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• June 2024: Microsoft unveiled an all-digital variant of its Xbox Series X and S consoles alongside previews for over a dozen games, notably the next "Call of Duty" installment. The tech giant showcased not just one but three consoles: a disc-less iteration of the Xbox Series X and S and a premium Series X model boasting a capacious 2-terabyte storage.
• April 2024: Sony introduced the PlayStation 5 Slim to the Indian market. The version of its flagship gaming console is 25% lighter and takes up 30% less space than its predecessor. The console retains the original PS5's hardware, boasting 1TB of internal storage that can be expanded using external SSDs. Catering to both disc-based and digital gamers, the PlayStation 5 Slim is equipped with two USB-C ports, enhancing connectivity options.

• May 2024: Pudgy Penguins, the brand development company known for its globally recognized Pudgy Penguins characters, partnered with the next-generation gaming technology studio Mythical Games to co-create an innovative mobile video game with web3 capabilities. The partnership brought together the creators of the widely acclaimed Pudgy Penguins characters and the gaming studio responsible for two of the blockchain's most successful games: NFL Rivals and Blankos Block Party.
• November 2023: Pley, a cross-platform solution enabling mobile games to be played on the web, collaborated with Tilting Point. This partnership aimed to distribute Tilting Point's farming simulation game, Homesteads: Dream Farm. Pley's comprehensive solution facilitated Tilting Point and game developer Enixan porting and distributing their title on Pley's proprietary web browser platform. This move significantly broadened the game's exposure to a vast web gaming audience.

• May 2024 - The Estate of Otis Redding, operating as Big O Holdings LLC, announced a strategic partnership with Sony Music Publishing. Under this agreement, Sony Music will manage the US publishing rights for Redding's music catalog, which includes notable tracks such as "These Arms of Mine," "Respect," "Try A Little Tenderness," and "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay."
• April 2024 - Warner Chappell Music (WCM), a global music publisher, and ICE, a music rights administration company, announced an expansion of their long-standing partnership. Following a comprehensive 10-month review process, WCM decided to entrust ICE with managing all its online licensing and royalty administration across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

• June 2024: Immutable, a Web3 gaming platform, unveiled a pivotal partnership with MarbleX, the blockchain gaming arm of Netmarble. This strategic agreement is set to elevate the gaming landscape by transitioning MarbleX, along with its flagship IP titles, to the Immutable zkEVM chain. This blockchain platform, tailored for gamers, operates on Polygon's robust infrastructure.
• February 2024: Sequence unveiled a strategic partnership with Spellborne, a Web3 online role-playing game (MMORPG). Spellborne, recognizing players' demand for a seamless digital item management experience, opted to partner with Sequence Wallet as a Service (WaaS). This move allows players to conduct secure transactions without exiting the immersive in-game environment. Spellborne's world, known for its enchanting creatures and magical landscapes, is now further enhanced by this integration. This Sequence's debut partnership highlights its WaaS platform, presented in Spellborne's vintage pixel-art style, set in a Web3 world where players tame monsters.

• April 2024: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope team released a new ebook in the Hubble Focus series titled "Hubble Focus: The Dark Universe." This ebook showcases the mission's latest findings on two enigmatic elements of the cosmos, namely dark energy, a puzzling force accelerating the universe's expansion, and dark matter, an invisible substance discernible solely through its gravitational effects on visible matter.
• In March 2024, GIJN launched its inaugural ebook, "Reporter's Guide to Investigating War Crimes." This 16-chapter guide, curated by GIJN, features insights from over 24 specialists and journalists. It delves into a wide array of topics, ranging from the legal intricacies of war and attacks on civilians to conflict-related sexual violence, environmental crimes, and the use of banned weapons. Additionally, it covers aspects like genocide, forced disappearances, archiving evidence, open-source research, military command structures, and the crucial task of tracing and documenting war criminals. The guide also emphasizes the significance of photo and video documentation, highlights best practices for physical and digital security, and offers self-care insights for journalists reporting traumatic events.

