Lusha, the B2B go-to-market intelligence platform, today announced that it has achieved full compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As the only sales intelligence solution accredited under ISO 27701 – the highest international privacy standard in the world – Lusha’s latest accreditation demonstrates its commitment and dedication to promoting and upholding the values of data security, privacy, and confidentiality and leading the industry in data compliance.

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HighByte®, an industrial software company, today announced it has been named “DataOps Company of the Year” in the third annual Data Breakthrough Awards program conducted by Data Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, products, and services in the global data technology market today. The third annual Data Breakthrough Awards program attracted more than 1,850 nominations from around the world.

MediaCom U.S. has been ranked #1 Agency in the Warc Media 100. Today, the marketing intelligence company WARC (World Advertising Research Center) released their WARC Media 100 – the benchmark for media excellence. Compiled by tracking the performance of campaigns, brands, and agencies at the most important advertising media competitions, MediaCom U.S. has been named the #1 agency globally for creativity and innovation in media.

Recent market dynamics have changed the strategies of medtech venture capital firms. An exciting panel with the top medtech venture partners will take the stage at life science industries premiere investor summit.

Life Science Intelligence, a market intelligence and consulting company focused on covering the global medtech and healthtech markets, is bringing together an exciting panel at its third annual Life Science Intelligence (LSI) USA ’22 Emerging Medtech Summit.

Gift card industry is expected to grow by 15.2% on annual basis to reach US$1074.3 million in 2022. Despite near-term challenges in 2022, medium to long term growth story of gift cards in South Africa remains strong.

The gift card industry in South Africa is expected to grow steadily in H1 2022 and record a strong growth in H2 2022. The growth momentum is expected to continue to grow over the forecast period, recording a CAGR of 13.0% during 2022-2026. The gift card market in the country will increase from US$932.7 million in 2021 to reach US$1752.6 million by 2026.

The wiring harnesses and connectors for the electric vehicles market is projected to reach $22.87 billion in terms of revenue by 2031 at a CAGR of 23.4%, reveals the premium market intelligence study by BIS Research.

The automotive industry is experiencing rising adoption of electric vehicles due to changing consumer preferences, rising concerns regarding driver safety, environmental concerns, and acute government regulations and policies.

X4Impact, the market intelligence platform for social innovation, announced its list of top-ranked solutions in product and leadership categories. This year’s honorees represent the top three percent of listings on x4i.org.

X4Impact lists over 2,000 tech products and services searchable by impact area in service to nonprofits and social sector decision-makers. This is the largest US directory of technologies used by organizations that seek to have a positive social impact.

Tegus, the leading market intelligence platform for key decision makers, announced it has completed its acquisition of BamSEC.

“We couldn’t be more excited to have BamSEC as part of the Tegus family,” said Michael Elnick, Founder and Co-CEO of Tegus. “We’re focused on building a platform where customers start and end their decision making in one place. For that to be possible, we must have the highest quality content and data sets, because quality matters when making important decisions.”

Chainalysis, the blockchain data platform, today announced it will support the Lightning Network, a second layer protocol built on top of the bitcoin blockchain designed to enable fast, low-cost transactions. VASPs, including cryptocurrency exchanges, that use Chainalysis KYT (Know Your Transaction) for real-time transaction monitoring will now be able to compliantly allow deposits and withdrawals of Bitcoin from a Lightning node.

Global shipments for wearables grew 9.9% during the third quarter of 2021 (3Q21) reaching 138.4 million units, according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. Hearables led the growth as the category grew 26.5% compared to last year and accounted for 64.7% of wearable device shipments. Following hearables were wrist-worn wearables, the category most often associated with health and fitness tracking, which captured 34.7% of the market.

WhiteStar Asset Management (“WhiteStar”), the CLO, structured products, and broadly syndicated credit arm of Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”), announced today that Brian McNamara and Conor Power will join WhiteStar from MacKay Shields Europe Investment Management Limited (“MacKay Shields Europe“) to launch its European CLO business, WhiteStar Asset Management Europe (“WhiteStar Europe”).

FiscalNote, a leading technology provider of global policy and market intelligence, announces its acquisition of FrontierView (“Frontier Strategy Group, LLC”), a fast-growing Washington, D.C.-based technology company that empowers over 4,000 business professionals at more than 250 global companies with world class strategic market intelligence including award-winning research, economic and industry data, a senior executive network, and analyst advisory services through data, insights, and analytical tools to power business decisions.

The “Australia Gift Card and Incentive Card Market Intelligence and Future Growth Dynamics (Databook) – Market Size and Forecast (2016-2025) – Q2 2021 Update” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.

Adoption of gift cards in Australia has recorded strong growth in recent years across both retail as well as corporate segments.

Gift card market in 2020 was driven a wide range of factors, which supported growth across retail and corporate segments. The primary factors included growth of ecommerce, increased adoption to incentivize employees working remotely, digital gifting, and initiatives undertaken by government, hospitality, and travel industries to revive growth. Though the gift card market was impacted due to COVID-19, the market is expected to bounce back in the coming quarters, especially in H1 2021.

The usage of on-device AI processors is increasing across the world for image analysis. AI mobile processors power applications of computational imaging in wearable electronics, drones, robots, and self-driving cars. Besides, the demand for industrial and personal drones is increasing worldwide, which is driving the demand for edge AI processors. All these factors are predicted to boost the growth of the global edge AI processor market during the forecast period. Additionally, technological advancements and rapid growth in electronics industry worldwide are the factors predicted to create hug

Pistil Data, the leading cannabis market intelligence platform, announced today it has closed a $6.5M seed round led by Casa Verde, with participation from JW Partners and several Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs.

Founded by executives from Google and Baker Technologies, Pistil’s unique IP makes vital market intelligence accessible to cannabis brands of all sizes, helping a sector which previously has struggled with the complexity of industry data. Every day, Pistil’s cutting-edge machine learning technology distills billions of data points to deliver sales opportunities to its nearly 100

The Australian micromobility market revenue stood at $16.9 million in 2020, and it is set to surge to $19,185.6 million by 2030, at a CAGR of 89.5% from 2021 to 2030. The major growth drivers for the market are the convenience and low price of micromobility services and burgeoning need for better first- and last-mile connectivity.

AlphaSense, the leading market intelligence and search platform, has acquired Stream by Mosaic (“Stream”), provider of a world-class library of expert interview transcripts. This acquisition allows AlphaSense to add its market-leading AI search technology on top of an incredibly valuable content platform, and is consistent with the companies’ shared mission to empower business and financial professionals to make smarter decisions through the best tech-enabled market intelligence and insights.