PunkPanda’s ecosystem includes PandaChat, PandaPost and PandaMeet, with PandaVault coming soon.
PunkPanda, a UK-based technology startup, has launched a series of products to help Internet users and businesses reduce the risks of digitizing by providing military-grade encryption and all-around security. PunkPanda co-founder Matthew Connelly is creating a platform where people can communicate securely without worrying about privacy or security breaches. The company’s ultimate goal is PunkPanda Universe, a communication ecosystem of commonly used tools to meet the needs of both personal and business users.
Offering military-grade encryption to protect users
For most Internet users, online communication services have been an essential part of our lives since the invention of the Internet and instant messaging. Now, they have become even more important to us, especially in the wake of outbreaks where physical interaction is a high-risk move for everyone.
But online communication can be extremely risky. With any luck, people’s data could end up being mined by large companies. But if unlucky, hackers could lock a user’s passwords, banking information and sensitive files through the applications he or she uses, which is why Internet users should use communication services that are highly secure and respectful of privacy.
If successful, it will be the first technology company in the world to create an all-in-one encrypted communications platform that offers a diverse range of services to meet the needs of individual and corporate users.
PandaChat situates a solid foundation for the ecosystem
Instant messaging services are the most commonly used online communication tool, which is why PunkPanda began developing PandaChat, a messaging application that connects all users. PandaChat is a privacy-centric messaging application built on the XMPP protocol and utilizes 256-bit encryption algorithms to protect users’ privacy.
Unlike some of the most popular social media or chat applications, PandaChat does not monitor user conversations or collect personal data because it uses end-to-end encryption to protect your information. Only the sender and the designated recipient have a digital key to decrypt the message, and not even PunkPanda has a key to decrypt the message. Even PunkPanda does not have the key to decrypt any messages sent by users.
With PandaChat’s ZAP and HIDE/UNHIDE features, users have the ultimate control over their messages. With the ZAP feature, users can erase their messages at any time and leave no trace of them. On the other hand, the HIDE/UNHIDE feature can hide and show messages at any time.
Gaining worldwide traction from its launch
Regarding the progress so far, co-founder Matthew Connelly revealed that the app has received 5,000 downloads in more than 25 countries. Since its launch in October 2020, the app has received 10 major updates to improve the user experience and new features.
“In everything, PunkPanda implements cutting-edge, military-grade encryption. There are so many ways to communicate with friends and colleagues these days, from online chats, video conferencing, audio calls, video calls, email and file transfers, that it is important for PunkPanda to understand how important privacy and security are in communication. the ultimate goal of PunkPanda is to raise the bar for data security on the internet,” Matthew added.
One step away from completing the ecosystem
Since the launch of PandaChat three months ago, its development team has been working to release further products under the PunkPanda ecosystem.
PandaPost, the essential email client, is protected by a high level of security. It allows users to send emails to anyone, even to non-PunkPanda users. Emails sent through PandaPost can only be viewed on PandaPost, giving users full privacy control over their content. PunkPanda’s EMA file encryption and compression tools are also available together on PandaPost, as users can send EMA encrypted files on their email client.
PandaMeet, a video conferencing and webinar tool built with the highest security standards, but designed to be very user-friendly. Launched last month, it allows everyone to understand what they are doing the moment they enter the meeting room. It’s worth mentioning that the PunkPanda team hosted a Christmas celebration on the PandaMeet platform last year.
Completing the final piece of their ecosystem is PandaVault, currently in development, a secure cloud storage platform that will provide basic free storage for all PunkPanda users, with additional storage available in the future at competitive prices. With the official debut of all services, PunkPanda hopes that all users will look forward to their new services and continue to provide them with positive input on how they can build better applications in the future.
PunkPanda is available today on Google Play and the App Store, or the company’s website: punkpanda.io.
Chart: China Mobile Healthcare Market Scale (Source: iiMedia Consulting, Essence Securities Research Center)
Data from Futu Securities showed that as of 13:00 on January 6, Mediwelcome (02159.HK) was overbuying 47.51 times. Futu expects its subscription multiple to exceed 80 times. Judging from this subscription multiple, this stock is a recent hot stock.
Why are there more promising investors in the market?
Mediwelcome is China’s largest provider of integrated medical marketing solutions for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and its business layout currently covers three main areas: integrated medical marketing solutions, Internet hospitals, and CRO services. The errth two are the company’s emerging businesses. Mediwelcome has been deeply in the industry for many years and has an industry-leading edge in physician resources, customer relationships, patient resources and professional medical knowledge. These resources can be migrated to the Internet hospital business, showing a unique advantage over a group of Internet medical technology giants.
Currently, Mediwelcome is trading at just 20 times earnings. Some investors believe that this valuation has not yet reflected the company’s integrated medical marketing solutions as an advantage of the business sector, not to mention Internet hospitals. Can the company’s Internet hospital business surprise the market?
First, grasp the golden track of chronic diseases in Internet hospitals
At present, Mediwelcome has built an integrated platform for WeChat public account Mediwelcome Medical Plus (for patients) and mobile application Medical Plus (for doctors) to provide online follow-up consultation and electronic prescription services.
Mediwelcome has excellent medical service genes and has a natural advantage in linking online doctors and offline patients. Therefore, the extension of Mediwelcome to the Internet medical service business is a matter of course. However, the timing of its entry coincided with the explosion of the industry. It has to be said that this is strength meets good luck.
Since 2018, the National Health Commission and other institutions have strongly supported the development of Internet medical care. In August 2019, the State Council proposed for the first time that qualified “Internet +” medical services can be included in the scope of medical insurance reimbursement. The new business of Mediwelcome came into being, and the company began to provide Internet hospital services at the end of 2019.
