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Business Wire India

AviaGames today announced the opening of its Global Trust Center in Singapore, a dedicated hub for advancing security and data protection for players across its portfolio of skill-based, real-money games. Dr. Jan Wang, Chief Information Security Officer, AviaGames, will oversee the entity, bringing experience from security leadership roles at highly regulated organizations such as AWS (Amazon Web Services) to build a high-performance cybersecurity team and lead complex international regulatory engagements. The new center reinforces AviaGames’ commitment to safeguarding player data and digital assets while delivering a seamless, high-quality gaming experience.

 

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“Singapore serves as a strategic crossroads for global regulatory excellence,” said Vickie Chen, Founder and CEO, AviaGames. “We are confident in Dr. Jan Wang’s leadership as we take this major step in our global expansion and our efforts to ensure secure and trustworthy gaming experience to our players.”

 

The Global Trust Center is designed to strengthen AviaGames’ global cybersecurity infrastructure and unify data protection standards across jurisdictions. By synthesizing data sovereignty mandates within a cohesive security framework, AviaGames aims to protect its tens of millions of players worldwide while ensuring fair and reliable gameplay.

 

 

“We are pioneering the future of fully agentic cybersecurity and data compliance through our Global Trust Center,” said Dr. Jan Wang. “AviaGames can navigate complex global regulations with speed and precision to build an automated, agile infrastructure that minimizes operational disruptions and I look forward to working with local partners to strengthen player trust.”

 

 

AviaGames specializes in skill-based games, where outcomes are determined by a player’s precision and mastery, rather than chance, to create a fair and engaging environment. As AviaGames’ global player community continues to grow, the company continues to invest in security and advanced protections to ensure fast, accurate payouts. By ensuring robust protection of player data, transactions and in-game environments, AviaGames creates a foundation for a top-tier skill-based gameplay and seamless payout experience, allowing players to play with confidence.

 

 

AviaGames is hiring local talent in Singapore to support the Global Trust Center’s operations and strengthen global security capabilities. For more information on job openings and to apply to join the team, reach out to talent@aviagames.com. To learn more about AviaGames, visit aviagames.com.

 

 

About AviaGames

 

 

Avia is the go-to destination for casual mobile gaming entertainment and is the publisher of Pocket7Games, a unified gaming platform, and other individual top apps including “Solitaire Clash”, “Bingo Tour” and “8 Ball Strike”. Quick to play and win, Avia mobile games are designed for players of all skill levels, from casual gamers to hardcore enthusiasts. Avia gaming offerings include 15+ unique, skill-based games linked to a single membership and joint account system, allowing players to seamlessly switch among casual puzzle, action, card and strategy games. Avia is committed to providing an inclusive platform for players to have fun playing their favorite titles.

 

 

 

 

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Pune, Mar 25: India’s life insurance sector continues to play a crucial role in protecting families and supporting long-term financial planning. According to the latest IRDAI Annual Report 2024-25, life insurers paid ₹6.30 lakh crore in total benefits during FY25. The figure testifies to the level of support that the life insurance industry provides to Indian households across life stages from protection to retirement and wealth creation.

 

Out of the total benefits paid, ₹2.33 lakh crore has been on account of withdrawals and surrender, an increase of 1.77% over last year. Since persistency ratios remain robust, it signifies planned lifecycle exits. Policyholders are accessing funds to enable their families pursue life goals, such as children’s academic pursuits, purchasing a self-owned home, enjoying a foreign vacation, etc. While life insurance always enjoyed a high regard for its financial protection quotient, the beneficiaries of policies are now deploying policy proceeds for other valuable purposes also. The evolution of life insurance’s product portfolio that now includes children’s plans, annuity policies, market-linked benefits, etc, means that consumers can reinvest the policy proceeds into new policies to fund their life goals.  

