For the first time, Alexa users can now hear ALL their messages and email read aloud.

Amazon’s Alexa has become a household name. The world’s most popular virtual assistant is getting smarter every day, and now with Amazon Echo Auto, it’s in your car too. 

“In today’s highly connected world, messaging in the form of emails, texts, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and work channels like Slack, are integral to our daily routine.” says Barrie Arnold, Co-Founder & CRO at ping. 

“Distracted driving is responsible for more than 25% of car crashes and thousands of preventable fatalities every year.” 

Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could ask Alexa to read your messages when checking your phone is dangerous and illegal – like driving, or simply inconvenient – like cooking or working with your hands. Now you can. 

ping, a specialist in voice technology, has developed a powerful new Alexa skill as a companion to its patented smartphone app, that enables the reading aloud of any message type. Designed for safety, productivity and convenience, “pingloud” is the first skill of its kind for keeping users connected when they need a hand or an extra pair of eyes.

“The ping Alexa skill is specifically designed to help drivers stay off their phones while giving them exactly what they want – access to their messages.” says Garin Toren, ping’s Founder & CEO. 

Opening up Alexa to developers has resulted in an explosion of new skills available either for free or for a fee that unlocks premium services or features. These powerful tools magnify the usefulness of your Alexa device beyond the common tasks like asking for the weather, playing a favorite music artist or requesting help on a homework assignment. According to App Annie the most downloaded apps in 2019 were Facebook Messenger, Facebook’s main app and WhatsApp, highlighting the importance of messaging. 

Once you’ve signed up for ping, it takes a few seconds to link with Alexa, enabling all your messages and emails to be read aloud by your smart speaker or Echo Auto device. Simply say, “Hey Alexa, open pingloud.” ping links your account to your voice profile so unauthorized users with access to your Alexa cannot ask for your messages.“The ping Android app is available worldwide from the Google Pay Store, reading all messages out loud in 30 languages. The iOS version is in global beta testing with the US launch coming very soon,” according to Toren.

All major message types are supported including Texts/SMS, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, WeChat, Snapchat, Slack, Telegram, Twitter DM’s, Instagram and all email types. Promotional and social emails are not read by default.

About ping: “The future is voice.”

ping is patented, cross platform voice technology that allows users to hear all their messages and email read aloud, when touching their device is dangerous, illegal (driving) or inconvenient. Optional software-only telematics provides drivers, parents, fleets and auto insurers with extensive driving behavior analysis and reporting. The platform is also available as a white label app and SDK. www.pingloud.com

Press enquiries: +1 917 622 9900

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                    Contact: Tom Andrews, 415-507-9962

OVERCOME CORONA-HYSTERIA AT PARTIES FOR HEALTHY SINGLE PROFESSIONALS

     Healthy single professionals of all ages are invited to overcome Corona Virus Hysteria at upcoming parties all over the San Francisco Bay Area.

     “Healthy single professionals should NOT hibernate for the rest of 2020 for fear of contracting the COVID-19 virus,” says Rich Gosse, Chairman of The Society of Single Professionals, the world’s largest non-profit singles organization. “They are more likely to die in an auto accident driving to a party than they are from contracting a virus at the same party. We respectfully request that those who are elderly, unhealthy, or exhibiting cold or flu symptoms skip our parties for the duration of this pandemic. But singles who are healthy are encouraged to have fun and meet new friends, while using the free sanitizers available at all of our upcoming parties:

• Speed Dating, Mar 14, Sunnyvale
• Wine Tasting Party, Mar 15, Livermore
• Rain Forest & Wild Cats Experience, Mar 15, Sonoma County
• Spring Has Sprung Mixer, Mar 22, San Francisco
• Singles Charity Ball, April 25, San Francisco
• Marin Singles Convention, May 23, Mill Valley