And entering 2020, the epidemic has spawned an outbreak of Internet medical demand. Affected by the epidemic, outpatient clinics in hospitals have been suspended, and diagnosis and treatment activities such as daily diagnosis and treatment and follow-up for chronic diseases cannot be satisfied offline. Many third-party Internet diagnosis and treatment platforms, such as Ping An Good Doctor, Alibaba Health, Dingxiang Doctor, and WeDoctor, have launched online epidemic consultation services in time to provide free consultations. Many physical medical institutions have also established Internet hospitals in a short period of time by moving in or suggesting opening. The epidemic has accelerated the promotion of Internet medical awareness.
More importantly, favorable policies have appeared frequently. The Health Commission and the State Council have also issued multiple notices requiring medical institutions to vigorously develop Internet diagnosis and treatment services, and some provinces and cities have also accelerated the inclusion of Internet follow-up visits and online drugs into medical insurance.
It can be said that the epidemic has accelerated the ecological evolution of Internet hospitals and advanced the development of the industry at least 3-5 years. In January 2020, the number of new users of Ping An Good Doctor and the number of new user consultations increased by 900% and 800% respectively. The number of online consultations and active users of Dingxiangyuan increase by 135% and 215% respectively. According to iiMedia’s data, China’s mobile medical market is expected to reach 52.08 billion yuan in 2020, an increase of 62.04% from the 32.14 billion yuan in 2019.
Mediwelcome occupies a leading position in the industry. Under the market wind, Mediwelcome is expected to use favorable policies and favorable traffic to transfer its doctor resources, customer relationships and professional medical knowledge to Internet services, and achieve a rapid increase in penetration.
What’s more noteworthy is that chronic disease is the golden track in Internet hospitals and has the most considerable potential. Mediwelcome is China’s largest provider of comprehensive medical marketing solutions for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and has outstanding advantages in the field of chronic diseases.
What are the opportunities in the chronic disease market?
First of all, the number of patients with chronic diseases is huge, and the unit price per customer is high. According to data disclosed by the National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, in 2018, there were 290 million people with cardiovascular disease and 250 million people with hypertension in my country. In 2019, the unit price of chronic disease medical insurance stores is about 296 yuan, which is 4.2 times the unit price of non-chronic disease customers.
Furthermore, due to the imperfect family doctor system of the domestic medical and health system, basic medical services for residents are lacking to a certain extent, providing a third-party chronic disease management platform with deep cultivation and germinating soil. As an intermediary platform, the Chronic Disease Internet Hospital can achieve hierarchical diagnosis and treatment, improve patient compliance, provide secondary diagnosis and treatment and medication adjustment services, and prevent complications. Chronic diseases require long-term follow-up treatment, so it can solve the “low frequency” pain points of the Internet platform.
In addition, the implementation of the medical insurance payment policy has directly promoted the Internet chronic disease medical market. In March this year, the National Medical Insurance Administration and the National Health Commission jointly issued the “Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Development of “Internet +” Medical Insurance Services During the Period of New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control”, it is clear that online follow-up services for common and chronic diseases provided by Internet medical institutions that meet the requirements for insured persons can be included in the medical insurance fund payment scope in accordance with regulations. In November, the National Medical Security Administration officially listed its “Guiding Opinions on Actively Promoting “Internet +” Medical Services and Medical Insurance Payments” on its official website. The “Guiding Opinions” proposed to gradually expand the coverage of “Internet +” medical services paid by medical insurance for common and chronic diseases.
The development of the Internet chronic disease business is broad. Mediwelcome has formed a multi-point coverage of diseases that focus on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes, respiratory diseases, and many other chronic diseases. It has leading and first-mover advantages and is expected to be the first to benefit from the opportunity of Internet chronic disease medical treatment.
Second, Mediwelcome’s differentiation advantage
How to evaluate the potential of an Internet hospital?
Looking at the panorama of the Internet medical track, the common strategy of all core players is to open up the connection between doctors and patients to form a one-stop closed loop of medical and health services. Doctors are the root of the attractiveness of Internet hospitals, and patients are the source of traffic for Internet hospitals and the basis for monetization. Whether doctors and hospitals have a strong relationship and a large user base of doctors and patients is of utmost importance to the operation of Internet hospitals.
Every head player builds an Internet hospital around this basic logic. Ping An Good Doctor attracts a large number of doctors to enter, starting from health consultation into Internet medical treatment, providing users with one-stop medical and health services. JD Health and Alibaba Health use the advantages of e-commerce traffic to enter the field of medical e-commerce from patients, and gradually extend to the medical service link, providing online consultation, health management and other functions.
Unlike these Internet technology giants, Mediwelcome has been rooted in the medical track since its establishment, so it has unique advantages in resources and business formats.
As China’s largest provider of comprehensive medical marketing solutions for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, Mediwelcome has been on the track for nearly 20 years. The resources accumulated in “medicine” are outstanding, which is conducive to brand building. As of the first half of 2020, the company has established a network of approximately 24,000 cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease doctors, of which more than 70% work in tertiary hospitals in China. These doctors are all doctors who have worked with the company.
In addition, Mediwelcome has worked with some of China’s most authoritative medical organizations, including the Only Association of Cardiovascular Diseases accredited by the China Association of Science and Technology (or the Chinese Association of Science and Technology), the official body of China’s national professional science and technology bodies, and has established a Medical Advisory Board (including four doctors with affected and recognized cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases).
The original business of Mediwelcome includes patient education meetings and disease risk self-test projects, so it reserves a large number of chronic disease patients with high viscosity. The disease risk self-test project can accurately identify patients; patient education will help Mediwelcome reach out to potential users of Internet hospital services on a large scale. Patients with chronic diseases (such as patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases) must treat and control the disease for life, and must consult a doctor who is familiar with the condition and trusts. Internet hospital services have become a natural extension of the face-to-face consultation between Mediwelcome patients and doctors, and have a high degree of collaboration with the original business.