 

Despite the benefit payouts representing 71.92% of net premium income, solvency ratios remain above regulatory thresholds. The 2024-25 IRDAI annual report clearly mentions that all the life insurers complied with the minimum stipulated solvency ratio of 1.50 (control level of solvency), as at 31.03.2025. Insurers have managed this through robust asset‑liability matching frameworks, conservative mortality assumptions, and strong solvency margins mandated by IRDAI. Along with the near‑100% claim settlement ratios, it indicates the industry’s credibility and its ability to ensure consistent payouts.

 

Factors, including the volatile geo-political environment, will repeatedly test India’s ambition to become a $5 trillion economy. In such a scenario, the country’s citizens need financial protection to withstand the uncertainty. Undoubtedly, India’s life insurance industry has the financial health and strength to support the nation’s aspirations. It continues to contribute towards building the nation’s resilience by providing the required finance cushion, and fuel families’ financial goals and aspirations.

 

Business Wire India

Dr. Krishnan Suthanthiran announced plans to establish Kitsault Energy (KE), a proposed energy corridor located north of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada. The project is designed to connect inland energy resources to a dedicated port and terminal at Kitsault, enabling efficient export to international markets. KE aims to facilitate the export of Canada’s abundant crude oil, natural gas liquids, and other key commodities—including potash, uranium, canola, and pulse crops—to Asia and beyond.

 

The Kitsault site has extensive infrastructure, including housing for up to 1,000 residents and amenities such as a library, recreation options, post office, shopping center, supermarket, bank, restaurants, and a medical clinic. These features make the KE pipelines, port, and terminal project a cost-effective option with relatively low environmental impact.

 

 

The scope of the project has since expanded to include construction of a deep-water port at Observatory Inlet. This port would be connected to Kitsault via road and rail and integrated with the Canadian National Railway network, which extends to Port Churchill in northern Manitoba, Canada.

 

 

These enhancements would enable both the Observatory Inlet port and Port Churchill to support the export of energy products and other commodities, strengthening Canada’s trade capacity with global markets.

 

 

Dr. Suthanthiran feels that Canada and its provinces are losing hundreds of billions of dollars by ignoring this project for the last 13 years. The KE project, with the town of Kitsault and approximately 350 acres of land owned by KE in northwest British Columbia, has tremendous potential to generate tens of billions of dollars for the provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and the federal government of Canada in addition to creating thousands of high-paying jobs and significant investment in First Nation communities for purified drinking water, sewer systems, housing, medical clinics, and jobs and job training.

 

 

Dr. Suthanthiran continues to actively promote the development of the KE pipeline and export terminal through ongoing engagement with stakeholders across Canada and Asia. Since early March, he has held in-person meetings with interested parties in Saskatchewan and Alberta, while maintaining ongoing outreach to stakeholders in Canada, India, and China over the past 13 years.

 

 

For additional information about Kitsault Energy and Dr. Suthanthiran, visit: http://graphics.teambest.com/KE_Project_20_details.pdf

 

 

 

 

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Infidigit, one of India’s leading SEO, GEO, and digital growth companies, has delivered an award-recognised growth outcome for Avataar Skincare, demonstrating how organic search can be engineered as a sustained revenue channel in an AI and LLM-driven search landscape.

The collaboration focused on transforming how Avataar Skincare captured and converted local demand for its dermatologist-led at-home skin treatments, including at-home laser hair removal in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Bangalore and ten other Indian cities. Executed between February and August 2025, the initiative repositioned organic search as the brand’s primary booking engine—without reliance on performance advertising.

Operating in a medically sensitive category where trust, precision, and intent matter more than scale, Infidigit moved beyond traditional SEO execution. The team designed a local-to-lead growth framework. It integrated SEO, AI SEO, LLM optimisation, and conversion rate optimisation (CRO) to align visibility directly with revenue outcomes.

City-specific service pages were structured to reflect real-world availability and optimised for discovery across traditional search, AI Overviews, and LLM-powered interfaces. Educational content was intentionally separated from transactional journeys. This approach clarified user intent and significantly improved conversion efficiency.

