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NEW YORK, Dec. 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Attorney Advertising — Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC notifies investors that a class action lawsuit has been filed against of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (“JP Morgan” or “the Company”) (NYSE: JPM) and certain of its officers, on behalf of shareholders who purchased or otherwise acquired JPMorgan securities between February 23, 2016 and September 23, 2020, both dates inclusive (the “Class Period”). Such investors are encouraged to join this case by visiting the firm’s site: www.bgandg.com/jpm.

This class action seeks to recover damages against Defendants for alleged violations of the federal securities laws under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

The Complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) traders at the Company, with the knowledge and consent of their superiors, manipulated the precious metals market by “spoofing,” or placing fake orders to generate the appearance of market demand; (2) the Company had insufficient controls and compliance protocols to enable it to identify and stop the misconduct; (3) the Company’s earnings in the physical commodity market were, at least in part, ill-gotten; (4) such conduct would result in enhanced regulatory scrutiny; (5) the Company provided misleading information to CFTC investigators at early stages of the investigation into the misconduct; (6) resolution of the governmental investigation into the Company would result in a record-breaking $920 million fine; and (7) as a result, Defendants’ statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.

A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to review a copy of the Complaint you can visit the firm’s site: www.bgandg.com/jpm or you may contact Peretz Bronstein, Esq. or his Investor Relations Analyst, Yael Hurwitz of Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC at 212-697-6484. If you suffered a loss in JPMorgan you have until December 23, 2020 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff.  Your ability to share in any recovery doesn’t require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.

Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC is a corporate litigation boutique.  Our primary expertise is the aggressive pursuit of litigation claims on behalf of our clients.  In addition to representing institutions and other investor plaintiffs in class action security litigation, the firm’s expertise includes general corporate and commercial litigation, as well as securities arbitration.   Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.

Contact:
Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC
Peretz Bronstein or Yael Hurwitz
212-697-6484 | [email protected]

PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Orbus Therapeutics Inc., a private, late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapies that treat rare diseases, announced that it has been granted patent No. 10,786,470 entitled “Formulations for Administration of Eflornithine,” by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

The patent, which was granted on September 29, 2020, covers a solution of eflornithine hydrochloride hydrate for oral administration and methods of use for treating gliomas including anaplastic astrocytoma.

Orbus is currently evaluating eflornithine in an ongoing Phase 3 clinical trial, the STELLAR study, in patients with anaplastic astrocytoma whose cancer has recurred following radiation and adjuvant chemotherapy. In controlled, randomized and single arm clinical studies, eflornithine has shown an increase in overall survival of patients with newly diagnosed or recurrent anaplastic astrocytoma.

About Eflornithine

Eflornithine is a novel cytostatic agent that irreversibly inhibits ornithine decarboxylase, a key enzyme in mammalian polyamine biosynthesis that is up-regulated in certain types of cancer. In controlled, randomized and single arm clinical studies, eflornithine has shown an increase in overall survival of patients with newly diagnosed or recurrent anaplastic astrocytoma.

Eflornithine has been granted Orphan Drug Designation and Breakthrough Therapy Designation for the treatment of patients with anaplastic glioma by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and has also been granted Orphan Medicinal Product status for the treatment of glioma by the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) at the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

About Orbus Therapeutics

Orbus Therapeutics is a late-stage, private biopharmaceutical company that is dedicated to developing products that treat rare diseases for which there are few, if any, effective therapies. The Company’s lead product candidate, eflornithine, is being evaluated in a pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial in patients with recurrent anaplastic astrocytoma, a rare form of central nervous system cancer. For more information, please visit the Company’s website at http://www.orbustherapeutics.com

Source: Orbus Therapeutics, Inc.

Investor Contact:
Jason Levin, COO
[email protected]
650.656.9440

Media Contact:
Denise Powell
[email protected]
510.703.9491

Orlando, Florida, Dec. 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — IZEA Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: IZEA), the premier provider of influencer marketing technology, data, and services for the world’s leading brands, announced today that it has set a Managed Services bookings record for the best Q4 in company history. The announcement comes just one week after IZEA reported besting its Q4 2019 Managed Services bookings number. Since that time, IZEA has added a variety of new contracts from both first-time customers as well as existing customers. IZEA’s Managed Services bookings have now climbed 40% year over year despite the impact the pandemic has had on a portion of IZEA’s historical customer base.

“I cannot remember a time in our 14-year history when the cadence of customer contracts has been this strong,” said Ted Murphy, IZEA’s Chairman and CEO. “Not only have we seen our new customer counts for Managed Services more than double from Q3 to Q4, we have also seen our loyal customer base return with strength. Many of them are not only increasing their commitments for the 2020 holiday season, but also kickstarting their 2021 influencer marketing initiatives.”

