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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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Lightwave Link Plus achieves Apple HomeKit certification
UK-based smart home solutions provider LightwaveRF has announced that its next generation Lightwave Link Plus has been certified under Apple’s licensing scheme as a ‘Works with Apple HomeKit’ product. Andrew Pearson, CEO at LightwaveRF, said: “This announcement of the next generation Lightwave Link and its certification by Apple is the culmination of an extensive research and development programme over more than two years.”
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DISTREE EMEA 2018 scheduled for February 6-9 in Monaco
The 16th annual DISTREE Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) event will take place at the luxurious Fairmont Hotel in Monaco on 6th to 9th February 2018. DISTREE EMEA is a premium hosted buyer event, giving consumer tech brands access to 400 senior executives, representing 350 consumer tech distributors from 50-plus countries within the EMEA region.
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Barracuda teams with CMS for MSP push
Barracuda Networks, a provider of cloud-enabled security and data protection solutions, has entered into a new agreement with CMS Distribution to expand UK & Ireland channel relationships and bring more managed service providers (MSPs) into Barracuda’s partner programme. Barracuda’s MSP channel development strategy is to deliver value to managed service partners and their SMB customers through award-winning technology and 24x7 monitoring and management professional services.
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Panasonic signs pan-EMEA deal with Nuvias
Panasonic Business has appointed Nuvias as its first pan-EMEA distributor for its range of business IP phone handsets. The initial roll-out will focus on established markets for Nuvias, including the UK, Benelux, Germany and France, along with Southern Europe and the Nordics. Nuvias will act as a high value distributor for the full range of Panasonic IP handsets. This comprises desktop phones, and both single cell and multi-cell DECT solutions, for use within cloud-based UC environments, including BroadSoft.
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ASSMANN confirmed for DISTREE APAC
ASSMANN Group has confirmed that it will exhibit at DISTREE Asia-Pacific (APAC) 2017, which takes place in Singapore from November 8-10th. The fifth annual DISTREE APAC regional channel event gives consumer technology vendors and brand owners the opportunity to hold pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings with APAC’s leading distributors, plus senior executives from some of the region’s top retailers and e-tailers. ASSMANN will use the event to promote its ednet retail brand.
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Tech Data expands Docker rights in Europe
Distribution giant Tech Data’s technology solutions business, formerly a division of Avnet, has extended its distribution agreement with Docker, to deliver their enterprise edition (EE) offering across a wider European footprint. The extended footprint includes Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, as well as the East region countries where it operates, including Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey, and the Adriatic region.
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INTERVIEW: Evgeniy Zaitsev, PocketBook
Asia-Pacific (APAC) has been identified as a target market for PocketBook’s business expansion in 2017. The company, which provides e-reading devices and business-to-business (B2B) solutions for e-book commerce, will participate at DISTREE APAC in Singapore this November. The event gives tech brands a unique opportunity to meet senior executives from top tech distributors and channel partners from 20-plus countries in the region. Channel APAC caught up with Evgeniy Zaitsev, VP sales and marketing at PocketBook, to get the lowdown on the company’s plans.
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