“It’s an exciting time in gaming and Tom’s expertise will make a meaningful impact by connecting our portfolio of brands into the world of gaming in an authentic way,” said Christopher Erb, CEO and Founder of Tripleclix.

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. (PRWEB)
March 03, 2020

Tripleclix, a global leader in creating connections between consumers, brands, and the gaming industry, today announced the appointment of Tom Edwards as Chief Marketing Officer, reporting to Tripleclix founder Christopher Erb.

In this role, Tom will lead marketing, new business, provide strategic consulting, and support brand programs with Christopher Erb and the Tripleclix team.

“It’s an exciting time in gaming and Tom’s expertise will make a meaningful impact by connecting our portfolio of brands into the world of gaming in an authentic way,” said Christopher Erb, CEO and Founder of Tripleclix.

Edwards is an award-winning marketer with twenty years of industry experience. In 2020, he was recognized by OnCon as a top 50 marketer. In 2019 he was recognized as the Professional of the Year for Marketing and Emerging Technology by Strathmore Worldwide, Tech Titans Technology Advocate award winner, OnCon Marketing Trailblazer and Marketing Contributor award winner and was recently recognized by Advertising Age as a Marketing Technology Trailblazer.

“I’m excited to join the team to help create unique marketing programs that have a lasting impact and resonate with brands and drive engagement in the gaming industry,” said Tom Edwards, Tripleclix CMO. “I’ve always been a gamer, so I know how essential it is to design content that hits upon the lifestyle, culture and entertainment.”

Edwards joins Tripleclix from Epsilon, where he served as a strategy, data, and technology lead as the Chief Digital and Innovation Officer. Previously, he was the EVP, Strategy and Innovation for The Marketing Arm, part of Omnicom, as well as the SVP, Strategy & Emerging Technology for Red Urban, part of DDB. He also served as Chief Marketing Officer of the cloud-based social solution provider INgage networks.

Tom has worked with many Fortune 500 organizations across a variety of industries, including retail, consumer packaged goods, travel/hospitality, financial services, automotive, technology, entertainment, and more. Tom will be based in Dallas, Texas and working on programs and clients nationally.

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About Tripleclix

Tripleclix (http://www.tripleclix.com) is a strategic gaming agency focused on developing marketing partners for game publishers while helping brands navigate the gaming industry. With over 60 years of industry experience, the agency specializes in building strategy, promotions, original content, and lifestyle marketing by combining publisher driven gaming content with innovative and iconic brands. Tripleclix acts as the connective tissue through which brands, publishers, and consumers interact.

Follow Tripleclix on Twitter, Instragram and Facebook at @tripleclix or online at Tripleclix.com.

For more information or interviews contact:

Heather Krug

PR for Tripleclix

310-463-1415 or heather@heatherkrug.com

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (PRWEB)
March 03, 2020

Jason P. Odell Photography, LLC is pleased to announce two travel photography workshops for 2021. http://bit.ly/JPOPhoto2021

On these small-group workshops, participants will tour a pair of European cities. Professional photographer Jason Odell will be teaching participants how to create dramatic travel images that do more than just document your visit. Participants will learn photographic composition and exposure, and a wide range of creative photographic techniques to make their travel photos stand out. These workshops will also emphasize the use of the latest version of Adobe Lightroom for iPad, allowing participants to travel light while retaining their ability to adjust their images while traveling.

For 2021, Jason P. Odell Photography is offering two travel photography workshops. Each workshop will take place in a pair of European cities known for their stunning architecture and cultural history.

Prague & Vienna: April 2021 http://bit.ly/Prague-Vienna2021

Participants will discover the culture and architectural beauty of Prague and Vienna with professional photographer, Jason P. Odell. The tour begins in Prague, Czech Republic and then continues by train to Vienna, Austria.

Amsterdam & Bruges: September 2021 http://bit.ly/Amsterdam2021

This travel workshop is round-trip from the amazing city of Amsterdam, where participants will photograph the cultural centers and famous canals in the city. The tour includes private transportation to the famous windmills at Kinderdijk, for sunset and twilight photography. The tour continues by train to Bruges, Belgium, another city famous for its food, culture and canals to go along with the impressive architectural sights.

About Jason P. Odell Photography

Jason P. Odell is a professional photographer and photo tour leader based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He specializes in nature, landscape, and travel photography. He has authored 13 comprehensive photography guides, including guides to Nikon’s Capture NX, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Nik Plug-ins. Jason’s photo tours and workshops are designed to provide participants with the experience of photography as a craft, starting with composition and exposure, and ending with digital post-processing. Jason’s workshop groups are kept very small so that he can work with participants directly.

Jason’s photography has been featured by Nik Software, Tiffen, Studio Photography Magazine, Wildlife Photographic Magazine, Singh- Ray Filters, and Digital Silver Imaging.