Relying on the accumulation of original business, Mediwelcome can integrate doctor resources, professional knowledge, medical company resources and patient groups on the Internet hospital platform, thereby forming a complete Internet medical business closed loop. Mediwelcome’s differentiated advantages give it the potential to break through among a group of high-tech Internet medical giants.
At the end of 2020, the benefits of relevant new policies and the listing of JD Health have once again pushed the Internet medical market attention to a climax. Both market demand and policy attitude indicate that the next few years will become a golden window for the outbreak of Internet healthcare.
Mediwelcome’s listing at this time may give investors an opportunity to share the industry development feast.
BEIJING – On December 12th, 2020, Weiluwon the prize of top ten tech brand during the Bsan Forum in Beijing, and begins a new trend of localized vlog in China.
Competition about vlog among internet giants in China starts in 2019. With 10.8 billion internet users and previous success in short videos, China seems to be the next big market for the vlog. As shown by the public record, the top ten video companies have offered 10 billion traffic incentives to vloggers in China since 2018. According to the Baidu index, in April 2019, vlog reaches its highest index 17479, then decreases to 2525 in December 2020. This leaves the question: “Why Chinese people don’t like vlogs like the rest of the world.”
“According to a survey conducted by Tencent’s Penguin Intelligence, nearly 60% of the users surveyed have never heard of a vlog, and 70% of users claim to have never seen a vlog,” says Duncan Du, founder of Weilu. “The main reason is that people speak mandarin in China, so to most local people vlog is a meaningless spelling of letters, impossible to remember or pronounce.
“When we came up with the idea of creating a local brand for vlog, we tried to make it sound like vlog and mean like vlog, which took us 6 months to finish the task, amongst 200 alternatives. It’s easy to relate Weilu to vlog in Chinese by meaning or pronunciation. The other meaning of Weilu is from the Chinese idiom weibuzulu, which means too small to record. Our team removed the middle part to get the word Weilu.”
So far, Weilu has been quoted on most search engines and online encyclopedias as the meaning for vlogs in China. “To my personal opinion, vlog hasn’t entered into the Chinese market yet. It’s not hard to understand if you don’t assume everyone can speak English in China,” says Duncan.
PC or mobile
According to a Chinese internet report, there are around 1 billion mobile devices in China and 300 million PC users in China. The penetration of short video is higher than 70%. Due to the nature of different types of videos, users tend to watch short videos on mobile while watching long videos on pc or pad. Watching long videos on mobile can be costly. However, internet giants are offering cheap data packs to users. With the 5G network upgrade, long video like vlog may boom in China on both mobile and pc platforms.
Vlog or short video
On Wikipedia, the vlog is described as a video blog or video log, sometimes shortened to vlog, and is a form of blog for which the medium is video, and is a form of web television. Vlog entries often combine embedded video with supporting text, images, and other metadata. Entries can be recorded in one take or cut into multiple parts.
Some companies in China attempt to make the concept of vlog the same as a short video, which is not a fact according to Wikipedia. However, there may be some sort of short vlog grown on Chinese internet soil. On Weilu’s official website, the requirement for uploading Weilu is 140 seconds or more, and Chinese font is required.
Local or international
There are two types of users for the vlog, the vloggers and the watchers. It is claimed by vlog tools that there will be 10 million vloggers in China by 2020. Vloggers have no problem understanding vlogs. To them, using vlogs is the word of fashion and international. However, on video websites, watchers are the majority. Weilu is trying to find a new path where vloggers can remain international while watchers can understand and most importantly can remember what they are watching.
Media contact: Company: Chutong Tech (Shanghai) Limited Room 2601, South Tower, No.300 Xuanhua Road, Shanghai Website: https://www.Weilu.com Telephone: +86 36360093 E-mail: dev@Weilu.com Contact Person: Duncan Du
Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder, is dedicated to developing a new blockchain project called Efforce. With the purpose of funding energy-efficiency projects, Efforce launched its token WOZX on HBTC.com, a 100% Token Holder Owned Trading Platform. The cooperation between a high-tech team backed by Wozniak and a leading team from the blockchain industry has shown us an ambition that may end up a revolution in the environment and energy industries.
After success with Apple, Wozniak was attracted to the technology of blockchain and use of cryptocurrencies. As a believer in blockchain industry and cryptocurrency economics, Wozniak and other industry veterans founded the energy-efficiency company Efforce. Efforce is a blockchain-based energy saving platform which provides an innovative way for companies to fund energy-efficient projects and save energy expenses. Launching a token named WOZX, Efforce allows contributors to fund energy efficiency projects by investing in WOZX and be repaid in tokens representing the energy savings achieved.
The energy efficiency market has always been too complex for retail investors. However, with the innovative business model launched by Efforce, anyone interested in energy projects can easily access the market, while companies who wish to implement solutions will be able to negotiate directly with consumers or contributors in the open market. Tokenization will play an important role in this process. With the issuance of WOZX, a contractual relationship between contributors and companies seeking funds for energy projects is formed, allowing contributors to participate directly in the savings generated through the projects.
“We created Efforce to be the first decentralized platform that allows everyone to participate and benefit financially from worldwide energy efficiency projects, and create meaningful environmental change,” stated Wozniak. The goal is to decentralize the $241 billion energy financing market, much as Apple aimed at in popularizing personal computing. The most important part of Efforce’s project, the WOZX, has been carefully designed and issued. The Wozniak team chose HBTC.com to first launch the WOZX. The cooperation was a natural choice given HBTC’s superior technology and industry-leading trading experience.
WOZX and HBTC.com
HBTC Exchange is a business of Singapore-based Bluehelix, founded by former Huobi CTO James Ju in 2018 to pursue excellence in building blockchain financial infrastructure. Jointly invested by Huobi, OKEx and 56 world-class institutional investors, the Bluehelix core founding team came from first-tier tech and finance companies including Google, Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, Barclays Capital and Societe Generale. Bluehelix now provides fintech to over 300 companies globally, with its exchange SaaS system, innovative financial derivatives and liquidity services helping partners realize business value in a rapidly developing and competitive market.
