EXPEREO NAMES KEVIN BROWN AS COO TO DRIVE GLOBAL OPERATIONS

KUALA LUMPUR, March 11 (Bernama) -- Expereo, a leading global Managed Network as a Service (NaaS) provider, has appointed Kevin Brown as Chief Operating Officer (COO), reinforcing its focus on operational integration, efficiency, and scaling customer and supplier-facing functions worldwide.

In a statement, Expereo Chief Executive Officer, Ben Elms said that Brown’s appointment provides a single point of executive ownership, enabling faster decision-making, clearer operational integration, and stronger execution, marking a key milestone in the company’s next phase of growth.

Meanwhile, Brown said: “I am joining Expereo because it sits at the centre of one of today’s most critical business needs – secure, resilient global connectivity.

“I look forward to driving operational excellence, accelerating transformation, and strengthening the customer experience.”

Brown will oversee operational strategy, transformation delivery, and performance across all customer and supplier-facing functions, working closely with Expereo’s Digital Office to advance its digital transformation.

He brings extensive global leadership experience across telecom, cybersecurity, and Software as a Service (SaaS), most recently serving as NCC Group Global COO, where he built and scaled operating models to drive customer experience, efficiency, and growth.

Previously, Brown led BT’s cybersecurity business, establishing a strong track record of transforming operations into engines of value creation at scale.

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Bitget and B2C2 Partner to Strengthen Institutional Market Access

 

VICTORIA, Seychelles, March 11 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bitget, the world's largest Universal Exchange (UEX), today announced a strategic partnership with B2C2, a global leader in institutional digital asset trading. The collaboration brings B2C2's deep, reliable liquidity and execution capabilities to Bitget's institutional ecosystem.

B2C2, founded in 2015 and majority-owned by SBI, the Japanese financial group, is recognised globally for pioneering institutional digital asset market-making and OTC electronic trading.

The company offers consistent liquidity provision with competitive bid-ask spreads, robust credit offerings to eligible counterparties for improved capital utilisation, and efficient settlement. It serves hedge funds, asset managers, brokers, exchanges, and traditional financial institutions active in digital asset markets.

Through the partnership, Bitget is integrating B2C2 as a liquidity provider for access to tighter spreads and more consistent fill quality across varying market conditions.

“For institutional traders, execution quality and reliable liquidity are foundational to performance,” said Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget. “Working with B2C2 strengthens the liquidity layer of the platform, which is essential for supporting institutional participation and improving execution quality across markets. It’s a step toward making the UEX model function at a real institutional scale.”

"This partnership expands market access for both firms," said Thomas Restout, Group CEO at B2C2. "We're delighted to work with Bitget — one of the leading global exchanges — to bring deeper, more reliable markets to their institutional clients across spot and derivatives."

The partnership marks the latest step in Bitget's push to build institutional-grade infrastructure and trading efficiency across its platform, and in B2C2's continued expansion of its liquidity network to leading global venues.

About Bitget

Bitget is the world's largest Universal Exchange (UEX), serving over 125 million users with access to over 2M crypto tokens, 100+ tokenised stocks, ETFs, commodities, FX, and precious metals, including gold. Bitget is driving crypto adoption through strategic partnerships with LALIGA and MotoGP™, and has partnered with UNICEF to support blockchain education for 1.1 million people by 2027. Bitget currently leads the tokenised TradFi market, providing the industry's lowest fees across 150 regions worldwide.

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About B2C2 

B2C2 is a global leader in institutional liquidity for digital assets. Founded in 2015, we are trusted by blue chip hedge funds, institutional managers, brokers, crypto exchanges, and crypto foundations. We provide deep, reliable liquidity and pricing in crypto, delivering seamless execution 24/7/365. Majority owned and backed by Japanese financial conglomerate, SBI, B2C2 Ltd is headquartered in the UK, with offices in the US, Japan, Singapore, France and Luxembourg.

