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The CA State Fair today announced the second annual, state-agency sanctioned cannabis competition is set to take place in conjunction with the 2023 CA State Fair. Following the first year's success, cannabis will once again be celebrated alongside...

Decentralized Pictures Foundation (DCP) and acclaimed filmmaker Kevin Smith have announced a partnership on initiatives to support aspiring filmmakers. DCP will sponsor SMODCastle, the film festival founded by Smith and friends and hosted by Smith...

Nominations are being accepted for the Information Technology Certification Council's (ITCC) 2023 Innovation Award. Now in its ninth year, this annual award recognizes leadership initiatives that have positively impacted your company or the IT...

Marcus Lemonis, business mogul, TV personality, motivational speaker, and most importantly, philanthropist, is at it again this holiday season with another holiday giving spree. Every year, Marcus gives away almost $2 million in gifts with his social...

Microelectronic chips are found in a myriad of applications important in our everyday lives from electric vehicles and drones to Internet of Things and 5G to contactless payments. These applications and devices are vulnerable to malicious actors,...

American Express today announced the return of its American Express Leadership Academy, with a new curriculum to help nonprofit leaders innovate and meet the rapidly-changing needs of communities around the world. The Leadership Academy will be...

TriMas today announced the winners of its 2022 TriMas Kaizen Challenge. The 2022 winners are TriMas Aerospace's Optimizing Subcontracting Supply project and TriMas Packaging's Productivity Improvement project. TriMas launched its annual,...

National Geographic: WHAT: For nearly 135 years, National Geographic has been synonymous with visual storytelling, showing an interconnected world through the work of thousands of renowned photographers. Now, the editors at National Geographic are...

Global financial technology leader FIS® today announced the expansion of its annual InnovateIN48 fintech competition to include early-stage fintech startups in the APAC region. Originally an employee-based innovation competition in 2013, FIS...

FashWire is pleased to announce the top 12 brands moving forward to present at the 2022 FashPitch virtual competition on December 6. FashWire's marketplace brands were invited to pitch in front of some of the most influential leaders in the fashion,...

Fueling ambition across the country, Xponential brand, Pure Barre®, the fastest, most effective full-body barre workout brand, and Perfect Bartm: The Original Refrigerated Protein Bar, today announced their partnership to support customers and...

Unite Health Share Ministriestm (UHSM), a nonprofit, faith-based health sharing ministry supporting Christian believers through member-to-member healthcare sharing memberships, proudly partners with Amon-Ra St. Brown, Detroit Lions football player...

Mays Business School at Texas A&M University and leading health and well-being company Humana Inc. have announced the winners of the 2022 Humana-Mays Healthcare Analytics Case Competition, a competition during which students use their analytical...

Carter's, Inc. , the largest branded marketer in North America of apparel exclusively for babies and young children, is teaming up with its Chief Mom Officer, award-winning actress, singer, best-selling author, and mom-of-three, Hilary Duff, to...

The awards nominations of The first Aollywood Five Continents Film Festival announced in Los Angeles. In the five continents film main competition unit, "King Richard", "Drive My car", "The Power of the Dog", "The Worst Man in the World", "Mogadishu"...

The award nominations of the first Aollywood Five Continents Film Festival announced in Los Angeles. In the five continents film main competition unit, "King Richard," "Drive My Car," "The Power of the Dog," "The Worst Man in the World," "Mogadishu"...

The Ella project, a Japanese musical collective that debuted in 2022 with "Tanizaki Dangerous" (French title "Tanizaki") that provides a bold modern-day rendition of Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's worldview, will be holding the "Ella project Global Singer...

Navy Federal Credit Union, today announced the winners of its first Operation Joyride Sweepstakes. The sweepstakes allowed eligible auto loan holders to submit an entry for their chance to win a grand prize of $30,000 toward their Navy Federal auto...

The award nominations of the first Aollywood Five Continents International Film Festival announced in Los Angeles. The Aollywood Five Continents Film Festival was founded in Macau, China, on September 8, 2022. It is a global international film...

On November 23, the award nominations for the first Aollywood Five Continents International Film Festival were announced in Los Angeles. In the main competition section, "King Richard," "Drive My Car," "The Power of the Dog," "The Worst Person in the...

Just in time for Giving Tuesday and the unofficial kick off to the giving season, the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Center for International Disaster Information (CIDI) is releasing new research which reveals that the...

The United States Investing Championship today announced the leaders for the first ten months of 2022. Three hundred sixteen top traders participated, but only 26, or 8%, reported profits, according to contest organizer, Dr. Norman Zadeh. The United...

Subhead of release should read: Live commerce app offers 100% off on coveted collectibles and an opportunity to win a flight to space on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket. (instead of Live commerce app offers 100% off on coveted collectibles and a...

Manchester City Football Club's global community program, Cityzens Giving, and global water technology leader, Xylem are calling on football fans to vote for their top project as the Water Heroes Academy returns for a second year. From November 22...

Saint-Gobain North America today announced the winning schools of its 2022 Sustaining Futures, Raising Communities charitable giveaway contest, where schools across Georgia, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania competed to receive $250,000 in donated...