HBTC’s Exchange business, formerly known as BHEX, rebranded as HBTC (HBTC.com) in 2020, launching the innovative HBC 10x Repurchase Plan, and the HBTC Captain incentive scheme. Under the repurchase plan, 100% of HBTC’s revenue is used to repurchase HBC coin on the secondary market at a price calculated at 10x PE. The price of HBC has consequently increased 234%.
HBTC’s Exchange platform is known for its security, liquidity, and efficiency. MAS license exempted in Singapore, HBTC’s trading system is backboned by Bluehelix Cloud, the best-in-class system that backs trading experience and fund security. HBTC Exchange platform has experienced 6,027 system upgrades and 136,569 structure upgrades since its launch in 2018, keeping a record 0 asset losing accidents. With a recent upgrade, HBTC’s new system is able to achieve even a higher level of reliability.
HBTC Prosperity: HBTC Exchange, HBTC Chain, and Bluehelix Cloud services
Known for its trading platform, the Bluehelix Group is built of three pillars: HBTC Exchange, HBTC Chain, and Bluehelix Cloud. Each supports comprehensive business development and give full play to the beauty and potential of blockchain technology. Bluehelix Cloud is the largest technology provider in the institutional exchange market, with more than 320 global crypto exchange clients covering 15 million users, and 10 thousand crypto assets with a total value of 6 billion USDT. The SaaS system provides for spot, margin, contract and options trading support, as well as liquidity services.
With Exchange providing superior trading, and Cloud providing backbone to the global exchange market, HBTC Chain is the first public chain to support decentralized cross-chain custody and transactions, for more than 10 mainstream digital assets. HBTC Chain also improves asset protection with private key sharing technology, securing on-chain assets. Moreover, HBTC Chain launched the cross-chain DEX SaaS service, providing decentralized OTC services and supporting NTF trading as well. As DeFi infrastructure, the API of HBTC Chain is open for developers and better serve the community.
The Bluehelix Group continuously pursues the development of industry through technology, in the great tradition of Apple, and now Efforce. As Wozniak has said, a true innovation is one that improves people’s lives. Efforce has managed to combine the blockchain project with traditional industry, and the issuance of WOZX has pushed blockchain and the energy efficiency industry toward the future. With the cooperation between Efforce and HBTC.com, we are a step closer to the transformation that will ultimately benefit all.
– British Tech Firm Launches Worlds First 5 In 1 Secure Health Passport Wallet – Free ‘Self Sovereign ESQ ID’, Secure Cross Border Platform is being used for Air Travel, Return to Work, Stay at School, Hospitality & Will Soon See Sports Fans Return to Capacity Stadiums – Tech Innovator Warns Of ‘Un Secure’ – ‘QR’ Code & Data Breaches in Health Passports – Following Former Australian Prime Minister Airline Boarding Card Hack
The cross border, cross corporation V-Health Passport(TM) can be used by international Governments, consumers and companies to authenticate a persons true identity, their Covid test results and vaccinations. This ‘enabler’ allows them to prove their test and/or vaccination status. Uniquely the V-Health Passport(TM) has its own contact tracing capability using anonymised data, whilst also protecting citizens data and privacy with a concept in the vein of ‘self sovereign identity’.
Manchester headquartered VSTE have innovated the V-Health Passport(TM) to be the most secure digital health passport and wallet in the world, but at the same time multi functional and future proof to deal with all future pandemics;
The V-Health Passport(TM) has 5 key ‘enabling’ features to its technology;
– Powered by the worlds most secure cyber security coding technology VCode(R) it is the worlds most secure ‘next generation’ code scanning technology using a closed loop system with end to end encryption and 2.2 Quintillion collision free codes (A VCode(R) can only exist once due to being encoded from a centralised system). – V-Health Passport(TM) is a test agnostic system so it can record results from all global Covid testing manufacturers and protocols from PCR to rapid antigen and antibody testing. – V-Health Passport(TM) also has its own unique contact tracing capability ‘True Contact(TM)’ built within the technology designed for travel, sports stadiums, venues, factories, offices and construction sites. – The ultra-secure platform can now also hold vaccination records of all the major vaccination manufacturers which will be crucial in a person validating they have been vaccinated, the vaccine type, batch, dosage and date. – Uniquely V-Health Passport(TM) is the only health wallet and cross border platform in the world that is multi-functional and GDPR compliant. It allows acts like ‘self sovereign identity’, meaning a citizens personal data is protected and they choose what they want to share and with whom they want to interact or authorise.
But at the same time tech boss Louis-James Davis – CEO of VST Enterprises warned of the potential dangers and reliance on using QR code scanning technology within any form of health passport for airline travel or entry into a venue or workplace which could lead to potential security breaches of personal data and information.
It follows the hack and breach earlier this year of the former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot whose Quantas airline boarding card was hacked and details revealed including his passport number, mobile phone number and Qantas airline messages referring to the former PM.
Louis-James Davis went on to state that both bar codes and QR codes – which represent first and second generation technology – are unsecure and vulnerable to hacking.
“QR codes were originally developed as a scanning technology for close proximity car parts tracking, a world away from Identity and banking use cases and now digital health passports. It was then used to skip the input of websites in marketing and promotional purposes. They were simply never designed with security or privacy in mind… they are simply not fit for purpose and should not be used at all in any form for delivery of sensitive information, travel or event tickets or health passport. QR codes can be subject to a process called ‘Attagging or ‘cloning.’ Louis-James Davis said.