• October 2023: The Sandbox expanded to Saudi Arabia through a collaboration with Sandsoft. The partnership would boost The Sandbox's operations in Saudi Arabia and develop a team to grow the creator's market and user base in the region.
• August 2023: Jump.trade, the flagship NFT gaming platform of GuardianLink, announced its collaboration with NEAR Protocol, a Layer 1 blockchain that aims to decentralize development. The partnership entails the exclusive drop of 1 million NFTs for the racing game RADDX Racing Metaverse.

• October 2023, Texas A&M Athletics Sports Science announced that it has entered into an arrangement with Gemini Sports Analytics to offer the Aggies' staff Gemini’s AI software platform built-for sports that is projected to empower the Aggies to access prognostic analytics in addition to metrics to aid support student-athletes. The Gemini application authorizes stakeholders by offering predictive data analytics to the end users, cumulative interdisciplinary professionals' efficiency, and permitting high-level decision-makers to make game-changing choices faster. 
• February 2023: Gemini Sports Analytics is an AI and Automated Machine learning tool, and SIS (Sports Info Solutions) announced a partnership to pre-integrate SIS data into the Gemini app. Along with the data integration, the two companies would leverage their complementary offerings and develop solutions for their current and future clients. Gemini's mission is to make it faster and easier for sports organizations across the globe to use predictive analytics in their decision-making processes around recruitment, player development, personnel, health and performance, and other management choices.

• June 2022 - InMobi, a leading provider of content, marketing, and monetization technologies that help businesses fuel growth, announced an expansion of its partnership with Microsoft Advertising to support enterprise and strategic advertisers in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. InMobi will offer marketers an integrated solution to power their campaigns built on the search and native display capabilities of Microsoft Advertising and the mobile ad tech capability of InMobi's advertising platforms.
• May 2022 - Skai, an intelligent marketing platform, announced that it had achieved advanced partner status within Amazon Ads Partner Network. Skai has earned this recognition by demonstrating strong growth for its advertising clients, expertise, and engagement with Amazon Ads products.

• October 2024: Agilent Technologies Inc. unveiled its next-generation Agilent InfinityLab LC Series portfolio. This lineup features the 1290 Infinity III LC, 1260 Infinity III Prime LC, and 1260 Infinity III LC systems, all available in biocompatible versions. These are the market's inaugural HPLC systems equipped with the advanced Agilent InfinityLab Assist Technology. This advancement provides enhanced system assistance capabilities, enabling labs to prioritize results over routine operations and maintenance.
• June 2024: Bruker Corporation inaugurated its advanced production facility in Bremen, a critical scientific hub in Germany. This move underscores the company's dedication to innovation, sustainability, and collaboration in mass spectrometry (MS). The Bremen facility will produce the company's entire range of MS products, such as the times-TOF series, the MALDI series, and the magnetic resonance MS (MRMS) instruments.

• September 2024: NDT Global officially unveiled a 56" ultrasonic inline inspection tool crafted in collaboration with integrated oil and gas giant Aramco. The company expressed enthusiasm for partnering with industry leaders like Aramco, aiming to integrate its cutting-edge ultrasonic inspection technology into their pipeline systems. Furthermore, both companies are collaboratively addressing operator challenges, pioneering methods to detect, size, and characterize anomalies such as cracks and metal loss.
• May 2024: Waygate Technologies, a Baker Hughes business and a leading name in non-destructive testing (NDT) solutions for industrial inspection, unveiled its latest ultrasonic precision thickness gauge, the Krautkrämer CL Go+. This adaptable inspection tool is touted as especially beneficial for components in the automotive and aerospace sectors. It adeptly measures cast and stamped metal parts crafted from aluminum, steel, copper, and bronze. Beyond metals, its capabilities extend to machined workpieces, tubes, chemically milled components, metal plates, plastics, composites, and even glass. Furthermore, the device offers an upgrade option, transforming it into a multifunctional platform that serves as a corrosion thickness gauge and a flaw detector. Ultrasonic testing boasts a broad applicability across materials such as plastics, composites, metals, and ceramics. This wide-ranging adaptability positions it as a vital tool across aerospace, automotive, oil and gas, power generation, and manufacturing.