Floor & Decor a leading specialty retailer of hard-surface flooring, will expand its nationwide footprint when it opens the doors to its newest location in Cedar Park, Texas on November 25, 2022. This opening marks the 4th warehouse store in the...

Cintas Corporation today announced the grand-prize winner and runners-up in the 2022 Cintas S.H.I.N.E. (Star Housekeepers in a New Era) Award. Christine Perkins, a housekeeper at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Cedar City in Cedar City, Utah won...

Graduate students teamed up with business leaders to develop solutions around mental healthcare for underserved youth. Student teams from around the country competed Nov. 10 for a total of $25,000 in prize money in the final round of the John E....

The Milken Institute and the Motsepe Foundation today launched the Milken-Motsepe Prize in Green Energy, a $2 million prize competition to reward entrepreneurs and innovators working to address one of the most pressing and immediate challenges of our...

In such a season filled with passion for sports, People all over the world were excited about the movement. VOOPOO, a vape giant brand that insists on being customer-centric and advocates healthy lifestyle and innovation, initiates the official...

Breezeline, formerly Atlantic Broadband, the nation's eighth-largest cable operator, is a lead sponsor of "Interactive Case Competition," a semester-long competition held twice each year in which teams of graduate business students work to solve...

This holiday season, sleep company Casper wants to give consumers a chance to slow down, relax, and enjoy quality time with their families. In celebration of Netflix's highly-anticipated "Slumberland" film, Casper has teamed up with the leading...

Global denim icon Wrangler® announced today the digital auction of a one-of-one belt buckle hand-crafted by legendary buckle and jewelry company Montana Silversmiths®, which costs more than $40,000 in celebration of the brand's diamond anniversary....

The 2022 edition of the American Gambling Awards is pleased to announce Sen. Joseph Addabbo, Jr. (NY) is the 2022 "Policymaker of the Year." The American Gambling Awards are produced by Gambling.com Group Limited ("Gambling.com Group" or the...

A growing global movement of young innovators is helping the water sector make progress against urgent challenges like water accessibility and security. Brilliant young minds are helping shape a more sustainable world by developing innovative ways to...

Throughout October, Assurant employees in Atlanta, Miami and across the globe participated in a 5K run in support of the United Way. Employees and partners in this annual tradition raised more than $340,000 this year, which pushed the total funds...

Voya Financial, Inc. , a leading provider of retirement plans for educators, announced today the top three winners in the company's annual Voya Unsung Heroes. These individuals, chosen from 50 teams of overall winners who received $2,000 each, were...

Nashville resident Gabriel Reyes recently won a $20,000, once-in-a-lifetime culinary excursion to Italy. Reyes, a Uniform Sales Representative for the Rental division of Cintas Corporation , recently won the trip of a lifetime following Cintas'...

ClearEstate, the digitally native solution designed to empower individuals to plan and settle estates, today announced its new purpose-driven initiative: ClearEstate Cares. ClearEstate Cares is a $25,000 grant program that was created to give back to...

ARM & HAMMERtm Laundry introduces The Great Holiday Stain-Off campaign, encouraging the foodie cooks at home to embrace mess this holiday season. The Great Holiday Stain-Off will feature social media influencer families participating in a video...

Radisys® Corporation, a global leader of open telecom solutions, is pleased to highlight the winners of the Engage Digital Platform real-world solutions in the 2022 TADHack Global, a hackathon focused on programmable communication solutions. Radisys...

Young artists across Illinois participated in Illinois American Water's annual "Water Keeps Life Flowing" art contest which illustrates the importance of reliable, safe water service. Through the contest, 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students submitted a...

Battelle is focused on innovations in climate resilience. In order to take bold leaps and action to address changes in our climate, a wide variety of ideas are necessary. With that in mind, the inaugural Battelle Climate Challenge is now asking...

The Pershing Square Foundation today announced the launch of the MIND ("Maximizing Innovation in Neuroscience Discovery") Prize. With the launch of the Prize, The Foundation strives to change the paradigm of neuroscience research by creating a...

MetLife, along with the New York Giants and New York Jets, has kicked off online auctions to support programs that help students better prepare for their futures. As part of MetLife's "Inside the Huddle" initiative, the auctions will help raise funds...

The fifteenth edition of the World Branding Awards saw over 3,500 brands from more than 45 countries named as "Brand of the Year". Of these, less than 250 were declared Winners. The awards ceremony welcomed 100 guests from around the world to...

XPRIZE, the world's leader in designing and operating incentive competitions to solve humanity's greatest challenges, has announced NimbRo of Bonn, Germany, as the $5M grand-prize-winning team in the four-year global ANA Avatar XPRIZE. NimbRo's...

Keysight Technologies, Inc. , a leading technology company that delivers advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced the winners of the Keysight Innovation Challenge 2022. The six...

DataTribe, a global cyber foundry that invests in and co-builds next-generation cybersecurity and data science companies, today announced Balance Theory as the winner of its Fifth Annual DataTribe Challenge. Balance Theory provides a knowledge...

NaturalShrimp, Inc. , a Biotechnology Aquaculture Company that has developed and patented the first shrimp-focused commercially operational RAS (Recirculating Aquaculture System), today announced it will attend the 10th Anniversary World Food...