B2C2 Ltd is registered in England and Wales under company number 07995888 with its registered office at 86-90 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NE. B2C2 Ltd is the parent company of the B2C2 group of companies. Products may be provided by different members of the B2C2 group of companies, depending on the jurisdiction of the client and the regulatory status of the product and/or B2C2 group member. B2C2 is a registered trademark.

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Eight Sleep Reaches $1.5B Valuation, Accelerates Predictive AI for Health

Eight Sleep Reaches $1.5B Valuation, Accelerates Predictive AI for Health

Capital fuels the company's shift from sleep optimization to predictive AI health platform

NEW YORK, March 6 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Eight Sleep, the leading sleep technology company, today announced a new strategic round led by Tether Investments, valuing the company at $1.5 billion. The investment will fund Eight Sleep’s expansion from sleep optimization into predictive, AI-driven health — building a system that anticipates disruptions to recovery and intervenes before they occur.

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The round follows a milestone year. In 2025, Eight Sleep achieved free cash flow positivity while launching three new products — Pod 5, Pod Pillow Cover, and Thermal Blanket — expanding globally to 34 countries, and conducting the most rigorous clinical validation in the company's history. Two peer-reviewed studies show the Pod reduces menopausal hot flashes by 56% and, for the first time in any consumer device, restores the body's natural circadian temperature rhythm during sleep, improving cardiovascular recovery markers.

With Eight Sleep's advancements over the last year, the Company is shifting its focus from sleep optimization to AI-driven preventative health. Eight Sleep is applying predictive intelligence directly to the human body, transforming the bedroom into an intelligent health platform that creates the optimal conditions for recovery before any disruption occurs.

From reactive to predictive: the AI agent

Eight Sleep's Pod tracks biometrics — sleep stages, heart rate, HRV — and automatically adjusts temperature and elevation to improve sleep. Until now, the system has been reactive: reading signals during the night and making real-time adjustments that have been clinically proven to deliver better sleep.

The company is now building a predictive AI agent that anticipates how a user's night will unfold and acts before disruption occurs. The system simulates thousands of scenarios — a warm room, late exercise, a large meal, elevated stress — and optimizes the sleep environment before the user gets into bed.

Eight Sleep’s models are trained on more than one billion hours of real-world sleep data from users in 35+ countries — a proprietary dataset unmatched in scale, diversity, and fidelity. Early pilots of daytime AI-driven guidance have already driven measurable behavior change: nearly half of participants adjusted activity timing, caffeine intake, or sleep schedules based on automated insights.

Expanding into regulated health

Eight Sleep is advancing clinical and regulatory work in the United States, including FDA filings for sleep apnea detection and mitigation. FDA clearance would transform the Pod from a wellness product into a regulated health platform capable of screening, detecting, and intervening at population scale, passively, every night.

"Sleep was just the beginning,” said Matteo Franceschetti, Co-founder and CEO of Eight Sleep. “We've built the most advanced AI-powered health sensing system in the world — one that learns your body better every night and acts on that knowledge. This investment gives us the resources to take that intelligence beyond the bedroom and into every dimension of personal health. What we're building doesn't exist yet — a system that understands your body better each night and acts on that knowledge. Our goal is to build the defining health technology company of this generation."

“We believe advanced personalized AI is the perfect pathway to understand and expand human potential,” said Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether. “Eight Sleep has the potential to define the future of health tech by building intelligence that learns, scales, and evolves directly with humankind, turning advanced AI into practical, everyday insights and enhancements about core human biology. By helping people better understand sleep, recovery, and long-term health, Eight Sleep is laying the groundwork for a new standard in longevity-focused technology that is truly personalized, can function in any condition, directly on-device, resilient, and aligned with how people live. The age of human-first health intelligence has started.”

Investment priorities

The capital will be deployed across three areas: scaling R&D to accelerate predictive model development; expanding clinical trials and regulatory pathways; and deepening global commercial partnerships in priority markets.

About Eight Sleep

Eight Sleep is the first company to bring sleep fitness to the world by combining technology, physiology, and data to unlock deeper sleep and better health. Its products are trusted by professional athletes, including F1 driver Charles Leclerc and top American tennis player Taylor Fritz, business leaders, and health-conscious consumers across the globe. Recognized as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2019, 2022, and 2023, and twice named to TIME's “Best Inventions of the Year,” Eight Sleep continues to redefine the future of sleep. Its products are available in over 34 countries at eightsleep.com.