     Rich Gosse is the author of nine books on dating, including You CAN Hurry Love, Singles Guide to the Bay Area, and A Good Man Is EASY to Find (“This is a great book!” Oprah Winfrey). His most recent book is The Donald Trump Syndrome: Why Women Choose the Wrong Men to Love.  His entertaining seminars have been sponsored by 60 colleges all over America. He is Executive Director of The International Association of Dating Websites. His controversial views on dating have been featured by hundreds of major TV/Radio/Print media, including Oprah, NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Night Line, Fox’s Neil Cavuto Show, CNBC, MSNBC, BBC, The New York Times, The London Times, The Australian, The New Zealand Herald, Newsweek, Cosmopolitan, Playboy, Playgirl, etc. Rich Gosse is available to the news media for interviews at 415/507-9962 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

     All of the parties are fundraisers for The Seva Foundation, www.seva.org, to fight blindness. Every $50 raised finances an operation to restore sight to the blind in the poor countries of the world. Anyone wishing more information about the parties may visit www.thepartyhotline.com.

Vembu, one of the leading Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution vendor, has announced a partnership with MBUZZ technologies, a trusted Value-Added Reseller in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe region. 

This partnership agreement allows MBUZZ to distribute Vembu’s comprehensive backup and DR product, Vembu BDR Suite across the Middle East and Africa, thereby expanding Vembu’s global presence in the region. SMBs and Enterprise businesses across the Middle East and Africa can now take advantage of a comprehensive, affordable and straightforward mechanism of Vembu BDR Suite to provide data protection for their data centers.

“We are extremely delighted to have the innovative Backup & Replication vendor- Vembu in our Distribution portfolio. In the context of Data Explosion happening across the region, our Customers are demanding the most cost-efficient and robust Backup & Disaster recovery solutions. We are sure, the new partnership with Vembu would cater to our customer requirements,” said Fawwaz Al Shammari, CEO MBUZZ.

“With the MBUZZ's expertise of data center, telecom, cybersecurity working in conjunction with the Vembu's complete backup & DR solution for diverse IT infrastructure deployed in virtual, physical and cloud, we intend to provide affordable and enterprise-level functionalities to businesses that have tighter budget and do not want to compromise on critical Backup & DR features,” said Nagarajan Chandrasekaran, Vice President of Product Management, Vembu. 

About Vembu Technologies

Vembu is a leading player in the Backup and Disaster Recovery market for small and medium businesses. Our flagship offering – Vembu BDR Suite – is a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution designed to protect the data across diverse IT environments that include virtual (VMware, Hyper-V), physical (Windows, Linux, Mac), Cloud workloads (AWS, Azure) and SaaS applications (Office 365, G Suite). Our solutions are extremely affordable and are ideal for businesses of any size, with a tight budget.

To learn more about Vembu BDR Suite, visit: www.vembu.com

About MBUZZ  Technologies

MBUZZ Technologies is a subsidiary of MBUZZ Group – established in 2007. With headquarters in KSA, MBUZZ has a geographical presence in UAE, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Over the years, MBUZZ Technologies has evolved as a trusted Value-Added Distributor in category-leading Data Center, Security and Networking Solutions in the Middle East and North Africa with highly efficient logistics facilities. Our group is committed to continually adding new strategic vendors to our distribution portfolio to deliver the best products and services to partners and clients.

To learn more about MBUZZ Technologies, visit: www.mbuzztech.com

Singapore, March 09, 2020 -- Global digital assets trading platform, BiKI.com has announced the launch of its new product, Perpetual Contract, to meet the growing derivatives market demand.

No strangers to volatility, cryptocurrency investors are turning to the derivatives market as spot trading falls short of trader expectations in terms of profitability. The fast-growing exchange has launched BiKi Perpetual Contract in a bid to meet users’ hedging and investment needs.

The popularity of the futures contract has meant that competition is rife amongst exchanges in this market. To position as a strong contender, BiKi has carefully formulated its product to ensure an excellent user experience in aspects of risk control, system design and service, allowing the platform room for sustainable development. Offering obvious advantages, BiKi hopes the product will win over its platform users.

Advantages

BiKi Perpetual Contract supports up to 150 times of leverage to open positions. This caters to long-term position requirements and offers flexibility in the number of times of leverage, catering to investors’ different risk aversions.