Davis also warned that the public will not tolerate breaches of their personal data and information along with their already existing and heightened concerns over privacy during the pandemic. He continued;
“Attagging is where a ‘genuine QR code’ is replaced by a ‘cloned QR code’ which then redirects the person scanning that code to a similar website where personal data can be intercepted and breached. The problem is that serious that in India alone there are over 1 BILLION fraudulent financial transactions each day using QR codes. As the scanning user journey is the same, it is only tech savvy individuals that may notice the domain name has changed.”
As reported by a recent Forbes Magazine investigation, it is predicted that over 11 Million households in the US alone will scan a QR code this year and the majority of them, some 71% of people who have interacted with a QR code will not know if it is the start of a malicious hack. It is envisaged that over 5.3 Billion QR codes will be redeemed this year making it one of the fastest growing tech scanning interactions and also posing one of the greatest cyber threats.
QR codes can be cloned and redirected to other information points or websites. Often criminals and hackers will exploit this by putting a fake QR code over a genuine QR code. So a QR code for example on scanning would link to the genuine website www.similardomain.com but a fake QR code can be made up printed off and placed over the genuine code to redirect to www.similar-domain.com at this point the member of the public is tricked into entering their personal information, private data and financial information. The rogue website looks and feels exactly like the genuine one and is made to mirror it precisely.
VCode(R) which is the ultra secure digital code which powers the V-Health Passport(TM) cannot be cloned. Even if it was printed off, or a photograph was taken and placed over a VCode(R) or V-Health Passport(TM) it simply wont scan as it works on a call and response system of information between the code and web platform to verify location of the code, user ID and time and date and much more.”
Louis-James Davis said; “We developed and built the V-Health Passport and health wallet to be the most secure technology on the planet that you could use as a health passport where you could combine your test status, vaccination record, boarding pass, airline ticket, music or sports ticket all in one app.
With V-Health Passport(TM) we wanted to provide functionality and greater mobility to allow citizens to return to work, be fit to fly or return to the sports stadiums. But at the heart of the technology was the ability to protect and respect data privacy of the individual.
The lack of engagement and interaction by the public with Government track and trace app/s over the pandemic was over privacy, security of data and the tracking of a persons live location. This is why we have built a unique system in the vein of ‘Self Sovereign ID’ with the ethics of privacy & security by design. The V-Health Passport(TM) puts the citizen in control in a way which they share information with who, when and where.”
By having a technology health wallet which confirms your Covid test status and your vaccination record/s it then becomes a ‘safe technology enabler’ to assist Governments, companies, consumers and organisations to resume greater mobility and returning life back to normality. But critically this technology will help revive and restore economic prosperity.
V-Health Passport(TM) will help employers safely return their employees back to their offices, factories and warehouses. It will facilitate airlines to allow their passengers to be fit to fly and avoid the need for quarantine restrictions. At the same time it will ensure their airline ticket or boarding pass is secure and won’t be hacked.
V-Health Passport(TM) will allow sports fans to return to the stadiums at capacity and not at the current socially distanced crowd protocols of 2000 fans. It will help get the hospitality sector back on its feet welcoming customers back. Because of the way V-Health Passport(TM) is designed – based on interaction and incentive – the hospitality sector can engage with with unique offerings and discounts to its customers.
V-Health Passport(TM) will help the Live music and entertainment sectors resume their concerts and performances in arenas, stadiums and theatres. They will be safe in the knowledge that fans have either been tested or vaccinated and can authenticate their status.
A citizen will be able to share their health pass and confirm their Covid test status, or present their vaccination record. They will also be able to show their credit score, work permit or visa, scan their travel or event pass. At the heart of each interaction they will have peace of mind that their data and information is highly secure and ultimately, they control who sees what, who scans what, where and when.
For all media enquiries Please contact Gerard Franklin – Head Of Communications & External Relations M: 07885 388398 e: gerard@vstenterprises.com VST Enterprises Ltd | The Lexicon | Mount Street | Manchester | M2 5NT
Ms. Mandy Lo, Associate Director – PR and Communications of Tonghai Financial (center) attended the award ceremony and accepted the award
China Tonghai International Financial Limited (“Tonghai Financial” or the “Group”), is pleased to announce that it has been supporting partner of 2020 CarbonCare ESG Label and earned The CarbonCare ESG Label granted by CarbonCare InnoLab in recognition of its excellence in the sustainability development and efforts towards a greener future.
Tonghai Financial had been playing active role in important environmental issues. The CarbonCare ESG Label signifies the success of the Group’s effort in sustaining a green environment, and also a ringing endorsement of the commitment in providing a high standard of Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) report for stakeholders. With the theme of “Race to Zero for Sustainable Recovery”, CarbonCare Label 2020 aims to rally leadership and support from businesses, cities, regions and investors worldwide for a healthy, resilient, zero carbon recovery after the pandemic. Looking ahead, the Group will respond to the call by promoting environmental conservation in the communities and raising green awareness among its employees, so as to further enhance long term sustainability as well as contribute to the green development of the society.
The CarbonCare ESG Label, awarded by CarbonCare InnoLab and certified by Carbon Care Asia, aims to recognise corporations that afford high standards of reporting and credible plans for reporting improvements. The quality of the Label and the integrity of the Protocol are overseen by an expert advisory panel comprising leading academics and professionals in the field of carbon management and sustainable development in Hong Kong.
About China Tonghai International Financial Limited China Tonghai International Financial Limited (the “Company”, Stock Code: 00952.HK) is a Hong Kongbased financial services group which is listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. The Company was publicly listed in Hong Kong in 1997 and joined the big family of Oceanwide Holdings Co., Ltd. (Stock Code: 000046.SZ) in 2017. Tonghai Financial is committed to building a comprehensive, full-licensed integrated financial platform. The core businesses of the Company are brokerage business, interest income business, corporate finance business, asset management business and investments and others businesses. The Company strives to become the ideal partner for both corporate and individual investors in Hong Kong and China. The Company also offers premier one-stop financial services to its clients. The Company continued to provide capital markets services through its representative office or the wholly-owned foreign enterprise in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Shenyang, Ningbo, Dalian, Beijing, Chengdu, Hangzhou and Xiamen of the PRC and through its networks of Global Alliance Partners network and Oaklins International.
