Month: January 2021

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, TELUS announced the expansion of its innovative mobile Health for Good clinic program with its community health partner, Kílala Lelum Health Centre. Enabled by technology and fueled with human compassion, the Kílala Lelum Mobile Health Clinic, powered by TELUS Health, is a specially-equipped clinic on wheels that will provide trauma-informed, culturally-sensitive primary medical treatments, Indigenous Elder-led cultural care, mental health services, and addiction support directly to the underserved citizens of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.“At TELUS, we believe that everyone should have access to healthcare when and where they need it, regardless of their socio-economic status. Through our partnership with Kílala Lelum, we are removing many of the barriers facing...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. and SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — VERB Technology Company, Inc. (Nasdaq: VERB) (“VERB” or the “Company”), a leader in interactive video-based sales enablement applications, including interactive livestream ecommerce, webinar, CRM and marketing applications for entrepreneurs and enterprises, today announced that the Company will be presenting at the MoneyShow Accredited Investors Virtual Expo being held January 26-28, 2021. Rory J. Cutaia, CEO of VERB, will provide an overview of VERB’s strategy, best-in-class sales enablement software-as-a-service (SaaS) product offerings, hypergrowth initiatives, and other recent developments.Presentation Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2021Presentation Time: 1:35 PM ETTo listen to the live webcast, accredited investors can register...

DALLAS, Jan. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Hallmark Financial Services, Inc. (the “Company” or “Hallmark Financial”), a property and casualty insurance company comprised of three business segments (Specialty Commercial, Standard Commercial, and Personal), announced that it is exploring the separation of its Specialty Commercial business.Initial evaluations by Hallmark Financial’s Board of Directors indicate that separating the Specialty Commercial business may unlock significant value by segregating the operational structures of its segments. Each segment currently operates under a unique business model, utilizes its own distribution channels and has a different return profile. The Board believes that establishing two separate companies may achieve a more appropriate aggregate valuation and improve access to capital.Hallmark Financial’s...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — DMG Blockchain Solutions Inc. (TSX-V: DMGI) (DMGGF:OTC US) (FRANKFURT:6AX) (“DMG” or the “Company”), a vertically integrated blockchain and cryptocurrency technology company, is pleased to provide its shareholders with its business outlook for 2021.Not since late 2018 has the general crypto industry attracted so much attention; however, this new bull run is decidedly different from the past as institutions such as Paypal, BlackRock, and AllianceBernstein are all taking positions, predominantly in Bitcoin. With institutional investors driving crypto forward instead of retail, as it was in 2017 and 2018, it is anticipated that governments and regulators are not far behind. In order for the economic scale which institutional investors bring, financial compliance must go...

TORONTO, Jan. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — White Gold Corp. (TSX.V: WGO, OTC: WHGOF, FRA: 29W) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce results for surface sampling, mechanical trenching and rotary air blast (“RAB”) drilling programs completed on its road accessible JP Ross (“JPR”) property which identified additional and widespread structurally controlled gold mineralization at multiple targets, and RAB, reverse circulation (“RC”) and diamond drilling results on its Titan project on the Hen property, Yukon Canada. This work formed part of the Company’s 2020 exploration program backed by strategic partners Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (TSX: AEM, NYSE: AEM) and Kinross Gold Corp (TSX: K, NYSE: KGC) on its extensive 420,000 hectare land package in the prolific White Gold District, Yukon, Canada.Highlights Include:At the JPR property, additional...

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cerner Corporation (NASDAQ: CERN), a global health care technology company, announced today that Mark Erceg will join the company as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective February 22, 2021. Erceg will succeed Marc Naughton, who is departing from Cerner at the end of the first quarter. Naughton will serve as an Executive Advisor to ensure a smooth transition.Erceg comes to Cerner with more than 25 years of multi-dimensional financial experience, including serving as CFO at three different publicly-held companies. He began his career at Procter & Gamble and spent more than 18 years in a variety of finance, strategy and operational leadership roles. After leaving P&G, Erceg had three successive CFO roles at Masonite International Corporation,...

– New publication details the characterization of novel scaffold proteins that can enable engineered exosomes with defined therapeutic properties –– engEx Platform designed to harness exosomes as a new class of biologic medicines for a wide spectrum of diseases –CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Codiak BioSciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDAK), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on pioneering the development of exosome-based therapeutics as a new class of medicines, today announced the advance online publication of a new manuscript. The paper, entitled “A versatile platform for generating engineered extracellular vesicles with defined therapeutic properties,” by Dooley et al, will appear in an upcoming print issue of Molecular Therapy, the journal of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy. The publication...

CALGARY, Alberta, Jan. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Gran Tierra Energy Inc. (“Gran Tierra” or the “Company”) (NYSE American:GTE)(TSX:GTE)(LSE:GTE) today announced that Gran Tierra Resources Limited (“GTRL”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Gran Tierra, has entered into arrangements with private purchasers providing for the sale by GTRL of an aggregate of 109,006,250 common shares (the “Purchased Shares”) of PetroTal Corp. (“PetroTal”) at a price of US$0.13623 per Purchased Share, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately US$14.8 million.As of market close on January 20, 2021, the remaining 137,093,750 shares of PetroTal owned by GTRL had a market value of approximately US$ 32 million.Contact InformationFor investor and media inquiries please contact:Gary GuidryPresident & Chief Executive OfficerRyan EllsonExecutive Vice...

ATLANTA, Jan. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sage (FTSE: SGE), the market leader in cloud business management technology, today announce that Banyan Treatment Center is saving $1 million annually through improved spend management as a result of deploying the Sage Intacct financial management system. After replacing its legacy accounting software with Sage Intacct, Banyan’s finance team shortened its monthly close process by 40 percent, increased efficiency by 35 percent, and reduced total cost of ownership by $300,000.Banyan is a national drug treatment and mental health rehabilitation organization. As the company made acquisitions and grew from a small business with five locations into a larger corporate structure spanning fourteen facilities across seven states, it needed robust multi-entity, accrual-based accounting. “We were looking...