Execution was powered by Infigrowth, Infidigit’s proprietary AI-driven growth platform, enabling city-level search intelligence, structured optimisation workflows, and continuous performance monitoring. Hence, visibility metrics were directly mapped to user behaviour, bookings, and revenue.

Business Impact

• 183.64% increase in non-brand organic clicks
• 2738.4% growth in organic leads
• 4751% increase in organic revenue
• 4607.69% higher ROI compared to the January 2025 baseline

Measurable improvement in AI-led visibility across AI Overviews and LLM-driven discovery

Conversion optimisation was embedded from day one. Booking journeys were simplified, calls-to-action refined, and trust signals surfaced earlier in the decision path. This increased visibility translated into measurable business impact.

Commenting on the engagement, Kaushal Thakkar, Founder and CEO of Infidigit, said:

“Search is no longer linear. Visibility today spans engines, AI answers, and LLM-driven interfaces. When SEO, LLM optimisation, and conversion design work together, organic search becomes a predictable growth channel, not an experiment.”

Saumya Misra, Founder, Avataar Skincare, added:

“Trust is the ultimate currency in dermatology, and scaling it digitally is challenging. Infidigit helped us build a sustainable, revenue-focused growth engine. Organic search is now a major driver of high-quality leads, and this recognition validates the precision-first approach we adopted.”

The award-winning case study is now being referenced as a benchmark for how brands can adapt to local-first, AI and LLM-assisted discovery. It reinforces Infidigit’s position as a growth partner for businesses aiming to convert organic visibility into long-term revenue.

Mar 25: More than nine out of 10 (92%) of insurers in Hong Kong plan to boost risk profiles over the next two years and are turning to automation and advanced technology to manage the consequence, new research from Clearwater Analytics, the most comprehensive technology platform for investment management, shows (please see the attached press release).

 Its study with insurance asset management executives at Hong Kong firms with total assets under management of $1.31 trillion found that 52% said the risk profile of their investments had increased over the past two years. By comparison, in Singapore the research found 84% said risk profiles had increased in the past two years.

 Automation was identified as the key method for managing risk, well ahead of measures such as increased regulation and stricter capital controls.

 The regulatory environment is a key catalyst for that technology investment. When asked to identify the main drivers of increased technology spending on asset liability management, insurers point to regulatory demands, including heightened requirements for stress testing, solvency reporting, and risk disclosures.

 The specific asset class driving Hong Kong’s risk escalation is unmistakable. A striking 80% of Hong Kong insurers expect private equity and venture capital risk/reward levels to increase significantly over the next 12 months — far ahead of any other asset class and the highest such expectation recorded across the three markets surveyed. It is this pursuit of private market returns that is pushing risk profiles higher and demanding better technology to match.

  

Business Wire India

A scalable quantum error correction system has been developed by QpiAI to enable fast, scalable error correction using a rotated surface code architecture. The decoder, based on a union-find algorithm, is designed to operate in real time alongside superconducting qubits and represents a key step toward practical fault-tolerant quantum computing.

 

The system implements a distance-5 rotated surface code using 49 physical qubits. Each decoder instance runs on a single QpiAI Kaveri QPU, which provides 64 qubits, allowing one decoder instance per chip. The architecture is optimized to support efficient decoding and integration with existing quantum hardware.

 

QpiAI Founder and CEO Dr Nagendra suggested, “The design of QpiAI QEC for 64 qubit Kaveri QPU is a promising development towards large scale Quantum computing deployment. With this setup we would like to prove Error correction and reduction in errors possible and eventually lead to fault tolerant Quantum computing. QpiAI FTQC will lead us to many advances in pharmaceutical, chemicals, manufacturing and climate modelling. QpiAI is excited for this to be demoed soon. Further current QEC is capable of being used on transmon qubits. We will be implementing next generation of QEC for QpiAI Qubits (Fluxonium variant) and distributed QEC to be used across QPUs.”

