Month: July 2020

SAINT-MICHEL-DES-SAINTS, Québec, 15 juill. 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Nouveau Monde Graphite (« Nouveau Monde » ou « NMG ») (TSXV : NOU; OTCQX : NMGRF; Francfort : NM9) est heureuse d’annoncer la conclusion d’opérations de financement totalisant 20 millions $ CA avec The Pallinghurst Group (« Pallinghurst ») afin de financer la prochaine phase de développement de NMG. Nouveau Monde a conclu une convention de souscription d’une obligation convertible (la « convention de souscription ») avec Pallinghurst aux termes de laquelle NMG a convenu d’émettre à Pallinghurst une obligation convertible garantie d’un capital de 15 millions $ CA (l’« opération visant l’obligation »). Simultanément, Nouveau Monde a également conclu une convention d’achat d’une redevance avec Pallinghurst aux termes de laquelle Pallinghurst a convenu d’échanger le...

TORONTO, July 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust (“RioCan”) (TSX: REI.UN) today announced a distribution of 12 cents per unit for the month of July. The distribution will be payable on August 10, 2020 to unitholders of record as at July 31, 2020.About RioCanRioCan is one of Canada’s largest real estate investment trusts. RioCan owns, manages and develops retail-focused, increasingly mixed-use properties located in prime, high-density transit-oriented areas where Canadians want to shop, live and work. As at March 31, 2020, our portfolio is comprised of 222 properties with an aggregate net leasable area of approximately 38.6 million square feet (at RioCan’s interest) including office, residential rental and 16 development properties. To learn more about us, please visit www.riocan.com.Information...

BOSTON and LONDON, July 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Orchard Therapeutics (Nasdaq: ORTX), a global gene therapy leader, today announced that the company has entered into two worldwide royalty-bearing license agreements with GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) (LSE/NYSE: GSK) for use of their proprietary lentiviral stable cell line technology (LV-SCLT) for Orchard’s investigational hematopoietic stem cell gene therapies for Wiskott Aldrich syndrome (OTL-103 for WAS) and transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia (OTL-300 for TDT).“Utilization of a stable cell line provides an opportunity to generate lentiviral vector of consistently high titer and eliminates the need to purchase plasmids prior to the production of each viral vector batch, providing more efficient production processes and shorter lead times,” said Bobby Gaspar, M.D., Ph.D., chief...

ROCHESTER, N.Y., July 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Document Security Systems, Inc. (“DSS” or the “Company”) (NYSE American: DSS), a multinational company operating businesses focusing on brand protection technology, blockchain security, direct marketing, healthcare, real estate, and securitized digital assets, is pleased to announce an update of its impending acquisition of Impact BioMedical as outlined in the share exchange agreement (“Transaction”)  announced on April 27, 2020, signed by DSS, DSS BioHealth Security, Inc. (a wholly-owned direct subsidiary of DSS), Impact BioMedical Inc. (“Impact BioMedical”) and Global BioMedical Pte. Ltd. (“Global BioMedical”). Global BioMedical, which owns all of the stock of Impact BioMedical, is a 100% owned subsidiary of Singapore eDevelopment Limited (“SeD”) (SGX: 40V).SeD announced it has...

Net revenue of $12.2 million, a 327% sequential increase, driven by strong growth from adult-use and medical channels and substantial outdoor biomass saleStrengthens balance sheet with $25 million strategic equity investment concurrent with the Starseed transaction, and secures financial flexibility with amendments to senior credit facilityManagement to host conference call on Wednesday July 15, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern TimeTORONTO, July 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — WeedMD Inc. (TSX-V:WMD) (OTCQX:WDDMF) (FSE:4WE) (“WeedMD” or the “Company”), a federally-licensed producer and distributor of medical-grade cannabis, announced today its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2020, including net revenue of $12.2 million, a 327% sequential increase compared with $2.9 million for the fourth quarter of 2019, and a 265%...

Drill Hole KMDD0181 records multiple intersections including 10.40 m at 24.81 g/t Au, 11 g/t Ag and 0.28% Cu (25.36 g/t AuEq, 4.58 m true width) at the K2 Vein and 2.84 m at 5.36 g/t Au, 628 g/t Ag and 8.39% Cu (25.10 g/t AuEq, 1.68 m true width) at the K3 Vein.Drill Hole KMDD0189 records multiple intersections including 4.26 m at 45.98 g/t Au, 136 g/t Ag and 7.39% Cu (58.58 g/t AuEq, 4.04 m true width) at the K2 Vein. In combination with K1, Kora Link and K2, records a bulk intersection of 24.0 m at 11.31 g/t Au, 26 g/t Ag and 1.40% Cu (13.71 g/t AuEq, 22.8 m true width).Drill Hole KMDD0226 records multiple intersections including 8.80 m at 34.31 g/t Au, 6 g/t Ag and 0.17% Cu (34.63 g/t AuEq, 4.99 m true width) at the K1 Vein. Drill Hole KMDD0222 records multiple intersections including 4.70 m at 26.77 g/t Au, 117 g/t Ag and 2.99% Cu...

Boston, July 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide today announced that as part of its Touchstone® 2020 software release, clients now have the ability to access a premium international address-level geocoding feature from Precisely, the global leader in data integrity, to enhance the quality of their exposure data. AIR Worldwide is a Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK) business.“Using high quality exposure data, such as any information about the property, its replacement value, and its physical characteristics including the location of that property, has a significant impact on the loss results generated by a catastrophe model,” said Gayatri Natarajan, vice president of product, AIR Worldwide. “Having the right latitude and longitude coordinates for a property can have an enormous bearing upon the accuracy of risk...

MADISON, Wis., July 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MADISON, Wis. — July 15, 2020 — Mediasite today announced that Edgecombe Community College in North Carolina has selected Mediasite to create video lectures that students can watch online for the next school year.  The college is a member of the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) run by MCNC, a Mediasite partner. Through this partnership, all schools in the state from grades K-20 have access to cost-effective technology and services like Mediasite to start or expand their digital learning initiatives – especially vital now in a COVID world.  The partnership has enabled more than 20 North Carolina institutions to bring this powerful technology to students and instructors.  “Our teaching and learning strategy had to convert to fully online very quickly due to the COVID-19...

SurveyMonkey study finds that organizations are flocking to do-it-yourself market research tools, even as the COVID-19 pandemic drives cuts to marketing budgets70% of market research professionals say they are likely to transition to more DIY tools in the next yearSAN MATEO, Calif., July 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SurveyMonkey (Nasdaq: SVMK), a leading global survey software company, today shared findings from two studies of more than 2,000 market research professionals in the U.S. to understand the state of the market research industry and how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted budgets and results.The findings, which were published today as part of SurveyMonkey’s 2020 Market Research Survival Guide, highlight the significant value companies place on using market research to make data-driven decisions but also that pandemic-fueled...

HAMILTON, Ontario, July 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Reliq Health Technologies Inc. (TSXV:RHT or OTCQB:RQHTF) (“Reliq” or the “Company”), a technology company focused on developing innovative mobile health (mHealth) and telemedicine solutions for Community-Based Healthcare, today announced that it has signed a contract with digiiMED, LLC to provide Reliq’s iUGO Care Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM), Chronic Care Management (CCM), Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) and Principal Care Management (PCM) platform to digiiMED’s Medicare and private insurance patients in Puerto Rico.“We are very excited to be expanding our business into Puerto Rico, a US territory with a population of over 3 million people,” said Dr. Lisa Crossley, CEO of Reliq Health Technologies, Inc.  “Half of all adults in Puerto Rico have at least one chronic condition,...