The count of new IZEAx Unity Suite customer contracts signed has also set a company record in Q4, surpassing the previous benchmark reached during Q1 of this year. The expansion of new Unity Suite customers has been positively impacted by more affordable and flexible licensing options that were first introduced toward the end of Q3 2020. IZEA’s total active SaaS customer base has reached record numbers in Q4 2020, largely driven by IZEAx Discovery, the company’s self-service offering.

“Our push to increase the diversity of our customer base is starting to be realized in both SaaS and Managed Services,” continued Murphy. “From contracts with the U.S. Military and Fortune 10 Retailers to Smaller Agencies and DTC Brands, we are being awarded contracts more often from a wider variety of buyers. Not only is that better for our company, it also drives more opportunity for the different types of influencers we serve. We are pushing hard to close out 2020 with momentum and look forward to the new year.”

About IZEA Worldwide, Inc.

IZEA Worldwide, Inc. (“IZEA”) operates IZEAx, the premier online marketplace that connects marketers with content creators. IZEAx automates influencer marketing and custom content development, allowing brands and agencies to scale their marketing programs. IZEA creators include celebrities and accredited journalists. Creators are compensated for producing unique content such as long and short form text, videos, photos, status updates, and illustrations for marketers or distributing such content on behalf of marketers through their personal websites, blogs, and social media channels. Marketers receive influential content and engaging, shareable stories that drive awareness. For more information about IZEA, visit https://izea.com/.

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Martin Smith
IZEA Worldwide, Inc.
Phone: 407-674-6911
Email: [email protected]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Help Lightning, Inc., a provider of virtual expertise software that enables enterprises to accelerate the transformation of their field service and call center organizations from cost centers to profit centers, today announced exponential customer growth in 2020, which increased 110% over 2019. Help Lightning added numerous global enterprise customers during the year, including Pfizer, Cox Communications, Abbott Labs, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, and Nestle Health Science. This announcement comes on the heels of the company recently closing an $8m Series A funding round led by Resolve Growth Partners.

Summary year-over-year highlights include:

• New customer acquisition increased 110%
• New enterprise customers include Pfizer, Cox Communications, Abbott Labs, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, and Nestle Health Science
• Customer usage (measured in call volume) increased 457%
• Enterprise users increased 133%
• $8m Series A funding round led by Resolve Growth Partners

“Help Lightning had an extraordinary year, with our virtual expertise software playing a vital role in bringing technical expertise to settings where it’s most urgently needed,” said Gary York, CEO, Help Lightning. “While the pandemic has caused an extraordinary spike in global demand, our customers are seeing so much efficiency gain, cost reduction, and fix rate improvement, they are reporting that there is no going back to the old way of doing business.”

Help Lightning had a compelling value proposition prior to the pandemic for service organizations including reducing the time to problem resolutions, eliminating truck rolls, and reducing first time fix rate. When the COVID-19 pandemic caused global shutdowns and travel restrictions, Help Lightning’s virtual expertise software transitioned from reducing costs and increasing customer satisfaction to being mission critical to support service operations for global companies.

When the pandemic hit, Help Lightning became a key tool for companies to be able to continue to serve their customers. For companies with critical installations in countries throughout the world, travel restrictions prevented experts from getting there. Companies evolved their service model using Help Lightning to guide local technicians through proper installations and maintenance.

Today hundreds of field service organizations and call centers across a variety of industries rely on Help Lightning’s virtual expertise software to remotely deliver expertise by connecting people with the knowledge to the people trying to solve the problem. Whether facing workforce attrition, quality and responsiveness issues, or the inability to measure field service performance, Help Lightning enables organizations to do more with less and accelerate the transformation of their field service organizations from cost centers to profit centers.

About Help Lightning

Help Lightning, Inc. provides virtual expertise software to hundreds of companies across a variety of industries with users in over 90 countries. Enterprise companies such as Becton Dickinson, Boston Scientific, Siemens and Pfizer depend on Help Lightning to improve their field service organization and call center first-time fix rates, extend their workforce capacity, and improve customer satisfaction. Unlike other remote technology solutions, only Help Lightning combines easy-to-use software with industry-specific expertise and a partnership approach to help its customers accelerate their digital transformation. For more information, visit www.helplightning.com.

Contact:
Jake Katz
Email: [email protected] 

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CSX Corp. (NASDAQ: CSX) will release fourth-quarter financial and operating results after the market close on Thursday, January 21, 2021. This will be followed by a conference call and live webcast hosted by the company’s management team at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

Those interested in participating via teleconference may dial 1-866-324-3683. Callers outside the U.S. may dial 1-509-844-0959. Participants should dial in 10 minutes prior to the call and use 2874369 as the passcode.