 

Vamsi Krishna, VP of Digital Hardware, said, “Roadmap for QpiAI QEC would be to develop robust quantum error correction codes and Decoders including qLDPC to optimise on the number of physical qubits and to achieve two logical qubit gates using QEC. While current state-of-the-art QEC decoder for distance 5 surface codes runs at 60 microsecond latency and runs on CPUs and GPUs, we were able to achieve end to end latency of 1.5 microsecond and decoder only latency of less than 1 microsecond. This is very significant latency reduction on a purpose built hardware. This is version 1 of QEC decoder. In next version we will add distance 7 surface code support and qLDPC. As decoder support for various QEC configuration stabilizes we plan to fabricate the QEC processor in advanced process node to reduce footprint and power consumption.”

 

Dr Manjunath R V, VP and GM for Quantum Hardware, added, “QpiAI Quantum processors have error-correction architecture as foundational design principle with optimised superconducting quantum processor layout and fabrication. Leveraging QpiAI fast-decoder platform with QpiAISense quantum control electronics enables scalable development of quantum processors towards fault-tolerant quantum computing at QpiAI.”

 

Significant Milestone for Indian National Quantum Mission (NQM)

 

Indian NQM invested in QpiAI to design 64 qubit Kaveri QPU. NQM has significant Milestone at hand. Dr Abhay Karandikar, Secretary of Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, suggested, “Quantum Error Correction (QEC) is essential for scalable quantum computing. By implementing distance 5 surface code QEC in custom hardware rather than traditional CPUs, QpiAI is accelerating the deployment of its 64-qubit Kaveri QPU in India, marking a major step toward practical, large-scale quantum utility. From National Quantum Mission, we are excited with this development.”

 

Each error-correction cycle completes in approximately 1.5 microseconds. To account for measurement errors, the system performs five rounds of stabilizer measurements per correction cycle, ensuring robust detection and correction of both qubit and measurement faults.

 

The qubit coherence times in 64 qubit Kaveri are promising, with T1 times around 100 microseconds and T2 times around 95 microseconds, providing sufficient headroom for multiple error-correction cycles within the coherence window.

 

At the core of the system is a compact hardware decoder capable of completing decoding for a distance-5 rotated surface code in a maximum of 40 clock cycles. The design is intentionally lightweight and scalable: the current platform can accommodate up to 20 decoders simultaneously, enabling parallel error-correction across multiple logical qubits. Future systems with larger FPGA resources will allow deployment of additional decoders or support for higher-distance surface codes.

 

Active correction capabilities are currently being implemented to allow real-time correction of qubits on the fly, further reducing accumulated error rates. The decoder already supports Pauli errors and measurement errors, making it suitable for realistic quantum noise environments.

 

The Kaveri QPU architecture has been specifically designed to be surface-code friendly, with qubit connectivity tailored for efficient stabilizer measurement and decoding. In parallel, additional qubit connectivity architectures are being explored to support more efficient decoding strategies and higher-performance error-correction schemes.

 

The current setup uses simulated qubits to validate the decoding pipeline and system performance. Integration with physical qubits and experimental results from running the decoder alongside connected qubits in 64 qubit Kaveri QPU are under development.

 

This development demonstrates a practical pathway toward scalable, hardware-accelerated quantum error correction — a critical requirement for building reliable, large-scale quantum computers.

Business Wire India

CSC, an enterprise-class domain security provider and world leader in domain management, DNS, digital certificate management, brand protection, and anti-fraud solutions, is proud to announce its selection as a Cutting-Edge Certificate Lifecycle Management award winner in the 2026 Global InfoSec Awards.

 

“This award from Cyber Defense Magazine is a testament to CSC’s innovation in digital certificate lifecycle management. With the continually evolving requirements around certificate lifecycles and domain control validation (DCV), we saw a need for a proactive solution to help clients when WHOIS emails were deprecated for domain control validation, and companies could no longer employ non-technical means to prove domain ownership. We were the first to offer Domain Control Validation as a Service (DCVaaS) to automate repetitive validation processes so our clients can stay agile, secure, and compliant without the operational burden. CSC is also delivering a solution that not only meets today’s demands but also anticipates tomorrow’s challenges, while letting our clients focus on their core business with confidence,” said Mark Flegg, senior director of technology, CSC Security Products and Services.