Jason has been a full-time photographer since 2010, and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside.

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BOSTON (PRWEB)
March 03, 2020

DeepCharge announced it has received an investment from Ideaship, a patent leveraged venture capital firm that provides patent development support for early stage startups. The investment will assist DeepCharge’s efforts to engineer, manufacture, and deploy their revolutionary intelligent wireless charging technology.

“DeepCharge’s artificial intelligence driven innovation represents a major break-through in simplifying and personalizing wireless charging technology. Wireless charging over larger surfaces and transforming existing surfaces into a wireless charging platform will significantly transform society and is part of our key technology roadmap for the 21st Century,” said Michael Lubitz, Global Technology Transfer Group (GTT Group) Founder and Managing Director.

“We have found the Ideaship University Licensing Negotiation Team to be highly experienced and professional in protecting and strategizing our patent portfolio. We believe Ideaship will bring enormous value to DeepCharge as a technology & product focused startup. Best of all, they are highly connected to diverse sets of potential partners and investors that will certainly be beneficial in our journey,” remarked Yousof Naderi, CEO of DeepCharge.

About DeepCharge

DeepCharge.ai has devised technology powered by artificial intelligence that consumes little energy and can sense a large variety of different kinds of electronic devices and intelligently drive enough power to charge them no matter where they are placed on the surface, or contactless in the air. DeepCharge.ai is a proud company of engineers and scientists with proven track records in system design and scale.

For more information, please visit http://www.deepcharge.ai

About Ideaship

Ideaship provides patent development capital for early stage ventures.

Ideaship is a collaboration between Global Technology Transfer Group (GTT Group) and Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America. Ideaship combines the expertise and experience of GTT Group’s patent analysis, valuation, and monetization practices with Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America’s leading patent department to achieve enterprise value premiums.

For more information, please visit https://www.ideashipfund.com.

Contact about this news:

DeepCharge

Yousof Naderi

Email: naderi@deepcharge.net

Ideaship

Robert Bell

Email: robert@ideashipfund.com

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KELOWNA, British Columbia (PRWEB)
March 03, 2020

TerraSense Analytics announced today they have been awarded a $977,439 contract through the Department of National Defence’s Defence’s Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) program. This contract will fund the next phase of development for its Multimodal Input Surveillance & Tracking (MIST) product, an advanced airborne surveillance system developed by TerraSense Analytics.

MIST is a computer vision system that uses artificial intelligence to watch the cameras onboard surveillance aircraft in real-time, fusing thermal and colour imagery and automatically identifying and tracking targets. Designed with input from airborne sensor operators in the Canadian Armed Forces and around the world, MIST uses deep learning to improve operator situational awareness and enable analysts on the ground to search and recall precise moments from thousands of hours of footage in an instant.

Working closely with Dr. Zheng Liu at the University of British Columbia, and Erik Blasch of the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the TerraSense Analytics team will spend the year developing and testing a working prototype of MIST. “Our goal is to provide concrete validation of the system onboard real aircraft, using real sensors, detecting real targets, by the end of this year”, says TerraSense Analytics CTO Jozsef Hamari.

As the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) role becomes increasingly important to the Canadian Armed Forces, even older aircraft are being outfitted with advanced camera packages. TerraSense Analytics, an artificial intelligence company with extensive experience processing imagery from airborne and remote sensors, will enable analysts to find the right intelligence quickly and easily, without requiring thousands of hours spent annotating video by hand.

This will be the second phase of development for MIST, which received its original funding from the Government of Canada in 2018 and has gone from concept to prototype in the time since.

About IDEaS

The Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) program is an investment of $1.6 billion over 20 years aimed at meeting the demands of today’s complex global defence and security environment. The program enables Canada to deliver the capabilities needed for a strong and agile military by providing financial support to foster innovation through contracts, contribution agreements and grants. The IDEaS program helps innovators by supporting analysis, funding research, and developing processes that facilitate access to knowledge. It will also support testing, integration, adoption, and acquisition of creative solutions for Canada’s defence and security communities. For more information on the IDEaS program, visit the website: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/programs/defence-ideas/understanding-ideas/competitive-projects.html.

About TerraSense Analytics

TerraSense Analytics develops remote sensing technologies with a focus on deep learning. Partnered with several research institutions to advance the development of aerial sensing technology, data fusion and predictive maintenance, TerraSense Analytics provides services to both the government and the private sector, deploying intelligent sensor solutions to the most remote and hostile domains. For more information, visit http://www.terrasense.ca/mist.

For media inquiries, please contact: Kendra Penrose, kendra.penrose@terrasense.ca, 778.214.0957.

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BOSTON (PRWEB)
March 03, 2020

Blackbird Technologies has settled a patent infringement lawsuit related to programmable wireless communications devices.