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XSOLLA ACQUIRES WETAPS, LAUNCHES VIETNAM GAMING MOR SERVICES

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KUALA LUMPUR, March 5 (Bernama) -- Xsolla, a global video game commerce company, announced the acquisition of Ho Chi Minh City-based publisher Wetaps Corporation and the simultaneous launch of its Merchant of Record (MoR) services in Vietnam.

This strategic initiative establishes Xsolla as the country's first licensed MoR for games, providing global developers a seamless and compliant single solution for market entry, payments, and publishing approvals.

“Vietnam has quickly risen to become both a vital domestic market and a global leader in game exports,” said Xsolla President, Chris Hewish in a statement.

He stated that becoming the first licensed MoR helps developers and publishers overcome barriers so they can expand their businesses and reach millions of new players with confidence in Vietnam.

Vietnam has rapidly emerged as a global gaming powerhouse, surpassing established leaders in mobile game exports with over 6.7 billion downloads, and the domestic market is projected to exceed US$430 million by 2025. (US$1=RM3.93)

Xsolla's launch directly addresses the hurdles international publishers face, including fragmented payments and complex regulatory requirements.

The acquisition and the launch are part of Xsolla's Global Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships (GSIP) efforts to expand local publisher assets and build direct-to-consumer infrastructure in high-growth markets.

By combining Wetaps' deep regulatory expertise and co-publishing capabilities with Xsolla's global commerce platform, the company is positioned to offer an end-to-end market entry and monetisation solution.

Key advantages of Xsolla Vietnam include accelerated market entry, allowing for quick launches via an established approval framework. The service also ensures regulatory compliance, offering simplified procedures and reduced risk through strong ties with government regulators.

Furthermore, it provides access to local payments, including over five major methods such as MoMo, ZaloPay, and Napas, alongside revenue optimisation through a streamlined payout structure and optimised revenue share. Xsolla also offers localised support, featuring a curated partner network and dedicated customer support for the Vietnamese market.

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Quantexa Unveils AI-Ready Decision Intelligence Innovations, Partners Moody’s At QuanCon 2026

KUALA LUMPUR, March 4 (Bernama) -- Quantexa, a global leader in Decision Intelligence, has showcased platform and industry ecosystem innovations at QuanCon 2026, its annual global customer and partner ecosystem event, as it advances its vision for a new generation of artificial intelligence (AI)-ready organisations powered by context.

“At QuanCon, we are introducing innovations and showcasing how enterprises are moving beyond data and analytics silos toward truly connected, contextual decision-making. This is the foundation of trusted AI, resilient operations, and sustainable growth in the decade ahead,” said Quantexa Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Vishal Marria in a statement.

The company said the latest developments reinforce its approach of combining data, analytics, AI and human expertise to enable more confident decisions across risk and compliance, growth and operational transformation.

As organisations continue to face data fragmentation alongside accelerating AI adoption, Quantexa is promoting a unified decision-making framework that connects disparate data sources, creates real-world context and operationalises trusted intelligence at scale.

At the event, Quantexa demonstrated how its Decision Intelligence platform can be operationalised across industries, including banking, insurance and the public sector.

Key themes highlighted include the expansion of AI-enabled Decision Intelligence to support transparent and trusted automation, new data foundation solutions that connect fragmented enterprise data into contextual networks, and enhancements that allow Decision Intelligence to be embedded directly into business workflows.

Quantexa is also announcing a strategic partnership with Moody’s at the event to help financial institutions better understand and manage risk in an increasingly complex global environment by integrating its graph technology with Moody’s data.

In addition, the company recognised partners driving global adoption of Decision Intelligence, with award recipients including KPMG, PwC, Deloitte and NTT Data Luweave.

Using the latest advancements in AI, Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence Platform transforms siloed data into connected, contextual insights to empower the shift from a data-driven to a decision-centric organisation.