 

 

CSC’s DCVaaS is a unique solution designed to simplify and expedite SSL/TLS certificate validation with a set-and-forget model for its clients. It eliminates the need for technical and repetitive domain validations through automation during certificate renewals and significantly reduces the time and effort required to manage certificate life cycles. DCVaaS can facilitate the validation process in under five minutes, allowing companies to deploy certificates more quickly than ever—making it an essential tool as the industry moves toward shorter certificate validity periods. With the end of WHOIS email validation, shrinking DCV re-use periods, and shorter certificate lifespans, DCVaaS helps companies maintain compliance and agility in a rapidly changing digital landscape.

 

 

Learn more about CSC’s digital certificate management: cscdbs.com/en/solutions/digital-certificate-management/

 

 

About CSC

 

 

CSC is the trusted security and threat intelligence provider of choice for the Forbes Global 2000 and the 100 Best Global Brands (Interbrand^®) with focus areas in domain security and management, along with digital brand and fraud protection. As global companies make significant investments in their security posture, our DomainSec℠ platform can help them understand cybersecurity oversights that exist and help them secure their online digital assets and brands. By leveraging CSC’s proprietary technology, companies can solidify their security posture to protect against cyber threat vectors targeting their online assets and brand reputation, helping them avoid devastating revenue loss. CSC also provides online brand protection—a combination of online brand monitoring and enforcement activities—with a multidimensional view of various threats outside the firewall targeting specific domains. Fraud protection services that combat phishing in the early stages of attack round out our solutions.

 

 

Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, USA, since 1899, CSC has offices throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. CSC is a global company capable of doing business wherever our clients are—and we accomplish that by employing experts in every business we serve. Visit cscdbs.com.

 

 

 

 

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Business Wire India

Andersen Consulting expands its global platform with the addition of collaborating firm Ventum Consulting, a German-based business transformation and technology consulting firm specializing in digital transformation, enterprise agility, product development, data-driven innovation, and emerging technologies such as AI.

 

Ventum Consulting helps organizations bridge the gap between business and technology by delivering tailored solutions across strategy, process optimization, and IT implementation. The firm’s expertise includes data and AI, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, sustainability, cloud transformation, and agile enablement, representing only a selection of their comprehensive service portfolio. Ventum Consulting works with clients across industries including automotive and manufacturing, financial services and insurance, healthcare and life sciences, and the public sector to accelerate digital transformation, enhance operational resilience, and drive measurable business value — empowering organizations for the next era.

 

 

“Collaborating with Andersen Consulting allows us to strengthen our global reach while maintaining our focus on innovation and client proximity,” said Hajo Börste, partner at Ventum Consulting. “Through structured joint business development and shared delivery capabilities, we can combine our strengths to deliver scalable, high-impact end-to-end transformation solutions that help organizations adapt and position themselves for continued success.”

 

 

“This collaboration strengthens our ability to deliver integrated solutions that connect strategy, technology, and execution,” said Mark L. Vorsatz, global chairman and CEO of Andersen. “Ventum Consulting’s technical expertise and collaborative culture complement our global consulting platform and enhance our ability to help clients transform and scale.”

 

 

Andersen Consulting is a global consulting practice providing a comprehensive suite of services spanning corporate strategy, business, technology, and AI transformation, as well as human capital solutions. Andersen Consulting integrates with the multidimensional service model of Andersen Global, delivering world-class consulting, tax, legal, valuation, global mobility, and advisory expertise on a global platform with more than 50,000 professionals worldwide and a presence in over 1,000 locations through its member firms and collaborating firms. Andersen Consulting Holdings LP is a limited partnership and provides consulting solutions through its member firms and collaborating firms around the world.

 

 

 

 

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