Presentation materials and access to the webcast will be available on the company’s website at http://investors.csx.com. Following the earnings call, a webcast replay will be archived on the company’s website.

About CSX and its Disclosures

CSX, based in Jacksonville, Florida, is a premier transportation company. It provides rail, intermodal and rail-to-truck transload services and solutions to customers across a broad array of markets, including energy, industrial, construction, agricultural, and consumer products. For nearly 200 years, CSX has played a critical role in the nation’s economic expansion and industrial development. Its network connects every major metropolitan area in the eastern United States, where nearly two-thirds of the nation’s population resides. It also links more than 230 short-line railroads and more than 70 ocean, river and lake ports with major population centers and farming towns alike.

This announcement, as well as additional financial information, is available on the company’s website at http://investors.csx.com. CSX also uses social media channels to communicate information about the company. Although social media channels are not intended to be the primary method of disclosure for material information, it is possible that certain information CSX posts on social media could be deemed to be material. Therefore, we encourage investors, the media, and others interested in the company to review the information we post on Twitter (http://twitter.com/CSX) and on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/OfficialCSX). The social media channels used by CSX may be updated from time to time. More information about CSX Corporation and its subsidiaries is available at www.csx.com.

Contact:

Bill Slater, Investor Relations
904-359-1334

Bryan Tucker, Corporate Communications
855-955-6397

NEW YORK, Dec. 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Wall Street Reporter, the trusted name in financial news since 1843, has published reports on the latest comments and insights from leaders at: Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), NetEase (NASDAQ: NTES) FansUnite (OTC: FUNFF) (CSE: FANS), and GAN Limited (NASDAQ: GAN)

Digital Entertainment is emerging as the dominant growth theme of the decade, with billions of dollars in revenues generated worldwide from video games, streaming to online casinos and sports betting. Wall Street Reporter highlights the latest comments from industry thought leaders:

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) CEO Bobby Kotick: “Billion Dollar Entertainment Franchises – With Momentum”

“…We now expect net bookings in 2020 to grow over 25% year-over-year with earnings per share growing even faster. Since refocusing our teams on our greatest opportunities, we’ve started to return to the execution excellence, we’ve always been known for. We have significantly grown the number of creative and commercial employees working on our key franchises. …We’re in a position to deliver sustained and significant long-term expansion across our portfolio of fully owned franchises. As we execute against our content pipeline to extend our key franchises to mobile, introduce new free-to-play experiences and continue to optimize in-game operations we are positioned to continue converting our growing engagement into consistent and long-term revenue and earnings growth.”

“…Call of Duty is the first community to benefit from our pursuit of this franchise based strategy. With over 100 million monthly players, the Call of Duty community is larger than ever before. And with expansion across all platforms the franchise has transformed into a truly social experience that engages and connects our players in truly epic ways. By expanding to mobile, we’ve brought in tens of millions of new players in countries far beyond our traditional audiences. With the game now in final large-scale testing in China and over 50 million players already preregistered, we see a clear path to continue growing Call of Duty’s reach, engagement, and player investment on mobile in the largest mobile gaming market in the world.”

“…There are few entertainment franchises that generate over $1 billion in annual net bookings. And today we operate three of them: Call of Duty World of Warcraft and Candy Crush. And each has clear opportunity for sustained growth…For the balance of this year, we’re raising our outlook and we believe we will continue connecting and engaging more players than ever before in 2021.”

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) Q3 2020 Earning Highlights:


http://bit.ly/34ExR9O

FansUnite (OTC: FUNFF) (CSE: FANS) “Positioned for Exponential Revenue Growth in iGaming, E-Sports, Online Sports Betting”

In a recent presentation at Wall Street Reporter’s NEXT SUPER STOCK livestream, FansUnite (OTC: FUNFF) (CSE: FANS) CEO Scott Burton explained how the company’s latest distribution deal with a online casino games aggregator, sets the stage for exponential revenue growth opportunities. In the next 12 months, FUNFF plans to expand its current line from three games to twelve – while adding multiple aggregators for each game – reaching millions of new online casino customers worldwide. With each game generating as much as $500,000 in revenue per month for FUNFF – per online casino – and the potential to be in hundreds of online casinos – these numbers can quickly add up.