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XSOLLA LAUNCHES UNIFIED CROSS-PLATFORM SDK TO STREAMLINE GAME MONETISATION

KUALA LUMPUR, March 4 (Bernama) -- Xsolla, a global video game commerce company, has announced the availability of Xsolla SDK, a unified, cross-platform software development kit that consolidates the company’s personal computer (PC), mobile and web monetisation tools into a single download.

Launched at the GDC Festival of Games 2026, the Xsolla SDK introduces built-in Payments, Login, Catalog and Offerwall integration, allowing developers to configure pricing and inventory once and deploy across all supported platforms without reconfiguration.

Xsolla President, Chris Hewish said game developers require tools that can operate seamlessly across platforms without adding technical burden.

“Game developers can trust the Xsolla SDK because it is built on a proven infrastructure already scaling with some of the world’s biggest games. No matter where developers are building, they now have access to the same powerful monetisation tools that streamline revenue and simplify payment integration,” he said in a statement.

The Xsolla SDK is powered by two decades of building payment and monetisation tools exclusively for game developers, with the company having processed more than US$10 billion in total payments and supported thousands of titles across different platforms, regions and regulatory environments. (US$1=RM3.93)

Through a single integration, developers can deploy their commerce capabilities to iOS, Android, PC and the web, including support for out-of-store distribution. The SDK also enables developers to activate Offerwall to generate incremental revenue from non-paying users through advertiser-funded rewarded tasks, without upfront costs.

In addition, developers can manage a single catalogue and shared inventory across in-app purchases, bundles, subscriptions, Offerwall and web shops, eliminating the need to reconfigure products and offers between different sales channels.

The development kit also allows developers to retain full ownership and operational control, including setting prices, managing offers and maintaining direct relationships with players. It further supports unified player identity and inventory across devices to help reduce churn caused by fragmented cross-platform experiences.

To support global expansion, the Xsolla SDK offers access to more than 1,000 payment methods across over 200 regions and 130 currencies. Xsolla operates as a merchant of record and manages tax, fraud prevention and regulatory compliance on behalf of developers.

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CIRRUS EXPANDS TO SINGAPORE, ADVANCES NOVEL EYE THERAPIES

KUALA LUMPUR, March 4 (Bernama) -- Cirrus Therapeutics, a global ocular immunology company, announced several business and pipeline updates to support its strategy of advancing first-in-class and best-in-class therapies for chronic blinding diseases.

The updates include expanding its global footprint to Singapore, forming a strategic partnership with the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), and unveiling a next-generation retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cell therapy as its second pipeline programme.

“Our presence in Singapore well positions us to leverage critical research, clinical development and partnering opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region.

“We look forward to collaborating with A*STAR Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) and renowned clinician-scientist Dr Xinyi Su to accelerate advancement of cutting-edge ocular medicines, including our differentiated next-generation RPE cell therapy,” said Cirrus Therapeutics Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, Ying Kai Chan in a statement.

The company established a new research and development (R&D) site in Singapore, expanding its infrastructure beyond its United Kingdom science origins and United States presence, gaining access to the Asia-Pacific biopharma market. Si Hui Tan, who previously led the first-in-class liver regeneration programme at Lerna Biopharma, has been appointed as Director, Pipeline and Site Head, Singapore.

Related to the expansion, Cirrus entered into a multi-million dollar strategic collaboration with Singapore’s A*STAR. This partnership is aimed at accelerating the advancement of innovative ophthalmic assets, including Cirrus’ newly unveiled second pipeline programme. The collaboration will be led by A*STAR IMCB Executive Director, Dr Su.

Cirrus unveiled its second pipeline programme, a novel RPE cell therapy designed for the treatment of centre-involving geographic atrophy (GA). This next-generation cell therapy is differentiated, offering the potential for class-leading vision restoration due to its capacity to function and survive in the hostile GA environment.

The company also continues to advance its lead programme—a novel ocular gene therapy aimed at restoring IRAK-M to prevent age-related macular degeneration (AMD) progression and preserve central vision.

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