The 2020 Shenzhen Global Investment Promotion Conferenceis sponsored by the Shenzhen Municipal Government and undertaken by the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Commerce. It will officially start in Wuzhou Guest House on December 8th.
Since the beginning of this year, Shenzhen has actively overcome the impact of COVID-19, improved the business environment and promoted the projects of domestic and foreign investment enterprises. Shenzhen also plans to consolidate its position as a target of foreign investment by providing an attractive package of incentive policies, including land, talents, industry, technology and business environment.
“The conference is an extremely important platform to showcase the ambition of the city, a pilot demonstration area of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and to give further impetus to its trajectory,” commented a spokesman of the city’s Commerce Bureau.
The conference, to be held annually, is bound to become a must-attend attraction for global investors seeking to tap into new opportunities arising from China’s reform and opening up.
According to the official, despite the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, cyberspace has facilitated efforts which, after months of hard work, has resulted in a group of investment projects which will be signed on the site.
The conference is attracting senior executives from around 300 companies and institutes, including 65 Fortune Global 500 companies.
Besides the main venue in Shenzhen, parallel sessions in eight cities across five continents, including New York, London, Tokyo, and Sydney will be held, truly a testament to the impact Shenzhen has on the world stage.
After 40-years of development, official figures continue to show the vanguard of China’s reform and opening-up remains one of the country’s top investment destinations with the city utilizing $7 billion foreign investment in the first 10 months of this year alone, up 7.58 percent from a year before.
According to officials, the city’s already impressive investment environment will be even further improved.
The Commerce Bureau is accelerating legislation on the promotion of foreign investment, which will offer better protect of legal rights and interests of foreign investors.
Furthermore, according to the city’s Planning and Natural Resources Bureau, the city government will ensure ample supply of land space for industrial use and lower land costs for investors.
And on top of even that, the city’s HR and Social Security Bureau tells us that overseas professionals in Shenzhen, who fall in to the categories of high-end talents and urgently needed talents, will be able to enjoy a subsidy on personal income tax equivalent to that in the neighboring Hong Kong SAR.
Media Contact: Sherry Tang, swj@commerce.sz.gov.cn Commerce Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality
Hemp, Inc. (OTC PINK: HEMP), a global leader in the industrial hemp industry with bi-coastal processing centers, reported today hemp advocates believe the incoming Biden administration will support the hemp industry based on its previous dealings with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and hemp’s ability to reduce carbon dioxide levels as noted in the article “Hemp Advocates Encouraged by President-Elect Biden’s USDA Transition Team” posted on Hempgrower.com.
“Once the President-Elect Biden is in office, I believe the hemp industry will see major policies implemented favoring our industry and the timing couldn’t be better as we rev up to launch one of our most aggressive marketing campaigns to date. Our goal has always been to produce top-of-the-line CBD and CBG smokable products and CBD consumption options that fit consumer lifestyles and deliver unparalleled results so we’re definitely excited for what’s to come,” says Bruce Perlowin, CEO of Hemp, Inc. (OTC: HEMP).
The article states, “The Biden administration recently named Robert Bonnie, USDA’s Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment in the Obama administration, to lead efforts to implement agency policies, set management agendas, and select personnel.” Hemp advocates previously found Bonnie to be very supportive of the hemp industry in past discussions.
According to Jonathan Miller, general counsel for industry association Hemp Roundtable, Robert Bonnie met several times with hemp representatives to discuss critical issues of concern to the industry. “While it is hard to say what this will mean during the Biden administration, what we do already know is that the hemp industry will get a fair hearing during the transition process,” said Miller.
Additionally, Geoff Whaling, National Hemp Association’s (NHA) board chairperson, has already reached out to Bonnie and the rest of the 17-person team to advocate for hemp. The article noted that “Whaling has updated the USDA transition team on the agency’s interim final rule for hemp and industry and state challenges to it. He has also discussed the industry’s concerns with the Drug Enforcement Agency’s interim final hemp rule designating hemp byproducts as a controlled substance and what it sees as the agency’s efforts to avoid public input on the rule.”
Hemp, Inc. expects to aggressively ship out its product line to stores, across the country, over the next 30-60 days. To date, the King of Hemp(R) product line consists of Bubba Kush hemp; CBD Pre-rolls, Fortified CBD Pre-rolls, CBD and CBG Caviar/Moon Rocks; and Diamonds (which are 96%-98.7% CBD, the only product like this in the marketplace today). Midnight Express-Find Your Freedom pre-roll line, Hemp, Inc.’s second brand, is also launching and will also later include a total of 50 brands. As of today, some of those brands will include the Daring and Dashing Smith Brothers (the legendary and infamous smugglers from South Florida); the Dockmaster; The Barron of Barges; The Duke of Dope; Carol the Courier; Al the Good Bad Guy; The Golden Dragon Lady; Randy the Racer; Boston Billy; Dopey Don the Genius; and, more.
According to Perlowin, they are the smugglers of yesteryear and will each have their own special strains, blends and flavors.
The other King of Hemp(R) products already in the market are its Diamonds and Crumbles (smaller Diamond pieces) are dabbable CBD products, derived from a golden-hued high CBD, THC-free distillate taken directly from the hemp plant that includes blends of valuable terpenes. Diamonds and Crumbles promise to deliver the strongest, most potent effects of any other product from the line containing between 96% and 98.7% pure CBD.
