marks 25 Years of Empowering Young Moviemakers Aspiring filmmakers can compete for the chance to screen their work in cinemas across North America through The Coca-Cola Refreshing Films program, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2023. Each spring, film students at more than 50 partnered schools submit creative ideas in response to a scriptwriting challenge. For example, this year’s creative brief showcased the big screen experience – elevated by the delicious combo of warm popcorn and a refreshing, ice-cold Coca-Cola – as the ultimate break moment. The Grand Prize-winning spot will run in Coca-Cola partnered theaters…
CWT Meetings & Events launches carbon calculator to help reduce customers’ carbon footprint CWT launches a new meetings and events (M&E) carbon calculator. Combining travel, hotel stays, meeting space and food & beverage carbon consumption information for corporate events, it provides detailed environmental impact insights to both CWT event planners and clients alike, enabling more sustainable choices for global events aimed at audiences of 200 up to 50,000. The CWT M&E carbon calculator analyzes and reports on individual and collective delegate carbon emission and waste data for the entire event lifecycle, from planning to completion. It maps emission data against…
Accenture and Google Cloud has announced an expansion of their global partnership to help businesses better protect critical assets and strengthen security against persistent cyber threats. Together, they are providing the technology, trusted infrastructure, and security expertise organizations need to build resilient security programs and maintain confidence in their readiness. The two companies have partnered since 2018 to help the world’s largest organizations fundamentally improve their businesses by harnessing Google Cloud’s leading technology in data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and cybersecurity to build stronger digital cores. The next phase of the partnership will focus on: Powering Accenture’s…
AWS Announces Three New Amazon GuardDuty Capabilities to Help Customers Protect Container, Database, and Serverless Workloads Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company has announced three new capabilities for Amazon GuardDuty, AWS’s threat detection service, that further strengthen customer security through expanded coverage and continuous enhancements in machine learning, anomaly detection, and integrated threat intelligence. GuardDuty is part of a broad set of AWS security services that help customers identify potential security risks, so they can respond quickly, freeing security teams to focus on tasks with the highest value. The three new capabilities expand GuardDuty protection to container…
Emirates today announced it will launch a new daily service from Dubai to Montréal, starting 5 July. Montréal becomes Emirates’ second gateway in Canada, complementing its passenger services to Toronto, which have been operating to Ontario’s capital city since 2007. The launch of services to Montréal comes as the UAE and Canada aim to deepen economic cooperation between the two nations and stimulate benefits to the aviation and tourism sectors, in addition to enhancing trade flows and commercial links. The daily flights to the new destination will help cater to the huge demand for direct flights between Dubai and Canada,…