In August 2014, M2M Solutions, LLC initiated a patent infringement action against Telit Wireless Solutions Inc. (“Telit”) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (14-cv-1103). The patent at issue is U.S. Patent No. 8,648,717 (“the ‘717 patent”), entitled “Programmable Communicator.” The ‘717 patent relates to an innovative machine-to-machine module that controls communication between two or more machines. These machine-to-machine communications encompass a variety of applications in which one machine is able to remotely monitor a second machine in a relatively autonomous fashion. In June 2017, Blackbird Technologies acquired the ‘717 patent and was joined as a plaintiff to the action. The parties settled the case in January 2020.

Wendy Verlander, President and CEO of Blackbird Technologies, said, “This patent describes an important improvement to the ever-expanding world of IoT technology. It is prevalent in fields such as automated meter reading, asset tracking and fleet management, industrial automation and controls, and the remote control of certain consumer devices and appliances. We are very pleased that the inventor of this cutting edge technology continues to see the value of her important contribution.”

About Blackbird Technologies

Blackbird Technologies provides a unique opportunity for individual inventors and small companies to realize the value of their patents. By using in-house expertise, rather than expensive law firms, Blackbird Technologies is able to litigate at reduced costs and achieve results that equal or exceed what a law firm would recover. This company creates efficiencies that make it possible for individual inventors and small companies to see the end game – realizing the true value of their patents.

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NEW YORK (PRWEB)
March 02, 2020

With consumers increasingly basing their purchasing decisions on word of mouth and first-hand knowledge, nok is pioneering a new model of retail supply chain and commerce through “circular on-demand free trials.” Using nok’s services, people can try a range of products from leading brands, at no charge, for three days before buying or returning them with no commitment.

nok recently completed a round of investor funding led by Moonshots Capital and Greycroft with follow-on from Village Global, bringing nok’s total capital to $4 million. With this infusion, the company is accelerating its growth in the New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco markets.

nok is the first to successfully offer consumers seamless and worry-free trial experiences, while solving the logistical challenges, high costs and inventory reductions traditionally associated with product trials and returns. The company was founded in 2017 by CEO Bobby Wann and COO Renato Anselmi Ricci, two technology entrepreneurs committed to redefining the relationship between brands and consumers.

“Easy and immediate access to information has made consumers savvier and turned many off to the effects of advertising, branding and even influencer marketing,” Wann said. “They know all the gimmicks and don’t want to spend hours reading fake reviews. They would rather build trust through service and they find nothing more refreshing than putting their hands on something and seeing the evidence for themselves. We’ve built a retrofitted sampling model for products that are too expensive to just give away but are too new and too good not to try before buying.”

nok operates as a white label hosting and check-out service, with no need for a brand to design or integrate any new technology into its e-commerce functions. Although customers need to submit their credit card information to begin the trial experience, there is no card authorization conducted or charges processed – enabling a 100% free home tryout activation with no buyer’s remorse.

The company’s successful and profitable approach is attractive to investors as well as partner brands. “Any new investment opportunity of course has to make business sense but, more importantly, we also look for demonstrated leadership and extraordinary vision,” said Kelly Perdew at Moonshots. “The nok founders deliver on both criteria.” Dana Settle at Greycroft added, “This is a massive market opportunity to not only meet changing consumer behaviors, but to also transform how companies have thought about their supply chain for decades.”

The most recent clients to launch with nok are TUMI, the leading international travel and lifestyle brand, and coffee products manufacturer Lavazza.

“In our experience, customers’ expectations have evolved faster than retailers have been able to keep up with,” said Charlie Cole, Chief Digital Officer, TUMI. “We used to debate offering free shipping with a threshold, and then Amazon Prime came along. The lesson learned is don’t wait for someone else to exceed your potential customers’ expectations. Partnering with nok allows our customers to test out a product before making a purchase, letting the TUMI product speak for itself.”

Brands are promoting the nok service by building new landing pages for their websites or simply adding the hook into their existing advertising and channel marketing campaigns.

Once products are ordered, delivery is completed within three hours using on-demand couriers and nok uses environmentally sustainable delivery options like bicycles or electric scooters whenever possible. If a product is returned, nok will pick it up at the customer’s door, take it to their warehouse and get it ready for the next customer to try within 48 hours.

In the United States, nok has established warehousing and delivery infrastructures in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles and the company has run hundreds of test trials for three new clients which are expected to go live in the coming weeks. The company has the capability to rapidly expand and reach 30 major U.S. metropolitan markets.

“nok can do for high-end products what free samples have done for consumer packaged goods and beauty brands for the past 50 years,” Wann said. “For almost all large brands, nothing is more difficult to maneuver than their supply chains and more are realizing it makes sense to let us do it for them. We see ourselves as a new high-engagement channel, turning what used to be heavy losses from returned products into sales and profitable long-term customer relationships.”

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