Watch FansUnite (OTC: FUNFF) NEXT SUPER STOCK 12/9/20 VIDEO:


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December 16 – FUNFF gains first-mover advantage into the U.S. esports betting market, as it’s long-term partner GameCo joins US Bookmaking and Sky Ute Casino to establish the first dedicated esports sportsbook in the United States. FUNFF wholly-owned subsidiary Askott Entertainment will supply its iGaming platform, Chameleon, as part of a fully integrated esports betting solution. Through GameCo’s partnership with Sky Ute Casino and US Bookmaking, FansUnite will be the first iGaming solutions provider to receive significant exposure in the U.S. esports betting market.

December 7 – FUNFF receives Malta Gaming Service License and Critical Gaming Supply, and will now be able to offer a full spectrum of online gambling services in Europe, covering Casino, Fixed Odds Betting, Pool Betting and Controlled Skilled Games. With MGA approval received, FansUnite will be joining other highly respected gambling companies such as PokerStars, Betfair and Unibet in operating their business within MGA regulations.

Nov 5 – FUNFF’s wholly-owned UK Sportsbook McBookie achieves record 433% increase in revenue and 713% increase in gross margin in October 2020 compared to October 2019. Much of the growth was attributed to the unveiling of McBookie’s live casino games and increased activity in sports betting which resulted in $7.3M in total betting volume being placed during the month

Watch FansUnite (OTC: FUNFF) NEXT SUPER STOCK 12/9/20 VIDEO:


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GAN Limited (NASDAQ: GAN) CEO Dermot Smurfit: “
On Path To $100 Million Revenue with Online Sports Betting and Casinos”

“..While both the consumer attention and client demand remains focused on sports betting, the real core of the U.S. internet gambling profit opportunity lies inherently within the online casino, which is only unlocked by the mass market appeal of sports betting being a technical and operational capability, we will shortly possess…”

“When you combine online casino gaming with internet poker, and of course, internet sports betting, New Jersey generated in excess of $132 million of gross operating revenue in that single state in the single month of October. This amount would have seemed implausible just two years ago. New Jersey is now on a path where internet gambling revenues could be on a monthly run rate to exceed pre-COVID retail gaming revenues by the end of 2022. I’ll state this again, because it is incredibly important for everyone to understand the magnitude of the structural shift in the retail casino industry. New Jersey’s internet gambling market is on a growth path to exceed pre-COVID monthly retail casino gaming revenues within 18 months, possibly less. This all points to bright line a truth that COVID combined with the advent of internet sports betting and the associated strong cross-sell of sports gamblers into online casino gaming has manifestly altered expected future growth opportunities in this industry for decades to come…Our continuing mission is to bring retail casinos online with our technology platform focused principally on delivering all forms of internet gambling content, including casino gaming and sports betting.”

“‘…The largest event in 2020 for shareholders appears not to be an admission to trading on NASDAQ, but the inflection point represented by or now announced acquisition of Coolbet with regulated operations in both Europe and Latin America…This acquisition accelerates our previously announced pathway to $100 million in topline revenues. It unlocks the shareholder value opportunity to become a B2B sports betting provider in the U.S. and provides us with a fast growing internal — international strategy, which is entirely incremental to our existing international market activity in Italy.”

GAN Limited (NASDAQ: GAN) Q3 2020 Earnings Highlights:


https://bit.ly/32QlM0m

NetEase (NASDAQ: NTES) CEO William Ding: ”Building Global Leader in Digital Entertainment”

“…We grew our net revenues year-over-year by nearly 26% to RMB18.2 billion for this quarter, and our net income from continuing operations attributable to our shareholders grew year-over-year by 35% to RMB4.5 billion.Our online games was up 21% in the second quarter year-over-year, reaching net revenue of RMB13.8 billion, driven by the impressive strength of our existing titles. Our flagship, Fantasy Westward Journey series and Westward Journey series, continued their strong performance in the second quarter. As two of the largest and longest-running game IPs in China, both games consistently attract a loyal crowd…”

“…We are very committed to bringing the richest content to Chinese users by introducing exciting global music and incubating independent musicians. In the second quarter, we launched numerous paid live shows for independent bands, giving them more options to stream online during this uncertain time…Beyond our progress in the domestic market, we have also made multiple headway with our international initiatives. Our overseas online game net revenues hit a new record high in the second quarter, propelled by robust performances from Knives Out and Life-After in Japan…”

“…NetEase is best known for our content creation capabilities. This rings true across our different business segments. As we look to the second half of this year, we are more confident and committed than ever to further expanding our reach and bringing relevant, exciting, new products and services to NetEase players, fans and followers around the world…We are excited to lead our next wave of expansion as we continue to build value for all of our stakeholders…”

NetEase (NASDAQ: NTES) Q2 2020 Earnings Highlights:


https://bit.ly/3kFMNK9

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