The Company’s website for its King of Hemp(R) line (www.kingofhempusa.com) also has CBD oil tinctures available for purchase. The tinctures are available in two flavors, Natural and Peppermint, and contain full-spectrum hemp oil extracted from the flowers and leaves of hemp plants sustainably sourced from Colorado. They are also compliant with the regulations created by the Colorado Department of Agriculture in regards to industrial hemp. The tinctures contain 0.3% or less THC and are compliant with the 2018 Farm Bill.
Hemp, Inc.’s newest division, Medical and Recreational Marijuana, is also underway to enter the cannabis market in 2021 once marijuana is fully legalized across the country. According to Perlowin, banks and merchant account providers will be more open and accepting of marijuana companies. Right now, the banking regulations for marijuana companies are very draconian. “I’ve known so many banks to close accounts merely because they were associated with the industry. Anyway, we don’t know if we’ll wait for full legalization yet but that decision won’t discount the building out of facilities and preparation for it. After legalization occurs and large scale marijuana grows are underway, this division will already be positioned as the ‘go-to’ consultant due to our industry expertise,” said Perlowin.
According to Nielsen, market researchers project 2020 sales in the current smokable-hemp market to reach $70 million to $80 million. This category includes loose CBD flower, hemp-CBD pre-rolls, cigars and other inhalables.
To see one-minute videos of Hemp, Inc.’s current activities, visit Bruce Perlowin’s personal Facebook fan page, where he shares posts of Hemp, Inc.’s activities around the country. Additionally, follow Hemp, Inc. on Instagram (https://bit.ly/39QTzLt) and on Twitter (https://bit.ly/36ARwJe).
To view the webinar featuring Hemp, Inc.’s CEO, Bruce Perlowin, visit https://bit.ly/3mFTPAc.
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WHAT IS HEMP, INC.?
What is Hemp, Inc.? With a deep-rooted social and environmental mission at its core, Hemp, Inc. seeks to build a business constituency for the American small hemp farmer, the American veteran, and other groups experiencing the ever-increasing disparity between tapering income and soaring expenses. The Company is on a mission to be a powerful engine for social change and economic revival, worldwide, by providing hemp products that are eco-friendly, sustainable and healthy. Hemp, Inc. executives believe there can be tangible benefits reaped from adhering to a corporate social responsibility plan. Visit Hemp, Inc. at hempinc.com.
Addressing the importance of open innovation (an innovation management model that promotes collaboration with external parties) and collaboration in corporate development in times of change, the 10th Business of IP Asia Forum (BIP Asia Forum) opened today and runs online until 4 December. Jointly organised by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) and the Hong Kong Design Centre, the event features more than 60 international intellectual property (IP) experts and business leaders sharing on the latest industry trends. Officiating at this morning’s opening ceremony were Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of the HKSAR; Shen Changyu, Commissioner of the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA); and Daren Tang, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of the HKSAR, officiated at this morning’s opening ceremony.A breakout session held at the forum’s satellite venue in Guangzhou explored the latest IP development opportunities with stakeholders from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.Details of the eagerly awaited open-innovation competition, IPHatch Hong Kong, were announced today, with speakers including past winners and IP experts from renowned technology companies. They shared on ways to enhance corporate value and realise growth potential.
In a welcome message, HKTDC Executive Director Margaret Fong highlighted the BIP Asia Forum as a platform for IP professionals and business leaders to discuss the latest industry developments and explore opportunities for business collaboration. “The theme for this year’s forum is: ‘Open Innovation: Driving Collaboration in Times of Change’, a topic that will no doubt be foremost on everyone’s mind as the world economy is buffeted by the combined winds of the global pandemic and geopolitical tensions,” she said. “The online format helps us take the event beyond the limitations of a physical location to connect global participants to a world of industry insights and expertise.”
Open innovation – helping to drive collaboration in challenging times
Collaboration is essential during these challenging times, with many businesses having to make significant changes in order to survive. Addressing this trend, this morning’s keynote session featured a discussion by industry leaders on how open innovation can help businesses leverage external resources, solve complex problems and generate greater business value. Yancey Strickler, Co-founder and Former CEO of Kickstarter, shared his experience in creating Kickstarter, a global crowdfunding platform that has brought innovators together and created value through innovation and partnerships. The session also welcomed Arata Oono, founder of Borderless, and Emile Chan, CMO and Co-founder of Origami Group, as panellists.
Today’s programme concluded with the much-anticipated plenary session, where IP leaders from multinational corporations discussed models for collaboration between enterprises. Given that open innovation creates new pathways for value creation and unleashes the full potential of IP while establishing new ways of collaboration between nations, industries or individuals, it has become a vital business strategy amid increasingly fierce global competition. Speakers at the plenary, which ran on the theme “Creating IP Value through Collaboration”, included Christina Petersson, Chief Intellectual Property Officer of Ericsson; Beat Weibel, Chief IP Counsel and Group Senior Vice President of Siemens AG; and John Mulgrew, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Chief Intellectual Property Officer of Lenovo.
A breakout session held today focused on the latest IP development opportunities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, whose development as a major IP trading hub is attracting considerable attention. An innovation and technology engine, the Greater Bay Area has quickly become a breeding ground for innovative ideas and inventions, with much IP trading involved. Co-organised with the Guangdong Administration for Market Regulation (Guangdong Intellectual Property Administration) and the Guangzhou Development District Intellectual Property Association, the session featured speakers from WeRide, Guangzhou IP Exchange, Macau University of Science and Technology, Exponent Science and Technology Consulting, and Vobile Group Limited.
IPHatch Hong Kong welcomes innovative start-ups
Details of the eagerly awaited open-innovation competition, IPHatch Hong Kong, were announced today. At a session with the theme “Supercharging Innovation for Impact”, renowned IP experts, representatives of venture capital funds and past IPHatch winners shared on ways to enhance value and realise growth potential. Speakers included Jason Loh, founder and CEO of Piece Future; Jari Vaario, Head of Asia Patent Transactions and External Alliances of Nokia Technologies; Yoshinori Nakagawa, Chief Intellectual Property Specialist of Panasonic Corporation; and Tony Chen, Business Development Director of Hong Kong’s X-Tech Startup Platform.