Core Features of BiKi Perpetual Contract

1. From their assets, users can choose the amount and type of cryptocurrency they wish to transfer to their Swap Account from the Contract trading page, to serve as the margin for contract trading. This will guarantee efficient transacting, without having to consider exchange transactions between stablecoins and mainstream tokens, saving time and cost.

2. BiKi supports USDT-based margin contract and inverse contract transactions of mainstream tokens (BTC, ETH), which can be executed in limit and market orders, including trigger order for stop-orders, so traders do not need to constantly monitor rates to reap benefits or reduce loss.

3. BiKi Perpetual Contract offers “no overnight fees, no funding fees”. This allows users to enjoy reduced costs, reducing the risk for users as well.

4. BiKi uses zero clawback + margin mechanism with 100% flexible settlement of profits. In the past, many exchanges who launched contract products distribute contract benefits to users based on a certain ratio that prevents the exchange from losing out on profits. BiKi, on the other hand, uses a “zero clawback” approach, to reduce risk with contract so users can rest assured they will be awarded the rebates they deserve.

Hence, it can be seen that the BiKi Perpetual Contract covers nearly all the advantages of contract products on the market and eliminates the common ‘lesions’ in some products. As regarding security issues that investors are more concerned with, BiKi.com has set up a series of risk control measures to protect users.

Sign Up as Contract Brokers to Enjoy Multiple Benefits

BiKi is launching a complete set of ‘contract broker mechanisms’ in early March to allow platform users to enjoy multiple benefits.

A single community of more than 10 people may apply for contract broker status. Users who are agents or brokers on other platforms can directly obtain BiKi broker status to begin enjoying high commission rebates.

BiKi contract brokers also get to enjoy these benefits:

- independent back-end and same-day settlements
- access to 100%-accuracy, real-time reporting data provided by BiKi
- access to BiKi’s loyal customers and strong community
- assistance from BiKi to start contract trading classes
- media promotion to extend brokers’ influence

BiKi’s complete set of broker services as well as community and market resources allow brokers to reap long-term benefits.

Educate Users as a Priority

In futures contracts, high returns are often accompanied by high risks, hence the existing entry thresholds. BiKi.com is aware that without strong technology skills, a deep understanding of risk control capabilities and the financial system, it will be difficult to navigate in this market.

To aid novice users who are unfamiliar with regulations and market risks, BiKi has launched a contract trading tutorial to educate users on how to use contract products. This cautious attitude is in line with BiK’s user-centric approach of prioritizing users.

Always community- and user- driven, this approach extends to all aspects of how the exchange operates. With users as priority, BiKi consistently fine-tunes products and innovates new products, all the while strengthening its product lines while gaining user trust.

2019 has seen BiKi execute on many fronts. On the one hand it has launched mining pools, leverage, lending and other products, and on the other, it has deployed globally to push BiKi.com to a wider market. Whether it is execution or innovation, the exchange has gained the recognition of industry professionals.

With plenty of room to still grow, the entire digital currency market needs consistent revisions and iterations for a healthier, more complete, professional and transparent development. New players entering the market in the name of innovation and change will do well to always ensure that users are prioritized and that all products should be designed and improved with this in mind.

About BiKi.com
Headquartered in Singapore, BiKi.com is a global cryptocurrency exchange ranked Top 20 on CoinMarketCap. BiKi.com provides a digital assets platform for trading more than 150 cryptocurrencies and 280 trading pairs. BiKi.com is focused on providing the safest, most stable and most effective cryptocurrency trading platform. 100% of the transaction fees are used in buyback and burning of platform token, BIKI. Since its official opening in August 2018, BiKi.com is considered one of the fastest-growing cryptocurrency exchanges in the world with an accumulated 2 million registered users, 200,000 daily active users, over 2,000 community partners and 200,000 community members. BiKi.com has received investments from Huobi co-founder Du Jun, Genesis Capital Zhu Huai Yang, FBG Capital, ChainUP and others totaling approximately 10 million USD.

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