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Ingram Micro Training MEA, a provider of instructor-led technical training, is partnering with Red Hat as a Red Hat training reseller for the UAE. With this partnership, Ingram Micro is now authorised to resell Red Hat Training services, including open enrolment courses, on-site courses and Red Hat’s complete online delivery portfolio.
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Nuheara raises funds for retail expansion
Audio device brand Nuheara has successfully completed an institutional placement raising A$9m (US$7.15m) to fund the aggressive global retail expansion of its wearable audio device, IQbuds. ASX-quoted Nuheara’s IQbuds combines the features of a hearing device, a bluetooth earpiece and a noise cancelling headset. Investors will be issued shares at A$0.092 per share, which represents a premium of 2.8% to Nuheara’s 30-day volume weighted average share price.
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Synnex expands Fuji Xerox partnership
Synnex has expanded its Australian distribution deal with Fuji Xerox Printers and will now stock the brand’s entire range of products. Along with Fuji Xerox Printers’ retail solutions, Synnex will also now distribute the company’s entire product range, enabling Fuji Xerox Printers to expand its reach across the IT and systems integrator markets, opening up new channels.
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Dicker Data adds HDS rights in Australia
Distributor Dicker Data has added Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) to its portfolio in Australia. The new agreement allows resellers to capitalise on HDS’ solutions for midmarket and enterprise customers. Diacker Data has also formed a new enterprise data business unit to focus on the digital transformation and IoT opportunity to resellers in the midmarket and enterprise segment.
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Majid Al Futtaim, a leading shopping mall, communities, retail and leisure pioneer across the Middle East, Africa and Asia, recently acquired Retail Arabia, the franchise owner of 26 Geant stores across the UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait as well as 4 Gulfmart supermarkets in Bahrain. The deal has been agreed between Majid Al Futtaim and Retail Arabia’s parent company BMA International. As part of the Majid Al Futtaim retail offering, Carrefour currently operates over 160 stores in 15 markets across the MENA region.
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Retail giant Dixons Carphone has agreed to dispose of its entire holdings in The Phone House Spain, Connected World Services Europe and Smarthouse to Global Dominion Access SA, a provider of technological services and solutions, headquartered in Bilbao, Spain. Dominion will integrate Phone House into its smart innovation business and look to deliver a range of services to consumers related to smart homes.
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Arrow Electronics bags Oracle VAD awards
Oracle recognised Arrow Electronics with three awards at the Oracle VAD global community forum in Budapest, Hungary. Arrow was presented the following awards for 2017: highest EMEA overall revenue contribution award; highest EMEA cloud revenue contribution award, EMEA cloud innovation and best practices award.
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Exertis strengthens gaming team
Distributor Exertis has appointed Matt Finn as an account director within its consumer division based in Harlow, UK. Finn will be responsible for the management of key accounts focused on gaming, reporting to Alex Croft, Exertis, sales and commercial director. Croft said: “I am delighted to add Matt to our successful gaming team where his experience will further strengthen our relationships with our major customers.”
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EET Europarts has snapped up UK-based POS distributor DED, completing its fifth acquisition this year. "With the acquisition of DED Ltd we are now entering into the league of the leading pan-European distributors within the POS and auto ID area,” said John Thomas, group CEO at EET Group. "Our ambition to become one of the leading POS and auto ID distributors in the European market before 2020 seems within reach."
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Desktop 3D printer shipments up 17% in first quarter
The first quarter of 2017 saw both worldwide shipments and revenues in the 3D printer space increase, with activity ramping up in the midmarket, according to market research firm CONTEXT. Shipments in the personal and desktop 3D printer segment climbed 17% year-on-year to hit 88,000 units. The average price of a personal and desktop 3D printer slid to US$970 in the first quarter, down from US$1,142 a year earlier.
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