The 2020 competition will focus on digitalisation, smart city development and the Internet of Things, with participating start-ups encouraged to unleash their creativity and expand existing patented technologies to new business areas through swift IP commercialisation.
Global Tech Summit opens tomorrow to examine technological disruptions
The protection of IP is essential in promoting creativity and technological innovation. This subject will be addressed in tomorrow morning’s Global Tech Summit, which will be split into three sessions, each featuring renowned speakers. In the first session, Li Zexiang, Professor of the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, will speak on disruption as the “new normal”. In the second session, Aldous Ng, CEO of CU Coding Limited, will be joined by Yongping Zheng, Co-founder and Technical Advisor of Telefield Medical Imaging Limited, and Dennis Cheung, Associate Director of Teksbotics (Asia) Limited, to speak about the new wave of talent in Hong Kong’s technology sector.
In the third and final session of the summit, Alexander Ng, Vice President of Tencent Healthcare, and Gary Chan, Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, will explore technological disruptions in the healthcare industry amid the global pandemic. While the pandemic has created untold disruption in its own right, it has also been the catalyst for a new wave of revolutionary technologies. The pioneers taking part in the session will discuss the emerging technologies that are likely to reshape economies and redefine industries.
Several concurrent breakout sessions will be held on the second day of the forum, including the IP Market and Industry Insights session co-organised with China Daily. Expert speakers including Kevin Lee, founder and CEO of Redspots Creative (HK) Company Limited, Catherine Liu, Research Director of EntGroup Solution Centre, Beijing EntGroup Century Data Technology Co, Ltd., Yang Xiaoxuan, Vice President of iQIYI, and Sze Yan Ngai, Founder and Chairman of Gameone Holdings Limited, will examine IP strategies in the age of “digital ambassadors”, where virtual idols are gaining momentum and offering tremendous business opportunities – with a concurrent rise in related IP issues.
IP disputes can be hard to resolve, often involving complex technical issues and multiple jurisdictions – and the pandemic outbreak has created the need for more innovative approaches to dispute resolution. Co-organised with the Department of Justice of the HKSAR, tomorrow afternoon’s session on IP legal tips, titled “Hong Kong’s Unique Role in IP Creation, Protection, Enforcement and Dispute Resolution in the GBA and Beyond”, will explore how Hong Kong can capitalise on its geographical advantage and professional expertise to create a solid foundation for IP businesses to pursue opportunities in the Greater Bay Area and beyond. It will also examine innovative approaches to dispute resolution such as online dispute resolution. Speakers including Charmaine Koo, Partner of Messrs. Deacons and Chairman of Licensing Executive Society China, Hong Kong Sub-Chapter; Winnie Tam, Chairman of the Communication Authority and Committee on Intellectual Property, Hong Kong Bar Association; and Thomas So, Chair of eBRAM Centre, will offer insights into intellectual property creation, protection and arbitration.
As the world looks to recover from the global pandemic, facilitating collaboration among stakeholders in the technology ecosystem will become more important than ever. The essential role of collaboration in technological advancement and the exceptional value of partnerships will be explored at a session titled “The Invincible Bond of Technology and Client Collaboration”, co-organised with the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited (ASTRI). Speakers including Victor Wong, Chief Executive Officer of Bridge AI; Andy Ho, Managing Director of Nexplore HK; Albert Lo, Chief Architect of Nova Credit Limited; and Daniel Au, Chief Executive Officer of Tectonic Technology Innovation Company Limited, will share insights on how collaboration has helped them solve industry pain points and create new business opportunities.
The BIP Asia Forum was preceded by a two-day IP Manager Training Programme, jointly organised by the Intellectual Property Department of the HKSAR and the HKTDC. The programme introduced the fundamentals of IP, enabling participants to better understand the rights of IP owners and users and enhancing their ability to manage and protect IP rights within their enterprise. Complementing the forum’s main programme, a new session called InspoTalk was launched yesterday, at which industry experts held in-depth interactive discussions with participants on various IP-related topics, such as the challenges and opportunities resulting from the pandemic and IP strategies for working with social media influencers.
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Greenbriar Capital Corp. (TSXV: GRB) (OTC Pink: GEBRF) (“Greenbriar”) is pleased to announce that it has executed a formal agreement with Devon Sandford of Lethbridge, Alberta, for the acquisition of a 500 MW photovoltaic solar energy project portfolio in Alberta. The proprietary portfolio is at various stages of development, including late stage, mid stage and early stage projects.
Devon owns and operates a world class large utility scale solar energy construction firm (Northern DC Solar Inc. “NDC”) and has very recently built several large utility scale solar projects in Alberta. Transitioning from the manufacturing and commissioning of utility scale power systems into utility scale solar projects has provided NDC a unique perspective, critical insights and overall advantages on how to deliver large scale solar projects efficiently and cost effectively.
Greenbriar gains an advantage in the market as it benefits from NDC’s recent successful mechanical and electrical installation of the first large scale tracking solar system in Canada. Located in Southern Alberta, with over 70,000 modules, 7,000 piles, 4.8 million mechanical pieces and 200,000 labour hours, NDC has the ability to claim for Greenbriar what it also can show, which is building large scale projects, under budget and on time.
The terms of the transaction call for a series of performance payments based on the capital cost savings below a certain threshold at commercial production for each project. The payments can be paid from the construction proceeds or elected by Devon to be taken in shares at the then current market price, except the company will seek TSXV approval for the first two million shares to be taken at current market prices. In addition Devon will receive 100,000 shares for each project placed in production plus 500,000 stock options at $1.50 per share. Greenbriar will pay an arms-length consultant 50,000 shares for arranging this transaction.
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