Month: September 2021

NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MELI Kaszek Pioneer Corp (the “Company”) announced today the pricing of its initial public offering of 25,000,000 Class A ordinary shares at a price of $10.00 per share. The shares will be listed on the Nasdaq Global Market and trade under the ticker symbol “MEKA” beginning on September 29, 2021. The offering is expected to close on October 1, 2021. MELI Kaszek Pioneer Corp is a blank check company sponsored by Mercado Libre and Kaszek, whose business purpose is to effect a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The Company intends to focus its search for an initial business combination on technology-enabled companies operating in Latin America across a number of verticals, including, but not...

NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) will report third-quarter 2021 earnings on Wednesday, October 20. The company will present results on a webcast beginning at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. Access instructions and presentation materials, including Verizon’s earnings news release and financial tables, will be available at 7:30 a.m. on Verizon’s Investor Relations website, https://www.verizon.com/about/investors. Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) was formed on June 30, 2000 and is one of the world’s leading providers of technology, communications, information and entertainment products and services. Headquartered in New York City and with a presence around the world, Verizon generated revenues of $128.3 billion in 2020. The company offers data, video and voice services...

Continues Expanding Surna’s Product Offering to Commercial Growers Boulder, Colorado, Sept. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Surna Inc. (OTCQB: SRNA), operating as Surna Cultivation Technologies, today announced another expansion to its products and service offering to include benching and racking equipment. Surna is a seasoned leader in the controlled environment agriculture (CEA) market and is intent on bringing the most efficient and sustainable designs and systems to the industry. Surna’s benching and racking can be adapted to the grower’s specific requirements. “Whether you’re a craft grower with a limited amount of space, or a large commercial grower with thousands of square feet and expansion plans, some sort of benching or racking is required for a successful grow. This is true whether you’re cultivating cannabis or food,” said...

ELMS Urban DeliveryELMS Ships First Urban Delivery EVs to CustomersELMS ships first Urban Delivery EVs from its Mishawaka, Indiana production facility Urban Delivery becomes the first commercial Class 1 EV in the U.S. marketTROY, Mich., Sept. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Electric Last Mile Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: ELMS; ELMSW) (“ELMS” or “the Company”), a pure-play commercial electric vehicle (“EV”) company focused on redefining productivity for the last mile, today announced that it has shipped its first Urban Delivery units to customers, marking the launch of the first commercial Class 1 EV in the U.S. market. The Urban Delivery EVs came out of ELMS’ production facility in Mishawaka, Indiana and were shipped to Randy Marion Automotive Group, one of the country’s largest commercial dealerships, as part of a...

The first 16 Level 2 charging ports to be deployed at six hotels in Virginia, Maryland and Washington D.C., launching the 200 charging port program Miami Beach, FL, Sept. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Blink Charging Co. (Nasdaq: BLNK, BLNKW) (“Blink” or the “Company”), a leading owner, operator, and provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging equipment and services, today announced that it is deploying it’s fast Level 2 charging stations across six hotel locations in Virginia, Maryland and Washington D.C. These sites, featuring a total of 16 charging ports, are part of an approximate $233,000 grant with the Mid Atlantic Electrification Partnership through Virginia Department of Mines Minerals and Energy Blink was awarded in 2020. These hotel deployments represent the most recent development of the Mid-Atlantic Electrification Partnership...

urban-gro’s MJ12 Design Studio to exhibit at the NECANN New Jersey Conference on October 2-3 Alliance Global Partners Virtual Fall Consumer Cannabis Conference will feature one-on-one and small group meetings with Bradley Nattrass, Chairman and CEO on October 5 The LD Micro Main Event will host a virtual presentation by Bradley Nattrass, Chairman and CEO, October 12 – 14 and a presentation by Dick Akright, CFO in Los Angeles on October 13 Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference will include a presentation by Bradley Nattrass, Chairman and CEO, in New York City on October 14 urban-gro and MJ12 Design Studio to exhibit at MJBizCon Las Vegas on October 20-22 Lafayette, Colo., Sept. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — urban-gro, Inc. (Nasdaq: UGRO) (“urban-gro” or the “Company”), a fully integrated architectural, engineering and cultivation...

Google Leverages Workday to Plan, Execute, Analyze, and Extend in a Single System PLEASANTON, Calif., Sept. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, today announced that Google LLC has subscribed to additional products to support its global workforce, including Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday Extend, Workday Prism Analytics, and Workday Strategic Sourcing. In addition, as part of its ongoing investment in talent management strategies, Google will expand its current use of Workday Human Capital Management (HCM), adding new applications to deliver enhanced employee experiences and recruiting to support its global workforce.  As organizations adapt strategies to respond to the dynamic nature of today’s environment, it’s critical they have...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AZINCOURT ENERGY CORP. (“Azincourt” or the “Company”) (TSX.V: AAZ, OTCQB: AZURF, FSE: A0U2) is pleased to announce the closing of the first tranche of its non-brokered private placement (the “Offering”). Under the first tranche, the Company raised C$6,405,000 from the sale of the following:60,805,988 units of the Company (the “Units”) at a price of C$0.07 per Unit; 10,933,459 flow-through units of the Company (the “FT Units”) at a price of C$0.075 per FT Unit; and 14,285,714 FT Units sold to charitable buyers (the “Charity FT Units”) at a price of C$0.093 per Charity FT Unit.The final tranche of the C$7.6M total Offering is fully-subscribed, and the Company anticipates closing taking place in the coming weeks. Red Cloud Securities Inc. is acting as a finder in connection...

EDISON, N.J., Sept. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Hepion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:HEPA), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on Artificial Intelligence (“AI”)-driven therapeutic drug development for the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (“NASH”) and liver disease, today announced results from a Drug-Drug Interaction (‘DDI’) study with its lead drug candidate, CRV431. CRV431 targets several isoforms of cyclophilins which comprise a family of enzymes involved in processes including collagen production, inflammation, cell injury, cell death, and protein folding. Attenuation of the activities of this multifunctional enzyme family represents a novel approach to the treatment of NASH. The randomized, open label DDI study was conducted in healthy volunteers (n = 24) to determine if single or multiple oral doses...